Hi Folks!  Well did you manage to catch our Barbara on HOCHANDA television channel today? Stamps, Stencils and Groovi Plates!  What shows!  It is always a pleasure watching Barbara and I just love seeing what the Design Team come up with.  Such Fabulous Designs!  Fabulous Demos! What a Team!!  It was really great to get to see Barbara in teaching mode.

I  am off on Holiday in a couple of days so I thought I would show you all some of my samples that were shown on HOCHANDA today.

So first up is the Santa and Stars Groovi Plate 

For this card I 'grooved' out the Santa and Stars first.
I coloured Santa with Spectrum Noir Pencils, also a little bit of white work.  Using the Square Nested Plate I made a Frame for the artwork.  I used a Glitter Gold Gelly Roll Pen to colour the frame.  I pierced and cut out some of the bigger stars while leaving the smaller stars pierced with a grid pattern.  I decided to highlight the larger stars by painting Gold Acrylic Paint onto the red backing card. I used the Scalloped edge from the Border Plate to make the photo corners. A little bit of white work with some piercing and cutting then placing my backing card behind and just letting the corners slide through to the front.  Double sided tape was placed behind the Gold Border which was backed onto white card.  Trimmed with a gold rope design peel-off then backed onto white satin card.

Next!

I coloured A5 Parchment with Cranberry Adirondack Ink. Using 4 Groovi Plates - Classic Shape, Nested Deckle, Nested Square and Meadow grasses I embossed onto the back of the parchment.  I stamped the Verse onto copy paper then traced it onto the Parchment with white lead. I then embossed from the back. I split the verse in two so I could emboss a butterfly onto the parchment. I added some white shading to the grasses.  I used an Adirondack Pen - Cranberry to add more colour to the deckled border.  I used a fine grid to pierce the outer area between the Deckle and the Classic shape.  I pierced and cut around the edge with parchment scissors.  Once mounted onto backing card I made a butterfly to place on top.  I like the effect of the grid piercing around the edges as it makes the design curl out slightly.

A change of colour!

Now this card was very straightforward. One piece of A5 Parchment. I used 3 sizes of the Nested Deckle Edge Squares.  I then added the Stitch Line from the Border Plate. Then came the Happy Birthday (from the Happy Words Set of stamps) - Stamp onto copy paper, trace with white lead, embossed and coloured on the back. Finally adding the center part of the Circle Sprig Plate making sure I didn't go into the sentiment with my embossing tool.  I used Distress Markers to colour in the "Layers" I then pierced and snipped around the outer edge before mounting onto backing card with double sided tape.

So how many Groovi Plates did I use on this next card?

1. Stocking and Lights Plate, 2. Nested Squares Plate, 3. Netting Plate, 4. Deer Plate, 5. Santa and Stars Plate, 6. Deckled Nested Plate and finally 7. Snowflake Plate.
It sounds a lot but it was ever so quick to do.  The colouring took longer!  A mix of Spec Noir Pencils and Distress Markers for the back and for the Border I used a Sakura Pen - wink of stellar Glitter Gold and also a gelly roll pen.  The backing layers are White Satin Card, Pale Green Satin Card, Fine Gold Mesh and Green Satin Card with the Parchment on top!

And Finally!

One sheet of A5 Parchment and the Nested Deckle Edged Square Plates to create the layers first.  I then added the central design using the Bauble and Branch Border Plate and the Deer Bauble Plate.  I coloured the branch  and 2nd "layer" with Distress Marker - Forest Moss. The 3rd "layer" with Glitter Gold Gelly Roll Pen. The 4th "layer" is actually a dark green card from my stash.  I used Spectrum Noir Pencils for the rest of the colouring.  Piercing with a fine grid.
I decided to cut around the outer edge of the design with my parchment scissors just as you would with an ordinary pair - no snipping!
Double sided tape hidden behind the Gold edge and finished off with a trim of iridescent peel-off

Well that's all for now folks.  My next post will be for the Claritystamp Challenge Blog which goes live on the 1st of every month.  I did have a few more cards to show but I think I will wait to share them till I get back from Barcelona!

Thank you for popping in to see my designs, very much appreciated.

Happy Crafting!

Hugs 

Emma x

p.s.  Would like to give a big thank you to Barbara Gray from Claritystamp for giving me the chance to play  work with these lovely Parchment Embossing Plates.