By the light of the silvery moon

Hi everyone Maria here, today I’m sharing my card I’ve named ‘By the light of the silvery moon’ and yes, I love Doris Day 😁. I used the A5 Houses stamp set from Colourific.

Here’s what I used:

A 6 card blank

Black card for mounting 

White stamping card

A5 Houses stamp set

Versafine Onyx Black

Coloured pencils

Watercolour ink brush pens (I used Spectrum Noir)

Kitchen roll

Adhesive

Double sided tape

Here’s what I did 

1. Stamp and fussy cut out the small house, using the Versafine ink.
2. Colour in using the coloured pencils (I drew in the curtains).
3. Using the watercolour ink brushes, I added the blue to the top of a piece of stamping card and blended with a large flat brush and water - then I repeated with the amber colour and the green, making sure I blended the blue and amber colours for the sky but not the green.
4. Dry this sheet using a heat gun or leave to dry naturally before you do the next step.
5. Cut out a circle of card for the moon template - I used the top of an embossing powder lid to draw round.
6. Place the moon template onto the sky - mainly into the blue section, and with a small wet paintbrush draw round the moon.
7. Then with a medium sized brush wet the ink inside the circle and blot with kitchen roll - this brings the colour out of the moon giving it a faux bleached look.
8. Glue the house onto the backing sheet.
9. Mount onto white and then black card and then onto the card blank.

Hope you enjoy making this card.  Join me next Friday for more Colourific inspiration.
Maria x

Multicoloured Hibiscus

Hi everybody,

It's Friday, so It's my turn to show you all a card.  I used the A5 Hibiscus stamp to make this card, I wanted something summery and colourful, so here is what I came up with:

What you will need:

A5 Hibiscus stamp from Colourific
Stamping card
A4 Burgundy card
Multicoloured embossing inks - I used Catherine Pooler's Minis - Party Collection
Clear Embossing powder
Sentiment stamps from my stash
Tonic Nuvo drops
Kitchen roll
paintbrush and water

Here is what I did:

1. Randomly stamped and embossed images from the Hibiscus stamp set onto white stamping card measuring 17 x 13.5 cms.
2. Blended the white background with the red ink and splashed water onto it.  Before it dried, I blotted it with the kitchen roll to leave white splodges on the card
3. I stamped and cut out a sentiment from my stash, you can use any of your own, and glued it to the card.
4. Mat and layer the card onto white card and I used a burgundy card base and Nuvo drops in each corner to finish it off.

All finished.  Time to clean up that lovely inky mess.  

Maria

x