In the U.K. Mothers’ Day is this coming Sunday, it is also the start of British Summer Time so yay! The evenings will be lighter. I live right at the opposite side of the country to my family (believe me it is better all round this way) but that is no excuse (apparently) to not send a card, so I have made one and sent it merrily on its way to Yorkshire.
I was undecided whether to make a rose or violet themed card but when I saw the paper with the rose design it made my mind up. My mother’s favourite colour is green and I had a lovely green paper which went with the rose paper perfectly. I always like to use a third neutral paper to calm everything down a bit and having picked my three papers I tore lumps out of them and stuck them to the blank card.
Then I inked up the edges with a dark brown inkpad and using a stencilling brush and the same ink I “grimed” up the papers a bit and inked the white torn edges as they can glare a bit if left clean.
Then using a couple of fern stamps and the same dark brown inkpad (I like to keep a fairly simple palette) I stamped randomly over the whole thing.
Then using a couple of fern stamps and the same dark brown inkpad (I like to keep a fairly simple palette) I stamped randomly over the whole thing.
I almost always like to stick a butterfly or moth of some kind on whenever I make any form of collage, I have a collection of them ready printed and cut out. I picked the one that most fit in and on he went. If memory serves the image is from here.
I printed off the pink rose image, which I think is a Victorian scrap image I got from The Graphics Fairy. Then the fun part - cutting it out. I cut out the middle parts with a craft knife, for fiddly jobs like this I don’t use my trusty scalpel, I find it easier to use a pen-shaped knife. The round handle is much easier to control I think. Then a big old pair of scissors for the outline. Use the biggest that you dare, it makes for much smoother results.
3,000 foam pads later and it is stuck onto the card and not budging for anybody. Okay, maybe not 3,000, but it felt like it when I was peeling the backs off them.
Hope she likes it!
Happy Tuesday :D
Hope she likes it!
Happy Tuesday :D