A Third Birthday Card

Yet another use of my ombre backgrounds, this time for a child's birthday card.  The daughter of friends was three yesterday and this is the card that I made for her.

Layers of Cogs: A Birthday Card

I used another of my water colour ombre backgrounds for this card and built up layers of cogs using stamps, dies and a stencil.

Inspiration on a Tag

Just to show that large stamps can be used on smaller projects, I created an inspirational tag/bookmark using one of the Circus stamp sets designed by Leonie Pujol for Claritystamp.

WOYWW 517: Back in The Swing of things

That week went round quickly again.  I am back to writing my post on a Tuesday as the new term has started and I work on Wednesdays.  Only three weeks to the 10th anniversary of WOYWW.  Please visit our leader Julia over on The Stamping Ground to find out more about this long standing weekly tradition and the annual crop.

I was busy colouring some ribbon for a sample that I was working on.  The shows aren't for a couple of weeks so can't show any more than that yet.  In the background are my completed weekly art journals for 2017 and 2018.  I am way behind this year but will probably catch up over the summer holidays.
#1 son's move went well last Thursday with a few minor hitches.  He and his girlfriend are slowly getting sorted, although they had a bit of drama with the rain on Sunday.  Sorted now thank goodness.  We are invited over on Friday evening for a get together with Tina's family, who are helping them out this week, as they are heading home on Saturday.

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Will be on blog tomorrow

All four of the samples which I made for Leonie's shows last Friday were shown on air.  It is the first time this has happened, so I was really chuffed.  I finally got round to blogging the piece with the shell from last week's desk share yesterday (see HERE if you are interested).

Working with Alcohol Inks on Acrylic

This piece was the last one that I made for the recent mixed media Clarity shows on Hochanda with Louise Withers.  I used a larger acrylic square as I was feeling more confident working on the substrate, having already created three samples.

A Clean and Simple Good Luck Card

I like the additional small stamps and sentiments which come with the Circus stamp sets (designed by Leonie Pujol for Claritystamp). They work really well for a clean and simple card.

Pebeo Vitrail on an Acrylic Shape

This was a simple piece trying out a 3D effect on acrylic using some of the Pebeo Vitrail paints and one of the new Clarity acrylic shapes.  This one is from the square set.