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. 

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

 

Beary Happy New Year 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 wish you all a Happy New Year.

 

My first card of the year, a bear that I have had since 2015, certainly not new, but the first time I have used him. I printed him out to suit a 6 x 6 card and die cut him out. I then coloured him. I thought of Winter colours, so went with that. He was then layered onto die cut pearlised card layers, matching the ink colours, the greens look different but are a great match in real life.

 

As for the sentiment, I found it in my sentiment box pre stamped, I thought it suited, so went with it. After all, we enjoy having fun in the snow, don't we? OK! We used to, hahaha. I added a touch of glue to the sentiment corners, and the snowflakes, and sprinkled glitter onto it. And of course, he had to have eyes and a 3D glaze nose.

 

bear - Collette Smith, Cosmic Strawberry 

inks - Spectrum Noir markers

die - Sue Wilson Square Noble dies

sentiment - magazine freebie SCP

card - Hunkydory 

eyes - stash

3D glaze Nuvo Crystal Glaze

 Not a brighter photo due to lashing rain, when taken! 

 

It's a while since I entered any challenges, but I saw this at AAA and felt I had to enter. 

AAA Winter Birthday #81 

 

Anything Christmas 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 Christmas

 

I have so many stamps and couldn't find one I wanted to use, so I used a digi. Looking through my Christmas files, I found some lovely paper, I thought it would be a change for me to add an image. The papers, the frame, and the images were taken into Silhouette to cut out.

 

I coloured the hedgehogs with DIs, attached the background paper to gold mirror card, which was then attached to the base card. The cut out frame was 3D'd onto the main image, and then placed onto the base card. I decided to add some gems, that was the card finished. 

 

top paper and frame - Keep in Touch Designs 2015

bottom paper - Designs by Dani 2023 

hedgehogs - Di'd Digis 2015

inks - Distress Inks

gems - stash

sentiment - Digistamp Boutique 2013

Die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies 

gold mirror card - stash

 

 

Wonderful prizes this month

Stamp Addicts, 2 prizes (photos not to scale)

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 

 

Make it Cute 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 Mervi of   

Make it Cute

 

With 2 prizes each of two House Mouse stamps

 

 

 

Well I had to use a HM stamp didn't I? I die cut the card square layers, then stamped the images and sentiment. I used DI's to colour them all. Next, I used a glitter pen on the candles and the hat. The bottom layer card was swiped with the pink over the edge, I didn't want a full colour and quite like the effect. They were glued together and attached to the base card. A simple and easy card. And easy for the post too.

 

stamp - House Mouse Sweet Birthday

inks - Distress Inks spun sugar, scattered straw, shabby shutters, tumbled glass

glitter pen - Nuvo 

square dies - Sue Wilson Noble Square dies 

 How Cute will your card be for our Challenge?

 

https://housemouse-challenge.blogspot.com/2025/09/hmfmc-448-anything-goes-option.html ATG

Relax birthday

 Hi Everyone, a card for a nieces husband, I was stumped as to what to make, I saw a card on the web, loved the idea of the sentiment, so I cased it. I went through my files to see what I could find and found this chair. It was a digital stamp already coloured black, but I changed it to blue as I had found a paper pad that could be used for it. I printed out the chair and die cut it, I printed the sentiment and die cut that, then die cut the paper. I added blue Oxide ink to the edges of the white pieces of card, then added all of them to the base card. I kept it flat for overseas post.

chair - Marisa Lerin, Pine Tree Stamps 2024

blue pad - Craft Sensations, Marble 

dies - Sue Wilson Square noble dies

ink - Distress Oxide

 

this is the insert

the verse is my own

balloons - Marisa Lerin Make a Wish 2021

Hello Spring 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  

Hello Spring

   

 

It's March, and it starts with St David's Day here in Wales, so of course it had to be that theme. I was lucky enough to buy the stamp set after Christmas, at a reduced price. I brought in another stamp set of daffodils, and arranged them with the flag and Miss Wales, as I call her. I thought they looked best on a square card, so I die cut a square and, inside that, I embossed using a smaller die. 

The images were placed onto the square and stamped. I embossed in gold, so the daffs shone, I've attached a closeup so you can see it, I think it would have been better stamped in black, all done now, maybe next time? I coloured the flag and Miss Wales, she was coloured with DI's in the same colours as I wore in 1981, below. The hat wasn't black enough, so I went over it with a marker. I added wobbly eyes, as I had made a mess of the eyes!

As the 1st of March is St David's Day, I decided to write Happy St David's Day, in Welsh, on the computer and print it out, it was then die cut and placed with 3D pads.

Welsh stamps - Wales AALL & Create

daffodil stamp - Magazine freebie SCP#240

inks - Distress Inks tattered lace, tea dye,fossilized amber,scattered straw,mustard seed,barn door,fired brick,twisted citron,mowed lawn,gathered twigs,black soot

marker - Spectrum Noir 

wobbly eyes - stash

dies - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

 a close up of the gold embossing

me in Welsh National costume, only a couple of years ago, ahem  in 1981.

here's a link to the photo post, if you are interested?

 

 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

 

Our prizes this month are - Two Spring themed Penny Black stamp sets from Buddly Crafts

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?

Autumn WLSC

 

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma of  

Autumn

   

 

I have quite a few stamps that I could use, but went with the iconic ones. I stamped and embossed with gold embossing powder, the pumpkin, leaf, and mushrooms and fussy cut them, ugh! then coloured them with DI's. Next, I die cut squares of coloured card to match and a white one, which I also stamped with the sentiment and gold embossed then I embossed with a wood embossing folder.  The blue card is practically the same colour as the blue in the leaf, but the camera nor Photoshop editing would make it the same! A very simple card. I hope you like it.

 stamps - Magazine freebies SCP

inks - Distress Inks, ripe persimmon, rusty hinge, spiced marmalade, 

vintage photo, tea dye, lucky clover. 

dies - Sue Wilson Square Noble

wood embossing folder - Crafters Companion

card - Lidl

 

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.

Three prizes from AALL and Create, two of border stamps and third two stencils 

 

 

Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Little Mouse hand painted WLSC

 Hi Everyone, number 2 of my DT cards today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Lolo of  

Hand Painted Images

 

I chose this little mouse as I just love him.  I coloured him with watercolour pencils, then used a mask and added inked butterflies and grass with a tiny sentiment. Next, I used the square die to cut him out and then 2 further larger die cuts. They were all centred and attached to the base card. I really liked using the pencils, then spreading the colour with water. Very CAS methinks. 

mouse - Colorado Craft Company, KL615-D

watercolour pencils - Nuvo Brilliantly Vibrant

butterflies - Polkadoddles Daisy Days

grass -  Magazine freebie

inks - Whisper, VERY old inks

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.

 

We have two prizes to reflect the theme from Highlight Crafts of watercolour mediums

Oceans of happiness

 Hi Everyone, my card today is on the current theme at We Love Stamping challenge, but has no stamping! It did originally have the sentiment stamped, but I made a mess, so printed it instead.

 I started by using a stencil for the sea, using different blues, it was then die cut, and glued to the base card. Next, I got my dies out and cut them all in white card. I coloured them with marker pens, but left the seagulls white. These were then placed onto the die cut sea image. As I said earlier, I stamped the sentiment, but it came out wrong, so I went into Photoshop and made and printed the sentiment, then die cut it, and placed it over the original.

wave stencil - my own, cut on the Silhouette

cloud stencil - Funky Fossil

Distress Oxide inks - salty ocean, faded jeans, peacock feathers

markers - Spectrum Noir 

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

dies -  Magazine freebies

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

sentiment - Oceans font - Baby Monkey. Wishing you font - Alef

 

 The insert was designed in Photoshop, printed, then placed inside the main card.

Ribbon or Twine TMR

 Hello Everyone, my DT post today is for 

The Male Room

A celebration for me today, I have been with the DT here since June 2016, that's 8 years. This is my first card on the DT, plenty of changes of style, and usage of crafty things in between for me.  

I had a struggle to do this. I don't often add ribbon or twine to my cards, but somehow, I thought of a bird house hanging from a tree. After a couple of weeks thinking of other ways to use twine or ribbon, I decided to just go for it. This is the result.

I die cut a square background and blended some DI onto it to simulate the sky,  I wanted it still CAS, so didn't add too much. I then stamped the birdhouse onto wood grain card, and added shadow on the edges, for the house and red striped card for the roof, also with shadow edges. They were glued together. I then planned where the sentiment could go and stamped it onto the background die piece.

Next the branch was stamped, in different places and once onto card, which was fussy cut (ugh!) for the twine to hang from it, they were then were coloured. The swallow was stamped next and coloured. The twine was attached to the branch, which was 3D'd onto the card. The twine was stretched and attached to the house, which was also 3D'd. I added 3D pads to the swallow and attached a piece of twine to it's beak, I had to use more twine!The background was then attached to the base card. 

I'm afraid my card isn't too imaginative in the use of twine, but I hope it will pass. After pasting it here, I thought perhaps it could be used for a new home card too. Oh! well, I suppose I could add a new home sentiment and a label die cut if needed.

stamps - all Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) magazine freebies

inks - Distress Inks

border die - Sue Wilson Noble Square die 

 

Go see what my creative Team Mates have produced.