Clarity Matters Blog Tutorial: A Wonky Pine

Hello hello! Grace here.

I hope this finds you safe, well and enjoying your Saturday morning so far.

We are joined this week by the incredibly talented Tina Morris, our good friend and Clarity Crafts Design Team Member. I will hand you over to our teacher for today…

Ingredients

Card Blanks 8″ x 8″ White x20 (ACC-EN-30651-88)
Card Blanks 8″ x 8″ Black x10 (ACC-CA-31744-88)
Card Blanks 7″ x 7″ White x10 (ACC-CA-31672-77)
Great Lakes Designer Paper Pack 8″ x 8″ (ACC-CA-30851-88)
Speedball Brayer
Gel Press Petites Set 1 & 3x Mega Mount 4″ x 4″ (ACC-GP-31379-XX)
Pattern Making Kit (ACC-MI-31392-XX)
Perga Liners – Combi Box (PER-CO-70063-XX)
White Uni Posca Marker Pen – PC-1MR – Ultra Fine (ACC-PE-31719-XX)
Distress Ink Pad – Picket Fence (Currently out of stock – restock in motion)
Barbara’s SHAC Scots Pine Floral Panels A5 Sq Stamp & Mask Set (STA-FL-11647-A5)
Clarity Christmas & Celebrations Words Sticker Collection (ACC-SC-30932-A5)
Roll-A-Tape Super Strong Permanent Glue Tape Runner (ACC-MS-31065-XX)
Pack Of 5 Vertical Long Mounts (ACC-MO-30564-XX)

Method

This is where we are heading…

Hello Hello. This time we are going for a little bit of a Wonky Pine. Who knew you could stamp so clearly with white onto black cards. I am stunned with the performance of the Clarity stamps with a white distress ink. What do you think?

I hope you enjoy and we would really love to see your versions on Clarity Worldwide. Let’s jump right in…

Step 1. Take a 7×7 black card blank and cut it in half, giving you two black card blanks. Use both and make two cards or have a practice on one and use the other as your original to get used to the pressure required with the white ink.

Step 2. Load up your speedball brayer with the white ink pad, and apply this to the shape using the ink from the brayer.

Step 3. Using the lace placed over the top of your black card blank, stamp through the lace with your petite gel shape 3 times. For a more masculine card use the Dotty Stencil or the scrap from punched sequins.

Step 4. Taking the square pine leaf, mounted on your 3×3 mount, load the stamp with the white distress ink.

Step 5. Stamp the two leaves opposite each other, one pointing up and one pointing down.

Step 6. Using your white posca pen (primed), colour in the open areas on the frames and leaves. You can go in several times for a whiter effect.

Step 7. Using the framer stamp from the set, frame the Scots pine square frames at the opposite side to the stamped leaf using your white ink pad, and add your white Posca as before.

Step 8. At this point you can add your chosen sentiment, I’ve chosen to put mine in the middle but it’s your art, place this where you feel it balances your work.

Step 9. Taking your green B Perga Liner pencil, follow the leaf highlighting down the underside of your pine leaf one side and the upper side of the other half of the leaf. This is just to give the pine a green hue, bringing out the colour from your designer paper. I have also highlighted the sentiment.

Step 10. Choose and cut your designer paper to size, to mat and layer. I have chosen a background that looks like it’s been splashed with paint drops. I wanted a lot of texture on my background but not too much that it deflects the beauty of the pine stamp. Finally, add your black card blank that you have cut down to 6.5 x 6.5, placing this at a wonky angle.

There you have it, a little wonky pine! Thank you for joining us for another inky arty Clarity Blog.

What a lovely step-by-step project!
Thank you, Tina, for putting this brilliant tutorial together for us. It makes it so much easier to achieve, when there’s easy to follow steps.

For those of you crafting away at home, please don’t forget to share your versions with us on Clarity Worldwide. We so love to see your versions of these cards! And sometimes they even make the Saturday Share blog too! 🙂

Everything that Tina has used in this particular project is available in a shopping list, HERE.

Let’s have a look at the week(s) ahead…

Wednesday 25th December:
10am – Christmas Greetings from Barb – Live on Facebook & YouTube
Sunday 5^th January:
3pm – 5pm – Clarity Social TV with Barb & Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube
Monday 6th January:
10am – In the SHAC with Barbara – Live on Facebook & YouTube
2pm – Clarity Social TV with Barb & Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube
Tuesday 7^th January:
10am – Groovi Tuesday with Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube
2pm – Clarity Social TV with Barb & Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube
Thursday 9^th January:
7pm – In the SHAC with Barbara – Live on Facebook & YouTube
Friday 10th January:
10am – Clarity Social TV with Barb & Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube
2pm – Clarity Social TV with Barb & Paul – Live on Facebook & YouTube

As you know, we’re winding down for Christmas, but still here to keep you company. I hope the holiday season is making you feel cosy and happy 🙂 But if it isn’t, which it so often doesn’t (for so many), go easy and take some time for yourself.

See you there!

Travel gently, friends.
Lotsa love, Grace & Tina xoxo

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