Birthday Girl

Good morning all.

Summer arrived back yesterday thank goodness after we had everything thrown at us on Tuesday!

Sharing a birthday card for the little girl next door who is four today.

Square nesties and number dies from Spellbinders. Dinosaur stamps, dies and sentiment from Clearly Besotted. Clouds and sun dies from Wplus9. Grass and hills dies from Lawn Fawn. Sky and grass were inked with DI. I inked some waste card with various greens before stamping and die cutting the dinosaurs then added some detail with promarkers and a white gel pen. Googly eyes are a recent purchase from Pretty Pink Posh - I love these. I should have used pinks and purples to ink up the dinosaurs...maybe next time!

The Clearly Besotted and Wplus 9 goodies are all being aired for the first time.

Challenges entered:

Country View Challenges - simply scenic

Craft and Smash - animals

Crafting Musketeers - use a die cut

Crafty Time - anything new

Mema's Challenge - anything goes 

Natalie and Amy's - animals

Paper Creator's Crafts - animals

Top Tip Tuesday - animals

Happy Birthday to you!

Good morning all.

Another lovely day yesterday weatherwise, a little pampering session in the afternoon for me...then fish and chips for tea (well I couldn't spoil my nails!) all followed by a lazy evening...life is good!

A simple male birthday card to share today.

Happy die is from Whimsy stamps, suare dies from Spellbinders, birthday sentiment from Clearly Besotted and to you from Winnie and Walter. I die cut the happy from the black layer, cut the card through the middle of the die cut and trimmed a small amount from one piece. Happy die was cut several times in white and inlaid into the black layer and stacked up for dimension. Sentiments were stamped with versamark and heat embossed with white detail EP. Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Challenges entered:

Fan-Tastic Tuesday - use die or punch

Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Party Time Tuesdays - anything goes

Crafting from the Heart - anything goes

Incy Wincy Designs - clean and simple

Mema's Challenge - anything goes with die or punch

Through the Purple Haze - anything goes

Amusing - birthdays

Happy Little Stampers - sketch

Sister Act Cards - anything goes

Predominantly Black

Good morning all.

 I hope you've all enjoyed your Easter weekend...we've had a quiet one here, apart from our visitors on Sunday. Another lovely day yesterday, hope it lasts!

A quick Christmas card to share today.

Stamp from Penny Black, stamped in versamark and heat embossed with black detail EP. I elongated a Spellbinders die to cut out the image then attached it to the base card with foam tape. Finished with a few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - predominantly black

Completely Christmas - black and white

Jingle Belles - caroling caroling now we go

CHNC Extra - anything Christmas goes

Holly Jolly Christmas Challenge - feature a creature

Joy to the World

Good morning all.

Well I appear to have boobed big time yesterday...the Christmas Card Club theme was "Feature a Creature/Critter" not Christmas tree as I did!! So here are some cute critters to make amends. Sorry Maureen...will try harder next time lol!

Lots of NBUS on this card....film strip from Pretty Pink Posh, sentiment from Penny Black and penguins from Mama Elephant....a whole load of schtuff which I can put away now! Images coloured with promarkers. Background dies are from Spellbinders. Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Challenges entered:

Darnell's NBUS - challenge #4

Addicted to CAS - cute

Alphabet Challenge - C is for cute and cuddly

Christmas Stampin' all Year Round - dies to die 4

Allsorts - feature a creature

Rudolph Day

Good morning all.

Another gorgeously sunny day yesterday although there was quite a chill in the air still. Hubby and I took Freya a long walk in the afternoon...my unused muscles are objecting today!!

A quick Christmas card to share today...using the second die cut I managed from the iffy die which I sent back!

Background die from Poppy Stamps. Sentiment from Stamps Away, dies from Spellbinders. Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Challenges entered:

Rudolph Day - March

CMCC#64 - Colour Me...Playful

Simon Says Wednesday - anything goes

Fab n Funky - Christmas

Get Creative Challenges - use a die cut

Soft and Silent

Good morning all.

Another lovely day here yesterday. After getting some chores done I managed a little crafting while tea was cooking then spent another couple of hours last night in the craft room.

I couldn't leave Sarah out at LIM this week so had to CASE her card too.

I used the colours and embossing and made a Christmas card. Sentiment die is from Stamps Away, snowflake dies and matching stamps are from Paper Smooches, sequins are from Pretty Pink Posh.

Background is stamped with the PS stamps and silver ink. Dies and sentiment are stamped with versamark and heat embossed with silver detail EP.

Here is Sarah's card:

Challenges entered:

Less is More - CASE a DT card

Simon Says Monday - one stamp many ways

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - silent night

Jingle Belles - mission EMBOSS-ible

ABC Christmas Challenge - f is for frosty

Christmas Card Club "Anything Goes"

Good morning all.

Happy Mother's Day to you all. I've got to pop down home to see my Mum then it will be a quiet day hopefully with a little time to craft...that's assuming Mr Mojo wants to come out to play!

A fortnight has passed and it's time once again for our little Christmas Card Club challenge.  Sylvie picked the theme this time and she gave us carte blanche this time with "Anything Goes".

Stamp is a Penny Johnson from Stampavie coloured with promarkers and highlighted with stickles before being die cut with a Starlight Circle die from Tattered Lace, then inlaid into a red frame cut with the same die.  Stitched die is from Spellbinders. Sentiment die is from Crafty Impressions. Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

I was obviously having a senior moment the day I made this as I used ordinary white cardstock for the image hence the bleeding inks!!

You'll find a list of the girls in my side bar if you'd like to pop around and see what they've made for this challenge.

Challenges entered:

CHNC Extra - anything Christmas goes

Holly Jolly Christmas - dies and punches

CRAFT - Christmas

Crimbo Crackers - no printed papers

CHNC - use some black

Craft for the Craic - bingo (image, more than 2 layers, die cut)

Crafting by Designs - get ready for Christmas

Sending Big Hugs

Good morning all.

A much needed visit to the beautician yesterday for some waxing and polishing - my beautician has been travelling in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam for 5 weeks so it's been a while!!

After seeing the lovely Becca's stencilled background here I had to give the technique a try. Here is the result:

I inked the die cut piece with DI inks in mustard seed, spiced marmalade and picked raspberry then using a stencil from Splodgeaway I inked over with black soot. Stitched dies are from Spellbinders. Stamp is from Indigo Blu and was a magazine freebie, stamped with black versafine then overstamped with a big and juicy sunset ink pad. Sending die is from Simon says Stamp cut once from waste card and once from the background and layered up. Sentiment is from STAMPlorations. Sequins from Pretty Pink Posh.

Challenges entered:

CASology - tropical

Happy Stamper's - sponging

Happy Stamper's - sketch

STAMPlorations - stamps and stencils

Muse Challenge - I was inspired by the pretty pattern in the background and bright cheerful colours

ShowCASe your Style - colour inspiration

Addicted to Stamping - photo inspiration

Addicted to CAS - distress

Pink and Grey

Good morning all.

We had a bright and beautiful one yesterday again. Lots of little jobs done and a casserole in the oven then I had some time to craft.

Another Anniversary card to share today. The ladies over at Less is More are celebrating their 4th Anniversary...can you believe it? Congratulations to you all, hope you have many more :)

The challenge is a colour one of pink and grey.

Pink base card matted with a grey layer on foam tape then a white. Background stamp is from Unity Stamps, stamped with tattered rose DI. Die is from Memory Box.....cut twice, once with pink card and once with a double layer of grey card so I ended with a solid die cut to piece the other two back onto. This made the die very sturdy and gave it some dimension on the card without using foam pads.

At this point I realised how lacking I was in Anniversary stamps/dies...with love was a magazine freebie and Happy Anniversary is from a decoupage stamp set from Imagination Crafts. A few sequins from Pretty Pink Posh were added to finish off.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - pink and grey

Stamplorations - stamps and hearts

Happy Stamper - sketch

Artistic Stampers - love

Simon says Stamp - pink and red