Art In Bloom

YAY, I finally managed to have a little me time play.
I decided to combine a couple of challenges.
PaperArtsy's 'Inspired By' challenge
and Country View Crafts 'How does your garden grow' theme

I have been totally inspired with Sue Carrington over on the PaperArtsy blog this week, I've loved each project and couldn't decide with inspired me more so for my piece I combined elements from them all.

There's some grunge paste, stencilling, bumping, corrugated card, lace, pins.. you name it, I added it.
I used 'irish cream' & 'mocha mousse' for the canvas with a spritz of watered down 'old gold'.

I stamped everything onto black card, The small flowers are using 'mermaid, 'south pacific' & 'blood orange'. The big flower was also stamped onto black but it all looked a bit dark, so I just covered it with 'irish cream' and stamped in 'blood orange' and it made the arrangement look 10 times better.
For the edge I stamped the little sun from the 'Lynne Perrella' 005 plate.
{there is also 1 more leaf that I found after I had photographed the piece, so I stuck it in to fill the gap on the left}
Hope you like seeing it as much as I liked making it.
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Whooooo You Looking At...

Today i'm sharing my entry for this weeks Pan Pastel Challenge
they have the prompt to 'use a stamped image'

I stamped one of the very cool owls from octopode and coloured him with pan pastels, I then stamped one of the new Tim Holtz scroll banners and mounted my owl on top. For the base I used up an old tag that had some inky spill waste on, I then stencilled over the top with more pan pastels and finished off with a mini alpha saying and a bit of sari ribbon.
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On a different note I have just listed a whole bunch of 'CUTE' stamps for sale on ebay, sugar nellie, magnolia etc  to help raise some funds now i'm unemployed so if you like cute or you know someone who does please share the link.. i'll love ya forever xx
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