Trees & Leaves WLSC mid month

     Hi Everyone my DT make today is for 

We Love Stamping

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma

Trees & Leaves

 

 

On one of the hottest days of the year, 34C 93f, I decided to go into my North facing craft room, and craft in the shade, I should have just left things as they were and just read. 

 

However, I made 4 cards, 2 went into the bin, #3 I spoiled by smudging my hand over the ink, grrr, so my card today is my offering, but under the circumstances....

 

Anyhow, I shaded DO's over a piece of card, then using a leaf stencil I went over it with an alcohol wipe. Next I stamped the leaves around the left and top and stamped a sentiment into the space left. Even that I got wrong! I think I should have used the colour of the leaves, oh! well. I then clear embossed the sentiment. 

 

Next I placed the stamped piece onto a matching piece of paper and then added a pink layer with leaf shapes. The paper layers were edged with DI's in darker colours.  I then added tiny pink gems. It turned out OKish, I think in the end. 

 

Even then, the photo misshaped the card, taken twice, then straightening, it has made the sentiment look wonky! Told you I should have read instead.  

 

leaf stencil and stamps - Chloes Creative, mag freebie SCP#217 

inks - Distress Oxide, kitsch flamingo,lucky clover, mermaid lagoon 

sentiment - Woodware, It's the Little Things (old)

green paper - Lidl

pink paper - The Range, Happy Colours 

pink gems - stash 

Let's cheer ourselves up with the fabulous prizes. We have two wonderful prizes this month from

 Taylored Expressions & Penny Black

 

 

 

2 prizes, $30 store voucher from Taylored Expressions and Penny Black stamp set and stencil from Buddly Crafts (photo's not to scale).

 

Don't forget to use your stamps. 

Brother

I'm not in a good place again, so please accept more delays in commenting, Thankfully I have my DT work done in advance. My Dear brother, the one I visited a few weeks ago, has passed, it has brought everything to the fore for me again. I will try to do what I can. Thank you all for your patience with me. x

Trees & Leaves WLSC

    Hi Everyone my DT make today is for 

We Love Stamping

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma

Trees & Leaves

 

 

I really didn't know what to go with, as I have a few trees, but decided to use this stamp and a simple sketch from CTS #181

I stamped the mountains and trees onto a scrap piece of white card, then coloured them with DI's. Next I stamped the 3 trees, and coloured those, and fussy cut them. I went looking for some card to match, for the images, and found an embossed piece of card that I thought matched well. 

 

Then for a sentiment, I thought this one was suitable, as even if life throws things upside down, Nature is still wonderful. It was stamped directly onto the base card.

 

I attached the separate trees to the image, and these were then attached to the base card. A very simple card.

 

image - Stamp Addicts - Scenic Sailing

separate trees - Globeland, Mountain Range 

sentiment - Amazon - LAMXD (4PCS Words Clear Stamp, Silicone Stamp Cards Greeting Words Pattern for Card Making and DIY Scrapbooking Journaling) 

 brown card -  stash 

inks - Distress inks

  

 

We have two beautiful prizes this month from

 Taylored Expressions & Penny Black

 

 

 

2 prizes, $30 store voucher from Taylored Expressions and Penny Black stamp set and stencil from Buddly Crafts (photo's not to scale).

 

Don't forget to use a stamps on your card.  

Comments

 Hi Everyone

Is anyone having difficulty adding comments? I have been catching up and visited 20 blogs this morning and the comment page is hanging and won't publish? Just a black box saying publishing. I've now, after having them hanging for 15 minutes or more, gone out of the blogs. I won't know who I've commented on or not, so my apologies. 

Dots & Stripes TMR Challenge

 Hello everyone, my card today is for 

 

The Male Room 

 

I knew I had this stamp, and have never used it, so thought this was an opportunity to use it. I decided bright was my plan, I have yellow paper, I bought for a project and lots left over, a good time to use it. 

 

I stamped randomly in a sort of pattern, in different colours. Then horizontally, with a dots stamp and then again with the original stamp. With no plan as always, I went looking for a sentiment and luckily found this stamp, it suited my plan of bright. It was stamped onto white card. I then die cut a button, adding it to the stamped, and label cut sentiment. Next I die cut some candles, same as the button, out of gold mirror card. 

 

The background was added to blue mirror card, and added to the base card, next the candles and sentiment were added. For a randomly stamped card, I think it ended up bright as intended.  

stamps - Stamp Addicts, Vicky's Borders 

sentiment - Sissix, Catherine Pooler 

button die - years old! can't remember the makers

candles & label die - Magazine freebie SCP (old) 

inks - Distress Oxide, mustard seed,twisted citron,mermaid lagoon,spiced marmalade

gold and blue mirror card - The Range 

 

 

There’s great inspiration for your Male cards at the Challenge. 

Beary Birthday CCC

  Hi Everyone, my DT make today is for -

Critter Crazy #113

 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.

 

My mind is definitely not on cards, with just two days to get my card done, and with visitors expected, and so many other things to do. Panic stations. When I can't think, I usually go to my digi images, as I have done here. The images are all from Creative Market, Watercolour Bears In The Forest, 2025. I used the fonts - Darling Suttine & Aescudos.

 

In Silhouette, I arranged the images on the base square shape, and then print and cut them, the bears and sentiment twice, to add layers without depth. I had cut the bears with a 1mm border, but on this it seemed a bit too wide, so I took Distress Inks, tea die and vintage photo and went around the image, it gives it a highlight I think.

 

They were then added to the colour layer, which I found in my stash, which matched the tree. All then added to the base card. I have to admit, loving that little bear.

 

 

I hope to see you in the challenge with your Critter.

My unexpected holiday

 Hi Everyone, this is an indulgent post, letting you know what I have been doing recently. Firstly visiting my sick #3 brother who is seriously ill and four hours away from me, in Lincolnshire. The drive through the brown waterless landscape was heartbreaking to see, even seeing and smelling fire on the mountains, as I was driving. The burning smell followed me for many miles. I knew part of the route to my brothers, but had to use navigation help. Hubby and I have been to visit them all, but I wasn't driving, so it was all new to me. I used to enjoy the scenery when hubby was driving, not looking at the roads. 

Then north to his eldest daughter an hour away from him, still in Lincolnshire. Again driving through parched countryside, with in one part of the journey, a tractor working on his field, was making a fog of dust to drive through. Not a usual site in this country. It was supposed to be an overnight stop, but I was persuaded to stay another few nights, they spoilt me silly.  They showed me around their area and town, that I hadn't seen before, we only went to visit when staying with my brother and SiL. It was all so beautiful, also seeing Herons and egrets with ducks on the river flowing past their house. Then back to visit my dear brother.

These photos are from the bedroom window I stayed in.

My nieces garden, always so green, but not on this visit. 

 

A long shot of the egret and one of the ducks, the heron flew off before I got her.

No rain for a long time and as we were going out for a Pub meal, it started raining with the most vivid rainbow with my niece. It didn't last long, just enough to make us cover up and then stopped.

 

 

Next eastward on to Suffolk and another niece, an hour, and a half from my brother, for a few days. Not on the original plan, but as she said I was close, so I may as well. Again I was spoilt silly, and had tours around her beautiful area, and a visit to her daughter and family, which was so lovely, the children being 8, 6, and 4, who I rarely see due to the distance. The next day a five and a half hour journey home. 

These are photos of Lavenham, near Bury St Edmunds, a beautiful, very old town, where she took me and treated me to a meal in the 15th Century Inn, that I forgot to take a photo of!

The next two photos are private houses, my niece is the lady in the first one. 

This is the local Museum

My girls spoilt me rotten, and I have come back rested, my mind has finally eased off with everything going on with me. I'm so glad I did it, it was a huge journey and experience for me, driving so far. I've been away for a break that I didn't realise I needed, and I certainly didn't expect to stay away so long. 

Then 3 days after I arrived home, another niece travelled 2 hours to see me. I'm so blessed to have all 6 nieces in my life, even though they are many miles from me, they keep in touch sending such love out to me.  

Telling you about the burning mountains earlier, I took a photo from my chair of the fabulous sunset, as I thought, the night of my return home. It was actually the mountain on fire opposite us. Local photos have shown it later, and it was bigger than I thought. Thankfully put out early enough not to cause too much damage, but enough! However, there were evacuations of a nursing home and a few houses, It was set alight my some local boys, bet they had some fun doing it. grrr.

Something different from me, I hope I didn't bore you too much.