A Little Bit of Ireland

Elizabeth is Hosting our Word Week over at

Just Us Girls and has chosen

Now if you look at the date -

St Patrick's Day is coming up soon and that was 

my first thought on where I was heading.

After searching every stamp set I have 

I couldn't find any 'lucky' ones and

that is where I was stumped for quite some time.

Eventually I went CAS with my favourite technique

using Lindy's Magicals in

Bells of Ireland (of course)

and found some tiny hearts hiding in my

drawer of old Cuttlebug Dies, cut a tiny stem 

inked the edges to give a little definition.

Sentiment is computer generated using the

Emerald Isle Font (naturally)

even got lucky inking the edges.

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Since we are talking about lucky!

I was lucky enough to spend time in Ireland

with my sister/husband niece and cousin

doing the tourist thing checking out the 

beautiful floral displays that are everywhere,

get a photo with an Irish Model (lol)

and couldn't go past Sweet Molly Malone

then as we were driving along I saw 

a sign that had MY NAME on it so 

asked the bus driver to pull up so I could get a photo.

(Lucky Me)

Hope you head over to Our Blog 

and see what is in store for you there.

Join in and you could be Chic of the Week and

in the running for our Guest Designer in May.

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As we start a New Month we welcome our

 March Guestie JoAnn Burnam. 

Thanks for visiting.

Live in the Moment!

Did you blink and February disappeared?

It did for me and found myself being reminded

the New Challenge for 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media was due.

Lucky for me it has been raining steadily all day

as well as last night so perfect day to get inky.

Sorry there are no progress photos this time

but a run down on how it was made

and products used.

So glad my playtime was creative and 

turned out quite nicely.

I used Canson 300g Cold Press W/C paper

inking up Tim's Crackling Campfire and

Peeled Paint inks for the background.

Stencilled AALL&Create Moc Croc and

Art Anthology with texture paste,

liking that it gave me a light colour.

Then on to some random stamping from

AALL&Create #28, That's Crafty Texture

and Visible Image Live in the Moment Sentiment.

Added touches of Lindy's Pumpkin Fiesta EP

on top of the texture paste in parts.

My dragonfly stamp was a gift from a friend.

Added some Nuvo Glitter gloss to the centre of the dragonfly

then sprinkled Lindy's Ponderosa Pines Olive

over the top and roughed it up a bit.

Inked some of the edges with the same powder

and Tim's Black Soot.

Tried a bit of gold wax on the dragonfly

but didn't show up enough.

Pop over and see what The Team created

and we would love to see your MM project

in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting.

Till next time -

A Bright Happy Happy Birthday

 We have had our February Hiatus and now we

craft on at STAMPlorations.

Time to showcase what I made this month.

Something a little different for our

Anything Goes Stencil Challenge

I started my card by inking up the

ARTplorations Art Splatters

with Tim's Oxide Inks in various colours 

then some watermarks with my fingers.

For an interesting background I  put the

CUTplorations Circles All Over Cover Plate

through my machine and adding

tiny red splatters before adding the

CRAFTplorations Happy Happy Stickers

Ran the

 CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitched Nesting Die

adding a frame and attaching to white card base.

Products used are

Head over and see what the Stencil Team have created

and come join in our Gallery for a chance to win prizes.

Check out the Guidelines Here

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