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Something Beautiful is on the horizon... safari scene 5" square card

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Something Beautiful is on the horizon... safari scene 5" square card Hi Craft addicts! I have had the Stamps By Me Gossip inks for ages and thought I better use them and this is the result... How I made this card:- The base card is a 5" square one which can be got from all sorts of companies such as Hunkydory, Paper Boutique etc.... I took 3 inks from the set (they don't have names on the bottles), and using the pipettes provided, put some orange, red and the darker red onto a palette. I then took a waterbrush and painted a piece of white stamping card (this is Hunkydory's Ink Me card but you could used watercolour card but I wanted a smooth surface) using the orange first and then the red and finally the darker red. The inks have a Mica in them so when you look at it when it is dry you can see a sheen to the card. Once it had dried, I added various images from the Go Wild stamp set from For The Love of Stamps using Gina K Black ink. I stamped the bi...

Sugar Skull image on hand coloured label tag card - Day 247 of my 365 day challenge

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Sugar Skull image on hand coloured label tag card -  Day 247 of my 365 day challenge HI Craft addicts! I have made this card using a stencil, a hand coloured background and Hunkydory papers. How I made this card:- I had coloured the label tag a couple of weeks ago using watercolour inks and had wondered what to use it for and when I got this sugar skull stencil (from Glitz Crafts) I realised it would be great for it. I placed the stencil over it (it is just the right size) and used Pure Graphite Altenew ink through it. I glued the label on to some Hunkydory Red Polka Dots paper (from their For The Love of Stamps series) and trimmed it to fit and then edged it in a black alcohol marker. I then attached that to a piece of black cardstock (Lynda Chapman's World of Paper) and again trimmed it to leave a slightly larger border. Finally, I used the reverse of the paper (red and white spots) to create a larger background layer and placed it on a 7" x 5" white...