Hiya, quicky update today. Well I started Weight Watchers again lol! So far I've lost 6.5 lbs, so pleased about that. Had a bit of a shock when I last went to get my bloods done, I seriously need to get my sugar levels down and get some weight off! So it has stengthen my resolve to be healthier.
On a happier note, we are off to the Lake District again soon, so I am looking forward to getting up into the hills. It just makes your heart sing :)
Anyhoo, enough of my waffling today's post is really about a couple of cards with totally different themes, the first is a bright and colourful under the sea theme and the other an outdoors theme with earthy tones.
This card started with me messing about with my distress inks, stamps and my gelli plate. The background peice was made by swiping sapphire blue, salty ocean and peacock feathers distress inks onto my gelli plate and then spritzing with some shimmer spray. I know that some people say not to use your inks on the gelli plate because it stains, but to be honest that doesn't really bother me as it's just stuck in it's packaging and I haven't used it really. I may as well use it for something! The colours seemed much brighter using this method. I then flicked water and picket fence distress stain on to the inked card stock. I recently bought Creative Stamping issue 10 and it had loads of lovely seaside themed stamps with it, I stamped the starfish and scallop shells in a random pattern onto the card and then embossed with stampendous white embossing powder. I wanted the stamped images to pop so I outlined them with a inktense pencil and just blended it out with a water brush. The white splatters weren't bright enough so I did some more with picket fence distress paint.
The lovely mermaid image is by Wee Stamps and I coloured her with promarkers and then glittered her with a stardust pen and waterfall and eucalytus stickles. I mounted her onto American crafts cardstock and added some liquid pearls.
The scallop and starfish were cut from the mermaids and pirates cricut card and as luck happened this cart was the free cut for this week on the cricut website :) I then gave them a bit of a sand, added some shimmer spray and then covered them with rock candy crackle paint. I like how vibrant this is. It really made a change from the usual pinks and lilacs I usually use for girly cards :)
This second card I made in Mat for my OH's birthday, I've only just got around to photographing it lol!
All the peices were cut from the outdoor man cart, I combined 2 of the scenes on the cart to give me a forest scene with a mountain in the background, we are walking fans and love to get out into the Peak District and the Lake District and as we'd just got back from a fabulous week in the Lake District, this was perfect, he loved it! All card stock is American crafts and cor'dinations, sanded and inked. I used some See'Ds texture stamps to add some texture to the path and the area under the trees.
Happy crafting
Anna x
