Colourful Daisies...

...on this simple little stamped card for Creative Expressions this week.....

I started off by stamping the single daisy from the Daisy Spray set a couple of time onto a scrap bit of paper and then cut them out to make a couple of masks.  Then I started stamping the same daisy onto a piece of white card, using the masks as I went to allow me to stamp one flower over the top of another. Once they were stamped I squidged (technical term don't you know!!) some distress ink onto my craft mat to enable me to use it as a paint by applying it to the flowers using a damp paintbrush.  The colours I used were Ripe Persimmon, Picked Raspberry and Mustard Seed for the flowers and for the stems/leaves it was Mowed Lawn and Mustard Seed.

Once they were painted I gave them a quick zap with the heat gun to dry them and then sponged on a very light amount of Salty Ocean before inking up the Botanical Spray stamp with a bit of Mowed Lawn and randomly stamping it around the edges. Layered it up onto a piece of pink card then before mounting onto a white card blank. Then I finished it off with a sentiment from the Winter Flowers set.

Donna xx

Life is a Circus......

.......that's the theme over on Sunday Postcard Art. For my postcard I had a play with the Umbrella Man die (by Tim Holtz), coloured him in and turned him into a clown type figure......hope you like.....

Donna xx

Time for my....

.....second piece for May's Country View Challenge where the theme is Nature's Glories. I was having a bit of a rummage through my craft stuff the other week and came across a mini moleskine sketchbook and decided to turn it into a little quote journal. So here's the first pages with a lovely 'Nature' quote....

Started off by getting some colour onto the pages by using the double page spread to clean off my gelli plate. Then I added some distress ink .... mustard seed and ripe persimmon......to increase the depth of colour. The I sponged a bit of rusty hinge distress through a mask to add another layer of colour. Then a few circles using lid off a distress paint that was handy and a bit of stamping round the edge added another layer and som more interest.

Then I stamped the lovely feathered bird by Lost Coast designs ( love this stamp!), added some flowers (Sheena Douglas) and a border and some leaves (Dylusions) before using some alphabet stamps to add the quote.

Donna xx 

Saturday again so that must mean......

......it's time for another piece for 'That's Crafty!', got out the Inkadinkadoo Stamping Gear for this one.  Full details of what I used are on the That's Crafty blog but here's a little sneaky peek.......

......to see the rest you're going to have to pop to That's Crafty!..... :-)

Donna xx

Spring is in the Air....

....over at the That's Crafty challenge. Here's my Spring themed tag for the challenge.....

The background was made simply by blending on Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Ink, then I stamped the leaves from the Dylusions Around the Edge set. I stamped the Prima Bloom Girl - Paige onto some white card and coloured her in with Promarkers, cut her out and glued in place. Stamped a few extra flowers and added a quote to finish.

Don't forget to pop over to the challenge blog to join in the fun......one lucky winner gets £20 to spend at That's Crafty!

Donna xx

First day of the month .......

....so it must be the start of a new challenge over at Country View Challenges, I got to pick the theme this month and decided on 'Nature's Glories'.  Such a wide, all encompassing theme so I thought people would have fun with it.

Here's my first piece for the challenge, a card utilising a gelli print that I made awhile back........and before anyone mentions it.......yes I know marvelous should have 2 "L's"...I would try and kid you that I was going for the American spelling but the truth is I spelt it wrong and only as I put it up on the blog did I notice the mistake!!!! Doh!!!

As I said the background was a gelli print made with various shades of green acrylic and using some of Tim Holtz's Garden Greens die cuts as stencils. Didn't want to cover up too much of the background so I simply added a flower made with the Tattered Florals die, some leaves and the sentiment (hangs head in shame!).

Right I'm off to read a dictionary! Do pop over to Country View Challenges to have a play, see you again soon :)

Donna xx

She Sells Seashells......

....by the seashore......and the theme for this weeks TagAlong chosen by yours truly is 'By The Sea'.

I've used some Sheena Douglass stamps for this one Seascapes and Seashells......stamping, distress inks, bit of string and some net (from a box of pears!)......

Why don't you pop over to TagAlong and join in this weeks challenge.

Donna xx