I hope you are all doing well out there in craftland......lots of things happening and not all good, so I do wish everybody well!
Last Sunday and Monday had our wonderful Barbara Gray and Paul Church show off the beautiful 'Twas the Night' collection of Groovi Plates on Hochanda.tv.....a marathon of Groovi!
So my first post for you this month of July is to show off my Design Samples using the Groovi Parchment System and the release of the very lovely 'Twas the Night' Groovi Plates.
I used the straight Piercing grid to create a border with the dots adding a fake stitch and colouring it with Red Berry Ink.
Using the Straight Grid to make the border and shades of Blue Faber Castell Pencils to colour the frame and crib.
I have used Tinta Gold Ink to colour the bauble and the first word. I then used shades of Brown Faber Castell Pencils to colour the frame adding Sakura Clear Star to the front of the frame. I then cut around the frame with my parchment scissors (no piercing and snipping this time).
I have used promarkers for the Border (they blend wonderfully on parchment), Faber castell Pencils, promarkers for the boy, cat etc Blending them together to get the colours deeper.
I have used Tinta Gold Ink to apply to the corner flourish which is the ribbon from the Bauble plate from this set.
Out again with the Tinta Gold Ink, adding it to the Lettering and Punctuation. Also to the stars. The reindeer is decoupaged.
I used the Diagonal and Straight Grids to create a border before snipping out with Parchment Scissors.
For this card I made it in two pieces. I used the Nested Squares Baby Plate to create the frame around Santa, painted the Tinta Gold, Coloured with a Promarker.
I then used the new Green Coloured Parchment to make a frame.
The design was made with the help of the Straight Grid. At the inner corners I pierced and cut a diagonal line so that the Santa piece could slip underneath creating a photo corner. (see the triangle of dots)
For this card I took another element from the Bauble to add to the border frame. I used Red Berry Promarker to colour the outer piece and using Dorso Oil I gently blended just so that it would spill over to the inner frame slightly. Promarkers were used to colour in all the toys and body of the sleigh, with some Tinta Gold to add some bling! 
For this piece I used a Signo Gold Gel Pen to add colour. I only used one corner of the Universal Framer Plate to make my border. I used the Typeface Alphabet from the Framer to add in Merry Christmas and highlighted them with the gel pen. Rudolf was coloured using Faber Castell Pencils with a touch of Gel Pen to his harness. I then pierced and cut around the inside edge of the moon and Rudolf and the outside edge of the border before mounting onto some very pretty gold coloured vellum from my stash. 
This is my favourite card. I used the Nested Square Baby Plate around the Fireplace and Verse, created a pierced border before adding a double lined border from the Larger Nested Square Groovi Plate. I coloured the outside border with Red Berry Promarker and used a combination of Promarkers and Faber Castell Pencils blended together to colour the Fireplace, Santa and cat. Gold Gel Pen for the mice and candelabra.
The fireplace and cat is also decoupaged!! I had to cut up some clear sticky pads into tiny bits for this! But I did have fun!
For this Last card I just wanted to highlight the Universal Framer so I kept it as simple as I could. I began with the Framer then added a Single Square from the Nested Squares. Added bits of stars from the Star Groovi Plate. I then added in the sentiment using elements from the Sentiment Border, and new arrival baby plates set. I used Faber Castell Pencils to shade in the swirls channels of the Framer. I then pierced and cut out some spaces on the Universal Framer.
This was then cut out with a craft knife, edged in silver gel pen and mounted onto some handmade paper. I then added a border with silver Peel-offs (mitred at the corners to give a better finish)
You will have probably noticed that I am missing one of the set.....the stockings plate.......my bad......I really thought that I had finished it and sent it off to Barbara......
I had a workshop on Saturday, rested and watched Barbara and Paul on Sunday (and Monday) Went for a walk by the river (was out there all day) and when I came home I decided to get cracking on tidying up my craft room....(bomb had hit it)......found the stocking lineart that I had started, sat between the layers of my coloured parchment......oooops!!
So I shall just have to get it finished.....not sure when as we have Maria Simms coming up on Hochanda very soon and work to be finished for that, then more workshops to organise......all good fun.
I hope you enjoy looking at my samples. The designs on these plates were all drawn by the talented and lovely Barbara Gray herself!
If you would like to see the other Design Samples made by the rest of the Design Team (including the new stamps and stencils) then pop on over to Claritystamp and click on Artroom......
You won't be disappointed!!
Why not pop in and see the full collection of Groovi Plates while you are at it!
click on the Orange Groovi banner at the top right of my page and it will take you right there!
Happy Crafting!
Hugs
Emma x
