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Summertime!

 

Welcome back, so nice to have you here

I have made another card using the ephemera that Crystal sent me. All the pieces are so colourful, and this certainly reminds me of summer, even though we are mid-winter here! I used two of the patterned pieces for the background, then layered the image with a scrap of black card, and added a matching button for extra interest

Challenges

Pammies Inky Pinkies #2125 - a/g

Allsorts #630 - use design paper

Unstampabelles #112 - my season is Summer

Gem of a craft challenge #13 - a/g

Crafty Catz #557 - I used the Summer option

Watermelon Gnome

 

Good afternoon all, and welcome to my blog

I received a surprise parcel yesterday from a lovely crafting friend, containing some very cute watermelon ephemera. 

This morning I had some spare time to 'play', and this is the result

I roughly followed the sketch from Sketch Saturday

Challenges

Sketch Saturday #665

TTCRD - a/g

Time Out #190 - photo inspiration (reminds me of Summer)

Double D - Signs of Summer

Dandelion Wishes

 

Welcome

Today's card is made from 'smooshing' colour onto an embossing folder and then running it through my cuttlebug. I used faded jeans, mermaid lagoon, cracked pistachio, distress ink and forest moss dox. 

The folder is from a free set from a magazine that I was given, and also has stamps that are in the same theme. I used one of the butterflies to stamp on vellum, emboss with detail white ep and fussy cut. I also stamped the message from another set onto vellum and tore it into a strip which I attached with Art Glitter Glue

Challenges

Lets Squash it #9 - nature and watercolouring (2nd entry)

Crafters Cafe #268 - insects/butterflies

Allsorts #628 - butterflies and bugs

Crafting Happiness #100 - a/g

Thanks for visiting and stay safe!

Owl Christmas

 

 Welcome

Today's card follows the sketch from BYSH cardmakers

I have used some DP from a magazine as the background and used a toning card for the scalloped pieces. I stamped the Christmas owl on a scrap of white, diecut into a circle and layered onto the scalloped circle. I then trimmed it back so I could attach it to the side. After colouring with Promarkers, I stamped the TH hat onto red card and also white card, so that I could paper piece the trim. I also added a snowflake sticker which I attached to the blue card and fussy cut

The base card is a dark navy colour

Challenges

Ikes World #145 - a/g

Winter Wonderland - Christmas Birds

Through the Craftroom Door - a/g

Clever Dexter #18 - favourite technique (paper Piecing)

We love Chocolate Baroque - paper pieced

shells

 

Hi everyone

Today's card was a bit of an experiment for the challenge at Lets Squash It,

The theme is nature and watercolours.

I rubbed distress inks - pumice stone, walnut stain, and black soot directly onto the embossing folder then spritzed with water.

After running through my cuttlebug and allowing it to dry naturally I added some string to the wavy lines, trimmed and adhered to a white card base

Challenges

Lets Squash it

Allys Angels - a/g

Paperbabe - a/g

Crafty Catz - a/g

Bastel-traum - water

Magical Worlds

 

Hi everyone.

Slipping in at the last minute with my entry for the magical worlds challenge.

-fairy

-silver floss

-lavender paper

-wink of stella clear on wings

-wink of stella purple on flower buds

Challenges

Allsorts #627 - magical worlds

Crafty Catz #554 - a/g ( I did not use the tag option)

Bizzy Becs Store - a/g

With love

 

Hi everyone

I am back today with a card that I made this afternoon.

I used a digi from Stamplorations which I have coloured with chalk pastels for the flowers and Promarkers for the butterflies.

I cut through it diagonally, but trimmed around the butterfly. In the space I inserted a strip and stamped the sentiment with Brilliance graphite black using my Misti

Challenges

Stamplorations - spring fling

Pammies Inky Pinkies 2122 - butterflies

Allys Angels #46 - a/g

Time Out #189 - inspired by the word 'spring'

Serene scene!

 

Hi everyone.

I am back today with my card for a couple of challenges that are about to close soon.I printed the image on photo paper and trimmed it down. The blue layer has been embossed twice with a border die.

I have added 3 blue rhinestones and a peeloff which I coloured to match. My card base is white

challenges

Unstampabelles #111 - adventure, I can imagine setting off in a canoe and exploring this beautiful lake

Cardztv #141 - a/g

Lets squash it #8 - leave some space and bling

AAAcards #190 - birthday

Art Impressions - birthday cards

Full 0f Happy!

 

Hello and welcome

Today's card features some bright rainbow colours on Yupo paper. It was in my background box, and I can't remember exactly how I did it. I trimmed it to layer onto a black card base and stamped my crazy bird onto a scrap and coloured him to match. I also stamped the message on a scrap with 'Shades dye ink' in orange, and outlined the 'happy' with a black pen

Challenges

Allsorts #625 - a/g with bright happy colours

We Love Chocolate Baroque - bright sunny colours

AAA Birthday #25 - Happy Birthday (2nd entry)

Pixies Crafty Workshop #403 - use scraps

YNS #164 - scraps

Papercraft Challenges #70 - a/g

Under the sea

 

Welcome back to my blog

Today's card started off with a 'painty' background that I did not like, so I swiped over it with a small DI ink pad 'faded jeans' and then splashed some water on.

My stamp is from  Kaisercraft called  Coastal Escape, and I lightly coloured some of the seaweed. I diecut the sea horse with my cuttlebug from a scrap and coloured with copics, then used the seahorse stamp from the set to stamp some detail. The two little starfish and the rock were diecut as well. It is adhered to a black base card

Challenges

Art Impressions - under the sea

Creative Fingers #208 - a/g

Allsorts #624 - a/g

Lost Coast #122 - under the sea

Thanks for visiting and have a lovely day

65th

 

Hi everyone

I am sharing a card today that I made for a friend's birthday

I stamped the background with one of my large background stamps and added some punched layered flowers and leafy diecuts

Challenges

A blog named Hero - shaped cards

Through the craft room door - a/g

The Paper Shelter #469 - shaped cards

Ikes World #144 - a/g

Crafty Creations - a/g

Thanks for visiting

Nautical Napkin

 

I am sharing a male card today using the napkin technique which I was reminded about recently.

I applied it to a card slightly smaller than my base card and sponged the edges with Faded Jeans DI

I then added a knotted piece of string and the birthday peeloff

Challenges

Girlz Creative Crafts #12 - Mens cards

Creative Fingers #400 - a/g

CardzTV #140 - a/g

AAABirthday #25 Birthday

Thanks for visiting and your kind comments

Best wishes

 

Hi everyone

I have just returned from Radiology where I had an ultrasound on my thyroid. They found a couple of 'lumps', so now will await another Doctor's appointment. It seems to have been a never-ending round of specialist appointments  in the last six months!

Back to my card.

 I adhered a piece of DP to my black card base and then added the 3 green strips which I coloured by swiping with my Memento 'bamboo leaves' ink pad. I then added a double layer flower from my embellishments box, and the peeloff which I had coloured black.

Challenges

Sketch Saturday #658

Creative Knockouts #400 - a/g

The Paper Funday Challenges #29 - a/g/flowers/floral

Thanks for visiting and have a great weekend

Birthday Wishes

 

Today's card is made from a piece of DP (Colorbok) cut out with A Stamplorations die and layered onto the base which has had the edges sponged with 'Shades' dye ink in Orange

I stamped the flowers onto orange Bazill card and fussy cut them, and the 2 big leaves onto a green scrap of Bazill. The other green leaves are diecut. I then added the white and black dots and stamped the sentiment with Brilliance Graphite black

Challenges

Mod Squad - flowers, spring has sprung

Allsorts #622 - spring blossoms

YNS #163 - burst of colour

Christmas again

 

Another card for the Christmas box and another entry for the Spring into Christmas blog hop

I diecut the snowman from white card and layered onto a red card base. I then added some black buttons and the bird's eye with Enamel Accents I drew around the edge with a white Sharpie and filled in to make the design as per a suggestion by Natasha Foote

Challenges

(BYSHC) hop - spring into  Christmas (2nd entry

Rudolph Days

CardzTV - a/g

Christmas Wishes

Hello everyone, I hope you are keeping well

My card today follows the sketch from Sketch Saturday

I have used a New Zealand made stamp of a pohutukawa blossom, which is better  known as our New Zealand Christmas tree, as it blooms at Christmas time and is a stunning sight, usually found in coastal areas. I highlighted the ends with red Kindyglitz, which doesn't show so well in the scan.I also trimmed some sparkly washi tape to edge the sentiment which was stamped with Brilliance, I think the colour is called red gold

Challenges

BYSHC - Spring into Christmas hop

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas #539 - Festive

Sketch Saturday #657

 

Lets Squash It #7

 

Hello all and welcome

This is one of the cards that I have made for Mother's Day, which is May 9th in our country

I have specifically made it for the 'Lets Squash It challenge' where we have been asked for 3 embossing folders and a person.

I cut my background piece and inserted a dotty one in the gap so that it would fit in my card

I then embossed the floral strip, computer generated the message, and added this lovely little vintage girl.

Challenges

Lets Squash It #7

Creative Fingers #206 - a/g

Pammie's Inky Pinkys  #2116- a/g

Perfectly Pantone

 

I am using this beautiful stamp again from Paperbabe. I stamped it on yellow card with a slightly deeper yellow ink and then fussy cut. I positioned it in the bottom right corner and trimmed off the excess, and added a touch of yellow Wink of Stella to highlight

I then used an embossing folder to make the flag message and mounted on a scrap of the yellow card, and adhered to the pale grey card base.

These are the current Pantone colours as requested for

The Mod Squad challenge

Paperbabe #142 - a/g

Bizzy Becs Store challenge - a/g

Bee Happy!

 

 

Good morning all

Today's bright and cheerful card is all about the bees!

I first stamped a portion of honeycomb background ( Indigo Blu) to the right, and then diecut a circle from a scrap that was lying on my desk.

I stamped it with the hive and smaller bee, and edged with a black marker

The words were stamped directly onto the card, and the larger bee on a scrap and the fussy cut

They were all embossed with detail clear ep and the large bee is raised on mounting tape

challenges

Allsorts #619 - butterflies, birds or bees

Crafters Castle #40 - Spring/Mother's Day/Summer

Crafty Calendar - spring/easter

We Love Chocolate Baroque - springtime

Happy Birthday doggie!

 

Hi everyone.

It is good to be back home after a 10 day road trip in our motorhome

This quick and easy card was made with Penny Black stickeroos adhered to some scraps of white card. 

I diecut the dog with a die that I won from Stamplorations and edged with a red copic marker

The bone is edged with a black marker and I used an offcut of striped card for the layering

Challenges I would like to enter

Penny Black Saturday - a/g or cute

Pixies Crafty workshop #400 - use snippets

Ally's Angels #45 - a/g

Crafter's Castle #40 - a/g

Crafty Catz #546 - a/g

Spring Summer coffee lovers #4

 

My fourth entry for the Spring/Summer coffee lovers hop.

I printed my digi and coloured with copics, sharpies and WOS, then fussy cut and attached in the corner of the bright base card

The message and bee are from a freebie set from a magazine, and stamped with Brilliance graphite black

challenges

Passion for markers #584 - bunnies or blooms

The Cats Pajamas #277 - use florals

Allsorts #616 - spring flowers

Colour Crazy Kraft challenge #11 - a/g

Spring summer coffee lovers #3

 

Another entry for the Spring/Summer coffee lovers hop

I printed the digi and coloured some of the words etc with copics

Distressed the edges and sponged with walnut stain DI

Adhered to a brown textured card base

Spring Summer coffee lovers #2

 

My second entry for the Coffee Lovers blog hop

I printed a Stamplorations digi onto Fabriana card and coloured with copics.

Attached to a pretty coral colour base card

Spring Summer coffee lovers

Spring Summer coffee lovers

Hi everyone, I have been away, so had to make a card quickly this evening for this fabulous hop.

I stamped the background using a very old un-named stamp and expresso ink pad.

I then added a strip of washi, and my lovely Stamplorations sticker which I attached to some kraft card

Coffee Loving Cardmakers
 

pillow box

 

 hi everyone

Today's project is not a card, but a pillow box that I cut out on my Cameo Silhouette, using some Coredinations card that I have been hoarding for many years. I used a funky flower embossing folder on the front and sanded to expose the underlying colour.

The flower is a Dreaming Tree design that I cut using scraps from my never shrinking scrap box, and the stamens are made with a punch

Challenges

Let's Squash it #6 - boxing clever with floral embossing

Pixies Crafty Workshop #398 - using scraps

Shadow stamping

 

 My first attempt at this technique after watching a video by Natasha Foote, a fellow kiwi

I used a very old pink stamp pad and part of a set by Rubber Dance (round in circles) to stamp directly onto my base card 

Then I used versamark and  a cherry blossom stamp from a Flourishes set, and then shifted the stamp slightly and stamped with a white  ink pad. The sentiment is stamped onto velum, trimmed and wrapped around, and I also added some white highlights with a white Sharpie pen

Challenges

Ikes World #142 - a/g / opt monochrome

Stamping Sensations - monochromatic

Cute Card Thursday #677 - Celebrate

Allsorts - a stamped image

Allys Angels #44 - a/g

Thanks for visiting today and stay safe

shabby chic

 

Hi everyone and welcome back

Today's card was made using a scrap of a pretty designer paper (unknown) with a torn edge that I sponged with walnut stain DI. I attached the picture and added a pink sponged butterfly, a matching flower, gold peeloff sentiment and a gold strip down the right hand side.

Challenges

Creations in Pink #31 - a/g

The Funky Junkie Boutique - a/g/vintage/shabby chic

Creative Sketchy Girls #57 - girls only

A perfect time to craft #3-2021 - a/g

Bizzy Becs Store challenge - a/g

Birthday Girl

 

I made today's card for my dil's birthday

I cut a square of patterned paper slightly smaller than my card base, and then used a matching plain paper to die cut the zig zags and the TH flowers. The centres are brads.

The black happy day is made from wood, and a made the 'birth' piece from scraps and peel off stickers

I would like to enter the following challenges

Unstampabelles #108 - a/g (2nd entry)

Uniko - 9th birthday celebration

The Cats Pajamas #376 - use patterned paper (2nd entry)

AAA Birthday #22 - a large sentiment

Thanks for visiting today

Birthday Boy

 

Hi everyone, I am back again with another last minute card for the challenge at Sketch Saturday

I have used a textured brown card as my base, added a layered strip for my peeloff sentiment. a diecut circle and a fussy-cut dog picture that I had in my 'things to use' box

Challenges

Sketch Saturday#648

Time Out #182 - 7th birthday

Girlz Creative Crafts #10 - use an animal

Thanks for visiting

Purple

 

Good morning all, I hope you are enjoying your day.

We will shortly be going to do our weekly grocery shop, so just time to do this post beforehand

This design is similar to one I saw recently

I stamped my flower (Paperbabe) onto a scrap with Shades Dye ink in purple majesty, coloured with  Promarker orchid and Copic Sketch amethyst, and the centre with Wink of Stella gold.After trimming down I edged both layers with gold pen and marked out a square onto the first layer. I also outlined with gold the message piece and used a peeloff for the message. I have hundreds of these to use so you will be seeing a lot of them!!

Challenges

3 room studio #24 - use purple

Pixies crafty workshop #397 - using snippets

Passion for Markers #580 - feminine

Lil Patch of Crafty Friends #152 - a/g

A Perfect time to craft - a/g

Blue Lily

 

Good afternoon all

I found some time today to have a play with some of the goodies I received from Mrs A for winning one of her competitions recently

I wet  lines through one of the pretty papers, so that I could pull off a strip to layer across my card.

I have coloured the flower with the Spectrum-Noir  'Starry Sky' Sparkle pen and dragged out the colour with water. I then used the Nuvo glitter Marker 'Imperial Blue" to highlight the edges.

The green leaves are painted with  Magic Colour 'grecian olive'

I have added a peel-off which I coloured blue to match

Challenges I would like to enter

Stamping Sensations - colour my world

We Love Chocolate Baroque - flower, butterfly or birds

Bastel-Traum #98 - birthday

TTCRD - a/g

Paperbabe #138-a/g

Best Wishes

 

Welcome back

I am quite disappointed with the result of this scan, it looks so much better IRL

I have used the same die again as in my last post, which was a freebie with a magazine, and loosely followed the directions from there .

I used a white card base, a diecut rectangle frame, and a piece of dp for my background. I also added a silver peeloff to finish

Challenges

Unstampabelles #108 - a/g

A Perfect Time to Craft #2 - open challenge

The Cats Pajamas #376 - use patterned paper

Girlzcreativecrafts # 9 - a/g

Thanks for visiting