Monochrome With a Pop Of Yellow

Hi there ! Happy Friday, well yesterday I may have thought it was Friday so I’m sorry for the lateness of my post today.

Today I’m sharing with you a card that was chosen for the April issue of Paper Crafts & Scrapbooking but sadly as they are no longer publishing it won’t be in print….. but that doesn’t mean that you lovely people won’t get to see it



I have used two different Altenew sets for this card, Dodecagram and Painted Flowers. First I stamped the outline of the roses in black and then used a light grey and then a darker grey to stamp the solid roses images. I added a touch of bright yellow Copic to the buds for a pop of neon yellow colour.

The sentiment from Dodecagram I stamped onto some black cardstock and heat embossed in white before adding this on top of the stamped flowers I added some yellow sewing thread underneath the sentiment strip. I couple of Sparkling Clear Sequins finished the card.

I would really love to know what you think of my card!

I hope you have a beautiful day and I will see you again soon.

Hugs Lydia xxx

   

Thinking Of Spring

Now that we are past Christmas my mind kinda believes that spring should be kicking in.... looking out of my window I can see that this is not the case and winter still has it's grip on the North Wales countryside :( But even though it's not spring out there I can still have a piece of spring in here!

If you are a follower of my blog you will know that I'm a sucker for floral stamps... this gal cannot get enough polymer blooms ;) So today I have whipped up a little spring for you on a 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 card.



I just adore these florals from Altenew 'Painted Flowers', I love how sketchy they are and that if you don't get them positioned exactly right they still look gorgeous! Oh and what's more these guys are currently in the MtDS sale ... so grab them quick before they go!

I stamped the solid images using Hero Arts Shadow Ink- Mint Julep and Tide Pool for the flowers and Field Greens and Green Hills for the leaves. The doodle leaves and buds with no cosponsoring solid images I coloured roughly with Copics.

The sentiment is from Mama Elephant 'Everyday Greetings', I stamped this in black ink and then over stamped in VersaMark and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder to get a raised shiny black effect. As it is heat embossed it will then resist the Heidi Swapp 'Gold Shine' that I sprinkled over.
 Thanks for stopping by and have a beautiful day!

Hugs Lydia xxx

         

Happy Yellow Flowers

Yay it's Friday! I really do have that Friday feeling today, even though its a bit dull and dreary outside I got a bit of stampy happy mail that I plan on having a play with today :)

Today I'm sharing with you a card using Altenew stamps. If you follow my blog you are probably asking 'Again?' but I just love them and they work with so many different looks.

*Start by masking off the top part of your card.
*Stamp the two large flowers with leaves from Altenew 'Painted Flowers' randomly on the bottom part of the card.
*Stamp the solid image of the flower with Hero Arts 'Lemon Yellow' Shadow Ink and the detail with Hero Arts 'Butter Bar' Shadow Ink.
*Stamp the solid leaves image with Hero Arts 'Green Hills' shadow Ink and the detail image with Hero Arts 'Field Greens' Shadow Ink.
*Remove the masking tape and add a thin peice of yellow washi tape in its place.
*Stamp the sentiment above the washi tape using Altenew 'Dodecagram' in black and then heat emboss in black.

I am so in love with the pairing of these sets! At first look it looks like there would be no way that this sets would work together but I have had so much fun using them hand in hand. 

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Hugs Lydia xxx