Pin up Girl in Black and White

Well the show is over and not too good a show at that. I do get demoralised when the show is poor but I did meet lots of lovely people and that's a very positive thing. I did my bit with the pens and I do enjoy making the flowers.
Now, however, I can make new things as I've just received a lot of new stamps from Della at I Brake for Stamps. The Glamour Girls sheet was the first to grab my attention and this is one of the cards that I made today.

What I Used:
1 base card in white linen 14cm x 14cm when folded.
I stamp from the Glamour Girls sheet
Stazon Ink pad in Stone Grey
Dotta Riffic pen in black
6mm black satin ribbon with white spots
Silver card
Pin up stamp from the same sheet as the glamour girls.

What I did:
I stamped the image on to a piece of card and mounted it onto silver card. I trimmed the silver card to leave a thin border around the image card.
I cut another white card and decorated it with the Dotta Riffic pen.
I mounted this onto silver card in the same way as I did with the girl image.
I tied a piece of dotty ribbon around the dotty sheet as seen.
I stuck the dotty sheet to the card and then layered on the girl image as seen. I stamped the pin up words onto the girl image and the base card.

Let's hope that this is the first of many images as they really are lovely stamps.

Pink Flower Card

Yet again, I hear you cry. Well I like pink so I wanted to make this card. I painted the flower and I will add more of the same image in other colours. I used the trusty Art and Graphic pens from Kuretake and the waterbrush to make the paint flow well. I hope that you like it too.

Water Colour Effects with the Calligraphy Pens

I know that many of you may think that you can't paint with water colours, but I'd like to show you a way to use the Zig Blendable Calligraphy Pens which achieves the watercolour effect with ease. You will then be able to produce little watercolour effect pictures like the one on the card.




The first thing that you need to do is draw two lines. Not straight, but something like the ones in the picture. Don't get too hung up on this as they are only simple lines. Don't press too hard.




Now choose the colour of blendable pens that you want to have as flowers. I chose Powder Blue and Splash and touch the darker one to the edge of the lighter one. See the earlier blog to see a picture of how to do this.

Use the pen to add petals either side of each stem. Think of the flower as a long triangle. You will need wider petals at the bottom and narrower, tighter and smaller at the top.


Below is another example of a flower that is thinner than the one in the card example and has three stems. You can experiment. Feel free to get going.


Now you can cut out your picture and decorate it as you wish. I edged the piece of card and added a bow.

Flowers are still holding sway at the moment as I really am in love with these stamps.
This fuscia is a prime example of ways to ring the changes. As we all know, in nature not all fuscia are the same colours so you can change the flower colour to suit your papers really easily.

I stamped the pink background card with the flower from Savvy Stamps andthe message is another Savvy Stamp. The ribbon is from us at Craft Fairy and is the Satin Edged ribbon in pink.