Up, Up and away

Here is a quick card to mark my brothers birthday (when he saw it he thought I had brought him a balloon ride!! whoops - easy mistake to make)

Ridiculous - no posting since October!! I cannot believe how time flies past - I have been crafting but not taken the time to post anything and I cannot even blame the good weather for taking me out into the garden - what have I been doing with myself!!

This year I am promising myself, (and anyone who follows my blog), to do much better and try and post at least 1 card/scrapbook page/journal page eaach month so we can see how I do.

Clean & Fresh

Can't believe it.......... posting on two consecutive days! Here is a very simple clean & fresh card, doing the layers of white hurts your eyes but I quite liked the simplicity of the design and thought could be used for a sympathy card, or christening card quiet easily.

Competition

Yesterday I spend a crafting afternoon and evening with my friend Caroline - we had great fun  - we go to a monthly card making group and this months challenge was to make an Olympic themed card - our meeting is not until tomorrow but here is a sneaky look at our offering......

Shoes

So much has been going lately and only a small amount of that time dedicated to crafting - however made up for it over the past few days. Tried out my new Clarity stamps with my friend Joan and here is the result!

Barbara Gray from Clarity Stamps has to have the credit for the idea of the design, beautiful stamps which I think will be used often.

Chalks

Another new technique for me is using versamark on a stamp, transfer onto paper then colour in using chalks, the chalk is set by the versamark so doesn't come off. You can then add stamped images to draw out picture. Pleased with my first attempt........

Water stamping

I have been trying out this technique, cover cardstock with distress inks (works better with darker colours), stamp background image but instead of using ink stamp using water, as it dries the water lifts the colour away - I love it

Then using that as your background stamp a foreground as you wish