Showing posts with label ink blending. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ink blending. Show all posts

Saturday, 7 October 2023

Joy!

By    October 07, 2023 // 1 comment

 Hello crafting friends


This week at polkadoodles, the DT were challenged with a colour themed Christmas card. pinks, greens and teals!



I used the clear stamp called 'winter noel'   I ink blended distress oxides (kitsch flamingo into Salvaged Patina) onto a sheet of textured card stock.  I masked the edges before so i could create a rectangle in the top third of my blank card..

I then used my stamping tool to give a good clear impression with versafine onyx black ink., using too of the stamps from the set along with the word joy.  I dug through my stash for the words at Christmas time.   I trimmed the panel and added a black mat behind, before mounting onto a 5x7 card.

I just love the CAS feel of this.

I'd like to enter this into:

Creative inspiration challenge - Anything goes

Krafty chicks - use stamps

creative fingers - anything goes

most magical time of the year - anything Christmas

The holly and Ivy - anything Christmas

I hope you like my card - please leave me a short message if you land here.  i really enjoy reading them!  you can also follow me on other social media channels, the links are top right!


See you soon

Rachael 

Saturday, 1 April 2023

mini moo challenge 2023

By    April 01, 2023 // No comments

 Hi Crafting friends

I have something a bit different to share.  For the last month, I have been participating in the mini moo challenge over at Vera Lane Facebook group.  A mini moo is a little card measuring 2.75 by 1.25 inches so it's tiny.

You really have to think about positioning and how to create texture in the background on a very small scale.

Each day there was a different theme or prompt and the idea was to use Vera lane artwork and a few other craft supplies to make a set of cards to enter a challenge.

The prompts to match the photo below were:

Girly

Dog gone it

winter

crafter

birthday

garden

Holiday

Cats

Home

Black and white

flowers

transportation

Go fish

love

Oh boy

Spring

Face it

Yellow

Lets fly

Monochrome

Dee-licious

For the birds

Vacation

Halloween

Bright colours

Got the blues

sunshine

Fairy tale

trave

Song title

Good books

 


Each time I look at them I have a new favourite! Today it's the pink one with the flamingo for the beach!  

My plan is to now add them to a journal and keep them as artwork

Thank you to #veralanedesigns for a fantastic challenge!

Crafting hugs

Rachael

Sunday, 1 January 2023

A cuddle makes it all better....

By    January 01, 2023 // 4 comments

Happy new year crafting friends!

I hope everyone had a peaceful Christmas break and are looking forward to a prosperous and craft filled 2023! 

Today I am sharing a cutie from the All dressed up range called 'a cuddle makes it all better' available from Etsy  

This is to mark our first All dressed up Facebook challenge of the year. Our friendly group showcase Wendy's designs and you can enter our themed challenge (this month is cute so most of Wendy's images will qualify) 


After colouring the sweet girl and her puppy with a combination of spectrum noir brush markers and copics, I fussy cut around them.  The background is a brick stencil using abandoned coral oxide ink and I stamped a sentiment from an Aall and create set in the corner.  To finish I added a fine liner border also in a coral colour and the sequins for some shine.

I'd like to enter this into:

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See you soon

Crafting hugs

Rachael 

Thursday, 13 October 2022

Christmas with friends

By    October 13, 2022 // No comments

 Hi everyone

Time for more 'c word' cards!  Christmas is now less than 11 weeks away...  cue the music in the shops!

Over on the Polkadoodles blog we have a new challenge.  its anything goes - so we would love to see what you make for a chance of winning some stunning digi images!



To make this I used a stamp set called snowball kisses.  I inked up the background using distress oxide inks, then splattered with water and some lawn fawn liquid stardust.

The cute characters were coloured with copics and fussy cut out, before being positioned into the scene above.  Isn't it so cute!  

Our challenge runs until Friday night, but there is a new one every week so no need to miss out! 

I'd like to enter this into: 

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge - Anything goes

Lil patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

613 Avenue create - Anything goes

Passion for markers - anything goes

Through the craft room door - anything goes

Please check out the blog for more inspiration from our fantastic DT, and my social media pages are linked above for you too.  Please leave me a comment if you land here - it does really make my day to read them!

See you soon

Rachael 




Saturday, 27 August 2022

lets get spooky...

By    August 27, 2022 // 3 comments

 Hi fellow crafters (and craft appreciators!)

I'm afraid Summer is drawing to a close, and looking at the prices of gas and electric in the UK, come the winter, we will be too cold to craft, so I'd better get ahead!

Our challenge is on again over at Polkadoodles week 35 - anything goes, along with a chance to win some of Nikky's amazing images - your biggest challenge will be choosing which ones!


This image is called Frankenstein monster boo and I have also used the Halloween paper bundle 2

I firstly used scattered straw distress oxide in the background, blending from the middle outwards like a glow, then added ink on the edges to frame him. I then used black gouache paint to splatter all over the background too.

I tore two strips of different papers to place across the bottom to ground my image.  He was printed out then coloured using copic markers then fussy cut and popped on some foam squares for dimension

I added the image and the sentiment, and decided it need more, so I went back to the paper pack and enlarged some of the skulls and fussy cut them out.

To finish the spooky feel, I doodled around the edge, and added some hand drawn cobwebs in the top corners

there are loads of great Autumn/Halloween images over in the shop - Please check them out.  Also see the other DTs amazing inspiration on the blog too!

I'd like to enter this into:

Daring card makers - in the long run (DL sideways)

My time to craft - fantasy whimsical

613 Avenue Create - anything goes


I'll see you all again very soon!

Rachael


Thursday, 21 July 2022

Truly Dino-mite!

By    July 21, 2022 // 3 comments

 Hello everyone

For everyone in the UK - I'm so glad that heat has dialled down.  Fore everyone not in the UK wondering why we are complaining - we don't have enough hot weather to justify getting aircon units as most of our weather is rain! We are rubbish at any extremes of hot or cold and a few days ago it reached the hottest it has ever been in the UK at 40 degrees Centigrade.  The British love a good moan about the weather!  Anyway onto the card...

I thought I'd revisit my stash and I made this using the Mam elephant little dino agenda and me and my dinosaur stamp sets 



Ingredients

  • Stamps
    • Me and my dinosaur
    • Little dino agenda
  • Coloured with spectrum noir tri-blend brush markers
  • Inks
    • Memento tuxedo black
    • Prized ribbon distress oxide
    • Twisted citron distress oxide  ink
    • Sakura glitter gelly roll pen
I stamped all of the images out and cut them using my scan and cut.  I then coloured them using the spectrum noir tri blend brush markers.  I ink blended a background and laid the images on to create this super cute scene! matted and layered on black, onto a 5x7 card base.  

The final touch was a heat embossed sentiment and some sparkle pens for shine.

I hope you like it!

I'd like to enter this into:


Thanks for stopping by - if you're here please leave me a comment so I know you have visited! For my other social media pages, please see the top right of the page!

See you soon
Crafting hugs
Rachael 

Sunday, 13 February 2022

Monster celebration

By    February 13, 2022 // 5 comments

 Hi crafting friends

Welcome back for another make from the desk of the glittery pink craft room, today its a nice clean and simple one using a Tracey Hey stamp set called 'out of this world'



I stamped the cute alien (there's also the sweetest robot in this set) and coloured him using copic markers, then I fussy cut him out and edged around the cut image with black marker pen.

On the card front I used twisted citron distress oxide ink through a i-craft brick stencil.  I stamped the black squiggles and hearts.  These are also part of the stamp set, all finished with a sentiment from the same set.

I hope you like him - he's so adorable! 

I'd like to enter this into:

However you have made it here - I would really appreciate you clicking on the links at the top right of this page and following me on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest, and also click on the follow button for this blog.

Please leave me some love - I read everything, and it makes my day to get happy mail (rather than groupon vouchers, or notifications or tax refunds when the tax man doesn't even have my email ha ha)!

See you soon

crafting hugs

Rachael  

Monday, 3 January 2022

Another Alice....

By    January 03, 2022 // 3 comments

Hello everyone

Hope you are all feeling good after the new year celebrations, and looking forward to another year of crafting inspiration direct from the desk of the glittery pink craft room!

I'll start by thanking everyone who visits, follows and comments here.  I started my new blog in July last year, along with other SM platforms, now knowing what would happen, but since then I've gained loads of IG followers, as well as started new followers on this blog.  If you have landed her accidentally, please take a look around.  To follow me, please click on the main page on the right, all links are there! 

So... the last few cards you may have noticed I have looked around on Etsy for some new designers and ideas to play with.  I came across Vera Lane studios (who you may recognise from some of the aall and create stamps.  I have always love Alice in wonderland, and when I saw there was a different type of Alice, she was added to basket and checked out quicker than I could say 'I'm late!' 

I also wanted to try a bit of a new style.  Grungy but with pretty flowers and colour, so this was the combo I came up with.  I made several in this style and am loving it!


Hope you like it too!

I'd like to enter this into:

See you all soon for more card making and papercrafting

Crafting hugs
Rachael 

Monday, 6 December 2021

Alice in Crafting land

By    December 06, 2021 // 4 comments

Hi everyone

Yesterday I was browsing Etsy for digi stamps. I wanted to find some new cute designs and as my craft room is rapidly filling up - I can always justify buying new digi's as they take up no room! 

I found this super cute set and brought it along with several others from a company called Caperuza sketch. they were really reasonably priced, and I adore the sketchy design.

Alice in Wonderland is one of my all-time favourite stories, and I knew they would have to be bright and bold and rainbow coloured.  I did colour them as close to the Disney film adaptation as possible.





ingredients

  • Coloured with copics markers
  • Digi stamps by Caperuza sketch on etsy here
  • Die - Lawn fawn scalloped slimline die with hears
  • Glittered with tonic shimmer pen and stickles Christmas berry red glitter
  • Ink blending with distress oxide inks
    • worn lipstick, 
    • scattered straw, 
    • broken china, 
    • villainous potion
I printed all of my images first, coloured them and cut them out using my scan and cut.
I then cut out the die shape with some smooth white card stock, and blended distress inks to create a rainbow.

I blended the colours to create the secondary tones of orange and green and at the end added come more worn lipstick so it looks like it going back to red again.

This was then splattered with black water colour paint and lawn fawn liquid stardust.

I printed the quote and cut it up, then laid it along with my images onto the panel using glue and foam pads.  I used a slightly bigger card blank to put it on to finish the card.

I just love how colourful this is and how cute those characters are.  I can guarantee I'll be back for more images from here, There were so many to choose from!

I'd like to enter this into:


Thanks for dropping in - if you could leave me a message I'd really appreciate it, or better still like and follow me on any of my social media channels.  The links are on the front blog page.

Crafting hugs
Rachael 


Sunday, 14 November 2021

Love roo

By    November 14, 2021 // 2 comments

Hello everyone

I made this card for my sons birthday last month, but just haven't got around to blogging it yet.

When my son was a toddler he couldn't say wallaby, so he called them "wobbalies" and the name has stuck ever since, so when I spotted this roo set from clearly besotted, it had to land in my basket!




Ingredients

  • Die -  
    • Mama elephant slim line scene builder
    • tattered lace basic circle
  • Stamps –
    • clearly besotted – Love roo
    • MFT lets stick together
  • Coloured with spectrum noir tri blend brush markers
  • Ink blending distress oxide inks
    • Chipped sapphire
    • Prize ribbon
    • Antique paper
    • Vintage photo

 I cut out of the panels for the shaped card and ink blended them all.  For texture I splatted each one with the same colours I had used to blend as well as black and white, with some shimmer pen in there too. For the circle back panel i used a large circle and chopped it in half in my trimmer to make a different backdrop.

I put these aside to dry while stamping and colouring all of my images, that I then put through my scan and cut and cut them all out.  I also cut out the word ‘Son’ in two sizes, one in black and the other in white

Now the background panels were dry, I glued them all together to form the card base, and placed my critters around the card to create a scene.  In the sky I adhered the ‘son’ word and stamped the happy birthday to room on the front panel.

He absolutely adored this – its still in his bedroom now.  His very own set of wobbalies! 

I'd like to enter this into

Thanks so much for stopping by - it does mean a lot when people leave comments, or follow my on FB, Pinterest or IG.  I really appreciate it!

See you again soon for more makes from the desk of the glittery pink craft rooms

Rachael 

Sunday, 10 October 2021

Frightfully sweet

By    October 10, 2021 // 6 comments

 Hello friends

A few posts back I said I do not do Halloween as a rule, I do not celebrate it and my son doesn’t go trick or treating.  Not due to religious reasons just because it doesn’t sit comfortably with me.  Having said that, I have had several posts recently about Halloween because the images are just tooooo cute! I saw this MFT one and had to have it.  There is something super sweet about animals dressed up to make a cute scene!

 


Ingredients

  • Stamps
    • MFT - frightfully sweet
    • Clearly besotted  - Alien attack
  • Inks
    • Distress oxides
      • Mustard seed
      • Chipped sapphire
      • Wilted violet
      • Twisted citron
      • Black soot
    • Versa mark
    • Memento tuxedo black
    • Hero arts unicorn pigment ink
  • Scan and cut
  • Gold metallic paint
  • White and black acrylic paint
  • Shimmer pen
  • Glossy accents

 I made this card into a z fold, but with a bottom bar to add the critters too.

I did this by taking a 6x6 card blank.  I folded the front page back on itself (so its like a z shape) and then opened it flat again. I then trimmed 1.5 inches off the bottom to make the bar.

 Before layering I inked the background. I knew I wanted a spooky house in the background so started with mustard seed in this location and added twisted citron across the bottom to add a spooky glow. I then continued blending using wilted violet, chipped sapphire and a bit of black soot along the top. Once I was happy with the blending, I added gold metallic, white, and black paints to splatter across the night sky

For the ground, my critters stand on, this was black card stock I cut into wavy lines added white pigment ink to the top and then layered them together. I used a white gel pen to add dots (I forgot t platter before I had assembled so had to improvise!)

I then stamped and coloured the cute critters from the MFT stamps set and the spooky castle/house from clearly besotted. And cut them all out using my scan and cut.

The bottom bar was added the opposite way around to the main card folds, and everything was then placed and either glues or foam pads used to adhere it together. The sentiment was from the MFT set and was embossed using white powder and a Versamark in pad. Finishing touches were a bit of glitter and some glossy accents.

Phew that was a lot of explaining!

 I'd like to enter this into:

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes
Love to craft challenge  - Anything goes
Crafters Cafe - Anything goes 
Critter Crazy - Anything goes with a critter
Send a smile 4 kids - Holiday/Celebration
Crafty Calendar - Halloween
A gem of a challenge - Anything goes 


I hope you like this – please leave me a message if you land here, or if this isn’t your preferred social media – check out my other links on the home page.

See you soon

Rachael 



Saturday, 11 September 2021

Dino rawr!

By    September 11, 2021 // 2 comments

Hello again

I'm back with more from the desk of the glittery pink craft room.  This time its cute dinosaurs'.

I've always loved dinosaurs, and my son is like some super palaeontologist who knows the names of them all - some I have never even heard of!   These are from Mama elephant and there are two different stamp sets both dino based, and I cannot resist a cute boys dino card! I know the name of these - they are simply dino rawrs! ha ha 




Ingredients

  • Stamps
    • Mama elephant little dino agenda
    • Mama elephant Me and my dinosaur
  • inks
    • Memento tuxedo black 
    • Salvaged patina distress oxide
    • twisted citron distress oxide
    • mowed lawn distress oxide
  • Tattered lace basic circle die
  • Cloud stencil
  • glossy accents
  • Tonic glitter gloss
I stamped and coloured the images, before using my scan and cut to cut them all out.  I die cut a circle and using a cloud stencil I made a sky back ground.  I then cut a wavy line from some whit card stock and using my circle die cut I made grassy hills to add onto the background and ink blended them using the green distress inks

I then layered up the circle using the stamps.  There was still a bit too much white on the card, so I went through my scraps and found this black and white stripy paper to be cut into a strip on the left.  finished with a sentiment from the stamp set, and highlights of tonic shimmer and glossy accents. 

I'd like to enter this into:


Thank you for your support so far, I just love reading your comments and every like and follower I get I am truly grateful for!  If you want to see more, or are on social media, please click open the links on my home page (top right) for more!

See you soon
Crafty hugs

Rachael 

Tuesday, 17 August 2021

Cool birthday

By    August 17, 2021 // 8 comments

 Hello crafty friends

I'm back with some more card making inspiration - penguins having fun in the sun.... 

I wanted to make a more masculine card and thought this as a fun idea using these super cute penguins




Ingredients

  • Stamps
    • MFT - penguins in paradise
    • Anne-Marie - birthday stamp (background)
    • Lisa Horton - Everyday tickertape sentiments 
  • Coloured with Copics and Spectrum noir triblend brush marker
  • Inks
    • peacock feathers and squeezed lemonade distress inks 
    • Lawn fawn black alcohol friendly ink 
  • Die - tattered lace stitched basic circle
I started by stamping the penguins in the jet black ink and colouring them with my alcohol markers.  I then cut them out using my scan and cut.  I've had this stamp set for probably 3 or 4 years and I still love it! 

While that was cutting, I started on my background.  I used the happy birthday background stamp on my fingers, lightly inking and tapping down mainly across the middle section of the card, from top to bottom to add interest.
I then used my distress inks and blending brushes to create coloured patches in the background  and then added to the texture by smooshing the ink pads on my desk, adding water and lightly tapping my paintbrush across the panel.  I also did the same with a bit of lawn fawn sparkle liquid.

I dried this with my heat tool, and die cut a circle, layering everything together using glue and foam pads.  Matted onto a piece of black card stock, the finished card was a top fold 5x7.  Finishing touches with a white gel pen and three sentiments from the Lisa Horton set, and there we have a super male card. 

How I wish I was with those penguins!

I'd like to enter this into:

Crafty sentiment designs - Anything goes


Thanks so much for stopping by - please leave me a comment and sign up to my other social media by clicking on the icons on the right.  I'd love to see you there!!

Crafty hugs
Rachael

 


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