Masculine birthday

Welcome all

Today's card was made for a fishing buddy of my husbands, who turned 79 this week.

The base is a rocker card and I added some dp cut with a stitched die. I then diecut a stitched circle in kraft, and added my stamped image which I coloured with Copics and cut out with my Brother Scan n Cut

He was very thrilled with it

Challenges

Lost Coast Designs #88 - for the men

Watercooler Wednesday #248 - masculine / a/g

Crafters Castle #23 - a/g 2nd fortnight

Addicted to stamps #179 - a/g

Southern Girls - a/g
Also adding Art Impressions a/g challenge as I could not read it before

white on white

Welcome

White on white is very difficult to photograph, so hopefully you can see this one clearly

My base card has a slight texture, and I have diecut my leaf background and flowers in a pearlescent heavy paper.

I have embossed 'with love' along the bottom edge and also added a straight line just above using my Martha Stewart Score Board

To finish a glued a tiny pearl button at the centre of the flowers

Challenges

Allsorts - white on white

Happy Little Stampers - a/g with dies

Pretty Pink Flamingo

Welcome back and also welcome to my new follower Karen

Today's card follows the theme for Unstampables - Paradise Pretties with a twist of into the wild, which I did not do

The background paper certainly reminds me of paradise with flamingos and palm trees. Wish I was there, as today we are experiencing thunder and heavy rain!

I cut out my fringed flamingo with my Cameo Silhouette cutting machine then layered it onto a sponged shape. I also added the word 'Aloha"

Challenges

Unstampables #95 - Paradise Pretties

Crafting By Designs - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Happy Couple

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog

Today's card features one of the very first stamps that I bought, and sad to say it has been reclining in a box for a number of years. However I thought it would be perfect for the challenge at Art Impressions where they are asking for 'Couple' cards

I stamped onto a 'messy play' background, and again onto a separate scrap  so that I could colour them, and glue to the card. 

A little yellow to ground them and a peeloff added. 

All layered onto a black base card

The boy cat is a deeper blue IRL

Challenges

Art Impressions  #270 - couple cards

Paperbabe #106 - a/g

Through the craftroom door - a/g

Pixies Crafty Workshop #365 - using snippets
Crafts Galore # 69 - a/g
Crafty Catz #482 - a/g (did not do the option)

Thanks for visiting, and see you again soon

Flowers of Nature

Welcome 

Today's card is so pretty IRL I love the soft greens on my panel, the result of a play with Brushos. I ran a black marker around the edge to make it stand out. The flower is the result of my first play with foamarin, I added some tinting, some stamens, and some little blue glass beads. The leaves are die cuts (unknown) and the verse is from a Darkroom door set I have also added some sequins. I followed the sketch from Tuesday morning sketches, but reversed the position of the flower and the message

Challenges

Tuesday Morning Sketches #528

Allsorts #544- make your own flowers

Craft Stamper - a/g

Bizzy Becs Store Challenge - a/g

Crafters Castle - a/g

Crafty Friends - a/g

Your Scrapbook Place - a/g

Happy crafting

Winter Christmas

Hi everyone

This is my second post today, CASing a lovely card I saw on the internet.

First of all I made a water coloured background to sit behind the cut-out oval of my card. I then stamped the tree twice with Hickory Smoke Distress oxide, and once with Forest Moss DOX. The word Christmas was cut from a clear stamp and merry cut twice and layered

Challenges

Art Impressions - holiday cards

Southern Girls - Christmas

Emerald Creek - winter

The House That Stamps Built - a/g

Fab & Funky - Christmas

Thanks for visiting

coffee lovers time #2

Card #2 for the current coffee lovers blog hop

Although this looks crooked, I can assure you it is not!

A piece of unknown DP layered onto white card and another coffee sticker from Stamplorations adhered to white card and then layered onto black

coffee lovers time again

It's coffer lovers hop week and this is my first entry.

My piece of designer paper reminded me of coffee beans, the watches are randomly stamped, and the sentiment is a sticker from Stamplorations
Mod Squad challenges - sentiment says it all

Hopefully I will be back tomorrow

Sailing

Welcome

I saw this idea in one of the card magazines that I read, and loved the look, so I decided to replicate it.

I selected some spotty DP for my background, and then blue check to represent the sea, attached to a rectangle of white card which has been die cut. I cut a circle for the body of the boat and then cut it in half. The sail is drawn freehand, as are the flags. The mast is a toothpick and the 3 portholes are 'Candi" which I added dots and stripes to. I finished off with a birthday peel off

Challenges

Southern Girls - a/g

Pixies Crafty Workshop #364 - use snippets

TTCRD # 02319 - a/g

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - a/g

Creative Fingers #173 - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Cat lovers

Welcome

Janis is running again her cat lovers blog hop and this is my entry.

It is a quick and easy card made with a die cut cat and a message from a Inkadinkadoo set called 'catitude'

spots, but no stripes

Welcome

The challenge at Allsorts this week is for spots and/or stripes.

I have made this cute baby onesie card using some pretty pink spotty paper. I added a rub-on message, did some faux stitching and then added the tiny buttons and lace

Challenges

Allsorts - spots and/or stripes

Simon Says Monday challenge - all things pink

TTCRD - a/g

Bizzy Becs Store challenge - a/g

Thanks for visiting today and your lovely comments

Cute Owl

Hi everyone

Today's card features a lovely stamp and die  set that I won from Di at Pixies Crafty Workshop.

Although it is for Christmas, I have used Autumn colours for my background DP and I coloured with Promarkers, cinnamon, praline, and chilly red. I layered the owl with mounting tape and added some looped thread as well.  All layered onto a white base card.

Challenges

Paperbabe #103 - autumn colours

Uniko #55 - a/g or autumn (2nd entry)

Passion for Promarkers #514 - Autumn colours

Simon Says Wednesday - Christmas

Pixie's Crafty Workshop - snippets

Thanks for visiting and have a great week

Feather

Welcome to today's card

I have used a HOTP stamp set that came free with a magazine a few years ago. I stamped with Versamark and used detail white and bright gold embossing powders

Challenges

Uniko - a/g or Autumn

AAA cards - 1 layer optional Autumn

Addicted to Stamps and More - a/g

Ally's Angels - a/g

CASology - feather

Animals

Welcome

Today's card features a beautiful stamp which I do not have a maker for. If anyone knows I would be very grateful.

I stamped directly onto a piece of DP from a 6x6 pad by Lawn Fawn called Watercolour Wishes that I won last year., and coloured with copics.

The message is a clear sticker which I adhered to a scrap of the same paper and cut out with a die. Both pieces have been edged with a black copic and then layered onto a card base

Challenges

Penny Black and More - animals
Paperbabe #102 - a/g
Cardztv  #98 - a/g
Bizzy Becs challenge - a/g

Black and White

Hi everyone

Today's card is for the challenge at Artistic Stamper.

I have CASed a card that I saw on Pinterest, but used  different stamps. The top panel has a splatter stamp from Paper Artsy (with extra dots with a copic), the middle one is from Simon Says Stamp, (flowers coloured with a black copic), the bottom one is unknown, and the bigger butterfly is from  Cornish Heritage Farms set called All Things Considered., which I embossed and then also coloured with a black copic

They are all stamped with Gina K amalgam.

The ribbon trim is actually black card, and the 2 small butterflies are punched. I also used some spotty washi tape

Challenges

The Artistic Stamper - black and white

Time Out Challenges - black and white

Pixies Crafty Workshop - using up snippets

Thanks for visiting and have a great day

Under the sea

Hello and welcome

This was a commissioned card - the request was for two diving buddies and underwater

I made a background in sea-like colours using various inks and paints and then stamped with my Kaisercraft stamp and versamark. I used 2 different ep colours for the seaweed. I found the diver images online, printed and fussycut, and also adhered some diecut starfish. All mounted onto a dark blue card

They were very thrilled with the result

Challenges 

CountryView - Under the sea
Southern Girls - a/g
Craft Stamper - a/g
Through the Craftroom Door - a/g

Thanks for visiting today and happy crafting