Changing Seasons at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there, how is your weekend going? We're having some lovely weather here in my little corner of the UK, its been so warm and sunny that its hard to believe its Autumn but the leaves are beginning to turn and the nights are turning chilly. Over at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, our theme this time around is 'Changing Seasons', chosen by yours truly! You've got a month to enter to be in with a chance of winning a $20 voucher to spend at Flonzcraft but don't forget we're a stamping challenge (no digis allowed)  so ink up those rubber/clear stamps and play along.

For My DT card I've used a couple of my favourite stamps from Art Nouveau Silhouettes large stamp sheet (a real bargain as you get 8 really good sized stamps from $16.99!

I've stamped them onto acetate and attached them to some card coloured up with alcohol inks using some pretty brads. The papers, little faux postage stamps, postcard and sentiments are all from Graphic 45, they've been distressed with Gathered Twigs distress ink and layered up on kraft card.  I've added lace, dark green seambinding topped with a button behind the images/

I've adde some paper flowers, pine cones, berries and lots of leaves. I made the leaves using Justrite stamps which I stamped onto a masterboard made with alcohol inks on glossy card, I cut the leaves out, die cut a few more leaves from my masterboard and scrunched them all up a bit before popping them on my card. 

Here's another pic of the images, I love these glamourous ladies. I certainly don't look as elegant when I walk my dogs lol.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting by Designs: All about Autumn

Crafting for all Seasons: autumnal hues

Cut it up: Back to nature

Frillie and Funkie: Autumn splendour

Fussy and Fancy: autumn colours

Mod Squad: get your 'Fall' on

My time to craft: autumnal colours

Wags'n'Whiskers: use a die cut

If you've got time, pop over to the challenge blog and check out my teamies inspiration. As always they've created some gorgeous artwork

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Flowers at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi folks, well the last two weeks have gone by so quickly I'd totally forgetten it was challenge day at Fashionable Stamping Challenges lol. So better late than never here is my DT make for our 'Flowers' challenge. As ever our lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher from Flonzcraft, don't forget you need to make sure that stamping is the focus of your project, no digis allowed!

Ive altered a frame from the pound shop, giving t a coat of gesso and then dry brushing on acrylic paint in pastel shades of yellow, blue, green and pink. Once that was dry I stamped on some text here and there in London Fog memento ink.

I filled the frame using some of my favourite stamps from Flonzcraft, coloured with Graph'It markers. I also added some scraps of backing paper and some flowers made with thermomorph and painted with acrylic paint. I've added some faux pearls, a metal corner embellie, some stamped butterflies and some rose lace trim that I coloured with distress inks. At the top of the frame I used a Justrite stamp to create the frame and sentiment and topped it off with a glass cabochon. To finish off I added a seam binding bow.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

2 sisters: make your own embellishments

Fussy and Fancy: summertime

Its all about the vintage: summer garden

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Sugar Creek hollow: floral

Thanks for popping by
Claire xx