Seven Hills Crafts Blog: My Favorite Things Distressed Patterns

Monday, 21 August 2017

A Terrarium of Succulents

Hello again, Jenny back for a Monday morning and hope it's a good start to the week for you :)

Like my teamie, Taheera, I was excited to see Flora & Fauna stamps and dies come to Seven Hills Crafts.... and as I love anything that grows I had to get the Succulents set in use first...

I have used a mixture of paper piecing, marker colouring and plain ol' stamping for this little collection of plants. The succulents set comes with a selection of vases and bottles but I love how you can mix and match the Flora & Fauna sets so I used the Octagon Greenhouse die as a terrarium for the plants

I just love the hand-drawn style of the images and by using coloured card for a spot of paper piecing you can add some bold impact too :)

I've used a stitched square panel for my stamping and then mounted it to a card base and trimmed off the excess. The base card has been stamped using the linear scribble from MFT's Distressed patterns.... by using a similar colour ink to the cardstock you can just add a subtle texture.

Well tha'ts another green fingered card!!.....

I've gradually moved from the allotment to indoor plants over the last three weeks!!

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Saturday, 30 July 2016

Happy Ink Splotches

Hey crafters! Today's card is not an original design – I want to say that upfront. I have seen variations of this design across the interwebz many times, but never really got around to try it myself. Well, with my new(ish) My Favorite Things Distressed Patterns stamp set, creating a design like this has become super easy.

I started out by figuring out which colors would work great together. As I keep saying (my apologies if you are getting tired of this) you need to work in the order of the color wheel if you want to avoid getting color mixes that are unpleasant to the eye (unless you are going for contrast, of course). I grabbed the inks that I thought would work great here and my stamping mat, since the stamp is fairly solid and I wanted to make sure I would get a great impression the first time.

The sentiment was stamped with Versafine ink using Wplus9 stamps. I just love the mix of handwritten and typed fonts, and black is a great contrast to the colorful splats of color. Of course I had to add a few sequins for additional sparkle.

The Wplus9 Hand Lettered Hello can be easily substitute with other stamps, even though it's great to have. For example, the Hand Lettered Thank You, also by Wplus9, would also work great as would the Brushstroke Birthday by MFT or the Scripty Sayings by Paper Smooches.