Saturday 12 March 2011

Techniques ????

Its been "One of those days" everything I've done has gone wrong. I thought I would have a nice afternoon trying out  a technique from the Hero Blog "layered stamped backgrounds", I have done quite a lot of layered stamping but this technique gives a lovely watercoloured effect (when it works !)  Everything went well until I got to stamping the flowers on top of all the layers and they just wouldn't play properly, I finally realised it was because the stamp I was using was not "solid" enough, I couldn't find a suitable flower stamp so went off at a tangent not wanting to waste what I had already done , I would probably have been better just binning it and starting again but I got out some silkie paints and tried using them with a flower stencil,they are there if you look closely, then I again tried to stamp some flowers using purple chalk ink but they still didn't really show up so in the end I just stamped a big flower and stencilled that with the silkies, my "ribbon" is seam binding coloured with alcohol inks,came out much darker than I really wanted but by now I was losing the will to live! anyhow I'm putting in the Just For Fun ????? challenge so here goes.

13 comments:

  1. wow Joan its so beautiful, just love the background and the flower too...

    Babs x

    ReplyDelete
  2. Well if you hadn't of said Joan I wouldn't of known all the troubles you went through to produce this card!!! Thanks for persevering and playing along with us this week over on JFF - Sam xxxx

    ReplyDelete
  3. This experiment has had beautiful results Joan, so many terrific layers and love your microbeads in the flower centre, great touch. Have a great weekend, Annette x

    ReplyDelete
  4. I know exactly how you feel ! it happens to me every time I have a plan. Your card is beautiful love the layering the colouring the flower everything so glad you didn't bin it. Marie

    ReplyDelete
  5. lol Joan I have those kind of afternoons regularly, but to be honest I love how yours turned out, even the ribbon which you may think is a little darker but I love the richness of it, I think you have created a happy accident and I love it - hope you have a great weekend xxx

    ReplyDelete
  6. Gorgeous card so glad you did not bin it love it. Might be one of those you need to put away and look at again after a little time. Thank you for joining us again at Just for Fun XOXO Zoe

    ReplyDelete
  7. Joan, I would never have guessed that you had difficulties with this gorgeous card. I think we all get a bit to critical with our own work.
    Whatever you did, its a fab card. xx

    ReplyDelete
  8. Glad you didn't bin it lol or we would have missed out May not be what you had intended but looks great to me :)
    Thanks for joining us at Just for fun
    Von x

    ReplyDelete
  9. Your hard work and efforts paid off. This is beautiful.
    Regards Florence.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Its absolutely gorgeous and your 'ribbon' is to die for its amazing. i love the dark rich colours in it, it looks fab in fact i cant stop looking at it. i will definately be trying this , thanks for the inspiration

    ReplyDelete
  11. This is beautiful the colours are gorgeous. I must admit I read it incorrectly and saw that you got out your silkie pants lol. I think it's perfect just the way it is x

    ReplyDelete
  12. They always say "life's little accidents have a way of producing new techniques" and I love the one you have done.
    So glad you persevered with it and joined us at JFF this week. Thanks for yet another new technique.

    ReplyDelete
  13. I really love the colorful background on this card!

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for taking the time to make a comment, I read and appreciate every one. Please be aware that those leaving a comment on any post on this blog do so in the knowledge that their name and blog link are visible to all who visit this blog and by providing the comment they have published their own personal details on this blog and also consented to use of that personal information for that specific purpose.