Sunflower stamp wallhanging: Words to live by

Here is another sunflower project using the  Large and the medium sunflower stamps.

I used some mount board that had been cut down to 6x4 inches.

I applied some texture paste to two opposite corners. I stamped into this with the large sunflower stamp, and left it to dry. then I sprayed the whole thing with Simply Chocolate Ink in a bottle. 

Whilst I had the ink out I dyed some Rats Tail to use later to hang it up. 

Once dried, I added the words stamped on to some accounts paper with Sienna Pigment ink and tore out the words.

The sunflowers were made by stamping with copper detail embossing powder on the old book paper. This was then sprayed with Simply Chocolate Ink In a bottle and left to dry. They were cut out and mounted on to the board.
I used my cropodile to punch two holes and add the dyed Rats Tail.

I enjoyed this one, possibly because it was a messy one.

Keep the comments coming. I still have more sunflower posts to add, so your comments all count.

Lynnda x

Time for speed

Like you all, I find life gets complicated, so time for a fast back to basics page for an album I am working on for my mother in law who has recently lost her husband.

We all miss Malcolm's smile and this new stamp seemed to say it all. 

So what did I do? I used cream stamping card and sprayed it heavily with citrus yellow and orange ink in a bottle,  leaving the card wet with ink and moved the wet ink round with the medium sunflower. I dried this card off and trimmed it to 6 inch square. Then I over stamped it with the medium sunflower stamp and the Triple sunshine yellow ink pad.

I stamped the words on to more cream card with an Oak House Studio Sienna pigment ink pad and tore it out. Going for speed I dug out my tape runner and fastened it all together, I added on the sunflower paperclip/bookmark I mad on an earlier post.

Amazing what you can do when time is tight and you let go.

There are a few post of the sunflower projects to come from me. Your comments still count until I get the final post up.

Lynnda x

Here are some I made earlier

Need to take a trip out, so here a a couple of project I made awhile ago.

This is an easel style card I designed for a class,  I used the large sunflower and red chalk pastels to create both backgrounds.Tthe sentiment and and topper are simply stamped and embossed with gold detail powder to make the most of that detail in the centre.

This is another card using chalk pastels and linen card, always a fast and effective card.

Be back soon x

And we are off again.

This is Lynnda, kicking the day off with some bookmarks. these are things I started yesterday, but it was great to get up and finish these off.
I have made 4 different bookmarks.

I added ribbon dyed with Inks in a bottle to the yellow card version.

I cut out the smaller sunflowers I painted with acrylic inks yesterday and glued them back to back using pinflair glue around a large paper clip, I then just tipped the cream card showing through at the backs with with acrylic inks.

The final design again uses sunflowers painted with acrylic ink yesterday and glued them to a small card which I used double sided tape the top together so it will sit over the corner of the page.

More to come so stay watching

Lynnda x

That is all for now folks

I have to admit the light is fading and I pretty tired.

All these things are on my desk ready to be finished tomorrow.

I am going to make a brew and do the last half hour on the sofa cutting some of this out.

I hope you have enjoyed today, I have certainly enjoyed getting back to my craft desk after a very busy couple of weeks supporting the family. Thank you for your support, 

Don't forget to leave comments on all the post for a chance to win to the three sunflower stamps.

See you in the morning x

Bookmarks

I have been working on lots of projects and have lots of things drying. Here are a couple of Book marks I made using the triple ink pads.

I may add some ribbon to these, what do you think?

The yellow/orange is made using the smaller sunflower and the Triple Sunshine Yellow, 

The Blue one is made using the medium sunflower and the Triple blue skies ink pad.

The sentiment on the blue bookmark is just available by special request at the moment, just message me if you would like one,

Lynnda x

Christine's project part 2

Christine again,
With the sunflower stamped I went on to create a background.

The background piece was sprayed with Citrus Yellow and Citrus Orange in the centre and dried with a heat gun, then trimmed to size.

I mounted the sunflower from my first post onto this to create a topper.

The topper was mounted onto another piece of card which had been coloured round the edges with the darkest colour on the Sunshine Yellows triple ink pad and double-embossed. In the single colours this is Tangerine Tart.

The card background was made using the Triple Sunshine Yellows inkpad and the large Harlequin Pattern stamp. A spare strip of card was stamped with the English Garden words stamp (and the Sunshine Yellows again) and the two edges were coloured and embossed.

The card was assembled with some brown ribbon and a couple of sunflower buttons.

I hope you are enjoy the projects as much as we have enjoyed making them.

Don't forget to leave a comment for a chance to win the sunflower stamps from Lynnda.

Christine x