Fun In The Snow

Hello.
Today I'm an elf!
I'm excited to be joining Jo, over at the 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge 

This month I've chosen the theme of Snow Days.

I'm thinking...  building a snowman, kids on sledges, penguins with scarves, birds on snowy branches, you get the idea.
I'm looking forward to seeing all those snowy scenes, so I hope you'll play along.

Here is my card, using one of my favourite stamps.

I stamped my image and coloured it with copics. 
For the landscape, I found a little stamp with those flower tufts on,  which just helped to ground the image a bit.
The sky is distress ink and my snow is made with a white gel pen, through a snowfall stencil.

Thank you Jo, for letting me join you this month.

It was fun xxx

• purple onion designs - happy mail
• fa la la stamp - sorry! Can't remember the make
• landscape stamp - my favorite things - frost loving friends
• distress oxide - salvaged patina
• pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle
• pretty pink posh - snowfall stencil
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A Sweet Woodland Birthday

Hello.

For a minute, when I got up this morning, I thought it wasn't raining.
False alarm. 
It's still raining  :o)

That makes more than 40 + days of rain in the UK this year. 
What's a person to do, other than get comfy in their craftroom.

I couldn’t resist inking up Bugsy and Jessie from Purple Onion Designs -  they’re just too sweet.
Bugsy with his balloon and Jessie clutching that birthday present, with a stencilled birch tree background - it’s basically a little woodland party waiting to happen.

Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches

• clearly besotted - treemendous times stencil
• purple onion designs - bugsy and jessie
• time 4 tea designs - walrus (green die cut)
• mama elephant - labeled messages
• distress ink - shaded lilac
• copic markers / white gel pen

A Little Card To Celebrate The Fun

 Hello.

I was meant to be following a sketch today.
You know when you have it in your mind, and you make your card, but it's not quite right.
It's close though - if you squint :o)

This is a Valentine's card for my dh. 

After 40 years of marriage, we're kind of over the red, love hearts and roses, so  I think this cute Eddie and Ethel stamp is more our thing.

Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches

I converted this to portrait and moved those stripes a bit. 
By which I mean a lot. It still looks a bit like the sketch though, right?

• purple onion designs - eddie and ethel
• memory box - parker alphabet dies
• pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle
• mft - sentiment from frost loving friends
• copic markers, white gel pen

Pedal Power Post

Hello.
Today I'm sharing this cute, little bear and his helpful penguins.
Rushing around to deliver the Christmas post before he gets snowed in.

I stamped this cute image onto a card panel, and then masked it and distress inked the background.
Then I coloured the image with Copics and added the sentiment piece, and a strip of gold.

Lastly, the snow was added with a white gel pen and a snowfall stencil.

Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches

I've definitely pushed the 'clean and fresh' brief on this one!
I just couldn't resist adding that snow flurry.

• purple onion designs - happy mail
• ranger distress ink - salvaged patina
• mft - snowglobe sentiments
• copic markers / white gel pen

Roll up! Roll up!

Step right up to the greatest show in town.
Hear the music, see the lights, feel the magic of carnival nights.

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my Grandson's 3rd birthday.
He had a carnival themed party yesterday - with lots of fun and games, and general silliness :o)

I stamped my carnival tent, and then masked it, to add the clouds and grass using a stencil and distress inks.

My pawty animals were die cut and coloured with copics. Then popped up on the background with foam tape. 
I swapped out the balloon on the kitten's tail, for a number 3 balloon.

Challenge

As You Like It

Favourite Clean & Simple or Fussy & Fancy.

My go to style is usually clean & simple, but for this card I went all out.
I just knew my Grandson would love those cute pawty animals and the
carnival tent was a must.
I did eventually step away from adding more presents :o)
This is definitely a 'more is more' card for me.

•  purple onion designs - large fair tent
• my favorite things - pawty time
• my favorite things - stencils grassy edges and mini clouds
• avery elle - numbered balloon die
• distress inks - twisted citron and tumbled glass
• copic markers

Love You More

Hello.
I'm excited today, to be a guest designer over at the 

 Color Hues Challenge

Thanks so much to the team for inviting me to play along.

This time, they would like to see a lilac and aqua combo.

Now, lilac is cool.    I can do lilac.
But Aqua, that's a bit more tricky.  Is it green, is it blue?   Yes - I googled aqua :o)

So, google it if you need to, or, if you want some inspiration, nip over to the blog and check out the fab work from the designers.
 I hope you'll play along.

I love this bokeh style background, and it's a lot easier than I thought.

If I can do it, anyone can! I simply inked up a card panel with shaded lilac, and then used white ink with a circles stencil.
Eddie and Ethel are stamped, fussy cut, and coloured with Copics.
It does look a bit green in the pictures, but its definitely aqua  :o)

How cute are these two?
I'm going to keep this card for my wedding anniversary in July - it will be our 40th.
Oooh, that's ruby isn't it - maybe I should remake this using reds.

• purple onion designs - eddie and ethel
• my favorite things - circles stencil
• distress oxide - shaded lilac
• hobbycraft white ink
• sentiment - simon says stamp, thoughtful messages
• copic markers, white gel pen, versaclair

'Popping' by to say Happy Birthday

Hello.
How is everyone? 
We have lots of family birthdays in February, so it's a busy, card making time for me.

Today I'm sharing this fun, balloon party.

It's my first time inking up and colouring this cute stamp and these guys are definitely party ready.

For the balloons I used an old Altenew stamp, with lots of masking. I thought I had ruined the whole card, when I added those balloon strings - urgh! I was so cross with myself. But I managed to hide the worst of them with the sentiment.

Challenge

AAA Colourful

• purple onion designs - let's celebrate
• balloons - altenew - hug me
• sentiment - my favorite things - party penguins
• copic markers / wow white embossing powder / white gel pen

Delivering Love

Hello.
Happy Valentine's Day.
This cute, little bear is peddling like crazy, delivering love all around town :o)

This is my first time inking up and colouring this stamp. How did I do?
I got it a little late for Christmas cards, but with some added hearts I think it works well for Valentine's Day.

Can we ignore the round splodge near the top of the post box?
My dark red just decided to dump lots of ink there. I tried hard to blend it in.
Does anyone else have that problem with random Copics?

Challenge

Addicted to Stamps & More

I've used Copic markers for my colouring

• purple onion designs - happy mail - chilliezgraphy by pei
• copic markers
• simon says stamp - thoughtful messages