Sets 1 to 4 available from www.claritystamp.co.uk
Here's my finished card for this month......
And here we go with the details for it.....
Ingredients:
Clarity Chromo Card
Wee Folk Fairies & Elves Sets 3 & 4, Toadstools, Large & Small Birch Leaf stamps
Toadstools & Moon masks
Adirondack Butterscotch, Eggplant & Mountain Rose, Black Soot Distress Ink, Ranger Black Archival, Pink & Silver Brilliance Inks
Brayer, Clarity Blending Mat & Blending Tool
Distress Markers - Colours as shown in photo below
Jo's Bubbles Stencil
Pilot White Marker Pen
Cut the Chromo card in half and stamp the toadstools in place using the Black Archival ink. Once dry, place a mask over the toadstools and then decide where you want the moon and add this too.
Press the Eggplant Inkpad onto the blending mat and spread out using the brayer. Starting at the top corner, use the brayer diagonally across the card, covering halfway down with the first colour.
Turn the artwork round, brayer a little of the Eggplant across the opposite corner, then work with the Mountain Rose across the middle of the card, all the time brayering diagonally until the colours are blended.
Add a little Black Soot to the upper half to darken the Eggplant to make the sky a little more moody.
I wanted the colour a little more yellowy, so added some butterscotch across the middle.
Decide which Fairies, Elves and Toadstools you would like to use, remove the masks and stamp them onto your artwork using Black Archival Ink.
Add the Birch Leaves around the edges
Colour in the toadstools using a selection of Distress Markers
Using the residual dark ink from the blending mat, soften the edge of the moon around one side by lightly applying some ink using the blending tool.
Change the foam pad, then using the Brilliance Inks and Jo's Bubble Stencil, apply the ink through a few of the holes.
Using the white pen, add some details to the Fairy & Elf, then outline the silhouettes to accentuate the moonlight behind them.
Mount your artwork onto a contrasting piece of card exposing a thin border, stamp some stars onto a blank card using the Silver Brilliance ink, then finish by mounting your artwork onto the star-stamped greeting card.
I hope you're inspired by this and all the other artwork from the Design Team this month.
I look forward to seeing your designs for this month's challenge and Good Luck to you all!
Happy creating, Carole X
I love this Carole, beautiful colours. A great design and picking out and highlighting the fairies,the toadstools and the leaves works beautifully. A super step by step blog too. xxx
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Naomi. Appreciate the lovely feedback....I was thinking maybe the blog was a bit too lengthy :-) xxx
DeleteI love this Carole, beautiful colours. A great design and picking out and highlighting the fairies,the toadstools and the leaves works beautifully. A super step by step blog too. xxx
ReplyDeleteYou have created a very romantic scene, Carole, made me all lyrical ha, ha; wonder what they are saying - 'Save all your kisses for me?' perhaps or even 'I saw you and the world went away' from 'Tonight' (West Side Story). It is beautiful anyway. A great tutorial to follow too. ;~}
ReplyDeleteThank you Shelagh - funnily enough there was an old Top of the Pops on the other day and Save All Your Kisses was on it! Takes me back :-) I'm just going to check out all the other blogs now.
DeleteHave a lovely evening x
Stunning card and background. I love all your art work you do. Xx
ReplyDeleteAppreciate that Carol - thanks so much xxx
DeleteLove this Carole. The large toadstool stamp is a perfect partner for the wee fairies and elves. The highlighting of the silhouettes and the leaves, and using the bokeh technique has really added a touch of magic to this moonlit scene. Xxx
ReplyDeleteAppreciate your lovely feedback Barbara - It was a lot of fun making this. These have to figure in my top 5 favourite stamps from Clarity.
DeleteHave a lovely Easter
Forgot to leave you kisses XXX
DeleteI love it Carole. The colours, the stamping and the shading all create a little masterpiece. Love the 'how to' also. Those distress markers are great to work with. A fabulous piece. Hugs xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Emma - it's always hard when you take the photos, as sometimes I change my mind when I've taken pics of what I think I'm going to use (sometimes things creep in the photos that I never use) Maybe I should start a competition to "spot the odd thing out!"
DeleteI love these stamps and in fact, all the things I used on this month's project.
Another crafty day ahead for me today - woo-hoo!
Send hugs back to you xxx
Can I say this is my favourite one everyone's is good but yours looks so fairy land to me the way you have done the background high lighted it all just imagine this is what fairy land would be like xx
ReplyDeleteThank you so much Julie :-)
DeleteI love everyone else's projects too. We have such a great team and so many talented girls along with us.
I'm still getting round to looking at all the blogs. I only managed to comment on 4 on Wednesday, so I'll be checking them out later today. There's some really interesting techniques to try out. It's great to share other's experiences with all the different products that are available.
Have a lovely Easter xxx
This is a lovely card Carole. The colours are beautiful and I love how you've used the large toadstool with your fairy and elf. Delightful xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Angela - That toadstool immediately sprang to mind when I was planning what to use with the fairies & elves this month.....the only tricky part to it, was finding it!!! lol
DeleteHave a wonderful Easter xxx
Lovely scene you have created here Carole and a truly inspired idea to get out the bigger toadstool stamps - might have to nick that idea lol. Great explanation how you have created this very romantic scene - and your colouring and highlighting are superb xx
ReplyDeleteMany thanks Linda - I temporarily lost the large toadstool in amongst all the boxes I have with all my "stuff" in......it's a great accompaniment to the fairies & elves and as with all the other Clarity stamps, they are very interchangeable. I'm going to see if I can come with some different things today as I'm always a "bit safe" with what I create.....we'll see :-)
DeleteHave a lovely long weekend xxx
Great card Carole and nice, clear instructions (not too long at all). The large toadstools work so well with the fairies, another stamp for my wish list. x
ReplyDeleteThank you Lesley - That toadstool and hares set is a "must-have" (as are all the other Clarity stamps!)......I need to check out the offers on the Clarity website, haven't been on there since 1st April to check it out...another thing to add to my to-do list today, this is turning into quite a busy day lol
DeleteHave a lovely Easter xxx
Great card Carole and nice, clear instructions (not too long at all). The large toadstools work so well with the fairies, another stamp for my wish list. x
ReplyDeleteThank you for your lovely comment on my entry for this month. I am now desperately trying to avoid seeing anyone else's idea for the clocks until I have done mine. xx Maggie
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