Silhouette Flowers

 Amongst the crafty items sent to me recently were two stamped and embossed floral silhouette images. die cut using a stitched rectangle die.  I've turned them into two 'same but different' cards which I'm sharing here.  The first one had the background 'smooshed' with Distress Oxide inks adding a little bit of stamping for interest.  The second one was stencilled in a quite different colour with the addition of three die cut butterflies in a toning colour.  Both images were mounted onto a black background and die cut sentiments were cut from the same black card.  

Sentiments - dies from Crafter's Companion
Stencil - unknown source
Butterflies - Crafter's Companion
Texture stamps - from my stash Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque)

Spring Flowers

 I've been playing with some die cuts and stamped images which I received from a kind bloggy friend - it was a lovely surprise to receive out of the blue an envelope containing some 'happy post'.  Very many thanks - you know who you are.  This is just one of the cards I've made so far - starting with an arched window stamped onto white card which had been die cut using a stitched rectangle.  I masked off the arch and used a stencil to make a stone effect wall, then die cut a selection of leaves, flowers and grass to build up a little Springtime scene. The window box was added using part of a window die set from my collection. No sentiment added yet but it's handy to have a few cards without so that any message can be hand written on the insert.  I do enjoy the challenge of working with something chosen by another crafter and there will be more cards to come.

Wall Effect - a very old Tim Holtz stencil
Window Box - Snipped from a Crafter's Companion window die (not recent)
Daffs, Crocus and Snowdrops - dies from Gummiapan
Grass - unbranded die
Leaves - from a retired Stampin' Up die set
Arched Window - stamp from Paper Artsy

On The Fence

 This card is for the current Allsorts Challenge where the theme is **USE YELLOW** - there's certainly a fair bit of yellow here, both in the image and also the stencilling.  I started by pencilling a faint circle onto a piece of card before building up the surrounding foliage and then stamping the baby owl sitting on the fence.  The final touch was to stencil around the outside using a Lavinia stencil.  The stamps are also Lavinia designs.