GD spot at Sir Stampalot :-)

How excited was I to be asked to do a guest designer spot at Sir Stampalot Challenge?? Yep,you've guessed, VERY excited lol. Well the day has arrived to share my project for this month's theme which is 'A Winter's Tale', as usual there is an amazing prize from Sir Stampalot and this month the DT are having a blog hop so there are some extra goodies on offer!!

My project is a little shadow box, inspired by the lyrics to the Queen song 'A Winter's Tale' and also by the beautiful view of the wintery sky and frosty houses one morning before Christmas. I certainly had plenty of time to admire it as we had loads of snow and my bus to work was an hour late lol. The sky was the most gorgeous pale peachy, pinks and pastel blue with wispy clouds and a big white moon hanging in the sky. I created the sky with my brayer, masking the moon and making the clouds with versamark and clear EP. I stamped a couple of little birds on the sky too.

I painted the inside and outside edges of the frame with gold acrylic paint and made a frame with an assortment of distress inks and a crackle stamp embossed with sparkly white EP.

The houses and trees are stamps from Elusive Images, coloured with promarkers and glittered with Judikins prisma glitter before being cut out and attached to the frame so that they are overhanging the edges.

The flowers are made from printed copier paper, layered up with dew drops in the centre, The feathers are from my stash and have been lightly sprayed with glimmer mists. The flourishes are cut with a marianne die and glittered with white glitter.

I'm also entering my project in the following challenges:

Gingersnap Creations Spicy Supply Challenge GC 82: White glitter

Stamp Insanity: Sparkle

Pink Elephant: Winter Wonderland

Stamptacular Sunday challenge: Snow much fun

Craft Your Days Away: Punch it out

Stamp something: Something with glitter

Thanks for calling by today, I hope you're going to join in this months challenge from Sir Stampalot! You never know you could win a cracking prize. I couldn't believe it when I won a cricut in their first challenge so don't forget you've got to be in it to win it :-)

Thanks also to Brenda and the lovely team at Sir Stampalot for inviting me to be Guest Designer this month, i've really enjoyed making this little shadow box and  the uber talented DT will have some fab creations to share so make sure you don't miss out on the Sir Stampalot Blog Hop

Happy New Year, I hope you aren't feeling too delicate this morning. I'm fresh as a daisy as we had a quiet night in, oh dear not having a hangover on New Years Day sounds like a sign of getting old lol.

Claire xx