Winter Pheasant

It's the first Sunday of the month so time for our new challenges at We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations. Our themes for this month just happen to be the same at both and simply 'Christmas'. Our sponsors at SS are Be Creative and at WLS we have four prizes from one of our new 2022 sponsors.

At We Love Stamping we are excited to have a new name after embarking in a new direction last week. Sometime change is refreshing and is an easy decision when lack of professionalism, bullying and rudeness are the alternatives.

For me the new direction is an indulgence into the world of AALL and Create stamps, a make I have been hankering over for many months and this week I have been losing myself in lots of inkiness creating DT work for the next few week. Yep, afraid that means you are going to be seeing more of their stamps.

For the top one I used their Pheasant set, stamped onto an Oxide background, some of their worker stamps, stencilled Holly and the focal Pheasant stamped again to decoupage and covered with Glossy Accents. It was fun!!

My SS piece uses Lavinia stamps along with the base wreath of leaves from an AALL and Create set, liberal helping of glitter and an envie stamped to match.

 

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One for the Boys

Morning Peeps at  Allsorts  this week Tracy has the theme of 'From Boys to Men' and we have two Woodware stamps from Craft Stash as well as a second prize from Ruth Hamilton Design of three images from her store.

More inky fun and lots of stamps at play in my card above, Lavinia, Stampscapes, Inkylicious and even one from Clarity. An Oxide background, the scene built up with Versafine Clair in various colours and an envie to match.

My second card uses Ruth's new Scarecrow. A Pan Pastel background, stamps from Lavinia, and Card-i-o, the scarecrow coloured and his hat, boots and birdie printed off a second time to decoupage. In hindsight his boots defo need to be a deeper green because Hunter's they most certainly aren't and any self respecting Scarecrow wouldn't wear anything else!

 

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Mazart and magic

Morning Peeps, we have a new challenge starting today at River of Creativity. We were thrilled to see lots of new people join us last month and hope to see even more of you in November for our 'The Gift' theme, lots of ways to interpret that one.

I have a keyring to share using Mozart and Music Script from Stamp Addicts stamped onto an inked twinchie then covered with liberal layers of UTEE, a clip and chain with a Piano charm.

Running rather late with my card sent to Tina in Slovakia as part of the October Card Chain using Lavinia stamps. I followed the red, blue and gold colour palette and finished off with Lavinia glitter. I stamped the insert and envie to match and it was nice to know Tina loved it, mind you it took almost three weeks to arrive. 

Many thanks for your visits, I will see you again tomorrow for our new Allsorts challenge.

 

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Wonderful things

Morning Peeps another new challenge at Allsorts and Lorraine is hosting with the theme of 'Add a Sentiment'. We have two prizes this week, a Tattered Lace die and another from Tonic.

Recently I indulged (rather heavily) in some new AALL and Create stamps, I have resisted for far too long and having been impressed with the quality of the set I received as a gift last Christmas decided to go for it. This is my first dabble using one of three images from a set called Basic Fruits although there is nothing basic about the lovely detailed collage images.

Stamped onto an Oxide background, coloured with pencils, one of the apples stamped twice more, cut out and glossy accents added. Letters and numbers stamped from Bold Alphas, the other set received in the gift last year, some stencilling and one of my own sentiments from the set re-named Believe in your Dreams. And for the benefit of the photo, an Apple fresh from the Orchard.

Happy weekend all.

 

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A Vintage twist and an awesome cobweb!

Morning Peeps, time for this weeks Allsorts challenge where Mervi would like to see 'Anything Goes with a Vintage option'. Ruth Hamilton Design is offering three images from her store and there is also a lovely Indigo Blu stamp up for grabs.

Two cards above using the same Poinsettia stamp, an inky background using Tea Dye Oxide spray, stamped the image onto card coloured with Oxides and Mica Spray, cut out and paper pieced, some lace to one and a seam binding bow to the other.  This was a card for The Craft Store TV.

Not totally sure this one fits the Vintage theme so I will dedicate this one to the Anything Goes option. Oxides for the background, some stamping using the same colour inks and worker stamps, a sentiment from my own stamp set and Irises from our sponsor Ruth. I printed the Iris's onto a sheet of card which I coloured with the same colour Oxides, cut them out and placed into a couple of die cut circles. As many know I don't enter challenges, dodgy eyes and linking issues, but it was suggested the above card would fit the 5th Birthday challenge of The Flower Challenge which asks for flowers and shapes, so Irises and circles seem to be apropriate.

Had to share these fabulous cobwebs which were laced along the posts around the decking leading from one of the French Windows at the back of the house. It was a misty morning which lent itself to showcasing the spiders intricate workings.

 

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Foxes in the Wheat

Morning again Peeps, three times in four days, what can I say!

Today I am sharing my mid month inspiration for River of Creativity, those who saw my post Saturday will know we are having a bit of a push to get the new challenge out there. It's a challenge for all types and styles of craft and we love seeing what you create, jewellery, mixed media, layouts, needle crafts, in fact absolutely anything hand created and yes cards as well but we are hoping to push you outside your comfort zone a little and try something different.

Above a frame with a canvas insert, painted with acrylics, crackle glaze and gilding wax. The wheat is a Sweet Poppy stencil, versamark applied through the stencil and heat set with detail gold EP and some leaves added with a Lavinia stencil. The Poppies are from CB Poppy Meadow, the Foxes Lavinia stamps as are the little flowers along the bottom.

Please do pop over to the challenge blog, we would love it if you joined in.

 

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Crackling Rose

Morning Peeps, it's mid month inspiration time at Stamping Sensations and We Love Chocolate Baroque challenges where are themes are 'Animals, Birds and Bugs' and 'Anything Autumn'. My teamies have lots of inspiration to share so please do check out the posts. Further down the second share from my post here on the CB DT blog.

We have a DT call going at Stamping Sensations as we would like to expand our team, there is a page detailing how to apply here, so please take a look as you may be one of the people who are just right for the team.

The top card is my WLCB share and please ignore the white line, it was something on the camera lens which I only notice later after the card had been mailed. The image is Chocolate Baroque Crackling Rose stamped onto an Oxide background, added stamping using  worker stamps from Just Useful and Make your Mark and one of my sentiment from Life is so much Better cut into sections so I could use a metal magnifier to highlight one word. To finish some Washi Tape down the sides.

My first SS share uses the lovely Robins in Holly released at The Craft Store TV last week and is one of my samples for the show. Stamped onto white card, coloured, some stencilled Holly leaves and placed onto a die cut frame and laid over, most unusually for me some Christmas DP. An organza bow to finish. 

This one is eldest Grandsons Birthday card back in June using Lavinia stamps onto a Gelli Plate circle.

My final share today from yesterday's post here.

Thanks for looking today, I always appreciate your visits and encouragement.

 

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