Sketch challenge at scrap 365 and some potato stamping

Good morning lovelies! how are you today? Thanks for all your concern - you are lovely! I'm fine though and not about to hurt my back intentionally - but I need to keep my fitness up - I still have the Great North Run to look forward to in September - I'm running it for a local hospice this year - more of that soon but not today!!

Today I have a little candy for you - just leave a comment on todays post, be a follower and I'll draw a winner on 1st June - what can you win - its a stamp and die set from sizzix:

Today I want to share with you a piece of messy art that i so enjoyed making - I got my distress paints and inks out and had lots of fun. I followed a sketch from Scrap 365 -

Here's what I did:

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I started out with a plain white piece of paper and added distress paints in blues and browns to a craft mat - spritzed with water and swooshed the paper through. Once dry I added festive berrie DI and filled in many of the white spaces. Next I used DI to create the other bars of paper and stamped one with CB honey bee stamps. Then I used my cut pieces of potato to stamp blue stars - in distress paint, and brown hexagons - in ink from an ink pad. Next I did some more stamping on the background to create the smaller hexagons and also the bees. I followed the sketch and put the layout together then fussy cut some flowers that I had stamped and added the title. Such fun! I loved making this! The picture is, of course, my Lucy - she was at the top of the hill at st Michaels mount in Cornwall - it was a very windy day and she was trying to be heard!!! Bless her!

I would like to enter this layout into the following challenges

scrap365 scrap365- June sketch

Craft stamper magazine:craftstamper Potato printing.

Thanks for dropping by today - remember if you leave a message you can go into the draw to win the stamp and die set!

Hugs rachel xx