Flowers mid month 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 Hilary of  

Flowers

 

 

Our prize this month is a £25 store voucher from Personal Impressions (inc pps, winner meets costs of any additional spend). Personal Impressions is one of the UK’s leading brand managers/wholesalers/distributors in the arts and crafts industry, specialising in mixed media, papercrafts, card-making, scrapbooking and journaling. PI are proud to represent over 70 brands from global, recognisable brands to small, niche and new.

 

My second card for the Flower challenge has Poppies. I thought of the yellow Welsh Poppy, for a change. Especially as the card is for a friend of mine in the USA. I stamped the main image in a bright yellow and stencilled on a second layer with a slightly darker yellow. Then stamped the stem and details onto the lower layers in green.  

 

I was then stumped, so I thought I used a die for my first card, I would look for another, and found a die I haven't used before. I cut it, it didn't cut the centre of the die, but I persisted and after putting it through at least 10 times, with varying weights of paper. I doubled some 300gsm card and put it through again, which worked. So frustrating, but it's a beautiful result. I'm glad I persisted, and hopefully I'll remember next time to use a heavyweight card, just for the centre. My boards are straight, so it wasn't that. Anyhow, I cut a piece to add to the card and decided to frame it. After more use, I think my poor Grand Calibur is on its way out, I've had it so many years. 😞

 

Next was to stamp the sentiment and die cut it. Before putting, it together, I decided to add to the yellow theme by adding a strip of ribbon. I don't mind it shows through the die. After completion, I added some gold gems. 

 

stamps - Altenew Poppies, a mag freebie Simply Cards & Papercraft

sentiment stamp - mag freebie 

pattern die - Crafters Companion Diamond Trellis 

frame die - Tonic 

ribbon and gems - stash 

 

 

 

 

I thought, seeing as it's a Flower theme, I would show you photos of the garden borders this week.  It all looks so lovely. I hope you don't mind my indulgence, hubby deserves praise for his work. 

Universe TMR

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for 

I really had to gather images for this subject, but in the end I'm quite pleased with the result. I found backgrounds that went together. I found a digi stamp and a relevant cut file with the letter C for my son's name. His birthday is in a few days, he won't see this as he doesn't view my blog, he loves Space games, so it had to be for him.  Well, I think it's OK for a 49 year old. 😉  I've been good and not added his age this year. I wonder if he’ll notice.    

I planned the design in Design Space in Silhouette, I added the sentiment with a font that I thought were "space" shape letters. Next I print and cut everything. 

I coloured the spaceman and planet with DI's, and added silver glitter pen to the tank, helmet, stripes, and belt. Then added 3D glaze to the visor of his helmet and the single planet. I also added it to parts of the rocket, stars, and the blast.

Then glued everything together.   

background papers - watercolour space DesignBundles

planets paper - Papercraft Inspirations mag freebie

spaceman - Digistamps4joy 2013

glitter pen - Uniball 

inks - Distress Inks, hickory smoke, tea dye, gathered twigs, tattered rose, candied apple, mustard seed, blueprint sketch, ripe persimon

C with rocket - Sarah Christie at Extraordinary Chaos

Font - Gravity

 

I hope you can join us in the Universe?

 

I'm joining the https://snarkystampers.blogspot.com/2025/08/soss-265-is-for-alien.html I hope my Universe, fits the challenge?

Flowers 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 Hilary of  

Flowers

 

 

with a wonderful prize for the winner from 

Our prize this month is a £25 store voucher from Personal Impressions (inc pps, winner meets costs of any additional spend). Personal Impressions is one of the UK’s leading brand managers/wholesalers/distributors in the arts and crafts industry, specialising in mixed media, papercrafts, card-making, scrapbooking and journaling. PI are proud to represent over 70 brands from global, recognisable brands to small, niche and new.

 

A lovely subject, which I'm sure we all love. I have numerous flower stamps, but I went for an old one. I also wanted to use a new die and a new technique to me. 

I stamped the flower twice on pieces of the same card, then coloured with DI's side by side, trying to copy one to the other. Next, I die cut a slatted square in the top piece and die cut it again, adding a scalloped edge. Then, I 3D attached the bottom piece, matching it to the top.  

I found this sentiment in my files, copied from somewhere, which I printed and die cut to match the top layer. I also found a music file that I cut with the Silhouette, which I added to the edge of both the top pieces.  

flower stamp - Chocolate Baroque Floral Musical

square slatted die - CraftAddictionUK

scalloped edge die - Tonic

sentiment by Edwin Curran

music staff - Scrapcationgetaway 2017

inks - Distress Inks, evergreen bough, lucky clover, milled lavender, victorian velvet

Silhouette 

from a different angle 

 

I'm sure you agree the prize is wonderful, I hope you join in, see you there? 

 

Here are more photos of our Green Woodpecker, he's come back again, this time not flying away from the Magpie, but hiding from him. The photos were taken in the rain, so not good, but I hope you can see him. 

An apple and a crab! 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 had designed this card design a couple of months ago and forgot about it, then came across it and decided it had to be made. I cut the apple and the crab from white 300gsm card and coloured them with markers. The colours are not good in the photo, but they are different reds with an orange. I then added and glossed their eyes. Next the joke was printed, that came from somewhere, using a fun font, and it was die cut. I added the apple and the crab with 3D stickers, as if the crab was holding the apple. They were then added to the base card.

apple - Printable Cuttable Creatables

crab - front crab - Printable Cuttable Creatables

insert crab - Marisa Lerin

markers - Spectrum Noir

font - Helwa

gloss - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 

 

You want to know the answer? You probably know it anyway. Here it is, the photo wasn't too good as it was taken in bright sunlight. I added the apple to the centre of the crab, then added a fun quote by me.

 

  

You may remember me saying about the magpie shooing our Green Woodpecker from the garden? Well, one of them has come back and keeps coming back, it makes us so happy to see him feeding well on the ants in the lawn. Here he is, not good photos, my phone isn't good at zooming with good quality, but it's a record for us.