Getting Messy

Hi everyone. I don't know about you but I've had enough, it was lovely the first time and even the second but not after 3 months. What is she rambling on about you might ask. SNOW!!!! We had another fall last night and it's wet, cold, foggy and HORRIBLE. I really NEED the Spring now!

Sorry about that, I am calm and collected again now.


To cheer everyone up I thought I'd share with you a photo I took on Monday at our local RHS garden, Harlow Carr which gives hope that, even though there is snow on the ground, the flowers are still there and beginning to appear. Aren't these little cyclamen just so bright and cheerful.

Over at Tuesday Taggers, they have asked us to get messy fingers this week. Well I don't need to be encouraged twice, especially when they offering a prize from The Craft Barn.

I have been having a go at the acrylic stamp storage book that was brilliantly demoed in this months Craft Stamper and this is the cover for it. I think I used every product I own which was great fun and I did get extremely messy.


The mountboard cover is painted in blue metallic acrylic paint and then the background is various shades of acrylic paint randomly applied. I over stamped this with Graphicus Wildflower meadow stamps in various colourbox queue pigment inks.


The background for the main panel is alcohol inks and then over stamped from the same flower set and white embossed. I used a small grass stamp from the set to edge the border on both panels.

The quotation background is Broken china distress ink and the quotation is from the Inspirations themeplate again from Graphicus. I have matted everything with silver mirriboard.

I was having a playing session trying out a lot of the techniques I've seen or read about recently and luckily (quite unplanned) the colours all went together nicely so for once I could put to good use all the bits and pieces I made. I've just got to make the stamp holders to go inside now!

I hope you are all coping with this rotten weather and as always thanks for stopping by.