LIM Week 169

It's a sketch challenge this week over at Less is More and for once I had time to play along. My take on the sketch involves a stamp by Imagination Crafts which is meant for decoupage, but that's a technique I'm not especially fond of. Instead I stamped it in Hero Arts Unicorn white ink then embossed parts of it from the back. I coloured it, again from the back, with a mix of Promarkers & coloured pencils. 

The individual crocus is another stamp in the set, which I stamped in Memento Gray Flannel and then coloured with pencils, fussy cut & popped up on foam pads.

The matching curl stamp was also in the set, and the greeting is from a set I won in a challenge last year which was sponsored by Inspired by Stamping from Australia.

Parchment Poppies

My mojo finally seems to be returning from the wilderness! I needed a card for a birthday next week and was determined - for once - to avoid my usual last minute rush.  I love the Sketchy Flowers set from Digistamp Boutique but rather than simply printing & colouring one of the images, I decided to print it, trace it in white pencil onto parchment then emboss it from the back.  I coloured it from the back with Duck Egg Promarker & Derwent Jade Green watercolour pencil, to match the backing paper.  

I felt the main image needed mounting onto white card but I struggled to securely attach it.  In the end I used double sided adhesive sheets then ran the lot through my Cuttlebug. The ribbon was also coloured with Duck Egg Promarker and the greeting was stamped onto parchment & white card to match because plain white card didn't look right..

Cardstock: Xerox Colotech Plus 300gsm

Coloured cardstock: Coredinations Tim Holtz Distress Collection in Tumbled Glass

Main image: Digistamp Boutique

Greeting stamp: Lucy Cromwell Bunting Stamps

Backing paper: The Works

   

Fancy Floral

Another day, another experiment! This time a little bit of parchment craft using some Hero Arts stamps which were an Ebay bargain a few weeks ago.  The smaller flowers were stamped using Memento Elderberry ink on parchment paper, then I drew the white lines in pencil on the front & embossed them from the back. The larger flower was also stamped in Memento Elderberry but this time I embossed between the stamping to create the white on the petals.

The frame & numbers were created in Silhouette Studio, cut out on my Craft Robo Lite then I stamped a few leaves around part of it in white Brilliance ink.  The central cardstock was embossed using Couture Creations Tied Together embossing folder and I decided a few pearls were needed just to balance things out.

Cardstock: White - Xerox Colotech Plus 300gsm, lilac from stash.

Stamps: Hero Arts CG303 Luscious Bold Flowers, Inkylicious leaves

Ink: Memento Elderberry, Brilliance White

Papermania Pearls.