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Hi everyone, It's Donna here today with some stamps from the new  Carved Whimsy Wood  stamp set which of course I love ;) This is a very photo heavy post so grab yourself a cuppa and have a little nose through it! Apologies for some of the photo lighting as dark Winter days are not great for that are they! All the details : I have been very lucky to get my hands on these wonderful MDF Chunkie ATCs' from That's Crafty, they come in four different sizes but I've just used the smallest size for my creation. This is how they come, ready to be decorated any way you want. I gave them a quick coat of  That's Crafty! Multi Surface paints , there's no need for Gesso with these as they cover everything in the first coat. I was aiming for a sort of twilight effect with the colours I chose. Next step was to stamp my favourite tree with  Versamark  and then emboss with a white embossing powder, any make will do but try and get one for fine...

Hi everyone, Donna here today showing you how to make a moonscape card using just one of the awesome tree's  off the  Carved Whimsy Wood  stamp set (which happens to be on sale in February). First of all I grabbed a sheet of my beloved  Strathmore Mixed Media  paper and cut it down to size to fit a 5x7 card. I then took a post it note, drew a circle on it and then cut it out making sure that I kept a bit of the sticky bit on it! I positioned the post it note circle on the paper and then used a blue and purple  Distress Oxide  with a blending tool to lay down the colour making sure not to disturb the circle. When I finished the blending I flicked a couple of drops of water on the paper and left it for a few seconds, then dried with the heat gun. I think this gives a really nice effect doesn't it. I removed the circle and taking the blending tool once more just gently blended a little bit around the moon so it looked softer against the back...

Hi everyone, Donna with you today sharing a card featuring stamping on teabags...great fun :) I steeped the teabags in hot water for a few minutes, squeezed them out, cut them open and then left them to dry overnight. Once they were dry I removed all the tealeaves to just leave the empty bag. You can re use any teabags but I wouldn't use any that you have had in a cup with milk or sugar. I wanted to keep a nature theme to the whole card so I used some stamps from the sets  Weed Love ,  A Little Birdie ,  Antique Botanicals  and stamped them directly onto the teabags using black  Archival ink  and then added some doodling with a white  Posca pen . You'd be amazed by how easy it is to stamp on the teabags and what a clear impression you get too. Once that was done, I started adding all the other little bits and pieces including  Tim Holtz paperie , washi tape, coconut buttons and a little twig. You can have a little look through your ow...