STAMPlorations things with wings special

Hello and welcome to a new STAMPlorations special of which I will be a part of for the coming year. This particular event is called "Things with wings".

This feature will be every 2 months on the 3rd Monday of the month and today is its first appearance. All the details are here. I have linked all the products I have used to the website which you can find here

For the October special I decided to make one project using some autumnal images and as most people are now getting into full swing Christmas card making I thought the other project should be Christmas related.
Do grab yourself a cuppa, pull up and seat and join me in my creative process.

The products I worked with for my autumnal card were;
My favourite Trendy birds 2 stamp set

 the gorgeous 

autumn falling stencil 

 a sentiment from the brilliant wanderlust expressions 1

and the lovely perched birds from the  For the birds die set

I sprayed a little faded jeans distress ink onto watercolour paper and added more distress inks through the stencil, overlapping as I went. 

I added a little more green ink and then stamped some of the birds and 2 of the sentiments.

I stamped the wanderlust sentiment separately and die cut it into a square. I also die cut the perched birds.

I then put my design together. Here is my finished card

with a close up

For my Christmas card I used;

Holly background stencil

with the delightful Christmas angel die.

The winter stitched landscape die (which is one of my favourite dies)

and a couple of sentiments from the lovely Homespun Christmas stamp set

Here is my process;

I used distress sprays on card stock

I then applied green glitter paste through the stencil with a palette knife.

I die cut the angel using glitter card and cut down the background using the stitched winter landscape die

I stamped and white embossed the sentiment and put my design together.

You may also notice the gorgeous flat sequins I have used

These are Shery's Shaker blends made for Shaker cards but I love them just as flat sequins stuck onto my cards.

There are lots of colours and I used the sparkly green and mocha swirl mixes. Do check them out they are only $4 a bag too!

As I had a piece of holly background left I made a 2nd version of my card, this time using mirror silver card for the angel. 

Funnily enough I think I prefer this version...what do you think?

If you leave a comment here and/on the store blog you could also be the lucky randomly chosen winner of a $15 gift code to spend on the website. One winner will be chosen from all the comments left on the special October Things with wings posts.

Thanks so much for staying til the end of my post. I will be back with my 2nd Things with wings installment on December 16th. 

Remember if you would like to buy any of the products I have used from the website just enter my code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout to get 20% off on top of any current discount being offered.This is a direct link to the web site

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x