another in the frame

Just a quick post tonight with another entry for LIM's in the frame challenge.  We went to stamp magic yesterday in Doncaster and along with buying far too much new stuff, I spent quite a long time watching the very talented Barbara from Clarity stamps doing demo's - I think she pretty much went straight through from 10 am to 3 pm without so much as a cup of tea!!!  So I came home inspired to get my brayer out and this is the result....

Not sure where there stamps are from - had them a long time - I think I saw Dawn Bibby use them on QVC once but bought them elsewhere.  I stamped the image centrally on the card with stazon and then masked all the way around with post its and then used a kaleidoscope ink pad in Caribbean sea with my brayer to colour the background within the frame.  I added a few dots around the stars and dragonflies with sakura sparkle pens, and used the same to add some highlights to the flowers.

Very simple, and definitely very clean ;-)

LIM 19 - In the Frame

Good morning LIMettes - wasn't sure I'd get time to play this morning as we're heading over to St Lukes at 10am for the Summer Fair at which we're selling the cards that have been donated via our St Luke's Charity Cards Challenge Blog - this is an ongoing challenge and we'll be selling cards throughout the year to raise money so feel free to join in anytime - this month our challenge is "Come Fly with Me" you might win a ribbon girl bundle too.   However as soon as I saw the challenge this week (well I couldn't not look now could I??) and that it was "in the frame" I knew instantly what I wanted to do and that it would be quick enough to play before I left, so here I am - with 2 cards, before 9am...

I'd seen this idea of making a frame from stamping on a scrapbook layout in this months craft stamper magazine and thought it would be brilliant on a card with tapestry stamps.  I have quite a few sets of these and don't use them enough, so when I saw this challenge - I knew I had to have a go!  This was my first attempt.  I used a couple of post-it notes to make my frame area then simply stamped the tapestry stamps around and over the edge of it in shades of blue, grey and black.  I removed the post-it and then you get a nice straight edged frame.  I added a black and white outline of an iris and a simple sentiment (chocolate baroque and hero arts respectively)

 

I liked it and was still waiting for the bath to finish running, so I made another, this time I used a DL card, made the frame larger and central, and used a softer pink, purple and bundled sage palette and used floral tapestry stamps for the frame.  I used the same inks on some Elzybels floral stamps for the central image and layered up the colours.  The framed sentiment is from the very first purchase I made from QVC about 8 years ago now.....

I'm off to Stamp Magic at Doncaster Dome tomorrow so I may well have lots of lovely new stash to play with so may have another go later this week.  Really must get in the bath now!

Fingers crossed the sun stays out........

Craftilicious x