Wednesday 13 January 2016

Snap! ~ 1,2,3,4

Helena's weekly photographic meme has evolved for 2016. This year the aim is to find a visually linked set of between two and four images. The weather here has been wet and windy, not offering many photo opportunities, while I've been out and about. I looked through my archive for January and came up with these.

Four cards made with the same stamp set and an increasing number of ink colours.

























One

























Two

























Three

























Four

The various shades of green and purple were achieved by stamping the leaves several times without re-inking.

These were the cards we made in class last week. A bright start to the year.

ETA It seems my first three cards fit the bill over at Daring Cardmakers this month. "Leaf it alone!" Making leaves the star of the show, rather than a foil to a floral design.


25 comments:

Maggie said...

These are lovely Fiona and very effective. Makes me wish I was more artistic. Funny how a theme runs through one week. The patterns Helena has posted are like leaves too! What happened to your Christmas ornaments that you mentioned last week?

helena said...

lovely creative use of one stamp to provide such a lovely variety of cards

Patio Postcards said...

Beautiful cards - you are SO creative Fiona. What a great Snap collection. You really do make me want to try stamping, although if I did I'm sure I could use as a Snap - 4 of a kind mess (lol).

Cheri said...

gorgeous, as always!

Sian said...

How lovely! I always think of those colours as "Scottish" : just right for today then

Bleubeard and Elizabeth said...

I couldn't believe you didn't join WOYWW this week, but was simply delighted you stopped by. I am just now learning how to stamp, so I'll be visiting a lot, I'm sure. You stamp SO well! Those cards are wonderful, and I'm glad you reshared them here.

Karen said...

Every one of those cards is wonderful, and a perfect collection for SNAP.

Alison said...

As always your cards are beautiful! xx

Anonymous said...

beautiful cards. I love the leaf stamp.

Missus Wookie said...

Isn't it fun to see how many different looks you can create with one stamp set and a few inks? Hope the class went well :)

Jo said...

Beautiful. I'm going to try and make more cards this year!

Diana Taylor said...

Wow, what gorgeous cards, I love the leafy prints and the deep purple of the top one, it also looks great with the green. Very stylish and elegant - and I want to do some printing now!!
Thanks so much for stopping by earlier, I hope you have a great week,
Diana #23

Jane said...

love the cards. I'm going to try and make my cards in advance this year to stop the panic and actually enjoy making them!

Zsuzsa Karoly-Smith said...

Beautiful, Fiona! My first impression was that you printed the leaves instead of stamping them, you know with real leaves? It has that organic feel to it. Brilliant! Thanks for sending me the link!

Maria Ontiveros said...

Love how the color unifies them as well.
Rinda

Susanne said...

What a nice set of cards.

Miriam said...

These are so lovely Fiona and a great collection for Snap! Stamping & I don't see eye to eye so I love to see it done well :)

Dawn said...

Wow, such a beautiful collection. Love the green and purple combination. Thanks for joining in at Daring Cardmakers. xxx

KraftyKaren said...

These are fab - love how you come up with so many ideas from one stamp set

Jo said...

Beautiful cards - I love how they are all so different, lovely colours :)

Svenja said...

They are all beautiful - and indeed fit the challenge perfectly! I like the clean and simple elegance of the first ones but also the sunny fourth. Thank you so much for sharing them with the Daring Cardmakers this week!

Melissa said...

Lovely cards!

Natty said...

These are all gorgeous cards - just love the effect of the ink and those colours! Lush!
Thanks for playing along with the Daring Cardmakers this week!

Morti said...

Nice cards, lady! Even if you didn't WOYWW this week..... ;-D Thanks for stopping by my Blog!

Anonymous said...

Love your last card. Such a happy card.