Text behind?

Hello again, I am here to share a card for Stampotique,Designers Challenge
We have a new challenge and the theme is Text Background
Use a book, stamp, journal, dictionary, newspaper, letter or anything with text. Let's see text in your backgrounds this week.

 I just love this little guy Schmurfy and he is up to Shenanigans which is on  France's Barcode Text2  and behind them is Romantic Text also by France Papillon. The stamp was inked very selectively to give a muted appearance. I used a mask for the circles, soft inking with distress ink!! Now, why not join us? You can use any stamps except digital and there is the chance that you could win a $30 voucher for stamps :D 
 Thank you for stopping by :D Hugs Gay xx

Darnell's visit

Hello my lovely bloggy friends, Just thought I would share a few memories of my days meeting with Darnell,  her lovely blog is djkardkreations
We have been bloggy friends since January 2012, and sharing the fun ever since!!! :D
I made my way to London on the train and underground to Darnell's hotel arriving about lunch time, well you can guess our first port of call was lunch a very quick  but tasty roll on Victoria station LOL not the most salubrious destination but a filling snack none the less. We had decided that the way to get an overall flavour of London ( with only 2 days) would be on an open topped bus, so off we trotted and jumped on the bus. The weather on her trip so far had been anything but British and really rather sunny, lucky lady BUT this is London for goodness sake, yes! You guessed it, it started to drizzle

  I think Darnell wears her brolly really well, it was a little chilly and blowing a gale too Brrrr!  But just look at that smile, what a sunny lady :D We stayed on the bus for most of the afternoon, checking out the sights and deciding what to see the next day. On for a fish and chip supper at the pub, that was delicious. I left her at the hotel and made my way home, tired but happy!!
Next day I was back up on the train and we went off to Oxford Street for a little essential shopping and lunch in an ASK restaurant, Yummy Italian food!!! Then back to the hotel to catch our breath and out again this time to visit Buckingham Palace and St James' park

drier by now we wandered off to see the ducks around the pond and off to Trafalgar Square to check out the fountains. We finished it all off in the evening with a trip to the theatre and a show 'Wicked' how lucky were we?????

Fabulous time and a fabulous lady, thank you Darnell I loved it all :D xxx
p.s When are you coming back??? :D x

Stampotique New Release Blog Hop Yippee!!!

Hi Folks,
Today I'm so pleased to be sharing some of the new release stamps from Stampotique, we are having a blog hop
Here is a list of all our blogs

Jools Robertson

Tera Callihan

Samantha Read

Valerie Wilson

Jo-Capper-Sandon

Corrie Herriman

Jackie Payne

Gloria Steiger

Julie Steed

Cassandra Sloan

Arwen McCullen

Karen Hayseldon

Kathi Rerek

Nellie Van Leeuwen

Gay Peplow (Me)

You should have arrived here from Nellie Van Leeuwen and if you didn't, you may want to start the blog hop from the beginning Stampotique Designer's Blog
All the new stamps can be found HERE
Well done if you've made it this far, there are quite a lot of us!!

I am sharing a Christmas card for my first offering, why not? LOL

This one's rather cryptic but I see where she is coming from :D

So, I made a box, for a little girl. This was good fun, all the sides have been covered with totally pink girly stuff LOL

 The ends have Roc's Feline

 

And finally a totally CAS card

 I used stamps by Magda Polakow, Roc Nicholas  ,  Jo Capper-Sandon and Karen Hayseldon
Alphabitties by Jill Penny and Daniel Torrente

Thank you for joining me and good luck in the draw, a $30 gift certificate to the online store and a grab bag of stamps to two random winners who have visited the blogs :D Gay x

We've gone all beachy

Hello and welcome, the challenge at Stampotique this week is a theme,
The Beach is always such a relaxing place to be whether it's sun or just fun in the sand and surf, let's just see your best beach themed projects this week
I made two cards this time
Mela loves her new hat it keeps the sun out of her eyes

 This card below is done on Yupo paper, a great base for alcohol inks, they move over the surface in a very interesting manner. So for my beach and the sea, floating the ink over the paper with cut and dry sponge worked well, leaving a shiny sea. These two are fighting over the towel

Stamps I used
Mela
Underwhere
Hat Cube
Now I would love to see what you can come up with, good luck and have fun
Gay x