Summer Blooms at We Love Stamping

Lynn is in the driving seat at We Love Stamping this month and her optional theme is

SUMMER BLOOMS

Here is my inspiration for you

I used a lovely, lovely red rubber stamp from Stamping Bella, she's called Tiny Townie Garden Girl Rose and the papers Docrafts Simply Floral. I coloured rose with Promarkers and framed her with a scalloped oval of vellum. I have drawers full of Wild Rose Studio paper flowers so thought I would take the opportunity to use four of them!!

 

Two prizes, Penny Black stamp and stencil and another stamp from Buddly Crafts (photo's not to scale).

I hope that you will be inspired to join in this month.

See you soon xx

Colours of Summer at Allsorts

I have the honour of choosing the optional theme at Allsorts Challenge this time.

It's Colours of Summer and here is what I made.

 Inspired by this...

Where's Bowie 🤣🤣

I think I have managed to incorporate most of the colours. I used a very old stamp set called Zinnia by Flourish stamps that I think came from Waltzing Mouse Stamps a very long time ago. I coloured the stamped image with Promarkers, added glossy accents to the vase and lid and stickled around and on the image. The card base was covered with some scraps of Doodlebug Designs papers that luckily matched!!  As you can see our summer garden is bold and beautiful. We pack in the bedding plants tightly to leave as little space as possible as Bowie really does love to dig holes and lie in them to keep cool!!

One prize, Butterfly stamp and stencil from Visible Image

                        Many thanks for your company and I shall see you again soon xx

Favourite Safari animal at As You Like It

 Hello friends and visitors, we are on safari at

and would love for you to share your projects featuring your favourite Safari Animal.

I don't have a favourite, as such, but I am rather partial to this adorable rhinoceros stamp from  Tracey Hey Set Rhino Rascals.

I used a Dovecraft paper pack "More or Less" to make the base and coloured the rhinoceros with Promarkers to match.

Thank you for popping in today, your visit is always much appreciated xx

Seaside at Allsorts

Val has chosen a perfect optional theme at Allsorts Challenge 

it's Seaside and here is what I made to tempt you.

 I have used a mix of paper pads, a Craftwork Cards 8x8 pad and the beautiful sketched shell is from a 12 x 12 scrapbook paper collection. It's a flippy kind of design that I made for my Uncle's recent Birthday. I am on a mission to be more creative with my card shapes...we'll see how that goes!!

The prize for the winner is...

                                    Collection of stamps for one winner from Stamp Addicts

That's all for now. See you soon xx

Summertime at We Love Stamping

It's reminder time at 

WE LOVE STAMPING 

There is still heaps of time to join in our Summertime theme, Anything Goes also welcome.

Now, for me, summertime means strawberries. I bought some plants earlier in the season that, sadly, did not do well. Jackson did manage to "borrow" a couple though!! Anyway, strawberries were very much in my mind when I made this...

I went a bit "shabby" and used  a Maja Designs paper pad, one of those that I bought to look at rather than use. For a change I inked with shabby shutters to compliment the leaves and roughed up the edges with my scissors. The stamp is, again, an old one that is from another Crafters companion set that I bought from shopping telly back in the day. I coloured him with pencils and resisted the temptation to use blending oil but was still happy with the result.

We are still baking here in the UK. Our fields are parched, we have more tomatoes than we know what to do with and the dogs are walked and the pony ridden before the local world is awake!!

I hope that you have a good weekend wherever you are. See you in a bit!!