A BIT OF SCRAP

                 Last week I went to my usual  monthly class with Maria Moorhouse in Shrewsbury, always a fabulous day. There were some lovely projects, stamping ones this time. I am not sharing the projects with you as those are Maria's techniques but we did do one where we pulled off a print from another piece of card. I was not sure what I was going to do with it but Barbara Lancaster who was sat opposite me was very confident that I could create something. She had more faith than me at that moment but I set to yesterday afternoon with inks and stamps. 
     
                                This was the piece of card that I started off with. The colours on it are Worn Lipstick, Antique Linen and Mustard seed Distress Oxides.

 

           Firstly I found a flower stencil I liked and randomly stencilled flowers on the card with some white gesso. I used a little sponge to dab it through the stencil.  Then when the gesso was dry I used another stencil and  sponged through with Mustard seed and Antique linen. These were a bit brighter so showed up better. Finally using the script  and coffee stain stamps from the journaling set and Watering Can Archival ink I stamped over the card. I used second generation ink as I did not want it to be too dark. 

          Still does not look that promising really, I went round the edge of the flowers with a white gel pen to make them stand out a bit more.

                  Then I cut it all up into four squares, bit drastic but I had a plan. 

             Edged around the squares with a black Sharpie pen and mounted them onto cream card then a base card. Looking better but still very plain.

   

      
           It needed butterflies. These were stamped onto heatproof vellum with Versamark ink and embossed with white embossing powder. I coloured with pro-markers and cut out. I like using vellum for these sort of things as it cuts out easily and neatly. 

 
             So that bit of scrap turned into a pretty card and of course I cut four squares and have only used three. Here is the last little one.

                                                     I love this little card only 3" square.   

          Bit of a long blog post today but I hope you like these cards and don't dismiss your scrap pieces. 

                       Thanks for reading enjoy the rest of the weekend. xx