HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS - #HSSSC344

A great sketch for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments  #SC344.  True to form I've gone for a retired stamp set from Stampin Up but it's actually a new set for me - I bought it just for this lovely rooster - called Home To Roost - I quite like the font of the sentiments too so I think this is going to get a few inkings.

I started off with a piece of DSP from my stash - I'm not sure if this is SU as it was gifted to me but I just loved that colour blue.  I used some Lime Otter water colour pens to colour in the rooster giving him a lovely blue tail with lots of Spectrum Noir sparkle and a touch in his comb.  I then cut him out with a stiched framelit and added some Tim Holtz Speckled Egg to the background.  I simply stamped the flowers from the set in some Ranger Archival Ink. 

For the banner I cut out a piece of the same paper and used one of Tim Holtz's impresslits - I love these - they cut and emboss at the same time and give you a 3d effect. This one is stars and I think you can just make them out.  I added this behind the rooster and added just some linen thread.  The sentiment was simply stamped at the top.

 

STAMPIN IN THE GARDEN

The weather is so nice here in the UK at the moment - but just that bit too hot for me. My craft room gets very warm so I decided to camp out in the garden in my little Tiki hut and do some crafting.  I just grabbed a few stamps sets, and my new water colour brush pens that hubby had bought me and thought I would sit and do some water colouring.  One of the sets I grabbed was the retired Pretty Kitty from SU.  A cute one for water colouring.  

I used an old embossing folder from Kaisercraft called Tiny Floral for the background.  The little kitty was coloured in with Lime Otter water colour brushes and cut out with a stitched circle die cut.  I added a die cut to the bottom from Crafter's Companion.  The sentiment is punched out with an SU scallop punch and is an old set I got from a magazine.  The ribbon is from my stash and the doily is retired SU.

I'm adding this into Retro Rubber - #rrcb135 - top line 
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