His and Hers

I'm behind on this week's lessons already and there are so many brilliant videos that there are a lot of homework options to choose from so I'm even further behind on that!

It looks like I'm favouring Jennifer - it's just the way it went - I do want to do some of the other techniques I just happened to do these two first!

I really liked this stamping below the line idea and for my HIS I used Elzybells Floral Ferver leaves, a hero arts sentiment and some black pearl dots.  I double stamped in neon green and chocolate inks.  For my HERS version I used stitched flowers and stitched sentiments from the Crafts Meow with copic colouring.

Whilst I had the leaves stamps out I used a single one to have a go at the kaleidoscope technique but I just did the HIS version - you know me by now I LOVE kraft card!  I used white pearl, soft grey and teal inks only and instead of background stamping I used my new SU woodgrain folder for some embossed detail instead.  The sentiment is from hero arts embossed on vellum and folded aruond the card with a teal matt behind to make it pop.

Donuts

Donuts are behind the colour inspiration this week at Less is More http://simplylessismoore.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/week-109-colour-challenge.html and at first the colours totally freaked me out!  It is sooooo not my normal palette but then I remembered this card by the super talented Stephanie and thought that something using these colours and a similar stamp would work well for Mother's Day.

I stamped the same floral image in orange, yellow and two shades of pink (from a retired Elzybells set but the images in the set Stephanie used are very similar by the same artist now working for Penny Black) and then I stamped the greeting from Stephanie's own stamps (Happy Everything) over the top in black.  I trimmed the panel and then mounted onto a card.  Simples.