Clarity Stamp Challenge - Flower Power

Hello, thanks for dropping by. I don't have a card today but something made from card instead. The Clarity Challenge this month is titled Flower Power so I decided to take it at its word and make some flowers and a vase for good measure.
After checking with Clarity Stamps that they didn't mind me cutting their stamped images on the Scan N Cut (they are happy if it's for personal use) I set about stamping the individual petals and leaves on two plain white sheets of A4. Then the Scan N Cut cut them all out to save me the job. I brushed blue distress ink over the flower petals and green distress over the leaves. I glued the flowers petals using Pinflair Gel and when they were dry I attached to craft wire to make the stems. The leaves have also been glued to craft wire using Pinflair Gel.
I designed the vase on my Scan n Cut and stamped the sentiment (from Clarity Stamps)before assembling the whole thing together. Just to add a bit of bling I dabbed Crystal Stickles around the sentiment.
Thanks for looking!

Butterfly Meadow

Afternoon all. The card today has been stamped using Chocolate Baroque stamps and distress ink. I created the background by sponging distress ink onto card and then spritzing with water and drying with a kitchen towel. I then stamped the flowers in a bronze Brilliance ink and then over stamped with a black Versa-fine ink to create a shadow. I then cut the design into three equal strips and mounted onto silver mirri card. The butterflies were stamped onto acetate using black Staz-on and then coloured on the reverse with Sakura Geli pens. I added crystal stickles to the wings and then mounted them on the card with foam pads.

Thanks for looking.

Beaded Heart Canvas

 Afternoon all. Today I have a mixed media canvas to show.
The main heart on the canvas was created by stamping into Sculpey light weight clay and colouring with Perfect Pearls. When it was dry I glued cord around the edge and then stitched some beading to it. The little flowers were also made from Sculpey light-weight clay that I made from a mould and also coloured using Perfect Pearls. The mini hearts were made by die-cutting a mini sizzix die and applying dimensional paste through, which again had been coloured with Perfect Pearls. The background to the canvas has been stamped in clear and then Distress ink sponged over to create a resist along with the dimensional paste being added to the edges and Walnut Distress dabbed over once it was dry. I coloured some cotton lace trim with Distress ink and attached to the front along with a couple of moulded clay flowers and added a stamped sentiment to finish off. All stamps used are from Chocolate Baroque. Thanks for looking!

Clarity Stamp Challenge - Love And Romance

 Hi, thanks for stopping by. The card I have today is to go in the Clarity Stamp challenge titled Love and Romance. As always just Clarity Stamps have been used and in this case just one single stamp was used to create the whole card. The centre heart was stamped into Sculpey light weight clay and coloured with Perfect Pearls and glazed. When the clay was set I glued a cord around the edge and then stitched the beading. The base card was inked with distress ink and spritzed with a brass Tattered Lace spray. I over stamped with the heart stamp and layered up individual hearts from the same stamp before adding the clay heart in the centre

CD Plaque

 Evening crafty bloggers, this evening I have a little flower plaque that I have made out of an old CD. I painted the edges with copper acrylic paint and when it was dry I just sponged a smidge of black Gesso over the top. The flowers have been created using a Chocolate Baroque flower stamp that I pressed into Sculpey light clay. I dusted them with Perfect Pearls before setting in the oven.

The sentiment was another Chocolate Baroque stamp which I really like and strikes a chord with me. I embossed this in black and dabbed a copper rub on over the surface of the clay flowers and butterfly. I finished the flowers and butterfly off by painting the edges with black Gesso.
The little stand has been die cut from a piece of green card.
Thanks for looking.

Clarity Stamp Challenge - New Beginings

Happy New Year bloggers and to kick off this year's posts I have a Clarity Challenge card. This month's Clarity challenge is titled New Beginings, self explanatory, but as only Clarity stamps can be used I have to make  the stamps I have fit the theme, so after a think I decided with a tree in full blossom as the main focal point. I used the bare tree as the background and then added the blossom using various shades of pink ink and highlited with white.
Thanks for looking.

Clarity Stamp Challenge - Scene Building

Hello crafty blog people, thanks for stopping by. This was a quick make that I have managed to squeeze in for the last challenge of the year over at the Clarity Stamp Challenge Blog. As usual all the stamps used are from Clarity and a mixture of Distress and Adirondack ink has been used to colour it.
Happy New Year to you all and hopefully next year will see me post more projects on here, well that's the aim anyway........

Merry Christmas!

 Merry Christmas all. Just doing a very quick post to blog my family Christmas cards. Hope everyone has a very happy Christmas and  an even better new year.

Happy Birthday Hubby

Afternoon all. Today is Trev's birthday and this is the card I made for him. I used the free stamp that came with Craft Stamper a couple of issues ago and those of you who know him will recognise him just from the stamped image lol.
Thanks for looking and hope to be back soon.

Clarity Stamp Challenge - Christmas

Christmas mobile for the Clarity Stamp Challenge

Afternoon all! For this post I have another Clarity Challenge to show you. The theme was Christmas and the hardest thing about this challenge was photographing the project at the end!!. Because it is not a small contained creation like a card, but a great long thing that needs hanging in a window it made it very difficult to photograph as the light was never right to get the whole thing in focus ....aaaarrrrrgghhh! So I decided to add a few pictures but I'm sure you get the idea.

Christmas Decoration

 I just used a christmas tree stamp from Clarity Stamps to make this Snowflake Christmas Hanger. I started off by stamping the tree in a circle formation onto acetate using black Staz-on ink and painted every other tree in either silver or bronze Distress Paint and then added Glamour Dust to the paint before it dried. When dry I cut the flakes out and sprayed the glittered side with Crafters Companion Spray and Shine to seal the glitter in. I punched a hole in each flake and threaded through some silver elastic.

Snow flake made from the Christmas Tree stamp

Christmas Hanger Top

The top of the hanger was made out of a piece of folded chipboard, that I painted with the silver and bronze distress paint. I stamped the tree four times and painted with the distress paints and then cut out and mounted onto black card, before sticking to the painted chipboard. Sequin ribbon was stuck to the edge at the bottom and the top was made out of wire edged ribbon. The silver elastic was threaded through the middle of the hanger and attached to a silver book binder ring and there you have it.

Thanks for looking.

Autumn Cards

 Hello Crafty ladies and gents. Thought I would post these to Autumnal themed cards today as it wont be too long before the season has passed and we will be in the depths of Winter......

Butterfly Birthday

Evening all. Just a quick little post to show a recent card I made using Grunge Board butterflies and lots of distress ink.............