Hello Everyone

Welcome to my Thursday weekly creativity.

This week I have a couple of cards to share with you featuring some of the lovely new stamps by That's Crafty! designed by the very talented artist Melina Dahl.

As most of you will have gathered by now I'm not really a 'Flower Girl' so to speak but Melina's well designed stamps are very versatile and lend themselves to a range of creative styles. On this occasion I have opted for a somewhat 'graphic' style using black and white with subtle use of colour .....

Products Used:

Card Stock: Black, Ivory
That's Crafty! White Gesso
PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Paint: Snowflake. Any White Acrylic paint will work - see a range here
Tsukineko Versafine Ink: Black Onyx
Distress Inks: Barn Door, Festive Berries, Peeled Paint, Mustard Seed, Salty Ocean
That's Crafty! Stamp Set: Flower Collection Set 3 designed by Melina Dahl
That's Crafty! Stamp Set: Lynne's Affirmations Set 6 designed by Lynne Moncrieff 

Spellbinder Deckled Mega Rectangle Nestabilities die.  

White Fineliner Posca Pen
Ranger Cut N Dry Foam 

Paintbrushes

Stamping Platform
Heat Gun

Masking Tape/ Low Tack Tape

That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Adhesive 

Paper Trimmer/ Guillotine

Paper Towel

Hi Everyone

Welcome to my weekly post as a Guest designer here at That's Crafty! 

This week I have an 'art card' to share with you featuring a couple of resist techniques and some of my favourite stencils from StencilGirl® products.

Using mixed media paper as my substrate I spritz the paper with Distress Resist Spray, let it dry and then applied Versamark ink through a script stencil to heat emboss with ultra fine embossing powder. Next I added colour by applying Distress Inks using both the wrinkle free distress technique and a blending tool. The speckles created by the resist spray and the embossed script stencilling 'resist' the ink and retain their original colour - in this case white or tones thereof. To highlight the areas of resist a little more I lightly rubbed over the background with a paper towel.

I used black acrylic paint through my chosen stencils positioning the main focal image to the left of the background

and the 'pattern' stencilling to the right. All stencilling is highlighted using a white fine liner pen.

There's some detail stamping and a few light splatters of paint

- did you notice the one 'splat' that landed perfectly to act as a beauty spot!  Well, that's what I'm calling it anyway!

I added a few words courtesy of Tim Holtz stickers. They are mounted firstly on white cardstock. 

'Own your story' is then mounted on black mountboard to give some dimension when positioned in place

whilst 'be brave, be true' are mounted on black cardstock to sit flat on the background.

The finished piece of art is double mounted on mountboard.

Products used: 

Mixed Media Paper

Mountboard

White Card Stock 

Black Acrylic Paint

Versamark Ink Pad

Clear Embossing Powder

Distress Resist Spray
Distress Inks - Mermaid Lagoon, Picked Raspberry, Broken China, 

Archival Ink - Jet Black, Cobalt

StencilGirl® Products Stencils: 'Pretty as a Peacock' (S288), 'Urban Insiders Bar' (S268)

Stencil: Script - Any will work
Tim Holtz Metallic Stickers - Quotations
Texture Stamps 

Heat Gun

Ranger Cut n Dry Foam 

All purpose Adhesive 

White Fine Liner Pen 

I hope you have enjoyed your time here with me today and that maybe my 'Art Card' has offered you some creative inspiration. Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by. 

Hope you all have a lovely week 

Take care 

(ink-a-pink)

 I used a brayer to cover the tag with a base colour using

acrylic paints.

 Then I added a second colour still using the brayer but not 

completely covering the base layer.

 I stencilled a tree in white,

 then lightly stamped randomly all over the tag using a coloured 

archival ink pad & generic script stamp (any background stamp 

will do). I then measured the photograph & cut a hole where it 

would eventually sit (keep the bit cut out for use later)

 I painted the chipboard and stuck it in place using a wet glue.

 Using Melina Dahl's new stamps sets, I stamped and coloured

 some images and added them onto the frame with sticky pads. I

  added some metallic paint using my finger to lightly smudge 

around the edges and on small areas of the frame.

 Finally I used a sticker from 13 Arts.

 For the second frame I used the same techniques but changed

colours and greyboard embellishments.

 I used some garden string to add interest to the wings.

 Using the waste from the middle of the tags I made 2 ATCs.