magnolia

 Decided that I really must get back to doing some crafting  - have partially sorted out the chaos after my son tidied things up while i was in hospital last year, and need to make samples for a WI workshop later on using things I can actually find!

One of my finds was this lovely magnolia stamp from Chocolate Barqoue (think i have found most of my CB stamps now), the butterfly stencil from Aall& create and  anonymous script and music clear stamps that I have used in the background. The image is coloured with kuretake pens

I am linking this to challenges from Stamping Sensations

and We love stamping, both with themes of Hello Spring

collage

 It's been a long time since i shared anything, due to family and then personal illness - life is hopefully getting back to something approaching normal now!

it's also been a long time since I made an ATC, and i couldn/t believe how long it took to make this one....partly due to finding where all the craft stuff was!

This was for a collage challenge using Crafty Individuals stamps - I used the teasel in the background and fussycut the mushrooms 

I couldn't just post an ATC, so this was the card it went with - you can see more of the teasel stamp and the whole of the mushrooms stamp on a piece of brusho card, and very faintly in the background a meadow grasses stamp. The wonky word was handdrawn

measured moments

 Had to have a quick play with this lovely new set from Chocolate Baroque which arrived this week. 

Brusho background overstamped and stencilled with distress oxides, image stamped with versafine clair and coloured with ZIG clean colour pens

Linking to following challenges

the crafty addicts #9 anything goes

paper funday #61 anything goes

we love stamping something new

stamping sensations anything goes

january fairy

 The end of 2023 was pretty hectic, so blogging wne by the wayside - what passes for normal blogging is back now!

My offering today featrues new-to-me fairy tale stamps from Chocolate Baroque https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/january-fairy-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-dl.html and https://www.chocolatebaroque.com/magical-landscapes-unmounted-rubber-stamp-sheet-a5.html plus the leaf stamp from an older set which I think may be discontinued.

I used a brusho background, stamped the castle using grey versafine clair ink and coloured with ZIG clean colour pens. The fairy was stamped on white card, coloured with the pens and metallic pencils and cut out before being seated among the leaves. The leaves were stamped onto more brusho-coloured card , cut out and glued along the borders

i would like to add this to the following challenges

love to craft #78 anything goes

stamping sensations anything goes

we love stamping something new

allsorts #762  anything goes

the crafty addicts #9 anything goes

poppy heart

 today's share is a card using pretty poppies from Chocolate Baroque. I love poppies, and for this one I coloured them the tradional red although I love the big blue variety.

The main image was stamped onto a  piece of white card coloured with brusho powders, painted using clearcolor pens  and then glued onto a whiteboard heart and trimmed.

The background was created using distress oxide inks, stencils from Lavinia and Aall & create and another poppy image from the same set, as is the sentiment

I would like ti add this to the tripleB challenge -birds/blooms/butterflies

over the moon

 Another share using the fab new stamp designs by Fiona Randall for Chocolate Baroque, this time using over the moon, very much a fantasy image but great fun to colour in !

simply stamped in black versafine clair and coloured with cleancolour pens, background inked with distress oxide and randomly stamped round the edges

adding to the following challenges, all with anything goes themes

creative fingers #260

the crafty addicts #04

paper funday #56

stamping sensations august

butterfly moon

 Another post using images from the lovely new  Over the Moon stamps by Fiona Randall for Chocolate Baroque,  - the stamps will be on the website this week.

This was on an 8"x8" base card blank, so quite large. I stamped the smaller image four times, offsetting two of them slightly from the centre. The card background was coloured with distress oxide inks - tumbled glass, broken china and chipped sapphire. Added part of a stencil from Aall&create in the corners using chipped sapphire again and parts of one of the sentiment stamps from the set randomly stamped in the gaps.

The butterfly was stamped twice onto spare card, coloured using cleancolor pens. The flower and leafy bits of the background images were also coloured to match. The butterflies were fussy cut out and glued into place across the centre with foam pads under the wings to give a bit of dimension

I would like to add this to the following challenges

paper dragonfly #20 anything flies

dd tripleb - August bird/butterflies/blooms

the crafty addicts - #04 anyhting goes

paper funday - #56 anything goes

allsorts - all cratures great and small

stamping sensations - anything goes