Floral corners and bling!

Morning!!

Three creations for you this morning using Sheena Douglass's floral corner stamps and dies and Imagination Crafts Starlights paints, Just Pearls and Alchemy waxes.

I'll keep this a short post so that I can keep scheduling others for you! 

Thanks for stopping by and keeping an eye on what I've been up to,

Leanne xxx

In Full Bloom Corner Dies and Stamps Inspiration....

Hi there!!

I'm here with some creations that I recently made using Sheena Douglass's In Full Bloom perfect partners dies and stamps.  I have created these samples using Imagination Crafts Starlights, Just Pearls and Alchemy waxes and had great fun!

Two cards and a piece of home decor framed.

Blingtastic!!!!!

Thanks for stopping by today,

Leanne xxx

Close Your Eyes.............Make a Wish.

Good morning!

It's another Visible Image card today - I've been having a good play recently with the new February release stamps (I had a nice pile of them for my birthday!).

This background started life as a distress ink background but then I added some pixie powders to give it a shimmer around the edge and spritzed with water.  Knowing I needed to keep that central area "open", I stencilled with some distress ink around the edge and sponged some Imagination Crafts Starlights gold on there too.

Then the face went on, I chose the closed eyes from the Face It set by Visible Image because I knew the sentiment that I wanted to use from the Own It Visible Image set.  I stamped with black Archival ink for both the face and the sentiments.  I lined the eye lids with the gold Starlights and then added some circles of Glossy Accents that when dry, I dotted more of the Starlights on to. To finish off and get everything in balance I stamped some falling leaves on the forehead with the same distress ink - these are from the Create It Visible Image stamp set.

A dusting of distress ink around the outer edge, mat and layered.

This would make a great card for a female of any age.

Hope you like todays creation and thanks for stopping by,

Leanne xx

Inspiration for hand drawing..."Inspire"....

Good morning!

How are you today?  I'm going to take you rather "off piste" today and our journey is down a road we rarely take so I hope that you enjoy it!

Now, I was inspired to have a go at this piece of artwork by Kay at Indigoblu - from her show on Hochanda using Gelatos.  So I thought, lets have a go and see what happens!  Quite a lot happened and I thoroughly enjoyed myself!  So lets see how I got to the finished piece of work:-

OK, I started by marking off a 7 x 7 inch square on my watercolour block pad and I pencilled in the face being careful to try and get everything in to proportion as Kay had showed us how to do.

Don't panic! - All was going very well!!!!  In came the Gelatos and I started to build up the facial colours and leave some open patches where I knew I needed light on the finished result.

The hair had started here and I also started to go deeper with the facial tones.

More work on the hair and the blending of it and further work with the Gelatos on the face too. It's coming together!

Some Imagination Crafts Starlights were added through a stencil here.

Ta dahhh!!!!! Finished! Added a few colour matching gems and the sentiment "Inspire" (Clarity Stamp Alphabet Stamps) then mat and layered and mounted on to an 8 x 8 card.

There, something a bit different but give it a go! It was really motivational to see it coming to life. I hope this has inspired you to have a go drawing your own designs.

No stamping, just purely hand drawn, if I can do it, so can you!

Hope you enjoyed our journey today, down a road we've never been down before.

Thanks for stopping by,

Leanne xx