Mixed Media by Ann-Marie

Meet Love.. One of the Festival Dollies.   It's not long now until Dolly Dimples are back on our TV screens on Create and Craft. The new range of stamps I designed for Dolly Dimples are called the 'Festival Dollies' there are 3 stamp sets in all, Love - Hope - Harmony. The girls come with sentiments, worker stamps, butterfly's and lots of funky flowers.  With spring being here and summer only around the corner I wanted to design fun and happy images with a twist of the 70's vibe. The above project was made using the stamp set 'Love' and one of the alphabet templates from Dolly Dimples, which will be on the show. I used my stamp press to get a good image of Love, then using the alphabet template I cut out the letter L. Then fussy cutting the image out and using alcohol markers I coloured in Love and used a white pen to add high lights. The letter L I decorated with paper and stamped with VersaFine CLAIRE ink, using the word and flowers stamps included in the

  Sheena and Lavinia together.   It's great to be able to play with other artist's products, I have always been a big fan of Sheena and Lavinia, so I decided to create this project using both artists designs. I thought both Sheena's stamp set and Lavinia's stamps went together so well in this project, also using Sheena's stencil. As you can see I have used Ranger Distress Ink and VersaFine CLAIR ink pads as I find the colours really pop. I used a low tack tape to keep the stencil in place so that I could ink it up. I then used a stamping platform to place the inked card inside and arrange the stamps in place. I then added the Lavinia stamps to complete the project. Then using an app on my phone I was able to remove the background from the image for posting on social media as shown at the beginning. LAVINIA STAMPS USED Mini leaf 2 Mini leaf 5 Mini Berry Rory & Darcy Pipin mini Wild hares set small SHEENA STAMPS USED Fairies and Unicorns Bewitched and Curious To