Saturday, 27 September 2014

Quick journal page - with new stamps!

Last week at Ally Pally, Leandra had some new stamps designed by Ellen Vargo which although we were allowed to buy, we had to promise not to show until they'd been officially launched.  Well, when I was out at Kew today (see pics here!) I saw a tweet that said they were launched.. so I had a play tonight, in my A5 journal.


I did take a close up but even though it's rotated the right way round in my folder, when I upload it, it turns round...
I used Guacamole on the page first, then added some stencilled little circles in Hint of Mint, but they didn't show up well, so painted a thin layer of Sage over the whole page, then added some more stencilled circles, before stamping the flowers from the new stamp set (there is a third one, a tulip, too) and coloured them with translucent Frescos - Zesty Zing, Yellow Submarine,Tango and Cherry Red. I stamped the coneflower on tissue and coloured it with the same paints, then cut it out - just the petals - and glued the top only, over the image on the journal page.  The grasses at the foot are from JoFY25 and at the top, from ELB10 .  The sentiment is from the new Ellen Vargo set.

So pleased to have been able to share these flowers with you!

6 comments:

sam21ski said...

Fabulous xx

craftimamma said...

I'm rather envious of you having these, lol and your page looks wonderful.

Hugs
Lesley Xx

massofhair said...

Getting a set next week, these are beautiful flowers, great journal page! :-) xxx

Brenda Brown said...

Great page Helen, love the design and colours and that's a great quote to go with it. Xxx

jojo79 said...

Great use of Ellen's new stamps x

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

Even though I'm not much of a stamper, these are simply adorable. Truly lovely.