Summer in print

I am delighted to be in print again..this time in the August edition of Craft Stamper...

If you don't buy the mag, when you're next in WH Smiths have a peep...I'm on page 57.

The brief for my card was "Summer meadows", the colours were yellow, green, mauve and purple with wildflowers, sunshine and delicate floral forms.
These ideas were translated by me into my version of summer meadows. I went for a very CAS card this time.

I used my 3 shades of distress inks and created a background for my stamp.

I then stamped my Inkyliscious meadow stamp 

I die cut an oval into my card and also die cut some of my TH wildflowers using some inky card

below is my finished card

and here it is in the magazine...it's such fun seeing them together.

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

Sweet stampin 2/3  holidays/summer
Noor anything goes
The Artistic stamper 2/3 all things bright and beautiful
Dies r us 2/3 outdoor fun
Cupcake inspiration 2/3 flowers #365
Penny Black and More 1/3 anything goes with a stamp
The ribbon girls 1/3 any card
Try it on Tuesdays happy holidays I love to walk in the countryside on mine.
More mixed media anything goes/pastel colours
Addicted to stamps and more 1/3 anything goes
Creative Inspiration 1/3 seaside/sunshine/summer holidays I have chosen sunshine and summer holidays

I had a lovely time with Daisy on Monday and yesterday us 3 girlies managed lunch at the seaside in the sunshine. Bliss.

I am back tomorrow with my 2nd DT inspiration piece for Country View, I do hope you can pop back to see what I have made.

Thanks for your kind visits and sweet comments, especially for my last post.The sun seems to be staying for a while here...I hope it is shining on you all too.

Back on Friday,

Bye for now,

Jane x

My spring birdsong publication

My complimentary copy of craft stamper finally popped through my letter box on Friday morning which had my Birdsong card published inside. As promised here are some photos and a little about how I created my card.

I took a photo of my card with my card ;0)

I also spotted someone taking a snooze on my kitchen window sill, oblivious to what was going on inside.

My darling Billy.

The original brief was to use the set colours to make a card featuring birds, branches, spring trees or bulbs and to team these with Kraft paper and raffia. Everything I used can be seen in the first photo showing my materials.

This is what I got up to. First I blended some distress inks on my card and added some splashes of water. I then stamped using PaperArtsy and Tim Holtz stamps and various shades of Archival inks.

I stamped my PaperArtsy tulip onto book paper which I had also coloured with DIs.

I made my flower pot out of stripped card packaging and added a raffia bow. I have had a packet of raffia in my stash for about 5 years and never used it. I nearly threw it away last year but like every good crafter, who keep everything, I was really glad that I still had it.

So here is a few close ups of my card.

I would like to enter my spring card into the following challenges;

A Vintage Journey spring is in the air

That's Crafty 3/3 all things bright and beautiful

Noor anything goes

Pixie's snippets playground #224 I used a snippet of packaging for my pots, a tiny snippet of raffia and snippets of my book pages for the tulips.

Card mania 2/5  spring

The Ribbon Girl 1/3 any card goes

Crafty Boots 1/3 use a sentiment

Mod Squad 2/3 show us your background

We love to Create 1/2 #8 anything mixed media

I hope you had a lovely weekend. We managed a few sunny walks between the showers and a cuppa or 2 in the garden which is always bliss. I also got my April Tim tag made...goodness me I had to think outside the box for this one....I had none of the ingredients he used this month.

Today has started sunny and incredibly mild but we have rain on the way for later on.  Thanks for visiting me here today and for the lovely comments you take the time to leave.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x