Another bumper month in February for the Clarity Challenge with over 80 entries again, but I have a feeling this one will top that!? You are certainly making our job a difficult one choosing just five as our favourites!!
Well, "It's all about the Girls"....so come on ladies and gents, using only your Clarity stamps, stencils or Groovi, (use any, a combination, or all if you want to), I'm positive you'll come up with some corkers!
So for my artwork this month, I chose to go with a bright background and an elegant silhouette using one of the lady stencils I have, combined with a couple of stamps.
Here we go with the simple step-by-step:
Take the funky background - mine was made with Brushos, (but Color Bursts are great too), on a piece of 8.5 x 11 inch piece of Stencil Card - just wet the stencil card (or watercolour paper) and gently shake or puff the powders onto the wet surface to watch the magic happen. I love the bright colours - certainly brightens this dreary day that's for sure!
Next lay your Gelli-plate onto the Mega Mount and brayer some acrylic paint on (I used Paperartsy Beach Hut & Snowflake combined). Lay the Leafy Swirl Stencil onto the wet paint. Quickly dab in between the stencil with a piece of copy paper to remove some of the paint. Remove the stencil and turn the Mega Mount over so that you can control where you place it on your card. Once in place, turn the whole thing back over and burnish the back well to transfer the acrylic paint onto the card. You could use the larger leafy stencil with the large Gelli-plate, but I only wanted part of the card with the acrylic paint on and the lady stencil is A5 so she fitted better on half of the A4 sized card - there is kind of a method in my madness!
Place the Flower Head Stencil of your choice over the Leafy Swirl image and first using the Twisted Citron use a make up sponge to lightly ink a subtle design through where there's no acrylic paint. Then using the darker Archival Ink go over the acrylic paint to complete - Archival Ink is the way to go over acrylic paint as the Distress Inks just wipe off.
Attach the Elegant Lady over the area you have worked on and sponge Black Archival Ink through leaving a lighter area in the centre so that the colours still show through. Make-up sponge or Blending Tool both work equally well.
Replace stencil and using a Leafy Corner stamp, pattern the handbag. Remove stencil and use Clear Embossing Powder on that - heat to set. Stamp a flourish on the hat and add some line art with a Black Sharpie for the hair & her face, then a white highlighter pen to finish the handbag, hat and dress.
Stamp your sentiment from the Line Sentiments 1 on a spare piece of the coloured card and carefully cut out - or leave it square if you prefer. Outline the main piece with a Promarker or other marker of your choice to contrast, mount on a piece of gold card, then onto an A5 blank greeting card.
All finished!
If you need more inspiration, why not pop over to see the other Design Team Blogs.
Have fun designing and crafting your entry for the Challenge, and I look forward to seeing your artwork.
Good Luck x
So retro and the colours, are marvellous. Great design.
ReplyDeleteI love all your cards and this is another stunning piece of art work. Xx
ReplyDeleteHi Carole. What a fabulous design. I love your Gelli background work. A brilliant blog to go with it too.
ReplyDeleteHugs xx
A great brusho and Gelli plate background Carole, the colours are great. Love how you've used the stencil and leafy stamp to create a beautiful card. x
ReplyDeleteLove what you have done the colour scheme at the back just makes it x
ReplyDeleteLove your colourful background and all the little finishing touches to the lady especially the flourish on her hat. Thanks for sharing your techniques too x
ReplyDeleteEvening Carole, what a brilliant blog post and a great card design. The colours are fabulous and it is just so ' you ' ...crafty hugs...xxx
ReplyDeleteThank you all so much for the lovely comments. Love & hugs to you all xxx
ReplyDeleteGreat card and background, Carole - don't have this stencil but could just be on my list!Great step-by-step, too. ;~}
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Shelagh - I'm getting out some of my "older" Clarity stencils & stamps to use - it's so easy to forget what's in all the folders!
DeleteHave a lovely day x
Great card and background, Carole - don't have this stencil but could just be on my list!Great step-by-step, too. ;~}
ReplyDeleteOh my Carole this is fab. Fantastic instruction 's xx
ReplyDeleteOh my Carole this is fab. Fantastic instruction 's xx
ReplyDeleteThank you Linda - not sure if I sometimes get too "wordy" on here once I start! lol x
DeleteWow! What an amazing combination of stamps, stencils, colours, products and techniques. Totally fabulous! Xxx
ReplyDeleteIt was fun to do Barbara - thank you :-) xxx
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