Buzzy Goings on at Bee Crafty Bidford: Alison CT

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a set of clean and simple cards that I have created using the new Mixed Leaves stamp set.

To begin I added to shades of green distress ink (iced spruce and evergreen bough) to the larger square super skinny slim.

I spritzed this lightly with water and placed it ink side down onto the centre of a 6 inch card blank. I left it to dry naturally.

Using the smaller of the two hiorse chestnut style leaves, mask of the square of ink (I used a post-it note) and add to white heat embossed leaves.

Using the larger of the three leaves on a stem, with versafine clair acorn ink, stamp two coming in from the sides of the card.

Using the small round leaf with the same ink pad, add threeeaves to the green area. Vary the orientation of each leaf.

Using the splat dinkable from set 3 add small areas of distress grit paste between the leaves. Leave to dry. Then add five gold sequins.

Finally I added a sentiment from the Everyday Sentiments 1 stamp set using the same brown ink.

Some further ideas are below.

Stamp the leaves using an embossing ink and clear emboss. Mask of an area just wider than the leaves and blend festive berries, ripe persimmon, mowed lawn and mustard seed distress ink over the leaves. Wipe off any excess ink on the embossed leaves. Add the sentiment from the Everyday stamp set using the festive berries ink.

Stamp the larger of the two leaves using versafine clair morning mist and colour with a pumice stone watercolour crayon and a damp paintbrush. Stamp a second generation version of the splats from the asemic splats stamp set and morning mist ink. On seperate card stamp the same leaf with black ink and colour using tree lot and bubbling cauldron distress crayons. Cut out and glue slughtly off set to the image on the card. Add the sentiment from the Everyday set.

Stamp the leaf using versafine clair acorn. Colour using rusty hinge distress oxidecand a damp paintbrush. Stamp the splats stamp over the leaf using rusty hinge oxide. Add the sentiment using fallen leaves versafine clair ink.

On seperate card stamp three of the leaf using versafine clair portobello ink. Colour the leaves with Kuretake Gansai Tambi graphite colour watercolour paints. Cut out and glue down the left hand side of the 5x7 card blank. Use a black pen to add a partial rectangle and stamp the sentiment.