ink-blending

With the holiday and having guests, I haven’t been spending much time in my craft room, but I did do a lot of clean up prior to Christmas Day. I found quite a few scraps and have since spent some time using them as well as trying out some new supplies. I have a few ready and will likely start posting them over the next weeks.

The card here is using both a scrap frame as well as a new stencil from Crafters Companion. It’s also using an old word die set that came with my Gemini. I used a part of the new stencil over the top of my ink blended piece using water on the stencil, waiting a moment and then lifting it off. It worked quite well and I liked the end result. Decided to use the frame to highlight the nicest part of the stenciling and added the word and small scroll top and bottom.

Its a very simple card and I’m quite pleased with how it turned out. I shall be entering this card into the challenge at Inkspirational.

Thanks for spending time with me today. I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and wish you a very Happy New Year too.

As I mentioned in a recent post, it seems as if I shall be making a few sympathy cards over the next few weeks. Several people we know are losing loved ones or are about to lose one. This card has been made for a club member of my hubby’s photo group as she lost her husband on Saturday after a long illness.

At Krafty Chicks it is an all occasion challenge at the moment so I shall add it there if I can get this post done in time.

I started with inking a small scrap piece of white CS and then die cutting the dragonfly from this piece. Die is from PaperRose. I cut a second one in black so I could offset the inked top one slightly for more definition. I also sprayed the inked piece with some sparkle. Using a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die set I cut the pattern into some blue CS and added it to the gray card front. I added some sparkle using a Sakura pen on the diamond shapes within the pattern. My sentiment is from GKD and once this was stamped and dry I glued the dragonfly leaving the wings free.

Thanks for spending time with me, and any comments you may leave are much appreciated.