Clarity stamps

A quick update - this is the one I made at the Clarity Workshop, actually made up as a card - did very little to it, just backed with mauve paper and added some purple ribbon to it. 

Stamping bella stamps

I bought these at the Oyster stamps event at Biggin Hill a few weeks ago; there were quite a few nice ones, but I restricted myself to buying one (which is unusual for me!).  This was the first time I used it, and decided it would be nice for stamping their dresses on bits of paper instead of colouring them.  There is also a stamp saying "girls just wanna have fun - cyndi lauper" which I stamped in the main part of the card.  The stamp itself is called Victoria and Juliette's Night Out (LL134). 

JOFY Stamps

This is what Jo Firth Young calls "using up all the stuff on your craft mat"..... the papers are printed on the back of cardboard from a pack of something (can't remember quite what, but I keep all my left overs....), then coloured using inks already on my craft mat.  (Sprayed with water then swooshed the card through.)  Some corrugated card for the background, then the grass is the bits left over from cutting out a memory box blade of grass (generally looks quite good as seaweed).  Coloured the stamp in with Copic markers and used distress inks to colour the wording.

Paper Artsy stamps

Did these ones for a friend's birthday present.... still need to make the box to go with them.  I really enjoyed making these; the stamps are large and you only need print them out in black ink.  Then I sponged distress ink round the edges and wetted them with water.  I used Sizzix dies for the needle, thread, pen etc, and I died some ribbon orange (ripe persimmon distress ink) which I used on some of them.  Have tried to show you some close up too.  I suspect I need to get my distressing better - these look a lot better in real life than they do on these photos!

Clarity Stamps

This is another one we did at the workshop - actually the first one our group did on the day.  Really nice, but took quite a bit of time - used the pointillism stamp kit to add texture.  Not quite finished yet - we were meant to put a black edging on but I decided to leave it for later to avoid smudging it.  Now I see the photo, not sure I like the edging - but it looks better in real life!

Clarity Stamps

 

Another one from the Clarity workshop... we played with a Gelli plate for this one (lovely to have a bash without having to buy a Gelli plate first).  I did buy a Gelli plate at the end so will have to have a play with it later.