HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS #420

Welcome back to another challenge for Hand Stamped Sentiments.  The weather here in the UK for nearly the whole of July was wet and miserable.  We even had to light a log fire the other evening - so Ice creams and the gorgeous images on our mood board are very far from my mind at the moment - but I can dream of Summer. 

Probably with that in mind I took my inspiration from the flowers on the bottom right.  I used an old leaf stencil for my background - giving it just a kiss of the ink, spritzing it and then adding it to the paper to give a very subtle imprint of the leaf.  I masked off part of the middle to add my mouse and my sentiment.  I used an old SU set Botanical Prints to create my flowers.  The little mouse is from Clearly Besotted. I added some background word stamping and some sequins to finish off the card. 

CAS - Clean and Simple

A bit of a change of direction from me today after all the mixed media and grunge.  Something Clean and Simple and hopefully Elegant for the Allsorts challenge.

I took my inspiration for the card from the sketch over at Retro Rubber.   I grabbed the old SU set Botanical Prints which I haven't used in such a long time and the flowers are so pretty I thought they could stand up to being CAS all on their own.   

On opening my stamp set I found some of the extra bits that came with this set so I used one of the cut outs to look like Trellis behind the flowers.  I stamped the flowers in Distress Archival Ink and Versafine Clair.  I used a stitched framelit to cut them out and layered them on dimensionals to make them pop a bit more.  The sentiment is from an old Simon Says Stamp set.

Simply Less is More - Birthdays 

Allsorts Challenge Blog - CAS

Retro Rubber - Sketch 

Double Trouble - fruity colours 

Sisterhood of Crafters - Flowers 

The flower Challenge 

MORE WATERCOLOURING

I'm still in a bit of a watercolouring phase - do you get like that with your crafting?    I fancied having a go at the As You See It Challenge and could just see a water colour background for their sketch. 

I used four Tim Holtz Distress Colours - Seedless Preserves, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers and Mustard Seed.  I don't use a lot of yellow really in my crafting as I'm more about the earthy grungy tones but I thought these colours inspired by Kristine Werner would give me the colour background I wanted.

I smooshed them on to the Tim Holtz mat and spritzed with water until I got the effect I wanted. 

I added a very thin strip of old Stampin Up DSP tapering it off to the outer edge.  I used Stampin Up Botanical Prints stamp for the flower and coloured in just the flower with the Picked Raspberry and Seedless Preserves.  I gently edged the circle with the Peacock Feathers.  The sentiment is from Tim Holtz. It is going to be my phrase for 2022.  I have a new home back home in my beloved Wales and life has turned a corner for my hubby and I and we are loving every minute of it. 

I used Tim Holtz watercolour paper to stand up to all the water.  I added some drops of Nuovo Crystal Drops in Wedgewood Blue.

I'm also adding this in the CAS Mix up again 

QKR Stampede- AG 

A Bit more time to Craft - AG 

Creative Crafters - AG 

Snarky Stampers - Ink

Inkspirational - GOAL - my sentiment is my phrase for the year 

Creative Fingers - AG 

BOTANICAL PRINTS

This lovely set was recently on offer from Stampin Up as it retires. At £40 off the price it was a real bargain!  I really like the stamp set and I have been playing at colouring in some of the black and white DSP which I haven't done before - they will probably show themselves on my blog in a while. 

In the meantime I wanted to have a little play with the stamps and some embossing paste.  I used some Powder Pink ink to add a hint of a colour to the embossing paste and used an SU stencil for the bricks.  I then took the flower stamp from the set and stamped one in Early Espresso and two in Basic Gray and coloured them in with Poweder Pink ink and an aqua painter with a slightly darker hint of colour in the middle.  

I sponged the edges of the card in Early Espresso and mounted it on to a piece of Grey card stock.  I added some retired satin ribbon and some pearls.  The flowers were added with dimensionals and a simple sentiment added in Early Espresso.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

Global Design Project - #gdp243 - Floral
Stamping Sensations - Flowers
The Sisterhood of Crafters - Favourite Technique - I love embossing paste - a bit late to the party but now I've found it - wow!
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes