Musical notes and Snippets celebration

Morning Peeps, it's mid month inspiration time at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where our themes are CAS and Romance along with the usual A/G options.

For my card above which I hope is CAS(ish) I used Lavinia Basil and Bibi, Musical Notes and Glory stencil simply stamped in black over a stencilled base.

It's the 500th challenge over at the Snippets Playground and Misses and Di and Sarn are marking the milestone with a special challenge and the mandatory theme of Celebration and it's a must to include a photo of your snippets. My celebration is a new baby, in this case a new Great Granddaughter due any day now to Granddaughter Azaria. 

All stamps are Lavinia, the little boat is Liberty, the flowers Bell Flower, masked to stamp about three quarters and masked again to extend the branch around the circle and more flowers paper pieced here and there using Mini Bell Flower. I also stamped the buttons again and paper pieced to add some dimension. A die cut Baby word and finito. It was suggested I enter this into the Beautiful Blossoms challenge, so thought I would do just that!

 Below a photo of my snippets. 

My romance share is one I made for a crafty friends 50th Wedding Anniversary before Christmas but not blogged so thought it fitted the bill. It uses AALL and Create Elongated Hearts (156) and Shadowed Heart (896) and a pretty old sentiment which I think is from Clarity. The heart and sentiment are embossed with detail gold EP and die cut numbers.

Have a good Tuesday one and all.

Herbs and Delights in Blue

Morning Peeps, a new challenge at Allsorts where Liz has selected the theme Shades of Blue as well as the usual A/G option. We have two super prizes of Lavinia Stamps so I thought I had better put ink to stamps and created a couple using the new Herbs and Delights and Stickers Stencils and Labels Bundle that have been idling on my desk too long.

For the top one (Gardening by night!) I used Elements Della Blue and Dark Denim to create some clouds and shade the edges. Versafine Clair Twilight for the stamping along with Artic and Very Peri. This fits in nicely with Lavinia's Humble Abode challenge, when I showed Hubby the comment was "a long way home for those little legs", rarely do his comments reflect what's actually been done to create the card!

For this one the same inks as above plus Versamark and white EP for the Thyme along with one of the blues from the new Mica Minerals for the words. If you've not tried any of the Sticker Stencils and there's quite a collection now, I urge you to give them a go, so easy to use and they do maintain their adhesion which I was sceptical about initially.

One more which is for the current Path of Positivity challenge, not a Valentines this time, but with a positive sentiment which like the stamps used to build up the scene is from Lavinia.

Happy weekend all and as always my thanks for your visit.

Fairies in the garden of delights

Morning to you all, another just because post with a couple of shares. Not a lot of mojo going on this week, my diabetic meds have changed and sugars a bit all over, but managed these two. But do need to get more productive as a delivery of new Lavinia goodies arrived, rather quirky, fun and different, check them out here, you just might be tempted.

Above for the current Snippets Playground using various AALL and Create stamps and snippets, along with a few TRR springs of foliage onto a background stencilled with crackle texture paste. I even remembered a photo of my snippets. It was a tad cold in the treehouse this week so I've hidden a bottle of something 'spirited' in my bag for those who are up for it.

The card below is for the new Path of Positivity challenge which started this week, the focus this year is the Unexpected, this month it's send a Valentines to someone not expecting it. I usually only make them for DT work so I decided to make one for GGrandaugter Margo, three and a half. She was fascinated watching me make Fairy cards recently, she doesn't quite understand the Fairy concept yet so this one might help guide her towards GG's (yep, that's what she calls us both and nothing to do with the horses) world of fantasy.

I used Lavinia stamps Fairy Chain (part of), Leaf Creeper, Fairy Bugs, mini stamps Leaf, Single Heart and Group Hearts. I lightly inked a heart shape stencil, stamped around it and then three of the Fairies using a mixture of Versafine Clair inks and a little sentiment, wood mounted and years old, I think Art Impressions.

Have a good weekend.

A February Rose

The first Sunday of the month means new challenges at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where our themes are CAS as selected by Faith and Romance (which I think I may have selected) with prizes from Lavinia Stamps and AALL and Create

I warned yesterday that AALL and Create Rosy Daze (1251) would be popping up again, this time in red, Frayed Frames (26) cut in white and black, then for the outer frame I used the border dies in the same set and extended to create a larger mat, the hearts from the same set as yesterday and the background stencil Rosy Posy (138).

This one using Lavina's lovely Large Humming and one of the Bees from Bumble and Hum stamped into circles created with a glue pen and Gilding Tilsen. Colouring done with Posca sparkle pens, some gold splatters and word from Bumble Words.

Today is also the day to showcase our Card Chain Challenge exchange cards and for once I've got the date right! This is the one I sent to Dagmar in Poland following the colour palette of Walnut, Lavender and Jade along with Cat options. A gelli plate oval, all stamps are Lavinia and the strooms one of their new stickers. I received a lovely card from my blogging and DT friend Carol.

Romance and Music

Morning Peeps, a new challenge at Allsorts where Gail is our host and her theme is Romance and/or Music along with the usual A/G. Our prizes come from AALL and Create.

I've used one of the beautiful new floral stamps from Abs at AALL and Create called Rosy Daze (1251) along with Roadway Vistas die (48) which I cut twice to provide a shadow effect and placed onto a black card base. Several random worker stamps and little hearts from Heart marks the Spot (46) also cut in different colours to reflect the frame and base, the Rose coloured with Ecoline pens and a matching envie.

Many thanks for your visits, I'll be back tomorrow and this Rose just might be popping up again.

Snippets and Rudolph Days

Morning Peeps, this is a just because post as are the cards I'm sharing for the Snippets Playground and Rudolph Days, it was so nice to create cards just for the fun of it. Though I would also share one following the current Close to Nature theme at Allsorts as we are at the midway point there.

Miss Di has thrown in the optional them at the Playground of Love is in the Air so I've gone with that using soft lilac colours, AALL and Create Elongated Hearts stencil (156) and Crocus (624) which I've given a coat of crackle glaze. The sentiment is from my own Moments set available here. 

Here's my snippets and I was mega frugal as only had one sheet of the lilac so gutted the largest mat after cutting down from the A4 sheet to get the smaller mat for the Crocus and die cut the heart from inside that. Was thinking the optional theme might allow a clandestine game of kiss chase, whose up for it?

It's the first Rudolph Days challenge of the year and above my share. My card was made before Christmas as it was created especially for a blogging friend who is a book lover. It uses Lavinia Wizardry, Luka, Fairy Crook, Arch of Angles plus several mini stamps to build up the scene.

And my Close to Nature card, fields, sky, flora and a Hare along with a Fairy who I know doesn't actually fit into the Nature category so a bit of artistic licence. The background was built up with Pan Pastels then stamping with Josie who is one of my favourite Lavinia Fairies,  Celestial Tree, Woodland Hare, Orchard Grass, Snow Shrub and Tree Hives.

Happy weekend all and many thanks for your visits.

Close to Nature

Morning Peeps, a new challenge at Allsorts which I am hosting, it's the usual A/G along with the theme of 'Close to Nature'. We have three super prizes of A5 stamp sets from AALL and Create.

Your comments, mails and cards following my last post were so kind and appreciated, thank you all.

It's a bit of a lengthy post as I also have my mid month shares for We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations so I'll try and keep the blurb limited.

For the top card I've used A&C's new Polygon (56) die, patience needed is all I'll say and not ideal for those with dodgy dexterity but I got there in the end! The Butterflies are from Wiggle and Dance (1174) and the rub ons in the panels Cultural Gems (16).

I used one of the older A&C sets for this one Wire Birds (394) plus a couple of worker stamps for the squiggles. It's out of stock at A&C but if you hunt round there are some good deals to be had at some stores. A brayered background using Oxides, the bird and feathers cut out to decoupage and some twine wrapped around.

Above a share for the current Lavinia challenge 'Blue Hues', a Gelli Plate circle, Quinn sitting on Vine Branch having a chat with Small Pixie Fairy. Worker stamps Leaf Creeper, Group Poppies and Maple Leaf and Faerie Spells stamped third generation. There's a liberal helping of glitter on the wings and hair although you would never know from the photo.

Above for WLS using AALL and Create Inflatably Awesome (1143), Red Wine rub ons (10) and Heart Marks the Spot (46). As colouring in required not stamps I would choose if buying, but given them my best shot.

Again AALL and Create, this an A4 stamp set called Clocks and Flowers (558) which is still available from several stores and at decent prices. I would like to enter this at The Path of Positivity challenge, the optional theme is Embrace the Unexpected so I think this will have to follow the A/G route.