Monthly Archives: February 2011

Fishes birthday card

birthday card, card, fish
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The watercolour paper background was made using Chroma jewels Slate, lime, Cosmic shimmer Aqua lagoon (thank you Heather) all sprayed onto wet watercolour paper then salt crystals sprinkled on and left to dry.  When the paper is dry and the salt crystals brushed off you are left with patterns that resemble coral and a nice watery effect.

Inks:  Black document ink, Stampin up Old olive

Card:  aqua holographic card, black, white, water colour paper
Stamps:  Oxford Impressions The deep, Lavinia stamps Seaweed
Other:  Shells from Sarah Lugg collection, pencils and glitter pen to colour,

Art journal week4 Sweets

art journal, sweets, week 4
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Last weeks prompt for the ukstampers weekly challenge was Sweets from your childhood.
I definitely had a very sweet tooth and loved sweets.  Floral sweets or fruity sweets would have been my first choice.  Here are a few of those I remember:  Aromatics, floral gums(or was it gems?), cherry lips, refreshers, parma violets, Turkish delight, sherbet strawberries, sherbet straws – well anything with sherbet in them really, love hearts, tooty fruties, candy necklaces, Vienna fruit bon-bons, penny chews, Bazooka bubble gum (didn’t these used to have skin transfers like tattoos in them?), lucky bags, lollies, liquorice all sorts ………
I can’t remember individual prices but an old sixpence would get a lot of sweeties!

I used the back page of my first journal page for this and added a Prima notecard to the top.  Some pink vellum for the central flower with the names of a few sweets printed on it.  Prima flowers, button, sweet wrappers, a sixpence and a stamped Alice (I used to have long blonde hair when I was little).

Gardening birthday card.

birthday card, card, napkin technique
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I am way too early for John’s birthday but I was aiming to get it to him in Greece  just a few days before his birthday but I sent it rather too early.  C’est la vie!  John is one of these people who can turn their hand to anything they try and gardening is no exception.  He put in an irrigation system and planted a climbing Jasmine over a home made pergola, and planted some citrus and olive trees – they are all thriving!  Now I think I am right in saying that his newly planted olive tree gave him 23 olives in it’s first year so I drew in 23 Kalamata olives onto the tree.  Well done John and here’s to a very happy birthday when it comes!!

The background paper is a napkin which I peeled apart and used only the top layer.  I stamped the card first with the sanded background image then applied some watered down PVA glue which the napkin was then put over and smoothed out a little.  I left a little bit of texture in it then applied more thin PVA over the top.  The colour from the stamped background gets gently dragged over the card in the PVA which gives a lovely soft colour.  As the napkin goes almost transparent you can see the background stamp through it.  I was also playing with my Stampin up air puffer to do the soft splatters over the tag.  I like that soft effect so I will definitely be doing that again.

Inks:  Stampin up Old olive and Always artichoke,
Card:  Ivory , Old olive, black, Olive patterned napkin
Stamps:  Stampin up Sanded background stamp and Hopeful thoughts (tree), Aspects of design Gardening 2
Other:  black pen, green Marvy pen, Stampin up air puffer, ribbon, black linen thread, diluted PVA glue