Morning Peeps, it's mid month inspiration time at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations where our themes are Animal Magic and Hand Coloured Image along with the usual Anything Goes options.
Above I've used the lovely Dog image from AALL and Create Postal Pooch (863), stamped, coloured, then a stencil and crackle paste to create brickwork. The sentiment is computer generated as annoyingly I seem to have lost that sentiment which is on another A&C Dog set.
As we al know I'm not a colourist, so the theme at SS is way outside my comfort zone, I've never enjoyed colouring and it never turns out too well, so I avoid like the plague. But a challenge is a challenge and this is what I came up with, it's the same Lavinia Mermaid I shared in Saturday's post called Althea, this time she is talking to the small Sebastian Seahorse from Sea Creatures and scene built up with Seaweed and Marine Kelp.
There is a new challenge over at the Playground and on Sunday I indulged myself in making a card just for fun to pop in with, in fact I made two almost identical. I even took a photo of all the snippets etc., hopefully I'll get a star or well done sticker or maybe something even tastier up in the treehouse? I am also going to share at the current Path of Positivity.
Using an oblong die I created two frames and stuck together to get more depth, then visited some real oldie stamps from Penny Black and Hobby Art, stamped around the frame with the PB one and used the HA Shakespeare Sonnet 18 on the insert and some A&C rub ons to carry the colours. Added some Gilding Tilsen around the edge of the frame and an A&C flower along with sentiment and Butterfly.
My fascination of the Moon was appeased Monday night, the Harvest Moon was awesome, here rising over the top paddock and close up which I was pleased with. I was hopeful of more photos last night as the partial eclipse started but the sky clouded over and was pitch black.