* Vera Lane Studio: Together

Hello!

Happy Monday!

Please allow me welcome my newest follower;

 Corry from Corry's Cards and Creations

Today is my Vera Lane Studio DT day and I have made two projects this week. The first is here and the second will be posted later this afternoon.

I felt the need for a little quirkiness this week after a really miserable week, so I made a card with the whimsical Bird Houses digi set.

I coloured the birds and the house in bright colours with Copic markers and I added some white highlights. I fussy cut around the images, leaving a thin white border.

I made the background with a mixed media plate using a sprinkling of Infusions (Emerald Isle) and Brushos (turquoise) along with a spritz of Glimmer Mist. I used the plate as a stamp by securing it to an acrylic block. I added some Posca pen paint splashes to the circular print.

I cut myself a circular card mask to place over the coloured circle, then inked up a background stamp with Peacock Feathers and Twisted Citron Distress Inks. I spritzed the inks with water and stamped around the circle. I used the same DOs to ink around the edges of the card and I added a little mesh stamping with Hickory Smoke DO. I added some splatters of Black Soot DO to the stamped background areas.

I glued the images directly onto the background. The sentiment was cut into strips, inked and adhered.

Bird Houses

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane.

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Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

* Lil Patch of Crafty Friends  (1) #122 AG 17/01

* A Bit More Time To Craft #107 AG 15/01
* PIP Challenges Jan 2020 AG 19/01
* Jans Digistamps Challenges (3/5)  #5 AG 20/01
* Crafty Cardmakers #248 AG 26/01 WINNER

* A Perfect Time to Craft #1 AG 27/01
* We Love 2 Create #1 AG Mixed Media 28/01
* Classic Design Challenge #1 AG 30/01

* 613 Avenue Create #229 (3/8) AG 31/01 TOP ROCKER

* Corrosive Challenges #1 (1/3) AG 31/01

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* Merry Magpie

Hello!

I'm sharing a card I made for the Rubber Dance, November Colour Challenge today.

I used the Merry Magpie stamp set as well as a stem from the Doodle Borders 1 and a leafy stem from Doodle Flowers.

I used a mixed media plate to start the background. I dabbed on some Fossilised Amber Distress Ink and spritzed it with water, then gently pressed it down into the centre of the white card. When it was dry, I repeated with the ink that was left on the plate. I did this a few times until I was happy with the result. I used Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide to blend ink around the card edges, going slightly lighter as I reached right up to the amber circle. I then added splatters of water all over the background and blotted, to take some colour away.

I chose a leafy stem from the Doodle Borders 1 set, inked it with Hickory Smoke Distress Ink and stamped in short sections around the circle to separate the amber from the Seedless Preserves. I also added some stars to the whole background in Smoked Hickory.

The leafy Doodle Flowers was stamped all around the outside edge, first in black archival ink and then in Seedless Preserves Distress Oxide.  

The sentiment was stamped directly onto the card background. Merry Magpie was stamped onto the card base and also onto white card to be fussy cut and popped on foam pads. 

I added some Crystal Stickles to the stars - I love how this picks up the colour from beneath it and shimmers.

That's all from me today.

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

QKR Stampede #374 AG 05/12 TOP PICK

* Just Us Girls #51 AG 31/12
* Crafty Cardmakers #246 No Patterned Paper 08/12
* Crafty Friends #124 AG 12/12

* Creative Fingers #176 AG 13/12 ***

* Vera Lane Studio: Wish and Dream Fairies

Hello!

Happy Monday!

Today for my Vera Lane Studio DT posts I have 2 cards, one featuring the Wish Fairy and one featuring the Dream Fairy.

Here is the Wish Fairy:

and here is Dream Fairy:

      

Both cards were made using the same background technique.

I took a piece of 300gsm white card, measuring 13.5 x 13.5 cm, for each background. I used a mixed media plate (circle 10cm) and brayered Distress Oxide ink over its surface. I then added some diluted brusho splatters and lightly spritzed over the plate with water. The plate was then turned over and stamped into the centre of the card and left in place for a minute or so, so that the inks could absorb into the card. The edges of the card were then inked with Distress oxides and water droplets added to bleach out some colour. I doodled around the circle edge and the outside edge of the background.

Inside the circle, I stamped some text in Hickory Smoke DO, using scrap paper to mask off the edge of the circle. Using a torn strip of paper I inked a mound of earth for the fairies to stand upon.

The fairies were coloured with Copic markers and Stickles Diamond glitter was added to their wings. Some dots of glitter were also added to the background. The fairies were popped on foam tape and adhered to the circles.

Wish Fairy's background has Twisted Citron DO and splatters of purple liquid Brusho. Stamping is in Hickory Smoke DO and grounding in Peeled Paint, shadow with Hickory Smoke and Faded Jeans DO. Edges of the card have blended Twisted Citron and Hickory Smoke DO with water splatters.



Dream Fairy's background has Peacock Feathers DO and splatters of orange liquid Brusho. Text stamping is in Hickory Smoke DO and grounding in Peeled Paint, shadow with Hickory Smoke and Faded Jeans DO. Edges of the card have blended Peacock Feathers and Hickory Smoke DO with water splatters.

Wish Fairy                    Dream Fairy

   

I hope you'll come along and play on Vera Lane.
It's such a friendly, fun place to be!

  

Here's all the info you need:

Vera Lane Studio Blog

Vera Lane Studio Facebook Group

Vera Lane Studio You Tube Channel

Vera Lane Studio Etsy Shop

Thanks for stopping by today.

xoxo

I'd like to play along in these challenges:

Green & Purple Wish Fairy

* Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #117 AG 16/11
* Crazy4Challenges #C4C510 Texture 16/11
Glitter spots and Fairy popped on pads
* The Paper Girls #187 Mixed Up Manufacturers 18/11
Image from Vera Lane Studio; Distress Inks from Ranger; Text Stamp from Inkylicious
* A Gem Of A Challenge #22 AG 19/11
* Cardz TV #102 AG 21/11
* Crafting With An Attitude #57 AG 24/11
* Paper Funday #11 AG 01/12

Blue & Orange Dream Fairy
* Creative Fingers #174 AG 15/11
* Sweet Stampin Make own Background 15/11 TOP 3

* Dream Valley #213 All that Glitters 16/11
* Jan's Digi Stamps 1 AG 17/11
* Polkadoodle #45 AG 18/11
* Crafting by Designs Nov AG 27/11 
* 613 Avenue Create #227 AG 30/11  TOP ROCKER

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