I am having a catch-up on making cards at the moment, for birthdays and other occasions, which is a good excuse to use this new Venetian Gondolas stamp from Dark Room Door which Nancy kindly ordered into the shop for me. I love it! I stamped a few onto glossy postcards and coloured them in various ways to see what worked, and had done some with a very murky green canal. I had in my mind MP and Florence's photos of their recent trip, with the pastel houses, and I wanted this to be my focus, so Colin said, why not just colour the houses. So that is what I have done on this version. I then brayered a little pastel colour onto white shrink plastic and stamped the mask from the Oxford Impressions' Venezia set (well, I have held back from this favourite set for a while now!). Then I shrank it and used it as the embellishment, with a simple backdrop of one of the Crafty Individuals' patterned card blanks. Tried to be a bit restrained.
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Beautiful card! The coloured houses look fabulous! Well done Colin! xx
ReplyDeleteLove love love it. I'm hooked on Venice too. I have both dark room door sets but where did you get those oxford impressions ones from?
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Hi Kate, lovely to have a comment from you! I got the Venezia set from LB Crafts. It was quite a while ago. I use it such a lot and it stamps out beautifully every time. I see Jamie is doing Venice tonight so I am going to watch (you did that lovely Venitian clay canvas didn't you?),
ReplyDeleteLucy x
Fab gondolas stamp !
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