Welcome to my crafty blog and a bumper selection of cards from my crafting session at the weekend with my sister & my crafting buddy. We’re all members of Clarity’s Craft Club and get together each month to play withe our latest goodies – I love seeing the different desgns we each produce from the same stamps & stencils. Today’s cards use the latest hearts stencil and ‘love is in the air stamps fro the January Craft Club. I thought they nicely reflected the moodboard over at Hand Stamped Sentiments and are perfect for Global Design Project‘s ‘love’ theme.

I started with the frameless heart stencil and fixed it to a square of card using a tiny bit of BluTack. I blended Distress Oxides through it, starting with ‘festive berries’ in the centre, then ‘kitsch flamingo’ and finishing with ‘spun sugar’ round the edge.

I thought it was a bit large for a card front, so chopped it onto four smaller squares to give me the start of my toppers. For the first one I stamped the Craft Club sentiment across the middle in Archival ‘watering can’ then added the floral strips around two sides, which I coloured with Pergaliner pencils.

The second card also used the Craft Club sentiment, which I bent to fit around the top of the stencilled heart. I added a die cut border round two sides, trimmed down from one of the ‘frame-it’ dies and finished with three grey Glossies hearts.

On the third card I switched to Clarity’s ‘hearty crescent moon’ stamp set adding the sentiment again in grey. I then stamped the heart below it and used the infill stamp to colour it with ‘kitsch flamingo’.

For the final card I stamped the heart into the centre of the stencilled area, added the same sentiment and then created corner frames with one of the small line of hearts stamps in the set.

Four cards from one stencilled image – not bad, eh? I didn’t want them all the same, so the hardest part was coming up with the different designs using the stamps. Very satisfying though!