ON THE WILD SIDE

Another play with the new stamp sets from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs - TE50 On the Wild Side and TE45 Dog Rose and Butterfly.  I created the background with some Distress Oxide inks then added the stamping.  The butterfly was cut out and popped on dimentions and has lots of sparkle.  I love the extra ephemera pieces in TE 45 too.  I added a pop of colour as everything else had been stamped in Versafine Portobello or Black.  

This fits in perfectly with the Just Us Girls challenge and their mood board 

Stamping Sensations - AG 

We love2create - AG

We love stamping - AG 

Allsorts - AG 

Ellibelle - from the garden 

Simon Says Stamp - Monday - make your own background 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #494

Welcome back to another Any Occasion challenge at ATSM.  It's been a while since I've created one of these style of cards where you mask off the middle and stamp around the edges.  

I used a variety of stamps from Tracy Evan's Boutique Designs and some extra foliage from Alison Bomber.  I used some new Posca pencils to colour in. Oops - I don't mean Posca pencils sorry - I meant Prismacolor pencils.  I do like the vibrant colours they give.  I used to Versafine ink colours in similar colours of pink and green to create the sentiment. 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE BIRTHDAYS #493

Another birthday challenge this week at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I started off my card using some Distress Oxide in Dusty Concord.  Purple is not a colour I often use but I thought I'd go for all the purples with this one.  I smooshed the ink onto the mat added water and then picked up the ink on the paper and left it to dry.  You never know what sort of background you will get.

My flower which is from Tracy Evans stamps was stamped in Wilted Violet and clear embossed.  I then used Tim Holtz water colour pencils in the purples to colour it in.  I added one of Tracy's fern stencils at the bottom and various background stamping in a very faint purple.

INSPIRATION STATION #71

It's time for another challenge for Inspiration Station this month featuring these cute bunnies and I look forward to seeing how they inspire your creativity this month. 

I used a couple of products from Tracy Evans Boutique Designs and some of Tracy's older stamps for my card.  I first stamped the gorgeous snowdrop in Versafine Verdant and Shady lane - adding both colours to the stamp to get a variation of colour.  The background stamping are also Tracy's stamps.  

I then used one of Tracy's new stencils the hare SS2 to create my hares using Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink and Tim Holtz Crackle Paste.  I cut them out and added them to some burlap ribbon on the bottom.

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #484 - ANY OCCASION

Happy New Year and welcome back to our challenges for 2025 at Addicted to Stamps and More.  We start off the New Year with Any Occasion so really anything goes. 

This is definitely not my usual colour palette as I tend to go for the grungy type of colours - I must just be craving some spring weather after all the miserable cold weather we've had lately.  It seems to have gone on for months here in Wales especially as we didn't have much of a summer.  I used some Versafine Clair inks in Baby Pink and Avodao and used Tim Holtz watercolour pencils to colour in the flowers with Villanous Potion and Picked Raspberry. 

I used one of Tracy Evans Boutique Stamps set called Malva TE8 for the main flower and added some of the stems from the Persicaria from TE13 Delight in Nature.  I have this plant in my garden and didn't even realise and I have even managed to make cuttings.  I stamped a smaller Mallow stamp from the set and added a pearl to the inside.  The background word stamping is from another of Tracy's stamps TE9 Take Flight.  The butterfly and the sentiment is from an old Simon Says Stamp set called Thoughtful Flowers. 

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Creative Inspiration - AG

Outlawz Challenge - AG 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - CAS 

Simplyellibelle - Wed - AG 

Beautiful Blossoms- AG 

Creative Crafters - AG