A Retirement Card using the Alphabet Jungle Stamp Stamps

The Alphabet Jungle Stamp stamps are brilliant for creating scenes or adding pictures inside the stamps.  For my first sample with the stamps, I used the alphabet jungle stamp behind the stamps to create a Retirement panel card.

White Gel Pen Highlighted Stamping on Designer Card

I decided to try a new technique with this lovely poetry frame stamp set from Clarity.  Instead of adding and colouring the stamps on a white background, I used a colourful background and a white gel pen to remove colour from the stamped images.

Quarantine Quickies #45 & #46: Baby Blues / Seventh Heaven

I like the large eyes on the Dee's Friends stamps from Claritystamp, so chose one to represent Baby Blues.  In French, if you are in the seventh heaven you are said to be 'aux anges' so an angel seemed a fitting representation of that prompt.  Following the Quarantine Quickie prompts over on Mission Inspiration.

Birdhouse Garland: A Colourful SHAC Doodle Card

The stamps are so pretty in this set that I let them do all the work and just enjoyed deciding where to place them and colouring them. 

WOYWW 574: Back to School we Go

Welcome to the weekly desk share with WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk? Wednesday) and my weekly shout out to Y7 and Y8 who are mostly not yet back in school.

I was in school on Monday and yesterday and will be in again today, so there is not much crafting going on. I have been trying to relax before work by making swatches for my latest bargain, the full set of 120 Albrecht Duerer watercolour pencils from Faber-Castell.  Craft Stash had a one day 30% off code if you spent more than £40 and as the full set of Polychromos were out of stock I went with these instead, as they were also on my wish list.

Some of you will have already seen the other new crafty arrival on my desk this week.  I can't wait to get reports out of the way so I can have a proper play.  I will be pre ordering the new June Distress colour from Art from the Heart as well.

This memory also popped up on my FB time line this week.  A happy reminder of last year's crop but a sad reminder that we should have been meeting up again next Saturday. Sorry I will have little time for visiting desks today, as I have been rather tired on arrival back home from school.  I will try and visit you all via Julia's Stamping Ground between samples tomorrow.  Stay safe and happy WOYWW.

Quarantine Quickies #43 & #44: I'm All Ears / Life Study

I have actually completed 10 further pages of Quarantine Quickies following the prompts over on Mission Inspiration, but this is as far as I have got with sharing them on the blog #43 and #44.  I decided to go with a play on words for the first prompt.

A Clean and Simple Fairy Card with Butterfly Frame

Once again the smaller stamps in this stamp set are perfect to decorate a frame for the main images.