the stencil card pop up was experimental showing ways we could colour the base. I had just used this idea for my grandson's card and having come across the boat I thought I'd see if it worked here.
The old ship was using different pastes on a background I had previously produced.
I am very conscious that we haven't used many papers recently as we are always creating our own backgrounds. I also have a lot of picture peel offs to get rid of so I have combined the two. The oriental designs look at using peel offs on patterned papers and cut out - or coloured directly onto card using pearl drops. The others look at using peel offs on acetate and colouring either with alcohol inks or permanent markers.
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This month's theme was prompted by the fact that I still have the PARIS stamp for sale that I also have in my stash. the other stamps I have that I have used - mainly on backgrounds are the clarity stamps - ocean swirl. stamps are used with embossing powders and inks that we still have in our closing down sale.
A few cards using older stamps that I no longer have for sale
The bottom one above was done on coloured parchment.
Then there were a few more Paris stamps - done on acetate, card and parchment
Looking now at stamped and inked backgrounds with die cut butterflies & dragonflies.
Continuing the countryside theme for July I looked at which stencils we could use. Stencilling can be done with pastes, dry embossing metal & glitter techniques.
Here I have use some of the tree stamps & dies alongside some quirky sheep stamps for some of the ideas for July workshops
There are 2 sorts here. First there were the dies which made a full scene in themselves then there were the individual die cut flowers that could be used with other dies etc.
I had been asked about using gilding flakes so I have included some uses here.
I wasn't going to buy any more embossing folders but loved these..
I then looked at what stamps I had left on shelf that were also in my stash and to see how else I could use them.
As a change from the fairies I have included the dolphin die cuts and the lighthouse stamped scene for this month's workshops. Both of these have had some of the backgrounds mentioned on my last post used with them
Having got a few fairy diecuts I decided to look at using them against different backgrounds. The products I used for backgrounds were gilding polishes, pixie powders, sprays and our multibackground sheets we build up from wastes. In most cases I left the die cuts uncoloured but did try colouring in in a couple of cases.
and for those who don't want fairies I cut out the fairy from the woodland scene and replaced it by a house in 1 case and dogs in the other
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