Allsorts Mask or Stencil

Val has chosen our optional theme at Allsorts this time and it's 

Stencil or Mask 

I had a ball with this theme, once again stepping out of my comfort zone and I embraced BOTH!!

Started off with a very old stamp from Tracey Hey when her stamps were available at Mama Makes. I love this cute fox so stamped him twice, once on the marker card and then one on a sticky sheet. 

Masked him up and stuck the funky fossil stencil over the top and got inky!! 

A super prize from from Lisa Horton Crafts, Pansy Corner layering stencils with coordinating die and embossing folder. Plus an extra prize of two stencils....

I hope you all have a lovely weekend. I have to say it's been glorious in my part of the world, everything is looking greener and spring colour is everywhere.

See you soon xx

Stencil at Allsorts

I am way out of my comfort zone with my card today. Dena is hosting at 

Allsorts Challenge and her optional theme is Use a stencil.

I don't have very many in my crafty arsenal but this Funky Fossil one has been used a couple of times.

A lovely crafty friend gifted me some DI pads so I used those to create the delicate background in pink and lilac shades. The adorable little hippo is Trouble in a Tutu by Clearly Besotted (sadly retired but there are other cuties available!). I coloured her with Promarkers and popped her on the Whimsy Birthday die using foam tape. 

 Prizes from Oakwood (2 x A5 stamp sets) and Highlight Crafts (3 x A5 stencils)

Thank you for your continued support xx

Butterflies at Allsorts

Hello friends, hope you have had a good week.

It's summer here in the UK but there have been days where it's been questionable with driving rain and gales BUT we have had some sunshine too and visits from butterflies to the garden and house. 

This leads me really nicely to the optional theme at Allsorts Challenge this week which is

BUTTERFLIES and hosted by Dena

Now being a fan of cute stamps it was a bit of a tall order to find a butterfly in my stash but I had this beauty hiding away. I have a suspicion that it was a magazine freebie that I just knew I was going to need one day.

 I cut a Daisy Mae Designs tag and heat embossed the butterfly. I even made a mask and stencilled through a Funky Fossil Stencil using various inks. Then I coloured the butterfly to match. Oh and Chrissy....I splattered as well!! It looked a little bit unfinished so I stamped a couple of words from an old Paperartsy stamp set heat embossed in white and it finished off the tag a treat.

There are some lovely prizes up for grabs this month...

...provided by our generous sponsors Craft Stash, Anna Marie Designs, AALL and Create, Oakwood

I hope you have a good weekend xx

Allsorts Stencil

 Happy Weekend everyone!! So glad you enjoyed the party at Allsorts Challenge last week and well done to the lucky winners.

Back to business as usual and this weeks' optional theme is Stencils.

I do have stencils in my stash and like inks get a mental block when prompted to use them but this time I had SO much fun!!

I bought the stencil (a very long time ago) from Funky Fossil and used a selection of three Distress Inks and went to work. I die cut the Live, Love,Laugh die from the middle of the stencilled work and layered it up twice with white and once with black, which I offset. All that it needed was some gems. 

Our Sponsors for the month of June are below

Prizes from Sizzix, AALL and Create, Aldridge Crafts, Lavinia and Ruth Hamilton Design

I hope you will take inspiration and join in.

I hope you have a lovely weekend, we are in for an extra day off work, here in the UK and it looks like it's going to be a sunny one. Yay!!

See you the other side of the Bank Holiday xx