Spring delights and The New Forest

 

I'm here with a mid month reminder with my DT cards for two challenges  We Love Stamping and Stamping Sensations. 

My first cards are for the We Love Stamping challenge theme of Anything stamped with a Spring theme. I used a really old wooden stamp - I must have had it 15+ years. I actually made the second card first and was really pleased with the water colouring of the image. I used the same TL ditsy leaves as on the second card, but cut part of it away for this version. The first card I stamped second and used red inks onto the stamp this time.

My second card is for Stamping Sensations and the Stamp something for Spring theme. I used a Indigo Blu set called Nottingham lace. I've never used this tulip stamp from the set before. After colouring I used a yellow and green promarker to give a shadow to the image.  I used one of the other stamps to shadow stamp the background. I then used a CC frame die and a little ribbon, repeating the same stamp on the base card for the greeting.

We've just had a few days in The New Forest - a few photos to share with you.

We saw lots of donkeys and horses in the forest, but these ones roamed freely through Beaulieu stopping the traffic

We went to Beaulieu Motor Museum. This motor bike and wicker sidecar look frightening by modern safety standards. It had a top speed of 45mph too!

As well as the museum the Palace House at Beaulieu is wonderful and so lovely inside.

A selection of clothes worn by previous Palace House residents. This hand knitted woollen evening gown caught my eye!

The next two photos are Bucklers Hard - a beautiful little hamlet with Georgian cottages, that runs down to the river.  There's a maritime museum and you can go in one of the cottages and a little chapel.

The kitchen garden at our hotel. So very neat and tidy.