Capture Life's Moments

I have a colleague leaving work soon to spend more time with her family and I wanted to make a quirky card for her.

I stamped the image which is from the Gwendoline set from the Doo Lally Pip range from Lindsay Mason onto watercolour paper. This was one of three bargain sets I bought at Ali Craft at Ally Pally recently. I masked her off and placed her on the wall from the Chocolate Baroque clear landscape edges set. In the stamp she is juggling with birds which I didn't want, so I set about finding something that would act as suitable balls. I am currently index stamping all my stamps and that made it a lot easier to find something suitable. These are actually flower centres from a Technique Tuesday set Loves me, Loves Me Not. The image is coloured with Promarkers. I cut out the image and balls and mounted them onto an inked background that I made using the Memory Box Texture Shine stencil. I stamped some foliage stamps from the Gwendoline set.

I finished off with the sentiment from the Art Sayings Creative Expressions set designed by Sam Poole and some black die cut butterflies using the Tim Holtz Butterfly Frenzy die. I mounted the panel onto a black matt to bring all the elements together.

It's been a nice Easter weekend and I have been sorting out the craft shed for the new season. I have already covered my desk after an afternoon of mixed media playtime yesterday. It was great to sit with the door open and listen to a radio play and the sounds of the birds singing and bees humming. Sadly I am back to work today!

Have a good week!

Elaine

A pretty frock!

I saw these gorgeous B Line dress stamps being demoed by Linda Brown and Linda Elbourne at the LB Craft stand at the Ally Pally show in April and had to add them to my wish list. When we visited LB in June as part of our mini Retreat trip to Bedfordshire, I had to buy them. You may have spotted them in a recent issue of Craft Stamper in an article by Linda Brown.

It took me until yesterday to get around to using these stamps and I made a card for a friend. I'm sorry the picture is a little out of focus, I only took one quick snap before I needed to get the card in the post.

I stamped the images in Ranger jet black archival ink on a sheet of K & Co matting card that had a natured themed design. This is actually textured card, so not the best surface for getting a really sharp image, but hopefully good enough to show the final result. I added more stamping from a Crafty Individuals set, the flourish is from the Tecnnique Tuesday Whirly Words set that had been on my wish list for ages and I finally got at Ally Pally in April. The sentiment is from the B Line dress set. I cut out and edged the dress with Shabby Shutters DI and mounted the whole thing onto dark green card, that I folded and cut out into a dress shaped card and just added a little wooden button.

I really enjoyed christening this delightful set of stamps.

Elaine xx