Exotic Hot Pink and Orange

This is my entry for the June challenge. Exotic hot pink and orange.
I really enjoyed this challenge, although they are not the colours I would usually use, it was also a good excuse to add a bit of bling.

Using a sheet of acrylic paint paper, I painted a wash in pink and orange, the paper has given it some texture, though it doesn't really show in the photo. It was then stamped using two differnt pinks with a stamp from the Damask range.

The Orange backing paper is from the Peacock CD I also printed then cut out the leaves and flowers from one of the pages on the Damask CD.

The Peacock ladies head was stamped onto Acetate. Then the headdress and necklace was glittered used both gold and pink glitters plus gold stickles.

Travel Blue

This is my entry for the Artylicous competition Travel colour Blue.

I have used as a Picture a photo that I had taken in Barbados a couple of years ago, (That's the travel bit) I have played with the photo to give it a watercolour look.

I then printed two pages from the Peacock Summer Party CD that complimented each other.

On the top layer I cut around some of the feathers, and then glittered the edges and eyes of a the feathers that had been cut, adding a few gems to the centre, I then added dots of dimensional glue to the eyes of the remaining feathers, and slid the picture between the cuts, then trimed and layered both pages I had printed onto the card.

Next thing was to stamp the small peacock onto some scrap paper from the first layer and embossed this with clear powder, trim and attached to the corner of the picture with 1mm pads.

Pink and Green

This is my entry for the graphicus monthly competitionBlossom and the colours Pink and Green.

I do not have a stamp that really represents blossom so have used the Morning Glory stamp from Flora and Fauna, I stamped this onto velum with the Moonlight white brilliance pad, and then coloured in the flowers and leaves on the same side I stamped with my Derwent pencils, then used their blending and burnisher pencils, these are brilliant and gave a lovely effect.

I then used a ball tool on the back of the Morning Glory petals to give it lift and some extra dimention before edging the velum with a pink ink pad. The velum was then attached to some pale pink paper, which in turn was mounted onto printable acetate which I had printed in green from the Damask Delights CD.

Using small stamps from the Delightful Damask set I stamped the front of my base card with pink and green brilliance pad.

Then with the butterfly from Just Butterflies I stamped it onto acetate and coloured it from behind with H2o's, to make this stick to the acetate I mixed a little dimensional or clear glue with the paint this stops the colour from flaking off.

I finished off the card using ribbon. I folded this into a few loops at one side and attatched it with a brad, I find that I do not have any problems with this being to thick for the post as the knot in a bow can be.

Plum and Gold

Loved the idea of Plum and Gold Glenda.
I first made some plumy colours with my H20's which I brushed and stippled onto some card and then with Egyptian gold I stippled over the top. I stamped the main image and embossed it in gold then stamped the words Celebrate and embossed them. I then decorated with beads and gems.

Using H20's I mixed three colours to make some plummy shades I painted these on to glossy card in a diagonal pattern and highlighted with gold.
For my backing paper I again used the Egyptian gold for the wash, then stamped with a brilliance pad and embossed with clear powder.

To finish off I twisted some gold wire and added a tassel.

Christmas cards

To make this card I first did the background by stamping the snowflakes onto paper and embossed in white, I then brushed randomly with two blues and a gold with twinkling h2os.

To give the snowflakes a bit of sparkle I finished them off with some glitterdoodle and stickles.

The carol singers were stamped and embossed in gold then painted with h20's.

The topper was then stippled round the edge and the bells were stamped and embossed then painted with gold h20's cut out and attached to the top left corner.








This is another card using the snowflake stamp.
I stamped the snowflake using a brilliance pad and embossed with silver pearl.

Next I painted the snowflake with my glitterdoodle.
I then did a wash on the background with h2o's in gold bronze and red.

The card was scored all round to make the squares, I painted the middle square with a dark blue and mounted the snowflake, where the card was scored I painted with gold h2o.

The 4 corners were made by stamping and painting the same as as the snowflake, then a clear gem was put into the centres.

The centre of the snowflake was a small stampboard which was painted with the h2o's then stamped embossed and glittered with another gem placed in the centre, I simply finished off by stamping merry christmas on all 4 sides.



This is one of my favourite stamps of Glenda's. I first used a glossy postcard and stamped the background with Judi-kins doodle stamp and Marvy blending box shades of sunset.



Then I stamped and embossed the pear in gold, the pear was painted with Tinkerbell inks, which gives it a lovely sheen.



I then mounted the pear onto gold mirror board, and placed onto the background, I then only had to stamp the Merry Christmas, place three dots in the bottom right hand corner using gold stickles.








To make this card I used four cardboard tiles from stamp addicts. First I sponged the tiles with blue and red inks from graphicus tinkerbell inks, then placing the tiles together I stamped and embossed the holly in gold, to add some colour and sparkle I used my stickles Candy cane on the berries.

I edged the tiles with a gold pen and mounted them onto black card, also edged in gold, this was then placed onto a linen card and the sentiment was stamped in gold below.

This was a simple little card to make.

First I stamped my holly and swirls from one of Elusive images Christmas stamps, onto a glossy card using my Marvy pens. I then glittered the swirls and berries, edged the card with peel offs and mounted onto red card.

I cut some gold mirror board and placed on the left hand side of card , and stamped the Merry Christmas down the right in red.

I used one of Elusive images Christmas bauble stamps for this card.

First I stamped onto glossy card with my chalk eye's and coloured in the flower and leaves with a water brush, then glittered the centre in gold and edged the flower with Sakura clear glitter pen, this was them matted and layered with gold mirror and red card, I next placed some gold peel off stars onto the mirror board , and attached some gold thread to the top with a gold star brad.

Using the same stamp I them stamped onto clear shrink plastic with the chalk eyes trimmed, shrunk and attached to card

I used a some backing paper from my Seasons greeting CD and a gold greetings peel off to finish.

The next two card were made by using some photo's that I had taken recently, I had played with them in photoshop to give a painted look and printed onto matt printing paper, matted and layered them, and placing them onto backing papers from my Artylicious seasons greetings CD.

I then made some ribbons using my photo's to finish them off.

I also used some silver glitter on the rose hip card below.

Recent Cards

This card was made for a dear friend who was 90 years young,
I stamped the lady with white stazon onto parchment paper then embossed the white from the back with my embossing tools, and painted the peacock lady with twinkling h2o's being careful not to get the paper to wet so it did not buckle, the 90, Happy Birthday and peacock was stamped with a brilliance pad.
I then attached the parchment to my peacock backing paper from the peacock summer party cd with tourquoise brads and attached to card adding a bow and small crystal.







This is the card I made for my mother in law.
This was my very first attempt with stampboard. I first painted the stampboard with tinkerbell inks, then stamped part of the poppy stamp onto it, using my scratch knife I highlighted part of the poppy, then embossed with amazing glaze to give a tile effect.
I mounted card painted with the same colour tinkebell inks onto some black card, them finished by attaching the stampboard which had been mounted onto black and gold card.

To finish off I used the tinkerbell inks on a small piece of card mounted onto black and stamped Mum onto it, then used brilliance ink pad to stamp the Happy birthay, and finished the card with a ribbon to match the colour's.

Peacock Lady

I made a flesh colour using H2O's then painted a fine wash over stampboard.

Next I stamped and emboshed the head onto stampboard and coloured with H2O's. I scratched the edges for texture and dabbed with cotton wool bud and chalk pad to give a tourquoise colour to emphasize her neck.

Also used cotton wool buds and chalks for eyes.
Then I stamped the whole stamp onto a glossy card embosing with gold and coloured the feathers on head dress with H2O's.

Using red stickles for the jewels and head dress. I edged and shaded glossy card with chalk eyes. This was then mounted onto gold and tourquoise card and two layers of peacock background paper (from CD Rom).

The ribbon was then stamped with tourquoise chalks to match. The black card was then edged with gold pen.