DRINK MORE GIN

Hello.
I've had another rummage through my old stamps today,
and I came up with this cute, house mouse one.
I've matched it up with a fun sentiment to try and bring it more up to date.
What do you think?

Challenge

Aud Sentiments #180

Anything Goes + A Sentiment

Supplies

Stampendous House Mouse Stamp - Olive A Party coloured with Copics

My Favorite Things - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle

Lawn Fawn - Violet's ABCs

RUFF DAY

Hello.
I don't know about a ruff day, it's rather been a ruff week here,
so I was drawn to this sentiment and teamed it up with some bright, coloured pups.
I rather like them.

Not to self: be more daring with colour :-)

Challenges.

Addicted to Stamps & More

I've used Copic markers on my pups - with no shading - 

just bold colour and a touch of white pen.

Supplies

My Favorite Things - Four Legged Friends

Lawn Fawn - Stitched Rectangle

Copics V04 YR04 RV14

ALL SQUARE

Hello
Have you visited the Seven Hills Craft Blog?
They have a fabulous design team and post a new card every day - lots of lovely inspration.
When I saw Gemma's card - here - I knew I had to attempt a version of it.

I inked up my squares (don't look too closely, I don't have a square die so they're not perfect) -
and attached my doggy die-cuts with foam tape and snipped off anything hanging over the square.
I did some minimal colouring on the dogs and then attached the squares to my base card with foam tape.
A simple idea, but I think it's really effective and would work with lots of different stamps and colour combos.

Challenges

Watercooler Wednesday

Supplies

My Favorite Things - Four Legged Friends

Distress Ink - Spiced Marmalade / Pickled Raspberry / Salty Ocean / Seedless Preserves / Peacock Feathers / Ripe Persimmon

MUM'S BOUQUET

Hello
I still struggle with flower cards - which colours to use, how to arrange them -
so I made an extra special effort with this card for my Mum's birthday.
She suffers from mixed dementia and I'm finding looking after her really hard right now,
but hopefully this will make her smile.

This is my 2nd entry for the challenge at Seven Hills Crafts,

this time using the colour combo on the right.

I picked out the lilac, pink and a couple of shades of green,

layering the blooms and leaves with foam tape for lots of dimension.

Supplies
WPlus9 Feathers and Florals
My Favorite Things - Stitched Scalloped Rectangles, Stitched Alphabet
Inks - VersaColor Lime, Boysenberry,Orchid, Lavender, Heliotrope
MFT - Sour Apple.  Distress Ink ( for background) Shaded Lilac

Yappy Birthday

Hello,
I am such a sucker for doggy stamps,
so I couldn't resist this set of four-legged friends.
Here's one of them... getting his first outing.

• Die-cut scalloped edge panel
• Draw fine line to 'ground' the trees
• Stamp and die-cut trees, and attach with foam pads
• Stamp and die-cut dog. Colour with Copics and white pen. Attach with foam pads
• Stamp sentiment
• Attach with foam pads to base card that has been covered in spotty dp.

Challenges

Muse Card Club - design from Tracey McNeely

I took Tracey's overall design as my inspiration, and treated it like a sketch.

I used dp down the side of the card, a central image, and a simple sentiment.

Seven Hills Crafts

Colour Challenge

I used the first colour palette - picking out the orange, yellow and green

and using those colours for my trees.

Supplies.

My Favorite Things - Stitched Scalloped Edges, 4 legged Friends, Itsy Bitsy Polka Dot DP

Wplus9 - Feathers and Florals

Inks - Hero Arts, Butter Bar, Orange Soda, Color Lights by Lia

Copics.

EAT MORE CAKE

Hello.
I admit, I love using cute little stamps with matching dies,
and I rather neglect my old stash.
Having a rummage the other day though, I came across this wooden stamp
- one of my all time favourites.

I enjoyed colouring it, and I tried my best to give it a more 3D look -
going around the edges in grey.
And, I think adding a fun sentiment has brought it more up-to-date.
Guess I need to check out and see what other goodies are lurking in my old stash box.

Challenge

Addicted to Stamps and More

Supplies.
Penny Black Stamp - Party Pooped
MFT - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle
Lawn Fawn - Violet's ABCs
Copics

RAMBLIN' ROSE

Hello.
Is anyone else struggling to find time to craft?
With the weather being so nice here, I have been spending more time in the garden -
drinking tea and reading books in the sun, whilst trying to ignore the weeds ;-)

Anita's beautiful Muse card has been in my head though,
and I finally came up with this card yesterday.

I don't have any stencils, so for my image, I used rose and leaf stamps,
stamped with versamark and heat embossed in white.
Then I used my distress inks over the top for the background, added a sentiment and a few scattered sequins.

It seems so simple, I don't know why it took me a week to come up with it ;-)

Muse Card by Anita Bowden

Supplies.
Altenew - Vintage Roses
Mama Elephant - Labeled Messages
MFT - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle
Distress Inks - Dusty Concord / Salty Ocean / Peacock Feathers

Hogs & Kisses

Hello.
Today I'm sharing the card I made for my dh's birthday.
This year I went with simple, but cute :-)
A bit like him! Ha ha!

I began by covering my card base with the heart print dp.
I took my scalloped edge rectangle and die cut the pig into it, then stamped through this space, directly onto the heart dp.
Then I popped up the rectangle on foam pads for some depth, and added my die cut letters.
The rest of the sentiment was added on a little scrap of card,
I really didn't trust myself not to mess it up if I stamped directly onto the card.
Finally, I added the little bow tie, a paper-pieced belly for the 'o',  and a few sequins.

Challenges.

Simon Says Wednesday - A Hint of Pink

Cute Card Thursday - Anything Goes

Supplies

My Favorite Things - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Die / Sow Much Cuteness / Stitched Alphabet Dies

Lawn Fawn - Smitty's ABCs

Bow Tie from Lawn Fawn, Beep Boop Birthday

BEAR IN THE WOODS

Hello.
Here's my card for this week's MUSE challenge.

You might be wondering how I got to this card from Kay's gorgeous work,
but I an explain ;-)

I looked at the overall layout of Kay's card and followed that ( a bit like a sketch).
To begin with, I masked off a curve on my rectangle and stamped my trees using similar colours to Kay's bouquet.
Then I added a little distress ink, under the trees, for my hill.
The bear was die-cut, coloured with Copics and stuck on with foam pads -
and I chose a bold sentiment stamp and a scattering of sequins to finish.

Muse Card Club Challenge

card by Kay Miller

Supplies
Wplus9 - Feathers and Florals / Friends For All Seasons Fall
MFT - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle Die
Inks - MFT Poppy / Ripe Raspberry / Sour Apple.  VersaColor Green Tea
Distress Ink Scattered Straw
Sentiment - Lawn Fawn, Year Two

RAINBOW WISHES

Hello.
I racked my brains for the 'rainbow' challenge at Addicted to CAS,
and came up with this simple, embossed and inked birthday card.

I die-cut a stitched rectangle, stamped the blooms and leaves with Versamark
sprinkled them with white embossing powder, and heat set them.

It's kind of tricky to see where you're stamping with the Versamark, so I just stamped a few blooms at a time and then sprinkled them with white powder as I went along.

After heat embossing them, I inked my 'rainbow' with distress inks.

Then, I die-cut a scalloped edge rectangle, stamped and embossed my sentiment
and attached this to my 'rainbow' panel.
I cut off the edges level with the stitched rectangle.
This piece was then fixed to my card base with foam pads.

Addicted to CAS

• Lawn Fawn - Stitched Rectangle / Penelope's Blossoms
• Clearly Besotted Sentiment - Say It In Style
• Distress Inks - Pickled Raspberry / Spiced Marmalade / Cracked Pistachio / Salty Ocean / Shaded Lilac
• My Favorite Things - Stitched Scalloped Edge Rectangle
• Clear and White Embossing Powder

SCATTERED LEAVES

Hello.
I usually come unstuck when I try something a bit 'arty'   :-)
but I really like the way that this card turned out.
It was a bit tricky with all the masking - but worth the effort.

Once I had stamped my leaves/blooms, I die-cut lots of the shapes to use as masks.
I tried taping and holding them in place over their stamped image, whilst inking the spaces.
This was a bit tricky, and they did slip a little - but overall I like the effect.

I nearly messed the whole thing up when I decided to stamp some random black dots, that looked awful, but I managed to cover them up with sequins!!

I took  my inspiration from Jenni's card at...

Muse Card Challenge

Supplies.

WPlus9 - Feathers and Florals

Sentiment - Mama Elephant, Labeled Messsages

Inks - VersaColor Laurel Leaf and Hero Arts Butterbar

MFT - Stitched Scalloped Rectangle