Sampling...

...cor blimey, tis chillywillybilly outside today! Did you have any snow? Well, I was all excited, nose against the window yesterday afternoon when it started to snow at about 4pm... and then stopped... and then started again at about 5pm and it snowed right through until at 1am. And oh boy, the snowflakes were like proper old fashioned ones... not those mean little pebbley types, oh no, these were big fat flakes... but... even though it snowed for all those hours, only about an inch stuck to the ground... and today it is a beautiful sunny day... and freeeeezing. AlfieCat is most disgruntled because he wants to go and catch himself a nice mousey treat but he hates putting his paws into the snow... I wonder if I could get him some welliebobs?


Anyways... a couple of samples from last week on today's post... the first is a tag; coloured by smooshing Picket Fence and Dusty Concord Stains onto my craft sheet, spritzing the tag with water and then dipping it into the inky mix. The leafy border stamping was done using Peeled Paint DI and the sentiment is stamped in Jet Black Archival. The stamps are from the Studio 490 It's More Flower Art set and the birdy and cage are Spellbinders (looove these!) The cage is coloured with Black Soot Distress Stain and Birdy was coloured by blending Milled Lavendar and Dusty Concord DI's over him... and then adding some Glossy Accents onto the embossed bit on his wings.




This card is made using the same stamp set - the big old background is stamped with Wild Honey Distress Ink that was spritzed with water before stamping so it is nice and fuzzy, I dried this and then edged the whole card with Fired Brick DI. The flower is made up from stamped Grungepaper, a little Floral Art Part and a bit of foliage from the Leaves Art Part pack. The border across the middle is stamped with the leafy border in Peeled Paint with Fired Brick dots onto the flowery bits... and then Glossy Accents popped onto the flowery bits to make them pop. The centre of the flower is actually a bit of the diecut from one of the Spellbinders that was on the show, coloured with Fired Brick DI and given the Glossy Accents treatment.

Well, that's me for today, I am having a grand old time playing, I mean making.. class samples for my forthcoming classes at The Stamp Attic on March 3rd and 4th... if you fancy a day out, getting inky, eating chocolate and having a fun time, HERE are all the booking details! Thanks for looking... keep warm and stay safe out there.... TTFN

Hels x

PS... tomorrow... there will be a Show & Hels for the Picket Fence "Resist" technique... a winner of the Art Part giveaway (if you haven't commented, click HERE) and... another ickle giveaway too ;o)) Busy, busy eh!