Ferny cards

I have been playing about a bit with trying to teach myself to use a brayer and the background for the ferny panels on these cards were brayered onto matt card in citrus and lettuce Adirondack inks. The larger fern stamp is from the Elusive Images Wild Meadow set and the others from an unknown clear stamp set I bought second-hand. I have heat embossed some of the ferns in two colours of Cosmic Shimmer embossing powder. Both cards are backed on to a Sandy Lion scrapbook paper called Green Wilderness.

The panel was cut out with oval nestabilites sets and mounted on a brown shape in the next size up in the scalloped set. This larger card also incorporates a background of pale green card sprayed with Cosmic Shimmer Cosimic Glimmer spray in Golden Mint - a delicious colour. The down side of this card is that I used a peel-off greeting for speed as I needed to get the card in the post and I am not totally happy with the result.

This smaller square card uses the same materials. The panels were cut out with one of the nestabilites label sets and mounted on a brown shape in the next size up in the set. This one has a heat embossed greeting from the EI Elephant Paisley plate, using a Cosmic Simmer powder. This is one of my favourite sentiment stamps, it is so stylish. I am much happier with this combination.

I have a long way to go with the brayering, but I feel I have made a start.