I REMEMBER....by Fran Chalmers

 Hi everyone!

Today I have made a postcard.  It's rather topical at the moment as the Councils round here seem to be building and building and all the green space is disappearing!

First of all I made the background using the brick wall stamp and a stencil of buildings from my stash.  I coloured the wall with pencils, and used Distress Ink on the stencil.

I coloured the buildings in a lighter shade of the same distress ink, and also added sky with another stencil from my stash.

I replaced the stencil and used modelling paste to raise up parts of the stencil, and left it to dry overnight.

I highlighted the windows with a fine black pen and a white pen.

I then stamped the boy onto thick paper and coloured him in with copic pens, and cut him out. I put him on sticky pads on the card to  make him stand out more.

I added the sentiment and went round the edge of the card with distress ink in Black Soot.

Stamps Used:

I remember when all this was trees 20648

Banksy Boy catching snowflakes 20662

Brick background 19077

Other items used:

Building stencil

Sky stencil

Distress inks in Tumbled Glass, Hickory Smoke, Black Soot

Polychromos pencils

Copic pens

White gel pen

Black fine liner

See you next time!

WELL BEHAVED WOMEN by Fran Chalmers

Hi again everyone! Today I have made a card .....

 First of all I made the background with Distress inks and water smooshed on my mat.

I then stamped the main stamps onto thick card so I could colour and cut them out.

I then went round the edge of my mat with a darker Distress Ink.

I stuck the images onto the background.  With the sentiment, I cut the words out separately and outlined with a fine liner. I also went round the main image with a grey pen, to make it stand out more from the background.

Stamps Used:

Nun Licking Gun 19285

Well Behaved Women Rarely 8418

Crime scene tape 19133

Other Items Used:

Distress inks in Wilted Violet, Blueprint Sketch, Villinous Potion

Polychromos pencils

Black Fine Liner

Versafine Clair ink in Nocturn

PARTY ANIMAL by Fran

Hello eveyone! 

Today  I have made a card for all you party animals out there, what with New Year on the horizon! 

First of all I made a couple of masks out of the Twilight Zone Swirl stamp.

I then stamped the swirl in different colours, using the masks so I could overlap the stamps.

I stamped the dog on thick paper and coloured him in with pencils.

 I had a wooden word "Party" in my stash, which I coloured with Posca Pen.

Using Idea-ology Label Letters, I made the word "Animal" on a piece of thick paper and then cut the whole thing out.

I added the "Sometimes I Like to Drink" thought stamp too

I put some chevron washi tape under the dog and stuck everything onto the card.  I then mounted it onto black card.

Stamps Used:

Twilight Zone Swirl 20506

Pit Bull Party Dog 9170

Sometimes I like to Drink 2658

Other items used:

Versafine Clair Inks in Summertime, Verdant, Golden Meadow, Nocturn

Washi tape

Wooden words

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Label Letters

Polychromos pencils

Black card 

And that's it! Hope you like the card.

 Have a very Happy New Year!