Garden Spirit by Lavinia!

Good morning Lovelies! I hope your having a great weekend? Well where's the heat wave we were meant to have this weekend?

Today's post is for Lavinia Stamps challenge the theme is Lavender!

And here she is the beautiful Garden Spirit by Lavinia stamps

I started by stamping the vines also Lavinia! With Perfect Medium then swiped with 3 shades of Violet Pan Pastels, staring with the darkest and gently laying down to start with so not to smudge the sticky ink, then blending the shades! I used the gorgeous linen texture card by Papermill direct, I then stamped the lovely Garden Spirit using Versafine onyx black ink, once dry I used a pencil eraser to rub out the colour in the flowers and her face, once I was happy I sprayed with cheap hairspray to seal it, I coloured her eyes lips and cheeks with pencils, added some glitter here and there and finished off with some highlights using a white pen, I got a little blip with some ink on her hair so I stamped a tiny flower and coloured with the pans and glittered it and decoupaged it over the blip lol! Simples! Now you can't see it hahaha! I hope you like it?

Thank you for visiting have a nice day xxx

 

 

 

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Zoe Challenge #2 June "Bees and Butterflies"

Good afternoon Lovelies! So today is the launch of our second challenge over at Twinchies Challenge

Would be lovely to see all your Twinchies? "Twinchies" in case you haven't heard of them are 2x2 inch square little works of arty lovelyness! And this months theme is a favourite of mine! "Bees and Butterflies" So here are mine:

 

 

 

 

The little Bee is from Lavinia stamps the first two I used my Gelli plate for the background with a Studio 490 stamp and Dylusions stamp for second one, the third and fourth I've used fabulous, rain drops and rising bubbles from Designs by Ryn the flowers are Inkylicious and the beautiful leaf one is Ryn's also, the bottom two are the fabulous Jofy stamps by Paperartsy, the butterfly on the last one is a Stampin up! Thank you so much for visiting my blog! I'm always so thrilled to receive visitors and have fab comments xx

 

 

 

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Zoe June Challenge for Cards Galore!

Good Morning Lovelies and a very warm welcome to new followers! I can't believe it's June, oh my gosh! Half way through the year already, scary isn't it? Lol

Our sponsor this month is Designs by Ryn she is offering 2 wonderful stamps as a prize!

Here's my sample for our monthly challenge! It is to follow this sketch!

 

My background was created using my Gelli plate, I used Spellbinders dies and the stamps are from Inkylicious, I stamped using Perfct Medium ink and Stampendous fine detail EP in white, I love their EP, it's so fine and picks out the finest details, it's great for text and sentiments!

Thank you for visiting, please check out the DT samples they are fabulous, and join in!

Cards Galore Challenge

 

 

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"Triplet Boys"

Good evening Lovelies! What a gorgeous weekend, weather wise we've had! I hope you've all enjoyed your weekend and the lovely weather?

I made this card yesterday for a very good friend of mine who's daughter of 39 has just given birth to triplet boys! All doing very well at over 4lb each Wow!

I used versamark ink to stamp both the background and the little feet then swiped over with Pan Pastel, the background stamp s by Visible Image the feet stamp was £1 from Hobby Crafts, I used the gorgeous Linen texture card from Papermill direct!

Thank you for taking a peep xx

 

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My DT samples for create and craft, SplodgeAway shows

Good evening Lovelies! Well I say "good" when actually I'm not well I've picked up an awful head cold and cough from the little one, now to me a colds a cold, but boy do I feel rough with this one!

Anyway less of that, what an exciting day for me and SplodgeAway! I made several samples for the show on Create and Craft, however the first show nearly everything sold out, and as there were some brilliant demos by the fab Tom and Hazel they didn't really show many samples, however the second show there was only two sets left and fortunately the one set "faces" was the one I had to play with so at least 3 of my samples were shown! Here are all the samples I made!

If you've not got any SplodgeAway products you must check them out! Their SplodgeAway mat is fantastic, I can't blend Distress inks now without, why not pop along and check them out here

I did the background with my Gelli plate then lightly inked around the houses mask, the fabulous raindrops are by Designs by Ryn which I gave the Glossy ascents treatment, the sentiment is by Visible Image!

I did two versions of ths card one using white distress paint and EP the other with silver distress stains and EP, I used Dylusions spray inks with the Skyline mask, then with black soot DI stencilled the face mask, the background is also a Splodgeaway mask.

The stamps are from Inkylicious, the rest is just layers of masks!

Used some Fran-tage!

Dylusions spray inks!

Visible Image stamp!

I masked over the flower design which had been created using my Gelli plate with a Splodgeaway mask, I cut it out, steamed with versamark and heat embossed the stamp s Inkylicious! I don't really like this one!

 

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Zoe - Challenge #7 "Blooming Lovely"

Good morning Lovelies! I hope your all well?

Today is the launch of our 7th challenge! Boy the time flies! So as you can see by the title the theme this fortnight is "Blooming Lovely" our challenge blog is "anything goes" so we would like to see all your beautiful floral creations! Be it Cards, Tags, ATC's, Altered art, anything as long as its blooming lovely!

Please visit us here! Rhedd and Rosie's challenge! Our very own Sandie is sponsoring this challenge and is offering a lovely prize!

I have actually made 2 cards because I couldn't decide which one I wanted posted, so I left it to Sandie to decide, and this is the one she chose!

 

A very simple card created with Pan Pastels and a beautiful Inkylicious stamp, the butterfly is from Stampin up!

I use the gorgeous Linen texture card by Papermill Direct

Here's my second card, created with my gorgeous Jofy stamps by Paperartsy, I coloured them with pencils, the background is "Square peg round hole" by Indigoblu, a very versatile stamp, I just inked in 2 colours.

I actually made these cards for a friend and fellow foster Carer, she wanted four for her Foster kids to give to their teachers at the end of term! She was very pleased I'm relieved to say, I made each one different!

Thank you for popping along today! I would love it if you popped along to the challenge blog and leave a comment and join in, plus we have an amazingly talented DT xx

 

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Tag using Sweet Poppy Stencil and Visible Image Butterfly

Good morning lovelies and a very warm welcome to my new followers! Well at this present time the sun is shining, but it is only 6.56 am so anything can happen, it's also my 20th wedding anniversary today! I can't believe 20 years ago we were in Las Vegas taking our wedding vows?

Today I'm posting a tag I made last night to enter Visible Image challenge

I used the gorgeous Linen texture card from Papermill direct, I used my Pan Pastels to colour it then of course sealed it with cheap hairspray, I used the script from Studio 490 stamp set using black ink second generation to give a faded effect, then stamped and heat embossed with white Stampendous fine detail EP the gorgeous flowers which are Clarity stamps, then using a magnetic sheet and the gorgeous Agapanthus stencil by Sweet Poppy I added the glossy black texture paste also by Sweet poppy to add some dimension and interest, and left it to dry, they do dry fairly quickly I left this an hour as it was a thin application, but over night is better, I was very careful not to get my fingernail near it while I attached the gorgeous Large Butterfly by Visible Image which I'd pre-coloured with Pan pastels and heat embossed using black fine detail EP by Stampendous.

You can just about see the fabulous texture created but the linen card and the dimension of the paste!

Thank you for visiting, have a great day xx

 

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