Hippity Hop, It's a Blog Hop!

Now that spring is truly here, it brings thoughts of gardens and flowers, warmth and sun!  Let's leave winter behind us!  Which brings me to our Stamping Symphony blog hop!  Each of us are featuring some retiring products that will be gone by the end of the month.

We didn't see much in the way of April showers bringing our May flowers, however they're here, yay, and with that in mind, I've turned the umbrella from the set Weather Together upside-down to be a basket for flowers!

This cheery card starts with a base of Night of Navy, followed up with a Lemon Lime Twist layer.  I embossed a Whisper White layer used the Scattered Sequins Dynamic embossing folder - so pretty! 

Using Lemon Lime Twist ink, I stamped the umbrella image onto Whisper White paper, then fussy cut it.  Next, I stamped the floral image in Night of Navy many times onto Whisper White paper to achieve the look of an overflowing basket. I loosely cut that piece and then adhered it to the card.  I popped up the umbrella with dimensionals, then stamped the sentiment, also from Weather Together, then used my Classic Label punch.

I added just a few flowers to the inside layer, and ta-da - done!

Versatility is my favourite thing about this stamp set! Use the umbrella as is, flip it like I did, or even use it for a sweet baby card, get well card...so many possibilities!  Plus, the sentiments are lovely and will give your cards a very heartfelt touch.  

If you love this stamp set, be sure to order it before it's gone forever!

Shop for retiring products here

Be sure to check out the cards & projects in our blog hop!

1. Leena

2. Sandy (you are here)

3. Barb

4. Jen

5. Steph

Angel of Peace and Love

Welcome to my crafty little world.  I'm still having fun with mixed media - really not a surprise.  It's such a wonderful free form of art.  And yes, I can paint outside the lines. Happy happy!

What I've discovered though, is I really need lots and lots of practice painting faces, shading, and so on.  For this angel, I had kind of messed up her face and eyes big time, so, I completely sanded and started over. Pretty cool, eh!!

I also found I had gone a tad bland with the colours.  Once again, the beauty of mixed media - just add more of whatever makes you happy.  In this case - red, brown, yellow, white, textures.

How cute is the bird?  Love the long tail feathers.  Imagine my delight when I found the Monarch butterfly wing in one of my books!  It makes such a fun little crown!  I've learned so much, and have so much more to learn from Kelly Rae Roberts.  Awesome awesome awesome e-courses!! Yes, awesome times three!

After the paint dried, I added her wings and the rest of the finishing touches.  I  recently received my Stampin' Up! order (yay!), and in the gorgeous stamp set called Weather Together, is the word 'love', and it stamped beautifully onto my canvass.

Her message is powerful and also gentle.

Peace and love

Beautiful

Angel of Peace and Love.

Love!

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