Glorious Spring

Morning Peeps, it's the first Sunday of the month which means the start of our new challenges at Stamping Sensations and We Love Stamping where our themes are both about 'Spring'. The main prize at SS is a mixed media bundle from Oakwood Archer and at the other stamp sets from Rare Earth. 

A couple more AALL and Create makes, I will be sharing some using the new releases in the next week or so, yesterday I was using them along with the Gelli Plate in demos at The Craft Warehouse, my first in over two years, in fact my first real venture into the outside world since the start of the Pandemic. Apart from essential medical visits and the odd dive into a shop, I've relied totally on home deliveries and Amazon Prime.

Above uses In The Wild and this Bunny has to be one of my favourite A&C images. Using acetate I added just a small amount of Oxide Twisted Citron and Squeezed Lemonade to give soft colour without overpowering. The main image with the Bunny was stamped and coloured in and the flowers stamped again and decoupaged to add extra interest and dimension. Some background stamping and wordage using a variety of A&C images.

The A&C Violets have been combined with a mixture of Penny Black flowers and Wordsworth sentiment all old wood mounted's, Bunnies are Lavinia, all stamped onto oxide backgrounds and my favourite tri fold die which I extended to five panels.

Before I go, a heads up that there are new Stampendous stamps and other goodies on Create and Craft on Tuesday 8th, I can't confirm exact times of shows as it still seems to be a moving target following the merger. Above I used Stampendous Floral Flutter stamped onto  black card and again onto acetate using one of their new Sunflower Sparkle EP's.

A simple stencilled Poppy using DI's, the stencil placed over again and inked with Versamark and detail clear EP. It's doesn't really show in the photo but it creates a nice sheen over the inks.

And will confess it only just occurred to me that I should have posted the card I sent to Marianne in Crete as my exchange in the last Card Chain Challenge. It's been a few weeks where because if health issues and a hospital stay I've not really got my head round craft timelines, c'est la vie.

I do hope you will find time to join in the challenges this month.

 

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