Amour...

As Valentines Day is fast approaching I thought I'd better make something for the other half and decided to dig out my Silhouette machine.
I've had this for ages but hardly ever use it, so have decided to give it a go. They now do tutorials and stuff on their blog which is great as I'm awful about reading instructions - I usually just dive in and experiment!
I love flourishes and text so combined the two. Then I went round the edge with a StazOn inkpad, didn't like that so decided to add stamping as well! I've used the edges of the big letter on the top script on this Elusive Images plate. I added some Basic Grey pearls, et voila....!



Thanks for looking!

Helen

A little Birdie...

Once again this is a set, using in the main the Elusive Images Love Birds plate:


with the addition of the tiny flowers round the Romance frame on the Romantica plate as a filler:


I really enjoyed making these as the colours worked really well as did the stamps. Here they are individually:



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And as a set:



If you're wondering why these samples are all small, it's because they're off to CHA with Glenda and so had to be easily portable.

Thanks for looking!

Helen

A Trip to Venice

I was experimenting again with this piece for Glenda. It uses the Elusive Images Weekend in Venice plate:


I've noticed when using alcohol inks on Stampbord that if you overstamp in black StazOn and then rub it off with a baby wipe, it removes the black ink and the colour underneath to leave a sort of negative image. I went on to add acetate pieces stamped in black to put some of the image back in:


It didn't turn out quite as planned, but I liked the colours anyway!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

All things bright...

You know how I love bright colours... well combine them with Stampbord and I was well away!
Glenda sent me the new Elusive Images Patchwork Butterfly plate to play with:


so I combined it with Stampbord and some of the Brights Alcohol inks to create some 2 x 2 inch tiles. In fact I only used the large flower stamp for these, stamping a slightly different part each time, then adding gems and Diamond Glaze.
Each single tile looked like this:





And they're designed to hang as a set like this:



Thanks for looking!

Helen

PS You'll be pleased to know I remembered to cover the back this time, only as you can't see it anyway, I suppose it doesn't matter!

On your bike...!

I haven't had time to blog much lately as we seem to have had one crisis after another, finishing off with the boiler deciding to give up the ghost on the coldest night of the year! It's always the way isn't it!

Anyway, here's a card I made for my nephew Huw's birthday. It uses the Boys on Bikes stamp from Elusive Images and is finished with the Cogs and Watch parts from PaperArtsy:


I rounded all the corners - don't know why, just felt like it!

Thanks for looking!

Helen

A Fairy Happy Birthday!

I'm sorry I haven't blogged this week but I seem to have been very busy. I've had my mum staying for a few days. We went to the Royal Pavilion in Brighton on Saturday - absolutely fantastic! I'm sure they've extended the tour as last time I went about 5 years ago, it only took about half an hour.
Talking of my mum, I've been making a card for her birthday and decided to play around with the fairy stamps from Elusive Images-there's going to be a C & C TV show with these on 16 November. I started by stamping the fairies in a row onto glossy white card: and then added a background using the Wild Meadow themeplate, masking off just the wings:Then I added colour using just three dye inkpads, red, yellow and blue. Usually I try to keep the colours fairly separate so as not to muddy them, but this time, I got a bit carried away and kept on adding more and more and discovered it produces really rich colours (a happy accident):I then added a little colour to the wings because they were too white:and finished the card off by layering onto a piece of Scrapperdashery paper - (I used 'If', part of the poetry range, lovely double-sided sheets of 12 x 12, with various colours, watermarks and quotes from poems, Shakespeareplays etc. the colours seem to coordinate with the Adirondack Earthtones range of inkpads.)Then I stamped round the edge of the panel with one of the Autumn Leaves 'On the Edge' stamps:Now I've just got to do the inside!

Cheers!

Helen