Thank you to Joyce for reminding me about this one.  It’s the same Tattered Angels stamps as in the tree card I showed you a couple of days ago, but a totally different approach.  This one was stamped with Versamagic chalk ink (Tea Leaves) and Ranger pigment ink for the trunk (Espresso).  Soft greens were swirled over the leaves and under the trunk, then a hint of blue added to the sky. The blossoms were added with Versamark and embossed with a white sparkle embossing powder, Vanilla Ice I think it’s called.  I added some lilac pearl pen dots to the blossoms and a few dabs of purple stickles.

(The greeting is from a new set which is released to Graphicus Guild members this month.)

I am on holiday at the moment and thoroughly enjoying having a lazy few days.  I have a long list of things that need doing to the house, but have managed to successfully ignore most of it so far, though I  have had a bit of a tidy up in my studio so that I could sit down and play.

Here’s a card that I made at the open days this weekend.

It features the Tattered Angels Blossom Screen Print stamps.  I used the tree top as a background stamp too, with Pumpkin Spice Versamagic ink on a white pearlescent card.  I love the way it works as a general flourish as well as a stylised tree.

I had a piece of card with me that had flowers stamped onto it using paint.  I’d done this some time ago and it just happened to be in my cardstock stash on Friday, so it got used.  The tree top was stamped onto this card with Versamark and embossed with Peeled Paint distress embossing powder, then the trunk was embossed separately with Vintage Photo.  The distress powders are gritty and sandy compared to the smooth powders most people are used to, so it doesn’t matter too much if you do one colour then another – they don’t change an awful lot when heated, so you don’t need to worry too much about overheating.  If anything, it’s actually tricky to know when you’ve heated it enough!

The whole thing was then sprayed with Glimmer Mist – I honestly can’t remember which colours now as I had so many scattered on the table!  When it was dry, I darkened the edges using black Versafine and mounted it onto a chocolate coloured mat.  I popped a piece of ribbon onto the card and stuck the panel on with foam pads.

It’s simple, but has room for a greeting when the time comes that I need to send a card in a hurry!