What's That Coming Over The Hill...

 Good morning and a very happy Monday, I hope you had a lovely weekend! I'm back with the second of my projects for the Country View Crafts Spring challenge.

As usual, this is a combination of some of my oldest stash with some of my newest.

I started by brayering my background with some Amsterdam paints. I guess I should have cleaned my brayer better before I started lol.

Then I added some stencilling and foliage with the end of my paintbrush (which I then dropped hence the "red sky in the morning"

I've had these Tim Holtz dies for years and they've never been out of the packet, so it was quite a shock to see that the hand was cut into the card rather than cutting it out!

I LOVE my new Sam Poole alpha dies. They're the perfect size.

And what's not to love about these grumpy sheep!

My favourite uncle is 75 this year, so guess which card he's getting lol.

Susan has a great range of Tim Holtz goodies here, and Sam Poole here.

Have a very happy day whatever you are doing, and thanks so much for looking x

Joyful Flowers

Here's my sneaky peak for this weeks Creative Studio's piece.
Hope you like it xx

I'm So Excited, And I Just Can't Hide It....

...'cos I've been invited to join Gingersnap Creations as a visiting artist  for January. The theme this month is Get Organised, and this weeks challenge is to use a set/collection of stamps. I thought I would get organised by making myself a calendar page. This again has been inspired by the fabulous Kate Crane and her monthly pages.
I've chosen some of Sam Poole's Creative Expression stamps, Snowdays and a journal set. I love these stamps as they ink up really nicely, and they're not toooo fussy to cut out.
 The background has been inked with some Dylusion inks. It was going to be a blue page, but then I added a bit of yellow, and before you know it, it was green.  Funnily enough that happened the last time I used these two colours together - who knew eh! The trees in the background are mostly Tim's, and the children have been coloured with the Dylusion's and Inkadinks.
Please get yourselves over to Gingersnap Creations and check out the fab inspiration over there.
Thanks very much for looking x