Stampman Blogcandy and A Card For My Mum

Afternoon Crafters, how's your Monday going? It's the first day of the Easter holidays here and as the weather has been a bit chilly and damp we've spent the day having a blitz on DD's bedroom, well it had to be done!!!! You can now actually see the colour of the floor again and I know that all the clothes in the wardrobe do actually fit. Would you believe at nearly 10 she still had clothes sizes age 4-5 in her drawer. To be fair, they did still fit last Summer but she's had a bit of a growth spurt over the last year.


To get your week off to a good start The Stampman are offering some scrummy blog candy in the form of Tim Holtz loveliness. Jill has put together a collection of new products and some from way back to the value of £60 so if you want to be in with a chance to get her hands on it, all you have to do is put the above photo on your sidebar with a link back to Jill's blog and make sure you add your name to her post. The candy is open until 9pm (GMT) on Tuesday 26th April so what are you waiting for!!

Here in the UK it was Mother's Day yesterday and I hope all you Mums had a lovely, relaxing day and were spoilt rotten. Did you see that advert that was on yesterday that said "she is just an arm, a leg" etc and was dedicated to Mums. I blubbed my eyes out when I saw it. Daft or what. It just caught a spot!!

Here is the card I made for my Mum with some of the lovely new Lavinia stamps I bought from Harrogate a few weeks back.


I used distress inks for all the stamping, starting with Antique Linen. The words are Brushed Corduroy which I also added around the edges . The leaves are Rusty Hinge and Bundled Sage and the little mushrooms are Aged Mahogany. I always seem to struggle to get a good dark image for silhouette images but with this one, after stamping it, I used the fine liner that comes in the promarker sets to darken it up which seemed to work well.


The whole thing was finally sprayed with gold glimmer mist to add a bit of shimmer. Mum was thrilled with it, but I did have a head start because I know how much she loves Lavinia stamps!!!

Well, I need to go and get tea out so thanks for stopping by and enjoy your evening.