Hearts WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Myself.

Hearts

 

February is the time of professing our love, but this year, I am dealing with a Sympathy card, because I saw the beautiful words on the stamp and had to use it and maybe it's the mood I'm in!

 

I started with looking for stamps with hearts and found a few. I then went searching for a sentiment, but as it happens I found this, thought it lovely, so went with it. In case you can't read it, it says, 

"Wrapping you in Love

at a time when words fall short." 

 Aren't they lovely?

 

I stamped the heart then the sentiment, next I coloured the heart simply. It looked a little plain, so I embossed the top and bottom of the card.  Definitely a CAS card. The card actually went to a lady whose hubby is very ill.

 

heart stamp - Magazine freebie SCP 

sentiment - Avian Allure by Alex Syberia SCP272

inks - Distress inks, scattered straw, fired brick

embossing folder - SC&P magazine freebie 

 

I hope to see you at the challenge, what's your take on hearts? 

Our wonderful and beautiful prizes this month are 2 Penny Black stamps and a £10 digital download from Buddly Crafts

 

Penguin CCC

    Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

  

A penguin card today, for a Great Niece. It's her birthday in a few days, so I thought a Winter card would be suitable for her, in my files I came across this lovely penguin, suitable for a little girl, with her scarf and flowers. She was taken into Silhouette and print and cut 3 times, the sentiment was also done at the same time, I decided to colour the sentiment the same as the flowers, bringing a little warmth into it.

 

I also had an embossing folder in my subscription magazine for December, so I decided to emboss a piece of card and then swipe ink onto it, to give a little colour. A few snowflakes added to make it more wintry, and some 3D glaze onto the eyes and feet. 

penguin - The Hungry JPEG

embossing folder - Card Making Magic, SCP #278

snowflake dies - Crafters Companion Glittering Snowflakes 

ink - Distress ink - blueprint sketch

3D glaze - Nuvo

fonts -  Ellianarelles's Path & ChrisHmk

label shape - Silhouette 

 

the insert, with a quote from the web

 

What animal will you use?

All things New WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Mervi  

All Things New

 

I haven't bought any stamps in a while, but these are unused, so new? I found some "happy paper" and went with the colours of that. 

 

The stamps were stamped onto a square die-cut white card and coloured to match the paper. I found a tiny birthday greeting in older stamps, unused, and stamped and coloured the background, then cut it to fit onto the bottle. I hope it works, and my niece won't mind the tiny hand cut sentiment.  Next, the sentiment was stamped to fit inside the square, and I applied ink around the edge.

 

The banner was stamped and die-cut, again with an older, unused stamp and die, then coloured. I attached the paper to a piece of matching plain paper, which was glued to the base card. The square and banner were attached with 3D pads to the patterned paper. I then added 3D glaze to the bottle, the glass, and the stars, which has given them a lovely shine.

 

stamps - Polkadoodles, Cheers, Lovely

stamp & banner die - Crafters Companion, Joyful Birthday 

patterned paper - Craft Sensations, Happy Papers. The Range

 inks - Distress Inks - evergreen bough, carved pumpkin, 

scattered straw, worn lipstick 

 

Have you had any new stamps to show off in our challenge?

 

 

We have two prizes of Tonic Verso dies (ones received may not be the same as the photo below) and a $20 Whimsy gift card for entrants Worldwide.

 

Add a Tag TMR

 My DT card today is for 

The Male Room   

It is my #3 brother's 86th birthday, so I made this card for him. I die cut the man 3 times and layered him, then looked for some paper. I found this striped paper, and embossed it with a happy birthday embossing folding, then layered onto a striped grey paper, and added to the base layer. The words, I didn't think, stood out enough so I rubbed an ink pad over them. 

The die cut man was added onto a line within the ef words. The tag was printed and cut with the Silhouette and layered 3 times, I then inked the edge. I added a safety pin, also cut out with my Silhouette. Then attached to the front of the card.  I hope my brother likes it.

man die - Amazon

paper - B&W Collection, Craft Sensations

embossing folder - Etsy

ink - Distress Ink, hickory smoke 

tag fonts - Bigger lemons thin & Daddy

Silhouette  

A New Year WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Mervi  

All Things New

 

My new things are, stamps I bought in the middle part of last year, which I haven't used. I stamped the clock, hands, and the sentiment onto black card. I always use a black card for the New Year, I don't know why. Anyhow, I decided on this black and gold paper. It was used to back the black card. I then used it to cut stars out of a newish die, not used. 

 

stamps - Polkadoddles - Stamp Soup, Rainbows

paper - Art Deco, label lost 

star die - Crafters Companion 

 

 

We have two Super prizes of Tonic Verso dies (ones received may not be the same as the photo below) and a $20 Whimsy gift card for entrants Worldwide.

 

Beary Happy New Year CCC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter.

  

 

I wish you all a Happy New Year.

 

My first card of the year, a bear that I have had since 2015, certainly not new, but the first time I have used him. I printed him out to suit a 6 x 6 card and die cut him out. I then coloured him. I thought of Winter colours, so went with that. He was then layered onto die cut pearlised card layers, matching the ink colours, the greens look different but are a great match in real life.

 

As for the sentiment, I found it in my sentiment box pre stamped, I thought it suited, so went with it. After all, we enjoy having fun in the snow, don't we? OK! We used to, hahaha. I added a touch of glue to the sentiment corners, and the snowflakes, and sprinkled glitter onto it. And of course, he had to have eyes and a 3D glaze nose.

 

bear - Collette Smith, Cosmic Strawberry 

inks - Spectrum Noir markers

die - Sue Wilson Square Noble dies

sentiment - magazine freebie SCP

card - Hunkydory 

eyes - stash

3D glaze Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 Not a brighter photo due to lashing rain, when taken! 

 

It's a while since I entered any challenges, but I saw this at AAA and felt I had to enter. 

AAA Winter Birthday #81 

 

Thank you

 Hello Everyone.

I want to thank you for your continuing support of my blog, but mostly for the kind thoughts, prayers, and beautiful cards I have had for the loss of my Dear Husband. I can't do much else but let you all know it has all touched me greatly and made me feel that I have so many friends around the world who care. 

It will be impossible for me to reply to you all or even send thank you cards. I wouldn't have enough time to respond to your lovely words and thoughts, but -

I THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.

I will be back in the New Year, hoping to fulfil my commitments to my DT work and comments. 

 

In the meantime

 

I'm thinking warmly of you, and wishing you 

and your family an extra measure of comfort, 

joy, and hope this Christmas.