Garden Journal

Happy New Year, I hope you all had a peaceful and safe Christmas, it's a new month for Stamping Sensations and We Love Chocolate Baroque challenges, if you didn't get the chance to join in last month's challenges these could be the ones for you.

At Stamping Sensations this month the theme is 'Favourite Stamps' Well my favourite stamps are Lavinia, the only problem I have is picking individual stamps from their range.  I do adore animals so I think I tend to use the animal stamps a lot.

So my Sister had a request for me,to make her a Gardening Journal, as she grows some of her own plants for her garden.  She wanted sections for recoding her seeds and bulbs etc.... and to record and make notes of other things.  So I found a nice notebook that had four sections in it with tabs on.  I created a front page with a little verse on, then created a scene for each divider page and kept to an outdoors theme.  I gave her it at Christmas as a little extra with a Notebook and a Diary too.  She loves notebooks etc and was over the moon with them.

Our prize this month is two lovely stamp sets from Penny Black, 

We have a post on our challenge blog, please do read it as there are some important changes with future winners and our Top 3 selections.

          

And of course, the Design Team have created some stunners to inspire you. Please do pay them a visit to their individual blogs - it means a lot to know you appreciate their efforts.



And now onto my second challenge creation for We Love Chocolate Baroque, where the theme is 'Feminine' 

For this card I created a wreath like frame using some of the stamps from Chocolate Baroques Thistle Butterfly, I then took one of the main images and stamped it in the centre,  I used a stencil to create a back drop, then I added some Liquid Pearls around the wreath.

Our prize:-
Is the winners choice of an A4 Chocolate Baroque stamp set, or stamps to the same value. We will also be on the lookout for our next Featured Designer selected from entries using Chocolate Baroque stamps.
From the lovely



Chocolate Baroque

Are you wanting some inspiration, pop on over to the challenge blog and then you can see all the wonderful creations from the rest of the talented team.


Recipe:-
Stamps - Lavinia stamps, Chocolate Baroque - Thistle Butterfly, 
Colouring Mediums - Versafine Claire, Distress Oxides, Faber castell aqua pencils, Distress Inks, 
Tools -  Lavinia stencil - Laurel,  Moon masks, 
Embellishments - Gelly Roll - Stardust, Liquid Pearls, Posca Pens, 

Thank you for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x