Forgotten Friday 28

Well this week I'm not sure if I should apologise to Sue for pinching her idea or thank her for reminding me about this stamp from a set which I must have had for at least three years - possibly longer.. The unmounted floral stamp sheet is an Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque) set  UA4SP0151 and it has a lovely selection of floral images, some of which I use frequently but for some reason this one, and I must say one other, have never been used until now.  However I decided to use it for Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge this week - thanks for the reminder Sue.  Image was coloured with Derwent Coloursoft pencils;  background paper is from a neglected pad of papers by K and Co;  I added a computer greeting and a die cut butterfly.  Thanks Judith for encouraging us to dig out our neglected crafty items each week.

Bah Humbug Challenge 32

The good people over at Humbug Hall are asking for kisses this week so I've come up with a lovely bunch of mistletoe to meet the challenge. Background papers are from the ever faithful Seasons Greetings CD (Chocolate Baroque) and the stamp is also from their Christmas Reflections set.  Image was coloured using Derwent Coloursoft pencils and cut out using a Nestabilities die; the sentiment was produced on the computer  using Word and cut using  Stampin Up punches.

Make My Monday challenge 10

The theme this month on Make My Monday blog is 'things with wings' and this time it is birds or bugs so I decided to go with the bird idea.  The birdcage, bird and sentiment are stamps from a set by Papermania, background was printed from Artylicious Fantasy Floral (now Chocolate Baroque) and overstamped with a CB stamp from Butterfly Flourish Swirls, the border strip was cut using a Crealies border die.  I've just added a few Prima flowers with centres punched from the background paper and some gems to match the bird which was coloured with Coloursoft pencils.

A Valentine

Well a lovely day playing with inks, stamps and so on - how fortunate that I have such a large supply of craft materials as I'm not planning on risking broken limbs on the ice!!

I made this card with one of the Damask Rose stamps from Elusive Images stamped onto mountboard and then sliced up. It was coloured using Inktense pencils and stippled with Adirondack dye ink. The cuttlebug-embossed strip was sprayed with glimmer mists before and after embossing.