My loss

 Hello to all my friends, it is with a heart broken into a thousand pieces, that I'd like you to know my Dearest Darling husband of 59 years passed, on 17 November. He was a man who worked hard all his life, who did everything to make me happy, who loved me more than anyone could. I was so lucky to him.

He was loved dearly by his and my family, and with so many people who have called saying what a gentle, kind man he was, who would do anything for everyone. 

I share this, as I am, as you can imagine devastated, I've been lax in my DT work and with my commenting, throughout his illness, and this will continue for a little while, as I deal with everything and grieve. 

Thank you for your continuing support throughout his illness and a little while longer.  

I have added him in his loved garden and produce. I hope you'll forgive my indulgence for sharing my wonderful man.

 

 God Bless you, my darling.

Anything Christmas WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

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

Anything Christmas

 

With no idea on such a broad spectrum to choose from, I decided to use a stamp and colour I saw in my subscription magazine. Not a colour I would normally use for Christmas, but I quite like the effect. 

 

With inspiration from Sarah Phelan in the magazine, I stamped the tree and embossed in gold, then blended seedless preserve distress oxide onto the card. I rubbed over the gold, but it didn't come up as bright as I wanted, so I stamped and embossed again. 

 

I then stamped and gold embossed the star corner and the stars on the right. The layer was attached to the mirror card. Next I blended a piece of white card, stamped and gold embossed the sentiment and die cut it. I decided not to layer onto gold.

 

tree and other stamps - Magazine Freebies SCP274

die - Card Making Magic A5 Nested Set

inks - Distress Oxide, seedless preserve 

embossing powder - Papermania gold

mirror card - The Range 

 

 

Wonderful prizes this month

Stamp Addicts, 2 prizes (photos not to scale)

 

Relax birthday

Hi Everyone, my card today is for hubby's niece, whose birthday it is today, She cares for everyone in her family including her Mum. She has also taken on the role to come and help us out recently, when we have needed her. A busy but lovely lady, always smiling. I decided to make a card to remind herself to relax, as she's always on the go.

With no mojo, and little time, I went looking in my files. I found the Relaxation digital kit and went with that, as it suited her well. I designed the card in Photoshop adding her birthday date, and took the elements, papers and Phoebe into Silhouette, they were print and cut. With 2 layers of each element and image. Next, I coloured her in with Di's. 

Once I found the kit, it was pretty straight forward putting it all together. I then used more elements to add to the insert, and a verse, and that was printed out. All done with not much thinking, thankfully.

 image - Digi Stamp Boutique Phoebe Relaxing 2014

digital papers and elements -  Digital Press Relaxation Issue #80 2021

purple card - Lidl 

inks - Distress Inks 

TMR Floral

 Hi Everyone, my DT post for today is for 

 The Male Room Challenge

After looking through my Christmas stamps, I decided to use the Christmas Roses and the oval leaves from the same set, stamped and embossed in gold. I then coloured both in DI's. The robin was found in my bits box, already coloured, and he was just what I wanted for this male card. Both sat on my desk for weeks, with me wondering how to use them. I found a sketch online that helped me place them, so off to my dies. I cut the oval and dry embossed it.  I added the same green as the leaves to wipe over the embossing. I flipped it and placed the oval to enable the flowers to show.

 The flowers were added with 3D pads onto the leaves, and they were then 3D'd onto the oval. The Robin also had 3D pads added and then placed onto the oval. I wasn't sure which sentiment to choose, but this popped out to me. It was stamped and embossed in gold. The flowers, leaves, and sentiment were then painted over with a gold shimmer pen. Next, I used gold paint to splatter onto the whole card. It's a lovely effect in real life.

 

flower and leaves stamps -  Chloe's Creative, magazine freebie SCP#262

 sentiment - Christmas Special magazine freebie 

robin - British Garden Birds magazine freebie SCP #287

embossed die - Tattered Lace

Oval die - Tonic

inks - Distress Inks 

gold shimmer pen - Nuvo Midas Touch 881

gold splatter paint - Kuretake Starry Colours

Anything Christmas WLSC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

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

Anything Christmas

 

I have so many stamps and couldn't find one I wanted to use, so I used a digi. Looking through my Christmas files, I found some lovely paper, I thought it would be a change for me to add an image. The papers, the frame, and the images were taken into Silhouette to cut out.

 

I coloured the hedgehogs with DIs, attached the background paper to gold mirror card, which was then attached to the base card. The cut out frame was 3D'd onto the main image, and then placed onto the base card. I decided to add some gems, that was the card finished. 

 

top paper and frame - Keep in Touch Designs 2015

bottom paper - Designs by Dani 2023 

hedgehogs - Di'd Digis 2015

inks - Distress Inks

gems - stash

sentiment - Digistamp Boutique 2013

Die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies 

gold mirror card - stash

 

 

Wonderful prizes this month

Stamp Addicts, 2 prizes (photos not to scale)

Not a christmas Turkey 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.

  

 

With no idea what to do this month, I went through some digis I have, and came across a chicken that I had to do. I took it into Silhouette, I added a bag design and clipped chicken wire paper to it, the bag and 2 images, in case of a mistake. I also added a made up a sentiment to the corner of the bag. They were print and cut.

 

The chicken I coloured with marker pens, I also added a piece of holly cut at the same time. It'll come in handy for one of those little gifts I give.  As you can see, they are all old images. That's the way my mind is working at the moment. 

chicken - Beccy 2018

bag design -  Krewellakreations 2012

chicken wire paper - DigiDewi 2015

holly - Snickerdoodle Designs 2012

marker pens - Spectrum Noir 

Silhouette Cameo 

 

Again, thank you all so much for your continuing support. I'm not on the 'puter much. I am trying to visit, but it's hard at the moment. Thank you again. xx 

 

Birthday Boys

Hi Everyone. I've been trying to make birthday cards in advance and these easy ones came together quickly for our Nephews, they don't visit here, so I'm OK to share them. I don't like to make cards the same for everyone, but things as they are at the moment I had to try to do easy, but different, although the same, if you get what I mean?

Anyhow, they were both die cut from white card and layered onto matching card. I cased the image on the package for the design, just different colours. I then went into Photoshop and looked through my files to see if I had balloons similar to the card colours. Luckily I found some, they were added to the insert design, a verse was added then both printed and inserted into the card. 

As I said nice and easy, no thinking as such, and I had 2 cards, but different for the boys birthday.

die - Crafters Companion Party Time

coloured card - Lidl

sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP 

   the coloured card version

 

the insert

 

 

 

die - Crafters Companion Party Time

metallic card - could be Papermania, it's OLD!

sentiment - Magazine freebie SCP

rose gold mirror card - The Range  

 

the metallic version 

the insert

Acorns WLSC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

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

Anything Autumn

 

 

It was my SiL's birthday a few days ago, and as I had shown her how an embossing folder worked on a recent visit, I thought I would include one on her card.  I wanted to use a new embossing folder with leaves, and leave it white, but, it needed some colour. I added some to the folder and placed the already embossed sheet into it. It produced a feint effect of colour, which I liked.  

 

I used the same colours on the leaves after stamping them with green. The acorns were stamped and coloured, then both were fussy cut. I cut a strip of white and stamped the sentiment. Then left it a couple of days, thinking what to do next. 

 

I thought a touch of ribbon? So off to my ribbon drawers, and I came across the hessian.  Of course, I had to use that. I cut it to fit the sentiment piece of card. I glued the embossed piece onto the base card, then added the hessian and sentiment piece.  Next I added the leaves and acorns to the top corner and placed just the acorns onto the bottom, beside the sentiment. 

 

Another simple card, even using similar colours as my first challenge card this month for the WLSC.

 

stamps - Magazine freebies SC&P

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, twisted citron, ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin

embossing folder - Lisa Horton, Fancy Foliage. 

hessian and card - stash 

 

 

I just have a few words to add. Thank you all for your continuing support, whilst hubby isn't well.  xx 

 

 

 

There will be a few 'random surprise spot prizes' this month, announced mid most and end of month posts.

Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway. 

Pumpkins WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

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

Anything Autumn

 

 

I only have a few Autumn stamps, but had to use these pumpkins. They were stamped and coloured with DI's. I didn't feel they were enough on their own, even on this CAS card. So I stamped some leaves on digital autumnal paper, I added more DI's of the same colours, on top of the paper, that was better, I then fussy cut each leaf and flower arrangement. 

 

Next, I die cut a square and stamped the sentiments onto it. Then I die cut an orange square, and attached them both. I 3D'd the pumpkins onto the background and did a simple placement of the leaves behind them. A very simple card, that maybe I could have added more, but I liked the simplicity. I hope my friend will too.

 

all stamps - Magazine freebies SC&P

inks - Distress inks, peeled paint, mustard seed, carved pumpkin

sentiment ink - an old Whisper pad 

digital papers - Marisa Lerin, Autumn Art papers 2014

Robin Samson, grateful papers 2011

Janet Scott, Hearts  2014 all from Digital Scrapbook/Pixelscrapper

 

 

 

 

There will be a few 'random surprise spot prizes' this month, announced mid month and end of month posts.

Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.

Baby Boy TMR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

 

I haven't made a baby card in a couple of years, and was thrilled to make one. I had a couple of stamps, but went to a colouring page by someone I have been a follower of for years. I just love her images, and I had a choice in my files, but decided to go with this cutie. Also, we have a local singer comedian named Max Boyce, and he got the crowds going by saying oggie oggie oggie. This image has a similar saying? So I had to go with it.

 

I print and cut the image with Silhouette on watercolour paper. Then coloured it with Distress Inks. I had a design in mind with a heart, but it didn't work out, so I print and cut a heart with the "oogie oogie" on it, again with Silhouette. I had this "It's a Boy" stamp for a long time, so stamped it onto the heart. Next, I layered the 2 layers of the baby and 3D'd it onto the heart. I used a die heart and sentiment and added it with a split pin, don't know when I used one of those last either.

 

I was going to leave it at that, but for some reason it didn't look right, I die cut some textured card, and ink blended it. Then embossed it with a background I had made with Silhouette an age ago. I cut 3 layers of the hearts and then glued them together. Next, I embossed the layers onto the inked background.  The colour isn't quite right in the photo, but near enough.

 

image - Elizabeth Dulemba  Baby Oogie

 inks - Distress Inks, tumbled glass, broken china, 

dried marigold, spiced marmalade

scalloped heart - Samantha Walker Scalloped Edge Shapes

 Masks Collection 2017 at Digital Scrapbook/Pixelscrapper

it's a boy stamp - Magazine freebie (old) 

heart and sentiment die - CraftAddictionsUK

 Wonky Hearts - Paige Evans, Silhouette Design Store 

square die - Sue Wilson Square Noble die 

 

CCC Fishes

  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.

 

 

 Looking through my files I found these fish, that I have had a long time but not used, so many files I have in the same predicament.

 

Anyhow, I took them into Silhouette, chose some coloured paper and cut them out. I also did the water layer and the sentiment at the same time. I'm sure I saw the sentiment on the web at some time.  Then what was I going to do with them? I decided to paint the water with DI's, spreading with a wide brush the colours across the background in a wavy pattern. 

 

The fish were then glued together, with a 3D glaze over the top layer and added wobbly eyes. I thought they needed more, so I die cut a background frame for the water layer and the sentiment. All were glued together and attached to the base card. 

 

inks - Distress Inks, cracked pistachio, twisted citron, salty ocean

tropical fish -  Printable Cuttable Creatables

dies - Tonic 

sentiment font -  2PeasHighTide

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze 

 card - stash

 

 

 

 

showing the glaze 

Make it Cute WLSC mid month

 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 of   

Make it Cute

 

With 2 prizes each of two House Mouse stamps

 

 

 

Cute?  I didn't know what to do for my mid month card, so I went with digital stamps and found this little HoneyBee, who I love, but haven't used before, although I had him in 2017. Anyhow, I had some hexagon dies, and I decided on this digital image of a House dripping in honey for the background. However, I decided it would overwhelm him, so I added plain vellum over it to dilute the strong colour it has, then cut both with the die. They were attached with a spot of glue on each corner. 

 

I looked through more dies to see if I had one I could emboss, and this was the closest to a hexagon. It was embossed, the hexagon was attached, then I thought another hexagon for the sentiment, I stamped the sentiment, then thought, it needed some honey mess around the edge of the layer. I didn't mean for so much, but went with it. Both were added to the embossed card and attached to the base card.

 

Honeybee was cut in 3 layers with Silhouette. I then coloured him with DI's. I added some glitter pen to him and his wings. He was then added to the card, I decided he required some companions, so I found some bee stamps, coloured them and added glitter pen, fussy cut them and placed them onto the card. 

 

Image - HoneyBee Aurora Wings 2017

inks - Distress Inks, wild honey, mustard seed, pumice stone, worn lipstick, 

gathered twigs, tumbled glass.

bee stamps and sentiment - Magazine freebies, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

 hexagon dies - CraftAddictionsUK

embossed die - Mini Lattice Tattered Lace (Old) 

honey house image - Dream Cafe Art Etsy 

glitter pen - Nuvo

 

I hope to see your cute cards in the challenge. 

Comments

In the last few weeks, my comments have been short and sweet, if I got a chance to make any at all. I have done a few DT posts in advance though.

The reason, is my darling hubby of 59 years is receiving chemotherapy.  I won't go into details, but I felt you needed an explanation for my absence and lack of comments.

Please pray for him.

Thank you. 

Make it Cute 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 of   

Make it Cute

 

With 2 prizes each of two House Mouse stamps

 

 

 

Well I had to use a HM stamp didn't I? I die cut the card square layers, then stamped the images and sentiment. I used DI's to colour them all. Next, I used a glitter pen on the candles and the hat. The bottom layer card was swiped with the pink over the edge, I didn't want a full colour and quite like the effect. They were glued together and attached to the base card. A simple and easy card. And easy for the post too.

 

stamp - House Mouse Sweet Birthday

inks - Distress Inks spun sugar, scattered straw, shabby shutters, tumbled glass

glitter pen - Nuvo 

square dies - Sue Wilson Noble Square dies 

 How Cute will your card be for our Challenge?

 

https://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/hmfmc-448-anything-goes-option.html ATG