3 Different Cards

Hello all and lovely to have you drop by. Today I am sharing some cards in a very different style from my usual.
I have been hugely enjoying a journaling class with the talented Sanda Reynolds, from Artful Flight
and today's cards incorporate some of her techniques.

Obviously I can't go into detail as to how I made this, all I can say is that I used both sprays and brushos for the background and stencilled with heavy gesso. Detail was added with the help of Derwent Inktense pencils.

The little branches that I stamped around the edges are from Penny Black. I recently did a massive clear out of my craft space and it was great to use some of my supplies that had been gathering dust for years. They now actually have a proper place and I shall be able to find them again...yay!

I loved doing the shading with the Inktense pencils, they blend easily with a water brush and of course the great thing is when they are dry they are permanent.
Below are a couple more samples.

I used pretty much the same techniques on these ones. The massive flower is a Martha Stewart silk screen stencil.

When I was done with my background, I simply cut it in half and made it into two card panels. They were finished with some butterflies that were punched with a Marta Stewart butterfly punch that before the clear out I quite forgot I had. I have to say, I now love shopping my stash. The whole clear out took me 3 full days, but it was well worth it, - I highly recommend it lol.

Well that's it from me for today. Thanks for your visit, I'll try my best to come and visit some of your blogs soon as I am well aware I have been a terrible blogger lately.

xxx

Autumnal splendour

Hello everyone and thanks for dropping in today.
My poor old blog has been rather neglected these last few days as my day job has kept me otherwise occupied, but today I have a card to show you:

It's my daughter's birthday in a few days time, so I just had to make a card.
I basically used whatever was flying around on my desk.
The background was made with Brushos, a number of different sprays and some stamping.

The leaves were die cut  with some Spellbinder leaf dies, I used one of my gelli plate prints.
I then added some ribbon, twine and a little metal leaf, mounted it on black and a piece of scrapbook paper and that was pretty much it....

I added some gilding flakes from Indigo Blu around the edges.

The sentiment was stamped with Flitterglu and gilded with the same flakes. As it was getting a bit lost against the background, I added some shadows around the letters.

Here's a final close up of the whole card. Of course I was messy in my usual way and some of the gilding flakes landed up where they were not meant to be, but I quite liked the effect so decided not to worry...

Well, there you have it. Thanks for visiting like always and I hope you will have a creative week.