March ATC: Colour

The prompt for the Clarity Mini Makes and ATCs swap for March is Colour, so I decided to use one of my alcohol ink backgrounds made with a gel press in a workshop with Barbara Gray.

WOYWW 875/95: Back in the Saddle

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch.

Thinking of Neet and wishing her a steady recovery!  Hope she had a relaxing birthday.

My desk shows the results of my needle felting workshop with Tilly Tea Dance last week and the programmes for some of the shows I have seen recently.

Most of you may have gathered by now, but I will be back at work next week until the end of the school year.  I went in on Monday to sort through books and I did teach my Year 5 class, but won't be starting officially until next Monday.  I will be working Monday to Wednesday so I shall be pacing myself.

Shelves

Masquerade

Meeting a friend

I am fully intending to keep up with my #dailyatc2026 challenge, even if I sometimes have to make a couple in advance.

I did manage to cast on the front of my jumper at Mum's last week and knit a couple of rows, but I don't know how much I will get done over the next few months.  I have a full day on Saturday - another Tilly Tea Dance workshop, recorders in the afternoon and then picking up Mum to go to my brother's concert with the wind orchestra.  

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Branch Panel Card

I went for a panel on a larger card using set 2 of the Branches, Twigs and Sprigs stamps from Clarity Crafts.

SHAC Bird Tag

I used parts of the Love Bird coordinating stencil to create the background for this tag.

A Rainbow of Dragonflies

For my second sample using these new stamps from Clarity, I went all out with the dragonflies and used my favourite rainbow colours.

A Feminine Make

The current challenge over on Try It On Tuesday is Make It Feminine.  I thought this project really fit the bill.  Having the masks to go with this stamp set makes a card like this easy to make.

Trim a piece of large Clarity stencil card to 20cm x 13.8cm. Stamp the corset in Hickory Smoke archival ink into the centre, in the bottom third.

Mask off the corset and add a further one each side of the first in the same ink.

Mask these off and repeat.

Add two final corsets either side in the same way, giving seven in total across the card topper.

Add the tape measure below the corsets in Black Soot archival ink.

Add ‘feminine’ below the tape measure in the same ink.

Colour the corsets using Faber-Castell Albrecht Dürer water colour pencils, blended out with a large watercolour brush pen.

To finish, mat onto black card (20.5cm x 14.3cm) and add to the front of an A5 card blank.

A Fence of Branches

I created a fence using some of the Branches, Twigs and Sprigs stamps from set 2 for this first sample using the new stamps and added a couple from the new Dotted Dragonflies set as well.