Sunday Stampers - Week 215 - More Than Words

Hello Fellow Bloggers,

Thank you to all my new Followers, thank you so much for joining me, it is so lovely to have your company.

This week over at Sunday Stampers (http://pinkleart.blogspot.co.uk/) the challenge is More Than Words where the wonderful Hels Sheridan has asked us to do something with more than one word, using a sentiment etc. I am still in butterfly mode at the moment so I thought I would do another canvas and here is my entry:

The canvas is 8" x 8" and I covered it with Hazlenut Adirondack paint dabber and then used an Aqua paint dabber on my Sam Poole bubble wrap stamp and dabbed this around the canvas.  I then took the lid of the paint dabber, dabbed it into the paint and made the circles in each of the same two colours.  I used my finger and dabbed some Aqua around the edge of the canvas and streaked some here and there on the canvas to break up the Hazelnut.  I then painted the mesh lace with the Aqua paint dabber and attached it across the bottom.  The flower is made from Tim Holtz pastel stack and the Tattered Flowers Bigz die.  I wet the pieces and scrunched them up, dried them with my heat tool and then edged the petals with Peacock Feathers Distress Ink. I added a large pearl brad to the centre.  The stalk and leaves were made from plain white card covered in Peeled Paint Distress Stain.

The butterflies are from the Wendy Vecchi Botanical Art stamp set and I stamped onto plain white card and coloured in Broken China DI.  I added the bakers twine to hold the mesh onto the canvas.  The wonderful sentiment was written by Rabindranoth Tagore.

I would like to take just a moment to thank some lovely blog friends.  Rita and I exchanged birthday gifts as our birthdays were very close together.  Thank you again Rita for my beautiful card and gift, I will treasure them always.  Rita has shown her card to me on her blog and it is well worth a look.  Next is Sandee who sent me a beautiful card all the way from the USA, I was really chuffed to get mail from there!  Next are two wonderful ladies Buttons (with whom I share a birthday) and Shoshi sent me beautiful cards too.  All these ladies have inspired me and kept me motivated and encouraged to try new things.  I know I keep saying it but Crafters are the kindest, most caring and generous people I have ever met.  I now have four beautiful hand made cards from people other than the Grandchildren!  Thank you all so very much.

I would also like to enter this into the Stampalot challenge - (http://sirstampalotchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/    where Crafty Passion is the theme.  My crafty passion is butterflies, handmade flowers and distress inks.

If you do visit I hope you will leave me a comment and I will do my best to return the compliment. 

Crafty hugs, Anne xxx