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

Trees TMR

 My DT card today is for

The Male Room Challenge
 

I have a number of images and stamps for Trees, but I went with an embossing folder instead. I embossed it then coloured it with water coloured pencils, I couldn't trust myself with anything else! I added water to a brush, to spread them out, I used different gold inks to colour the decorations. Then I stamped a couple of corners in gold embossing ink to the top of the card to balance it out, I thought.  

 Next I stamped and gold embossed a sentiment on vellum and added it to the tree base. They were then layered onto gold mirror card. The card was slightly short, so I added die cut presents with the white card, overlaying gold mirror card to make the border even. The photo is a little darker than normal, due to me wanting you to see the stamped corners. Although they still don't show as in real life.

pencils - Nuvo Vibrant Watercolour Pencils

Christmas tree EF & dies & stamp - Magazine freebie Simply Cards & Papercraft #209 

gold pigment inks - Kuretake Starry Colours

gold embossing ink - Hobbycraft

vellum - Crafters Companion

gold mirror card - The Range

 

 

Guest ELF at Christmas Kick-Start Challenge

 Hi Everyone, I was delighted and thrilled to be asked by Jo, to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91

 We discussed what theme to work on, and both agreed very quickly, it was to be a colour theme, with the lovely mix of colours below.

 

 

As soon as I saw the colours, a Gnome came into my head, WHAAT? I hear you say, yes I have a strange thought pattern as many of you know.  Anyhow, I found my loved Gnome and stamped him, and his present. Both were die cut and then coloured. The hands and present were 3D'd onto the body.

 

Next it was the background, I blended the sky, and blended the snow. It was then I stamped the church and trees, I wanted that far away look, so they were also stamped in the blues I had used for the snow. The background was cut to size and layered onto navy card. I then stamped the sentiment, again in blue. My lovely Gnome was 3D'd in the middle of the card, for his hat to emphasise the church. 

I felt it needed some sparkle so added Stickles Frosted Lace along the snow, trees, and church.

 

Gnome - Apple Blossom stamps magazine freebie SCP #181

church and tree stamps - magazine freebie SCP #211

large tree - Chocolate Baroque

inks - Distress inks - mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

navy card - stash

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with us.

A great prize of Avery Elle stamps, is in the offing 

Halloween gift box CCC

  Hi Everyone, number 1 of my DT makes 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 decided to do something different today. I have been looking through my files, and have so many things I haven't used, that I decided now was the time for this fun Bat to make an appearance. It is Halloween at the end of the month, after all. 

The file is an svg, so I took it into my Silhouette, or digital die cut machine, and cut it out. There were quite a few pieces, the black pieces are attached to the main box on each side, but it was fun putting it together and to use some ribbon, again I don't use enough of it. It's 10 inches (25.4 centimetres) long. I was so excited to get it finished, I forgot to ink around the bat! I'll do so for the others I make, even make them a little smaller, hoping we have some visitors this Halloween, it's not a big thing around here. Although, I'm sure it will be a treat if they do come.

Halloween Cracker - Dreaming Tree (freebie)

card - Craft Sensations "Happy" pad

ribbon Dovecraft 

Silhouette

 

Wedding card

 Hi Everyone, I have a card that I made and haven't posted, it was made for a lovely friend. I used an embossed corner, mixed dies and stamping for the sentiment. 

The embossed layer was added to silver mirror card, the corner dies were offset and layered onto silver mirror card, the ribbon on the car was also mirror card. The car was 3D'd. I then stamped the sentiment.

EF - Embossalicious, Chantilly Corner

car die - Sweet Dixie

corner flower die - Creative Expressions

stamps - Magazine freebies SCP

 

 

this is an angled photo to show more details. 

 

Thanks for your patience with me and commenting, I am slowly getting some done.

Bright 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 from Lolo of  

Hand Painted Images

 

 

Recently I had some new stamps and stencils in my subscription magazine, that I thought I would use some for this card. I die cut a square to add to my 6x6inches base card. The flowers were stamped with the sentiment and embossed with gold embossing powder, then I cut a mask for the flowers and blended a stencil in the corner. Next, I coloured the flowers and leaves. I then decided to stencil the base card too, and follow the stencil shape I had done on the die cut piece. I wondered if it was a bit OTT, but decided to go with it. Nothing else was added, as there is a lot on the card with the stencil.

 

inks - Distress inks, mustard seed, squeezed lemonade, ripe persimon, mowed lawn and rustic wilderness.

stamps and stencil -  Simply Cards & Papercraft Magazine #256

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

Just a note, to thank you all for your kind wishes. Huge Hugs to you all. x

Birthday Rose

 Hi Everyone, a card from me today for one of my Niece's, it was quite simple, due to reasons I shall expand on below. It was made with 2 sets of dies and a stamped sentiment. I really haven't been in the mood for card making and only doing DT cards as far in advance as I could.

rose die - Altenew

inks - Distress Inks 

 border die - freebie with Johanna Sheen magazine 2017?

sentiment - magazine freebie

red card -  Hobbycraft

I feel I have to explain, why I have been absent from commenting and only doing my DT work. Aprilish to July, I had a limp, getting worse, I put it down to sciatica. One night, I turned to get into bed and was hit by the most excruciating pain. To cut a long and very painful time short, it turned out to be arthritis in my hip, and what was described as a "grumpy femoral nerve", which means the pain goes from my waist to below my knee. Meaning a referral for a hip replacement. I was lucky that my brother brought me a wheely walker, he still had, after my late SiL, so that I can, just about, get around the house. I have been having treatment at the hospital, with physiotherapy and pool therapy. Some days they work, others not. THEN, on top of it all, both hubby and I contracted Covid, both of us have been quite poorly, hubby worse than me and 3 weeks later we are still not well, again him worse than me. It's the first time we have had it, so I suppose we have been lucky. I know a lot of you are in far worse suffering than me, but it has hit me for six, with the constant pain. It has been a sudden change of roles for me too, from being active, with ageing aches and pains, to a being a complete invalid, not able to stand or walk without an aid.

I hope I shall start to get around to you when some days are better than others, like today. Sorry about the moans, but thought you needed an explanation for my absence. Wishing you are all well.