Close to Nature 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 Karen of  

Close to Nature

trees, animals, flowers

 

 

I bought this stamp recently and thought it suited the theme. However, it didn't end up as I intended. 

I used watercolour pencils on linen card. Then went off kilter and added a floral paper background, a plain background and then a punched border, and THEN added a few die cuts. I think the mess around me when decorating my craft room, caused me to over do things on this card. I found so many things I haven't used in years, I just had to use them, but it's OK and fits the brief of the challenge. It will go to one of my nieces, who loves her garden and creatures. 

stamp - House Mouse, Flower Market

pencils - Reeves Watercolour Pencils

floral paper - Make and Create, Spring Time

blue paper - Jelly Bean Crafts

border punch - Martha Stewart

flower die - Tattered Lace

butterfly die - Make and Create

 

A fabulous prize this month with a 

Glorious Bouquet, a large Tim Holtz floral stamp from Buddly Crafts

 

After a few weeks of upheaval, decorating and reorganising my room, I am back online. I've been missing commenting due to no computer to access blogs, I didn't want to use my phone in case of bugs or whatever. Anyway, here are before and after photos. Not quite all back yet, but getting there. My desk originally was under the window. 

This was in 2014

 

During with undercoat 

 

part of the spare room filled with my hoard 

 

nearly finished

Gift packs & a card

I just popped in to show you my latest makes, I've not been good at blogging or making stuff, apologies. Here are a few boxes, that I saw with Pinky and made them representing my birthday cake, from me to my walker group, I bought some Mr Kipling brownie cakes and 2 of them fitted in so well. They were appreciated, as just a little fun gift. The photo shows a few of them, I actually made 10. They were made with a Craft Sensations Kids paper pad.

I then had to make a card for my God Son's son, lacking mojo big time, I went on to the web looking for male cards and saw a few candle cards. I chose a blue patterned card and went to my Silhouette and cut the rectangles, I then added dots of glue and added gold embossing powder on the gold bits in the card. Having a flame design in my files and using gold mirror card and orange card, the flames were cut too. They were 3D'd to the base card, and after they were added I drew a wick on each one. A piece of vellum was cut and I added a die cut sentiment.

card - Craft Sensations

sentiment - Cut & Make

flames - adapted from a flame by Lindsay Jane 2018

Silhouette

this is the insert, the verse is one off the web, the candle is from a digi kit by Katie Creates 2022

CAS 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 of  

CAS

   

 

As I explained at the start of the challenge, a search through my stamps, brought up 2 sets that I could use, so I actually made this card at the same time as the first card of the challenge, whoop, whoop. This one again for one of my Niece's birthday. The next couple of months are busy with birthdays.

I found this stamp, that I have had many years, given to me by my lovely Sister in Law, and now I wonder why I haven't used it. Anyway, I stamped the bear, the "with love" is part of the image and coloured it with DI's, then die cut it, and die cut another layer. Next, the bear was 3D'd onto the bottom die cut layer. 

As an afterthought, I found tiny flower dies and coloured them with the same colours. I kept the tiny die cut pieces together by adding double sided tape. They were added to the edges of the image. All then adhered to the base card. I think I shall be using the set again quite soon, he's adorable.

stamp - Bentley Bear Thank You Collection

inks - Distress Inks brushed corduroy, walnut stain,ground expresso,bundled sage,carved pumpkin,mustard seed,dried marigold.

flower dies - Cut & Make

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

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

 

 

I thought I would add a photo of our glass conservatory roof, which was frosty on the outside, in the recent cold blast we had. Such great patterns, isn't Nature marvellous?

Fun Folds TMR

 Hi Everyone, my card today is for 

The Male Room Challenge 

OH! So many fun folds to choose from, I'm not usually a fold gal, so I went online, to find something I could do, and found it here. You know I hate fussy cutting, I can never get a straight line, so off to my Silhouette, to make a template. If you are as lazy as me, and can use a cutting machine, I could send you the svg cut file, I made. Just contact me via the Contact Form.

 After cutting the template with white card, I then selected a paper pad, which was black and white and picked different papers, and a basic black card. These were then cut and glued together onto the main card. I die cut a sentiment in white and shadowed using the black card, to make it stand out by off setting it slightly. 

One of the toppers was stamped with the image and sentiment, I was thinking of colouring it, but decided to keep it black and white. Next I die cut some balloons from the same paper pad, they were attached to the topper. All done! Such a clever fold, so much so, I may even make another in the future, or look for another to try, easier now I have the template.

card design - Mixed up Craft

 Silhouette Cameo

paper pad - Black and White Collection, Craft Sensations

Celebrate stamp - Polkadoodles 

sentiment - Julie Hickey

die sentiment - Cut & Make (The Range)

balloon die may be? - Cut & Make

 

 

this is looking down into the card, which fold flat for postage and pops up when taken out of the envelope.

 

video showing motion

 

 

An Mmm card!

 Hi Everyone, my card today was to pick some snippets, and make a Christmas card for The Playground. I got the snippets, used an embossing folder, used some bakers twine, which was far too stiff, stamped the sentiment in gold, to match the gold edge snippet. I added a die cut poinsettia, left over from last year, from my bits box. But do I have a half decent card? Mmm. You will have to judge that. I got it done in double quick time, maybe it looks it. 

 

Never mind, it's going into the Playground and I know with all the mud around, and with the rain we have been having, it may be blurred out, if most of them there have glasses. OH! They will, there's eggnog, that's OK then, they'll be drunk. Ah! That puts my mind at rest.

 

embossing folder, stamp - Magazine freebies

poinsettia die - Cut & Make mini die

bakers twine - The Range

Snippets Playground Challenge # 459
 

I nearly forgot, here are the snippets used.

 

 

Blue Robins?

Hi Everyone, my first Christmas card of the year, came about entirely by accident, I was looking for a colour combination for me to stamp on, saw this colour combo at the challenge and thought yep! go with that. The colours were added onto acetate, watercolour card placed on it but, it turned out not as I would have hoped. Well it was my first try! Then thought how about a die to cut the colours out, I chose a die which really is so inappropriate for the colours, but I decided to go ahead and this is what happened! Must have been storm Ciara affecting me LOL.

Robin die - Cut & Make mini die

Distress Inks -

Broken china, Salty Ocean, Faded Jeans

stamps - Magazine Freebies

navy card - stash

Christmas Card Throwdown

https://52cct.blogspot.com/2020/02/february-colours-challenge.html

http://thehollyandivychristmaschallenge.blogspot.com/2020/02/challenge-65-anything-christmas-goes.html

You can slip by this, it's picture heavy!

In the middle of the storm I looked out of the conservatory and saw these pigeons looking so forlorn, as if they are saying to the one sitting under the birdhouse roof - "C'mon it's our turn to be out of the storm!" They sat there for at least 20 minutes like that. Sorry about the not too clear piccies, blame the heavy rain and being taken through the window.

I hope you were all safe and sound in the Storm.

Our Daffs held up quite well.

Storm Ciera from my TV 
with thanks to the Porthcawl RNLI live feed camera
The waves obscure the Lighthouse at the end of the pier.
 These were as the tide was 1/4 way out.

New Home door

Hi everyone, my card today was for my Niece who moved home recently, I couldn't find what I wanted in my files, it's one of those files you know you have and it's disappeared!

Anyhow, I designed a simple door file in the Design space of my Cameo, cut it and layered it, I also cut out the simple letter box and a "dot" for the handle, also cut with the Cameo were the flower pots, I coloured in PS, all added to the embossed background, I also added an insert behind the door on the front. This isn't an original design, there are lots like this on the web.

Silhouette door - my own design you are welcome to have it on request,

 Silhouette glitter sketch pen to enhance the shadows of the door
sentiment behind door - Create with TLC

flower pots - Morgans Artworld

Wreath - Cut & Make mini die

wall embossing folder - Crafters Companion, rubbed over with some ink

sentiment done with Silhouette sketch pen

heart - an old punch

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