Fabulous Francoise

Hi everyone, even though I don’t own very many, I have always really liked stamps designed for Woodware by Francoise Read, so I was tempted when I saw that she had designed a stamp and stencil set for the cover gift with this month’s ‘Creative Stamping’ magazine. I managed to make a couple of cards with them yesterday - here is the first one.

I cut a piece of white stamping card, and created the dotted frame by blending Scorched Timber Distress Oxide through the dotty part of the Postage Frame stencil. I then placed the other stencil over the dots and blended Antique Linen and Tea Dye Distressed Inks to form the squares and rectangles. With the stencil still in place I stamped the focal image using Portobello VFC, coloured the flowers and pocket watch using DI’s and DOX’s, then trimmed the panel close to the edges of the dotty frame. 

I cut a 6.5” x 4.5” piece of white stamping card and created a smooshed background using Distressed Oxides, then covered in random background stamping from older Francoise Read stamp sets - ‘Additions’ and ‘Garden Snail’. I matted this onto a border of brown card stock, then attached the main focal panel. I stamped an Indigo Blu sentiment onto separate card, cut out, edged with brown ink and attached. Finally I stamped 2 butterflies from the magazine set onto separate card, coloured with Paprika Elements ink then cut out and attached. I matted the finished piece onto a 7” x 5” card blank.

Stamps:  Woodware Fabulous Francoise, Additions, Garden Snail; Indigo Blu sentiment;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Tea Dye, Vintage Photo); Distress Oxide Inks (Spiced Marmalade, Barn Door, Rustic Wilderness, Scorched Timber); Lavinia Elements ink (Paprika); Versafine Clair (Portobello, Sand Dune);

Tools: Woodware Postage Frame stencil set.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

AAA Birthday #87 - For Girls

Addicted to Stamps & More #520 - Die Cuts and/or Stencils

Crafty Calendar (July) - Happy Birthday

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (July) - Use a Stencil

Daisy Chain #109 - Birthday

Krafty Chicks #827 - Birthday

NBUS #88 - Use Your Never-Before-Used Schtuff

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2627 - Anything Goes

Triple B (July) - Birds, Butterflies and/or Blooms

Word Art Wednesday #758/759 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

With hindsight I think I would have coloured my image with Distress inks rather than DOX but hey, it’s done now 🥰 In any event I’m really thrilled with my latest magazine gift - the stamps are really beautiful and the stencil definitely fills a gap in my stash. I’ll be back soon with another card using this stamp set.

Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,