Crafting Together

Hi everyone! I hope all is well with you. We are getting through quite a lot of the little tasks we set ourselves at the start of lockdown! I don't think we are anywhere near the end yet but we will be ready for a little more freedom!

I had a lovely time on Friday morning having a video link playtime with my dear friend Sarah. I took a hint from lovely Alison Bomber of Words and Pictures who had a Skype session with friends, but we each chose three elements that we should include.

We planned using the same stamp set that we had just bought from Aall and Create - the new butterflies designed by Olga Heldwein.

We had a supply of..
Distress(any items we had)
Brusho
Black and white pens
a small amount of papers/ephemera from our stash,
a stencil 
and were allowed three colours of our own choice
plus the usual basic crafting supplies.

My three colours were - Picked Raspberry,Mustard seed and Peacock Feathers.

We were so busy chatting, and being interrupted by Sarah's adopted cat, although I think it is the cat that adopted Sarah, that I forgot to take any photos of the process!

 I had put ink on through a stencil but it was very bright in places so I used a stiff brush and put some Versafine black through that I had used for stamping.
You can see one of the butterflies I used from some cake cases that Sarah had told me about years ago from Sainsburys!I stamped part of a wing over to give it some texture!

Once I had stamped and fussy cut the butterfly I stamped a part of it  onto coloured paper and cut out the circle as well as some of the flowers to colour in.

I coloured in some more of the flowers and berries with water down DI

 The words were on a piece of book paper I had intended stamping on, but there were so many combinations of beautiful words I use some here and saved the page for future use!

I added some white spatters with a posca pen
We hadn't discussed a time limit so reached a point where we were reasonably happy.
After lunch I doodled with a black pen around the spatters and coloured a few more berries.

We had used pretty much the same supplies, Sarah chose her Distress using darker shades of the same colours Mermaid lagoon, Victorian Velvet and Scattered Straw I think, and used the other two wings from the set - now we need to use the other two ourselves...

Sarah sent me some photos via Whats App but I can't transfer them to my computer!!This is a screenshot. It was good to catch up and it put me in such a good mood I have got lots done since!

Thanks for looking, Chris