You’re Dino-mite!

Morning Dear Reader, hoping that you are well? I have everything crossed that we’ll have nice weather at the weekend as we are hoping to be able to go for a picnic.

A few weeks ago i was playing about with shrink plastic, and recently i made them into cards;  here’s one of them;

 

{shrink plastic, stamps Lawn Fawn coloured with pencils}

I coloured them with pencils before i shrank them, you have to remember that they get darker as they get smaller so you colour them lightly you can add in a little shading and then when they shrink they become a deeper colour.

I mounted them with glue dots on a square mount then a dark brown square base nice and simple.  I thought that this would be a slightly more masculine card that you give give the man in your life to tell them you love them.

That’s it from me today, until next time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Do you Gut?

Morning Dear Reader, i hope that this finds you well? Now as to the post title….do you Gut?

Well do you? Do you know what it is to ‘gut’?  Let me explain, i like really layered scrapbook pages but i don’t want to commit that many patterned papers to one layout - i would be bankrupt and not able to keep up my crafty habit! So what i quickly learnt to do was to cut away any paper that would be hidden below a picture or another layer.  For example if you was to do a 12x12 layout with a 9x9 layer, i would cut a square from the middle of the base paper that is 8x8 inches so that there is room to glue the next layer on top and the 8x8 square you can now use for other projects! I hope that that makes sense i have taken some pictures for you to show the stages below.

That’s it from me today i hope that that was useful to you, until next time

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Dragon Dreams……

Morning Dear Reader, just a quick post from me today as Mr.C is redecorating our bedroom and i shall be making sure that he doesn’t throw away any thing he shouldn’t Men don’t seem to have the same understanding of some things as we do.  He’s always saying 6 pairs of brown boots you’ve only got 2 feet!!

Now i am not entirely happy with this one, i like the background i made it using something i remember doing at primary school with washing up liquid paint and a straw! I like the dragon but i don’t like the sentiment flag ah well the little girl who received it; liked it but sometimes you just can’t help being a bit fussy with yourself

That’s it from me today, until next time;

Ttfn

Charlie.xx

Blossoming tree…..

Hello Dear Reader, i hope that you are well? I am full of cold this week, which although not serious does make you feel rather yucky.  But at least the sun keeps poking out to cheer the days:) this time of year i find i become a little obsessed with the weather after the long gloomy days of winter! lol!

Today i am sharing a card with you with spring in mind of all the blossom trees that will soon start flowering, i am hoping that Mr C will soon take the hint and plant one or two in our garden ;)

I made the blossoms on this card using the wet-wipe technique, where you create a multi coloured ‘ink pad’ with a few layers of wet wipes with re-inkers randomly dropped over the surface. Here is the result;

{all supplies for this card from SU}

I really like the soft mottled look that this technique gives and in some ways it mimics the blossom moving in the breeze. I really like this set from SU its in their spring/summer catalogue and has lots of stamps to build a scene around the tree.  I have just realise that the mount on this card is wonky :/ sorry about that oops!

That’s it from me today

Until next time

Ttfn

Charlie.x

The new trend……Bokeh!

Hello; Dear Reader, i hope that you are well? Its very gloomy here i am wondering where the sunshine of the weekend has gone!? It was lovely over the weekend, i managed to get to sit out on my bench, admittedly in my coat but the sun was warm and i helped {filled out the plant markers} Mr C get the seeds started for the year.
So i have been seeing a technique everywhere lately on blogs and instagram, so i thought i would give it a go.  Bokeh is a photography technique and  has been defined as "the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light". You can recreate this on card with some sponging and a template made at home with acetate.

{inks from SU and Brilliance, stamp from SU, card stock also from SU}
I started with a blank piece of card and swirled on two shades of light blue then added a light lavender type colour.  With the stencil i sponged on white craft ink and white brilliance ink once it was dry i stamped the tree in versa mark and heat embossed it. Finishing off with a sparkly heart.
I hope you like it and give Bokeh a try, that’s all from me today
Until next time
Ttfn
Charlie.x