Dancing with the stars

Good morning. I hope you all enjoyed your weekends and found some time to get creative? We had no big plans so I took the opportunity to get some more new cards made for Dotty's.

I am here today with my next inspiration Design Team piece for Visible Image. I thought I would make something with the "Born to dance" stamp set which featured recently on Create and Craft TV. It is now back in stock on the Visible Image website here.

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For today's card I went for something quite different and used black,red and white for my colours.
I also chose to try a different posture for my ballet dancer...performing a jump rather than "en pointe". My daughter studied ballet for many years and even as a junior Doctor still attended classes. I am sure that one day she will get back to it when her busy life allows.

I stamped and embossed the words in black and red. I stamped a star border using the large and small stars in this set. I also added a red ribbon to her dress

and here she is once more....my Black Swan perhaps?

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

Ribbon Girl 3/3  March card challenge
Creative Inspirations 1/3 favourite stamp brand and why mine is most definitely Visible Image because their designs are so different to any other stamps on the market and their large bold images stamp perfectly every time.
Penny Black and More 2/3 anything goes
Sweet Stampin 1/3 anything but a birthday
Simon Says stamp Monday make your own background
Simon Says stamp Wednesday for a special lady/girl
Addicted to stamps and More make your mark
Deep Ocean dots and/or stripes my stars are all made up of little dots


....and talking of swans I mentioned in my last post here that Mrs Swan has arrived back on our local pond. She reappeared after quite a few months absence...

I wonder it there might be some cygnets as work in progress...I really hope so...

they are certainly inseparable again.

Thanks for visiting today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. Have a great week ahead and remember to enter the £80 voucher giveaway over on our Visible Image Facebook page...you never know it might just be your lucky week.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Dancing daffodils

We are enjoying a mellow weekend with the added bonus today that the sun has been shining and it was warm enough to enjoy a cuppa outside...bliss.

 There are dancing daffodils everywhere I look at the moment

It really is my spring favourite

 Drifts of them when I go out and about...

I have been so busy with DT work recently that I have had no crafty ME time. So today I decided to rectify this and looked at some challenges I have wanted to join in with. Lots are to do with spring. I have missed working in my art journal so I opened up the next page. I stamped, coloured and fussy cut out a daffodil. One of my fave challenges, A Vintage Journey is also celebrating it's 3rd birthday and inviting everyone "All aboard!"

PaperArtsy asked us to experiment with adding Infusions to different products. So  I tried Sleight Blue in modelling paste (I don't own any grunge paste) first..

 I wanted to create some swirling March wind...

Then I tore some packaging, added some PaperArtsy Snowflake Fresco paint and sprinkled it on. I added a little spritz of water! Yum!

The Craft Barn Calendar poem is all about March winds and daffodils but with the addition of Mad Hares so I found a Graphic Fairy image and even managed to reverse the image...now for me, being so computer illiterate that is a real achievement. I fussy cut these out

and made a swirling spring background with inks and Infusions

blending on a little more spring colour to my March winds as I went

I just went with the inky flow....no plan really just a little playtime.
So then it was time to put my page together....

My art journal page was made for these challenges;

PaperArtsy infusions with paint
A Vintage Journey all aboard
The Craft Barn 12 Month challenge March this is my March wind stirring my dancing daffodil and Mad Hares!
Craft Heaven 2/3  Keep calm love spring
Simon Says stamp Monday make your own background
Noor! UK spring
Double D 2/3 think spring
Creative Artiste 1/3 anything goes mixed media
More mixed media anything goes

I hope this lovely sunshine has reached you all too..but don't hold your breath...rain is forecast tomorrow. At least we have enjoyed one lovely day of the weekend. Thanks for stopping by.
I'm off out again to sit in the garden and enjoy some more warm rays while they last....

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Blossom

What a gorgeous day it's been today...blossom is bursting open everywhere...

 Even Mrs Swan has returned to the ponds....

 and it was 18c in the afternoon...wow!

My card was inspired by the beauty and simplicity of all the blossom around me...it's one of 3 Mother's day cards I have made for selling at Dotty's Tearooms.

The sentiment on the tag is Lili of the Valley. The background script is a now discontinued Visible Image stamp. The die cuts are my fave Tim Holtz..the original wild flower set.

I would also like to give a shout out for the candy over on the Craft Barn Challenge page here. They are giving away some amazing PaperArtsy Infusions (I used some to colour my die cuts above). Wow!


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

Ribbon Girl 2/3  March card challenge
Fussy and Fancy 3/3 anything goes
Stamping sensations 1/3 close to nature
Craft Heaven 1/3  Keep calm love spring
Penny Black and More 1/3 anything goes
Sweet Stampin 2/3 no designer paper
Simon Says stamp Monday make your own background
Simon Says stamp Wednesday for a special lady/girl
Addicted to stamps and More make your mark
Card Mania 1/5 pastel colours
The Artistic stamper 1/3 spring time
Noor! UK spring
Double D 1/3 think spring

I hope the sunshine made it to you today...if not I'll send some your way. Thanks so much for stopping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x