Neurographic Art Card

 I promise I'm not aiming to bore you with my latest discovery but just wanted to share a card made using this form of art as a background.  I started with a piece of card left over from a recent experiment using spray starch and shaving foam and just doodled using dark brown with a touch of black pen.  This was then layered up with some toning yellow card and a base layer of black; adding a large sentiment and there you have it a quick card.  That is if you don't count the doodling time 😉😉. I think it was Paul Klee who recommended 'taking a line for a walk' and that's what this is I suppose - very relaxing exercise anyway.

 We must have had a sprinkling of rain overnight but it doesn't seem to have cooled things down much!!

Something Different

 Something different to share today - not a card but just a page from my sketchbook inspired by the talented SARN who introduced us to Neurographic Art in one of her recent posts.  There is a link in her post to a short YouTube video and you will find other videos if this takes your interest.  Finding it a bit too hot at the moment to do anything too strenuous and just hating the inactivity of just sitting I thought I'd give it a go and this is my very first effort - nothing brilliant but at least it kept me occupied for a while and was an enjoyable exercise.  I very much enjoy Zentangle and to my mind this art seems slightly less disciplined - what do you think?  Why not have a go if you are sitting in the shade with a glass of something cold but still feel the need to be doing something with your hands.

Sunflower Ted

 Looking through some of my stash I came across two identical images so I thought I'd take the opportunity of turning them into a card using the technique which seems to be called either 'lattice frame' or 'eclipse style lattice'.  The usual way seems to be putting slivers of foam tape on the back of the frame to lift it away from the background but this particular die has quite narrow 'bridges' so what I did was to cut one from the image and then another one in some white card so that I could adhere them both together before layering over the whole image.  I hope this makes sense - always difficult to explain some techniques 😉😉.  I stopped at the single layer because I was thinking of the postage if the card were to be thicker but I think maybe two layers of white frame under the frame image would probably be preferable visually.  As is often the case this one looks better for real than in the photo.  Finally backed the whole thing with a layer of grey and cut a piece of toning background paper to fit the card.  A birthday sentiment and that's it for today's card.  It still seems to be wall to wall sunshine in the South.

Images - from a pad by Lily of the Valley which I've had for some years
Lattice Frame - unbranded die
Sentiment - dies from Stampin' Up

Two Challenges

 Today's card has been made with two challenges in mind.  Firstly for the Snippets Playground where as usual we are encouraged to use up our snippets.  Apart from the card blank, everything else on this one came from my Snippet mountain, as you can see from this picture.

I trimmed a white snippet to be slightly smaller than the card and then used a selection of  snippets for the other components.  The dragonfly was cut from a snippet of glimmer card which had been coloured using alcohol inks.  After assembly this had a little bit of gilding flake added.  Some stencil work was done on the white background and the sentiment was cut from a sheet which I'd composed and printed using Word.

I'm also visiting the Allsorts Challenge with this one because their theme this time is **Birthdays or anything goes**.

Dies - dragonfly from Gummiapan, Circle motif from Stampin' Up (retired)
Sentiment Dies - from Stampin' Up and Crafts Too (presscut)
Stencil from Lavinia