cat lovers day 6

cat lovers day6

Here is that 'catitude' cat again, this time stamped on a bright yellow background and cut out with a scalloped rectangle die. I added the sentiment at the bottom on the same paper

cat lovers day5

  Day 5 of the cat lovers blog hop.

This is one of theTim Holtz crazy cats which I have coloured with my copics. I printed the verse, and added a strip of washi tape

cat lovers day 4

My entry for day 4

This was a free image that I had downloaded, it quite tickled my fancy, as it reminded me of a cat we 'inherited' when we bought a house. It stole a whole fish off the bench that I had got out to prepare for our dinner!

I cut out the rectangle with my Stamplorations die and layered onto a green card blank. Then added a little grass with a copic marker

Cat Lovers day 3

Another cat from my catitude set. This one is stamped onto a DI background, I distressed the edges and added a diecut mouse

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cat lovers blog hop. day2

Hi everone, and welcome to Day 2 of the cat lovers blog hop.
I made this card using some DP on the left, the red is from a punch and the cat and sentiment are from a set I have had a long time, I think it is called 'catitude'. I added a touch of red to his body too

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cat lovers blog hop day 1

Hi Cat lovers!

Here is my entry for day one of the cat lovers blog hop. I love this card and have made it several times

Boo!

Welcome to my blog

Todays card looks very crooked, but I think it is the way I scanned it!

The background was created on photo paper using brushos and dylusion sprays.

The crazy cat was stamped on the card and also on a separate snippet which I coloured with copics, and glued on top. I also added some 'googly' eyes and stamped 'boo' down the side.

Challenges

Southern Girls - critter crazy

Addicted to stamps - autumn (colours)

Allys Angels - halloween

Artistic Stamper - must be stamped

Simon Says - animal antics
Creatilicious - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Stripes

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.

Todays card features DP from Kaisercraft 6x6 Bonjour pad. It is actually a little brighter IRL! The stamp is from a set from Cornish Hertage Farms 'Key Elements' I have also added a bow for embellishment

Challenges -

Southern girls - stripes please

Ellibelles Creative Moments - nature

Pixies playground - snippets
Butterfly challenge - bow,butterfly,border

Thanks for visiting

Number 25

Hi everyone.

I am back again with a card for the Passion for Promarkers challenge, where they want you to add a number.

I have used my lovely Woodware stamp that I won from Miss Di at Pixies Crafty Workshop. I stamped with Memento and coloured with the following Promarkers

Green - Y524, C446

Red - R766, R555, R274

Yellow - Y247

Carame4l - O727

I used a couple of scraps from my Christmas papers and layered them on to a white base card

Other challenges -

Southern Girls - spots and dots

Addicted to stamps - Christmas comes early

Any holiday

Hi everyone.

I see that HIMCR has a 'any holiday' challenge, and it is almost about to close.

I have made my card base from kraft card, and stamped my snowman on a snippet of a paler colour.After colouring with copics, I have layered over a stripy ribbon, stamped in versamark and embossed in red ep, and added some doodle lines around the edges of both pieces. I also added a tiny white pompom to his hat!

other challenges

Pixies crafty workshop - snippets

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas

Addicted to stamps - Christmas comes early

Rudolph Days - a/g Christmas

Blue

Hi everyone, 

I have been 'missing in action' for a while as we have been away on a trip in our motorhome. I have been catching up on blogs, and saw there was a challenge at Allsorts for the colour blue, or water.

I had recently made this card, cutting it out with my Cameo and colouring the layered flowers with copics, so thought it would be suitable.

I will add a sentiment when I decide who it is for.

Here is a pic of a lovely weeping cherry tree that I took while we were away. You can just see the top of our motorhome behind the fence

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Things with wings

Hi everyone.

Todays card features a beautiful butterfly that I stamped onto vellum and embossed with white detail ep. My background was coloured with distress oxides and I used a stamp with water to take off some of the colour. I added a lovely verse and also some pearls for the body.

Challenges

Allsorts #483 - things with wings

HIMCR #368 - pastels

Sweet Stamping - keep things neutral

Bizzy Becs Store Challenge - a/g
Butterfly Challenge - I have used embossing powder and embellishments

Thanks for your lovely comments and have a great week

Heavy Metal!

Hi everyone.

First of all a very warm welcome to my new followers, MaryH and Susan. I hope you enjoy your visits

Today's card is an experiment to see if I could print a digi stamp over a distressed background, and I was happy to find that it worked quite well. I cut an oblong from a spare piece of card and used it to mask a frame while I coloured the inner oblong with di's. The digi is one that I have had in my files for some time, and I can't recall where I got it from. I have trimmed the bottom with some musical tape and added a key for embellishment

Challenges

Allsorts #482 - music

Southern Girls - use some metal

Creatalicious #146 - a/g

Mod Squad - a/g

The House That Stamps Built - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Wildflowers

Hi everyone

 Today's card features a background using distress inks and the lovely wildflower stamp  from Crafty Individuals. I layered onto a deeper teal card and finished off with a ribbon

Challenges

Southern Girls - stamping

Paperbabe - a/g (2nd entry)

Fashionable Stamping - It's a bugs life

Dare2Bartsy - a/g

Thanks for visiting

I am sailing!

Hi everyone.

I have been doing a major 'sort out' of my crafty 'stuff'! 

What a job!!

I found some spare time this morning to make this simple card for the Unstampabelles challenge. The theme is Emboss, and for a male.

I diecut a piece of card from my scrap box, and layered it onto an embossed pale blue paper. The yacht is also diecut 3 times and adhered with mounting tape to raise it up

I am entering the following challenges:-

Unstampabelles #84

Bizzy Becs Store - a/g

Paperbabe #80 - a/g

Allsorts - from boys to men

Jo's Scrap Shack - a/g

CardzTV #60- a/g

HIMCR #366 - die cuts

Pixies Playground - use snippets

Thanks for visiting

I'm late! I'm late!

Hi everyone, it's good to be back, but time is running out for some challenges!
A very warm welcome to my new followers -

Charlene 'White Deer' Heathwood and Mia

My card today is a simple style for a guy, and I have used a new DarkRoom Door stamp that I bought at a recent Craft Show.

I stamped it twice so that I could raise the lens part, which makes it more realistic. The 'smile' is stamped in silver and I outlined it with a white paint Sharpie

Challenges

Bizzy Becs Store - a/g

Rubberdance - black and white + 1 (my green base card)

CardzTV - a/g

Jo's Scrap Shack - a/g

Addicted to Stamps and More- make your mark

The House that stamps built J2518 - a/g

Thanks for visiting

ink transfer

Hi everyone, and welcome to my blog

Today I am sharing a mixed media wall art that I have made from a kit.

The big white butterfly is done with the transfer method of printing on wax paper, then laying the image face down and rubbing, to transfer the ink. I have used various other stamps direct to the gessoed base and added some flowers, stencilling, butterflies, and some turquoise colour randomly

Challenges 

Paper Artsy - transfers

Southern Girls - a bit flash

Thanks for visiting, I appreciate your comments

casing Monica!

 Hi everyone.

I am just sneaking in at the last minute to join in at Stamplorations 5th birthday bash!

This is Monica's design that I was so impressed with!

 

 This is my take on it using a Kaisercraft stamp, and the warm wishes is an unknown brand. 

I cut it out with my Stamplorations die (which I always have to adjust as US sizes are different from ours) and layered onto some DP and then onto a white card base

Challenges

Stamplorations - casing designer Monica

Addicted to stamps - black and white

Three Amigos - a/g

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Adorable

 Hi all, I hope you are all well

My card today features one of the crazy dogs from Stampers Anonymous, and I have used the mood board from Sum More Fun as my colour palette. The base card matches the first colour, green grass, a patch of blue, a brown shaded dog and a paler fawn background

Challenges -

Sum More Fun
Paperbabe - a/g
The house that stamps built - a/g
Allys angels - a/g
Cardztv - a/g

Bye for now!

a little birdie told me!

Hi everyone

Todays card is the result of some playtime to make some backgrounds. I added Dylusion lime twist, Glimmermist, Peacock feathers DI, and another green spray onto my craft mat. Spritzed with a little water and swiped my heavy watercolour card through it until I was happy with the coverage. After drying, I stamped some music from Crafty Individuals and also some leaves from another CI stamp set.The birds are from a Ranger set called Little Birdies,  I stamped them as well on a scrap, coloured with a mix of copics and promarkers and adhered them over the stamped image.The panel was then attached to a cream card base

Challenges

Stamping Sensations - a/g 2nd entry

Penny Black and More - in the garden (I hope this qualifies!)

Bizzy Becs Store - a/g 2nd entry

Southern Girls - a/g 

Pixies Crafty Workshop #329- use snippets

Thanks for visiting and have a great week

Winter Blues

Hi everyone.

Todays card features one of the birds from the Crazy Birds set by Stampers Anonymous. I have cased a card that I saw on Pinterest, but do not know who the original one was by, so apologies for that.

My background was done using the shaving cream technique, I trimmed and layered it onto a dark navy card base. my bird was stamped on the card and again onto a snippet and coloured with copics.  I added some sequins for interest.

Challenges

Southern Girls - winter blues

Pixies Playground - use snippets

Bizzy Becs Store - a/g

Cardztv - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Under the sea (again)

The Mood Board this month at Sum More Fun uses rather grungy colours, and I was able to use another Brusho and Infusions background that I had made earlier. I stamped the seahorse onto a snippet with Bundled sage DI, stamped the starfish with Tattered Rose DI and die cut them, The seaweed was stamped with Brilliance graphite black, then clear embossed. I also added some highlights with a white Sharpie pen.

Challenges -

Sum More Fun - mood board

Pixies Crafty Workshop #327

Stamping Sensations - a/g

Die Cuttin Divas - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Vintage Neutrals

Hi everyone.

Today's card is for my entry at Paper Artsy for vintage neutrals. Vintage is one of my favourite styles, although I hadn't done any for a while.

I used one of the stamps from HotPicks, HP1216, stamping onto some old creamy card, which I then tore around, and sponged the edges. It is layered onto 2 dp's and some very old flowers added.

Challenges

Paper Artsy - vintage neutrals

Bizzy Becs Challenge - a/g

Pixies Playground - using snippets (my dp)

Thanks for visiting

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Black and white

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well.

Today's card features 2 stamps from a Kanban set, which doesn't have a name!

I stamped with Versamark and embossed with detail white ep. The sentiment is from another set which has lost it's name. I added a little detail with a blue Gellyroll pen. Men's cards are hard to do, but I thought this one would suit the purpose

Challenges

Penny Black and More - a/g

Stamping Sensations - close to nature

AAAcards - Inspired by nature

Allsorts - birthday

Pretty in pink!

Sum More Fun mood board

Hi everyone. 

I was up very early this morning so decided to make a card for the 

Sum More Fun challenge which closes tomorrow.

I used the sketch from Less is More, and die cut my circles from some lovely DP and edged them in spun sugar DI

other challenges

Bastel-dream  -  Mother's day/ flowers

DiesRUs challenge blog #96-  flowers/must use dies

Die cut Divas - flowers

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Birthday wishes

Hi everyone.

Today's card features a scribby birds stamp by Dina Wakley. I love these cute birds and have not used them often enough. This one is coloured with Promarkers - Y247,  R766,  R555,  and R244.

I stamped onto my background paper, and again onto a separate scrap, using my Misti to get a good coverage. I tore out the paper, distressed the edges a bit more and layered it onto the card base. The birthday wishes is a peeloff which I recoloured black with a sharpie. It is raised on mounting tape.

Challenges -

Passion for Promarkers - #441 Celebrations

Paperbabe #72 - a/g

Through the craftroom door - a/g

Crafty Gals Corner - a/g

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Dragonfly

SumMoreFun's mood board

I love the colours in this MB and have focussed on the blue, green, mauve and black.

 I dabbed the colours (Brilliance) onto my stamp, and after stamping, I trimmed, distressed and edged with black soot DI

I used Dox's on a scrap and then stamped with my very old dragonfly stamp, fussy cut and inked the edges.

Challenges

SumMoreFun - mood board (as above)

Paperbabe - sketch

Southern Girls - fairies/fantasy/flowers (my b/g stamp has flowers)

Cardztv - a/g

Thanks for visiting

I'm back at last!

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Hi everyone, It seems such a long time since I have had a card to blog, but when I saw the kraft challenge at Paper Artsy, I knew I had to CASE Chrissie Stokes card.

I have stamped my SU swallowtail stamp in brown and embossed with clear ep. I used 2 shades of coloured pencils to colour with, the black splotches are from a Paper Artsy set, and the white dots are done with white enamel. I added a tag with a twine tie on it.

Challenges

Paper Artsy - kraft

Pixies Crafty Workshop - snippets

Bizzy Becs - a/g

Through the craftroom door - a/g

Thanks for visiting, I always appreciate your comments

Black and White

Hi everyone.

I managed to find time today to make this card, especially for this weeks challenge at Allsorts

The topic is black and white, and only gold, silver, or skin tones added.

I needed a sympathy card so used my Darkroom Door orchids and a very old word stamp from R & R Pocock (dated 1996) The ink is Memento Tuxedo Black, and I used my Misti to get a good coverage. I added a little touch of Wink of Stella gold to the centres of the flowers

Allsorts -black and white

Nautical

Hi everyone.

Today's card features my new die  from Serendipity. I cut it twice, once in red and once in white, so that I could inlay the stripes. For the background, I sponged on various DI's and used stamps from SU Wetlands set, and also a Stampers Anonymous set.

Challenges

Paper Artsy - nautical colours

Southern Girls - die cuts

Love to Scrap - a/g

The Crafty Addicts - a/g

Thanks for visiting. I am away on holiday for a couple of weeks, so will catch up when I get back

Sea dreams

Hi Everyone, sorry I have been absent for a bit.

Today's card is the result of having a play with Brusho's and Infusions and plastic wrap, for the background.  I did not like the walnut brown that came through with the infusions, so wiped it over with a baby wipe, which softened the colour a lot. I then went all over with DI cracked pistachio. I stamped the seaweed from Kaisercraft 'Coastal escape', added some diecut leaves, seahorse and shell (cut from scraps) from the same stamp set and the message from a TH set, stamped in Adirondack 'espresso'. I layered it all on to a pale cream card base.

Challenges

Paperbabe #69 - green palette

Bizzy Becs- a/g

Pixies Crafty Workshop - used snippets

Penny Black and More - Feature a creature

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your week

Cats and dogs!

Hi everyone.

Today's card is similar to one I made last year, but this time I have coloured all the cats with my Promarkers. I used Saddle Brown, Caramel, and Cinnamon for the focal cat and Silver Lining for the rest. This fabulous set is by Indigo Blu.

Challenges -

Passion for Promarkers - cats or dogs

The house that stamps built - anything goes
CardzTV - anything goes

Best wishes

A simple card today, just in time for a couple of February challenges.

I sprayed water on the card and then scribbled lime green, turquoise, and orange watercolour crayons in a diagonal pattern. When it was dry I stamped with a turquoise ink pad, the script and the birds from Stampers Anonymous Mini Ornates CMS064 set. I tied a matching ribbon around and added a diecut which has not scanned true to colour. I then adhered it to a turquoise card base.

Challenges

Rubberdance - orange, turquoise, lime and/or hearts

Paper Artsy - watercolour

Allsorts - starting with 'b' - birds and best wishes

Creative Fingers #143

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reach for the stars!

Hi everyone, sorry I have not been around for a few weeks.

Today's card was made for a February birthday. I used a snippet from my ever-growing scrap box and printed an image that I found on the internet.

I used some sparkly gold thread to link the stars together, and the attached some little gold stars over the holes. I used my gold pen on the edges and then attached it onto my base card.

Challenges

CardzTV - monthly birthday

Southern Girls - Nature (stars are nature!)

Pixies Crafty Workshop - using my snippets

DLArt - a/g

Crafting by designs - card for a friend

Crafty Catz - a/g

Thanks for visiting and leaving comments for me, very much appreciated

Roses Are Red....

Today's card features a lovely rose stamp that I found at a charity shop. My background was a combination of DI's and Dylusion sprays. I stamped again on an old dictionary that I use when I am spraying, so this is the same red dylusions. It is embossed in bright gold. I do not know who the sentiment is from, as I bought it from a fellow crafter. It is stamped in red and embossed with detail clear.

Challenges

The Artistic Stamper - Roses are red

Bizzy Becs - a/g

Stamping Sensations - anything with flowers

Penny Black and More - Love, hearts and flowers

Stamplorations - paint it red

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