Happy Birthday

Here's a quick showing of the birthday card I made for my eldest daughter, Victoria.
Close up first:

and then it turned into this:

Stamps are Artistic Outpost Gatsby for the main image, available from Happy Daze.
The background stamps are Artemio Deco 10001074, available from That's Crafty

Thanks for looking!

Helen

Little Black Hen...

I've been working with the chicken stamps from Artemio again. Actually I'm not sure if those spotty ones are chickens or quails but they made me laugh 'cos they look kinda silly!



Thanks for looking!

Helen

Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken...

Just look at these wonderful stamps I got from Lynne at the Altered Element - if you don't know her site you have to visit it as it's like a treasure trove:


She actually ordered these in for me - they're by Artemio and very reasonable and, most of all, fun!

I've made two cards with them so far - I'd meant to make more things but I get so involved with all the twiddly bits. The slanted edge came from a happy accident - I'd stamped something on one of them that I didn't like so decided to cut it off. The papers are Basic Grey Basics and Urban Prairie:




Thanks for looking!

Helen

Purple and Blue...

This card uses the same Artemio stamps as before, but in a different colourway. Close up the birds look like this:


I've used bleach to take out colour on the egg and nest.
Then I've layered it up onto lovely colourwashed Scrapperdashery paper and used an Art Journey stamp to create a border:




Thanks for looking!

Helen

Birds' Nest card, not soup!

I saw these Artemio stamps and couldn't resist them (I have very low resistance levels!) I think what really appealed to me was that although the nest is obviously drawn, the egg looks almost real! I've added the leaves to finish off the main image:


Once again I got out my Silhouette and cut out these lovely flourishes and you can just see on the dark blue paper that I've used the long straight twigs to complete the frame.



Thanks for looking!

Helen