Eclectic Stems for AALL & Create

Hello Friends

Just a quick post from me today to share my GDT post for AALL & Create.  I needed to

create a birthday card for a friend,

I used AALL & Create stamp sets #199 and #210, both by Tracy Evans.

I created a background using Distress Oxide inks in Peacock Feathers and Gathered Twigs.

Next I cut a circle from card, placed the outer part on the background and stamped through the hole using stamp set #210 (Background Mash Up) using Gathered Twigs Distress Ink.

I stamped out the flower again, coloured two with Distress Ink and cut these out to use as

 extra layers.

I went around the finished circle with a wet paintbrush to drag some of the colour out.  To finish off I layered the flower up and added some glitter to the centre of the flower.

The sentiment on the finished card is also from stamp set #199.

Thanks so much for your visit, as always, I appreciate it very much.

Hugs, Anne xxx

Tracy's Poppies for AALL & Create

Hello Friends

I am back this week with my Guest designer project for AALL & Create.  I made two cards with the beautiful newly released stamp sets by Tracy Evans #206 (Hexagon Stem), #200 (Hope) and #210 (Background Mash Up) together with stencil #59 by Autour de Mwa.

My favourite background technique at the moment is brayering with paint.  I created two backgrounds using similar techniques but with different colours.

The first card uses light colour paint tones, all brayered separately onto mixed media cardstock.

I don't dry between each layer, I just keep adding the colours until I am happy with the result.  I then applied the stencil, using both paint and gesso dabbed through with an old makeup sponge.

I cut down the parts of the background I liked, to fit my card and mounted these onto black card.

For the above card I stamped, coloured and fussy cut four poppies from stamp set #200 and over-stamped these lightly with stamp #210 to add some texture.  I added two flowers to the card and then layered up the flowers with sticky pads to give them some dimension.

For my second card I simply brayered in a different set of colours, adding some stencilling as previously.  This time I stamped stamp set #206 directly onto the brayered base, stamping six further poppies and layering these up as before, after over-stamping each of the poppies with stamp set #210.

The sentiments on both cards are stamped from the two flower stamp sets.

You can find worldwide stockists for the stamps and stencil I used today, HERE.

I do apologise if I have not visited you lately, sometimes life just gets in the way

but hopefully normal service will be resumed soon!  In the meantime, thanks so

much for your visit, it is much appreciated, especially in these days where blog visiting seems to 

have fallen out of favour somewhat.

Hugs, Anne xx

Journal Page for AALL & Create

Hello Friends

My Guest designer project for this week is something a bit different from me, a journal page.  I don't really do much journalling, as a rule, so I thought I would chance my hand at it, using a new released

stamp set #199 by Tracy Evans for AALL & Create.

My journal is a standard size with 8.1/4" x 5.1/4" sized pages.  I didn't want to work directly in the journal so I cut some mixed media paper to fit.

I used watercolour paints to create my backgrounds and added some splatters.

Adding some stencilling with with AALL & Create stencil #59 by Autour de Mwa and some further stamping using AALL stamp #210 by Tracy Evans created some extra texture.

Next, I stamped the flowers across the page and coloured them with  watercolour paints.  

I stamped, painted and fussy cut some extra leaves and added them, followed with the sentiment

from stamp set #199.  Finally, I added the pages to my journal and doodled around the edges.

You can find worldwide stockists for all of the AALL & Create products I used HERE.

Thanks so much for your visit, I hope to see you again soon.

Hugs, Anne xx