New Design Team Introductions

 

Let me introduce you to Eileen Godwin.....

I retired in 2008 when I was 60, after a long career in Retail Pharmacy. I was employed by LLoyds pharmacy as a Pharmacy Manager. A rewarding but stressful job, dealing with a large staff, wonderful customers and a very demanding Head Office!

Crafting, espesially making cards became my main hobby in 2004..... a truly brilliant 'Stress Buster'. I am married with three children, all with families of their own now.

My husband and I share our home with two small crossbreed dogs that are a  total joy. They are sisters, Daisy and Holly. They are three yeardsold this year (2012) and full of energy. They love to go on 'adventures' and that keeps us fit!
I also love reading, bird / wildlife watching and I'm an 'A' Class licence holder on Amateur Radio.

Eileen has put a stunning piece together for our delight today so enjoy.......

Project By eileen Godwin

Indigo Blu Stamps, Distress Markers, Inks and a SplodgeAway Mat.

Hello,   I've had a right messy time making this card for today's theme which is ‘W’ for  'Watercolour' great fun as well!

 Using my Splodge Away Mat (more about this super piece of kit in a moment)  I applied Scattered Straw, Tea Dye, Wild Honey and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks onto some very smooth white card stock. 

The Splodge Away Mat helped me to distributed the colours evenly without any lines.... how does it work?   Read on...

Normally I would press or swipe the Blending Tool into and across my distress ink pad .
This, on occasion, would result in uneven coverage where the ink was not evenly distributed onto the ink pads surface. Especially when the pad was ‘getting on a bit’!

With a Splodge Away Mat you apply the inks directly from the ink pad onto the mat itself, then use the blending tool to ‘buff’ the ink into a wide but evenly spread area on it’s special surface.

The materials used for the Mat stops any uneven ‘lump of colour and therefore as you go across your project  with the Blending Tool it allows a quicker, easier, much smoother application of even colour.  It has become one of my 'essential' tools.

Back to today’s card.

After blending all the colours I sprinkled some water onto the distress inks surface  to get a 'splattered ' look and then dried  it with a heat gun.

The Indigo Blu Butterfly Stamps were coloured directly onto the stamp with various Distress Markers and lightly sprayed with water before stamping to give me the 'Watercolour' effect I needed.

A few dabs here and there with some white acrylic paint, utilising a small bottle top and a plastic credit card to make some lines and circles. 

Mat and layer on to a White card Blank, add a Rub on Sentiment .. Job done!

Thanks for looking today ….  I'm hoping to get some SplodgeAway Masks soon … more inky fun … can't wait!

Eileen x