Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

Hi everyone, it's March already, today is St. David's Day in the UK, and after a rainy start the sun is shining ... so this afternoon I just had to make a daffodil card - it would have been rude not to!! I just managed to get it finished and photographed before the light faded, so here it is.

I die cut a stitched square of stamping card just smaller than  a 6" square card blank,  stamped the focal daffodils and heat embossed in gold, then coloured with my Zig pens. I added some soft green stencilling all around, then some background 2nd generation stamping in green to co-odinate with the daffodil background. I stamped a small daffodil bloom onto separate cardstock, heat embossed, coloured and fussy cut, then attached with silicone glue, then blended more DOX round the edges of the panel to add some depth. I matted the panel onto my card blank, then masked the edges before adding gold Posca spatters. Finally I stamped the sentiment onto separate card, heat embossed, cut out and attached.

I love the gold sheen of the heat embossed daffodils which shows up better in this picture.

Stamps: Visible Image Golden Daffodils, Where Flowers Bloom (background stamping); Uniko Spring Botanicals Daffodil (sentiment);

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Mowed Lawn); Versafine Clair (Shady Lane); Versamark; WOW Metallic Gold embossing powder; Posca Pen (gold);

Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo-Stitched Squares die; Lavinia stencil - Leaf Trails.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Classic Design Challenge #2 2024 - Anything Goes

Crafts Galore Encore #121 - Anything Goes

Day of the Month Card Club #60 - Random Acts of Kindness Day

Double Trouble #161 - Pinch Proof (Include the colour green) PLUS a Touch of Gold

Four Seasons (March) - Anything Spring Goes with optional Mood Board

Krafty Chicks #705 - Anything Goes

Little Red Wagon #745 - Stencil Power

Love to Craft #79 - Anything Goes

Love to Scrap #166 - Anything Goes

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #637/638 - Anything Goes (4th entry)

I'm hoping this will be the first of many bright and cheerful spring cards - not to mention bright and cheerful spring days!! 

Take care and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Allsorts Challenge #659

Good morning everyone,

It's Saturday so it's time for another weekly Allsorts Challenge. I'd like to start by thanking everyone who joined in with my first challenge theme last week - I really enjoyed visiting all your blogs to see your fab entries, though it was extremely difficult to pick my top 5 amongst so much talent! 

This week it is Mervi's turn to choose the theme and it is

❤️❤️❤️ Add A Heart ❤️❤️❤️

So we would love to see your makes featuring a heart, whether for Valentine’s Day, Anniversary, Wedding, or any other occasion where you can make it fit.

This week we have two fab prizes:

Firstly - a £15 store voucher kindly donated by Pearlywinks 

Secondly - this beautiful Bee Crafty stamp.

Here's my card for this week.

This is the second of two Lavinia fairies that I received for Christmas, and all the other stamps were also in my Christmas stocking - a couple of which I am also using for the first time.

I decided to have a go at the inked acrylic block technique as per another Jo Rice tutorial, but me being me I had to also try to introduce a different element to put my own stamp on it (excuse the pun!). So after I inked my block, before laying it down on the card I placed a circle of masking paper down so that the ink could squish around the "moon". Not sure whether this was altogether successful, but I decided to run with it anyway as the moon could be argued to have an "aura".

I then simply completed my stamping, and highlighted everything with Sakura glitter pens in silver and a shade of blue, which I thought complemented both the sky and my blue glitter matting cardstock.

As ever the sparkle doesn't show up very well in photographs - this card is actually VERY sparkly!! here's an angled shot ...

Stamps: Lavinia Aurora, Group Poppies, Silhouette Foliage Set, Vine Flourish, Fairy Charms; sentiment - unknown;

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide inks (Rustic Wilderness, Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire, Barn Door); Versafine (Onyx); Versafine Clair (Twilight); Sakura sparkle pens - Starlight and blue.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Country View Challenges (January) - Your Year to Sparkle and Shine (4th entry)

C.R.A.F.T. #623 - New  (2nd entry)

Crafty Calendar (January) - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Dream Valley #261 - Anything New (2nd entry)

Pammie’s Inky Pinkies #2202 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Stamping Sensations (January) - Anything Goes with Stamping with option Add a Die 

(option not taken up)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes

Through the Purple Haze #188 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - In With the New (2nd entry)

We Love Stamping (January) - Anything Stamped with option of Wings (3rd entry)

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,