Distant Dreams

Just popping on today to share a card I had published in Craft Stamper Magazine earlier in the year. I've used the Oceania clear stamp set from Polkadoodles and Distress Markers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Claire x

Some "bunny" stop me!

Groan..... yep it's more stamp soup today!

I showed this little bunny off in a previous post and explained that if you were new to stamping or not confident with masking that you could simply stamp the individual elements and layer them up. This is exactly what I did with this bunny. I think it's just as effective as one layer stamping - what do you think?

That's it for me today. Have a fabulous Easter Sunday and enjoy eating those eggs that the Easter Bunny left this morning!

Thanks for stopping by.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
A Gem of a Challenge - Easter
Challenge Up Your Life - Bunnies
Crafting with dragonflies - Easter
Let's Colour Linky Party 6 - Anything goes
Artisitic Stampers - Springtime
Just Keep On Creating - Anything goes
Lets Craft and Create - Easter

Hoppy Easter!

Happy Easter to you all! Can you guess what I've been playing with again? I bet you can't....OK I bet you can! Stamp Soup..... I can tell you my mojo hasn't been this fired in a loooonnnnngggg time!

I'm still not making floral projects (although I do have a few in the pipeline as well as a few TV samples that I've yet to show you) as I'm having way too much fun seeing what else I can easily create with the stamps.

Today I'd like to show you a stamped bunny complete with carrot. Now I've done this using lots of masking but if you aren't sure about masking or are new to stamping you can easily create the bunny simply by stamping out the individual elements, cutting them out and layering them up (I'll show you another card which has been done this way tomorrow). I've cheated a bit on this and used punched butterflies (even though you can make some adorable little ones using the stamps) as they were an after thought and I have a few Easter cards to make.

I thought I'd stamp each of the individual elements so you can recreate the bunny if you wish.

Right that's it for me today.

Thanks for stopping by.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this card into the following challenges:
Brown Sugar - Easter
Crafting with friends - anything goes
Crafty Catz - Stitching
Creative Fingers - Anything goes
Jo's Scrapshack - Anything goes
PDE Linky Party - Anything goes
Simply Papercraft - Anything goes
Double ClickSkittles - Bunny, basket or egg
Little Red Wagon - Easter
Inky Chicks - Easter

Stamp Soup - Things are getting a little prickly!

Just a quickie from me today. I thought I'd show you another of my samples using PolkaDoodles Stamp Soup Collection. This was super quick and easy and is intended to show that the stamps are not restricted to flowers.

I used the leaf stamp from the Lavender Tea set to create the hedgehog (I'm actually kicking myself now as in my haste I totally forgot to ground the little guy). The border was stamped using the "beautiful" sentiment from the Lemonade Fizz set and one of the mini flower stamps from Lavender Tea.

I hope you like him and can see the potential in these unique stamps.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire

PS you can buy the stamps separately or as part of fantastic value CD and stamp set. I've provided direct links to the value set.

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
Everybody Art Challenges - Anything Goes
Fan-tastic Tuesday - Anything Goes/cute critters
Stampart - Anything Goes
Crafting from the Heart - Anything goes
Elliebelle's Creative Moments - Creatures/Critters
Penny Black Challenge - Feature a creature
The Corrosive Challenge - Anything goes
Craft Stamper Magazine - Anything goes

Have you tried Stamp Soup? Owl bet you haven't!

If you didn't catch Polkadoodles on Create and Craft today you'll be wondering what I'm talking about! Well there were FOUR yes four brand new releases today and two of them were a brand new stamp collection aptly named Stamp Soup which can be found here and here. If you pop over to Create and Craft TV there maybe some sets still available there but I know stock is VERY limited.

There are also some fabulous CD's which co-ordinate beautifully with the stamps. The CD's are jam packed with the most amazing templates, papers, chalkboard sentiments and flowers but sadly I ran out of time to play with them.

Now these stamps are just so clever, each set lets you create 100s of different stamping combinations of flowers, leaves and embellishments to create unique designs and projects. You can simply stamp petals and leaves to build up flowers and patterns, mask the stamps to create more intricate designs or think completely out of the box and use them for things other than flowers! There are literally hundreds of different ways to use this inventive stamp set, you'll be amazed and addicted once you start!

This is the first of my samples and it's not flowers!!! It's a small family of kooky owls. To create the owls I used the large heart (body and wings), small heart (wings), quirky circle (eyes), smooth cup shape (nest) and stem (legs) from the Lemonade Fizz Set and the single small petal (body), and mini spikey circle (eyes) from the Lavender Tea Set. 

I hope you like my project and I've inspired you to use the stamps in a slightly different way.

Thanks for stopping by today.

Claire x

I'd like to enter this project into the following challenges:
Craft Stamper Magazine - Anything Goes
Crafting with friends - Anything Goes
Creative Fingers Challenge - Anything Goes
Fussy & Fancy  - Things with wings
PDE Linky Party - Anything Goes
Simply Papercrafts - Anything Goes
Altered Eclectics - Anything goes
Rhedd's Creative Spirit - Anything goes