Lion King CCC

  Hi Everyone, my DT make today is for -

Critter Crazy #112

 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 was going through my birthday card list and saw I had to make one for our neighbour. He has been an absolute gem for me since my loss, mowing my front lawn and putting out and getting in my rubbish/garbage bins. 

 

I chose this lion as my neighbour is a Leo, I printed a base for him with the title. I stamped him onto the printed title piece and proceeded to colour him with DI's, I also added some sky and grass, now what do I do?

 

I then thought, he's the king of the jungle, so I went and had a search of paper and digi paper to suit with a crown on it, nope, couldn't find any. So into Photoshop and made my own pattern, with an image I had on file. I printed it out, my brain in slow motion, now what, then I remembered I had an cut file with crowns on it. It wasn't enough for me, so I added a Leo sign and word, then attached them to the crown and text. I cut it out twice with red pearlised paper then backed it with a die cut circle of gold card. 

 

I backed the crown paper and the lion, with red card and then placed them onto the base card. Done, what a struggle. I hope he likes it. 

Lion - Stamp Addicts

inks - Distress Inks

crown image - Creative Market

happy birthday crown/text -  Creativefabrica

gold card - stash 

 Silhouette

Photoshop 

 

 

 

What critter are you going to make? 

I hope to see you in the Challenge. 

Sports & Hobbies WLSC

  Hi Everyone my DT make today is for

We Love Stamping

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Anesha. 

Sports & Hobbies

 

 I have very few sports stamps, in fact just one set, I've had for years. I've not used this set of images, so decided to follow a sketch and case a card that was shown on the back of the stamps package.

 

I firstly stamped the pins, I was going to write the Happy onto the pins, but I'm a bit shaky of late, so decided to see if my Silhouette could cut, out of card, 5mm x 7mm letters. It did, incredible really, I'm always impressed how good it is. I added them to the pins. 

 

Next I die cut the circle for them and die cut a paper from a pad for the larger circle, with the same colours, that I had decided on. 

 

For the background I stamped the ball over the card and die cut it to fit the base card, it was added to it.

 

Next the circles were glued together, and edged with the ball layer. The pins were added, one sideways, as if it was hit by the ball. I then added a die cut orange piece of card and stamped the birthday on it. Adding the ball. 

 

 sport stamps - Creative Stamping Magazine #56

stamps are by Joanna Sheen

inks - Distress inks

coloured paper - Craft Sensation Happy Colours The Range 

circle dies - Tonic pin dot

orange card die - Card Making Magic 

Silhouette

 

 

I hope to see your Sport or Hobby cards at We Love Stamping

Charcoal Chuck TMR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card for today is for 

 

So many things I could have done with the subject, but it seems I'm on a run with a Dr Digi images. I love this image and as my Nephew in Law, is a great BBQ King it was made for him, he really does delicious things with the BBQ, so it's perfect for his birthday. 

I started with the background, pretty simple, I stencilled the clouds and grass and cut to size with a die. I then took the image into Silhouette and print and cut him 3 times for depth.  Next was to colour him with DI's. I really am no artist. The stencilled layer was added to the base card and then Chuck was added. I also print and cut the sentiment 3 times, it was a copy of the words I had in my files, that wouldn't fit, and it was layered onto the card. Quite simple, but that's my mind set atm. 

image - Dr Digi, Charcoal Chuck

inks - Distress Inks

Silhouette

stencil - Funky Fossil

die - Sue Wilson Noble square

sentiment copy words - Lettering Delights 

font -  Almond Slices

 

 

What is your outdoor subject?  See you at The Male Room

 

I was thrilled to be Card of the Week at Dr Digi. 

Food or Drink TMR

Hi Everyone, my DT post today a second card for

The Male Room

 

Food or Drink, now that is a great challenge for me, but I have managed to do two for the challenge this month, I couldn't decide which to do, so did both. Birthday cake is food, isn't it?  

After a lot of thinking, I looked through some sketches and decided on this simple sketch. 

Now for colours, for this I went through my digital papers and this spotty multicolour popped out, I made a banner shape and coloured it in light yellow and added the sentiment. I decided to make the green the main colour, no idea why! I hadn't used watercolour pencils in an age, so decided as the main features were quite small, I would use them. They were all taken into Silhouette and print and cut, the image twice with a 1mm border, as in a die. 

 

The sentiment banner was edged with a DI, so was the spotty paper. They were added to the card. I then decided to add 3D glaze to the image as it looked dull. Then thought to add some stars to make it more celebratory, to which I also added 3D glaze. Card done. Shame you can't see the shine with the glaze.

 

 digital stamp - Dr Digi, Connie Confectionery 

inks - watercolour pencils, Reeves - Distress Ink, twisted citron 

paper -  Just So Scrappy, School Rules paper #3 2011

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

Silhouette

star dies - CraftAddictions UK 

font - The Blue Cabin 

 

What will your Food or Drink be for the Challenge?

French Alps Engagement

Hi Everyone, my card today was for our G Nephews' engagement. A shock to everyone including his Fiancé. They have been living together for about 5 years, but when asked when they were getting married, always just looked at each other and smiled. We are all thrilled, it's such happy news. 

They were engaged on holiday in the French Alps, so that's my theme. I went looking for mountains in my files and found this beauty, it was on a background paper, but I isolated and copied the single mountain to use.

Next I looked for snow and decided on this, then what do I do with the French part? I went looking for an image of the French flag on the web, and this heart was amongst them, how lucky was that, of course I had to use it. Then found the blue sky paper as the background.

I took everything into Silhouette and print and cut everything, to size for the 8 x 8 inch card. I cut the heart, then added a layer for the background to the sentiment layer. The mountain was cut with an outline of white, and another outline of silver card to enhance it. The snow layer was next. The fab couple, again in my files, was cut twice from navy card and both layered onto silver card. I used it here too.

I thought it needed something else, so added different size die cut hearts, off cuts from a whole die.  I'm glad to say they loved it, and the fact it was just as it happened, they said. AW!

mountain -  The Hungry jpeg, Indigo woodland pattern paper 2022

snow image - Hugware image, In the meadow 2005

blue sky paper - Hugware, Earthscapes, mountain sky 2005

French Flag heart - Freepik

couple - Freepick, 2016  

Silhouette

die - red Hearts, Tattered lace, years old 

 

 

this shows the silver outline around the couple and the mountains. 

 

 

 

I came across a challenge I haven't visited in an age and decided to add to it.

 

https://cdsundaychallenge.blogspot.com/2026/05/cd-sunday-plus-challenge-183-hosted-by.html 

Baa-thday CCC

   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.

  

 

My card today is for another family member, I blame the large numbers on my Mum & Dad. Bless them.

 

I love this sheep image, but haven't used it for a while. I thought it about time, seeing as the fields are filling with the sheep and their lambs.

 

I stamped it onto a hammered white card, the black face is supposed to be black all over, but because of the hammered card it has not filled the face. I didn't mind the fact, so went ahead with it, colouring the sheep and the eyes, then the background of the frame with a light blue. I die cut it, leaving space for the sentiment. 

 

I stamped the "happy" and went to my Silhouette to cut the "Baa-thday". I chose the font, sized to fit the centre, and cut it. I then added the stamped piece to light blue card to match the frame. 

If you would like to see others with the same stamp see HERE & HERE & HERE

 stamp - Sheep Woodware 

inks - Distress Inks, tattered lace, mustard seed, hickory smoke

die - Card Making Magic, A4 Rectangular Nested

sentiment stamp - Uniko, Up & Away

Silhouette

font - Whimsy Wonder 

 after reviewing this post, I realised that the photo is slightly blurred, apologies, I've had new specs since!

Penguin Birthday

Hi Everyone, I had to make another birthday card, and used another digital stamp. I used papers from a pad I fancied, and layered them onto plain paper that matched. I then sent the image into Silhouette and print and cut it 3 times. Already having made the birthday wishes circle awhile ago, I then added the shape of the penguin with the balloons merging them, so the circle incorporated the shape of the balloons. Something like masking!

Anyway, the penguin was coloured with marker pens, I then coloured the wishes on the shape and added the penguin image to the layer. With my mind not on things, and mojo still absent, I'm happy to say it all came together quite quickly, surprisingly, and I like the nearly monochrome look too. 

digital stamp - Bugaboo Stamps, (sorely missed)

markers - Spectrum Noir 

Silhouette

wishes frame - my own 

papers - Craft Sensations, Watercolour Designs (The Range) 

Vehicles Or Transport TMR

Hi Everyone my second DT card today is for

 The Male Room

 Still without mojo, when will it return? I have too many family cards to get made, it's going to be hard at this rate. I had already die cut a car, but it didn't go anywhere, even after a few attempts!  So off to my files again and found this image. My brother sent it to me many years ago, so I don't know where the original came from, I was under the impression, he added the ivy etc to an old car in Photoshop, but I may be wrong. He used to be a photographer, so very experienced.

Anyhow, I took it and added it to a scalloped half, in Silhouette, found some quotes to suit the men whose birthdays were in March. The scalloped image, and the background with a quote, were print and cut, then added to the base card, the scalloped shape was 3D'd onto the card. I used a landscaped 5 x 7. Next I found some gears and cut them out in Silhouette with rose mirror card to match the rust of the car. Then they were added.

I was happy to have 2 cards with one sitting. 

image - unknown 

scallop circle -  Digichick, Scraporchard

gears - The Free SVG blog 2017 

quotes from the web 

 

 What will your mode of transport be?

CAS TMR

  My DT card today is for 

The Male Room 

I've had no mojo, so have been looking at some of my old cards for inspiration. This is from 2010, before I was blogging! The image I've used is very old, but I found it in my files with no identification. The sentiment is the same. I print and cut both with 3 layers each in Silhouette, then I coloured them with DI's.  

Next, I embossed a card cut to size, with a music embossing folder, although you can hardly see it. It was attached to the base card, adding the image and sentiment onto the music. 

images - unnamed

inks - Distress Inks, salty ocean, squeezed lemonade, abandoned coral 

embossing folder - Die sire, Embossalicious, Seasonal Music

Silhouette 

Penguin 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.

  

A penguin card today, for a Great Niece. It's her birthday in a few days, so I thought a Winter card would be suitable for her, in my files I came across this lovely penguin, suitable for a little girl, with her scarf and flowers. She was taken into Silhouette and print and cut 3 times, the sentiment was also done at the same time, I decided to colour the sentiment the same as the flowers, bringing a little warmth into it.

 

I also had an embossing folder in my subscription magazine for December, so I decided to emboss a piece of card and then swipe ink onto it, to give a little colour. A few snowflakes added to make it more wintry, and some 3D glaze onto the eyes and feet. 

penguin - The Hungry JPEG

embossing folder - Card Making Magic, SCP #278

snowflake dies - Crafters Companion Glittering Snowflakes 

ink - Distress ink - blueprint sketch

3D glaze - Nuvo

fonts -  Ellianarelles's Path & ChrisHmk

label shape - Silhouette 

 

the insert, with a quote from the web

 

What animal will you use?

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. 

Dogs and/or Cats TMR

 Hi everyone, my DT card today is for 

 

 The Male Room 

 

I've only got digital images for cats or dogs, so that's what's used today. The images were edited in Photoshop, adding a sentiment, then printed and die cut it. Looking for cat images in my files, I found a shape I thought I could use. I tried cutting it with Silhouette, but it was too fine and didn't cut properly, so I made a shape similar, but with thicker lines, in the design area, and cut it out of gold mirror card.

 

I embossed the edge of the printed background then decided to add splots to the background, after seeing another blogger do the same, but now I don't know who it was, sorry. I used hickory smoke and faded jeans DO's mixed to match the images, shame they don't show up in the photo. I attached the image layer to the card and then the gold frame. 

cat & dog - Creative Fabrica

frame - my own design

sentiments - my own

inks - Distress Oxide, hickory smoke, faded jeans 

gold mirror card - The Range

 

 

I have a few nephews on the cusp of old in the next few months, so I made another. Much the same but with a different sentiment and cut to the frame to hide a cutting error. You can see the splats more on this second card.  

 

 

I hope you can join us in the challenge, and get your creative juices flowing for those difficult male cards. There are great ideas from the DT to view. 

100th Birthday Bash CCC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for the -

 Critter Crazy 100th Birthday Bash 

 

A Rule change for our 100th Challenge

Your card MUST feature a Birthday Critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a Birthday critter.

 

And also don't forget to check in on the last day of the month again, if you are a winner or a DT-Favourite! #100's brag recognitions will have 2 extra winners! Read on for details: 

Since we have now reached the 100 challenge, we would like to thank all the participants and the followers from the bottom of our hearts for all the years, the inspirations and the kind comments. 

And 100 challenges must also be celebrated... so this month there are 3rd & 4th winners and a small rule change for the theme along with an opportunity for a prize winner visiting Becca's blog. (Use my blog link to get to my homepage and find my CCC post after 2am central time on July 1st for instructions on commenting and receiving a special prize package of animal-themed products!)

Special 3rd Winner: Entry #50 will be an extra Guest DT invite honoree in September 2025! Plus Special 4th Winner: Entry #100 will be an extra Guest DT invite honoree also for September 1st. There will be special badges available and these persons will be revealed on July 31, 2025. 

 

 

With no mojo, I was struggling to make a card, so I went through my digital stamps to see if anything jumped out to me, and this is it. I love this birthday sheep. I printed and cut, with Silhouette, 2 layers of the sheep and the sentiment, onto multi use card, then coloured it with DI's. 

I cut a piece of the same card to fit onto a 5x7inch base card, then blended the sky, and the grass, with DO's. Next, I used stencils for the grass and clouds. The clouds didn't work for me, but they are there, albeit faint, so I die cut some clouds and a sun. The sentiment was inked around the edge and then added to pink paper, can you guess this is for a female member of the family?

sheep - Bugaboo 2021, (sorely missed)

stencil, clouds and grass - Funky Fossil 

inks - Distress Inks

inks - Distress Oxide

dies - Magazine Freebies

Silhouette 

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

Anything but a square card 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  -

Anything but a square card

   

One of my nieces has a birthday this month and I made this card for her, taking the opportunity to use the challenge as inspiration. I used the Silhouette to make a scalloped stitched circle card. Which I edged with pink ink. I stamped the jumper and the scarfs, using the main colour of yellow, to colour and make them more feminine. I then added the pink and a green. Perhaps I should have made the embossing folder bigger, to hide the fold, would you believe it, I didn't think of it until I had put it all together. DUH!

The background was embossed with a cable design, the scarfs were stamped with the sentiments, and 3D'd onto the embossing.

stamps and embossing folder - Nordic Winter, SCP freebies

stitched circle design - Font Market CCC234 Stitched Nesting Shapes

inks - Distress Ink & Oxide, kitsch flamingo, scattered straw, peacock feathers.

 

 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 Three great prizes from AALL and Create, a die set and two stamp sets

Motorbiike

Hi Everyone, a card for my #3 brother, he loved his motorbike but, at 85 is passed riding them now, that doesn't mean he doesn't still like them. Hence, my card today.

I stamped a motorbike and clear embossed it. Next, I used the mask I had already made for this card, and stamped the background mountains and some grass, then die cut it and also a gold mirror card base. 

I was going to use die cuts for the age, but I had been reminded recently, seeing a blog using foil with the Silhouette. I hadn't used it for foiling for a long time. So, I went to my Silhouette and designed a circle with an 85, his name, and the sentiment, to foil onto card, also cutting a circle from mirror card at the same time. 

I then stencilled tyre tracks with DO onto the base card. I should have made them darker? They show a little in real life.

motorbike stamp - Indigo Blue - Ride Long

background stamp - Stamp Addicts - Scenic Sailing

grass - I can't find it now, but I think it's a freebie from my subscription magazine.

 inks - Distress Oxides

ink black - Stazon

foiled sentiment font - Galantis

 

Anything but a square card 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 but a square card

   

 

A search through my stamps, brought up 2 sets that I could use for New Year, that was my easiest choice as mojo is seriously lacking. Seeing a design in my subscription magazine that I quite liked, I decided to try it out. I went to my Silhouette to cut out the hexagons, as I don't have any dies to suit. On the smaller one I stamped the bottle and the glasses, then I stamped the firework flash, and also the sentiment. The fun fizz sentiment was stamped onto a spare piece of card and fussy cut. All with gold embossing powder. The firework flash was inked in red and blue and the bottle and glasses were coloured with DI's.

Next, I stamped the party swirls all over the halved hexagon, embossed in gold, and blended ink. Then I added the top hexagon to the half piece and added the fun sentiment. 

I hope you all had a fun celebration for the New Year.

stamps - freebies from Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine #212 and an older one.

inks - Distress Inks, salty ocean, candied apple 

Silhouette

 

 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 Three great prizes from AALL and Create, a die set and two stamp sets