Carved wood technique!

So I had a little play on Sunday past as the weather

was atrocious with thunder, lightening and torrential rain!

What's a girl to do other than craft??

Anyway I decided to have a go at the carved wood technique.

I used items from Lisa Horton:

Poinsettia & Holly embossing folder

Painted Stripes texture stamps

Nested stitched bubble squares.

The inks I used are soft suede and bermuda bay (SU)

and matching ribbon and card from SU as well.

I did make a mistake when putting it into the embossing folder 🙈

should have been indented!!

But I still like the finished effect.

Another excuse to try again lol.

I would like to enter this into

Pammie's Inky Pinkies - anything goes

Simon Says Wednesday challenge - anything goes 

Little Red Wagon - add some stitching

Creative Fingers - anything goes

Fab 'n' Funky - anything goes

 

Christmas in July cards

I took a bit of time out to start on my Christmas card stash.

Both these cards were made using Lisa Horton's

Poinsettia and Holly stencil/emboss/diecut set.

One has been stencilled then embossed

the other has been embossed then stencilled.

There are subtle differences to the finished look and

I'm not sure which I prefer. More practise needed!

The sentiment is from an SU set called Itty Bitty christmas.

The ink colours I used are

Garden green, old olive, early expresso, poppy parade

and cherry cobbler. All from Stampin' Up!

I would like to enter these into

Christmas Card Throwdown - Christmas florals

Allsorts - Christmas in July

Crafty Catz - anything option Christmas in July

Creatalicious - anything otpion Christmas in July

Papercraft challenge - Christmas in July

Unicorn challenge - Christmas in July