Mid Month at We Love Stamping

We're half way through July (can you believe it) so its mid challenge reminder at We Love Stamping where the theme is Summertime or if you prefer you can always use the A/G option.

There are two prizes of  Lavinia stamps this month, just remember to include real stamping on the front of your entry and give a brief details of products/stamps used.

For my card I inked my card base with DIs and then built up my Summer meadow using

 Lavinia  Forest Flower, Wild Flower, Silhouette Foliage Set and Orchard Grass along with Bumble and Hum.  I coloured the Forest flowers with Glitter gel pens and the bees with Intense pencils adding Diamond Dust stickles to their wings.

The rest of the DT have some lovely inspiration for you so please pop over to WLS.

A couple of challenges for my card

Beautiful Blossoms

Thanks for calling in. Avril x

 

Animals at Try it on Tuesday

Our new challenge at Try it on Tuesday is Animals - Real or Imaginary.

Although my Highland Cow is real, they don't usually look like this, but I have seen a lot of multi coloured images around. 

The verse I've used is from Inkylicious and I thought it went so well with my fun cow.

The rest of the Design Team have some great samples to inspire you, so please pop over to TioTs main page where you'll also find all the challenge details.

Avril x 

 

Summertime at We Love Stamping

 It's the first Sunday of the month which means it's time for a new challenge at We Love Stamping where the  theme is Summertime.  We have t wo prizes of Lavinia stamps and watercolours.

Please remember there must be stamping on the front of your entry as well as brief details of the stamps/products used to be eligible

For my card I've used a Gelli print background and then stamped Moments Like These and stamped the two poppies again, coloured them with Inktense pencils and added some Star Dust stickles for a little sparkle.  To finish the little woodland scene I stamped the  Silhouette Foliage set.

The rest of the DT have some great samples to show, so please pop over to the main challenge page.

Thanks for calling in. Avril x

In the Garden at TioT

The new challenge this fortnight at Try it on Tuesday is In the Garden, so anything that's Garden related.

An obvious choice for me - Flowers.  I've used the floral stamp from Tim Holtz Dearly Departed on a Gelli plate background.  I stamped the image in Versafine Clare Shady Lane ink and then in black ink on white card, fussy cutting the flowers and painting with Inktense pencils, then adhering over the stamped panel.  I also added a little extra colour to the leaves with pencils.

The rest of the team have some lovely samples to show, so please pop over to the main challenge page for all the details.

The craft room has been somewhat neglected over the last couple of weeks as Teddy has had tonsils and adenoids removed and grommets placed in both ears, fortunately it was done as a day case, but there were extra school runs and Grandma days for Lucy so Laura could spend time with Teddy, poor little sole, he just couldn't be bothered with his playmate who just wanted to play and fuss over him.  Last week he was much better, so it was Grandma days and school pick ups when Laura went back to work - was I glad when the weekend came!

It's back to normal this week and their first Sports Day on Wednesday, which is something nice to look forward to.

Thanks for calling in.

Avril x

 

Mid month Sports and Hobbies at WLS

It's mid challenge reminder time at We Love Stamping where the current theme is Sports and Hobbies or if you prefer, you can also go with Anything Goes.

I've used some old Artistic Outpost stamps called The Gold Club for my card.

I started with an inky background then stamped my vintage golfer, he was then covered with a mask before stamping the collaged background and a couple of the quotes from the same set.

The rest of the team have some great samples to inspire you so please visit the main challenge page where you will also find details of the prize of Visible Image sports themed stamps. Just remember to include some real stamping on the front of you entry.

Avril x 

Flying High at Try it on Tuesday

We're Flying High with our new challenge at Try it on Tuesday this fortnight. Lots of choice and I did have quite a few different ideas but ended up going for butterflies.

My tag started as a piece of sprayed card that had been in the 'backgrounds' box for a while.  It already had some random script stamping but wasn't big enough to make a card, so I cut it to a tag shape.  My butterfly was cut from a TH Bigz die and matching EF, I coloured it with similar pink shades and then used Gilding wax to highlight the raised areas and dabbed on some gold stickles. To add some interest I cut and coloured some TH Wildflowers but felt as if it still needed something, so used the TH Wildflower stencil and white texture paste as a base for flowers and butterfly.  I added a sentiment which came free with a magazine.

The rest of the Design Team have some great inspiration, so please pop over to TioTs, where you will find all the challenge details.

Some challenges for my card-  

  Tag-along and ATCs - Add some Script

  Neglected Stuff challenge - Butterfly and. Wildflowers dies

Thanks for calling in, Avril x

 

Sports and Hobbies at We Love Stamping

 Good morning and welcome to a new challenge at  We Love Stamping where I'm pleased to say I have been asked to be part of the wonderfully creative Design Team.

The theme for this month's challenge is Sports and Hobbies - or you can always follow the Anything Goes option.  

My little Dancer is one of the new Andy Skinner stamps, she was stamped with Versafine onto a gelli print and I've used the bleach technique to bleach out her skin, which was then coloured with pencils. I've added a little more colour to her dress and wings and then applied Stardust stickles over the wings, which of course doesn't show in the photo.

The rest of the Design Team have some great inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main challenge page where you will also find details of the fabulous prize of 2 stamps from Visible Image.  Just remember you must have some real stamping on the front of your project as well as brief details of the products used.

Some challenges for my cards - Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

                                                    Simply Clean and Simple - A/G option

Avril xx