See the flowers smiling

I was delighted to see that this week's challenge on Less is More is Watercolour. Although I am not an artist, I do like water colouring my stamped images with distress inks or watercolour paints. For this card I used distress inks to colour the stamped images and then softened the colours with some water to produce a more muted effect.

Materials used:-
Art Impressions and Chocolate Baroque stamps
Distress Markers -various colours
Sentiment - Hero Arts Anytime Messages

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On your special day

I was delighted to see that the cue word for week 99 challenge on CASology was Anniversary as it gave me the opportunity to try out this new sentiment stamp from Stamps Away.  As I wanted to keep the sentiment the main focus of the card I refrained from adding any embellishments! The pink card has a subtle sheen which I hope shows up in the photo.

Materials used:-
Sentiment stamp - Stamps Away
Embossing folder - Tim Holtz Sizzix hearts border
Distress ink - picked raspberry
Background card - Blingalicious card from Create and Craft

Off the Edge

It's one layer card week at Less is More and the theme is off the edge.  My card is a CASE of a card by Jennifer Mullens in the October 2013 issue of Craft Stamper. Jennifer had added ink splatters to her card but I decided against this as I wanted a clean look. I was pleased with the end result.

Materials used:-
Clarity Stamps "Autumn Maple Leaves" set
Distress inks - mustard seed, scattered straw, dried marigold, worn lipstick, shabby shutters and crushed olive
Sentiment - make unknown

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Travel

I am submitting this card to challenge #40 on Addicted to CAS where the code word is transport. I used distress ink to watercolour the images. I then cut out a border to continue with the sea theme - hopefully the aperture looks like a porthole. I found the hardest part was ensuring that the eyelets were equally spaced!

Materials used:-
Stamps - Hobby Art Harbour set
Sentiment by Clear Choice
Distress inks - tumbled glass
Distress markers (for the boat) - festive berries and tea dye
Clarity clouds mask
Nestabilities circle dies

LIM colour challenge

The challenge on Less is More this week is "The colours of your bedroom".  As my bedroom is painted cream I decided to use the colours of my bedding as the inspiration for my card.  I felt the card was quite plain so I added a border around the aperture.  My apologies for the photo which makes the card look much paler than it really is!

Materials used:-

Clarity Allium stamps and sentiment stamp
Antique linen distress ink
Colorbox cats eyes chalk inks - rose coral and rouge
Distress marker - shabby shutters
WOW opaque vanilla embossing powder
Nestabilities dies for the circles


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Broken Strings

This is the layout I made for a recent meeting of Shetland Scrapbookers. The challenge was to follow a sketch using lots of photos.

The photos in my layout feature a very talented group of young musicians from Orkney.  They are regular performers at the Orkney Folk Festival and have also performed at Celtic Connections in Glasgow.  Their CD "Halda" is available from iTunes and you can find out more about the band on their Facebook page.

Materials used:-
Background paper - Stampin Up
Other papers and letters -  Basic Grey Recess Collection
Treble clef die - Memory Box
Violin die - Die-versions

June tag

Tim Holtz has created a lovely tag for June using distress inks and one of his layering masks.  You can see how he did this on his blog.

Here is my attempt, actually my third attempt, at trying out this technique. Using mini distress inks would have been easier but I don't have any - yet! However I am pleased with the background I created.

Materials used:-

Distress inks - peacock feathers, mowed lawn, salty ocean, squeezed lemonade and broken china

Butterfly stamps - Martha Stewart and Chocolate Baroque

Tim Holtz mask - Harlequin