Happiness Blooms From Within

Hello Everyone

This week I have created a couple of fairly clean and simple cards for

AALL & Create using the Bouquet Border (#162) stamp by Fiona Paltridge.

For this first card I brayered two colours of Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paint (Turquoise and Lime) onto white card.  Whilst the paint was still wet I overlaid AALL Stencil #54 by Olga Heldwein and rubbed gently with a damp cloth to remove some of the paint.  After stamping the bouquet I coloured it with Inktense pencils.   I stamped and coloured a second set of flowers, fussy cut them and overlaid these before covering them with Glossy Accents.

For the second card I followed the same process but used Distress Ink (Broken China) instead of paint.  Again I overlaid the stencil and wiped over with a damp cloth.  I coloured the flowers with Inktense Pencils, this time leaving them as a single layer.

I stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set on each card and finally, I mounted the images onto white card bases.

You can purchase the stamps and stencils I used from AALL & Create here, where you will also find a list of worldwide stockists.

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

Hugs, Anne xx

Domino Journal for AALL & Create

Hello Friends!

No surprises today, I am continuing my slight addition to making journals!  Whenever I see Tracy Evans' border stamp plates for AALL & Create, I just see journals and Tracy's Layered Domino stamp plate is no exception.

I thought this would be perfect for someone who enjoys games (perhaps a man?) so I really just stuck to black, white and red.

The stamp itself is a border stamp (#151) and when I cut the journal out (Eileen Hull's Wrapped Journal, with the flap cut off), I planned where to stamp on the blank journal cover.  After stamping I used Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Paint in Ruby (slightly thinned with water) to cover the whole of the outside.  Thinning the paint makes it easy to cover the stamping without obliterating it.

I stamped the numbers again onto some watercolour card and then fussy cut them.  Since I wanted them to look really bold, I used a black marker pen to colour the numbers fully, I attached them, highlighting with a white marker pen.

I also stamped the sentiment, the word 'domino', and extra dominoes, fussy cut them all and added them to the journal front.

I turned my attention to the inside signatures.  I always like to create lots of pockets, like the double one above.

The remaining signatures were decorated with more stamped and fussy cut dominoes.

To finish off I stamped the dominoes again onto shrink plastic to make a hanging charm set.

Finally, here is a view of the back of the journal.

Here is the stamp that I used, this and all other AALL & Create stamps and stencils are available HERE, where you will also find a list of worldwide stockists.

Thanks, as always, for your visit, I really appreciate you taking the time.  

Hope to see you again soon!

Hugs, Anne xx