One of those days .......

Hi again I came back for a second day and want to thank everyone who looked at my blog yesterday and especially to those who left a comment.I spent yesterday wondering if I may be talking to myself so it was lovely to see the number of views and the comments.

So today I am feeling really tired but had a plan of sorts of what I wanted to do whilst remembering to take pictures along the way. After a couple of cups of coffee I got started organising my things when my mum rang to say she and my dad were going to call round to see me. No problem I thought it is always lovely to see them and they don't usually stay long except today when I had ideas buzzing in my head they stayed for over 2 hours.

I did manage to play around with some things I started the other day using Leonie's masks and stamps which I love and have really enjoyed using.

For the backgrounds I used Pinflair Gentle Blends and a blending tool (see pic) both which I discovered before Colour Cloud and smoothies.

I am not a great stamper as I find my hands shake just as I am putting the stamp down and I have recently had surgery on my right shoulder. I found that the stamps did slide on the mask if I wasn't really careful and also using my pink stamping mat helped to reduce the smudge. I used a memento ink pad in Tuxedo Black. Next time I think I will try my new Stampeazee and see if it helps at all although I will have to be careful with positioning.

I have taken pictures twice once after the stamping and then again after I have played around using alcohol pens. I think some look better before the colouring and some maybe better after.

I did have issues where I think I used too much spray adhesive on the masks and left them on too long so the white space looked smudged in some cases and in others the surface of the card tore slightly. (I used Sheena's stamping card).

the green here is far more subtle than it looks here.

I doubt I will ever be a good photographer and the pictures are taken using my phone. I am an absolute novice with alcohol pens despite having a large quantity of them. On the create picture I used 3 shades of green and blended the result is much more subtle than in the picture where it looks alarmingly bright.

I did intend to try and finish the fleather hard drive case today but that will have to wait as I have another cup of coffee calling.

I may get a little more done later before I watch Leonie with her new stamps. I can't wait to see what she has as her first set are absolutely brilliant and a joy to use.

Hopefully I will be back with more tomorrow as I shouldn't get any interruptions. Bye for now......

Kx