Crafty As L

Whilst I usually do my Christmas card challenge for the last post of the month, it’s Mothering Sunday in the UK today so I’m sharing the cards I made for my Mum and M-i-L.   It’s been bittersweet making the card for my dementia-ridden Mum.   She no longer knows my sister or me and claims that she doesn’t have any children.   It’s truly heartbreaking. After digging through my Visible Image stash, I started by using the Heart Ink and Entwined Butterfly stencils together and stencilled a heart using Squeezed Lemonade, Saltwater Taffy and Twisted Citron Distress Oxides. After drying the panel well, I gold heat-embossed the daffodils and sentiment from Golden Daffodils. I then gold heat-embossed the small butterfly from Antisocial Butterfly onto the heart and also onto some scrap card. For the accent flower, I blended a little Squeezed Lemonade onto a scrap of card and then gold-heat embossed the daffodil over. Next up – fussy cutting!   The reason I stamped...

Wasn’t it glorious to see some sunshine last weekend?   It gives me so much more energy and impetus to go and do something when it’s bright outside.   My card this week, together with the ATC I made for the Visible Image ATC swap for March, was inspired by the bright sunshine lighting up the daffs in the garden.   The theme for the swap was “Flora & Fauna” so the Golden Daffodils stamp fit the bill perfectly. I wanted to try out my recent purchase of some Tim Holtz Distress Stain sprays.   They have been around for years but I’ve only just gotten around to purchasing some.   To begin, I stamped and heat embossed the daffs on my card and ATC and then applied masking fluid onto the flowers and stems. After leaving them to dry naturally, I sprayed with Mustard Seed, Broken China and Cracked Pistachio stains and set them aside to dry. To help remove the masking fluid, I used a glue eraser, which I think is the same stuff that plimsoll soles were made fr...