Crafty As L

Hello and welcome to my second DT post featuring the brand-new release.   This time, I’m using   Calm Over Chaos , a stunning stamp set that it’s difficult not to create beautiful cards with, together with Painted Grid stencil. To begin, I stamped the lady with Versafine Onyx Black and added clear embossing powder and heat set.   Whilst the image was still heated, I applied more clear embossing powder and heat set again.   I repeated this several times until the image was well covered. I stamped the lady again onto masking paper and fussy cut.   Next, I applied the mask and then taped the stencil in place and added some sticky notes to make the horizon and land and used Memento Tuxedo Black ink and a blending brush to create the land.   The sticky notes were then removed and black ink was stencilled around the outside of the panel, leaving the centre part white. After removing the stencil, I replaced the sticky note along the horizon, but this time covering the sky, and lig

This week has been a strange one for me.   It’s the first time in 33 years that I don’t have a job!   I took early retirement and my last day of controlling aeroplanes was on 13 th April, however, I had annual leave to use to take me to my official retirement of 30 th April.   Although I have retired, I’ve done so early and can’t yet claim my pension so I’m technically unemployed!   I thought that this would give me more time to do the things I want but so far, my experience of retirement is that time seems to go twice as fast! For today’s card, I was inspired by a YouTube video by Angelica Conrad, which leant itself very well to making multiples.   This stamp set, a Big & Bold one called Build A Rainbow, by Colorado Craft Company, was another of my winnings that hadn’t yet seen the light of day.     I made use of my MISTI so that I could add multiple pieces of card in the different alignments.   After stamping the standard rainbow arc, I then added a new piece of card in a

  It’s *NEW RELEASE* time again and for my DT post this week, I’m delighted to be sharing my makes using the Resilient Bonsai stamp set together with 2 of the stencils, Art Spheres #2 and Painted Grid . To begin, I stamped the bonsai using brown hybrid ink so that I could colour with alcohol markers.   This bonsai was to be one full of blossom so I used a selection of pinks and just dotted them around until most of the tree was covered, although I left a few areas white.   The pot was coloured to match the background panel – more on that later! Next, I gold-heat embossed some of the small symbols onto the pot. To finish the panel, I gold heat-embossed the writing randomly and then blended some gold ink around the edge. For the background, I roughly measured where my focal panel would come to so that I could align the half-sphere pattern from Art Spheres #2, which I stencilled using black ink.   Once the ink was completely dry, I gold heat-embossed the sentiment. To add more