Sweet Sprinkles

Hello.
I had so much fun making this card.
I think the recipient is going to love it.

It's a wrapped shaker - so the shaker bit is made with some scrap, plastic packaging, 
wrapped around the card, and secured with DS tape. So easy!

The shaker confetti was the fun bit. I didn't have much in the way of pretty sprinkles,
so I made some of my own...

large and small cherries - die cut and coloured with copics

ice creams - die cut from coloured cardstock and pieced together

ice lollies - I put a strip of ds tape onto white card and made sure the 'lolly' part was cut from that piece - then I peeled off the tape and pressed the die cut into some glitter. IRL it's very sparkly.

This is definitely something I'll be trying again.
I'm already thinking of gingerbread men sprinkles, and tiny Christmas trees!!

Challenge

Just Us Girls

Nothing says summer like ice-lollies and cherries :o)

• concord & 9th - celebration squad / charmed (small cherries die)
• time for tea designs - cool critters - sentiment and ice lolly die
• sugar pea designs - summer scoops - large cherry die
• spellbinders - camp days - ice cream die

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

British Summer Vibes

Nothing says British summer like the sound of an ice-cream van.
What are you having -   a Screwball, a Fab or a Rocket?

 

I'm not too happy with the colours for this card.
I wanted it to be nice and bright, so I used my Ecoline brush pens and they didn't work well on that cardstock. Going over areas made the colour darker than I wanted and the paper started to pill.
Next time I'll try heavier cardstock or watercolour paper.

Challenge

AAA Cards

Whilst the sentiment isn't the focus, I definitely think it
brings a lot to the card.

• time for tea designs - cool critters
• ecoline real brush pens
• copic markers
• white gel pen

You Are Souper Cool

Hello.
For a while there, I was about to quit cardmaking altogether.
I was trying to mirror what other crafters were doing, and it just wasn't me.
Everything seemed to end up in the bin.
Do you ever feel like that?

For my last few cards, I've gone back to basics and what suits me.
Little animals, or people, in a basic, unfussy scene.
Keep it sweet and simple, right?   :o)

What's great for recapturing my mojo, is a sketch challenge or a colour challenge.
Here, I've managed to combine the two, with this 'souper' cool chef.

Challenges

Freshly Made Sketches

I've just rotated the sketch, for a portrait design

Color Hues

I've gone for a deeper shade of yellow (fossilized amber)

• my favorite things - recipe for happiness
• distress ink - fossilized amber
• time for tea designs - tile stencil
• copic markers
• versamark ink and hero arts white embossing powder

You Arrrrgh Awesome!

 Hello.

Pirates are big in our house right now.
We have a cardboard pirate ship in the front room for our Grandsons.
I am regularly made to walk the plank!

I die cut a circle into a card panel. Then, for the background, I used a cloud scrap that I had in my pile, and added the waves, and shoreline with die cut pieces. The boat was added into the waves, and then the pirate and his extras were placed around the sides. It took me ages to try and balance it out, hopefully it looks ok.

Challenge

Cardz 4 Guyz 

#371 Body of Water

Just for fun, I'm also sharing my Grandson's card. He's 4 years old.

If it's a family birthday he usually makes a card with some stickers and felt tips, but this time I thought he could try out some stamping.

I stamped the treasure chest for him, to show him how to do it, and then let him do the rest himself.
For a first attempt I am pretty impressed. 
I might have to start sharing my craft room!

• lawn fawn - ahoy matey
• nestie circle die
• time for tea designs - ocean waves dies
• copics / white gel pen

Feeling Ducky Today

Hello.
One day of sunshine and I'm already thinking about Spring, and Easter.
So I reached for these cute ducks when I saw the 'gingham' challenge at Inspired By...

I don't have and gingham paper, so I did a background with a copic marker.  Nothing fancy - I just used the broad edge to draw the lines. It's darker here and there, and the lines aren't equally spaced, but I thought that added to it's charm.

I used die-cut hillsides for the background, and slotted those rushes in behind. Then the ducks were added with foam tape for some extra dimension.

 Challenge

Inspired By... 

• time for tea designs - lucky duck
• lawn fawn - stitched hillside borders
• my favorite things - stitched rectangle scallop edge die
• cloud dies ( I think they are memory box)
• avery elle - merriest sentiment
• copic markers / white gel pen

Ahoy, Matey

Oo Arr! 
Happy Birthday today, to our very own pirate, Captain B.

Follow the map, brave scallywag,  find the hidden gems, and make them scurvy, land lubbers walk the plank  :o)

It's pirates all the way for us this week, with our Grandson's 4th birthday.
To say he is obsessed is an understatement. He has a pirate ship in our front room (amazing £10 deal from Hobbycraft) and a treasure chest full of gem stones, that he won't let out of his sight.

So this pirate card, and little treasure map, was a real winner.

The little elements, were die cut, coloured and placed onto a background scene.
Those wave dies from 'Time for Tea Designs, made it super easy to put together.

The map was stamped and coloured with copics.

Challenge

As You Like It Challenge

Feminine or Masculine Theme

I have gone for a masculine theme here, with the little, boy pirate.
I've always found masculine cards a bit tricky, but with 2 grandsons, I have learnt to love them.
Flowers and ribbons, and girly stuff was never really my style anyway,
so I'm embracing boy things and having fun. Boy stuff can be cute too!

• lawn fawn - ahoy, matey
• time for tea designs - ocean waves die
• copic markers

Here's The Scoop

Hello.
Hands up who else's parents told them that, when the ice cream van plays music, it means they've run out of ice-cream!  :o)

Here's my entry for the #6   AAAColourful Challenge 
I used the colours as a sunset for my cool critters.

I used distress ink to blend a sunset background, and then added my ice cream van, and critters, popped up with foam tape.

For sentiments I use Versafine Clair Ink, which stamps beautifully, but I've noticed it doesn't show up as black  as I would like on these inky backgrounds. What does everyone else use? I might have to try heat embossing it.

Challenge

AAA Colourful  #6

• time for tea designs - cool critters
• distress ink - festive berries / carved pumpkin / mustard seed
• copic markers
• white gel pen / gems

More Duck Tales

 Hello. Here I am with another ducky Easter card :o)

This is such a cute stamp set, that I had a smile on my face all the time I was making this simple card. Also, it's easy to colour, which is a big tick in my book.

I played around a little with the grass/flower stamp, masking it off and stamping the right side on the left, and the left side on the right  - just so my duck wouldn't cover up those bullrushes.

Taking photos of my cards drives me crazy. 

This little duck is much more yellow/orange in real life!!

Challenge

Stamping Sensations

🌷Spring 🐣

• time for tea designs - lucky ducks
• copic markers and white gel pen
• altenew - maple yellow ink
• pinkfresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle
• avery elle - merriest sentiments

Duck Cards Quack Me Up

Hello. Easter cards are not really a thing here, but I do like to make a couple for family. And I need to get a move on, Easter is early this year.

This cute 'lucky duck' set from Time for Tea Designs was just perfect for what I wanted. I stamped and die cut one of the ducks and used the other little stamps for a background pattern. Can you tell that background is an egg shape?? I'm not sure it's obvious.

Challenge

Addicted to Stamps and More 

• time for tea designs - lucky duck
• copic markers
• pinkfresh studio stitch rectangle frame
• sentiment - avery elle - merriest
• altnew inks - blush, mango smoothie, sea breeze
• versa color ink - celadon

I'm Quackers About You

Hello. Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and the shops are crammed with hearts and roses, cuddly toys with red ribbon bows,  and heart shaped chocolates. I've been married for 39 years this year, and I am so over all that - well, maybe not the chocolates   :o)
I still love my husband to bits though - so here's a red-less, pink-less Valentine's card for him.

I die cut my letters into a card panel, and backed it with blue card. Then I used the cute duck as the 'O' and added the sentiment and a scalloped frame.

Challenge

 CAS on Friday

#276    VALENTINE

• time for tea designs - lucky duck
• neat and tangled - journaling alpha dies
• my favorite things - stitch rectangle scallop frame
• copics
• signo white gel pen

Do you love anyone more than treats?

Hi. Today I'm making a start on some Valentine's Day cards. We are a dog loving family - between us we have a Border Terrier, a Staffy, and a Puggle - so I am a huge fan of dog stamps and cards, and this 'woof pack' set was a must for me.

I've followed the sketch at this week's Freshly Made Sketches, changing the large circle for a heart and the smaller ones for the dog and his favourite cushion  :o)

The background was stamped with a little, grass and flower stamp, and coloured with Copics.

Challenge

Freshly Made Sketches

• my favorite things - woof pack
• time for tea designs - lucky duck
• memory box - puffy clouds die
• heart nestie, copic markers, white gel pen

If you've got it, haunt it.

 It's spooky season! Time to let those ghosts out...

I inked up my card panel with some clouds at the bottom, and a circle die-cut, to mask a moon. Then I used a star stencil with some embossing paste over the top.
My ghosts were a bit lost on the background, so I die cut them from black card, and just offset it a little, so they stand out better. 

I completely forgot to leave a space free for the sentiment, so I had to get creative.
I ended up covering those inky clouds with some vellum, and the heat embossed sentiment.
How on earth do you attach vellum?? I used a few glue dots, but they don't keep the vellum as flat as i would like, and they do show through.

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge

• my favorite things - ghostly greetings
• distress ink - salvaged patina (it's a pale greeny colour, I don't know why it looks blue on the photos)
• cloud stencil - but I ended up covering those clouds up :o)
• spellbinders - all the stars stencil, with white embossing paste
• time for tea designs - ocean waves die (because I don't have a cloud die)
• versamark and white embossing powder
• copics

Ey Up, Duck

Hello.

I'm an idiot! This card was for the Freshly Made Sketches challenge, but I missed the deadline. Argh! I think its the third time I've done this. The challenge starts on a Wednesday, and concludes on a Monday. I need to get that into my thick head :o)

This is my first outing for those ducks, and I couldn't resist using the Ey Up duck sentiment. Something that my Dad used to say to me all the time - along with 'alright, chick?'

To add some extra oomph to that sentiment the letters were die cut twice, once from black card, and once from a foam sheet, and then stuck together.

I don't often add anything to the inside of my cards, but I couldn't resist that cute sentiment and another duck.

Duh - NOT for the freshly made sketches challenge :o)
Do not pass go, do not collect £200

time for tea designs - lucky duck
neat and tangled - aphabet dies
pink fresh studio - diagonal stitch rectangle