Lilac Time

I must want my head read!! Following on from the hydrangeas, when Rainbow Lady chose Lilac Wine for her theme, I thought 'I wonder IF'!!! So here we are, the little flowers took a whole sheet of A5 lilac paper!!! They are shaped and the centres glittered and then formed on a base card covered in generous 'blobs' of Pinflair Glue Gel. The little flowers are placed one at a time randomly filling in gaps. The leaves are cut with the Big Shot, and the twig is from one of my now deseaced mature shrubs!!!! The ribbon is from my stash with a sentiment from Papermania. I also found in my stash some lovely MIC papers and although it looks silver grey in the photo it is a gorgeous Eau D Nil.

Sorry I Just Can't Stop!!

I'm not being paid commission, honest I'm not!!

Sorry I am just getting totally carried away with these, and I am still kicking myself for not getting the vellums. There are so many little elements on these sheets that there are just limitless posibilities here. I have put my stamp block down and I am backing slowly away from the stamps.

Think I shall go and play with something else or you will all be getting bored with them.

Shame I'm not getting commission though. A friend pointed out earlier that Crafters Companion are releasing a cd/stamp etc of fairies next week! What is a girl to do?

Another Beauty

Here's another one of those gorgeous fairy stamps, this fairy has a selection of things for her hand so every one can be quite different. The sentiment is from the Castle & Unicorn set. I find these so easy to colour with Promarkers and they really suit the style of stamp.

This afternoon I had a mishap with my Big Shot when I was embossing and cut right through my rubber embossing mat. I was so cross with myself, that is the 2nd senior moment today. I am too ashamed to admit to my other mishap here.

Isn't She Gorgeous?

Oh My Word! I had fun yesterday with the beautiful Castles & Unicorn set of Papermania stamps. But the fairies on the fairy set are just magnificent and it is really hard to choose which one to use first. Of course then I can mix and match images from the 2 sets. I could keep going for ever with these treasures. I have also been experimenting with pealescent card stock for colouring with Promarkers, and I have come to the conclusion that a bumper pack of A3 cardstock that I bought from Annamarie Designs (you know the lady with the template cd's) is just fabby. It colours beutifully, the sheen shows through and the colours and blender work superbly on it.

Going back to wittering on about the fairies, they are very 'grown-up' fairies and not one of them has a duff face, which is a huge bonus in my book.

My camera lead has come but unfortunately these lovely stamps are higher up my list of 'to do' things.

My mojo has worked his little socks off this year, but with so many lovely stamps landing in my hot sticky little mitts, it looks as though he will carry on jumping up and down on my desk. I just hope that my favourie designers will take a long holiday through the summer to allow my crafty budget to recover.

New Toys

Well its been quite a weekend and I had steam coming out of my ears yesterday, so my friend Ladylace aka Christine told me I needed a crafty spend. I didn't need telling twice so I bought these glorious stamps from the Midnight Fairytale range. This is from the Castles and Unicorn set. I have coloured them in with the ever faithful promarkers. I love these and I really wish I had bought the absolutely gorgeous velums too. So Christine when OH and son are having pedigree chum (other pet foods are available) for tea next week, I shall blame you!