More Flower Stamps

While looking for stamps to use on yesterday's  masking tape backgrounds, I came across this Inkadinkado stamp set and thought I'd give it a workout.  Above, I stamped it on patterned paper, and below I used various shades of green chalk ink to add some interest.

Overall, this set is a bit formal for my clean and graphic style, but I think I'll keep it for more serious cards.  It contains "Thinking of You" and "Get Well Soon" sentiments that would work in this layout.  Right now, though, I need to replenish my stash of birthday cards. 

Masking Tape Backgrounds

I've seen this technique twice recently and knew I had to try it.  Masking tape is inked with an ink pad and used to "stamp" out each stripe.  Simple but ingenious.  These bird and flower stamps are by Christina Renee for Prima.  The greeting is by Biblical Impressions.

Magenta Puzzle Stamps

This card was made with 5 different stamps from a Magenta set.  I stamped them on green patterned paper and coloured them with pencil crayons.

Using Flower Stamps

I'm making my way through my box of flower stamps in August, finding some old favourites and identifying some to give away.  (See this post for more on this project.)  The result of my efforts are a few artist trading cards.

A Magenta set coloured with gel pen

A favourite Hero Arts stamp

Hydrangea stamp by Great Canadian Stamp

Background stamp by JustRite

Coloured with pencil crayons

Neuland and Script

Here are a few pictures of  a book I  made containing samples from the "Neuland and Script" seminar I took through the Westcoast Calligraphy Society.

This is the cover, made of Tyvek and decorated using the Sumi Sink technique and pan pastels:

Many of the pages contain lyrics from a favorite song based on Psalm 100:  "Make a Joyful Noise", by Linnea Good.  This page is one of several where the words are done with bleach on black card stock, and coloured with pastels.

The Neuland script on this next one is white gouache; the script is a white gel pen. 

More bleach, this time highlighted with metallic watercolours:

Bleach and pan pastel:

Gouache and gel pen:

Bleach and pan pastel:

And if you made it this far you are rewarded with a walnut ink Neuland exemplar.

 Make a joyful noise!

Silly Scraps Saturday

This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

Tutorial Links

Oh dear, another week zoomed by.  Art coming soon, I promise.

This week we're sharing favourite tutorial links.  Here are a few great ones I can't wait to try out!

Make Gelli Plate tools! at scrappystinkyinky.

At ten thirty-six arts and crafts there's a tutorial for making post cards.

Gelli print words at the Gelli Plate blog.

The first in a series about using background stamps, over at Simplicity.