Spring blossoms

It's mid month time at Tag-Along (and ATC's) where we are following my theme of Love and Romance or Anything Goes. Whilst upcoming Valentines Day seems an obvious choice, we are heading into the Wedding season so that's what I have gone with for my tag above. The Church and Blossoms are TRR, a tag cut twice and an aperture created, Pan Pastels to create the background with some greenery stamped using a Lavinia Ivy image. Another of our Granddaughters is getting married in April so this just might come in useful. Daisychain Challenges would like to see dies used so linking up there and Heartquest Tags and Shapes Cards.

A matching envelope for my ATC which uses the smaller Rose on the A&C stamp set I used at the beginning on the month and some hearts using a stencil, texture paste and red glitter. Would like to enter this one at Heartsquest Celebrations challenge

Finally a Christmas card for a couple of challenges, a wreath made using the Spin tool and a good number of Lavinia stamps. ABC Christmas challenge is A for Anything Christmas and B for Bright so hope this fits the bill. And at Christmas all year Round they want A and/or B, I've got Acorns and Berries, finally also linking to Merry Little Christmas.

As assortment of challenges

Morning Peeps, Jo has a new challenge at Christmas Kickstart and theme is Pink Christmas, I also need to pop to Snippets Playground as I've not entered yet, so cards for both.

Above hopefully there is sufficient pink to fit the theme, the background is Lavinia Flower Petals stencil, the partial wreath is stamped with Fairy Catkins, the small Mouse sprinkling stardust is from Double Trouble and doing a balancing act with his umbrella next to him is Thistlewhisk. Stencil Fun challenge has the option of Four Legs, my little chaps above fit that brief.

This is one I made last August for a good friends first wedding anniversary so safe to blog now. We share a mutual love of Poppies so seemed appropriate to use Penny Black 40-447 Poppy Gems. I don't I don't have a photo of snippets but all the flowers were stamped, some a couple of times onto offcuts, coloured and cut out and from memory I also used an oddment of card to emboss a central circle and sentiment. So popping to the Playground with this one and hoping there are Poppies in Ellies garden, her new challenge Garden Party 11 has just started.

Lastly but by no means least, a Winter scene using a mixture of Lavinia and Inkylicious stamps along with lots of snow and glitter for Fab and Funky's Winter Wonderland theme. Also Try it on Tuesday has the theme of It's Cold Outside. The them at Cardz4Galz is Countryscape and Time Out is All that Glitters

Butterflies and Birds

Like buses with yet another post as we welcome you to the New Year at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations with Mervi's theme of 'Something New' and one I chose of I spy something beginning with B (nothing to do with my name, it's just a letter that always seems popular offering lots of options!). We have prizes from Tonic and Whimsy at the first and Visible Image as the second.

My 'B' is for Butterfly using Visible Image Live Life and Butterfly Ink stamp and coordinating stencil, one I've had for ages but used little so as it's the prize this month at SS it seemed an obvious choice. Various colours of Elements brushed through the stencil to get a rainbow effect and the Butterfly and sentiment (also VI) stamped in black Clair. Girlz Rebel Challenge is exactly the same so entering there and Triple B, Birds and/or Butterflies and Blooms.

My WLS share uses a new to me Lavinia Bird sticker stencil, Elements brushed through the stencil same as above and with the stencil still in place Feather stamped over. I used the same inks to colour the border of a base layer which I stamped over with Magical Mist. I'm linking this one to AAA Birthday where it's Winter Birthdays for the theme. Crafty Calendar is also Something New as is Sweet Stampin' so entering there.

Winter Robin

Good morning to you all, our first challenge of the New Year at Allsorts and Helen has selected the theme of Winter Animals. We have a prize of Christmas Robin stamp and matching dies, in fact exactly the same as what I've used above from Visible Image.

I used a Lavinia tree and twigs to build up the snowy scene, stamped some Holly into the tree, then stamped, coloured and cut out the Robin and large Holly using offcuts raised on foam pads to finish the Winter scene. The word Winter is AALL and Create.

A second share using Penny Black Woodland Pair, I kept the card very simple as it's such a beautifully detailed image, an inky background to set the scene and the image stamped and placed inside an arched card and aperture.

New Year, new challenges

A somewhat belated post, as is usual with me, my post for today was scheduled weeks ago, but in it's wisdom blogger didn't publish. I only just realised and for whatever reason the post wouldn't refresh and publish, so starting over with a shortened version. 

We have new challenges today at Tag-Along (and ATC's) where it's my turn to choose the theme which is an early nod to Spring Weddings, Valentines and other romantic occasions. At Moving Along With The Times it's all about Stencils and Dies and as usual AG at Love to Craft bi monthly challenge.

My Tag-Along tag and pocket above uses AALL and Create Roses and words. Linking this one at Hearsquest shaped card and tags.

This one uses all Lavinia stamps for Love to Craft and I would like to enter Lost Coast's current Winged Things challenge.

At MAWTT I've gone with stencils and Lavinia stamps.

Rudolph Snippets

Morning everyone, I hope you all had an enjoyable Christmas Day. We spent it across the garden at eldest Daughters house, just eight of us and today I'm hosting 14, think I drew the short straw! 

Puppy Fleur is a darling and growing nicely. Despite her rotten start in life she's putting on weight and so bright and alert, dry at night but likes to let us know she's awake well before 6am. Rosa four is so good with her and almost taken over the Mummy role, indulges her in lots of play and teaching her the ropes. A couple of photos.

So being up well before dawn the chance to write a quick post before I head to the kitchen to get stuck in. Two cards for a couple of favourite challenges and thanks to Helen and Miss's Di and Sarn for all their hard work running both challenges for another year at Rudolph Days and the Snippets Playground. Would like to enter this one at Creative Knockouts Tis the Season and Ellie's Garden Party.

Above a simple floral wreath using all Lavinia stamps which on this occasion I'm not listing individually so I can get this posted and the necessary link ups done.

A while back I treated myself to some new unbranded dies from Amazon and this one came about on discovery of an age old mountain of Bazzil and bag of offcuts left from 12x12 sheets. The backing is MCS printed onto Premium Pure Print and the word is PB, a border die but I just used the word cut twice from the same Bazzil snippets.

Scenic at Allsorts

Good morning to you all, we have a new challenge at Allsorts where Lynn would like us to Create a Scene, as always theres the Anything Goes option as well. We have some super goodies from Lavinia to be won. 

So naturally my scene was created with Lavinia stamps along with Pan Pastels and Elements, I like to think a little nod to early Spring on a frosty morning with a flurry of snow. I created Snowdrops with Fairy Bell's and the scene built up with Street Lamp, Fir Tree, Small Trees and in the foreground Gideon the Fox. Four Seasons challenge is Anything Winter.

I made this in a couple of different colourways some months back but never blogged so sharing today. Zemira remain my favourite Lavinia Fairy stamp, I say Fairy as she doesn't have wings but she's so elegant and definitely magical. A Gelli Plate background and an old stencil to create a distant City. She's releasing a kaleidoscope of Butterflies, two small Fairies are Jaylar and a Fairy Forager and to frame the scene Leaf Spray, Fairy Buttercups, Bluebell and Vine Flourish and of course some sparkle. A final one for Hearsquest Fantasy.

To finish a couple of Tags made with a variety of Lavinia stamps to go on hampers I've made up as gifts along with a reminder that's there's still a week to enter our December challenge at Tag-Along (and ATC's) challenge, there a lovely tag die set to be won. I'd like to add this at the Alphabet Challenge - R is for Ribbon and Creative Knockouts - 'Tis the Season and Sweet Stampin' It's Christmas.

This will probably be my last post before Christmas, so I would like to wish you all A Very Happy Christmas and my thanks for all your support, visits and encouragement. You have all helped no end during what has been a very up and down year for me.