Spring morphs into summer

Good morning, what a lovely week of weather we enjoyed in the south; long hot sunny days.
 I promised I would share a few more photos of our Sicily holiday. A place my Hb and I walked to most days was the public park, just below the amphitheater. The shade found there was most welcome and it was a blissful spot to sit, eat lunch and watch the world go by.

 The gardens were built in the 1890s by an rich English aristocrat lady who lived in Taormina.  She had several follies erected where she could paint. Below is one of them.  Sadly you cannot go inside any of them now as they are not safe.

How amazing it must have been to sit at one of those windows, look out to the view and paint. Wow how I would love to sit there and craft but I am not sure the floors would not even hold a paint brush now.

It is also time for my weekly Visible Image design team project and today I am sharing 2 tags which I have called my spring and summer tags using the more stamps from the wonderful June release.
I took some inky mop up card and added vintage photo distress oxide through the
Cosmic skies stencil



I used the Tree of life stamp set

I then took some spring feel inky card from my stash and stamped the 2 leaves multiple times and fussy cut them out.

I stamped my images and the sentiment onto the tag and paper pieced the leaves.

I then took some summer feel inky mop up card, die cut a tag and added squeezed lemonade distress ink (such a summery name!) through the
Atomic flower stencil

I stamped my images and the other sentiment in the set onto this tag using Versafine Clair  and paper pieced some more of the leaves again.

I added Glossy Accents to the little bubbles on the leaves for some extra texture.
Here are the finished tags.
Spring

summer

both together

and one last shot

I would like to enter my tags into the following challenges;

Creative fingers 2/3 anything goes
Through the craft room door 2/3 anything goes
Crafty sentiments 2/3 bright colours
Simon says stamp make your own background
Love to craft 2/3 anything goes
A bit more time to craft 2/3 anything goes
Happy little stampers 2/3 anything goes
Craft Stamper take it make it July

All the Visible Image links can be found here;

Visible Image group page on Facebook. Our friendly Group is here ...it would be lovely to see you there. You will see lots of gorgeous makes by the DT and customers to inspire your own creativity.

The main Visible Image Facebook page is here; there are regular giveaways...open world wide.

And the shop web site is here; where all their gorgeous stamps and stencils can be purchased.

I had a fabulous day yesterday demonstrating for the lovely Jame and Emma of Stampers Grove at the Stamperama Stamping Show at the Newbury Race course. James took some action shots which he will send me but this is a photo he took for me before opening time. The day just raced by.

I so enjoyed showing my samples, demonstrating and sharing tips and techniques with all the lovely crafters who stopped by.  I also met several lovely ladies who I have known for a while via Facebook or blogging and I have now had the pleasure to meet them in person. Such fun! I will be back with a post of the day later this week. 

I have another quick heads up for THIS Thursday, 11 July. If you are in the Carshalton area I am appearing at Dotty's Teahouse where my cards are sold at their first Meet the Maker event. Do stop by I will be sharing lots of tips and there will be live inky demos at 11am and 2pm!

It would be lovely to see you there plus Dotty's homemade cakes are legendary! 

You will find Dotty's at High Street, Carshalton, Surrey, SM5 2AE.

Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x