favourite techniques

Hello lovelies - how are you today? Wasn't it a gorgeous day yesterday? Lets hope we have more of the same today! I got lots done in the garden - planted out some peas and put out my hardened off broad beans - and set some sunflower seeds and some lettuce seeds.

Todays card is one I have made for my husband Shaun's birthday - its not until June but I wanted to use this stencil and stamp set from Clarity as soon as I got them - so here's the result:

I used a 7x7 piece of clarity card and added the stencil then applied grunge paste through it - whilst this dried a stamped and coloured the woodpecker - and fussycut him. Then I applied mowed lawn DI to the field and brwon panpastels to the trunk. I added light blue panpastel to create the sky then stamped and coloured the foliage with spectrum noirs. The sentiment is from whimsy stamps. Then it was just a case of matting and layering.

I'd like to enter this card to the following challenges:

FSC:fashionablestampingchallenges Favourite technique - I love to combine stencils and stamping and use lots of media.

Crafty Catzcraftycatzweeklychallenge: Animals

MAWTTmovingalongwiththetimes: Spring

Divasdivasbydesignchallenge: Spring

PTWpapertakeweekly: Spring has sprung

squirrel and the foxthesquirrelandthefox: all creatures great and small

Sunday stamperpinkleart - nature

Crafty Calendar Challengescraftycalendarchallenge: Things with wings

Artistic stampertheartisticstampercreativeteam: Embossing and texture.

a little bit crafty - paulaholifieldcraftsalbc-birds-and-bees

I do hope you have a great Saturday! Big Hugs to you and thanks for dropping by today!

Rachel xx