Sunday Stampers - Week 17 - Little Old Wine Drinker Me

Good morning and happy Sunday to you all,

Today is a very special Sunday Stamper day as I have a very special guest designer setting the challenge!

Cynthia, whom many of you will recognise as Rainbow Lady, has very kindly offered to set the theme for us all. If you haven't already guessed, the theme is Wine. However, if you are crafter of refined tastes, you can always upgrade to Champagne :O))

Now, this one really is a challenge for me as I haven't got any decent stamps that have wine bottles or glasses featuring on them. I have got a pack of acrylic Royal & Langnickel stamps that have a little wine glass, but alas, they are so old that when I tried to peel it off the storage acetate it tore!!! Eeeek, what to do?

Well, all was not lost as I managed to peel the grapes image off very carefully and inking the stamp with ColorBox chalk inks I managed to stamp a border - I masked each image so they overlapped.



Next, I rummaged in the depths of the stash cupboard and found a QuicKutz die that is wine glass shaped and punched a couple of these out of white card. I then inked them with the same ink as the grapes and then set to making an ATC. You see, I started out making a card but lack of sizeable stamps meant that a card would have looked very bare, thank goodness for ATC's!!

I tore the border and stuck this to the ATC, then I added the two wine glasses and then used Alpha stamps to make the word Vino.

Finally, I set an eyelet with my Crop-A-Dile and tied ribbons thru it and then added a little bunch of grapes charm.

To celebrate the Sunday Stamper having a Guest Designer, I have decided to offer up some Blog Candy. In order to put yourself forward to win the Candy, please make your challenge item and then post on here, letting me know where you are showing your work of art. The winner will be chosen at random, by means of Grim picking a name out of a hat, on Sunday morning next week (25th May).

Here are a couple of cards that Cynthia has made for the challenge:




If you would like to be a Guest Designer on the Sunday Stamper, please can you drop me an email and I will add your name to the list - don't forget that I do try to have a song title to go with the theme....cos I just want you all to be humming and singing all Sunday long :O))





Here is the piccie of the Blog Candy that is up for grabs when you join in this weeks challenge - included are some stamped images, 6x6 K & Co papers, StandOuts, CraftyBits wooden hearts, fibres, ribbons, gold HOTP card embellies, felt stickers and a little tag book that was free with ScrapBook Inspirations :O))





Have fun and get inky and messy!

Hels xx