22 March General Cards

 

Orange Dahlias

Marsh green leaves and heatwave (orange) flowers and edges. No foam pads.

Yellow flower

Cut the edges off die cut stencils, put a base coat of linen paint onto the gelli plate and pull off onto card. Add sea glass and light grey to plate, add stencils then pull off. Add a layer of light grey and pull off. Stamp embellishments with morning mist versafine ink.

Cut out the flower and colour with sunflower yellow and 445 green. Clear embossing powder over the top and gunmetal stickles. Foam pads under the flower and sentiment.

Night sky

Place square template on to do the moon with mustard seed ink. Remove square and cover the moon with circle. Faded jeans and villainous purple oxide inks to do background leaving the centre much paler than the edges. Remove moon circle and add a little blue ink to soften. Edges chipped sapphire ink. Stamp trees, hedgehog and wild flowers with black ink. Stardust stickles to flowers draw in birds.

Sailing boat

You have 3 different sizes of paper strips. One for the centre wide long for thin sail and others for triangular sail. Make sure the strips from the 2 sails remain separate. Foam pads under boat, silver peel off for mast and waves.

8 March General Cards

 

Cream flower

Apply sea mist acrylic paint via a stencil to cream card. Foam pads under sentiment.

Dog and footprints

Chalk grass and sky. Stamp tree with acorn ink and colour with fire wood or umber brown. Stamp rocks with pinecone and grass with shady lane. Stamp footprints with grey ink. Stamp happy birthday with verdant green ink. Draw birds in the sky with black ink. Stick clouds in the sky. Foam pads under the dog.

Hanging basket

Cut out wellies and hanging basket. Colour wellies and tools. with berry red and cool grey 4, flowers sunflower yellow and cornflower blue, leaves marsh green. Foam pads under sentiment, wellies, basket and pot. Edges pale green ink.

Music

Cut out the record and happy birthday, stick blue bit into microphone. Stick black key die cuts onto card with wide bits at the top, stick in white keys. Colour edges with peacock feathers ink.