I hope today finds you all well and maybe feeling a little more cheerful now we have slightly more daylight each day. I must say it does me a power of good not having to switch lights on before 5 pm because I hate the short days. I'd certainly be no good for anything if I lived where they have 24 hour darkness in winter and the reverse in summer, Lol!
Anyway, today I want to share a piece I made last year using at least four sets of lovely Crafty Individuals stamps. One set in particular struck a chord with me because they are of a place called Fountains Abbey which is just about my favourite place to spend the day. If you go here and here you will find a couple of posts I did after visits there and lots of lovely photos of the place. It's a good job I didn't blog all the ones I took because I have at least 200, Ha! Ha! For my diptych I thought the Gothic Arch shape was very apt and I used lots of Distress Inks with masks, punches and dies and mixed some of my photographs with the stamped images.
This is the front cover.
and the inside pages
and finally the back cover
For the front and back covers I also used some background papers from an Artylicious pack with lots of overstamping. These will probably be available in a different format from Glenda's new company, Chocolate Baroque, which will be opening it's virtual doors very soon (watch this space or the Chocolate Baroque blog).
In case you hadn't already noticed Crafty Individuals have just started a new blog and it's already full of fabulous inspiration for using their products. I think nobody does 'small but beautiful' like the lovely Jean Hardy and have you seen April's issue of the Craft Stamper mag? Mine dropped through the letterbox this morning and Jean has the most adorable little birdhouse on the front cover. There are also lots of projects throughout the mag using CI products and (close to my own crafty heart) the free stamp is a beautiful butterfly design by Chocolate Baroque and there is a lovely two page spread showing projects using this stamp and others which I and my fellow DT teamies are working with at the moment.
Well, that's it from me tonight. As always I love to read any comments you have time to leave and really appreciate them all. Have a warm and cosy evening.
Love and hugs
Lesley Xx
