Getting Sentimental

Morning everyone, a new challenge at Allsorts and this week I'm your host and my chosen theme is Getting Sentimental but there's always the A/G option. Our September prizes contains goodies from  Craft Stash and Highlight Crafts. 

I've always loved inspirational quotes and was so fortunate when a stamp company wanted to carry those I created along with Create and Craft. The one above is from my Believe set.

This card went to our eldest Son after he received his 'gong' at Buckingham Palace in May, the sentiment is very appropriate to his personality. Stamps are all Lavinia, Open Dandelion, Wild Summer Flower and Orchard Grass, a part masked frame and colour added to the focal images, very simple but I think effective.

This one features my all time favourite Penny Black sentiment Dance, Sing, Love (2695J), the frame is a Sweet Poppy stencil coloured with inks and the sentiment stamped into the middle and matching envie, this went to one of our Granddaughters, in fact it was her Dad who received the above card.

Rockin' around the Christmas Tree

A quick (and wow unscheduled) post with a share for the new Rudolph Day's challenge and another for the current Snippets Playground. Above a Sweet Poppy frame, stencil paste and foiled through a hot laminator, Lavinia Wild Pine Tree and two little Fairies, the right from Dancing Fairies, the left no longer available.

This one uses lots of Bazzil and Mirri leftovers, the stars created in Canvas Workshop and sent to the Scan and Cut, it's one I made some months ago and never blogged (hence no photo of snippets). Thought it would be good for a masculine card and made a few in different colours.

Delightful Animals

Morning everyone, Déjà vu.......forgive the lack of visits and clipped comments, not too good, been back in hospital, existing and new issues and it's really taken the wind out of my sails. 

A new challenge at Allsorts where we are back to weekly challenges. This week Lolo has selected the theme of Delightful Animals and as usual there is the A/G option to fall back on. There are two prizes from AALL and Create.

Another Fairy, this time in a vase mask created with a TL die, Oxides for shading, Twila Fairy, Hare from Woodland Hares, large Bee from Bumble and Hum and a smaller one from Bumblehums. The flowers around the edge of the vase are Shadow Bloom and coloured with a yellow Posca sparkle pen.

A soft Pan Pastel background and images from AALL and Create Canine Dreams (862) all stamped in Versafine black and a little colouring added to the lamps and Butterflies.

Thought I would share some of our household Animal Magic, above DIL Veronique trying to be a Dog Whisperer, Labs, Vizslas, Dachshund, Terrier and even a Dalmatian, we have quite a variety and that's not the full family compliment as a couple look to be missing!

Anysia bought some new fangled hay feeders, supposedly intended to slow them down, my boy Heskey (in need of a feather trim and good groom of his mane and tail) is most definitely not impressed.

Finally, two Fallow Deer caught early morning on the wildlife camera in the orchard, so many windfalls this year. It's a fairly new 'toy' so hopefully share more activity soon.

Fairy garden in a jar

Huuuge apologies to my team mates and everyone for being so delayed with my mid month shares at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations, You'll find lots of inspiration on the challenge blogs along with details of prizes on offer and themes for August. I have added this to the Lavinia stamps challenge gallery.

All stamps are Lavinia with the exception of the Penny Black sentiment on the second card, inks all Versafine Clair new colours available at a very good price here.

Summer Days

Morning everyone, this post was already scheduled but want to add a big thank you for all the well wishes and cards, I haven't thanked you individually so hope you will accept my thanks here, I really appreciate every one. Unfortunately I'm not totally sorted so remain on 'light duties'.

There's a new challenge at Allsorts which will again run for two weeks over the Summer holiday period. Sarah is our host and has selected the theme of Summer Days, or of course there's the A/G option. Three prizes for this fortnight from Stampendous.

My Summer Days had to be associated with the garden and what better than the daily activity down the bottom of ours where the Fairies are always at play........so are the Bees, there is a nest under one of the sheds. This one from the new Lavinia Sunbloom collection with Lumus talking to one of the Bees (from Bumblehump) amidst Moss Flowers across the top and Shadow Bloom at the bottom. I am linking this to Lavinia Favourite Colours challenge, in reality I love working with all colours but those with an Autumnal hue do always satisfy.

A die cut arch mounted over an inky base and die cut honeycomb across the bottom. Some colouring using Ecoline pens and an envie to match. The words across the top from Bumble Words.

One more using the Bees from the same Sunbloom collection along with Open Dandelion inked direct to stamp and repeat stamped on a masked panel, Ivy, Marine Kelp and Bumble and Hum.

Summertime

Morning everyone, scheduled again so hopefully it's Sunday.

We have new challenges at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations with the themes of Focal Sentiment and Summer in the Garden with prizes from AALL and Create and Lisa Horton Designs.

I've used AALL and Create for WLS, a canvas featuring At One with Nature (479), Petal Therapy (684), Don't Stop Now (913) and sentiment from my own Moments set. Ecoline pens for colouring and TRR leaves tucked in and a background stencilled with crackle paste. A little stamped birdie and Butterfly from an A&C ephemera set with a bit of extra colour added. I added a stand to the back of this and used as a Birthday card for our eldest Daughter a few days ago. Flowers, sentiments and Birdie all stamped onto snippets so popping to the new Snippets Playground with this one, schools out for Summer but still some fun holiday events planned.

For SS summer I've used some of my favourite garden blooms and of course a Fairy as they lurk in the gardens here, you just need to be quick to spot them! Lavinia stamps, an inked background and stamped with Poppies, Honeysuckle, Flutter Butterflies, Bluebell, Bell Flower and Fairy from Fairy Foragers. Linking this to Lavinia's Favourite Colours theme.

Using my favourite tri fold die which I know several blog friends have as well, images stamped using A&C new releases, left to right Standing so Tall (1178) This Much is True (1175) and Best you Ever Had (1176), I also used a selection of their rub on's to coordinate with the colouring which is all Ecoline pens.

Also adding my card for the July Card Chain Challenge, a bit late but this scheduled post follows on from reveal day, my card using Lavinia stamps went to Jeanne in Minnesota following the Gold, Jade and Topaz colour palette (loosely!). I received the card below from blog friend Greta in Oregon who also followed the colour option.