Hello everyone. My word, the two shows on Clarity Social TV yesterday just flew past and, as happens to me every time, I didn’t manage to get through all the demos I’d prepped! Here’s the second card from my 10am show, which I ran through quickly and is also here as my design team card for the new challenge at Love to Craft. As always our theme is ‘anything goes’ and I love this ‘gardening‘ set from Clarity’s mini hobbies collection and it’s the obvious thing to do on a spring day over at The Four Seasons challenge

I started with a square of Clarity’s stencil card that I’d used to mop up ink from my craft mat – it’s been sat in my stash for a while & I think has ‘broken china’ and ‘squeezed lemonade’ on it but (as is usually the case) I failed to note them on the back! I stamped the ‘square clean & tidy layout‘ into the centre of the card using black Archival ink, which gave me a good template for using the little gardening stamps. I started with the watering can into the central square, then cut a mask for it from Clarity’s blank material so that I could stamp the flowers to sit behind it.

I then carried on creating little scenes in other parts of the layout, adding colour to them with my Pergaliner pencils. The floral spray in the bottom right square is a solid silhouette, so I introduced a little colour to it by running a green pencil along the stems. I put a small moon mask in the top right section and lightly sponged a little grey ink across it to create a sun (although I don’t think this one would be giving off much heat!)

I added a mount of black card and one of the KISS work stickers. You won;t be surprised to learn that I used one of the square embedders to emboss a frame onto the front of a 7×7 card blank before attaching the topper to the card (at least I’m consistent!)

The great thing about these layout stamps is that you can create a larger card by building multiple little scenes, which is much less daunting than trying to make one large design!