Lavinia Stamps Oak Leaves black and white card

 

A friend asked me about a technique, so I set too making this card, so I could share the process.

I've used a good quality solid black coloured card, approx 280 gsm.  I stamped the Lavinia Stamps "Oak Leaves" in Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black" ink.

I then used a white Uniball Signo Pen to go over the edges of the stamping.  It goes on quite dull as the card seemed to absorb the colour.

I then used a white and black pastel pencil to colour the leaves, blending the colours with a paper stubb.  I then went over some of the edges of the leaves with the white Signo pen again, these remained brighter than the original ones.

Finally, I used a Tim Holtz Idea-ology word sticker from their "Small Talk" booklet, going round th edges with the white Signo pen.

Stamping and Zentangle Art Fusion

On my earlier post, I shared two zentangle doodles I made while at the caravan.  We came back home today, so I decided to work with one of the dentangles and stamp on it.

I used a golden yellow shade of paint fromt the Prima "Tropicals" Water Colour Confections paint set, to paint the large zentangle circles.

while the paint was drying, I drew a circle the same size as the large circles on a post it note, I cut the inner area out to create a mask for stamping.

Using the post-it note to protect the area around the circles, I used Versafine Clair "Nocturne" black ink to stamp four different patterns from the Funky Fossil Designs A7 stamp sets.  The sets that I used were:  Vintage Script, Round in dots, Inky Grid and Ditsy Flowers.

I mounted the card on to a piece of black card and then used orange and white coloured Posca Pens to add a bit of colour within the large circles.

Zentangles at the caravan

We've been away at the caravan for a few days.  While there, I miss my crafting so always take a bag of bits and bobs with me to play with.  This time I had a note pad and black pen, so doodled some Zentangle designs. It's very calming.

Celebrate Card in Black and White

The cards that I have been making recently are full of colour using lots of different inks.  Today I took things back to basics and let the stamps do the talking by stamping on a plain white background in black Versafine Ink.

The stamps I have used on this card (with the exception of the sentiment which is Stampin' Up) are all Lavinia Stamps.  I have used Seaweed 2, Fairy Barnacle, Zen Plant and Sea Creatures.