Less is More and Penny Black

This weeks theme at Less is More is Use a Rubber Stamp - Penny Black is playing along so I used my Party Time (T for Transparent) set.

I used my watercolour pencils with a versafine black stamp on watercolour paper. I love these hedgies!

Paper and pearls from stash

I will be entering this card into the following challenges;

Less is More  - Use a Rubber Stamp
Sister Act Card Challenge - Anything Goes
Simon Says - Anything Goes

Fairy Bubbles

Thanks to my crafty pals I have been trying some mixed media projects and recently bought some pastels to have a go with. I have used pan pastels at our craftathon but thought I would get the (much) cheaper version. It's such a quick way to get background colour. I gesso'd a piece of card and used greens and blues over it and then stamped on top. I used a mix of inks - the versafine were ok but the memento's were not too happy. 

I used this lovely Lavinia stamp as our group's challenge this month is Bubbles as sadly CraftBubble (our crafting forum) closed it's doors. Our rather the moderators (Origin) stopped giving a toss about it months and months ago and the site was so full of spammers it was ridiculous. They have encouraged us to join their other crafting forums where I'm guessing nobody moderates and they don't give a toss about anything apart from traffic/money from advertisers.

It's Friday...I don't care - if they had let the users moderate they wouldn't have had any of the problems they did...Anyway - it's now officially the weekend because our little alarm has just announced it..Happy Weekend Peeps!


I am entering this card into the following challenges;

Cute Card Thursday - Things with Wings
Creative Inspirations - Fairies

Dog of the Week

This week it's the turn of the lovely Maeve!

Maeve is a pretty girl with a very loving playful nature - she has been described as being very clean within the Kennels - Maeve has only had 15 Races and last raced in March 2013 - she has not been tested with domestic dogs or cats

If you can offer this lovely girl a home please visit here

If you would like to make a donation to this very deserving Trust

  please make a bank transfer to

 Oxford RGT – Account No 00515200  -  Sort Code  30-12-51

or send a cheque to Oxford RGT

 c/o 3 Stocks Tree Close, Yarnton, Kidlington, Oxon OX5 1LU  

  Any donations would be greatly appreciated

Out for a stroll near the lock

We watched some longboats go through the lock and it was really busy.

The Little Things Week 4

I know I have gone out of order but I was waiting for glossy accents to dry! This is the project for week 4 that Clare has organised for us.

We started off with a glass slide and stamped it with acrylic paints.

We used the bottle as a flower pot and put beads and glossy accents in to fix it in place. I used craft wire for the stem and to fasten the bottle to the slide - I also used a squirt of ga to fix it in place.

I used a stamp from one of my Lindsey Mason sets  - I love this flower as each petal has something different on it.

I still have the box for the swaps to go in and Clare has very kindly added a bonus video for us to make another little swap..it involves gesso and moss!

Happy Bank Holiday Monday!