You may have noticed a new background to the blog? I was making Dad's Father's Day card and enjoyed it so much I wanted to make something similar for myself.

Here's Dad's card:

And here's the picture I made for myself:

The background to the main image is coloured gold with added gold leaf. The images are coloured with watercolour pencils, as is the inner mount The stamps I've used are all Chocolate Baroque: Peacock Parade, Paisley Elephant and Indian Elephant

Thanks for looking!

B is for Butterfly

The second set in the A to Z of ATC are Butterflies. These all use Elusive Images / Chocolate Baroque stamps, as well as a random background stamp I can't remember where from!

Keep 'em peeled for C - coming soon!

Hand Challenge - Joy in the Art of Creation

Glenda over at Chocolate Baroque set us a Hand challenge - anything goes. I immediately knew that I wanted to go all 3D, and decided to use rubber gloves as a mould for Plaster of Paris. There is a slight problem with this though, you get a big bulge where the palm should be:

So there was nothing for it but to carve them out!

So then I painted them (using acrylics) and added stamps from the CB Indian range. I stamped the designs onto white tissue then applied it using normal PVA. It was really fiddly (you have to cut the tissue really closely around the design - and there are a lot of elements here!) but I'm glad I persevered and I'm really pleased with the end result. I added a sentiment which says:

'There is such joy in the art of creation'

I'm looking forward to making more of these! Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon :-)