TWO cards today... 'Quiet' and todays challenge piece at Stampotique

*Those of you looking for my Stampotique #250 challenge piece, its a few images further down on this post*


Well I've been busy crafting and stamping again. Really enjoying it Last night I had a play around with a few stamps from my range at Stampotique and posted a few photos on to the Stampotique Originals Facebook page, thinking I'll upload them on to my blog this morning as it was too late last night. THEN...I saw the Stampotique Challenge theme #250 out this morning  'BUTTERFLIES, FLOWERS AND ALL THINGS GARDEN'.  ...darn....if only I'd held back a few hours from Facebook. Don't you just hate it when that happens and you pre-empt a challenge by a few hours...Of course, this means I'm unable to enter this first piece in to the challenge (I think the theming would have been ok...its isnt butterflies but its flowers and garden with a few bees thrown in for good measure...)

I used -

Medium Bee with TinyBee on the side #3000

Symphony Scroll #3060

Quiet Place #3011

Spider Grass #3063

Prima Tropical Watercolours

Glimmer Mist spray - Marigold

Black embossing powder 

So thats the first item...

Second up today is a total contrast to the above...a quick make for Stampotique Designer;s Challenge #250 hosted by Jackie Payne- BUTTERLIES, FLOWERS AND ALL THINGS GARDEN using Small Butterfly and Papillon (which is Butterfly in French...also the name of  our house.)

I used-

Small Butterfly #3018

Papillon #3020

Prima Tropical Watercolours

Stazon

You can imagine how quick and easy this card is to make. Stamp stamp stamp (x quite a few) the butterfly, add some watercolour dabs, stand it upright so it runs downwards, stamp and add the Papillon text, fix to card stock that I inked a little around the edges. Da-daah.

Less is More

Too simple to blog?

Less is More's latest theme is to have the text as the main focal point. Not sure I succeeded as I keep looking at the bee, but the text is the thing I read first, so the jury is out on that one.

Both stamps by Stampotique. (A World All Her Own and Medium Bee with a tiny bee on the side,...this is the tiny bee.

Also available from Happy Daze here in the UK.

A Very Ha-Bee Christmas!

A bit of a play on words...We Bee Kings. Couldn't decide whether to do Wee Bee Kings (as in little Scottish king bees) or stick with the more "commonly known" (in my head anyway) We Bee Kings as in We group of bee kings...you know what I'm trying to say hopefully lol.
After making this I thought I'd better check to make sure I hadn't subconsciously lifted the idea without giving credit, but I couldn't find anything anywhere like this done with my bee so hopefully I'm ok.



Anyway.. as a little tribute to my medium bee stamp here is an example showing that with a little artistic license, they too can be Christmassy.

But just remember....




...A BEE ISN'T JUST FOR CHRISTMAS :0)

The Medium bee with a small bee on the side is BACK IN STOCK again at Happy Daze having sold out so many times.He'd make a fab little gift for a stamping friend. You can find him here.
For those of you overseas from the UK, Medium Bee can be found over on the Stampotique Originals website as always.

I've entered this card into the Lots To Do challenge this week whose theme is GLITZ!

Wishing you all a happy Christmas/Holiday time.

Thank you so much for all your condolences re Mum. x Very kind x