Wild Birthday

Just a quick post to show you this Birthday card, straight out from Africa!

All the stamps are from Creative Stamping magazine issue 57 (May 2018).

I stamped the giraffe with Versafine Sepia ink, coloured it with Distress inks and masked it before stamping the tree and birds in Versafine Onyx black.

I applied Distress inks to the sky and added both sentiments, Go wild inked with Kaleidacolor for a red to orange blend, and the Birthday sentiment with Versafine Onyx Black.

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I am entering the Allsorts, Paperbabe and Unikostudio challenges.

Yellow and Purple make grey

 I am back for a second inspiration post for our challenge at Country View Crafts! The theme chosen by Teresa is Opposites. I chose the easy option of colour opposites (on the colour wheel) so I could use any stamps, or rather, new stamps that I have barely touched since I got them in February and couldn't wait to use at last!

I cracked open my Paper Artsy goodies and off I stamped a one layer card, with barely any masking, pure stamping pleasure!

I simply stamped the top of the clock stamp from the HP1901 set in black, then the scribbled flower in Memento Grape Jelly, the chevron and dots with yellow dye ink all from the ETS25 set.

I felt the lower left corner needed some black so I added the ear of wheat from the ELB33 set, an old favourite of mine.

I hope I have inspired you to enter our challenge, remember one lucky crafter will win a £20 voucher to spend on Country View Crafts goodies...

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I am entering the Addicted to stamps, Craft Stamper, Penny Black and more  challenges.

Seriously

Welcome to my second inspiration card for the STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch challenge! All the STAMPlorations DT are showing their contributions on the STAMPlorations blog here.

This month the theme and Sketch are:

The icing on the cake

Welcome to another STAMPlorations Theme & Sketch challenge!
This month the theme and Sketch are:

Here comes the sun

Time for a new challenge at Country View Challenges! The theme chosen by Teresa is Opposites. I chose opposite weathers so sun and rain...

I stamped the Umbrella woman (Lost Coast Designs) with Versafine Onyx Black and stencilled the Visible Image stencil with Distress inks.

To get my rain I stamped one of the images from the Water drop set (Craft Emotions) with Memento Fog grey ink.

The sentiment is from an old set (Magnolia - Inspired by Stamping), also stamped in Versafine and die-cut with an arrow shape (MFT Blueprint 13).

This was actually meant to be a one layer card but at the last hurdle I had an accident with the Stamping Platform lifting the card with the clear stamp, despite the magnets, so I stamped the sentiment on a separate piece of card and hid the initial blurry stamping.

I hope I have inspired you to enter our challenge, remember one lucky crafter will win a £20 voucher to spend on Country View Crafts goodies...

Thanks for coming by,
I am entering the Allsorts, SSS Wednesday,  Addicted to stamps challenges.