Over the Rainbow

Morning Peeps so time for a new challenge at Allsorts, this week Kath would like us to use  'Any three colours of the Rainbow'. Our winner will receive a £15 store voucher from a new sponsor Pearlywinks who have their own range of beautiful stamps. Further down a couple of my shares from my post over at the CB blog here.

Before I move onto todays creations, a heads up that a new challenge is starting on 5th May. It will be monthly and run by Zoe who I've known for many years, she is looking for Design Team members who enjoy varying styles of craft which is reflected in the fab name River of Creativity. You can find out all about it here and even grab the badge to help spread the word.

Onto to my creations and rare for me no stamping other than inspirational quotes from my CB Life is so much Better set. I succumbed to some new stencils from Sweet Poppy a few weeks ago so gave them a good airing making a batch of cards for one of my DIL's who likes CAS cards. Both were inked with Oxides through the stencils, then once dried I replaced the stencil and applied a coat of translucent paste. The colours of the top one look more pink in my photo but it's Wilted Violet, Mustard Seed and Mowed Grass for Violet, Yellow and Green from the Rainbow.

Following exactly the same process but this time using Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Mowed Lawn, picking out Yellow, Orange and Green from the Rainbow.

And as promised my CB shares, all details over on the blog here.

As always, my appreciation for your visits and words of encouragement.

 

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Down by the stream

Morning Peeps, it's mid month time at We Love Chocolate Baroque and Stamping Sensations. Prizes at both challenges this month are from Chocolate Baroque. I'm also linking to the current Butterfly Challenge, been far too long as I don't really enter challenge these days but try to make an exception for this one and just happened to have something to fit the current requirements. 

I also thought I would share a few photos of some of our Orchidaceae, or Orchids to most of us as they are coming back into flower beautifully at the moment. Some 20 or so varieties and colours winter in the conservatory which seems to suit them and where hubby nurtures them, then I find them appearing throughout the house as he re-homes them when they come back into bloom.

So I have three shares for you and the top one is my SS creation using Lavinia stamps for our Fantasy and Magical theme. I started with the oversize sun/moon, built up the background with Oxides and then stamped everything with Versafine black.

My WLCB mid month shares are fairly simple, Daffodils and Bluebells the first with a bit of background stamping and the second in a fancy die cut frame with coordinating DP which I think is some pretty old G45.

And here's my Butterfly Challenge entry following the colours of Lilac, Lawn Green and Lemon (although that looks more green) and the requisite Butterfly.

Thanks for your visits and kind words.

 

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Flora Musica

Morning Peeps so time for a new challenge at Allsorts, this week Wendy has set the theme of 'Anything Goes with an option to add ribbon, to tie in with our sponsor Crafty Ribbons. 

Yet again it's a Chocolate Baroque Hochanda creation, I tend to make in the region of 18/20 pieces for each show so I always have a surplus after doing my posts over at the CB blog and they come in very handy for other DT work. The focal element of this one is the beautiful Flora Musica coloured with Distress Markers and I made up the side panel with several CB worker stamps using the same colour DI's. And an organza ribbon to finish.

Happy weekend all.

 

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Wish, Dream, Hope

Morning Peeps, it's Saturday which means a new challenge at Allsorts and this week Tracy would like to see 'Butterflies, Birds and Bees'. Our lucky winner will receive a £15 voucher from a new sponsor Helping Hands Crafts, do follow the link and pop over to their website.

I also have my shares from my post this week over at the Chocolate Baroque blog which you will find here.

As is often the case, my shares are more Chocolate Baroque creations for recent Hochanda shows, the Butterflies are from various sets, two are from Just Butterflies and afraid the other appears to have been miss-filed so I need to spend time finding which set it's from. The sentiment is from my Life is so much Better stamp set, I do seem to be rather over using these but I created them with positivity in mind, so using them was rather the whole purpose! There are some more in the pipeline.

This second one uses Song Thrush which comes in two versions, I have used the silhouette one. I stamped it in versafine black and embossed with Speckled Egg embossing enamel then a die cut frame in coordinating colours.

Time has caught up with me as I realise that as well as yesterday post here over at Chocolate Baroque I forgot to share my work from a few days ago so they are below as well along with appropriate link to that post.

And these three are on a different post found here along with full details.

Have a good weekend everyone and as always my thanks for your visits and words of encouragement which are always received with appreciation.

 

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Spring Fairies and Flowers and a garden visitor

It's the first Sunday of the month so time for our new challenges at We Love Chocolate Baroque and Stamping Sensations. Our themes for this month are 'Springtime and 'Fantasy and Magical'. Prizes come from Chocolate Baroque and and Be Creative and at both prizes are to the value of £25.

Using my recently acquired triptych die which I am rather linking, I inked the three sections with Oxide sprays, dabbing off the excess to soften the finish. I then stamped a whole collection of CB spring stamps, all are listed above my work on the WLCB challenge bog. Finally some stencilled circles and the sentiments added.

My Stamping Sensations piece was a Birthday card for a friend whose Birthday was at the end of March. She loves all things inky and Lavinia as much as I do so I built up the scene with a good number of Lavinia stamps and Oxides for the background.

Also wanted to share a photo of a visitor we had the other day, we get visits from Roe, Red and Muntjac Deers from time to time, most frequently when there is fruit in the orchard when they gorge on windfalls. But since a neighbouring farm cut down a row of very high conifers and hedgerow over the Winter it displaced a lot of wildlife and we are seeing them jump the fences into the paddocks and gardens more often. 

I'm not sure what this little fellow who is a Muntjac found to munch on but he stayed for quite a while mooching around in the shrubberies.

Hoping you all have a lovely Easter Sunday.

 

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