Wine

Some time ago I was fortunate enough to win a challenge at Just US Girls and was subsequently invited to be their Guest Designer for January!

The first of the challenges is entitled Beverage

Here is the first of my submissions. 

Sadly for everyone, Bugaboo Stamps, a digital image company, ceased trading. I have many of their images, which are such fun... they appeal to my sense of humour enormously. Although the sentiment is from the company I made it in a different font ( Amolina Boutique) adding it to the frame for the image. It's simply coloured with Copic Markers.

The start of a New Year  always brings hope, and this year I think that we need it... I hope that we will soon be able to think of Covid as a thing of the past. Stay safe and well everyone, and Happy New Year!

 

Doggy Birthday

I love Bugaboo digi images, the style and humour of many of them really appeal to me. This, however is the first time that I have entered into one of their challenges!

Catch the bug challenges

My card is following this sketch.

I think this is one cool hound, he has such an adorable look on his face!

The sentiment is from Clearly Besotted and the pawprint die from Memory Box. 

I have been waiting for for a week, for a pattern to make some scrubs. I had a message last Friday to say that it had shipped.... still no pattern, I know that postal deliveries have been all over the place, but hopefully it will come today! I have fabric ready to cut and some specifically ordered should be here in a day or so! 

Fingers crossed it all comes soon!

Stella Christmas

The images from Bugaboo always bring a smile to my face. For this one I simply coloured with Copics and added a little Fun Flock to the edges of her dress and cap. Although this sentiment was part of the download, I decided to write it myself rather than use the one provided as I didn't think think that the weight of the type or the font itself matched the image too well. I used DJB Baby Bump instead and split the sentence into two parts to arrange around the figure.

It's my DT card for Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge

I'm not sure if it's actually Bah Humbug, but she looks a little grumpy!

DO join in the fun!

Twinkle toes

Oh to be able to wear shoes like this! There was a time many moons ago that I might have managed a few moments in heels as high as this but these days comfort is much too important!

I love these quirky images from Bugaboo and I know just who I can send this card to!

It's my DT card for the Christmas challenge at Happy Little Stampers!

It was coloured with alcohol markers, a Gelly Roll pen and a little Wink of Stella. I cut it out with an MFT pierced die and made the sentiment on the computer.

As I got into a little  water colouring on board my last cruise I need to go and get some more supplies... it's surprising how quickly I got through my little pan of ultra marine! However for this card I thought that the markers would have a little more impact than water colours.
Christmas Kickstart CHALLENGE
Elves and the Shoemaker

Great reunion!

I had a lovely time at my old School Reunion at the weekend.  It was a little difficult to recall some of the names of old pupils, but recognition mostly dawned for the majority of them, with a little reminder now and again! This year all the girls who started Brownhills High School for Girls in Tunstall in 1956 reached their 70th birthdays this year, so I guess we were entitled to forget a few names.

I found my old Prefect's badge in my jewellery box and decided to take it with me!

I've always liked it; I don't know what metal it is made from but it looks rather like pewter.

When we got to the hotel, one of our number had made a special 70th birthday cake for everyone and her daughter had decorated it brilliantly in our school colours! 

Quite something huh!

It tasted good too!

My school which is in the photo in the top corner has now been demolished!

Not that the girls made me think of witches you understand, but this is what I made when I got home. It's for the challenge at Addicted to Stamps with this picture inspiration

I simply took the colours for the stripes in the stockings. It's a Bugaboo image with a die cut sentiment and a little Glossy accents added to the shoes.

It's also for AAA Cards Clean and Simple Halloween!

Shop

CASology this time has the code word SHOP!

I made this card for a friend who is an expert in this field!

It's a Bugaboo digi stamp, coloured with Spectrum Noir pens. The sentiment was computer generated.

I had a good Christmas shopping session this week at the outlet in Swindon, I did worry whether I would get there, as for some time I was stuck on a piece of dual carriageway between two roundabouts, unable to go forward because of a three car accident and with the opposite lane blocked by a double decker bus which had tried to cross the median and got stuck in the boggy ground, blocking the central reservation and the other lane. Needless to say eventually we sorted ourselves out and with a lot of criss-crossing of the median, managed to escape!

Monochrome

Bugaboo stamps have a 50% reduction in the price of their Digi Stamps for the whole of November. I bought a few more today, this being one of them. I was laughing out loud at some of them, they really strike a chord. The sentiment on this one is typical of me, being a real squirrel, I keep all sorts of rubbish, but we recently cleared out the loft and got rid of oodles of stuff... however, we haven't needed anything I tossed... yet!
I thought this image perfect for a moving house card... having a clear out is inevitable before moving! I even added the key to the new house!
The paper is from Pink Petticoat with the edges distressed with Old Paper Distress Ink.
A Spoonful of Sugar - Distressing
Everybody Art - Monochromatic Brown
Stampavie - Monochromatic
Artful Inkables - Sentiment and Corners
Cupcake Craft - House Warming

New to me

This card is an illustration of something I've managed to do for the first time... merge 2 digi images into one. I bought some imaging software some time ago, but have never managed to get my head around using it, I really need someone to show me step by step. However, somehow or other I managed to get these two images from Bugaboo, to stand one just behind the other. I really don't quite know how I managed it but here they are.
I certainly think it was brave of me, which is what the challenge at Crafty Cardmakers is asking. Do something with a digi image rather than just print and colour it! So there, I've done it, and I feel very pleased!