Yellow Rose

 Hello.

Today I'm playing along over at the MUSE challenge.

I love Michele's inspiration card, with my fav colour combo of yellow and grey,

and the way she highlighted one flower with watercolour.

Now, I'm not great when it comes to flowers, but I really wanted to give this one a go.

Here's my attempt.

I took a white card panel and stamped the grey leaves on it. 

Then I added the die cut bottle and the rose blooms, popped up on foam pads.

 I stamped my blooms in yellow, but  they looked a little flat,

so I used a slightly darker shade of Copic to add a little feathering.

 

MUSE challenge

Inspiration card by Michele Ferguson

 

 

Supplies.

Clearly Besotted, Sweet Rose Stamps and Dies

Inks - Memento Grey Flannel. VersaColor Canary

Sentiment - Pink Petticoat

Elephant Love

Hey everyone.

Hope you're all enjoying the weekend.

I finally got some time in  my craft room this morning

and inked up my new Wplus9 elephants.

 I am not great at colouring, so these elephants scared me a little.

In the end, I kept it pretty simple, using shades of grey for outlining,

and adding a few dots on ellie's head.

The balloon took me forever - I kept going back to it and adding more colour,

then taking it away again!! 

It's something I definitely need to practice.

Challenges.

Allsorts - Spring Is In The Air  - The green and yellow combo says spring to me and, irl, the background paper is much more yellow than the camera pics up. Check out my Instagram for a better picture!

Cute Card Thursday - Die Cuts and Punches. The dies for this set of stamps are the outline type, which makes them really easy to place and cut.

Sweet Stampin' - Green

4 Crafty Chicks - Green

Supplies.

WPlus9 Unforgettable, coloured with Copics.

Digi Paper - Pink Petticoat, Little Big Dots.

Watercolours for the background.  Rectangle and Scalloped Rectangle Nestie Dies.

Sequins.

Just Floating By

It's been a busy week here.

We've decided to put our house on the market, so we have been

cleaning, scrubbing, tidying and throwing things into boxes and cupboards!!

The house has never been so clean :-)

This morning the estate agent took the pictures, so this afternoon I sneaked into my craftroom

and got a few goodies back out :-)

I just had time to make a card for the Lawnscaping challenge.

Sunglasses at the ready everyone...

They're celebrating their 100th challenge, so naturally the theme is 'Birthday Celebration'.

I created a scene with stitched hillside borders and cloud dies,

and had my little, turtle floating along, tied to some balloons.

Lawnscaping Challenge

Supplies.

Lawn Fawn - Year Two Stamps. Let's Polks DP.  Stitched Rectangle. Stitched Hillside Borders.

Balloons - Clearly Besotted, Make A Wish.    Clouds - Memory Box.

Inks - Memento Dandelion and Rosebud.

With A Little Help From My Friends

Hey there.

2 posts without penguins and I'm already having withdrawal symptoms.

So, here's a whole gang of them :-)

 These penguins are so easy to die cut, that this card took no time at all to make.

They don't even need much colouring - just a hint of pink cheeks, a little yellow belly

and a grey outline (which the camera hasn't picked up today).

My penguins are popped up on foam pads underneath my sentiment.

Then I added a couple of party balloons and some'confetti'

Challenges.

ABC Challenge - D is for Die Cuts

Paper Players - CAS Feathered Friends

Sweet Stampin' - Inspired by a Song  - With A Little Help From My Friends

Supplies.

Mama Elephant - Arctic Penguins.   Clearly Besotted -  Make A Wish

Lawn Fawn - Beep Boop Birthday (Balloon Strings).    Winnie & Walter, Big Bang Confetti.

Clearly Besotted - Say It In Style.   Memento Ink -  Rose Bud

VersaColor Inks - Turquoise, Canary    DP -  Lawn Fawn, Let's Polka

A Cabin in the Woods

 Looking at this card, I can see that I definitely had one of my fav TV shows

 going round in my head.

Can you guess what it is?

Think cold, arctic conditions and cabins in the middle of nowhere...

 It's always good to look through your stamps and see if you can use them in a different way.

Here, I've used a couple of my favourite Christmas sets for this wintry, new home card

 

Challenges.

Addicted To Stamps & More - Anything Goes

Stampin' Royalty - Trees

Allsorts - Anything BUT Birthday

Did you guess the TV show?? I didn't give you much to go on, did I ? It was...

** Fortitude **

Supplies.

Stamps and Dies - WPlus 9 Heartfelt Holidays, Winter Wonderland.   Sentiment - Clearly Besotted, Home Sweet Home

Stitched Rectangle and Hillside Border Dies - Lawn Fawn.         DP - Lawn Fawn, Let's Polka

Inks - VersaColor, Bisque and Magenta  Memento - Grey Flannel

Flowers are scary

*** Happy Valentine's Day ***

Hope you're all having a good weekend.

Woohoo - no diet for me today :-)

I have Prosecco and chocolates at the ready, and I'm cooking hubby's

favourite meal tonight...   a roast chicken dinner with all the trimmings. 

Yum.

Here's my card for this week's CAS(E) this Sketch challenge - 

not a penguin in sight ;-)

 If you're a regular visitor here, you'll know that I am florally challenged.

So this was kind of a scary card for me.

I created a little flower display by randomly stamping my blooms and foliage.

I'm not sure what you call this technique with the word die - any ideas?

I cut the die from my stamped panel, and kept it to one side.

Then I die cut another two 'thanks' from white card and layered them all up - 

putting the original one (with the stamping on it) on top.

Then I placed it back into the space on my panel.

IRL - it has a much more 3d look than the picture shows.

Supplies.

Stamps & Dies - Lawn Fawn, Penelope's Blossoms / Thanks Die

Memento Inks - New Sprout / Pistachio / Angel Pink

VersaColor Inks - Boysenberry / Magenta.

Skater Boy

Hey everyone, hope you're all well.

 Here's ANOTHER penguin card - are you sick of them yet?  ;-)

 

My inspiration came from this week's MUSE card by Michele Ferguson (see below).

I've kept my card masculine and loosely followed her overall design.

I really wanted to add the die-cut word but the 'happy' that I have is just a little too

big for this size card. 

I ended up stamping the sentiment and fussy cutting the 'HAPPY' part.

 

MUSE card by Michele

 

Supplies.

Mama Elephant, Arctic Penguins / Lawn Fawn Beep Boop Birthday/ Clearly Besotted, Make A Wish
and Basic Banners.   Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles, Let's Polka DP.
VersaColor Ink, Magenta, Cyan, Mint.

Because I'm Happy

... and so, my penguin obsession continues  :-)

I'm so happy I bought these little penguins,

they are turning out to be even more vesatile than I expected.

On this card I've used one of my fav techniques - the inlaid die cut.

I used my 'happy' die on the white card panel, then cut it again in pink card

and inserted this piece back into the negative space.

Easy peasy - and so effective.

 

Challenges.

Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

Stampin' Royalty - To DIE for

Inkspirational - Rose Colours

Supplies.

DP - First Edition, Bird Song.

Stamps & Dies - Mama Elephant, Arctic Penguins / Lawn Fawn Stitched Border Die

Memory Box 'Happy' Die         Banner - Stamp and Die, Clearly Besotted, Basic Banners.

'Birthday' Stamp - Lawn Fawn, Year 2          Sequins/ Pearls

Say Yes to Yellow

I tried something new today...   a little bit of water colouring - 

'little' being the operative word!

When it comes to 'arty' stuff, I am rubbish, but I found a small tin of kids paints

at the bottom of a craft box and thought I would give them a go.

I mixed up some yellow on an acrylic stamp block and painted it onto my card panel.

Eek !  I am so chuffed.

Yes, I know the average 4 year old could do this just as well, but it's a start :-)

Challenges

CAS-ual Fridays - Must Love Watercolour

Penny Black & More - Anything Goes (no digis)

Simon Says Stamp -All Thins Bright and Beautiful

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

 

Supplies.

Stamps and Dies - Mama Elephant, Arctic Penguins / Clearly Besotted, Make A Wish

DP - Lawn Fawn Let's Polka.   Gem and Sequin.

Ink - Memento, Rose Bud

We're brrr-fect together!

Hey there.

Here's my Valentine's card for my hubby (he won't look in here!)

We've been married 30 years this year, and I've made the whole gamut of cards for him ...

slushy, funny, vintage, CAS, naughty... etc,

but this year, I've gone back to cute :-)

 For inspiration I followed the sketch over at Make the Day Special (see below).

I turned it on it's side and substituted my penguins for the heart shape.

 

All my supplies came from the Make the Day Special Store.

Check them out - they have some fab goodies that us brits have trouble getting our crafty paws on!!

Stamps & Dies - Mama Elephant, Arctic Penguins

Sentiment - Mama Elephant, Just Hatched

DP - Lawn Fawn, Let's Polka

Die - Lawn Fawn, Hillside Borders

Heart Stamp - WPlus9, Heartfelt Holidays

I, Robot

Hey everyone, hope you're all having a good weekend.

It's a bit on the chilly side here, so I have a date with a roaring fire,

a good book, and a mug of hot chocolate, this afternoon :-)

But first, a birthday robot...

For my background, I cut different widths from some snippets of card

and stuck them randomly onto my base card.

On the white panel, I added a piece of stitched border die-cut, 

and then my robot, with his balloon and cupcake, all popped up on foam pads.

Looking at the sketch again (below) I saw that there was a stripe on the top of the panel,

so I followed the narrow strip of card along and under the balloon.

CAS(E) this Sketch

 

Pixie's Snippets Playground

This is another great sketch to use up some small strips of card or dp.

Supplies.

Lawn Fawn, Beep Boop Birthday Stamps & Dies

Card Scraps / Sequins