Clarity Homework

Hi everyone its Friday its 5 to 5 its crackerjack!

Sorry to disappoint - its actually 1.15 and after a morning of shopping I thought I would just take 10 minutes to have a spot of lunch and post this blog before I put my nurses hat on, remove hubby's bandages and bathe his legs before we go to the leg clinic for clean dressings.

So tomorrow is the last chance to get your entries into the Claritystamp challenge blog  so if you haven't got your entry in yet for a chance of winning a £50 voucher get in quick.  This month's theme is animals and we have had some great entries.  Do not ever ever think you are not good enough because you are (and anyway the winner is picked by a random number generator) so every entry has an equal chance of winning.

Anyway I digress this weekend sees the lovely Barbara Gray work her magic on the tellybox.  I won't be able to watch live on Saturday as this lucky lady is off to do a Clarity workshop with the lovely Maria Simms so my Sky+ box is set for Saturday and Sunday and I shall sit down on Saturday evening and watch the classroom - if I am not crafted out I may play along as I got the jigsaw stamp but sadly not had time to play with it :(.

So here are a couple of cards that I have sent in as homework - if they get shown

This first card uses the trellis stencil and I also used a wide tooth plastic comb to draw lines in the paint . overstamped with both sizes of the leafy swirl and I used a spellbinder die to cut out part of another gelli print to make the flower

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I had been doing some gelli prints using pearly white, silver and black and I had a very messing plate at the end so I used some double sided sticky to "save" it and so here I have used it up I stuck it paint side up on some silver mirri card added talc to make it smooth and then stamped with black and clear embossing powder.  Mounted it all onto a black 8 x 8 that I had previously embossed with the leafy swirl and silver embossed

Well that's all for now folks - this post took a little longer than expected so hubby's  legs are now free and he is in the shower! 

Have a great weekend everyone - looking forward to tomoz.

More atc's

 

Morning all

A few more tags today.  These are the ones I made at the craft club last week - just some simple ones. I must admit I do like making these I am in another club where we have a theme so sometimes that is quite hard but in this club I can do whatever takes my fancy!

This blue one's background is part of an Indigoblu stamp and I used Cobalt blue archival ink. I also stamped the Clarity fiddle with the same in and then used a blending tool to add some denim adriondak for colour.

I had fun with this one.  the splats are part of the same indoblu stamp as above but I have cut the stamp so that I have the ledger paper pattern on one stamp and then the splodges were at one edge so I cut them off and chopped them into two parts as this allows a more random pattern to be stamped.  I made 6 of these and none are the same!. I used black archival then I added mustard seed, forest moss and a touch of black soot distress inks around the edges.\

This lady is a stamp on a free plate from creative stamping magazine last year.  It had not been in print very long and the stamps were very good I have since noticed that the stamps don't seem to be quite as good as they were at the beginning and as a result I do not always buy mag now! Anyway I digress I stamped her in sepia archival ink and added a tiny berry corner Claritystamp.  Oh damn I shouldn't have used archival as I only have promarkers with me to colour her in .  We colour her in with promarkers I did but didn't put down loads of colour ...phew got away with it.  I inked with antique linen, forest moss and a touch of vintage photo.

Today's workshop

Morning all - its that time of the month and so today I will be running a workshop over at the Craft Range

The class is fully booked for today - so I reckon I must be doing something right lol 

Here are the two cards my ladies will be playing with today 

Stamps used are Kaiser craft - Just believe and Bird cage and the grasses are from Hope blooms by Lindsay Mason - which we also used last month.

Methinks its going to be mayhem - what a fun filled morning we will have !!

I wonder how many will know how to make the flower?- could get sticky.

Tags - Ladies

Here are another two tags from some sets I made that are now in circulation in the group  I love all of Barbara's ladies - they are so elegant.  Just simply stamped and coloured wit pro markers and of course I had to colour the backgrounds!

atc's Autumn and The Lone cyclist

Just a couple of ATC's today.  I made a series of 6 of each and they are now circulating around the UKSN group that I am in.  

All the stamps are from Clarity  

I made another 3 sets at the craft club yesterday so watch out later in the week for these appearing !

Sapphire Wedding Anniversary

A commission for a Sapphire Wedding Anniversary

 A simple card I cut out an aperture using the largest die in the set and then embossed wit the trellis and heart folder. Matted and layered onto Navy and then silver mirri card.  The sentiment is computer generated and then cut out with a smaller die.  The leaves are a cheery Lynn die and the little flowers started life as white paper flowers:......

I inked them up with a bit of Denim then versamark and some sparkly embossing powder and some blingy gems for the centres

Grungy Tags

When I went to the Art Stamps Wales show in Wrexham the other week, I joined a group called UK stampers Network they run several little groups and I joined the ATC group and the tags group. So since I joined I have had lots of happy post !

so following on from yesterdays post I decided to make some tags to send out in this group:

Again I used up some scraps of my Tim Holtz pad and on some of them I added a dragon fly stamp from Claritystamp .  The back has to say to and from and fortunately I have two tiny stamps that are now permanently stuck to one of my small Clarity mounts ready for use.  For the tag group you basically send out 4 tags to someone on the list, they take one out, replace with one of their own and eventually it comes back to you with 4 tags that are someone else's work for you to use as you wish.  I quite like it and its a way of using up bits and also practising stuff lol x

I just inked up the back and then I added some little die cuts with the to and from on and thats it .

I guess I will be blogging what else I do in this group.