Happy Birthday to You

Good morning all.

Yesterday was perishing but we had glorious sunshine all day. The days are certainly lengthening again...it's still daylight here after 5pm. Spring must be on the way!

We've got parent's evening tonight...I really mustn't forget to go! It may be our last one as Lora is talking about going to college next year instead of 6th form.

It's theme week at LIM and we're being asked to show things with wings, here's my offering:

The mini stamp is a freebie from Craft Stamper magazine, stamped in versamark and heat embossed with detail white EP then die cut with a scalloped nestie. I then used DIs to colour....squeezed lemonade and spiced marmalade. The mesh die is from Couture Creations. Sentiment die is from Words with Honey, stamped onto a Spellbinders pennant die. Stitched rectangle die is from Spellbinders. Gold cord and sequin are from my stash. The blue dots in the background are punch waste.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - things with wings

CASology - mini

 

CAS Colours and Sketches - colours

ShowCASe your Style - birthdays

Shopping our Stash - out of a jar

 (embossing powder..I think this jar is going to last forever, it's still nearly full after several year's use!)

Happy Birthday

What a day I had yesterday, one of my sisters phoned about lunchtime to say Mum had taken a funny turn in the hairdressers and was being taken to hospital - all the symptoms of a stroke! So after an anxious wait for another call later in the afternoon I set off for Northumberland and went down to the hospital with my youngest sister only to arrive as visiting ended! Luckily they let us in and we were able to spend an hour or so with her so by the time I got back home it was after 10pm.

Turns out she's had some sort of mini stroke, she's getting out this afternoon and I'm just waiting for a call from my brother to say they've left the hospital and I'll go down home to meet them and Mum's coming back here with me for a few days, so I've spent this morning getting the bedroom ready for her and doing some general tidying up so she doesn't think I'm a real sloven lol

Anyway onto cards, here's one I made earlier:

Masked off a square and inked with TM distress ink, stamps from Words with Honey. I've had a few cards to send abroad lately so finding it handy to have a stock of OL cards ready.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - sketch

Crafty Creations - CAS

Carol x

Seeing double again

Woke up with a cracking sore throat this morning and now I'm streaming.........just dosed with paracetamol and now drinking hot honey and lemon before I go to bed.

Spent the evening getting messy in the craft room. Bought a brayer from Joanna Sheen this week (amongst other things) and decided to try it out. Believe me when I say I'd absolutely no idea what I was doing but I decided to follow Tara's tutorial on how to do a mirror image and also to brayer my Big and Juicy ink pad. After several practises I ended up with this using a Words with Honey stamp and masking a section with a deckled edge nestie rectangle waste then brayering with a big and juicy ink pad:

Not perfect but I thought not bad for someone who didn't know what the heck she was doing!

Also made this with a new Clarity stamp and a bit of masking:

Challenges entered:

Less is More - seeing double

Christmas card only

Samuel Taylors - Christmas card using rubber stamp

Fresh Brewed - something new ( stamps)

Carol x

Getting Inky (again!)

Using nestie waste I inked a scalloped square with colour box inks, I then stamped the dandelions with black versafine ink, overstamped with versamark and embossed with clear embossing powder (difficult to tell on the photo though). Sentiment stamped with versafine.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - take 3

Week 12 off centre, week 17 pick a square, week 28 use ink

Rainbow Lady - let's emboss it

My Mum's Craft Shop - 123 (1 square, 2 words, 3 dandelions)

Meljens - no designer paper

Crafty Frog - birthday card or gift

Carol x

Getting inky

Apologies for being awol  last week but we took a last minute break down to Lincolnshire and although I took some crafty bits with me they remained largely untouched for the week! So a belated thanks to everyone who left me birthday wishes the week before, I was very spoilt on the day - loads of cards, lovely pressies and a champagne afternoon tea at a posh hotel :)

This week at Less is More we have to produce a OLC using ink - I'm with Mandi on this one - I don't do messy and have never applied ink direct to a card before unless attached to a stamp! Here is my attempt:

I masked off the corner using the waste from a scalloped nestie cut out and used three ink pads from a Colour Box palette. Using stamps from Words with Honey I then stamped the dandelion, butterfly and sentiment in black versafine ink. I probably should have used smooth card for this but I do like the textured effect in real life.

Challenges entered:

Less is More - use ink

Challenge up your Life - no backing papers

Delightful Challenges - things with wings

Fresh Brewed - CAS

Rainbow Lady - stamp it

Carol x

Less is More

a second entry to this weeks Less is More challenge of off centre.

Using a tree from Words with Honey and  stamped with Versafine ink, sentiment from Dandelion and Daisy. Added a few gems to the tree to suit the recipient.

Carol x

LIM no 4

I won some Words with Honey stamps over at Rainbow Lady's challenge last week and they arrived yesterday - so I had a play.

You'll have to excuse the photography on this one! I used onyx stardream and stamped with versamark and then embossed with fine detail silver embossing powder. I think I'm beginning to get the drift of this Less is More lark but they sure don't come easy lol. The sentiment says "The way to have life is to love many things".

Carol x