Yummy new Stamps

Good afternoon Lovelies, well I don't know about where you are? But we've been having a beautiful flourish of Spring type weather.

So I've been a little naughty and been treating myself to some new crafty stash ;) so I've got lots of new things to play with, (rubbing hands together in delight)

My tag is the gorgeous new stamps by Finnabair from Oysterstamps

This card is made with the gorgeous PaperArtsy Eclectica 3 guest designer collection by Darcy.

I'm hoping to pop back in a couple more days with some more creations, thank you for stopping by today, have a great evening, Zoe xx

 

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Eileen Godwins Workshop

Good afternoon Lovelies. Well I've just got home from Eileen's fabulous as always workshop. I feel cream crackered lol but what a great day it was, lots of laughs, wonderful cakes made by Barbara Clegget thank you xx and of course amazing inspiration, today we did the "Bleeding Tissue" technique, messy but fun and certainly some amazing results. We worked on canvas, I left early and didn't get chance to make the card but I am pretty pleased with how my canvas's turned out. I used the wonderful Sweet Poppy Stencils for my main images.

The first is an A5 size canvas

The second is 8" x 10"

These are a couple of tags I've made this week.

 

 

 

Thank you for visiting today, have a great weekend, Zoe xx

 

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Iceland Poppy die from Memory Box

Good afternoon Lovelies! Well I've been enjoying this lovely crisp but dry weather.

I'm sharing with you a couple of things I've made over the last few days incorporating the gorgeous Iceland Poppy die from Memory Box, I'm finding getting the shape right a bit tricky still, but they are gorgeous.

My first card I've used a scrap of linen texture card that I'd blotted some bubble wrap on after using it with Brusho's, I used a Sheena Douglass mask with some sandy texture paste and once dry just lightly added some gold gilding wax, the stamps are the new texture stamps from Crafters Companion, once I cut the 2 sizes of Iceland Poppies out with linen texture card I lightly sprinkled and spritzed some Brusho in Brilliant red, I assembled by blobbing hot glued onto the card first and adding the elements to it, a tiny bit of clear glitter glue to the stamens and viola!

I used a Tim Holtz Lacey stamp one the petals and tag and distress inks.

Splats with Distress stains.

My final tag I used A gorgeous Penny Black stamp and coloured it in with drawing gum, then Brusho's and bubble wrap over it, I removed the gum leaving the leaves white and stamped the little words, I also used Brusho's then stamped and cut out my birds, "Scribbly Birds" by Dina Wakley.

Thank you for visiting today, I hope you like my creations? Have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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Been playing again today

Good afternoon Lovelies, it's been dry and quite bright here today, I've not been out yet as I'm still not feeling 100% but I have managed a little play whilst baby slept this morning.

Both cards I've used Brusho's with bubble wrap, I think that's my favourite thing I love to do with Brusho's? I used one of my all time favourite flower stamp's - Delicate Florals by Penny Black

And today my lond awaited new die arrived "Large Iceland Poppy" by Memory box, I need more practice with it, I'm not happy with the shape now it's photographed.

Thank you for popping by today, have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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Playtime

Good evening Lovelies! I hope your managing to stay warm in this cold snap? We've had some snow today but because it's wet it hasn't settled.

I've come down with a cold and I must say, I've been lucky enough to not have had a cold for over a year, so this one is making me feel rather unwell today :( I'm not usually a whinger about colds "honest" lol anyway, while my little foster baby had his nap this afternoon I was able to get a couple of things made for challenges.

The first 2 are what I made today, one was for "Snow" themed challenge the second was a colour challenge.

 

I used Aquatints and salt to create the background and Penny Black stamp, words and tree die, the birds are Memory Box.

Brusho's bubble wrap and Tim Holtz stamps.

Aquatints and salt, Visible Image stamp, Penny Black die.

Bokeh Effect created with distress inks and white pigment ink, the die is Memory Box.

Brusho's bubble wrap, Woodware Teasles stamp.

Sorry for the photo heavy post, thank you so much for spending your time visiting, have a good evening xx

 

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Zoe - Challenge #2 - February "Bright and Beautiful"

Good morning Lovelies, I hope you're all managing to keep warm in this cold snap? I've scheduled this post and have no snow as yet, although it is predicted for the weekend, it's been very cold today with gales and hail and rain and even some sunshine, good old British weather eh?

So here are my samples for this months Lavinia Stamps Challenge "Bright and beautiful" is this months theme. Fear not! Those of you that don't have blogs, you can enter via email just check out the blog for details, please be mindful of the rules and use only Lavinia Stamps products for your entries, there is a very generous prize of £40 to spend in Lavinia Stamps online store

We also are welcoming a brand new member to our DT, the lovely and very talented Marianne Lait

Goosebumps and Distress Inks

Brusho's

Aquatints - shaving foam technique.

Brusho's

I hope you like my samples and they give you some inspiration to join in, please pop along to my teamies blogs if you have time, thank you for visiting and have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

 

 

 

 

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New Sweet Poppy Stencils

Good morning Lovelies, well woke up to a light layer of the White stuff, personally I love it lol, although not keen to go out in it, but it's pretty to look at these days lol.

Today I'm sharing a couple of cards I've made using the gorgeous new Stencils from Sweet Poppy you can buy them here , you might want to check out the "Winter Sale" too, some fab bargains to be had.

My first card I used a nesting die to cut my card base and layer I used White linen texture card for the topper and base, I get all my card stock from Papermill Direct Apart from special stamping and watercolour cards of course, anyway I used Crushed Olive distress ink to colour the Linen card then I used some bubble wrap with same ink to just create some texture for the background, then using a magnetic sheet to secure my card and stencil I sponged through Black Soot distress ink using a pouncing technique, bit of green Sweet Poppy ultra fine glitter on the flowers to just lift it.

My second card I used Flitterglue through the Zebra Stencil, I removed it a washed in warm water and a nail brush straight away, then used Flock over the design.

I hope you like my cards, thank you for taking the time to visit, have a great day and keep warm and safe xx Zoe xx

 

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