Clarity Cumbria - May meet!

hello lovelies - well I hope its been a beautiful day where you are ... its been glorious here and after dropping my munchkins at my mums I headed to Lindale to join the lovely Jo Rice for Mays' Clarity Cumbria. The lovely ladies and 1 gent had a great day - we did three makes - the first was a card with inside gift.

We started by masking off three pieces of card and blending the distress inks - I chose mermaid lagoon, cracked pistachio and fossilised amber. Then spritzed with water and mounted on black card.

Then I stamped the shepherds purse stamp and highlighted parts with snowflake fresco paint.

I mounted two on the cards to go inside (these were notelets - the gift) and then repeated the process with the pocket bands. Added the ribbon and butterflies and that was the first piece complete.

Next we made a card using more stamps from the shepherds purse set.

we stamped and coloured the lower layer in the form of  a wreath. The top layer was stamped on to vellum and we added clear embossing powder and heat set it. Then we cut out the shepherds purse and added it to the bottom layer with the twine. Then stamped and added the sentiment.

The final one was a quickie.

I enjoyed all of the cards!!! I enjoyed the whole day!!! Thanks ladies!!!! Thanks Jo for a fabulous day as always!

hugs rachel xx