And That's A Wrap

Hello.
Today I'm sharing a simple snippets card with you, that I made for my eldest daughter.
She completed her PhD, in cardiac physiology, a while ago, but the ceremonies were cancelled, due to COVID.
A couple of weeks ago she finally got to wear the floppy hat ! :-)

Alphabet dies are great for using up even the smallest snippets of card.
Here, I layered a few pieces together, and coloured the top layer with my ecoline brush pens (great pens if you want a bold, vibrant colour).
Getting the letters in a perfect line is always tricky, so I didn't even attempt it here - and I like the more relaxed result.

Challenge

Snippets Playground

And here's a photo of my daughter in her coveted floppy hat and gown,
with my grandson, Bailey.

mft - stitched alphabet dies, coloured with ecoline brush pens
lower case 'a' sizzix bug in a rug, alphabet die

avery elle postage stamp die

star from clearly besotted

GREEN RAINBOW

Hello.
This week it's St Patrick's Day,
so I've followed the cue over at the Inspired By Challenge
and created a green rainbow.

I'm embarrassed, I don't have a single rainbow stamp in my stash.
This rainbow was made by taping together my oval nestbilities, building the rainbows with the different shades of green card, and then simply cutting them in half.

We know there's a pot of gold at the end of that rainbow,
but this cute piggy is just happy to chill out amongst the flowers!

Challenge

Inspired By Challenge

• mft sow much cuteness, coloured with copics
• nestability oval dies
• sentiment - clearly besotted, time to relax

 

Team Rudolph

TGI Friday  !!

It's been a busy, crafting week here.

I would LOVE to show you what I've been making,

but I just never know when my girls might come snooping - 

so I'm keeping it buttoned!!   :-)

Here's another card for the Christmas pile.

 I played along at my favourite sketch challenge - Seize the Sketch

just rotating the sketch.

I was so thrilled to be their A+ winner last week - thanks ladies   xxx

Anyhoo, I like how this one turned out, so I will probably make a few of these.

Is this the cutest reindeer ever? 

He was a freebie from Pixie Dust Studio

He's coloured with Copics, a touch of white pen and some glitter on his collar.

 

Challenges.

Seize the Sketch - #6

Simon Says - Christmas / Happy Holidays

4 Krafty Girlz - Anything Goes

Crafty Little Fairies - Christmas in October

Stamping Sensations -  All Creatures Great and Small   (2nd entry)

Reindeer Digi Stamp - Pixie Dust Studios.     Digi DP - Pink Petticoat 'Brocade'

'Joy' Stamp - Penny Black Christmas Critters

Copics - White Pen - Glitter Pen - Silver Sequins - Red Satin Ribbon

Sizzix Tag Die   Red Gingham DP

Owl Always Love You...

We have another great challenge for you over at CES this week.

The theme, chosen by Shell is

Woodland Creatures

I admit, this had me stumped for a while and then I remembered this Owl template that I had seen in my 'Simply Homemade' magazine.

The owl is paper pieced with the same DP as the card, with card candy for eyes and a little gem for his beak.

The candy and My Mind's Eye, Mabel papers are available at Crafty Emmmas

Head on over to the challenge blog to see what 'Woodland Creatures' my teamies came up with,
and don't forget, if you join in this week, 
you could win a £10 spend at Crafty Emmas. (P&P not incl.)

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Check out the paper below...   

this is just one of the gorgeous papers available 

to pre-order at Crafty Emma's.

There are more papers available, Christmas Collections from Dovecraft and Fizzy Moon, including stamps, blossoms, buttons brads etc.

Pre-order now for 20% OFF the RRP

 

Supplies
DP - My Mind's Eye, Mabel.       Card Candy.       Gems.      Ribbon.
'Owl' is die cut with Sizzix, 'Bug in a Rug' dies.    Martha Stewart Lace border punch.

Paint The Town Red

The Less is More challenge had me digging around in my stash again this week :-)  I finally came up with this Sizzix dress die, that I bought years ago and only used a couple of times.

 

A girl has to have at least one sparkly, party dress, doesn't she?? So I covered this one with fine red glitter and added a black ribbon and pearl belt.

I used silver ink for the sentiment and added the line with a silver pen.