Dots & Stripes TMR Challenge

 Hello everyone, my card today is for 

 

The Male Room 

 

I knew I had this stamp, and have never used it, so thought this was an opportunity to use it. I decided bright was my plan, I have yellow paper, I bought for a project and lots left over, a good time to use it. 

 

I stamped randomly in a sort of pattern, in different colours. Then horizontally, with a dots stamp and then again with the original stamp. With no plan as always, I went looking for a sentiment and luckily found this stamp, it suited my plan of bright. It was stamped onto white card. I then die cut a button, adding it to the stamped, and label cut sentiment. Next I die cut some candles, same as the button, out of gold mirror card. 

 

The background was added to blue mirror card, and added to the base card, next the candles and sentiment were added. For a randomly stamped card, I think it ended up bright as intended.  

stamps - Stamp Addicts, Vicky's Borders 

sentiment - Sissix, Catherine Pooler 

button die - years old! can't remember the makers

candles & label die - Magazine freebie SCP (old) 

inks - Distress Oxide, mustard seed,twisted citron,mermaid lagoon,spiced marmalade

gold and blue mirror card - The Range 

 

 

There’s great inspiration for your Male cards at the Challenge. 

Summer Blooms WLSC mid month

   Hi Everyone my DT make today is for the mid month post for 

We Love Stamping

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

Summer Blooms

 

 

I have absolutely no mojo, so went through my stamps and dies and found these, then went looking for paper and a stencil. All found pretty quickly, actually.

 

Then it was stamping the flowers and die cutting both the flowers and the stem. I wondered for a while about the design, and even stamped more flowers, but it just didn't look right, so I left it simple.  

 

I chose the colours of the flowers to match the paper and coloured them in DI's. Next I stencilled a brick effect, for the climbing flowers. I cut the paper and layered the stencilling and floral pattern onto plain purple paper, not usually my colours, but I have been looking at them more. 

 

I then went looking for a sentiment and forgotten I had bought a stamp set with a floral theme, whew! It was stamped and die cut and layered onto the purple paper. All were added to the base card.

 

flower stamps and die - Card Making Magic Trailing Florals

sentiment - Sissix, Born to Bloom 

inks - Distress Inks, squeezed lemonade, shabby shutters, twisted citron,

victorian velvet,wilted violet,pumice stone

stencil - Funky Fossil

floral paper - Craft Sensations Spring Time 

purple paper - Lidl 

 

  There are Two beautiful floral prizes of Penny Black stamps and stencil from Buddly Crafts (photo's not to scale). I hope you can join us with your blossoms. 

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? 

Tie Birthday

 Hi Everyone, I hope you're all well. In my New Home card, I mentioned my 90 year old BiL had fallen and was in hospital, thank you so much for your many good wishes for him. I'm afraid he died just a week after they moved in to their new bungalow. My SiL is stoic and coping, she has her incredible family around her. Who have been as wonderful to her, as she is and always has been to them.

Now on to why you're here, my card for today was for a friend's grandson, his birthday, that with everything going on I had forgotten about. So a quick one needed to get into the post. I did a "tie" search in my files, goodness knows why I thought ties. Anyhow, I found some paper, printed it out and cut and layered it onto orange paper. Added both to the base card, found a die cut sentiment, layered it onto silver mirror card and fussy cut around it. Card done and in the post, just in time.

tie paper - Sissix from 2016

sentiment die - I've had an age, sorry no label

orange paper - Lidl

boy on left page of insert - Paper Garden Products

 this is the insert, I also did in Photoshop, the blur is me fading out my greeting to him. I took the photos when I finished them, written and ready to post.

Flamingo CCC

   Hi Everyone, my one of 2 DT cards 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 stamps for an animal, I came across this Flamingo, that hasn't seen any ink and I thought it about time it did. I printed the sentiment that I had seen online onto card, then stamped and embossed in gold onto the same card. To make it more interesting, I decided to add embossing lines each side of the flamingo and use a marker in pink. What a mess I made. To save the sentiment and flamingo, I cut the card each side of the flamingo, then edged it with the same ink, and used it with the flamingo backing paper, I found in my files.

 The flower stamps were included in the stamp set, so I stamped and embossed in gold onto pink card. A completely different card to what I intended, but it turned out OK. 

I made the insert in Photoshop, adding a flamingo, again in my files and a sentiment that I thought of, because of all the pink!

All stamps - Magazine freebies, SC&P #205

ink- Distress Oxide, kitsch flamingo 

embossing powder - Altenew Vintage Gold

font - Goodies Alt2

flamingo digital paper - Sizzix

insert flamingo - Marisa Lerin Digital Scrapbook/Pixelscrapper

  Just in case you can't see it, the sentiment is in pink and says

 "We are tickled pink to wish you a happy birthday" 

Rose Hip House Mouse

Hi Everyone, Well! me and my Blogger problems. I went in yesterday to add comments, and each Blog I went into that had Captcha on it, wouldn't let me comment. I did go back in after a little playing and I think I corrected it? BUT, if you haven't had a comment from me it's because I am still trying to fix Captcha with Firefox. I seem to be having one issue after another. My apologies. I have seen your cards and they are awesome, BUT sorry about the comments.

My card today has something I haven't used in a while, background paper! I have had this little mouse on my desk for an age, he deserved to be used, I made a comment on Lee's blog a while ago and she kindly sent me a few different stamped images I could colour. This was amongst them. SO cute.

I decided to use paper with roses on, he is in a cup of Rose Hip Tea after all. I printed the digital paper and cut it to fit a 5 x 7 card. I then went looking for rose dies, I don't have any the size I wanted, so digital dies it had to be, I cut them with my Cameo and layers to add some sparkle. I die cut the image to size and coloured it with markers for the pattern on the cup and DI's for the rest. After assembling it all, I added it to the card. I was really pleased, then noticed I hadn't added the banner straight! I don't think the recipient will notice, I hope!

image - House Mouse Designs

circle die - Tonic

dp - Lucy's Papers (2007)

markers - Spectrum Noir BP2 PL1

inks - Distress Inks - brushed corduroy, aged mahogony,spun sugar,mowed lawn.

digital die roses - Jillibean Soup Silhouette Digital Store.

sparkle - Sissix

 

HMFMC #372 Anything Goes  

 

Word Art Wednesday wks 557/558

 

Easter Chick

Hi Everyone, my card today is for the Outlawz sketch challenge. I'm a little late, but there is another 2 days to enter!
I couldn't think what image to use and then thought of this wonderful duckling. I had Easter paper in my files and these were amongst them. All quite flat for posting.

duckling - Morgans Artworld

coloured in PS

  floral dp freebie - Sissix 

 spot - Elle's designs.

Nuvo Crystal drops added to centre of image flowers

3D gloss to eye of duck and beak

ribbon from stash

flowers from stash - coloured with Spectrum Noir markers

gems - Dovecraft

Coffee Lovers

Hi Everyone, a card today for Hetty my blogger friend who has a hop going on at The Coffee Lovers.

Image -  JessicaLynnoriginals

coloured in PS and cut out as print & cut on the Cameo

digi "spooky" paper - Sissix

halloween text overlay - sahindesigns

mask overlay - pixelscrapper

I thought I would share the deluge we had Saturday afternoon, after a glorious sunny morning, this happened and lasted 4 hours, luckily the drains held out and the road wasn't flooded. We have had a LOT of rain recently, but I think this was the heaviest.

you can see the water on the road like a stream 

This is next doors roof, you can see the force of the rain on the tiles.

http://coffeelovingcardmakers.com/2017/09/2017-fall-coffee-lovers-blog-hop/