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Hello how are you today?

I originally created this little scene in my art journal, for once I actually quite liked the way it came out, and of course the sentiment is wonderful. 

When I saw that Country View Challenges theme this month was to make a postcard, I thought I would try to recreate it to fit onto a postcard. The gorgeous stamp is drawn by the very talented Phyllis Harris and manufactured by Unity Stamps 

The original page in my Art Journal.

Walkies with Crafty Individuals

I am sharing another of my projects which I made for Crafty Individuals, this one features their gorgeous Winter Walkies stamp.I of course love this stamp as it features a lovely doggie!

How I created it.

I used a 4 inch deep frame and made a Watercolour background and stamped birds and branches onto the top and sides. I stamped and fussy cut the lovely  Walkies characters and coloured them.I also  added some flowersoft for the girls fluffy collar and for the Pom Pom on the hat. I also added some glossy accents onto the boots. I used some thin twine for the dogs lead. I added texture paste into the base and embedded the girl and various twigs, dried flowers and art stones. The art stones are wonderful, but oh my,goodness they do get absolutely everywhere! 

Thank you so much for visiting today.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

Penny Black Feature a Creature

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Friendship

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

That’s Crafty Spring Into Action

Honoured to be a Guest Artist at Crafty Individuals

I am very, very honoured to have been invited by the lovely Jean Hardy from Crafty Individuals to be a guest artist this month! I always love creating with Crafty Individuals stamps, and had lots of fun. This is a mixed media piece featuring a Spring Walk, let’s hope Spring will soon be arriving now the snow has finally gone.There is a step by Step of how I created it on the Crafty Individuals blog.I will be sharing more samples soon.

Many thanks to Jean xx

Thank you so much for stopping by.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Noor Design Spring

Happy Little Stampers Mixed Media Friendship

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour

That’s Crafty Spring Into Action

Stamping on Rose Petals

I always seem to be finding pressed flowers inside of books, so I actually decided to carefully take them all out and lay them in a box  together. Some of my rose petals were quite large, and I wondered if I could stamp on them.... so I decided to experiment and the result is above it is all made from pressed rose petals and leaves. There are more details on the Indigoblu blog.

Peony

Thank you so much for visiting me today, I hope you are well, and are having fun crafting.

I would like to enter Stamping On Rose Petals into  the following challenges.

Craft Stamper Anything Goes

Noor Design Spring

We Love ToCreate Anything Goes

All Sorts Ladies Only

Fairy Playing To The Mushrooms

Oh my goodness isn’t it cold ! Did somebody forget to tell the weather it’s March ! To take my mind of the weather I have created with this lovely Lavinia Fairy I received her for Christmas, but I have only had time to use her now. I have been busy designing with wonderful stamps. and I am of course very happy and grateful for that. 

 I have at last also got around to using the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxides, Only 3 colours to start with Picked Raspberry, Broken China, and Bundled Sage.I used all three to create the background for this card.I dabbed them onto my ink blending mat, and spritzed over them with water. I laid my card into the inks, and lifted it up to reveal the results, it looked like a watercoloured background. I kept dipping the card into the inky puddle until it was covered.

I stamped the fairy using a Versafine black inkpad, and coloured the flowers and mushroom die cuts with watercolours. Thank you for visiting me today, let’s hope the snow stops and it gets above freezing soon xx

I would like to enter this Fairy card into the following challenges.

Craft Stamper 

Dies R Us use  Pastel Colours

A Bit More Time To Craft Anything Goes

Alice In Fiskars Land

I made this 3d scene for one of my Fiskarettes UK design team posts.I love Alice in Wonderland! I have had a set of little wooden tables for ages, but I have never used them! So I finally decided I would put one together, and then continued to have a lot of fun creating the Alice scene around it. 

The Fiskars 3 in 1 tag maker is brilliant it easily cuts through shrink plastic! After punching it out I wrote ”Drink Me” onto it before shrinking it and tying it around the minature bottle. I then punched out a lots of hearts and painted them red, and glued them vertically up from the top of the table.The  circle punch was really useful to punch out a clock from some patterned paper, and I also used the beautiful butterfly punch to perch a butterfly on the edge of the  table.

I finished by adding some small playing cards which came out of  a Christmas cracker, and lots of other embellishments such as a hanging key, a pot etc etc

The lovely Alice stamp is made by Carabelle Studio

Thank you so much for visiting.

I would like to enter Alice In Fiskars Land into the following challenges.

That’s Crafty I Heart You

Emerald Creek Dares Love

Artistic Stamper Use Red

Penny Black Hearts and Flowers 

Try It On A Tuesday Love Is in the Air

Happy Valentines Day and Winner Announcement.

Happy Valentines Day !

Thank you to everyone who entered the giveaway. The Winner of the four stamps as chosen by Random.org is.......

Craftychris

Congratulations ! Please email me at gillslapATyahoo.co.uk with your details and I will post the stamps off  to you. xx

I will be having another giveaway at Easter time, there may even be some chocolate included !