SWEET STAMPIN - GINGHAM/PLAID

Our challenge this week at Sweet Stampin is to use some gingham/plaid on your cards.  I cheated a bit by using a piece of old SU DSP I found in my stash in this gorgeous purple colour for my background.

I added a tag using some stamps from Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers and used some Tim Holtz distress inks and a watercolour brush. The sentiment is from the same set - the ribbon is very old SU which I found in my ribbon box.

SPRING FLOWERS

What a wet and miserable May we are having in the UK at the moment - heavy showers have knocked all the blossom off the apple trees and the spring flowers are looking sad.  One of my favourites is the crocus - such strong little flowers pushing their way up through snow and hard ground just to cheer us all up.

For my card today I've taken one of the lovely stamps from Simon Says Stamp Thoughtful Flowers.  I have already cut out a mask for this crocus so used it for this stamp. I started by using a stencil from Clearly Besotted with the umbrellas which is perfect for our weather at the moment.  I then coloured in the crocus with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Crushed Olive for the leaves and a mix of Squeezed Lemonade, Spiced Marmalade and Fired Brick for the flower.  The sentiment is from the same set.  I sponged the edges and layered it onto a piece of card stock from Stampin Up.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

As You See It - favourite first flower of spring

We Love Chocolate Baroque - Bright sunny colours

Dare 2B Artzy - Flowers

Stamping Sensations - Flowers

SIMPLY SAID.... WITH FLOWERS

I love this stamp set from Simon Says Stamp called Thoughtful Flowers.  I chose to use the lovely snowdrop for my card today and some artistic licence as they should really be white not yellow.  However I was following the colour challenge over at Sunday Stamps SSC255 which asked us to use particular colours of blues and greens.

I used a Ranger Archival Ink called Seafarer to stamp my images - somewhat softer than just using black.  I then used some Tim Holtz Distress Inks for my water colours - the colours I used were Mustard Seed, Mowed Lawn, Crushed Olive, Tumbled Glass and Salty Ocean.  There is a touch of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen on the butterfly.

I used a Stampin Up stencil for the clouds.

I'm also adding this into the following challenges

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday- Send Hugs

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Cheerful Colours

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS - #IC361

Another lovely Spring Moodboard for you from Hand Stamped Sentiments this week. I hope you all managed to have a nice Easter.  We actually had some nice warm weather in the UK and we were finally, after 3 months, able to see up to 6 friends or family as long as it was outside.  We were all so grateful that the sun shone for us!  

I chose to do a tag for my project today.  I started off by stamping my images on to the card stock and then masking them off.  I used a stamp set from Simon Says Stamp called Thoughtful Flowers. Once the masks were in place I used 3 Distress Oxide Inks in Chipped Sapphire, Salty Ocean and Fossilised Amber.  I don't have an awful lot of the oxides so my choices were a bit limited but I think these go lovely together.  I added a spritz of water before removing the masks.  

I added some greenery at the bottom with some Archival Ink in Peeled Paint.  I used a Spectrum Noir Sparkle paint in clear for all the masked pieces to give them a shimmer.  A tough of twine at the top and layering onto some cardstock finishes off this tag.  This is to go on a friend's 40th birthday gift so I hope she likes the tag as well as the gift! 

I'm adding this into the following challenges

The Flower Challenge - Pretty Pastels

Try It On Tuesday - Hello Spring

Dream Valley #245 - Springtime 

Make My Monday - Easter or Spring

Inspiration Challenge - image

Use Your Stuff - moodboard 

QKR Stampede- AG