Winter Robin

Good morning, Kirsten here on the last day of October. I hope you've had a good month. I've got two very quick & simple projects to show you today, I used the beautiful Winter Robin Art Stamp from Imagination Crafts on both.

My base for this project is a white/greyboard postcard from That's Crafty. You can use either side, I chose the white side & as I was stamping & using Distress inks. 

I stamped the Winter Robin in Vintage Sepia Versafine ink with the intention of adding clear embossing powder & heat setting, but I had forgotten that my ink pad is not as juicy as it used to be & I got a slightly faded result, which I really liked & decided to keep. 

I dried the ink with my heat tool, then added some colour with watered down Red & Emerald Starlights. When that was dry I blended Antique Linen & Tea Dye Distress inks around the outside of the image & added the greeting from the Hobby Art Christmas Frosting stamp set. I also added some Diamond Sparkle Medium with my finger to the tree branch.

To finish the postcard I painted two scraps of card with Red, Topaz & Green Starlights, die cut the scraps with the Leane Creatief Flower die 004 to make a poinsettia & glued it & the flourish to the postcard with Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear glue. A spatula tip of Welsh Gold Sparkle Medium to the centre of the poinsettia & I was finished.

The second project is even simpler. A 6x6 white card blank, Distress inks - Candied Apple, Bundled Sage, Spiced Marmalade - on to a piece of white Super Smooth with splatters off watered down Pearl Starlights, the Winter Robin stamped with Onyx Black Versafine & heat set with WOW! Clear Gloss embossing powder, a piece of grey card as a matted layer & the Hobby Art Christmas Frosting greeting stamped directly on to the card blank.

             

        

               

  I will be back next week with another October project as the 

November class is not taking place until November 11. 

Take care & have a nice week.

Kirsten

More Hobby Art Christmas Cards........

Hi everyone, Kirsten here, hope your week is going well so far. I'm standing in for Lisa today as she didn't get time to write her post before she left for Exeter, where she and Sue will be demoing for Imagination Crafts at the Hobbycrafts show over the next four days.

Today's cards are two more of the samples she made for the September class, using Hobby Art stamp sets;

 Round Robins
The Holly & The Ivy 
Christmas Poinsettia 
Christmas Frosting

For the first card she created a simple background using the Imagination Diamonds stencil & Distress inks - Antique Linen & Bundled Sage, if I remember correctly - she added faux stitching with a fine line black pen.

She stamped a tiny snowflake from the Christmas Frosting set with Candied Apple Distress ink & a sentiment from the same set with Onyx Black Versafine on a die cut circle of white card, blending Antique Linen DI around the edge. 

The holly & the robin were coloured with Spectrum Aqua pens (reduced on the website) & cut out. Lisa applied Diamond Sparkle Medium to each piece by tapping it on with her finger. That gives a very thin layer which dries in seconds............

Her second card is another penny slider card, this time creating a circle for the poinsettia to go around. She had to hand cut the circle as her circle cutting dies weren't the right size. The rest of the card follows the layout & method of the class project card..........

She coloured the poinsettias with Spectrum Aqua pens, scribbling the colour on a tile first, then using water & a paintbrush to create washes of colour.

                         

That's it from us for today, thanks for visiting the blog. Julie will be here tomorrow & Jan on Friday. I'll be back next Monday. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Lisa & Kirsten