Hello! I hope that you are keeping well. I really enjoyed making this card! It is a digital stamp from Vera Lane Studio. I love the birdies!
Digi Stamp: Whimsical Gal with Birdhouse and Birds
Cardstock: SU Whisper White and Basic Black
Inks: Distress Inks - Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber, Twisted Citron, Mermaid Lagoon.
Stencils: Tim Holtz Speckles and Penny Black Oscillations
Coloured with SU Blends
Snippets of an old SU paper that have been brayered with ink and some torn washi tape
White gel pen
I also had a good time making this collage from pieces of gelli prints.
Some 'inchies' made from the lovely IndigoBlu magazine...
Our daughter had her 17th birthday. Her nickname at school has always been Ladybug, so this card seemed appropriate! She managed to meet up with all her friends virtually via some form of social media or other, so all was not lost fortunately. Young people are coping brilliantly, I think. I can't imagine what it must be like to have your education and future put on hold at that age. I hope that they all bounce back as quickly as possible!
Soap-making has been going on. This batch is Lavender & Tea Tree and it smells lovely! The recipe has been formulated by my assessor, so it was great to make a soap that is different from my own range. There are lots of regulations around the claims you are allowed to make about soap. This one can be advertised as antimicrobial. Although all soaps are antimicrobial because of their surfactant properties, the addition of the lavender and tea tree essential oils enhance that effect and leave your hands smelling lovely. Once they are cured I want to send some to our local wildlife sanctuary, as they have been tirelessly working to look after hedgehogs, rabbits and all kinds of birds.
Finally, I have been working on our pond and this lovely little guy has been keeping me company. After many weeks, he also appeared with a girlfriend.
My card has some old SU dsp snippets - hope I dig out more as it is very useful indeed! I am sending it along with a socially distanced hug to Di and the gang at Pixie's Snippets Playground.
Keep crafting! April xx
What a lovely post April! I love the cute first card and a bird in the hair seems a cute thing to me although my cousin would freak out! Your collage is beautifully atmospheric too and the inchies are fabulous with those gorgeous colours and designs. What a perfect card for your daughter! I feel for the young too - my son had only had two terms at uni and it's hard after tasting independence to have to come back and live with his parents. The soap looks amazing. I am an essential oils user and it's funny how I can almost smell the scents when you describe them! Glad to hear you have a little froggy pal! Vicky x
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for your kind comments, Vicky! That is so hard for your son. Such a big step going off to university in the first place, to then have everything so disrupted! I'm certainly looking forward to trying a bar of soap once it's cured - I love a new smell combo lol! April xx
DeleteVicky took the words right out of my mouth April! What a lovely post this is - and so uplifting.I adore your snippets card - that little girl with the birdies is so cute! I guess she knows there's one on her head? Great Gelli print stuff - I'm scared of mine as I could never get decent prints. And your card for you daughter is gorgeous - just perfect in fact. Let's hope we return to something akin to normality before too long - I have a few friends saying that the cracks are beginning to show and I worry for them. Soap sounds so yummy and your wee frog is so sweet! You sure covered a lot of ground in your post :)
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Di xx
Hi Di, oh I'm so glad it's not just me scared of the gelli plate! There is a huge gap between the vision I have in my head and the actual results. It's kind of a big messy undertaking too, so I have to be in the right mood. I see that there are tiny plates available though, which I might have a think about.
DeleteHope you are keeping well and safe! Hugs, April xx