Still waiting for Mr. Wright

Hello everybody, Yvonne here with my "spring" project for this months challenge. I really love the stamp with the four old lady's waiting for Mr. Wright....they always make me smile.

Here they are...sitting in the sun...

For the background I used two sprays: lemon zest and sunset orange. I masked the image and used two stencils to make the background more interesting. After that I stamped some butterfly's around the women. I colored the image with distress ink and markers: tumbled glass, salty ocean, tattered rose, squeezed lemonade, spun sugar, shaded lilac and shabby shutters.

With modeling paste and a big stencil I made the word "spring". I colored it with LuminArte silks acrylic glaze pretty peridot. 

For the little details I used a black pencil and a white posca.

Stamps I used:

- Waiting for Mr. Wright

- More bugz

Thanks for stopping by :-)

Altered Playing Cards

I am taking part in a weekly Altered Playing Card (APC) challenge. Here are a couple of APC's using the gorgeously diverse stamps by Lost Coast Designs :

For this APC the topic was bees. The perfect bee was to be found amongst the gorgeous winged animals, More Bugz, look how realistic it is : 

Here is my completed APC, I have used a honey comb stencil, die, embossing powers and inks.

The wording is significant on this APC "Long live the Queen", this is not necessarily because I am a Royalist, but because the bee is such an important part of life and existence, lets have thriving colonies.

The second APC uses one of the awesome girls from The Doodle Dolls 1 Set :

I lightly gesso'd this playing card so that some of it would show through in the background, love that effect. The background is done with crackle paste and a stencil and dylusions sprays. The image is colored with copics and white and black gel pen.

Here is a close up of her, I think she is pretty special. You can also see the background more clearly :

Just over half way through the APC challenge, its fun to alter a pack of 52 playing cards and I am most impressed with myself for keeping up ! LOL
Thanks for stopping by x