Miss Pinks Craft Spot

Hello and welcome to this month's Ink it! Stamp it! blog hop, this month we are all sharing a technique with you. I've used one of my favourite stamp sets today to show you how to create a background the  with the masking technique , something I use on a semi-regular basis as it can can create a different effect using the same stamps when you layer the images. I t's with mixed emotions  as Falling Flowers will be retiring on May 31st. For this technique, you need to cut a plain/scrap piece of paper in the same size as your stamped image - in this case I cheated a little my using coordinating framelits to do this, a great time saver especially if fussy cutting isn't your thing. Start by stamping an image in on cardstock, then place your mask over the image and stamp again, making sure you stamp on both blank cardstock and on the mask, keep repeating the process until your background is complete. Now the choice to colour the flowers... Stampin ...

I'm back with one of my favourite sets today, Falling Flowers - I adore the flourish and bold lines on the floral designs. I decided to mix it up with the new Corrugated Dynamic Textured Impressions embossing folder (148026, available 5th September) and played along at Just Add Ink My "Two" are Embossing Powder and Embossing Folder, I embossed my sentiment from A Big Thank You - I just love this sentiment on a floral card. I used Stampin Markers to colour the flowers, Gorgeous Grape, Highland Heather, Mango Melody and Daffodil Delight, with Lemon Lime Twist for the leaves. I fussy cut the flourish and used the coordinating  May Flower Framelits to cut the flowers, and added Rhinestone Jewels for bling... But couldn't resist spritzing with a spray of Frost White Shimmer Paint (147046, available 5th September) too - I'm obsessed with this stuff! It really "lifted" the the basic black and stepped the card up a notch. ...

It's been a long tough week, but I finally got some crafting mojo happening!  I was scrolling through Facebook and was inspired by Maria Willis after watching her video tutorial of this gorgeous card. I took heed and used Archival not Memento ink for my watercolour experiment - water colouring is a bit of a nemesis for me, I love cards I see, but I so struggle with the "randomness" of it! My project wasn't as adventurous as I hoped it might have been, but it is a start, and I am happy with the "random" background behind the flowers. I'm also feeling a little more comfortable with the technique - as they say, "Rome wasn't built in a day" so I will keep persisting and working on it! I added some droplets of water using embellishments for a touch of bling, and used my daughters favouite 2016-2018 In Color for the Emerald Envy card base. The gorgeous sentiment is from the new Love What You Do Stamp set - LOVE...

Sparkles, bling and pastels, what more could a girl ask for, talk about my favourite things! I am over the moon with these themes from the Global Design Project and Colour Inkspiration Here is my project - it is safe to say enter my crafting room at your own risk if you don't want any traces of glitter following you out of there! Glitter, glitter everywhere..... I made my version of glitter paper today! I started with a strip of Irresistibly floral Designer Series Specialty paper , using post it notes I covered the stripes and sponged the Inkspiration Challenge colours - LOVE this specialty paper, it is fantastic how you just sponge your colours on and you are left with a beautiful pattern - this product is retiring, stocks are getting low, so get it now before it is gone for ever I wasn't done there, next a coat of Versamark and then on with Heat & Stick powder followed by Dazzling Diamonds - BLING! I also inked with versamark when sta...