Sunday Stamper - Week 206 - Will It Go Round In Circles PLUS Giveaway

Gooooooodly Morning Stampers and a very happy Sunday to you all! As ever, thank you all so very much for all your gorgeously regal entries into last weeks challenge. This week I have chosen a simple old theme... which is... CIRCLES. To join in with the challenge is simples: make a little something - it can be anything you fancy - include the theme and some stamping and then pop back here and leave me a comment with a link to the place you are showing your entry. If you haven't got a blog/Flickr/Picassa, you can also enter via Facebook by uploading a photo to your profile and sending me a link, or by email. The challenge will remain open until 21:00 Saturday 26th May 2012. Onto the bit about the giveaway part of this weeks' challenge; if you leave me a comment on this post, I will enter your name into the hat to win my entry, if you also join in, I will add your name in twice. The winner will be chosen by Random.wotsit and will be announced on next Sunday's post.




My entry this week is one of my samples from yesterdays shows. It is a cornucopia of Studio 490 goodies, with some Grungepaper and Distress thrown in for goodly measures. I started out with the Circle Frame from the Art Parts Sample Pack, colouring the frame with Peeled Paint Distress Stain. I used some cardstock to make the middle bit, colouring with Antique Linen and Scattered Straw Distress Stains using a Wrinkle Free Distress technique. The little dotty bits on this design can also be "circles" too. I used Pale Ochre Archival to stamp the ledger background from the Art Works set and stamped the sentiment in Jet Black Archival (also from that set) I love that sentiment, it is a Mojo-busting wordage that I will be looking at whenever my mean old Mr Mojo decides to take a holiday lol



I then stamped 21 flowers from the Accents For Art stamp set *yes, I know, that flower again, told you I am in lurve with it and obsessed with using it on anything I can!* ...where was I? Oh, yes, stamping the flower onto Grungepaper, cutting out and then colouring front and back with Fired Brick DI. I then made them into roses (see Paper Roses tut in sidebar for the how-to if you didn't see yesterdays 5pm show) To go with the roses, I used a couple of leaves from the Not Just Flowers Art Parts set, cutting off the stems and then colouring them with Peeled Paint and overstamping with the large background from Accents For Art using Olive Archival. I added some of the fancy Crystal Pins from the shows to add a smidge of bling to the design. Oh and I used hot glue to stick the flowers onto the frame... all the rest is glued with Cosmic Shimmer glue - which is, quite simply, (IMO) the best glue in the world (said in my best Jeremy Clarkson voice lol) Thank you for all the lovely emails that you sent in, it is a shame that there wasn't enough time to read them all out... I truly appreciate all of them, so thank you muchly for your kind words and support.


Today is going to be "one of those days"... because... we are away to Wembley to see the Play Off Final between Luton Town and York. I am SO hoping that Luton win and manage to get out of the Conference and back to the League... if this game is anything like the last time we saw them at Wembley, I will be spending the day laughing hysterically, shouting and singing my head off and blubbing like a loon *and eating a nice big pie, well, it has to be done at a footy match right?* I know how much this means to Grim, he has been supporting Luton since he was a teensy little lad... which is a very long time *ahem* and in all that time he has only missed 2 home games *one of them was my fault, we'll say no more about that though lol* ... and after the past few very tough months, it will be amazing for him if they win. Right, I shall away... as ever, thanks for looking... have a fab day whatever you are up to... TTFN

Hels x