I was thinking about this after taking photos and thought it would have been a good idea to do the same on the 'back' of the jar using another of the stamps from the same set.

What I used

That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Hand Carved Nature
That's Crafty! White Gesso
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - Ivory
Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Coffee
Extras: Glass Jar, Sticky Gem, String and watercolours.

What I did

I began with a piece of mount board measuring 8x8 inches, (with hind sight I should have used a That's Crafty! 8x8 inch MDF chunkie :( ). I glued down bits of ripped up pages from an old book I'm recycling and then added the paints as shown after a thin coat of white gesso. I used Melina's new stamps and white embossing powder for the background flowers and grasses. I then stamped Donna's rabbit and tree on tissue paper and coloured the leaves with white gesso on the reverse and adhered using PVA glue, this gives a seamless look and the images look like they were stamped directly on to the background, this is a useful technique when you don't have a smooth background to stamp on to. A little lace and some paper flowers from my stash add texture, and Wycinanka chipboard and That's Crafty! greyboard add more details and texture in contrasting colours to the background. Finally some glitter glue and frost spray add some lovely shimmer and paint splats add that arty feel.

What I used

That's Crafty! Stamp Set - Hand Carved Nature
That's Crafty! Stamp Set - Flowers Set 2
That's Crafty! Grey board - Small Butterflies and Dragonflies
Wycinanka Chipboard - Butterflies and Flowers
That's Crafty! White Gesso
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints - I used: Light Pink, Bright Magenta, Light Blue, Bright Blue and Teal
That's Crafty! Lustre Spray - Frost
Ranger Stickles Glitter Glue - Crystal

Extras from my stash; lace, paper flowers, tissue paper, white embossing powder and sticky gems.

Wishing I had used!!: That's Crafty! MDF Chunkie 8x8 inches

Hello, hope this finds you warm and well. Now I know that Christmas is the same date every year yet somehow it always seems to be a long way off then before you know it it's next month! So with this in mind, combining Christmas with my love of postcards, I made this simple and effective with a hint of Scandinavian design postcard, which is protected with a couple of coats of gloss medium so it could go through the postal system. I took dozens of photos for this but I couldn't catch the effect the gloss medium had, I applied it once vertically and when dry another coat horizontally and it created a beautiful linen texture effect.

What I did

I began with a postcard surface, this one has rounded corners. I painted a couple of coats of red paint and then using a stencil applied embossing ink and white embossing powder to create the snowy swirls for the ground, I used the same method for the snow flakes. The tree and bird were stamped using embossing ink and white embossing powder. The small snowflakes were simply and embossing pen and white embossing powder. I really like how the stencil and stamps combine, it's hard to tell which was which!

What I used

That's Crafty! Surfaces, whiteboard postcard
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paint - Christmas Red
That's Crafty! Stencil - Flourish
That's Crafty! Dinky Stencil - Snowflake Background
That's Crafty! Clear Stamp Set - Hand Carved Nature
That's Crafty! 3D Gloss Gel Medium

I do hope you like it, thanks for looking!

Wishing you a lovely day, Sam xx