Claritystamp Challenge - Love

Lots of Clarity stencils and stamps can be used for this month's challenge, Love, so if you haven't made those Valentine cards yet or maybe there is a family wedding coming up this is the perfect opportunity to get all loved up.

Stamps:  Claritystamp Wrought Iron corner, Birdcage set

Stencils:  Leafy Swirl

Inks:       Archival Black, Adirondack Red Pepper, Tim Holz Old Paper

Other:     Claritystamp Theuva card, Stencils brushes, Spectrum Noir colouring pencils, black pen

• Make masks for the Birds.  Don't worry about the very intricate bits.
• To help you align the stamps draw a central vertical line lightly in pencil.
• With black archival ink stamp the Birds and then cover with the masks.
• Under the Birds, stamp the Corner twice using some copier paper to mask the very ends of the top corners to shorten them.
• Stamp Love underneath and then the Corners again below this to complete the perch.

• Rub out the pencil line but leaving the Bird masks on brush Old Paper over the card.
• Using Adirondack Red Pepper brush ink around the edges, leaving a vague oval shape around the birds. Go back over with these two colours until you are happy with the depth of colour. I chose these colours to go with the Gelli print I had already chosen to use as a backing paper.

• Cut to size and then go around the edges with a black Sharpie pen.
• Mount on a Gelli print and then a blank card.  My print was made using the Leafy swirl stencil.
• Remove the masks from the Birds and colour in with Spectrum Noir pencils.
• At this point I realised I had stamped my Birds too high so I extended the corner stamp using a black pen to make a perch.
• Finally couldn't resist a doodled heart above the Birds.

The Claritystamp Challenge is open to all abilities so have a go and you might be the lucky winner of a £50 Claritystamp voucher.  The winner is picked at random so everyone has the same chance of winning. We love looking at all your entries each month.

Lesley x