Waffle Flower stencil

Happy Sunday from a glorious Devon day! 🌞

Today I have a Christmas card to share:

I used

Waffle Flower Postage Collage Christmas Stencil

Postage stamp die from Amazon

various ink pads

fat oval die

fine brushes (for applying the inks through the stencil)

stamps free from a magazine a long time ago

flower punch

SU sentiment

pearl drops, gems and stickles

white gel pen

1 Promarker to shade around the edges

This card was a lot more difficult to make than I thought it would be! I used some masking tape to secure the stencil but I had to be careful not to let the ink bleed underneath it. Perhaps it wasn't secured enough! It also took longer than I thought it would. 😥

Challenges

Simon Says Stamp blog. Wednesday challenge anything-goes

lil patch of crafty friends. anything goes

Crafty Catz weekly challenge. AG/use a stencil

Simon Says stamp blog Monday challenge lots of texture

we love stamping June-challenge. fabulous florals or anything goes

stamping sensations. June-challenge anything goes or mood board -

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Woodware Terrarium

Hello and happy bank holiday Monday to you!

Here's my card:

I couldn't decide which picture to post so I posted all of them!

I used:

Woodware stamp 'Terrarium' FRS090

Promarkers

Crea-Nest-Lies XXL 'Ticket square with stitch' dies

LOTV sentiment stamp

Craft Consortium Polka dot paper

Snippet of green striped paper

Stickles

brad, gems and string

and lots of my favourite Glossy Accents! (which I'm going to have to replace as it used a lot!)

Challenges:

snippets playground challenge- use snippets - sorry I didn't take a picture but I used a snippet of striped green paper also the sentiment was stamped on a snippet of white and then coloured pink.

passion for Promarker challenge -special-anniversary-challenge. - or AG

I love promarkers challenge AG/cute

allsorts challenge AG/blast for the past

as you like it challenge favourite-sketch-and-why. I like a sketch that can show 2 different types of paper - normally 1 quite plain and 1 patterned. I also like my stamped image in the centre of my card.

Stamping sensations. AG/mood board

Double D challenges -polka-dots.

Pennys paper crafty challenges - AG using paper

crafty catz weekly challenge.-dots-or stripes

fab n funky challenges -square

Simon Says stamp blog challenge Monday challenge lots of texture

Phew! that's a lot of challenges!!

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Hope you have a great day 🌞

                       

Snippets Playground Challenge

Hi there, 

todays card is for the Snippets playground challenge where Miss Di and Sarn encourage everyone to use up all the snippets and offcuts from previous cards.

Here's what I used (mostly from my previous card):

and here's my card:

Now there is a tale to tell with this card!

 I started off with an unbranded die from Amazon and as I've had trouble in the past with sticking down intricate dies I though that I would try using a sheet of 'Stick it' adhesive. Well after reading the instructions I managed to put the sheet on the wrong side of the mint coloured card - TWICE!!! 😖rather than waste the die cut I stuck the two pieces together to give it some more dimension and because the adhesive was also on the top piece I decided to cover it in glamour dust glitter. After all that faffing I couldn't be bothered to die cut another piece so I just stick it to my base card with a glue pen! But I suppose it was a bit of a happy accident because I quite like the look of it 😊 I finished the card off with some Stampin Up gems and managed to step away from the card - no Glossy Accents or the kitchen sink!

I can see me using this die for lot's of different cards and colour combinations but hopefully next time I will put the Stick It sheet on the right way!

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Happy New Home for Jules!

Hello there and welcome to my blog. 

I made todays card to virtually send to my lovely blog buddy Jules who has just moved house!

I used:

Penny Black stamp 'Home Sweet Home' 1747K

Promarkers

papers from the Works

sentiment from The lovely studio (very sadly closed )

MFT blueprints 14 dies

Jules is such a lovely person and she makes the most amazing cards - which cause my bank balance to rocket when I NEED to buy all the products that she uses!! She has just moved house and I am hoping that she will be back crafting very soon.

Wishing you lots of love and laughter in your new home Jules.

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Challenges:

Penny Black Saturday challenge. May-anything-goes optional-pastel.

I love promarkers challenge- anything goes/new home

stamping sensations May.

Simon says stamp blog challenge add-some-die-cuts

we love stamping May-challenge.

Penny's challenges. A/G use paper

crafty catz weekly challenge. AG/summer

Spring Joy!

Hi there, well the title of my post is certainly not about the weather!!!   💦💦💦

It is the name of my Penny Black stamp used for todays card:

I used:

Penny Black 'Spring Joy!' 2565J stamp

Promarkers

Papermania Happy Birthday To You papers

Buttons and flowers from stash

The Crepe paper dies are from The Greetery 

Now I did use my sewing machine to stitch around the edges but please don't look too closely because my stitching is atrocious!! In fact I did my best to hide it up and nearly didn't even post the card as I am so unhappy with it! After much faffing I think that I have sorted my tension out now - hopefully!

Challenges:

Passion for Promarkers challenge. week-737-feminine.

Simon Says Stamp blog Monday challenge Feminine

Simon Says Stamp blog Wednesday challenge anything-goes-

Penny Black Saturday challenge. April-anything-goes/numbers

as you like it challenge. favourite-clean-or-fussy-and-why? this is a difficult one because I do love the look of CAS cards but I can't quite seem to master them... I always have to step away from the card so I suppose that I prefer fussy cards so that I can pile everything on!!

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Penguin shaker card

Good evening from what was a beautiful sunny (but a very chilly) day in Devon,

Today's card is a shaker card:

I used:

Gingerbread Lane background paper by Jennifer Ellory

Clearly Besotted sentiment

Promarkers

various sequins and Stampendous Frantage shaved ice

Penguin stamps, dies and tree dies from Amazon

Challenges:

Passion for Promarker challenge week-735-check-it-out. 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge -interactive 

as you like it challenge. favourite-cute-or-floral-and-why. (2nd entry) I definitely favour cute cards as I think they make people smile and they are more fun than floral cards - I also have far more cute stamps than floral!

Christmas-craft-creations. April-challenge-non-traditional-colours. 

crafty catz weekly challenge.crafty-catz-challenge-669-anything-goes. + any cute critter

So that is a head start on my Christmas cards for this year, hopefully I can keep it up and there won't be a mad dash later in the year!

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Stamping Bella loves her ice-cream

Hello and happy Sunday to you, I will not mention the depressing weather 💦. Instead I will share my new to me stamp from Stamping Bella:

I used:

Stamping Bella - Isabelle lovers her ice-cream EB228

Promarkers

dotted paper from stash

Sentiment Papermania

Poppy stamps butterfly dies

Glossy Accents

Challenges:

we love stamping. April - spring or AG

Stamping sensations. April-challenge. AG, spring ,mood board

lil patch of crafty friends. AG

Passion for Promarkers challenge. week-733-monochrome.

i love promarkers. add a button or AG

Simon says stamp blog.Wednesday-happy-birthday-

sweet stampin challenge blog.birthday-girls.

as you like it challenge. favourite-cute-or-floral-and-why. - for me I do like floral cards and floral papers but it has to be cute because I just think that cute images put a smile on everyone's face. My favourite cute stamps are Penny Black and I have a huge collection  few stamps 😉

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