Gold wedding card

A wedding card made for my nephew.  I used some Sue Wilson and some Spellbinders flower dies.

Clarity calendar challenge - March

Clarity challenge 37 - All about the girls

I used a lot of masks in this project!  At first I was a bit disappointed that the ink had seeped under some of them a bit but then I decided I quite liked the effect.  I stamped the words first and then masked them off.  Placing the inner part of the lady stencil on the card I then stamped the shops.  These were then masked as well.  For my background I used the ink that was left on the poly bag after doing the background for the calendar challenge.  Ingenious or what?  After removing all the masks I placed the outer part of the stencil in place and used my stencil brushes to create the lady.  I used one of the house stamps to give her dress an abstract pattern.  I used coloured pencils on the shops and a fine liner to outline my lady and give her some curly hair - she looked a bit weird without it.

Red Shoe

I made this card for my daughter's birthday.
I used Spellbinders gold labels 4 for the white background.  A Spellbinders flower and Majestic Circles for the sentiment. Tattered Lace shoe die, red glitter card, white card, feathers, pearls and a peel-off.

Clarity challenge 36 - Love

I started thinking along the theme of Valentine's Day as it was so close.
I used Raspberry Adirondack ink throughout.
First I stamped the word 'love' with the letterbox kit and then masked it off as I wanted this to stand out.
The next stage was to place the heart stencil, without the inner piece on the card and very lightly brush through with the ink.
I then placed the abstract squares stencil underneath the heart stencil and brushed through again. 
Next I put the inner part of the heart stencil in place and brushed though again, this time quite heavily to give a contrast.
I stamped 2 of the wee folk and the kissing couple into three of the squares.
My background is black card and letterbox kit letters saying 'love'.  I stamped the word randomly over the black card and then brushed over with Lava Red mica powder. 
To finish the card off I cut out the heart, mounted it onto the black background and then mounted that onto some bright pink cardstock.

Clarity Calendar challenge - February

I found this month's challenge really difficult and am not too sure about the finished result.
First of all this is the only shaving foam background I could find and I don't have any inks to create more at the moment, although I'm sure you can use other mediums.  So having chosen my background I thought it looked rather psychedelic.  The first thing I could see was the rather strangely shaped tree in the foreground.  I then decided the boy was flying over some mountains which had many streams running into a gorge at the bottom.  In the distance I can see a secluded beach with hills behind.  Isn't it amazing what you can find in a piece of inky paper!

Clarity calendar challenge - January

Well I thought that I would try to have a go at the calendar challenge each month just to challenge myself really.  This is my second attempt at it and I'm not especially pleased with it.  However, after reading Barbara's blog this morning I thought (JFDI) as she said.  So here it is, warts and all.