Hello, hello!

I hope this finds you all well and that you all enjoyed Easter!  I have yet to eat any of my Easter eggs and for that I am proud of myself :)

So I'm here with my little bit of inspiration (hopefully!) for this months' challenge - Rainbows!

For a change, I decided to keep it simple...imagine, right!?


I took the Sexi-Hexi background stamp and inked it up with embossing ink.  Then I took a rainbow of wonderful WOW! powders and sprinkled them over the wet ink.  

The best way, I've found, to stop the powders mixing as you start adding more and more colours is to ensure that you tap the excess off to the side of the page.  This prevents the colours mixing together, which is not so much of an issue on the card, but when you go to pour the excess back into the pot, it can cause a nasty surprise the next time you go to use your lovely Sunny Yellow and find large amounts of Apple Red in it!  Disaster!

Just to cause myself a bit of a headache, I opted for a white stripe.  Aft…

Well hello everyone!

As you probably know by now the theme for this month's challenge is 'Gardens'.  You've seen Irit's fabulous poppies and Sue's wonderful box frame garden, hopefully my 'technicolour garden' will be just as inspirational :)

'Gardens', I think, is such a brilliant theme as there are so many possibilities and it's open to a mass of interpretation - I can't wait to see what you guys come up with, as well as the rest of the DT!

Unsurprisingly, I made a card for this challenge.  A technicolour rainbow card of happiness - well that was the idea anyway!

Here it is...


Is that bright enough for you?!  :)

As some of you may know, I do love a rainbow...what could be happier?!  Using this idea and the wonderful Collage stamp as a jumping off point, here's how it went...

I measured out the size of the stamp and then divided my white piece of card into seven sections by drawing lines very faintly in pencil.  I then stamped the Collage …

Hello my dear crafty friends! 
Welcome to our Wood month and today I  have a small tutorial for you. 
This is my very first Embossing the wood tutorial and I think most of us never tried to make the direct embossed wood. So here we go.
This is  NO PAPER project and all you need are 3 stencils with small designs (don't pick the big ones as we want to see the pattern and not the edges or some random shapes.) Put your stencil over the wood piece, cover it all with Clear embossing  ink.




Add colourful embossing powders over it and heat emboss. Then mist the whole piece with some brown mist if you like the darker wood look, as I did here.



 Then pick some small wood shapes and make  just the same over those pieces too. Use other stencils and other powders colours.


Add your title and arrange  the embossed hearts around.





This is all. Kind of easy and lovely project for all of us who keep those old and unused wooden pieces from our high school crafty days...
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