Stamps Ahead

In my last post I shared the single page Sunflower layout that I had made for a recent class that I held. A friend really liked the layout and requested that I make her a double page layout.  Here it is: Unfortunately, the weather here today is overcast and rainy and the layout does not show the glittering wings of the Bumble Bee.   More photos below. Now, the good news, my layout also qualifies for Calvinball 2022 - A fun and entertaining scrapbook challenge for March, based on the cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbs. They would make up rules for the games they played - the rules could be added or taken away at any time. Every day new rules are added to Calvinball and you total up your points for whatever you have made. For example my layout got to 11 points and this is how they came to be: Double page layout - 2 points Polka dots (the base paper) - 1 point Green (the dots and leaves) - 1 point Bees - 1 point (not 2 points you can only count once) Hand coloured images - ...

 This past weekend I ran two classes that featured Sunflower images  Coloured with Distress Oxide Inks - Vintage Photo, Fired Brick, Fossilized Amber and Bundled Sage. A little bit of Distress Stickles Glue to make the wings sparkle.  Same colours used in the layout. Those doing the single page layout had the option of purchasing a small kit to make a mirror image double layout. Some random facts, courtesy of internet searching: Sunflowers are associated with positivity.  They are the national flower of Ukraine and people are flooding social media with photos of Sunflowers.  Who knew when I started researching a couple of weeks earlier that what we are now seeing in Ukraine came to pass. The current world record for the tallest Sunflower was set in Germany in 2014 (I checked and it still stands today apparently). It had its own scaffolding.  How tall did it grow? 30 feet, 1 inch (9.17m)! Sunflowers are native to the Americas. The sunflower was a common crop...

I was asked, by a friend, to make a wedding card for her neighbours who are getting married at the end of month.  The request was silver embossing. For this card I used Kaszazz stamps 6712K Happy Birthday Sunflowers and hearts are from 6377Q Collage Stamp - Cupid (you get 6 stamps in this set).  The greeting and surrounding dots are from stamps  in my stash.   After stamping with Versamark embossing ink and then embossed with silver embossing ink. I made a quick dash to Spotlight to get the silver glitter paper and silver rhinestones. Thank you for looking, Margaret  

This past weekend Kaszazz released 3 new collections. Following are projects I created using the Golden Sunflowers collection.  Long post as I have indicated the codes for the products I have used for each project. So please come with me on my creative play.  Another post later with another new release. 8076 Bumble Bee SB Paper (Sunflower side), 7616 Chipboard - Hello Wreath - Large coloured with TDO56317 Ranger Distress Oxide Vintage Photo. 6704E Hello Sunshine stamp coloured with 5475 Watercolour Pencils and 7896 Water Colour Brush Set (6 brushes) using the finest brush  6712K Happy Birthday Sunflowers Un-Cut stamp set (2), 8619 Stencil - Sunflower coloured with Ranger Distress Oxide Inks TDO56348 Wild Honey and TDO56317 Ranger Distress Oxide Vintage Photo. The bee was fussy cut from scrap piece of 8076 Bumble Bee SB Paper.  8076 Bumble Bee SB Paper (Sunflower side),  6704E Hello Sunshine stamp, 6702D Just to say hello stamp.  Thank you for looking Margar...