Made on Sunday

I got on a bit of a roll yesterday and had to stop myself making even more cards than these three. This (above) is one of my favourite stamps which I bought in Germany last year. I do think she is beautiful - not sure who she is modelled on but it is a lovely stamp.

I am still in the mood for using Broken China and Brushed Corduroy (Distress Inks) and after stamping the image with Sepia Archival Ink I blended the two Distress colours around the image.

The upper section was a stamped image from the star book (a trial stamping which turned out fine) gone over with my two Distress Inks again and then put through the Cuttlebug with one of the folders.

To finish off I added three flower heads touched along the edges again with the two Distress Inks.
The card above was due to my having got out my Cuttlebug folders and was simply one of them on plain white cardstock which I then went over again with the two Distress Inks. I mounted it on this Teal cardstock with the two sides wider than the borders at the bottom and top. It is then mounted on white cardstock although it is hard to see from the scan.
This last card started off again with me using my Cuttlebug folders. The cardstock was a sort of semi-gloss and after embossing it I swiped over the music with Encore Gold Metallic ink and then went over it with Black Soot Distress Ink. This rather obliterated the gold so I heat dried it and then went over, swiping with the Gold Metallic. It has made a lovely finish which, sadly, does not show in the scan.

The Beethoven Collage stamp was done using Archival Black embossed with clear embossing powder. I went over it with my Encore Metallic Gold and next I swiped Black Soot Distress ink over it and then rubbed over it with a paper towel.

It is such a shame that the scan does not show up the effect as it looks really nice in real life. Why don't you try it?

Today I have been using my Makins Air Dry Clay as I must get something done for my workshops which are coming up shortly. It is drying out at the moment and then I am going to decorate it. What is it? You will just have to wait and see.