LEOPARD LOVE

Hello.

I'm still struggling to get into my craft room, with the new puppy running around.
It's another week before he can go out for walks, and I can tire him out!  :-)

Here's another card made in between his naps.

I didn't have time to colour the leopards before it had to be posted off,
but I kind of like the simple look of them.

Challenge

Watercooler Wednesday

supplies

mft - cloud stencil, loveable leopards, 

neat and tangled - journaling alpha

distress ink - tumbleed glass

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

KUNG FU FIGHTING

Hello

Today I'm sharing a quick, and funny (I hope) card,
for the Time Out Challenge

I used a piece of graph paper in the bottom of my stamping platform, to line up all those letters (one row at a time), because they can be tricky little things. Annoyingly they stick to your finger, tweezers and just about anything, when you're try to adjust them.
I find a piece of card is best to push them into place, and I don't worry too much if they're not perfect.
It all adds to the 'handmade' look, right?

supplies

mama elephant - tiny ninjas     copics

lawn fawn - violet's abcs

QUILTED BIRTHDAY

Hello.

I stan laurafadora (in a good way!)   :-)

and when I saw THIS stunning card, I wanted to CASE it.

Here's my attempt...

To make the 'quilt' I covered a piece of card with small strips of dp then cut it into two 2" x 2" squares. 

The squares were then cut into 2 triangles, 

and then these triangles were each cut into 2,

giving you 8 pieces in total.

Then you simply arrange the pieces into your 'quilt' design.

(Laura has a great step by step video to follow).

I used a textured cardstock, for added interest, 
and some glitter paper for a touch of bling.

Challenge

Simon Says Wednesday

Anything Goes

supplies

papermania textured card stock

mft - in and out stitched square die

mama elephant - birthday messages

RAINBOW BIRTHDAY

Hello.

It's chucking it down here in Yorkshire today,
and the only chance of a rainbow, is this one coming out of my craft room!

I know. I know.
Those damn rainbow sentiments aren't quite lined up perfectly, 
are they?
It's so annoying. 
But they're stuck down fast. Argh!

I'm entering this for...

The Library Challenge

mft - love you a bunch, coloured with copics

mama elephant birthday messages - embossed onto mft fishtail flag dies and then coloured over with zig clean color real brush markers.

GIVE ME LEMONS

Hello.

When is a lemon not a lemon?
When it's a leaf die from the WPlus9 Happy Birds set  :o)

That's what I had to use to make this 'lemon' card for this week's
Inspired By Challenge

Not a perfect lemon shape, but close enough.
What do you think?

I have just realised though, that maybe those lemons at the bottom should be hanging down from the leaves. Duh!

Inspired By...

supplies
mft stripes stencil with distress oxide faded jeans
leaves die from the works and 'lemons' from wplus9 happy birds set - coloured with copics
thanks die from lawn fawn

MAKE WAVES

Hello.

When I first started card making - many moons ago - 

I decided I wouldn't use stamps and ink, 

cos they were just too expensive.

Instead, I bought little, card toppers, a few cheap dies and some punches.

I could get by with those, I told myself.

Ha! Ha! Ha!

snort*

I think that lasted about 6 months!

So, it's been a while since I made a card with no stamping at all,

but those clever librarians at The Library Challenge

have pushed me to think outside the box.

The challenge book is To The Lighthouse, but

I don't posses a single lighthouse, sea, beach, or fish stamp,

so I tried to create a deep sea theme 

using a decorative punch in shades of green, to represent the waves.

There's a pretty touch of glitter, for added bling, on the hello sentiment. It just doesn't show up too well on camera.

The Library Challenge

supplies

martha stewart decorative punch

memory box hello die

various shade of textured green card and a sprinkling of glamour dust

TWEET WISHES

Hello.

Plum coloured birds?  Are they a thing?

Apparently they are.

My friend google showed me some gorgeous, plum coloured Starlings.

I kept my card as simple as I could for the

Less Is More Challenge

where the theme is duck egg blue, plum and white.

supplies

wplus9 - happy birds

mama elephant - labeled messages

distress ink - tumbled glass

copic markers - v15/v17 

THEO

Hello.

Here's the card I made for my great-nephew,

who turned one this week.

I wanted to make it masculine, but keep it cute,

so I opted for those party animals and a green/orange colour combo.

Entering the

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

where the theme is 'Masculine'

supplies

mft - party animals, stitched alphas,

copics

TIME TO PARTY

Hello

Here I am, back with another card using my new

waffle flower set.

It's my favourite.

(although, to be fair, I say that about every new stamp set I get)

:o)

I came across a lovely challenge, 

that I don't think I've taken part in before...

The Library Challenge

The premise is to use their chosen book cover as inspiration for your card.

This time the book is The Art of Stripes, 

and the cover is so great that I wanted to stick to it 

as closely as I could.

My main inspiration was the pink background, the girl with a 

black and white striped top, and the placement of the sentiment.

supplies

waffle flower- go girl

mft - in and out stitched rectangle

sentiment - clearly besotted, raise a glass

distress ink - spun sugar      glossy accents

AWESOME

Hello.

I have been dying to play with this fabulous, waffle flower set, but it was just the perfect image for my daughter, so I didn't want her to see any of it before she got her birthday card.

Does that make sense?

Now that she's had her birthday I can share :-)

The set comes with other hair styles and glasses etc,

so you can mix and match other looks

and I can't wait to play with it some more.

Entering the challenge at...

Addicted to Stamps and More

supplies

waffleflowercrafts - go girl

mft - ray of light stencil, in and out stitched rectangle

ranger ink - wild berry    glossy accents