STRAWBERRY BIRTHDAY

Hello.

Eek! New puppy in the house!
Watching a pup and trying to craft are mutually exclusive,
so I nipped into my craft room every time he was napping,
to create this simple belated birthday card.

I managed to find a couple of old strawberry stamps in my stash -

sorry I don't know what make they are.

I stamped and masked the back ones, and then fussy cut the others and popped them up with foam tape.

Originally the cake stand was a flat, black stamp, but it just needed a bit of a lift, so I covered it with one stamped in green and also fussy cut.

Not perfect, but I was in a rush :-)

Challenge

Inspired by

And here's the guy who's keeping me out of the craft room...

Buster

supplies

plate stand - stampin' up, on a pedestal

copics   altenew fresh leaf ink

Sentiment - mama elephant birthday messages

Spring Flowers

Hey there. 
Just a quick post from me tonight, with a little thank you card.

I know you've probably all made your own backgrounds before, but this was new to me.
I used a rectangle nestie, and an outline of my text stamp, to make a mask. Then I stamped the flowers at random. After removing the mask, I stamped the sentiment and then coloured the flowers with my Copics.
For a bit more interest,  I outlined the flowers with little dots and added some glitter.

Challenges.
Less Is More - One Layer, Thank You
One Layer Simplicity - Fabulous Flowers
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
A little Bit Crafty - Flower Power

Flower Stamps - Stampin' Up Doodle That
Sentiment Stamp - Stampendous, Happy Messages
Copics, Stickles

Happy Everything

It's my dd, Annabel's birthday today and what a lovely day we've had.

Her b/f took her to Bamburgh for the weekend and they called in on their way home.

We sat in the garden,with our Pimms, and had a lovely lunch of butterflied, rosemary lamb

 with greek salad and tzatziki.

Here's the card I made for her.

 My starting point was the ribbon - Annabel's favourite, 

and I knew I had to use one of my Uptown Girl stamps.

I coloured her with Copics and some glamour dust, then cut her out 

and used foam pads to add some dimension.

 

I've just realised we didn't take one single pic of us, or our lunch!

Duh!!  But Annabel did snap this one of her dog Ollie, with our Suzie.

 

Challenges.
ABC - O for Open (Anything Goes)
Allsorts - Here Come The Girls
Hobby House - NEW monthly challenge - Anything Goes
Crafty Friends - NEW weekly challenge - Anything Goes

• Stamping Bella, Posh has a Present
• Copics and Glamour Dust
• Grosgrain Wide Ribbon
• 6 x  6 On The Edge, Petal Point Card Blank
• Sentiment Stamp, Stampin' Up
• DPs Pink Petticoat, Brocade and Apples.

Thankyou

Have you heard me screaming this afternoon?? I have been trying to change the background on my DT blog, and have got in a right pickle with it all. I think it's done now, but everything is in a different place - Ha! Ha! Hope my teamies are in a forgiving mood. :-))

I also managed to have a play for the LIM challenge - this week the theme is Thankyou OR Congratulations.

I rummaged around in my stamp drawer and came across a Stampin' Up set 'On A Pedestal'.  The letter stamp actually says - Amazing, thoughtful, sweet, wonderful, genuine - but it gave me the idea to make a digi with 'thankyou' in different languages.
You can grab this from my freebies page if you want it.

Challenges

LIM - Thankyou OR Congrats

A Spoon Full Of Sugar - White + 1 Colour