Two challenges

Well, after a few days of nothing, I've done two challenge pieces today!

First up was Hels' Sunday Stamper -to use die cuts.  Not, it so happened that I had some grungeboard tattered florals left from yesterday, so I decided I'd use them.  Remember I showed you the Crafty Individuals poppy on my WOYWW post?  Well, still not got any EZ mount but it held on an acrylic block as it was, and the other day I stamped it on a tag - finished it off this morning with the grunge flowers.

This time I did gesso the flowers first and then used pigment inks - I only have 3 adirondack pigments - sailboat, orange and butterscotch, so used them all!  The orange one didn't turn out how I wanted,  so I turned it over and used the other side in the end....
Used my fave stamp in the hand script stamp for the blue flowers and Wendy's polka dot for the small one.

Challenge 2 is for the Everything Wendy Vecchi yahoo group - this week we are to use just ONE set of Wendy stamps (though we could use other makes too) I took Botanical Art and some of my favourite distress colours.  It was VERY hard to decide which set to use

Not sure which photo looks most in focus!










i think it's the background that is affecting my judgement!
The solid flowers (I love this stamp, and this is what settled it for using this set) are stamped on a thin piece of card stock and each cut out and 'blushed' with a little wild honey before sticking to the tag.

Never inked up the spider before today - shock horror! but when I turned to the set in the pile, I found that he had slid off his ez mount - never known that happen before!  I was able to reattach him - I think maybe the pile of my Tim and Wendy stamps are getting too heavy to have all in one heap, I am going to have to re-think how I store them - or at least where....(they've been piled on the sofa next to me!)

Anyhow, back to the Liverpool game now, we're winning but don't really deserve to be... fingers crossed, 25 minutes to go!!