Getting inky!

I have found the odd opportunity to have an inky play recently.

Firstly, I made this card with International Women's Day in mind.

The main image here is a B Line stamp and I really love it. The sentiments are from a Ranger Dian Wakely set that I really love and find myself using often to send messages of support to my women friends, many of whom are facing challenges in their lives. I used Distress Inks to colour the background and used a Clarity stencil of a chrysanthemum to add interest as it made me think of the flowering of womanhood.

Secondly, I made a card today for a friend who needs some TLC. Yesterday I got some new colours of Paper Artsy Infusions to add to my collection of 2! I now have 9 colours to play with and room in my little Perspex nail varnish container from Poundland for 3 more! I was having a play to see what I could make.

One of the things I wanted to try was to mix the powders with some of my much underused shimmer sprays to see what happened. Here I sprayed Sapphire Glimmer Mist which was a very powerful colour. I wasn't sure what would happen when I added Infusions on the top. I think it was Royal Blood that I used here. It definitely added depth.

When my panel was dry I added the sentiment from Quietfire heat embossed in silver detail powder. Then I added some splatters of white calligraphy ink and finished with some punched and die cut silver glitter stars and tiny weeny gems.

I have had that spring time urge to reorganise my craft supplies and here I sorted out all my Memento and Versamagic dew drop ink pads which are underused as they live down in my craft shed and I tend to work much more indoors now. Here I managed to put them into an underused drawer under the desk in my craft cubby, so there is no excuse to neglect them any longer.

Last but not least, there are definitely signs of spring. This week we managed to get a walk and picnic in on top of the cliffs and it was lovely breathing in that smashing sea air. We had the added bonus of spotting a peregrine falcon riding the thermals. I have a picture, but it is not worth sharing, but it did enable us to confirm our identification with the bird book when we got home!

Hope your days are being kind to you and you are managing to create some happy times for yourself.

Elaine