Friendship card

I decided to create another card inspired by the online card class I've participated in over the past 4 days. I've enjoyed watching the daily video tutorials and the girls are talented and fun A1 instructors but unfortunately I was on top of every technique that was demonstrated and nothing new popped out at me. I guess that's what happens when you watch too many YouTube videos, lol. All the same I'll more than likely go back and do a refresher course every now and then as I have lifetime access to the content. Not bad for $12.

Anyhoo, here's the card.
I used HeroArts Red Royal ink to stencil the focal image and the tone on tone stenciled background. I created the Harlequin stencil on my Silhouette from a piece of acetate. I drew the gold lines with a Signo broard gel pen and white heat embossed the KaiserCraft sentiment, then covered the focal image with clear Wink of Stella. Finally mounted the panel on a gold glitter note card.

Thanks for calling in.

Couldn't help myself

Just one more card before I retire for the night.

Three layers of stenciling were used to create this card. Firstly I inked the harlequin background stencil with 4 shades of Hero Arts shadow inks, bubblegum, fresh peach, pale tomato and raspberry jam, then clear embossed the paint splatter stencil by Tim Holtz and finally inked the butterfly stencil with Memento rich cocoa ink. I stamped the sentiment with black stazon ink and then placed the panel on an A2 Hero Arts kraft card base. Loving the distress look I acheived with those stencils.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Australia Day 2014

The weather could not be more perfect for our national day of celebration. It's a warm 24degrees, blue skies, a slight breeze and bbqs are sizzling all over the country. Heaven!

And then there's me, doing what every obsessed papercrafter does on a public holiday...CRAFT! lol.
Well not just craft but also re-arrange  my studio and stash and order more supplies from my fave store, SSS. Which brings me to the true reason for updating my blog after 8 months mia.

I've signed up for another online card class which allows students a discount at several online stores. With the Aussie dollar dropping like a fly any discount is most welcome. If the shipping doesn't get you the exchange rate will, but hey, it's all worth it when you're opening that box of goodies.

This time the class focuses on STENCILS.
I must admit that many of mine rarely see the light of day but that's all about to change, thanks to this informative class. My poor old Silhouette has been working overtime cutting stencils so as I can experiment  with mist, paints, inks and embossing pastes. I'm having soooo much fun! I've even started an art journal thanks to stencils. I just love the dimension they add to a page. The photos below show 4 of my latest journaling papes, a card which features a stenciled firework design, lots of stickles, stella and glitter on that one, and finally a damask stencil I inked on the background behind the birdcage. Sorry it's hard to see.

I must head outside now and get some rays, vitamin D is good for the bones you know! Where's that BBQ?

Have a good one.