Hello … bonjour! Our new challenge at Twofer has just started … this time around our theme is positively heavenly … it’s …
One of the things I discovered when coming up with ideas for my cards was that there are very, very few starry stamps in my stash … what a serious omission! What I was delighted to come across was a stencil from Winnie and Walter (my common image) … double delight actually … not only the stars … but a chance to play with stencilling too, something I’ve rarely done. Here’s a closer look at my first design …
… a star covered birthday gift. Here I stencilled the stars in three Distress Ink colours onto a mixed media panel, moving the stencil’s orientation with each change of ink so that there was no overlapping. The panel was trimmed to size, I sponged the edges to add definition, did some gentle silver splattering over it and silver heat embossed the Papertrey strings. The WPlus9 tiny tag was die cut and sponged round the edges … and silver heat embossed with a smidge of the tied string (where it’s threaded through the hole) and with the Uniko birthday sentiment. The miniscule stars around the sentiment are from Winnie and Walter. The tag was popped up on foam tape on the package … and the package was popped up on the card base.
My twofer stars …
… a starry Christmas card. Here, I used the stencil just the once, sponging over gold Delicata ink, stamped tiny silver dots (Winnie and Walter) between the stars and edged the panel with gold washi tape. The sentiment is from Papertrey, stamped in gold and mounted over silver washi. This isn’t how this design started out … it was originally one layer … the stars and dots weren’t coralled by the washi but were spilling out across the middle of the card in a playful, unstructured sort of a way. However … when washi tape that was destined for the bottom edge of the card stuck where it shouldn’t have been and I pulled it off too quickly, my finished OLC was left with an ugly torn surface. Oh dear (bet you can just hear me saying that!) … what to do … start from scratch or do a rescue job? I rescued … by trimming out the unstructured spilling out stars and dots and edging them with the washi. The first version was fun … this one is clean and crisp … and in the end I’d have been happy with either (which is p’raps as well really!).
What comes into your creative mind when you think of stars? We’d love to see! All the details about how to play along are over at the Twofer blog … together with with heaps of splendid starry inspiration from the DT. We’re delighted to have two Guest Designers with us this month … Barb from Barb’s Studio Creations and Cat from Cat Luvs Paper … welcome ladies! If you’re not familiar with Barb’s and Cat’s fabulous work, you’ll really want to go and have a visit with them both … there’s so much delicious inspiration to enjoy and absorb! Even if you are familiar, pop along anyway … you can always say hello while you’re there!
My birthday gift is heading to …
Happy Little Stampers Dies – Anything Goes
Seize The Birthday – Anything Goes … without the black and white topping
Uniko – 7th Birthday Party … many congratulations, Bev and all the team past and present!
Watercooler Wednesday – Feminine Anything Goes
… and my celestial sky is joining in at …
CAS Christmas – Peace
Happy Little Stampers Christmas – With Star Option
Thanks so much for coming by, your visits and comments are always a joy! Anita 🙂