Artful Ramblings: Ismaki

Oh it was so nice to do a bit of crafting again this week.

I had to temorarily forget I had a pile of washing up to do, as I just needed to create! A lovely couple at our church recently had a baby, and I had not got round to making a card. I used this week's sketch from Ismaki. The additional challenge was to use purple/violet.

Ingredients:
Paper - Anna Griffin and The Works
Stamp - Magnolia
Flowers - Prima and other.
Punches - Leone Em and other
Brads - Basic Grey
Pebeo Pearl Touch
Lace, ribbon, ricrac and stamens from stash.

What a lovely sketch from Kiki this week, if you'd like to play along, click here.

Seeing the wonderful results of other folks using the border punches, I thought I'd wipe the dust off mine and use them. They're too pretty not to!

Thank you to the lovely Linda who gave me some lace through Crafts by Carolyn forum, such a lovely craft community, do pop over there and join in the fun!

Ingredients:
Paper - DCWV
Stamps - Magnolia and Docrafts
Punches - Fiskars and The Punch Bunch
Flowers - Prima
Brad and lace from stash.

Up till now I have been using watercolour pencils and water to colour the Magnolia stamps. I have a wide range of felt tip pens I bought ages ago and thought I'd see if I had enough colours, particularly of skin tones. I'm really struggling to find a caucasian skin colour, so for now i'm enjoyin doing these more Asian/Afro Carribean looking Tildas. And I have to confess I don't often see stamped and coloured in images of `People of Colour', which is a real shame.

So I'd just like to send out a challenge, how about a non Caucasian skin tone for your next stamped person?

The photo is a `keeping it real' one, on my desk with the post made-a-card mess! I've been experimenting with holding a piece of tissue in front of my flash whenever I have to use it, so I don't get so much of a glare, seems to be working!

Love the sketch from Ismaki this week, here's the card...

Ingredients
Papers- TLC and unknown
Stamp - Magnolia and Hero Arts
Punch - Carl Craft, Fiskars threading water
Flowers - Prima
Pen - Sakura Souffle

I told you I was going Magnolia mad, here's one I made last night, staying up to a silly time to finish!

I don't often do a Ismaki sketch, I find them very detailed and need a good motif to base it round. So they suit me just fine at the moment, I'm in a detailed mood.

I've used the butterflies as my diamonds, cheating slightly I know... If you look close enough they're about to fly off.

Thanks for looking!

Ingredients:
Paper - Cosmo Cricket and TLC
Stamp - Magnolia and Rubber Stamp Tapestry
Pencils - Derwent Watercolour
Flowers - Prima and from stash.
Swirls - Quickutz.
Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart.
Vintage lace, brad and glitter from stash.