crafty weekend

Sometimes everything comes at once - after a few days playing with new stanps from Chocolate Baroque (look on Hochanda tomorrow at 10am and 2 pm to find out what they were!) there was a workshop with Janet Pring on saturday and our regular craft club on Sunday....
we used stamps by All&Create  on Saturday and got nicely inky and painty.
 I loved the poppy stamp we used in the morning, but not so much the afternon sets - have to admit I didn't like the matching dies, the white edges really annoy me, so fussy cutting it was.....

Whinge over, parade of poppies - first two have similar distress oxide backgrounds overstamped in the same colours with the smaller smaps from the set. The first one I used antique linen  and frayed burlap , the second peeled paint and twisted citron. The poppies were painted using koh-i-nor watercolours.

 this is almost what Janet hoped we would do, a gelli plate background with some overstamping - well, very little overstamping and I left out the stencilling and the decoupaged poppies........just a more minimalist version!

I borrowed a different set of stamps that we had used the previous workshop and used the flower head to create a background, stamping it in several colours of distress oxides and swiping a baby wipe over to mix everything up into a blurry background.

Both sets were designed by  Tracey Evans, sorry can't remember what they are called though

 Afternoon we used the gelli plates again, with stencils for texture and the new animal sets of stamps and matching dies. Went mad and used the unicorn band set, which i definitely regretted by the time I had cut them out!

 Sunday was craft club and Hobby Art stamps brought by Moira - these were new stamps, with a lovely main image that was just right for quick Christmas cards.......and I just could not get mine to stamp out properly. So went off-piste (as Janet says) and just used it in my hand to create a background. I stamped the single pine cone in grey in the centre 4 times - which of course stamped beautifully - and again onto spare card.
I coloured with koh-i-nor watercolours and decoupaged the pine cones.

I then  just played with the pine cone, and tried it out as a wreath, the first one is using a 6.5" square piece of card and the second a 5.5" square of card -  they just need sentiments now.