Zentangled Blossom - A6 Blossom and Grow Stamp Set

Good Morning, 

Alice here with my DT Card for today.  The open spaces in this card immediately made me think about the art of Zentangle.  I used the following Stamp Sets to create it:-

A6 Blossom and Grow 
A6 Border and Stems 
A6 Leaves

You can find them all here along with many other fabulous and versatile stamp sets. 

To make this I used a 6x6 blank card along with a 5.75 x 5.75 Black Layering Mat and a 5.5 x 5.5. white layer.  I used a stencil and a light grey ink pad to create a soft back ground.  I then stamped the 3 lined border all the way round.  I stamped each flower and several sizes of the solid leaves with black ink and embossed all of them.  I fussy cut out the flowers and used a black fine liner to create the Zen tangle patterns.  I used sticky pads and placed the flower diagonally across the front of the card, then placed the leaves where I thought they looked best.  I attached a crystal gem to the centre of each bloom then finished the card off with a greeting from my stash.

I like the finished card and hope you do too.  Thank you for looking.

See you next time

Alice xx

You Passed - A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

Good Morning

Alice here with another extra blog.   Today I am sharing another little card I made using the A6 Sports Car Clear Stamp set from Colourific.  Have a look here to find this any many more fabulous and well priced stamp sets.

This is a great little stamp set for those difficult to make "Men's Cards".

Materials Used:

6x6 White Card

5.75 x 5.75 Black Square

5.25 x 5.25 white mat.  

Herring Bone Stencil 

A6 Sports Car Stamp Set

"L" and "P" Die

Square Die Set

I inked through the white mat, missing out every third section in the stencil so that it looked like tyre treads. I layered the card with the black then white mat .  I used the square die set to cut out a red and black square.  On the black square I inked through the whole Herring Bone Stencil with Versa mark and embossed with clear powder then matted the squares together.  I used foam pads to add them diagonally to the card.    I stamped the car onto white card and coloured with red and grey copic markers.  I gave it some shape with a bone folder then placed it onto the card.  I cut out an "L" from red card and a "P" from Green card and glued these onto white card.  I cut through the "L" with zig zag scissors and placed one in each corner.  I added some greeting sentiments to the card and finished off with some "Traffic Light" coloured gems.

Thank you for looking

See you next time

Alice xx

The Sun Will Rise....

Hello, Liz here. It's Tuesday, that means it's my turn to share what I've been up to! This week I got out my art journal and had a play with two of the stamp sets - Grunge Icons and Sun Will Rise. 

The background has been stencilled using Adirondack ink 'Peach Bellini'. I then used various stamps from the two sets and coloured with my Distress Marker Pens. I'm pretty pleased with how it all came together!

The full range of Colourific Stamps are available here.