Hello Friends!
Hope you are all well and those of you in the UK didn't get over-heated on Wednesday, I was supposed to be at a work event and then I had the chance to take part in a working morning with a volunteer group I've joined....the event got cancelled and by then it was too late to go out with the group. I'll tell you more about the group in a future post...but it is nothing to do with craft...it's conservation and a certain type of wildlife.
In the end I was quite pleased to be home....I shared my time between a few hours in the craft room and several more out in the 'craft shed'...by the afternoon the hens were panting, especially the youngest one. I put extra water all over the place in shady spots and gave them cucumber and melon, which cooled them down a bit, otherwise they found shady areas under trees in the garden and led down. By the evening they were fine. I've not seen them get that hot before, there is lots of shade so plenty of places to hide.
Wizard of Oz cards
It occurred to me that I haven't shared the project my group of ladies did at our last workshop. This was our annual special one for the local Chipping Sodbury Festival and the theme this year was 'Musicals', so we decided to use some Visible Image stamps and make a card with a Wizard of Oz theme..
This was the card my group made...an easel card featuring the Dorothy, red shoes and sentiment stamps.
I used a polka dot mask on the top layer, ran through the embossing machine, inked it with Vintage Photo distress ink and then used Promarkers to colour the dots as a 'nod' to the rainbow.
I stamped the image, dusted with clear embossing powder and heat embossed and they drew a cloud shape, cut out and inked with salty ocean distress ink.
As I don't own a brick road stamp, I decided to use to brick wall mask: I inked it through with a mix of wild honey and mustard seed distress inks, cut into a winding road shape and inked the edges with vintage photo.
I coloured Dorothy using my Intense pencils and cut her out. For the flowers I used a punch. I stamped the shoes on to matt metallic silver card using versamark ink and heat embossed with red glitter.
I thought I may as well show you the other demo cards I'd made in the same post...
The first one just uses the shoes, decorated in the same way as above. It's a CAS card, just using the gingham we associate with Dorothy's dress.
I think the next one is may favourite except for the road....I couldn't get the mask to look right with the scene, so I used a path from my Lavinia Stamps collection (it is yellower in reality than the photo) and it's okay, but not really what we associate with the movie. I used Promarkers to colour Dorothy on this one and made the little 'hills' in the grass using masks made from paper. The grass stamp is by Stampscapes and the tree with hearts is by Dreamees.
It wasn't until I had put it all together and looked at it that I realised I'd forgotten the rainbow! Then I painted one in using the watercolour pencils, but the card wouldn't take the water, so it looked messy...I had no choice but to take a scrap of watercolour card, paint the rainbow on that and fix it over my splodgy mess!!
It wasn't until I had put it all together and looked at it that I realised I'd forgotten the rainbow! Then I painted one in using the watercolour pencils, but the card wouldn't take the water, so it looked messy...I had no choice but to take a scrap of watercolour card, paint the rainbow on that and fix it over my splodgy mess!!
Before I finish today, I want to say that I had a lovely surprise when I logged on yesterday...one of my long time and lovely blog friends, Sandee Sentiff has decided to do a weekly shout out for those followers who leave regular comments and I was her first choice. Sandee is an artist, with a big heart and great inspiration, do pop over and have a look at her beautiful creations.
Thank you very much for stopping by, I always appreciate your visits!
Love and Hugs
Carole X
