Camomile & Friends in a Fairy Background

Hiya. I started playing with the Fairy Background and Camomile & Friends plates a few days ago and was able to finish the project yesterday when I went to the East Northants Groovi Group. It was such a fab day. Met up with lots of friends and made more while there. We laughed, chatted, hugged and ate cake and ice cream (both home made ... Jean made a carrot cake and Roz made vanilla ice-cream and lemon merengue ice-cream). I had made more foamiran flowers a couple of days ago so decided to put them on the project too. And there is lots ... and lots ... and lots of glitter.

Groovi Plates used:

Fresh Cut Dies - Nested squares

Nested Squares Picot Outlines (GRO-PA-41035-15)

Fairy Background Round GRO-FY-40949-03

Camomile & Friends Round GRO-FL-41022-01

Lace Corners GRO-PA-40126-09

Straight Basic Grid GRO-GG-40384-14

1.) Picot cut the 2nd from outside square from the nested picot dies and emboss the double square outlines from the corresponding picot outlines plate.

2.) In the middle, emboss the circles and the design between the circles from the fairy background plate.

3.) Emboss the floral design from the camomile & friend plates slightly offset from the centre.

4.) Emboss the rest of the design from the fairy background plate 

5.) In the corners, emboss the design from the lace corners plate.

6.) Freehand emboss in the floral design and the lace corners.

7.) Between the double circle outlines, emboss dots over the basic straight grid.

8.) Colour on the back with Perga Liner B pencils and blend using a blender pen/nibs and Dorso oil. I added my glitter using sticky ink and Perga glitter at this point because I thought I may as well feel happy looking at the sparkle while I do all the perforating and cutting between all those sections. As a general rule I tend to leave my glittering till the end. 

9.) Perforate on the front using a 2 needle perforating tool and picot cut between the perforations.

10.) Mount the work on Indian Summer designer paper and white card using brads and stick it on 8"x8" folded white card. Stick flowers and ribbon on the bottom right corner.

I'm off to do my next set of instructions for my workshop at The Forget Me Not Kraft Kabin, Rochford, Essex in November. It's a 'Lots of Words' kinda day.

Enjoy. Take Care.

Love and laughter

Tina

Playing with Foamiran

Good Evening. Yesterday, I finally finished prepping for my shows on Thursday on Hochanda and decided to have a play with Foamiran. I had first come across the flowers made from it on Nick Roberts FB page and blog (https://nickinbarnsley.blogspot.com). He makes the most amazing flowers with Foamarin and the roses are out of this world. So I asked him for help a few days ago and he steered me in the right direction which I am so grateful for. The roses are a long way away for me to try yet but I had so much fun creating a few simple flowers. For me the hardest part was to try and hold it and stretch the foam gently but hopefully with more playtime I'll find a way that works for me. And I promised Nick I would not throw away my first flower. I don't know about you, but when I make something I stash it away somewhere only to find it years later all falling apart. So I decided I would put these flowers directly onto a card and I had the perfect project for it.

The Groovi piece I put the flowers on was one I had started a few weeks ago but did not like where it was going so I had abandoned it ... till today. I'll do the Groovi part in step by step photos. The flowers can be replaced by any flowers you may have. If you want to try Foamarin, there are lots of videos on YouTube to help you get started. Here is what the finished project looks like ...

Groovi Plates Used:-

Nested Squares GRO-PA-40037-03

Nested Scallops Circles GRO-PA-40558-03

Leafy Swirl GRO-TR-40338-03

Linda's Aquilegia & Lace GRO-FL-40920-03

Straight Basic Grid GRO-GG-40202-12

Gratitude and Sending Word Chains GRO-WO-40564-09

1.) Emboss the largest square and largest double circle outlines on regular parchment.

2.) Emboss the leafy swirls in the circle.

3.) Emboss the lace in the corners.

4.) Over the basic straight grid, emboss dots over alternate holes in the circle and every hole outside the circle.

5.) Freehand emboss in the lace corners using ball tools and small shader.

6.) On the back, colour the leafy swirl and between the double circle outlines with Perga Colours Exclusive pens and outside the circle, colour with Perga Liner B pencils and blend with blending nibs and Dorso oil.

7.) On the front, perforate inside the leaves using the bold 2-needle perforating tool and picot cut between the perforations.

8.) On pink parchment, emboss the word and colour on the back with Perga Colours Exclusive pen. Tear on the top and bottom.

9.) Mount the regular parchment piece and word on pink parchment and white card using brads. Stick this on Indian Summer designer paper and 8"x8" folded white card. Add a little sparkle in the lace corners with Perga Glue and Perga Glitter. Finally stick the flowers and leaves on the card with silicone glue.

Well the flowers are a new addiction for me so I'm off to make some more because we can never have too many flowers ... Nor chocolate ... Nor cake ... Nor popcorn ... Nor tea ... Nor ice-cream ... Nor love heart sweets ... Nor ... 

Enjoy. Take Care.

Love and Laughter

Tina

Where Flowers Bloom

Good Evening. I thought I was just addicted to cake and chocolate but I am addicted to the Fresh Cut Picot dies, paper flower embellishments (https://claritystamp.com/search?type=product&q=paper+flowers) and the floral moon groovi plate. I cannot stop using these on everything. And I used the parchlet plates ... Again!

These are the Picot Dies & Groovi plates I used:
- Alphabet A5 Square Groovi Plate Mate
- Alphabet and Numbers A4 Square Groovi Plate Mate
A6 Square Groovi Plate Inset

- Fresh Cut Dies - Nested squares, Nested Circles

- Nested squares picot outlines (GRO-PA-41035-15)

- Nested circles picot outlines (GRO-PA-41069-15)

- Tina's Daisy Flowers Parchlet (GRO-FL-40972-01)

- Tina’s Wild Flowers Parchlet (GRO-FL-40974-01)

- Floral Moon (GRO-FL-40446-03)

- Flower Rounds Groovi Go! Safer Plate (GRO-FL-41027-20)

1.)  On soft tone blue parchment, with the cutting side of the picot die down on the matt side of the parchment, cut the largest square. On regular parchment, cut the circle using the 3rd from outside die and a window using 3rd from inside picot die.

2.) On the back, attach the parchment to the corresponding Groovi plate and emboss the double outlines for the square and circle.

3.) To emboss the circles inside the window on the blue parchment, attach the round piece on the blue parchment on the front, turn the work over to the back and emboss the double outlines.

4.) On the blue parchment, emboss the parchlet designs in the corners and along the sides of the square and the words in the window. On the regular parchment, emboss the floral moon design around the circle.

5.) On the back, colour using the Perga Colours Exclusive pens and on the front paint gold dots using the Kuretake gold mica paste (https://claritystamp.com/products/gold-mica-paste-30g?variant=32378516289).

6.) Layer and mount the pieces onto regular parchment and white card using brads and stick this on 7"x7" folded white card. Stick the paper flowers around the window. I used didi glue dots but Silicone glue would work too. If you use a lot of flowers, a wet glue will make the parchment buckle but if you were using only a few flowers, a teeny tiny amount of Perga Glue would be fine.

I hope you enjoyed today's project and looking forward to seeing everyone's creations using the dies, paper flowers and any of the other products which are all available from https://claritystamp.com.

Take care. Enjoy.

Love and laughter

Tina

Stencil and Groovi Meet

Good morning. How is everyone? It has turned really cold in the last few days so I'm finding it hard to sleep at night as my bones really don't like the cold. I think I may need to invest in an electric blanket.  At mum's, we have the roofers doing some work in her conservatory as it was leaking (a bit closer to raining indoors every time it rained). So the whole roof came off last week (still no roof) to be replaced. Not the best timing as it poured over the weekend and as much as they tried to protect us from rain, it rained still inside.

Yesterday I went to the East Northants Groovi Group which is organised on one Saturday and one Thursday each month by Rosalind Mclellan and Lynda Hidderley at Colemans Craft Warehouse in Rushden. We take our own projects we want to work on, help one another, chat, giggle, drink tea/coffee, eat chocolate, eat cake (made by Jean Page Burt - Thank you Jean, it was so yummy) and yesterday there was homemade ice cream too by Ros (Thank you Ros. I'm drawing up a list of flavours I would like so its easier for you each month). It was so lovely to meet up with everyone in such a relaxed fun way and cannot wait till next month for all the hugs, cake and ice cream. If you are in the area it is so worth popping in and for dates you can request to Ros to add you to the group page on Facebook .

I have to be honest, I spent most of my time there chatting and distracting everyone and I am glad everyone there loves me enough to not mind. Lol. I had started a card with an idea a few weeks ago and was working on it 5mins here, 5 mins there so was determined to get it finished while I was there. I have taken as many photos as I could remember to take. It is a combination of using a stencil and various Groovi plates.

Groovi Plates Used:

Nested Squares Picot Cut Die & Groovi Plate Set (ACC-DI-30698-66)

Trellis Stencil 9"x11" (STE-PA-00027-91)

Floral Moon (GRO-FL-40446-03)

Tina's Morning Glory Flowers Parchlet (GRO-FL-40969-01)

Nested Scallops Circles (GRO-PA-40558-03)

Straight Basic Grid (GRO-GG-40202-12)

1.) Using the picot nested squares Fresh Cut die, cut the largest square frame and 3rd from inside square frame on regular parchment and emboss the corresponding squares from the Groovi plate.

2.) On the back of the large square, lay the stencil on top of the parchment and using masking tape, mask around the inside square outline. Using the artistry ink and clarity brush, dry brush the colour over the parchment.

This is what it looked like once the masking tape was removed.

3.) While the ink is drying on the large square, I embossed the parchlet from the morning glory plate on the small square.

4.) From the front, deboss the 2nd from inside double circle outlines from the nested scallops circles plate.

5.) On the back, over the straight basic grid, emboss dots between the double set of squares.

6.) On the back, emboss the circles in the little flowers and colour the little flowers and leaves using Perga Colours Exclusive pens. Colour the gem on the front (see below on how to) with Perga Liner B pencils. Deboss between the double circle outlines around the gem. By debossing it gives the illusion the gem is popping out of the parchment. Add a little sparkle on the circles using Pergamano sticky ink, mapping pen and Perga glitter.

Here is how I do my gems on parchment and everyone has a different way of doing them. Look up on YouTube for different ways of colouring gems. By reading lots of blurb on google about uploading a pdf on here I have tried to upload the file for you to download and print if you wish but not sure it has worked so I'm attaching a photo of it even though it is small. Click on this link and hopefully you can view it and download it.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nOMJVbF-Vi40yZcTXNBam5d8lvBxyWxy/view?usp=sharing

On my gem above, I have not added cracks so it is optional. If  you do not have the Derwent blender and burnisher pencils, you can use your Pergamano Perga Liner B pencils and blend the colours using the blending nibs and Dorso oil to give the gems a smooth finish. I mounted the parchlet piece on northern lights designer paper, white card and black card using brads.

7.) Going back to the large square, emboss the floral moon design on the back in the coloured stencil sections.

8.) On the back, emboss the circles and colour the flowers and leaves using Perga Colours Exclusive pens. Add a little sparkle on the circles using Pergamano sticky ink, mapping pen and Perga glitter.

9.) To finish, mount the large square on northern lights designer paper, white card and black card using brads and stick this on 8"x8" folded white card. Stick the parchlet piece in the centre using 3D foam pads.

I really enjoyed creating this one and as it gave me a chance to play with the stencil that I've had for a couple of years but never used. If you liked seeing this card using a stencil and Groovi plates, here is a slightly different way of using the 2 together. https://butterfliesandglitterwithtinacox.blogspot.com/2017/01/groovi-with-jos-flower-stencil.html

Off to have some breakfast and do some design work ... and try and warm up.

Take Care. Enjoy.

Love and laughter

Tina

Pretty Pink Parchlet

Hiya. Today I was on a mission to finish prepping for the Hochanda show next week on Thursday, type up the producer notes and the instructions for the sample cards I have done without any excuses. I love creating artwork but don't like doing instructions ... Actually I hate doing anything that needs me to write words. My arm has been really sore and has been for a few weeks now, probably from moving the things from my my place to my mum's. It took me 2mths to finish sorting everything out and empty my property. It was such a relief when I emptied the last few things. I am beginning to feel I am falling behind on everything I need to get done so I was determined to sit down, focus and work.

And then, along the way, I got distracted and ended up creating a parchlet. A pretty little thing that took less than half hour. The camera on my phone is playing up so it was really hard to take proper step by step photos so if they are blurry, sorry. This is what I made.

Groovi Plates Used:

Nested Squares Picot Cut Die & Groovi Plate Set (ACC-DI-30698-66)

Tina's Wildflower Parchlet (GRO-FL-40974-01)

Straight Pattern Border No.1 Grid (GRO-GG-40350-14)

1.) Emboss the double square outlines and part of the floral design from the wildflower parchlet plate using the Pergamano 1mm tool (or groovi no.1).

2.) From the nested squares picot outlines plate, emboss the smallest double square outlines in the centre using the Pergamano 1mm tool (or groovi no.1) and the zig zag with a Pergamano stylus 0.5mm (or groovi no.1).

3.) Over the straight pattern border grid no.1 plate, emboss the top row of dots from the 2nd border using the Pergamano 1.5mm tool (or groovi no.2). 

 4.) Emboss crosses between the dots using the Pergamano stylus 0.5mm.

5.) Emboss fine veins in the flower petals and the zig zag from the nested squares picot outlines plate in the corners between the floral design and the outside squares using the Pergamano stylus 0.5mm. Colour on the back using Perga Colours Exclusive pens. Cut the piece just outside the square.

 6.) Using the picot nested squares Fresh Cut die, cut the 3rd from inside square frame from pink parchment. Mount the worked regular parchment piece on the picot cut pink parchment, white and black card using brads. Mount a blossom pink paper flower in the centre using a brad. Stick this whole piece on 4"x4" folded white card.

I guess I better get on with my 'To finish today' list as play time is over. All products available at https://claritystamp.com

Take Care. Enjoy.

Love and Laughter

Tina

Snowflake Parchlet

Good Morning. Who is coming to Leyburn tomorrow? I am so excited because I get to spend the whole day with friends, demo, eat lots of sweets and chocolate and get to be in the happiest place for the day. This week has been quite a roller coaster week with lots of downs but the ups definitely more than made up for the downs thanks to the love, support and encouragement from all my friends on FB. All the more reason to look forward to tomorrow.

One of the things I did to find the happy me (other than eat tons of chocolate) is create this parchlet and actually remembered to take step by step photos ... Lots of photos!

Groovi Plates Used:

Nested Squares Picot Cut Die & Groovi Plate Set (ACC-DI-30698-66)

Tina's Christmas Baubles (GRO-CH-41009-15)

Small Snowflake Duet Plate & Grid Set (GRO-GG-40762-XX)

Diagonal Pattern No.1 Grid (GRO-GG-40354-14)

All products available at https://claritystamp.com

1.) Using the nested squares picot cut die, cut the 3rd from inside square and using the corresponding Groovi plate, emboss the double square outlines. If you don't have the die/Groovi set, you can use the 4th from inside double square outlines from the nested scallops squares (GRO-PA-40573-03) which will give you a slightly larger square and using the 2-needle perforating tool and scissors, it can be cut out at the end.

2.) Emboss the bauble inside the square.

3.) Emboss the snowflake from the snowflake outline plate inside the bauble.

4.) Emboss the dots inside the snowflake from the corresponding snowflake on the snowflake grid plate.

5.) Emboss the circles and the bow.

6.) Still on the back, using the Perga Liner B pencil, colour the area between bauble and the snowflake and between the double square outlines.

7.) Blend the colouring using a blending nib and Dorso oil for a smooth finish.

8.) Over the diagonal pattern grid, emboss the dots of the border on either side of the bauble.

9.) Turn the parchment to the front, line up the dots over the same border on the plate and perforate the holes inside the border (left side of the photo) and picot cut between all the perforations (right side of the photo). I love how the hexagon perforations fall out as stars when picot cut.

10.) To finish, layer and mount the work on black and white card using brads and stick this on folded white card. Add a little sparkle using Perga Glitter, mapping pen and Perga Glitter.

I love doing parchlets because they are quick and fun. Great for practicing various techniques on too. If you want more parchlet inspiration, why not join us on the Parchlet Treasures FB group page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/366959417034268/?ref=bookmarks

Looking forward to meeting everyone coming to Leyburn tomorrow.

Take care. Enjoy.

Love and Laughter

Tina