Day 4 of 16

Panic it already feels like the 2 weeks are slipping away!

Yesterday was one for staying at home, finishing a couple of projects starting a couple more and starting to make plans for my current house.   Today will be abut making plans for some of the next 12 days.

So finishing off projects.

These 3 came out of the same background making session one evening last week.   In Craft Stamper this month there are a couple of projects that appealed to me.    The first Bleach Blocking, the second a group of torn and layered tag.   Bleach Blocking made the background then, it involves distress inks and water.   I experimented with different surfaces and shapes to do the bleaching but think I might have been to busy with the distress inks in the first place.

The torn layering first then.   Using some of the bolder coloured card torn into strips and arranged on the base card, which had also been coloured with DI and bleached.   Once the layout decided the base card was stamped with Andy Skinner Images.   The top strip came from the less deeply coloured part of the card stamped with Hobby Art's delightful poppies.   The poppy stamp used on another piece of card for added dimension, the colouring was done with Do Crafts felt pens and glazed with Sakura clear glaze pen.    Of several bee stamps the Magenta one is my favourite double stamped and coloured in the same manner as the poppies.

For this book cover a section of the paler bleach marked card cut down to make a topper.    Cherry Lynn flourish die cut from another piece of the card.   TH bird stamped and coloured with DI Scattered Straw and Vintage Photo.    The label 'Artist Journal' is also a TH stamp in Vintage Photo ink.    Got my Bind it all out for this one as it is quite a slim little book.

Finally the 'waste' from the flourish die cut backed by black card made this card from.   Just the addition of the bee coloured with Sakura pens, and the sentiment written in Sakura silver.   Think this one probably shows of my bleach blocking attempts best.

Sharing these with.

Craft Stamper Take it Make it - Bleach Blocking Technique
Fashionable Stamping - Birds and Bees
Anything but a Card - Summer Loving
Open Minded Crafting - Something with wings.  yes I know this is a repeat entry but I do tend to use winged things a lot…..
Live and Love Crafts - Summer Garden
Fussy and Fancy Fridays - Things with Wings
Thats Crafty - Birds
A Vintage Journey - Wings and things, TH inspiration on these?  The backgrounds are totally TH, not to mention some of the stamps.

Back to planning and maybe a little de-cluttering.