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

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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

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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

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