Anemones!

I had a weird play-day, following on from being poorly ... and created this very odd card!

I sprayed colours at my usual white stamping card, with various stencils in place. (I'm embarrassed to say that I don't know which colours, or which stencils ... 😕) and when dry, used gold texture paste, which I pushed through a 'Star' stencil.

When this too was dry I used Tim Holtz flowers (Anemones) then used Distressed markers in Picked Raspberry, and Hickory Smoke to stamp, with Versafine green ink for the stems. I also stamped a JOFY 'plant' in Versafine green. I then used Stickles to highlight these flowers.

I fussy-cut a Picked Raspberry flower to extend the picture out of the frame.

I matted and layered onto Centura Pearl mauve coloured card.

I should like to enter this into SSS Wednesday Challenge, entitled Anything Goes.

Gratitude (Thanks for the Flowers)

Luckily, 'cos of Thanksgiving in the US, this weeks Monday challenge for Simon Says Stamp Blog Challenge has been extended for another week ... so I have made a card, with the title Gratitude (Thanks for the Flowers.)

I bought some Simon Says Stamp flower stamps, and when I went to open the packet to use them, I discovered that there were dies in the packet too!! (so a mightily chuffed Cj thought she'd give these a whirl!)

Using my normal stamping (white) card, I used a Clarity stencil, of a vase, with Texture Paste, mixed with Barndoor coloured Distress acrylic paint, and I pushed this through the stencil to give a vase. I didn't think it was quite exciting enough, so when dry, I used a Tim Holtz swirly Damask design stencil, and pushed gold coloured Texture Paste through the the vase stencil, which when dry looked quite exciting!

I played around with my new Simon Says Stamp flower stamp set, using Distress Markers, applied to the various parts of the stamp, then 'spritzed' onto the stamp. I used oranges, pink, yellows, and greens for the foliage. When dry, I used the matching dies to cut out the flowers and leaves.

I arranged these as though they were a floral display in a vase, and glued them in place with a quick setting glue.

I used die cut words 'Thank' and 'You', and stamped 'For the Flowers' in Versafine Black, which I arranged on the front.

I should like this to be entered into the Simon Says Stamp Monday Blog Challenge.

Clarity Ducks!

I tried to rise to the Clarity Challenge: Clean And Simple

So here is a CAS Card using 3 Clarity stamps, and a Clarity stamp with a clump of grasses and weeds, and a Clarity stencil.

First three Distress Inks, and the Clarity stencil with a torn paper rectangle look, and I blended a blue, to symbolise sky, a brighter green to symbolise grass, and an Olivey-green to resemble pond water.

Then I stamped the three ducks, then a symbolic clump of grass near the edge of the pond/lake. All the stamping was done in Versafine Black ink. The card used was watercolour card.

I should like this to be entered into the Clarity Challenge November CAS, with the title of mine being Clarity Ducks!

I should also like this to be entered into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes, and into the "That's Crafty Challenge - Black and White with a Hint" challenge.

We Three Crazy Kings

I really like Tim Holtz' Crazy Birds, and when I saw that Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog Challenge subject is Christmas .... I just had to get my set of Crazy Birds out!

I wanted the background to have one big star for a bird to point at, together with smaller stars, so I used some stencils, and pushed gold texture paste through onto my regular stamping white card. (Sorry, not sure whose stencils they are ...)

Meanwhile, I stamped three of the birds onto watercolour card, as I wanted to use water-based paint on the birds. I wanted the 'pointing' bird; (my husband can't see that the bird with feathers on the left, is 'pointing'!) and two other birds talking to one another. I stamped these in Versafine Brown ink. I painted these in H2Os shimmering (mica) paints, with one bird in mostly gold; one in greens with a brown tum; one in purpley-red and a bright yellow.

I also remembered I had some ready punched Tim Holtz Grunge card, and thought there might be some crowns .... I used three different ones, which I painted in Ranger gold acrylic paint. When dry I used Stickles in Green. Red, and Purple to suggest gems on the crowns.

When the birds were dry, I die-cut each of the birds out, and trimmed two topknots off (as would not fit under crowns!)

I blended Frayed Burlap Distress Ink, and Weathered Wood DI on the background of the piece with the dry raised gold stars, and then stamped the Words with Music (Clarity stamp) We Three Kings, on the top right, in Versafine brown, then used fine WOW gold embossing powder, and heat embossed this.

I shaped each bird, and used large blobs of Pinflair glue in the body of each bird, to keep the shape, with Crafters Companion mouse-tape glue in the feet, and tails. Carefully holding each bird in place, until the glue had 'set', then used Pinflair glue to fasten a crown on each bird.

I fastened this onto a square white card.

I should like to enter this card into Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Blog Challenge, Subject: Christmas!