Sunday Stampers - Week 297: Bright Colours - Sunday 2nd March

Hello Friends,

March already...I like March....Spring is (hopefully) around the corner and it's also my Birthday  this month! Yay!!

Yesterday it really did feel like Spring, it was gorgeous! Tom was even out pruning the vine with the help of the hens! Every afternoon, the hens have their corn balls: little plastic balls, which I put some corn in and they chase around the garden to knock the corn out. One of them has worked out that she can grab it with her beak, toss it in the air and when it lands it all spills...little monkey! So yesterday, I took us a cuppa out and we sat on the bench watching them and after they've finished, Penny, our great big fluffy Orpington always comes up for a cuddle...and you know I can't resist that!

I'm sorry to have been posting less than usual of late, but I have been crafting. This month I have a Spring craft fair and workshops to prepare for...at the craft fair I want to try and sell some of my sewn and wooden shape decorated makes, just little Easter decorations, so I have been 'head down' both sewing and paper crafting. On top of all that, work has been busy, so trying to fit all that in with blogging has been a stretch. The good news is that once they are all photographed I will have a lot of creations to blog!

So I hope Hels  will forgive me this week for including my Emergency Crafters DT creation as my Sunday Stampers challenge project? The Emergency Crafters challenge this month is Flowers  and there is a  lovely prize up for grabs....and Hels this week has set the challenge of bright colours...as I was about to post this today, it seemed to fit.

This is a wooden wall hanging, which I coated with gesso and then stamped with this Jane Austen image by Indigo Blu. I then masked the stamp and randomly stamped a crackle stamp, also by Indigo Blu over the whole paque.

I coloured the image with Promarkers and  once the base design was finished I gave it a coat of Mod Podge to seal. Once dry I added die cut flowers, all from Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms in corresponding colours. The butterfly is also a Spellbinders Die cut and the flourishes are Sizzix.

To finish I added a little lace border across the bottom and inked the petals of the flowers with a little Brushed Corduroy distress ink.

Thank you so much for visiting and commenting, I really do appreciate it!

Love and Hugs,
Carole X

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