SUE'S ART STUFF: From the NEC ....

Well not exactly, 'cos I went for my bi-annual visit last Thursday. I've spent yesterday afternoon and today messing around with my lovely new stash and rather than post a piccie of said purchases, I've actually made things .......

First up, is a new find - Lavinia Stamps. Now I've seen this range many times before and I'm afraid to say not paid much attention to them. Then a certain person who lives in the Midlands, (she knows who she is) started talking about them. I had a look on the web site and at the Show saw the most lovely samples on display. Now I'm not usually a groupie (except for stalking Sue Roddis around the internet - lol) and I'm not a Stamp Tart (OK that's probably not true either - lol) but I just had to make a small (another fib - lol) purchase.

The end result of playing with a brayer, new Adirondack inks (loving Sunshine Yellow and Citrus) and the lovely stamps are these prototypes ....

The one on the right is Secret Garden, Grass and a diddy Mushroom stamp. The one on the left is Fairy Houses, Pixies and one of the Leaf stamps. Even though my hands are a gorgeous shade of yellowy orange, I'm quite pleased with the way these have turned out - brayering and all ....

Here's another one - and definitely a prototype ....

This is made up of the two Fairy Shop stamps. I say prototype because I couldn't figure out in my head brayering first, stamping and then colouring in; or stamping, colouring and the background. This shows the sad attempt at the latter option - note the green blobby part halo to the bottom left of the sun/moon. Still had fun with the Promarkers; and the Sleigh and Reindeer is so dinky (that's from Christmas Miniatures from Clarity - but more of that another time) and why I haven't bought Cut and Dry Pen Nibs before, I will never know ...

Then I picked up these two bare rubber stamps from Stamp Addicts. Obviously having a bit of a thing about trees at the minute ...

I really like these. The one on the left is coloured in with Papermania brush pens and a water brush (apart from the Promarker pot) and the berries are with a red glitter gel pen. For the one on the right, the leaves are painted with Sunshine Yellow Adirondack with a damp paintbrush, the pears with a bronze colour glitter gel pen and the partridge with the brush pens.

Next up is two stamps that I saw and thought 'Got to have me those' and when I looked at them today thought 'Why on earth did I buy those' - lol. Anyways, onwards and upwards - so here they are. I'm still not sure about them - but they were quick to do (well would have been if my Graphite Black Brilliance pad wasn't so old or I had black embossing powder - lol - one or two attempts had to be made to get a good image) ...