Allsorts Challenge #657

Good morning everyone,

Happy New Year to you all, and welcome to 2022 - hope you all enjoyed the Christmas and New Year festivities despite the uncertain times we’re living in right now. 

It's the first Saturday of a brand new year, so it's time for a new Allsorts Challenge - hope you're raring to go for  new year of challenges, fab inspiration by my talented co-team members, and brilliant prizes. This week Brenda has chosen the first theme to kick off 2022 and it is

Black and White plus One Other Colour

This week's prize is a Rare Earth stamp set.

Here's my card for this week - I have chosen black and white + pink

I was fortunate enough to win the Simon Says (Wednesday) challenge a few weeks ago, and selected this fabulous stamp set by AALL and Create as my prize. Even despite the high postage charges from the U.S. I managed to take advantage of a Black Friday offer to effectively get this set for only 1/3 of the UK retail price which was well worth having 😀

The set includes 2 large flower heads plus various background and sentiment stamps - I actually chose it primarily for the other main flower, but then started thinking what I could do with this one.  I am “saving” the other one for a particular future challenge theme so watch this space! 😀

I created a smoosh background with distress ink and distress oxide, then stamped my main flower head, and also stamped the stalk from the other flower using a bit of masking tape. I did a bit of background stencilling with Distress Oxide, and a bit of background stamping from the same set using Versafine Clair in Morning Mist to give a softer look. I also added a bit of spatter using a stamp from anther set and more DO ink. I coloured the flower using Distress Oxide ink and added the main sentiment from an unknown set in my stash.

Stamps: AALL and Create Textured Flowers; spatters - Butterfly Kisses Clear-2-Collage; main sentiment - unknown;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Spun Sugar, Tattered Rose); Distress Oxide Inks (Kitsch Flamingo, Picked Raspberry); Versafine Onyx; Versafine Clair - Morning Mist;

Tools: Crafter's Companion stencil from stamp/stencil set "It's Time".

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #1 2022 - Anything Goes

Creations In Pink #41 - Anything Goes in Mainly Pink

Krafty Chicks #592 - Anything Goes

Sweet Stampin’ - New

Time Out #204 - New

(I have used a new AALL and Create stamp set)

Hope you can join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team. Thanks for visiting.

Hugs,