Creative Saturday.

(Just a warning... long post!!! but would love to have you visit)

I have been busy reading blogs and just pottering so there have been no posts for a few days.. Did have a nice surprise on Friday morning when I found out I had been on Hero Arts blog Social Thursday ( see here - my card is the last one) Was pretty chuffed I can tell you!!!  Did a wee ya hoo in the office when I had a look!!!

Yesterday ( Saturday) was my stamp group at Stamp'n'create and what a fun day... we did lots of talking and stamping and again the most amazing lunch... fantastic soup from Sue B, awesome potato and seafood salad from Sarah, asparagus rolls, ginger slice, banana cake...
anyway I had a very creative day.... knew there were a few things I wanted to try/do...starting with some distress resist,
Gina K had this on Stamp TV - here - stamping in versamark, clear embossing and adding distress inks and then some black around the images to make them pop...
here's my take... a bit softer looking but I am very pleased with the result

I used some cream Bazzil to give the appearance of linen, used Crushed Olive and Broken China, with just the littlest bit of Black Soot round the butterflies.    Finished with a Peel craft sentiment coloured with black Copic.  Used my old favourite Heart winged Butterfly... needed inking up again!!!

My next card is because I have a friend turning 50 this week.... I have always loved the Stella images by Bugaboo Stamps... ( here they are) so bought the over the hill one on Friday ...

Isn't it a hoot!!!  Great for colouring in.  I just printed it out, coloured and then used one of my long rectangle nesties to cut out.  Just got the Martha Stewart lace punch so used it.

My next two cards came about as I had bought Issue 78 of Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine and the freebie this issue was a pack of designer papers ( 6x6) by Kate Knight.
It is really lovely.  I used the ideas in the magazine for my inspirations of the following two.

This one I changed the position of the sentiment, made it an oval and used a Hero Arts sentiment - Don't you just love HA clear stamps... this one was one long sentiment, which I cut in half to get it onto the oval - The original had a tea bag folded medallion on it, but I liked the simplicity of the papers.

This one was fun to make as Sue B and I both decided to use some of this paper and the idea in the magazine but our cards turned out a bit different.  Sue used a normal A6 card and I used a square card,  We both cut out and put the birds on a scalloped oval - her was smaller than mine ( her card was landscape).  We used different ribbons, I added some silver stickles to mine... so it was fun to start with the same paper and design and to see the differences. I still have to decide on a sentiment

Well thanks for taking the time to read this... I realise it was a bit long... but I like to share my creativity.  I always have such fun stamping with friends and Judi does such amazing demo's and make and takes at Stamp'n'create stamp group days~~~