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

Things with wings in July

Good morning and welcome to July. Summer really is in full swing now and it is ​of course time for a brand new challenge over at Country View Crafts. It's an exciting one for me as I am the hostess for this month. I have chosen for my theme "things with wings". I really hope to see lots of lovely projects shared over at the challenge blog and I will visit every entry even if I don't get a chance to comment. I will also be on the look out for my Top 3 and a DT special mention.

I thought I would try to give some extra things with wings ideas for you on my blog today. All the photos were taken by me and some are from my recent holiday.

One of your first thoughts at this time of the year might be............

dragonflies....

or perhaps butterflies......or bees

or birds?

Bats

but don't forget fantasy  wings too....

dragons....unicorns  or cherubims

fairies?

or angels (you could make a start on your Christmas cards)...yes I have said the C word V ;0)

 Perhaps the wings of a car..or a large house?

 Or an aeroplane?

I decided for my first share today to be slightly different and make a male card and to use planes as my things with wings....and not real planes...but paper planes 😂😃

First I stamped a background using the VI scripted streets stamps and added some gold embossing paste through a stencil.

When this had dried I added some more script stamping and a little more ink and distressed the background.

I die cut a weather clock and used the Turn back time sentiment

I then stamped and fussy cut out my paper planes. 

Mine are the brilliant Visible Image paper planes stamps from the Destination Unknown set which Country View is now stocking with free UK postage. 

I then put on my creative hat to put together my things with wings card, which has flown down to sell at Dotty's.

a couple of close ups of my paper planes

Remember that you can enter our challenge as many times as you like and combine with any other challenges. You many even be the lucky random winner of the £20 CVC voucher.
All the details can be find via this link.

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

Pixie's snippets playground #287/288 most of my card is made up of snippets
Simon says stamp Monday stencil it
Deep Ocean lots of layers
Simon Says stamp Wednesday anything goes

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. Have a lovely weekend.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x