White Space Layout

Still loving white space and bright colours this year which I'm sure will carry into 2017. It is surprising just how hard classmates find it to leave an expanse of white on the page. This one was a real challenge lol.

The bright flowers were punched from coloured cardstock.

And a shield shape to add the journaling

The little design at the bottom of the page helped everyone to fill their pages a little bit more lol.xx

Happy Christmas Mr Walrus

Favourite stamp this year and one that I couldn't decide whether to buy or not. For those of you who know me you will know that I am totally addicted to HobbyArt stamps. I normally buy them as they come out but this set I was unsure about. Should have just bought it because after talking to Jenny at a recent show and seeing some of her many examples, I decided it was a stamp set I couldn't do without. Here's the first card made for card class.

The hat is stamped and coloured separately and the bobble was cut from a bobble trim I had in my stash. Love it xx.

Ice and Snow

Couldn't find a winter paper that I liked this year so decided we would make our own in class by using snowflake die cuts.

This is a Sizzix Tim Holtz Die and comes with the die and an embossing folder which adds the detail to the white snowflakes.

I kept the lilac snowflakes plain and flat but raised the white embossed snowflakes on sticky foam pads.

 Really enjoyed doing this. Will certainly be looking to making more of my own paper designs in 2017. xx

Sweet

Now this one was so hard to photograph and it really doesn't do it justice so sorry for that. The idea behind this class was to introduce gloss enamelling in readiness for a Creativity 101 class in 2017.

I found using Anitas 3D Gloss was best as it comes in a little tube with a fine nozzle.

And I didn't know whether to add the blackbird but in the end I decided it looked better with it. 

So enjoyed making this one xx

2016

Woa those black stripes needed some thought. I love the paper but no matter what I did I found the stripes moved everytime I looked at the paper. In the end I realised that I needed a vertical border to make it more visually pleasing.

The leaves and berries were diecut and the leaves bent to give a 3d effect. 

The numbers were stamped with shadow foliage to make them less stark.

and because it is a 2016 layout I added four photos in varying sizes and shapes.

More tomorrow xxx