Pile It On! Challenge - Try a New (To You) Technique and/or Use Your Oldest Stash

I'm back with some more inspiration for this month's Pile It On! Challenge...where the themes are:

'Try a New-to-you Technique'

and/or

'Use Your Oldest Stash'

Our sponsor this month is Becky's Place:

Prize - a digital stamp set of the winner's choice!

I tried a new (to me) stamping technique that I saw on one of Jennifer Maguire's YouTube videos...where I stamped a couple of different background stamps ('Magical' and 'Zig Zag' by Hero Arts) using Distress Inks (Mowed Lawn and Mermaid Lagoon) on the corners of a piece of plain white card to make a patchwork effect background. To make it look even more like patchwork, I added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen. I decided to combine the themes, and picked one of my oldest Penny Black stamps (called 'Beehave!!')...I can't remember exactly how long how I've had this stamp, but I definitely had it before I started blogging, so that's at least 10 years! I coloured it using watercolour pencils, added a sentiment (by Stampendous), then doodled a simple border.

Here are the challenges I've piled on:

• Pile It On! - Try a New (to you) Technique and/or Use Your Oldest Stash
• Aud Sentiments - Anything Goes & a Sentiment
• CCEE Stampers - Bees
• Craftaholics R Us - Anything Goes
• Crafter's Cafe - Birthdays and/or Buttons
• Heartful Stamping - Dog Days of Summer
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Sparkles Forum - Stamp Your Own Background

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Pile It On! Challenge.