The Lovely Lily

The Lovely Lily

This different but very beautiful lily is not the type that many of us are used to seeing but I think it is exquisite. It comes from the DL Lily set of stamps although it does actually have a four leaf clover,ladybird and several other worker stamps in the set.

The sentiment comes from the Bold Blooms set.

Products used in the making of this card are :

Chocolate Baroque Lily DL stamp set

Sentiment from the Chocolate Baroque Bold Blooms set

Versafine Clair Nocturne

Clear Embossing Powder

A torn out page from a discarded or old book that has an aged look but has probably seen better days.

Koh I Noor watercolour pencils

Satin finish mirri card for mounting on.

1. Trim page from book but keep excess for stamping and mounting sentiment.

2. Stamp and emboss image.

3. Roughly colour the image in your favoured shades and blend using a little water on your brush.

4.To enhance the image go round using either a grey or light blue pencil and drag out the colour with a little water.

5. Stamp the sentiment using the Versafine Clair onto a piece of the scrap from the printed page and trim quite close to the stamped image edge the sides using your inkpad, then mount on another piece of the scrap from the page and edge again using the inkpad.

6. This is a flatish card no foam tape was used in the mounting of this onto the satin card or for mounting the sentiment so perfect for the post.

As an afterthought if you like a card to have some sparkle then instead of using water just use a clear sparkle brush pen to blend the colours. This will leave a subtle sparkle not as noticeable as glitter,

Thank you for Looking

Love Doreen

Lacework

Lacework

A simple but classic style of card and very effective no matter which colour background or embossing powder you use although I would definitely recommend a very fine powder if you have no detail embossing powders.

Very short product list for this one :

Chocolate Baroque Lacy Fragments stamp set.

Versamark inkpad.

Detail embossing powder

Black Card for stamping and a piece each of black and white card for matt and layering of card.

Heat Gun

In this beautiful set of lacy stamps there are several their are several borders to choose from as well as corners and hero images, all are very fine and very detailed.

I feel there is not a lot to tell you in the making of this card as it really is self explanatory for us who have crafted for some time but for those who are just starting out on their wonderful crafting adventure this is a technique that never gets boring.

1. Stamp using Versamark then pour over your embossing powder, tap off the excess powder and decant back into pot.

2. Tun on your heat gun and allow to get hot then direct at the embossing powder, when it starts to melt chase it round the image as it will burn and dull the powder if left too long on one area. 

3. Matt and layer onto a card and apply topper using foam tape for extra dimension.

Although I have not added a sentiment this time of course one can be added later to suit the occasion or recipient of your artwork.

Thank you for looking

Love Doreen