Texture Paste

 A bit of mixed media to share today using home made texture paste and a stencil.  There are recipes/tutorials available online - instructions for almost anything we'd ever need or want to do seem to be available if you search 🤣.  I started by cutting a panel of card slightly smaller than the actual card and smooshed it around in some inks, also adding some visual texture with a small text stamp before applying the paste through a stencil over part of the area.  Leaving that to dry I then stamped the flower onto a scrap of white card and coloured it .  This was then fussy cut and placed over the textured area using thin foam pads.  A simple computer sentiment and that was it,  job done.

Stamp - from Aall & Create
Stencil - one I've had a long time

Sympathy Card

 This is one type of card which I'm sure we none of us really want to send any time soon but I do always like to keep a small number handy  as it's the sort of thing which deserves a bit of thought and is better not rushed in the making.  For this one I've used a poly plate which is manufactured using the same sort of polymer used for making good quality stamps and  they come in quite a few different shapes and sizes - this one has a 'broken up' area at the bottom which gives a bit of added interest.  It was inked using different colours of Distress ink and by its very nature, gives unpredictable and interesting results.  I've used a single tree stamp and a sentiment stamp which is all that is needed in my opinion. Ideal crafting weather at the  moment but not so good for people who are on holiday 🙄.

Background - Fall Away Polyplate from Crafty Roo
Tree - stamp by Lavinia
Sentiment - from a favourite set of sentiments which came free with a magazine years ago

Round in Circles

 Going around in circles today and not quite as 'last minute' this week for the latest Allsorts challenge for which the theme is **Use Circles** or of course there's always the *Anything Goes* option.  I pulled out some circle dies and used three varying sizes to cut round windows into a piece of white card which I then backed with a layer of blue, layering up with some scraps of thick card behind for some dimension rather than using foam which tends to make cards a bit thick for posting - and let's face it I have loads of scrap card to use up 😊.  I then looked through my collection of previously die cut and coloured bits and pieces and sorted out a selection of fun chicks.  The sentiment was die cut using a scrap of the same blue card as I used for the bottom layer.

Circles - die cut shapes die set from Stampin' Up (retired)
Chicks and Sentiment - stamps and dies from Stampin' Up (also retired)