More Poinsettias

Morning All
I hope that you having a great Sunday.
I thought that I would share a few more of my poinsettia cards with you today before I get down to the business of playing, and finishing off more of the bits that I created in class yesterday.

They have all been created with a fabulous Poinsettia stamp set and a Kaleidacolour multicoloured inkpad.

The first three cards were created from a masterboard.

Stamp the image onto a piece of white card stock and then paint over the flowers with a damp paintbrush. Because the ink is dye based it will move and colour in the petal. Just make sure you clean the brush in between petals.

This piece uses the same stamp and more ink blended over the images.

Same stamp just a bit of fussy cutting on the next two cards.

While these have been made as Christmas cards, I think that they would work every bit as well as a birthday or anniversary card.

The final three cards again involve the same stamp this time stamped and embossed in gold.

Ink has been blended over the top of the images

and then I have used a Versmark pen and clear embossing powder to colour in the flowers to make them 'pop' from the panels.
I would like to enter these into the following challenges;
Crafty Calender Challenge - Make it Flowery
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes
Off to play now. Thanks for stopping by.
Happy crafting and hugs
Kimx 

It's Never a Mistake

It's always an opportunity. At least that's what Julie Hickey always taught me, so when one of my ideas for Saturday's brayering class didn't go quite to plan, I just changed it to sponging instead. Waste not want not as the saying goes lol.

The butterfly panel was supposed to have shown off using ink brayered onto an Embossing Folder.

Unfortunately the ink pad that I chose was a little too dry and so there was hardly any ink transferred. The panel was too nice to throw away though so I decided to sponge the colour onto it instead.
I painted over the butterflies with a Versamark pen and embossed them with clear embossing powder after I had removed some of the colour with thin undiluted bleach.

I used the same folder to emboss the background card, and added a little sponged ink to it to highlight the embossed butterflies.

I also finished the card using the Glycerin panel, as promised.

The background card onto which the flower panel has been stamped and embossed, was created by rolling an inked brayer over a piece of screwed up copy paper before rolling it across glossy card stock.

I coloured the flowers using Spectrum Noir pens, and then added a sparkly dome to each center.
Isn't it typical that the weather has changed as soon as the kids are due back to school.
Megan has a week full of exams to look forward to so I suspect some stroppy teenage behaviour will be on the horizon. She has been a good girl and has done plenty of revision so I'm hoping that all will go well for her. She has chosen her options for next year so these exams will determine whether she gets the subjects she wants or not.
Oh dear look at the time I really must get some sleep.
Hugs Kimx

Happy Birthday to me xx

Evening Everyone,
I hope that you have all had a lovely day, even if it has been distinctly chilly compared to the rest of the week.
I have had a wonderful day, although it has ended with a bit of a senior moment - I left my handbag on the table at my Mum's house after my visit, so I guess I will be borrowing some money off the kids till I can get back there to pick it up.
Still I think you are allowed to be a little bit forgetful on your birthday aren't you? And it had nothing to do with drinking too much either, unless you count coffee that is lol.
So for the next few days I will have to go through my picture files to find something to share as, guess what, my camera was in my bag as well!!!

 I made this card for my friend Anna's husband whose birthday is also today.

The central  panel has been created by stamping and embossing the Woodware leaves onto a panel of Multiple Resist and then clear embossing the open leaves using a versamark pen.

The leaves on the Kraft colour card were actually painted with bleach which has surprisingly turned them a darker colour.
I would just like to thank everyone for all of the fabulous cards and birthday wishes that I have received today. It has made for a very special day.
Thank You.
hugs Kimx

It's a Man Thing

Hi All
I can't believe that we are nearly at the end of another week.
I have only just recently become the proud owner of a Gelli Plate, unfortunately still in its box, not unloved just unused due to a lack of available playtime lol.
Prior to its delivery I was trying out a friends queries as to whether you could achieve similar results with the back of cut and dry foam and re-inkers.

My answer to her is that you can definitely create some interesting backgrounds but that it is much messier, although it might just be that I went a little overboard with the amount of ink I used!!

I did get some rather strange looks from people at work the following day when I was serving them.
I don’t know about being green fingered (something I am definitely not when it comes to plants, just ask my Mum), but I was definitely green handed.

August seems to be particularly male heavy on the birthday front and so these pieces of background seemed perfect as the starting point for a few cards.

Now as you know I hate making the same card twice so these are all very slightly different, just using the same basic layout and stamps.

I bought this fabulous stamp set on Saturday at Davina's as it was just perfect for the cards that I had in mind.

The sentiments, were from my bits box, but are all by Hobby Art.

The leaves on the Kraft card stock have been painted with bleach which has darkened the colour not bleached it out for some bizarre reason.

I coloured the leaves on the handmade background panel with a Versamark pen, a really useful addition to your toolkit, and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.
The embossing allows the pattern to show up better.

This greeting is part of one of my all time favourite Hobby Art word stamps Birthday Greetings. As you can see it cuts up beautifully so that you can add several lines to a card or just one.
As these will all be going to different parts of the country I don't think that there is any danger of them all being seen together, except here of course, so I feel ok with them all being very similar.
Have a great Bank Holiday weekend. Let's hope that it rained itself out today so that it will be brighter tomorrow. Not that I'm complaining it was actually quite nice to see the rain, although of course I was indoors, I'm sure I would think differently if I had an outside job :O)
Hugs Kimx