My most used stamp(s)

Hi you all, hope you are enjoying your weekend. It is very cold here still, but we didn't have any more snow today. But we will be in for some surprises in the next few days - we have warm, wet air coming from the south, and icy cold coming from the north east, and they will be meeting more or less over our heads, so we must expect snow, freezing rain and icy roads. Good excuse for me to stay home and get crafty!

At Out of a Hat Creations the ladies are asking us to use our favourite stamps, or stamps that we use most. I have such a lot of faves that this is no easy task, but there are a few stamps which I use a lot for background stamping, and I have used them here. I messed up a piece of canvas I was painting last week, the colours would not behave as I wanted. When the paint was dry, I stamped it using my script, diamond, clock, swirls, and face stamps - all from LaBlanche, using embossing ink and white EP. I stamped randomly in all directions. 

Then I used my dies to cut different things - words, umbrella men, and some bigger pieces to use for tags. I cut some little birds with a Martha Stewart punch to use up the smallest leftovers. As the canvas is rather rough, the embossing is uneven, which gives a great distressed effect.

And I made these two tags using some of my 'bits'. 

For the first one, I cut a tag from cardboard which I distressed, gave it some golden edges with Utee and added some lace and some of my embellishments. I am also entering this tag into the Simon Says Stamp and Show 'lace love' challenge.

For the second one I used the distressed background, with some coordinating embellishments for a quick tag.

I had great fun playing, as always!

Have a great weekend, take care, and thanks for visiting!