Lakeside Clear Stamp set - Beccy's Place

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How is your week going? I am still in the thick of invigilating. Next week is half term so we have a week off.

I am sorry that I am not around as much as usual. Some of you might know that my mum was taken into hospital last week with a major infection. She also has mobility issues and these a being assessed now. This leaves my dad at home on his own. A few days ago he tried to visit my mum on his own. Since my dad was ill last summer he gets very confused. The carers were worried when he wasn't home so the police were involved. Luckily one of the neighbours found him walking home. We are not sure how long he was out but it was such a relief when he was found. A close neighbour has stepped up to take dad to the hospital to visit my mum.

Here is another of cards I made with the Lakeside Clear Stamp set from Beccy's Place. I wanted to have a play with a different type of background.

For the background I used the Caught in Crystal Technique that Sue Wilson uses.  On her blog there is a page dedicated to this technique. 

This is the stamp set it is available HERE. These images are also available as digital images. 

I stamped the image with Watering Can Archival ink to stamp the image and the sentiment. Then I used watercolour paints to colour the image and to create a background. I used the Double Pierced Rectangle to create a frame for the image. 

This card will stay in my stash until I decide who to send it to. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Lakeside Clear Stamp set from Beccy's Place Step Panel Card

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

I hope you have had a good week and are ready for what the weekend has in store. This week I have been invigilating. I will be doing the same next week and then we have a week off. This weekend we are having some very dear friends to supper. It will be lovely to have a catch up it has been a while.

As promised I am sharing in more detail one of the cards that I made with the Lakeside Clear stamp set from Beccy's Place. I am very lucky that Beccy is happy to send stamps to me all the way from Australia.

I have made Step Panel cards but this is the most successful. It is fully self standing and that is an achievement. The papers I used have been in my stash for ages. 

This is the fabulous stamp set: it is available HERE.  Beccy does ship overseas. 

Beccy likes us to make a colour chart to go with our makes. I am not very good at this yet. You can see from the picture which Promakers I used. 

I do like this boat and it is easy to colour. I used some Tattered Lace oval dies to cut out the image and it's mat. 

Here you can see the step. I think this is a good was to showcase an image. Also it will fold flat for posting. 

I have a couple more cards to share from the set of cards I made for Beccy. She is lovely to work for. I am rather busy for the next few weeks. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

The May Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge 493 at the Passion for Promarkers Challenge blog

Challenge 384 at the I ❤ Promakers Challenge blog

Week 519 at the Allsorts Challenge blog

The May Challenge at the Colour It, Create It, Show it Off Challenge blog

Challenge 163 at Creatalicious Challenges

Have a great weekend. 

Crafty Hugs 

Jackie

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Beccy' Place - Clear Stamp Set - Lakeside

Hello My Crafty Blog Friends and Visitors

How was your weekend? I hope that you had a good time. We enjoyed the Pokémon Detective Pikachu movie and the meal after with our daughter and son-in-law. It is always special spending time with them. In the summer I have been asked if I would like to show my cards at an Open Studios event. This meant that we spent some of the weekend working out how I could display my cards. The event is in August so I have some time to prepare. I am very flattered to have been asked. We also did some work in the garden. This week I will be mostly invigilating. It is exam time again.

Yesterday my cards were featured on the Beccy's Place Blog.  A little while back Beccy asked me to be one of her blog contributors. I readily agreed as I love Beccy's images and she is a lovely person to work with. To my surprise I was sent the Lakeside clear stamp set all the way from Australia. I did enjoy stamping and making different backgrounds. There are so many techniques you can use with stamps. 

Here are all my makes together. I will be featuring the individual makes in their own blog posts. 

This is the stamp set and it is available HERE. 

Have a great week. 

 Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie

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