Lavinia Stamps Challenge - June "Something for a friend"

Good morning lovelies and a warm welcome to my blog on this sunning morning, after having a week of wet, cold, windy weather it's nice to wake up and see sunshine.

Today I'm sharing with you my samples for the Lavinia Stamps Challenge this months theme is "Something for a friend" there's a fantastic £40 voucher for the prize, please click on the link to find out how to enter and the rules etc.

I made a vintage style frame with a Greyboard frame I had sitting in my craft room for years which I prepped with gesso and painted using Imagination crafts Starlight paint and stamped using Archival Black ink.

All the stamps used can be purchased here

A totally CAS card and matching Bookmark which I've stamped onto Linen texture card and coloured with pencils, the corner detail is just fineline marker and a ruler, I added some gold glitter gel to the pod heads.

Thank you for popping in today, hope you've been inspired to join in the challenge, have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx

 

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Going floral

Good Morning Lovelies, is it the weekend already? Phew the time goes fast, anyhow, had a lovely play the night before and here's the results.

I used Carabella Studio stamps on the background of my card which had been coloured with Brusho's previously, the Poppies are by Donna Downey, I love poppies but this set I used time and time again, I love em, I stamped using Brusho's, the words are Altenew and the die cut leaves again coloured with Brusho's are from Penny Black.

My canvas I used Collage Medium Crazing with a circles stencil and once dry I rubbed over with Distress Crayons, blending with my fingers and using an almost dry wet wipe to dilute and blend the colours more, the script stamp in the background is by Imagination Crafts and the beautiful Daisies are a stencil from Designs by Georgina

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

 

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Tag #3 - Summer of Creative Chemistry week 1

Good evening again Lovelies, phew 3 posts in one day lol.

I'm back with my third Summer of Creative Chemistry tag, I used the blend and splatter technique, not sure if that's the proper name for it, but it fits the job.

Thanks again for visiting, have a great evening xx Zoe xx

 

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Tag #2 - Summer of Creative Chemistry 103

Good evening Lovelies, here is my second tag for the Summer of Creative Chemistry challenge, I used the Water colour stamping technique.

Short and sweet tonight xx have a good evening and thank you for visiting xx Zoe xx

 

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Summer of Creative Chemistry 16

Good morning Lovelies, boy we are cold, wet and windy down here on the South East coast (England) I hope we start getting some warm sunny weather soon!

Today I'm sharing with you, my first tag for the Summer of Creative Chemistry 16 woohoo been excited about these classes staring up again, however the first challenge is really about starting over with what we learned in the beginning, so here is my finished tag.

I thought as it was June I'd kick off with Christmas lol, I've used the "Wrinkle free distress" technique, I used the same technique to colour my die cuts too.

 

Thank you for visiting, enjoy the classes, have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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Zoe - Challenge #23 for Chocolate Baroque

Good morning Lovelies and a warm welcome to my blog.

Today I'm sharing with you my sample for the Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge click on the link for details about how to enter etc.

I've used Pan Pastels and a nesting circle stencil from Designs by Georgina and xxl stitched nesting rectangles from Crealies I have written a Step by Step tutorial for this card on the blog

Thank you for popping along today, please visit the blog and not only check out my Step by step but also my very talented teamies creations, have a wonderful day xx Zoe xx

 

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15 minutes or less!

Good morning Lovelies and I'm back with my Bi-monthly creation for Chocolate Baroque DT blog featuring projects made in no longer than 15 minutes.

Our aim is to show you that you don't need to spend hours getting messy and inky or spend ages cutting out to create something pretty with Chocolate Baroque stamps. I think we can all get a little creative block at times and although it's nice learning new techniques and trying them out it's also nice to just do something Quick and simple and end up with something equally stunning.

So here it is, it literally took 5 minutes.

I used ivory Linen texture card, I stamped each end using Onyx Black Versafine Inkpad the lovely Floral Edges stamp set, I dried it with my heat tool as Versafine is an oil based ink and although permanent it takes a little longer to dry! Once dry, using cut and dry foam I inked in a circular motion using Persimmon, Musturd Seed and Picked Raspberry Distress inks, then stamped my sentiment which is from Positive Pants stamp set, and Voila a simple card, but I think it looks pretty.

Thank you for popping along today, I hope I've inspired you, please check out what the rest of my talented teamies have created on the blog, have a great day xx Zoe xx

 

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