Hand Stamped Sentiments - IC391

Here's our mood board for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments - what will you choose to inspire you?  I chose the bottom left picture of the meadow.

I started by blending some Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks in Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire for the sky and Bundled Sage for the grass at the bottom. The tree stamps are from Visible Image stamps Into the Woods.

The flowers are from Tim Holtz Flower Jar. The grass stamps are from an old SU set High Tide.  The sentiment is from Tracy Evans set Pinecone.

613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes with optional twist In the Garden

It's time for another month's challenge over at 613 Avenue Create - always Anything Goes but there is an optional twist. This month it is In The Garden.

I started with some brown card stock and stencilled over it with some Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Walnut Stain.  I used Tim Holtz Flower Jar stamps for my flowers.  I kept the colours soft and delicate using Distress Inks and an aqua painter brush.  The stencil above is from a very old stencil I have which I've used for stencilling on furniture in the past and I couldn't resist using the French term for garden. 

To keep with the shabby chic look the card seem to be going towards I tore the edges and inked with Antique Linen Distress Ink and added some lace and a button and thread.

I'm adding this into the following challenges:

A Bit More Time to Craft - AG

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - AG 

A Perfect Time to craft - AG

The Paper Players - Springtime Flowers

We love Chocolate Baroque - Springtime 

Inkspirational - Grow

Snarky Stampers - Distressed 

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS - #ICC358

We have a mood board for you this week at Hand Stamped Sentiments.  A tricky one for me as I don't actually have any succulent stamps so I went with the colours and created a spring garden flower scene.  I'm sure there are lots of us who can't wait for Spring to arrive. 

I used some Tim Holtz Stamps from his Flower Jar collection.  I stamped them in a brown rather than a black so they weren't too harsh.  I used Distress Inks and a paint brush to colour in the flowers.  The birds are from an old TH set and the sentiment is from Kaisercraft.  I added a sparkling butterfly as you need to have a butterfly on some flowers! 

SWEET STAMPIN - THANK YOU

Our challenge this week at Sweet Stampin is thank you.  I chose to do a tag for my thank you and not a thank you for a gift but a thank you for a friendship that has seen me sane over the past year.

I started out with a Tim Holtz tag die to cut out my tag.  I added lots of layers of papers from TH Christmas pack and then covered with some gesso.  I added layers of ink, stencils and some texture paste.

I used Tim Holtz Flower Jar stamp set and cut out the jar and flowers by hand.  I used Distress Inks to colour in the flowers.  The butterflies are from TH Ideaology packs.  

The sentiments were some I had in my stash of stamps and I added some SU ribbon to the top and the bottom.  I even added a brad!!