Summer Blooms 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 Avril

Summer Blooms

 

It was difficult choosing which "blooms" to use, in the end I chose these, which I thought could have plenty of colour in them. I stamped the flowers, and what better for Summer than a post card, so I then placed the embossing folder where I wanted it and embossed. I went over it with Stazon ink lightly. Next was to colour the flowers, using DI's and cut on the edge of the postcard shape. I found a sentiment stamp that I thought suited the postcard.

 

I went to place it onto the base card, and thought it too plain, so I stamped onto the base card and simply coloured the corner flowers. I edged the card with ink, then, using 3D pads, placed the postcard onto it. 

 

stamps -  Magazine freebies SCP #230

post card embossing folder - Crafters Companion 

 inks - Distress Inks & Stazon

 

 

 

Two prizes of Penny Black stamps and stencil from Buddly Crafts (photo's not to scale).

Summertime 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 Anesha

Summertime 

 

 

Wanting to find Summertime in my stamps, meant a search, and I was happy to find this fun image. I stamped it onto linen card and coloured the image with DI's. I then used a stencil to add clouds and coloured more around the water splashes, next was the grass. I wanted to add more, I found these birds, and the sentiments, that came with the image stamp. 

 

I suppose it sounds silly to say "summer is in the air, enjoy the day," but, here in the UK, we usually have a wonderful summer day, then rain the next. At least that was what it was when I made this card. I thought it may be a giggle. 

 

Next I added a stamped flower and found a die sun, I added two layers of it, coloured with slightly different yellows, I also added 3D glaze to it. The image layer was then layered onto summer floral paper to tie in with the colours I used. After it was made I added more white onto the water with Posca pen. 

 

I hope you are having plenty of Summer days, not with the record highs we've had, they were a little too much for us Brits, with the high humidity we have.  

 

image and sentiment stamps -House Mouse, Water Fun

inks - Distress Inks

stencil - Funky Fossil 

bird stamp and sun die - Magazine Freebie SCP Spring Scenes

digital paper -  Magazine freebie SCP Crafters Companion Tropical Summer Papers

 

 

Our prizes this month are   

 2 prizes of Lavinia stamps and watercolours (photos not to scale).  

Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.

 

 

 

I'm entering my card into 

 Try it on Tuesday Challenge, I think my mices will fit in the Challenge. 

  

 

 

 

 

Running Man TMR Hobbies

 Hi Everyone, my DT post today is for 

 The Male Room

 

What a wide subject ay? My card is for running. So many of the family love running for miles and hubby's great nephew is a marathon runner, definitely a huge hobby for him, after his teacher work. So I brought an image out of the dark and made this for him.

 

My mind is certainly in slow motion, so I decided to use a sketch for help, but turned it upside down. I chose this one from the Outlawz, from June 2022, but the file name is Nov.27?  

 

I went looking for digi papers, and found these, I picked them to make the sketch and colours, no Idea why I chose these colours? 

 

Anyhow, I print and cut them out, and inked around the edge of each with black ink. They were then attached to the base paper, as per the sketch and placed onto the base card.  The runner was printed out and was die cut, then coloured with DI's to match the papers, I decided to colour just him and leave the background as is. 

 

He was placed onto the layered papers with 3D pads and so was the button. I stamped the sneakers and coloured them with the same colours as the runner. It all sounds so simple, but I spent an absolute age on this card. I hope the nephew likes it. 

 

sketch - Outlawz 

Runner image - Create with TLC

inks - Distress Inks

background paper & arrow paper - KimB Designs at Digital Press

foreground paper and stripe strip - luv ewe designs at Gingerscraps

 button - yayeah kit, Two Peas In A Bucket

die - Nested Rectangles Card Making Magic 

sneakers stamp - Magazine Freebie (old) SCP

 

 

What Male hobbies have the men around you got?

Why not enter them into TMR Challenge,

  don't forget to add the badge, it's a requirement our winners and honourable mentions.

CCC Bird Day Tweetings

    Hi Everyone, my DT make 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 already stamped and coloured a bird, the tree branches and the bird house, a few months ago, but didn't know what to do with them. Then in a panic to get this post done, I decided to use them, but to add another bird, it was pot luck on colouring it to match the first one, but it was OK in the end, I think?

 

I embossed a leaf background from a leaf die, but decided to only colour the flowers in it. I die cut it, as per the sketch I had to use for inspiration. Next I added the tree house and branches and the birds, I didn't have what I wanted in a sentiment stamp, so printed one out and die cut it. 

 

I wanted to add paper, as per the sketch, and found this bird paper in my files a freebie from my subscription magazine, and it even had blue tits on it. I printed it, cut it to size and pasted it onto the base card. Then added the circle design. 

 

The sentiment was added with 3D pads. Thank goodness for sketch inspiration sometimes. 

This is the sketch I used -  

birds and birdhouse - SCP #187 RSBP Magazine Freebie Garden Birds

inks - Distress Inks

embossed die - Tattered Lace (old)

sentiment - computer generated

sentiment die - Card Making Magic, Rectangular Nested Set 

paper - SCP #226 Magazine Freebie

 

 What Critter will you use for the Challenge?

Birthday Puss WLSC

     Hi Everyone my DT make today is for

We Love Stamping

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

All Creatures Great & Small

 

A new stamp set to make this card. I saw a sentiment on a card, that I liked, it came with other animal stamps, so off to use the animals and didn't use the sentiment, what am I like? 

Anyhow, I stamped the animals, coloured them with DI's, to match the digital paper I chose, and die cut them to fit the card. Next to find a sketch for inspiration for me to fit it to. I know, I should have started with a sketch. I found one, and played with it. Now I can't find it to let you know which it was. 

I cut the scallop border with my Silhouette. I'm not fussy on fussy cutting! The border was attached to the paper, then die cut to fit the card layer, which I had die cut previously. I stamped the sentiment, then the animal layer was added using 3D pads. 

stamps - Penny Black, Bubbly

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie, SCP#216 

paper and border - Cherished Mini kit, Wishing Well Creations (2015)

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, bundled sage, festive berries,peacock feathers, evergreen bough,squeezed lemonade,tattered rose,shabby shutters  

 

 

 

Our prizes this month are

Three wonderful fun stamps from  

AALL and Create

Pelican WLSC

    Hi Everyone my DT make today is for

We Love Stamping

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

All Creatures Great & Small

 

I am still struggling with my card making, but managing to get some done, I gotta, the family are waiting for their birthday cards. This is for another GNephew, full of fun boy, that I thought would give him a laugh or a smile? 

I loosely followed this sketch. 

 

 I found an old fun digi stamp, and went to my Silhouette to print and cut 3 layers, I managed to get 3 layers of sentiment on the same cut. So much easier than fussy cutting!

Next I coloured the pelican with DI's, sadly the yellow colours of the bird haven't come as original in the photo. Anyway, he and the sentiment were glued together. I tried painting a background, twice, a complete disaster, so gave up and used a digi paper. 

He needed something else, I thought, so added a setting sun die and some birds, ready to roost. It was done, but what a struggle! I think he turned out OK in the end.  

Pelican - Digi Stamps4Joy

 inks - Distress Inks , mustard seed,faded jeans, hickory smoke, dried marigold

background paper -  PC Hugware (2006)

sun die - magazine freebie SCP

birds stamp - magazine freebie SCP 

 

 

 

What will your All Creatures Great & Small be for our Challenge

 

Our wonderful prizes this month are 

Three stamps from AALL and Create

WLSC Spring has Sprung

My DT card today is for

 We Love Stamping

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

Spring has Sprung

 

Of course to me Spring means Daffodils and that's what I have for you today, not one but two, and a two Spring piccies too. I'm being generous!

 

My daffodils were stamped and coloured with DI's, then I cut each of them out, now what to do? 

 

I embossed a frame around a piece of card and die cut the shape. I remembered a card that I had done with a die cut replaced into the die cut area, so decided to case it and die cut the piece. It was replaced it inside the shape and glued it to a piece of yellow and blue spotted paper, although the spots can't really be seen. 

 

A sentiment was stamped, and the daffodils were then glued into place. Next I splattered some rose gold onto the first card to match the daffodil colours and gold onto the second to match the yellow daffodils. Simple cards but it was good to make two enabling me to help fill my long birthday list of birthday cards.

 

stamps - Magazine Freebies SCP#240 

inks - Distress inks, dried marigold, spiced marmalade, peeled paint, 

squeezed lemonade, fossilized amber

die - rectangle, Card Making Magic 5 x 7 box set

die - square Sue Wilson square noble dies

die cut out - a very old die, I think it's Tattered Lace  

 sentiment - magazine freebie SCP

 

 

 

What does Spring mean to you? Show us in our Challenge.

 

We have Two Lovely prizes of Lavinia stamps

 

CCC Giraffe

  Hi Everyone, my first DT make 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 have a lot of birthdays and this is one I made for a GNephew. He is tall and quite serious, so I thought I'd give him a laugh or a smile?  

I printed the background to include the sentiment and then on my Silhouette, print and cut 3 layers of the digital stamp giraffe. I coloured the top layer, I had seen a coloured giraffe on the web and thought why not? It was coloured loosely in DI's, then the layers were glued together. Something I learned recently is that giraffes have purple tongues, which tied in nicely with his colours.

Before attaching the giraffe layers to the base layer, I stencilled leaves, then added it to a giraffe pattern paper, not that you can see much of it. It was then glued to the base card. Next I added the giraffe layers and decided to add a stamped, then die cut leaf.

giraffe - From The Heart Stamps (no longer available)

inks - Distress inks (see photo below)

stencil - Magazine Freebie - SCP243

leaf and die - Sissix Fine Stems

 

 

inks

What will your Critter be for our Challenge? 

Birthday card

Hi Everyone, a card that was done for another family member, I have so many birthdays in March. I love this clover stamp. I decided to use it with a pen die, that I'd forgotten about. I stamped the flower, and coloured it with DI's, then added a text stamp randomly. 

Next I cut the pen die out of textured card, matching the clover, and gold mirror card for the nib and pen holder, what is lovely is that the gold nib is textured. Not colours I normally use, but I wanted to go with the colour of the clover flower.

 

stamp - Penny Black, Delicate Florals 

text stamp - Magazine Freebie, SCP #239

pen die - The Greetery, Pen Pal

ink - Distress Inks, victorian velvet, old paper

pink card - Craft Creations, (years old) 

gold mirror card - stash 

 

Christmas Sparkle 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 mojo and with things as they were for me at the time of making this month's cards. I went through my stamps and found this beauty, so a simple stamping and silver embossing, layering onto silver mirror card and my card was done. I wish every card came about so quickly.

 

stamps - Chloe's Creative Festive Sparkle,

a magazine freebie in SCP 274

embossing powder silver - Dovecraft

 

 

you can just about see the shine here 

Sweater Card

 Hi Everyone, with things as they are, I had to make a card for my Great Nephew who was 6 a few weeks ago. It was an easy cut file that meant I chose the paper, embossed a cable design onto the pieces, added a 6 to cut with the sweater, put it together, nice and quick, with no thinking. The sentiment was added in Silhouette and cut for the insert. I also found a safety pin in my files to add the tag, which was also printed and cut in Silhouette.

sweater - SVG.Cuts 

cable embossing folder - Magazine freebie SC&P 

safety pin - image by Studio Linda Renee from Thankful kit 2013

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

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 Fun Pigeon

  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 this stamp sitting on my desk for over a week, deciding what to do with him. I looked online for some ideas and found a saying, which meant I went straight to the stamp knowing what to do, the longest time was making the envelope and framed saying.

I stamped him on a piece of card I had in my scraps box, then decided on a different for me, generic background. Next, I stamped the "dots" and used DI's in masculine autumnal colours to blend over them. He was coloured in the same colours apart from his crop. I used 3D glaze for his beak and eyes and white pen for the cere, I didn't know the name of it, so I looked it up! I then stamped some birds to keep him company. He was attached to red card and onto the base card, that I had stamped with the sentiment. 

Seeing as he is a homing pigeon, I added the envelope and message he brought home. The envelope and saying was done with Silhouette, printed then cut and scored. I then placed the saying inside the envelope and attached it to the card. His eyes were then 3D glazed.

pigeon stamp - Funky Fossils "Who are you looking at?"

stamp dots - Marianne Design, Silhouette Art CS1120 

inks - Distress Inks, barn door, tea dye, gathered twigs,

 weathered wood, cracked pistachio

white ink - Posca Pen

birds & birthday stamps - old Magazine Freebies 

saying - adapted from the web

envelope shape - Dreaming Tree 

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 

in case you can't read the saying -

In honour of 

your birthday 

I've left a deposit

on your car. 

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.