Colourful Collage

As Glenda said in her comment, the show is called Glenda's Colourful Collage Stamping and it's first showing is on Feb 10th at 1.00pm on Create and Craft TV.
I can't show you any of the other stamps that are used , but I have found photos of another 2 samples that use the Harlequin Rose plate.
The first is a card on glossy white cardstock:
And the second is an altered glass jar that I got from Ikea: I saw this idea ages ago in a Somerset Studios book called 'Transparent Art'.This particular project was by Cynthia Shaffer - I have to say it was quite fiddly, but it was great fun all the same!


Cheers!

Helen

I've gone green!

Well, sort of! Here's another card made with the Harlequin Rose set of stamps from Elusive Images:
This one uses Pastel colours from the Ecoline ink range which I just blobbed onto some watercolour paper for a background. I then stamped over the top and stamped the flower head again and added detail with coloured pencil and a white pen:
I layered it up onto some more of the K and Co Classic boxed set paper. The border stamp really comes into its own here as it makes a fantastic frame and you can even mitre the corners.
I'm not sure what the show's going to be called on C & C yet, but I know Glenda's got some great products going on (among them some more lovely stamps) and she promises it's going to be colourful!

Enjoy!

Helen

Harlequin Rose

As Glenda has now released a picture of this latest themeplate, I thought I'd post a picture of one of the samples I've been working on:I've sponged colour on from various inkpads, added a strip of patterned paper down the side (from the fantastic K&Co Classic Boxed set)and stamped the border over this. Then I cut away around the diamond shapes and put the exact same image on the inside of the card, just colouring the rose slightly differently. I added some different paper down the side and used one of the fabulous quotes.When opening it looks like this:I can see I'm going to use this plate a lot, not just for the fabulous collages, but I also love those swirly fonts and that long border stamp, which reminds me of wrought iron fencing. It doesn't matter if you use the whole design or just part of it, it always seems to work!
I have to say you're lucky to see any photos at all as I'd parcelled the samples up all ready to go in tomorrow's post when I realised I'd forgotten to take any pics! The air turned a decided shade of blue - you'd understand if you could see how I do my parcels - I keep Wilkos in brown parcel tape! Also I never have a box to fit, so make them from various ones put together and if you try to undo them they just fall apart! However I braved it and managed to salvage the box without too much bad language!

Enjoy!

Helen