ATC365 #41 TRIO

Quick blog, day #41 and the word I have is TRIO.

3 leaves, three 'snail' leaves and the number 3. 

Took me a bit more than 3 minutes to make mind you! 

See you all tomorrow!

Happy days! Kim

ATC365 Day 5 - RAINBOW

Gotta love a rainbow! I have a Pinterest board dedicated to rainbows. If you fancy dropping by, HERE is the link to the board. If you looked then you can see it only has pins of what I call proper rainbows. None of the blurring between colours, just the traditional colours.

Having said that, the piece of card I used for this ATC isn't the sort of rainbow that would make it onto my board! Good job the word 'rainbow' is featured in the sentiment. It means you can ignore the background if you don't find it 'rainbow-y' enough!

I used a great stamp of the most amazing water droplets by Ryn Tanaka, the incredibly versatile grunge polka dot from Visible Image and a sentiment from Creative Expressions.

I make large A3 painted backgrounds every now and then to have in stock ready for further decoration. This was coloured with Brushos and I used the Visible Image polka dot stamp with plain water to 'lift' some of the colour away. This scrap comes from a background I did for a Visible Image DT project. I stamped and embossed the droplets and sentiment in black and added some white hi-lights.

Right, must dash, I have a mountain of paperwork to catch up on!

Happy days! xx

Fabulous NEW Stamps - Cheering me up a bit!

Been a bit off colour these last few days. Sitting looking at my craft desk and not much happening in the way of inspiration. Kept fiddling with things, trying to tidy up, having a tinker with Twinchies, but nothing 'HUGE' was happening in my head.

Then I remembered I had some new stamps arrive the other week from London. London ONTARIO that is. I had opened the packet, given them a quick trial stamp and them promptly lost my mojo!!!

With a big NEED to do something crafty running around in my head I cleared the decks, placed the stamps, black ink and white paper firmly in front of me and told myself I WAS going to make something!!

First I just stamped the images using black ink on white card. When I saw all these black on white images I felt the urge to do some 'colouring in'. Always good for the soul, who doesn't feel calmer, happier, and comforted when they do some colouring in? I used H₂Os - Wine & Roses and Ginger Peach for the leaves which led on to the creation of the background which was those 2 colours plus Sunflower and Hot Cinnamon. I used the droplets stamp to a little more interest to the background stamping in a red ink.

Having coloured all the leaves in I decided to cut them out and it was during this process that I decided to make a flower out of them. It has a sort of poinsettia look about it don't you think? I am still not sure if I should add something; a sentiment somewhere or a single leaf. I will just wait and see what happens. With my mojo being on some sort of sabbatical I think I might wait till it returns before making any hasty decisions.

If you like the stamp why not pop over to the web site Designs by Ryn and take a look at the other fantastic stamps there are. FYI HERE is the one I used for this card.

Hope to be back soon with more makes - mojo willing! 

Kim xx