Lovebirds.

I always admire people who make "arty" cards with inks, masks etc and generally get messy. When I try it usually ends up just being a mess!  When I received the Clarity monthly stamp one of the samples Barbara Gray had done involved a pretty pink background done with the Gelli plate.  Now I haven't got one and don't intend buying one as it's not really "my thing". However I bravely set to work with some Glimmer Mists and Cosmic Shimmer sprays, distress inks and a mask to make a background

 

 I sort of hoped that the trellis work might give the impression of an aviary/cage!  Anyway I was reasonably pleased with it so stamped the gorgeous lovebirds with Archival and coloured them with Promarkers. The sentiment is from an old Elusive Images set. What do you think?

And this week the "I Love Promarkers challenge" is "Anything Goes" so think I'll pop over there with it.

I would also like to give a warm welcome to Mary Mac who has recently become a follower.

Some Scrapping!

 

 I don't do enough scrapping and seem to only do any when I go to our small scrap club. So after seeing a challenge on UK Scrappers to use up old stash I had a go. I'm quite pleased with the result except that I've left too big a gap bewteen the two words. It looked fine when I was doing it! And there's no way I can change them as they are well and truly stuck down. I think the paper is from a DCWV stack. The letters were originally blue and yellow patterned but are now coloured with Promarkers.