Well I have no idea where the evenings have gone to this week!
I've been working on a couple of card projects - last weekend I just hit a total block creatively, very frustrating!
But Monday night I really wanted to just do a bit of fun experimenting so I finally got my new Altenew ink cubes out for a test run on actual layering stamps.
And here are the results:
Paper: Crate Paper, Dear Lizzy - Serendipity
Stamps: Altenew - Vintage Flowers, WPlus9
Dies: Altenew - Vintage Flowers, Lil' Inker Designs, MFT
Other: bling, 3D foam
I layered the inks for the flowers from darkest to lightest shade, but the leaves and lightest to darkest - I am not sure if it makes any difference to the intensity of the colours, but the ink colours really blend together:
The darker pink on the bottom of one of the petals above is where I had misaligned the lighter shades on the top and you can see that pink is a fraction darker than the where the other ink covers that layer. But yeah, those were the three lightest shades in the red set in action and all the greens in action as the other colour in the green set is a black cube.
Oh and I love that Altenew released 12 cubes in one go, it means they all fit in their own dedicated Tim Holtz mini cube storage tin. :D
Also I have been a tad silent on the blog, but it's that time of year when sitting at the PC on an evening isn't so fun. I forgot to blog about my brother's birthday last week:
The ace apple crumble cheesecake my mum baked - that got demolished!
Ma and I had a shopping mission to Newcastle last Friday for my last ditch attempt to find The Dress for my brother's wedding in July. Well, hurrah, hurrah I found it! But despite thinking my existing shoes, shrug, and accessories would work I ended up splurging on new shoes, jewellery and a shrug in the same exact shade I already have from Monsoon, but the cut and tailoring of it is much better suited to this new dress. And there is a 50s feel to the dress, and the shoes are gorgeous, gorgeous.
I'm sure this success was all down to how ma and I started our excursion...
With sugar for sustenance:
Seven hours later and we were ready to grab tea at the Metrocentre:
And of course no trip to the Metrocentre is complete without popping into Ikea for the essentials:
The strawberry tealights are absolutely divine!
You KNOW I love the card, the cake looked delicious and the inks...also Yummy LOL
TFS :D
Posted by: Dolly | Friday, 12 June 2015 at 12:30 AM
Very pretty card! Putting your inks to the test was successful!
Posted by: jan metcalf | Tuesday, 16 June 2015 at 11:47 AM