Woody Woodpecker

Morning everyone, the first Sunday of March means it's time for our new challenges at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where our themes are Anything Stamped at both and a Birds and Animals (real) at the first and a CAS option at the second. Prizes this month come from AALL and Create with three prizes on offer and Craft Stash with two prizes.

I won't apologise that it's yet more AALL and Create stamps but I'll confess I really do love working with them. They are I believe the best quality and designed stamps I have ever worked with in my many years of stamping and I feel so privileged that I can promote this super company. 

Starting with my card above using A&C's gorgeous Woody Woodpecker who reflects the family of them living in one of our hedgerows and who frequently feed in the orchard. Snippets used for Woody, the silhouette flower and the number strip are hopefully sufficient to allow me to go play 'TAG' in the Snippets Playground this week.

He's from Follow your own Path, my starting point was a masked circle and one of the images from Clocks and Flowers stamped with the mask in place, then randomly dabbed some ink around. Removing the mask I added the Woodpecker along with a silhouette flower which I stamped a second time and paper pieced as the wasn't dark enough for my linking, it's from the same set and finally a piece of washi tape to ground the bird and a few words and numbers form Power of Word.

The gorgeous dog from Mans Best friend is making another appearance, this time stamped and embossed with detail clear EP, a wash of oxide around and also within the aperture. Sadly I had to use this card last week as our eldest son and wife lost their 14 year old Lab. The image seemed very appropriate as at one time they had three Labs, Mum Ellie and two of her puppies, one of those Forest died last year and now Cadbury so their home is feeling very empty.

So for this one I used the large bloom from Scripted Botanicals, stamped onto a base layer with a masked and stencilled circle, then coloured with Distress Pencils, a word from Power of Word and an envie to match.

And by sheer chance I've actually got the right day to showcase the card I sent to Gail in Norway as part of the March Card Chain Challenge. And yes, it's A&C stamps again, this time an A5 set called simply Pheasant along with a flower from Friendship Florals, an A4 set packed with flowers and Birdies as well as some really useful words. The word Spring comes from an equally useful set called Seasons. The background was created with Round Digits repeat stamped, inked with Oxides and given a really good spritz of water so the colours ran before stamping

Have a lovely Sunday everyone.

 

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