All in one go

It’s been a while since I last blogged, so I’ll show a few things all in one go.

Back in July, our team held a Stamp camp and I was asked by Marelle to present a shoebox swap with ‘My Friend’. This was very similar to something I saw on the net, although have no memory of who the original creator was. I really love the use of colours, I think that was the attraction for me.

Don’t adjust your screens, yes it’s meant to be a little off centre. This is a shadowing effect or as some people call it ‘ghosting’.

I’ve been meaning to have a play with this for a while and a good solid stamp like Medallion background is a good one to use. The solid stamp is stamped with Whisper White and dried with a heat tool. Then stamp the same colour as your card stock over the top, except a little offset. A Stamp-a-ma-jic should help out nicely here. I cant resist running my hand over the top of this and I hope it comes across that way.

I made this card a few months ago after I saw Mary Fish do this kind of thing with Clearly For You.  I thought it was a good way to show off a lot of the little stamps in the set. So I set off making a blue version similar to Mary’s green one. Mary had used one of the little silver keys in the centre of her flower, but when I made mine we didn’t yet have access to the keys in Australia so I used a gold one that I had long had in my craft stash. Of course a few weeks later our new SU catalogue came out in September and there of course were the silver keys!

Not sure what you call this water colouring effect, but I know I love doing it on on Fifth Avenue Floral. I never get tired of how the re-inker pools when you dot a little bit on your misted image with a brush. I can make 10 of these roses at once and not one of them looks the same. I thought it would look good with the matching embossing folder and can you tell I love those butterflies!

Thanks for stopping by. The last couple of weeks have seen me making Christmas cards for classes, so I should be showing some of those soon.

Jen