summer silhouettes

 I have made this 7 x 7 inch card before but in navy and crumb cake inks. I fancied making it again but in a different colour. So this time I used crumb cake and blackberry bliss.

I think this colour combo works quite well. The stamp set is an old S.U set called summer silhouettes.

Sympathy card.

  Sadly I needed another Sympathy card this week. So I used the " Hopeful Thoughts" set for this one.

I used Stamp and write markers to ink up the stamp to get multiple colours  on the stamp. If you are not familiar with this technique, I'll explain.  You will need dye based markers for this technique.  Alcohol markers will not work as they dry too fast and the ink cannot be reactivated with a huff.  

To create this image, I placed the stamp on a flat surface, rubber side up. Using a green dye based marker,  I applied ink to the stem and leaves. 

 With a light blue marker I applied ink to the flowers on the stamp, using a darker blue marker I added just a touch of dark blue to the tips of some of the petals.  Once you have applied ink to all the parts of the stamp  you'll notice the ink you applied first has dried, so you will need to breathe/huff on the stamp to reactivate the ink with the moisture in your breath.  If you're using a large stamp you'll probably need to huff on the stamp a couple of times to make sure you have moistened the whole stamp.  Now you can stamp the image.

I  double mounted the image on this card. I used the perfect layers rules to get the perfect 1/8th of an inch border. Then I added a wider 1/2 inch navy border before mouting the panel onto my white base card.

Magnolia Lane DSP

These  cards were made using the Magnolia Lane DSP. The bottom card was sent to the undertaker that looked after my dad.  He was a lovely guy called Alan. Which was funny and a little confusing at times as my Dad and husband are also called  Allan and Alan. Alan the undertaker  went out of his way to accommodate us.  He even opened the office when they were officially closed to help us out. 

So this card went to him along with the cheque for the outstanding balance on the cost of the funeral.