More stamping today with the indigo blu stamps using black permanent ink then a little colour add with water colour pencils.

A butterfly card using the X cut die set and a embossing folder

Having a play with one of the new sizzix dies,I did find it quite difficult to get it to cut, in the end I used a piece of funky foam underneath the cutting plates and rotated the plates and kept putting them back through the big shot machine around 8 times in all . The cat is one of my friend Caroline's stamps, the background paper is from my stash.
Rose and butterflies are die cuts.

I have been playing around with a kit from craft  work cards today. 

Picture
 Made up of die cut butterflies and a little bit of stamping

Horse gift tag
I just love this  stamp,
 simply stamped on a die cut gift tag with distress ink

Little butterfly stamp.
I used versa mark ink then rubbed over the top with chalks.

More stamping with distress inks.

Mica spray background and my friends bird stamp.

Poppy stamp another of my friends designs.
stamped in black ink onto red card then cut out and decoupaged up.
The background is the same stamp with distress ink

I feel so lucky to be able to play with all these lovely stamps,
 so easy to use just stamped with distress ink

Just received some new stamps from my good friend these are her own designs.

Love this blackbird

This is a cheap ikea mirror.
I stamped onto the wood around the mirror and then cut some different  colours of crafting foil into squares which I embossed with  folders and then stuck around the mirror, the butterflies are also die cut from craft foil

This is a water colour painting I did  a few months ago.

I would like to learn to paint properly it's just finding the time

Up-cycled set of draws .

I rescued this set of draw  a couple of weeks ago,
we was fetching our son home from uni for the summer break,
 after clearing his room out we took the rubbish to the bins and this set of draws was thrown on the top of one of the skips ,
 so much to my son's embarrassment i rescued them.
They was just bear wood so I gave them a lick of paint and then choose some kay & co paper from my stash and glued this on having first inked around the edges ,
 and this is the finished item think they will look nice in my craft room  sure i could find plenty of stash to fill the little draws. 

Just love this card so clean and simple.
I stuck small beads in the middle of the daisy

Another of my friends stamps.

Messing around with distress inks

Alcohol inks

I watched Barbara Grey demo this  technique
 with alcohol inks and thought I would give it ago
The owl stamp is one of my friends stamps that she has designed.

embossing powder, ink and wet basil

Background of this card is embossed
with clear embossing powder then inked with distress inks.
The flower was made with basil card which was wet.

Old milk churn
covered in deco patch paper and given 2 coats of gloss varnish.

Something a little different today
This watering can is well over 60 years old, it belonged to my grand father then my Dad and was always used for the purpose it was made ( watering plants) then about 20 years ago came to live with me as a decorative item, mainly because it's really heavy when filled with water. Over the years it's  been painted many colours but this year I thought I would deco patch it  and i am really pleased with the effect I gave it 2 coats of gloss varnish on top of the deco patch paper and so far it as stood up to all the rain we have had.

Card created with one of Carolines stamps,
I  feel so lucky to be given these stamps to play with.
I stamped the tiger using Indigo Blu glue then put gilding flakes on,
The background of the card is embossed in a folder then sanded back to reveal the core colour of the card.The black corners are a die cut.

Aanother card using my friend Carolines stamp.
This time I stamped onto white card and coloured with water colour pencils,
the background as been embossed in a folder, the leaves are a die cut.