WLS Aug #2 Flowers - foxgloves

Good Morning everyon

Time with our mid month inspiration for We Love Stamping where the theme is 

FLOWERS

So a nice easy theme this month, but we always have the anything goes option too as long as you use stamping

Ive made a little wall hanging picture using strong printed acetate from Stamperia as the base

A5 size. I first did the background which you can see below with photos.

I then stamped the Pink Ink foxgloves onto white card, watercoloured with derwent inktense penciils and cut out.  I also stamped bee using a stamp set from chocolate baroque and cut out, I did all the stamping using purple ink so its softer than black.

I stamped the sentiment using a paperartsy JFOY cut out and adhered with pinflair glue gel.

From green brusho coloured card I die cut memory box pine foliage border twice, off set and added to the bottom so it looks like the foxgloves are growing out of it. To finish i punched holes and set green eyelets in the top and threaded with green waxed cotton so it can be hung up

The printed acetate has a lovely shine to it and adds a different texture 

I gave the foxgloves and pine border a coat of mod podge to seal them

I first cut the printed acetate to A5 size and rounded the corners with my WRMK corner chomper - I did this so that less chance of injury as its very stiff and corners quite sharp if caught.

I then added torn strips of washi tape here and there - this aall&create tape has similar tones in purples, teal and green.  Then stencilled on foliage in a vintage white matt acrylic paint this helped to break up all the glossy shine from the solid acetate.  I then stencilled on smaller foliage with green and fuchsia dora paint which has a beautiful shimmer to it.  I added some green acrylic paint across the bottom where the foxgloves would be growing out from.  

To finish I edged the whole panel with fuchsia dora paint to frame it 

This is the acetate before use  - clear prints from Stamperia range 'Sleeping Beauty'

Items Used

Stamperia 'Clear prints' 'Sleeping beauty' SBA410

Pink Ink Designs stamp set 'flourishing foxglove'

Paperartsy JOFY stamp set 'jofy14'

Chocolate baroque stamps 'honey bee'

Memory box die - pine edge (very old)

Foliage stencils

Plaid folkart matt acrylic paints

Cadence dora paint - fuschia, green

Derwent inktense pencils

aall&create washi tape #50

ranger stickles 'twinkle'

versafine clair ink 'Monarch'

Mod podge matt

Our prize this month is a fabulous £25 voucher for Personal Impressions which have lots of fabulous goodies to tempt you with

So do hop over to We Love Stamping to join in and have a chance of winning the prize

Thank you for stopping by once again.  I hope you all have a good week. Emma

Id love to enter the following:

https://www.simplyellibelle.com/2025/08/ellibelles-garden-party-no-6-anything.html

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https://addictedtostamps-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/addicted-to-stamps-and-more-challenge.html

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https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-stencil-fun-challenge.html - I have used 2 different foliage/leaf stencils 

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https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

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https://dd-tripleb.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-2025-challenge.html

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https://paper-rocks-scissors.blogspot.com/2025/08/august-7-challenge.html  - used scissors to cut out the foxgloves and bees

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https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2025/08/august-challenge.html - bees

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https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2025/08/challenge-830.html - beginning with B - Blooms & Bees 

 

Creative Artist March - Bee Awesome

Good Morning everyone

Its time for a new challenge over at Creative Artist Mixed media blog where its anything goes with mixed media

Ive decorated a little mdf hexagon and gone with a summery bee theme...I did see a couple of honey bees out this week in my garden so things are beginning to warm up for them.

Approx Size 6x6"

See below for how i did the background.  My bees were stamped onto white card and the wings onto white vellum.  I watercoloured the bees bodies and cut out, i cut out the wings from the vellum and adhered below the bodies to hide the glue.  I curved their bodies and adhered into place with pinflair glue gel to give them a 3d appearance - leaving the wings free

Stamped sentiment onto white card and matted onto black, after alot of arranging and trying out i decided it fitted best in this corner and trimmed the edge to fit the edge of the hexagon.

I first added texture paste through a hexagon stencil, once dried i added acrylic paints - yellow, green & fuchsia pink. 

Once dry I dried brushed on white gesso

and then a light layer of fuchsia pink cadence dora paint which has amazing shimmer to it.  Im trying to step away from always using my gold tone finish.  I went with pink as a good contrast to the yellow of my bee

I had some scraps of mirror card that i had coloured with green and pink alcohol inks which fitted the tone here perfectly - but a real nightmare to take a decent photo of mirror card - trust me in real life it is lovely and bright!  I stamped the little honeycomb stamp onto it with black stazon ink, cut out and adhered. They catch the light adding another texture & dimension to the finished project.

I used a grey inktense pencil and added shadow around the hexagons on the background to really make them stand out.

'Bee Awesome' stamped onto white, cut out, matted onto black and added after working out best placement with the bees - this took longer than it might have!  

When trying to work on layouts i will often adhered it all with a little repositionable tape on the back and stand it up on my desk so I can keep looking at it - this is especially good when something isn't quite working.....when the answer finally arrives and usually it is only a little thing that can take a project from not working to Yes thats it! 

Items Used:

Pink Ink stamps  - 'queen bee'

Chocolate Baroque stamps - 'honey bee'

funky fossil mdf hexagon

funky fossil hexagon stencil

texture paste

Cadence dora paint

pebeo acrylic paint

papermania white vellum

silver mirror card

alcohol inks - pink & green

Do hop over to Creative Artist Mixed Media to see what the rest of the DT has created and to join in

My brother took our mum & I to 'The lost gardens of Heligan' this week, it was a beautiful spring day and quite a few bees were out among the spring flowers and with all the birds chirping it was lovely.  If you are ever in Cornwall its definitely worth a visit.     

Thank you all for stopping by once again.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2025/03/march-2025-stencil-fun-challenge.html

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https://2craftycrittercrazies.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-96-anything-goes-featured.html

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https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/miucb-76-anything-goes-optional-layers.html

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https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html

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https://www.stampingsensations.uk/2025/03/march.html

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WLS June Mid month

Good Morning all.

Its half way though June and time for more inspiration over at We Love Stamping - still plenty of time for you to join in and a chance to win lots of lovely prizes to help celebrate their 15th birthday.  The theme is fabulous florals or you can use the anything goes option

Ive used my well loved crealies XL arch dies to make my card blank for burnt orange cardstock.  I stamped the image twice and die cut the base layer into an arch and stencilled on umbrellas with gloss paste. Once dry I inked the edges with tumbled glass and salty ocean distress inks.  I took a stencil with a sun like circular swirl and inked through with yellow distress inks and then added diamond stickles over the top to give the effect of the shining sun.  

I then watercoloured the 2nd flowers with distress inks and cut out just the flower heads and decoupaged with glue gel onto the base image.  I then matted this onto a larger white arch and then the base card.

In my stash i found these bees left over from previous project which were the ideal finishing touch.

You can just make out the stencilling here, the umbrellas are a soft mint colour and the glittering circular sun

Items Used:

aall&create stamp set #529 'in the wild'

Chocolate baroque stamps 'honey bee'

Funky fossil umbrella stencil

Circular sun stencil

Cosmic shimmer glossy glaze 'spring mint'

Distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, wild honey, ripe persimmon, vintage photo, cracked pistachio, evergreen bough, tumbled glass, salty ocean

Ranger stickles 'diamond'

Thank you for popping by and don't forget to hop over to https://www.welovestamping.co.uk/ to join in with your floral or anything goes cards and be in with a chance of winning lots of stamps. Emmax

Id love to enter the following

https://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-115-no-design-paper.html

https://timeoutchallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/challenge-265-ibw-there-are-always.html - inspired by flowers

https://stencilfun.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-stencil-fun-challenge.html - anything goes option

https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2024/06/beautiful-blossoms-challenge-anything.html

https://dragonflydreamschallenges.blogspot.com/2024/06/june-challenge-tag-youre-it-or-shaped.html

 

Happiness blooms from within

Good Morning everyone

I had a couple of these pink ink foxgloves coloured in from a previous session so decided to use them on DL cards.  My foxgloves are just sending up flower spikes in the garden so won't be long until they are in flower, and this last week more and more bumble bees have come out of hibernation which is lovely.

White DL (4x8") cardbase.   I raided my background drawer for some that would go with the colour of the foxgloves which id previously coloured with inktense pencils and cut out.  This background i think was made with oxide inks as its more matt in finish.  I die cut it into a panel to fit the card front and stamped the foxglove stamp so that i got all the little swirly bits from the stamp and then decoupaged the coloured in version over the top. 

I stamped the quote from the set onto white card and cut into a strip.  I had a die cut using the fancy die i used for the topper that had moved while die cutting so i just cut the lacy edges off that were useable and glued to the back of my sentiment panel which i adhered in place with foam tape.   Bumble bees  were the ideal finishing touch.

I added posca pen to the dots on the foxglove centres to help them stand out and a touch of glitter glue to the bee wings.  

Version 2 , this time i took a brusho'd background which was very lime & lemon and i felt too bright for the apricot foxgloves so i dulled down the colour using white gesso with flower stencils.  It is very subtle and difficult to capture in the photo but its just enough to mute the background enough.  Then the only over difference to the first card is butterflies instead of bees.

Lavinia butterflies stamped onto white, watercoloured with purple distress inks to be a contrast to the apricot flowers, cut out and arranged. 

Items used:

Pink ink stamps 'flourishing foxgloves'

Lavinia mini butterfly stamps

Chocolate baroque stamps 'honey bee'

Art by marlene flower stencils

DL nested die set

Derwent inktense pencils

Brush's

Distress & Oxide inks

Thank you all for stopping by again.  I hope you enjoy the rest of the week and then weekend.  Emmax

Id love to enter the 1st card in the  following:

https://carabbiemomentsofcraft.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-challenge-244-wings-and-things.html

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https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/anything-goes-florals-with-optional.html

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https://thefourseasonschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/04/april-2023-anything-goes-spring.html

 

Crocus for mum

Good Morning everyone

Today im sharing the card Ive made for my mum for Mother's day

Approx size 7x7" I first die cut my cardbase using these fab inverted corner dies and then cut a smaller layer from cardstock coloured with brusho's, from this brusho piece i die cut the memory box circle burst from the middle, i added rose gold mirror card behind this aperture and attached the panel to the base card.  I then die cut 2 frames using the same shape dies and white cardstock, one i adhered flat to the base card and one i added with 2mm foam tape.......I ended up with the smaller inner frame which i added flat as after die cutting my frame I felt the aperture was too big.

I then stamped lots of the Chocolate baroque crocus stamps and watercoloured with distress inks, added some detail with posca pens and then cut them out.  I then got building up the arrangement with glue gel, tucking them behind the frame.  I then added a big bee that i had left over from previous project but it was the ideal touch as mum & I were watching the bees on her crocus the other day. 

Computer printed sentiment die cut into a circle to finish.

Just a close up, this lovely rose gold mirror card is from Crafters companion and the memory box circle burst die is still one of my most used and ive had it about 10yrs now. 

Items Used:

Chocolate Baroque stamps 'spring is in the air' & 'honey bee'

Memory box dies 'circle burst'

Circle & Inverted square dies

Brusho's - turquoise,lime

Distress inks - wild honey, vintage photo, evergreen bough, seedless preserve, shaded lilac

Posca pens - white, lemon, lilac

 Thank you all for popping by once again.  I hope you enjoy the rest of the week and then weekend.  Emmax

Id love to enter the following:

http://craftrocketchallenges.blogspot.com/2023/03/challenge-101-for-girls.html

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http://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2023/03/march-challenge-spring-blooms.html

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https://beautifulblossomschallenge.blogspot.com/2023/03/beautiful-blossoms-floral-challenge-3.html

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https://creativecraftinguncles.blogspot.com/2023/03/39-spring-and-or-easter.html

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http://sweetstampinchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/sweet-stampin-spring.html

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