Our Stamping Contrasts challengers worked with some lovely bird stamps from Creative Expressions this month. Gail made this extra item for the challenge.

Pretty Jar

Materials…

• Creative Expressions stamps: Birds
• Chipboard
• Scraps of white card
• Blue plain paper (Basic Grey Marrakech)
• Gingham fabric scrap
• Lace
• Metal (tomato paste tube)
• Black Versafine inkpad
• Flower punch
• Flat backed gems (or broken jewellery pieces)
• Thread
• Sandpaper
• Crop-A-Dile
• Jar (Ikea)

1. Cut a heart shaped piece of chipboard. Cover both sides with the blue paper. Stamp the Bird flourish with black Versafine onto both sides. Distress the edges with the sandpaper. Punch a hole in the top.
2. Stamp the words onto scraps of white card and add to the heart as shown.
3. To make the blossom punch out a flower shape from the cleaned tomato paste tube and using an old ballpoint pen add some definition to the petals.
4. Cut a circle of gingham fabric. Add this to the jar lid.
5. Tie the chipboard heart in place with thread and add some lace and length of diamante chain from a broken necklace to the lid.
6. Add the metal flower with a gem in the centre to cover the hole.