LOVE TO CRAFT - JULY #87

Welcome back to another Love to Craft challenge where we love to see all your projects on our Anything Goes challenge.  What will inspire you over the next few months?

I've been inspired by Alison Bomber of W0rdsandp1ctures.  I started off my card by playing with the gel press and a stencil with some Tim Holtz Distress Paints.  I think you can just about see the very soft image I eventually got after a couple of takes from the press.

I added some of Alison's gorgeous stamps from Paper Artsy Pressed Grasses Edition EAB40.  I think these are some of my favourite stamps of hers so far.  I found in my drawer an old Ranger Archival Ink called Seafarer which I didn't even know I had and I just adore this blue.  I'm going to definitely see if it's still a current colour in case it runs out of ink soon.  I used this colour and Versafine Morning Mist for the background stamping.  I then used a stamp by Sara Nauman ESN62 also for Paper Artsy.  This is a new designer for me and I loved this set with the gorgeous butterflies. I stamped the butterfly first then reinked it and cut out the butterfly and added it with some dimensionals. I cut the wings very gently to give them a bit of movement which doesn't really show up on the card. 

I'm adding this into the following

We Love Stamping = Nature 

Inkspirational - Stencilled background 

Creative Fingers - AG 

Just us Girls - Stencils 

Simply Ellibelle - from the garden 

PEARLY SPARKLES - CHALLENGE #109 - SHAPED CARD

Welcome back to Pearly Sparkles Challenge #109 and we are asking for your Shaped cards.  This was a challenge for me as I don't often do shaped cards so had to get some inspiration from You Tube and found this great looking card which to me screamed Art Deco and I had the perfect stamp set by Hunkydory. 

 I was inspired by this video by Sarah Trebilcock 

The background green papers were created using the gel press and a stencil.