Designer of Dreams for Creative Expressions DT

Well it is time for  another Dt make for Creative Expressions today but before I do have you seen that Creative Expressions have a design team call...all the details can be found here. So onwards ...

Here is my make for this week, a hanging piece that could easily be adapted for a card front. So here is my make this week using the garden twist set of drawing inks :

The inks are a great selection of blue and green tones, but I wanted to play a bit with the colours..so I wondered if they could be combined with picket fence distress stain to create softer tones ... To create the background I scribbled some of the stains across my craft sheet and also swiped some picket fence stain, spritzed and the dragged my piece of mountboard through.

I then heated and dabbed more colour.....hopefully you can see some darker mottled areas where less of the picket fence was picked up.

 

Once sure this was totally dry I inked up the text/numbers piece from Wendy Vecchi set love to make art with broken china and embossed using clear detail embossing powder...( can you spot my mistake?!). I then added these gorgeous leaves from Wendy Vecchi , inked in evergreen bough. The sentiment is stamped in olive archival and clear embossed a trick I saw over at the lovely Alison's blog here.

I also randomly stamped the chicken wire stamp, such a hugely useful background stamp...Now onto the flowers. these are from Hearfellt Creations delicate aster set and make amazing blooms!

These were coloured by making a sheet of dappled cardstock with the drawing inks, randomly dipped into left overs on craft sheet and then stamped in olive archival. I could not resist adding some wire for stems and these cute bells for centres!

So make you sure you also hop over to the Creative expressions news blog, which is now reguarly updated with all the DT makes, also Creative Expressions is now on pinterest and creations are also updated on facebook. 

well have a fun and inky day!

Trace x