Smile

I think this frog is a real cutie., I got him from a download of colouring page images, free for personal use. He's simply coloured with alcohol pens and popped onto dimensional pads. I have three large 'smile ' word dies and I think this one is from Creative Cuts.

I love the flow of this one!The challenge this time at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge is SMILE!

We could all do with a smile at this present time... so consider this one for you!

Wish I was there!

I think that many of us have had this thought recently. 

We haven't seen our grandchildren for weeks.. apart from Facetime chats, but it's not the same as having a cuddle. It's a difficult time for everyone and I hope that we all emerge at the other end with smiles on our faces. In many instances communities have become supportive of each other which is positive indeed.

This card will be on its way to our grandkids very soon!

The challenge at Just US Girls is for Feathers

It's also the theme at Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge which is quite a coincidence!

 

Stay safe everyone!

Keeping in shape

Those of you who know me of old probably know that I have a bit of a thing for chickens... especially Penny Black ones and here are the girls doing their daily exercise. I was asked to make this card by a friend for a friend of hers. It's simply coloured with alcohol markers and mounted on a pierced rectangle. I just use any of my pierced dies for this which is closest to the size I need and I either extend them or reduce the size accordingly.

The sentiment was computer generated and I decided to make the background black and have the text in white, I think it makes a change.. and no need for extra mounting to make it stand out!

The challenge this time at Happy Little Stampers CAS is Feathers

Well there are quite a few of these lasses!

For some reason, since we have been confined to quarters, I seem to have been in my craft room far less, I think mojo has been somewhat lacking, something I hope to remedy really soon! It actually needs a good sorting out, maybe that is what is putting me off!

9 Geese a-layiig

I love these Penny Black creatures. Isn't this goose jushis iine is for the challenge at HLS Christmas where the theme could include Christmas Wings, although as ever Anything Goes!

This is simplicity itself, I did add a panel to the front of the card as I used Copic pens to colour the image,  and even though it is only a small amount, it would show through to the inside of the card. This young lady makes me smile just to look at her!

It's such a great idea to spread the making of Christmas cards throughout the whole year to save the mad scramble to get enough done at the last moment.

So why not join us!

You may have noticed the typo in the title.... the wrong number and a spelling error... I didn't notice until after I had created the permalink for the Happy Little Stampers blog, so if I alter it now the permalink won't work...  So I'll apologise right now... SORRY!

Frozen

When I saw the topic for this month's Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge, I immediately thought of the film FROZEN

I don't know if any stamps are available, but I thought that OLAF should be fairly easy to draw, (even though I'm no great artist) so I looked at some of the images of him online and drew this little chap. I shaded him with  Copics and gently twinkled most of him with Glamour Dust and used Wink of Stella on the rest of him. The sentiment is from Mama Elephant.

I think my grandkids would quite like this card!

Bubbles

Here is a stamp set from Stamping Bella which just makes me smile! Who doesn't enjoy blowing a bubble or two?

I thought it would be perfect for a few challenges!

Just Us Girls - Summer

Addicted to CAS Bubble

Time Out - Relaxation

I gently coloured the chicks and bubbles with Copics and added a little clear Wink of Stella to the bubbles. I actually had to add a couple more bubbles after my first placement, as the composition was slightly off centre. I added one tiny bubble and somehow manage to get a blob of ink on the card in the process so had to add another bubble to cover that!

New Die

Just recently I received a new bunch of dies from SImon Says Stamp and I simply love this daisy!( I seem to be doing lots of daisies recently...It's my granddaughter Daisy's last day in Primary School today so maybe I have her on my mind!)

I simply cut it together with a square Framelit die and put a little print from a stencil behind it. I think the delicacy of the print suits the delicacy of the flower. The ink is very shimmery as I added some Inka Gold paste to the mix for the print. The sentiment from Hero Arts is stamped with Brilliance Ink in Pearlescent Sky Blue.

It's for a couple of challenges.

AAA Cards

CASology

 

I have to say that the Shimmer in this card is rather subtle, merely because there's not a lot of it!!

Christmas in July

For this challenge, I looked for one of the smallest Christmas stamps in my collection, as the brief from AAA Cards is to leave maximum white space. This little wood mounted stamp is from Stampendous, coloured with alcohol markers and cut with a MFT pierced die. The embossed surround on the card front, was made with the next size up of the same set of dies.

I think that this is a potential for mass production as two runs through the Big Shot, one stamp and a little colouring completed the task! The stark simplicity really pleases me.

To give some idea of perspective... the die cut square is about 2.5 cms or 1x inch square.

The Holly and the Ivy Challenge!

The Male Room - Christmas in July

Exhausted!

My granddaughter said that I was awesome!

This last week we've had two of our grandkids staying with us for the first week of their Easter break.

At this time of year various National Trust properties hold Easter trails sponsored by Cadbury's Chocolate who provide Easter Eggs as prizes.  

We have done many trails this week! 

Granny is suitably exhausted, but with the amount of chocolate on tap you can see why I was thought to be awesome! It was however great fun! For the last one we did, we were joined by my littlest granddaughter Cleo and the three cousins all had great fun together!

Now to my card. It 's an Art Impressions stamp with a computer generated sentiment. I coloured it very gently so as not to show through on the inside of the card!

It's for the challenge at Addicted to CAS

Addicted to Stamps and More  - Anything Goes

CAS Christmas Guest Designer

I was fortunate to have one of my cards selected as the winning submission in the Challenge at CAS Christmas. With this win came an invitation to join them as Guest Designer for one month.

This is that month and here is my first card.

 

As you may see the focus this time is the keyword Deer!

My card consists of simply 2 stamps, an image from Stampin' UP and a sentiment from Penny Black both embossed in Gold on a black base. The front panel has been popped up onto dimensional pads, to add just a little definition to the design.

The team at the CAS challenges are an amazing bunch of designers and so much inspiration is to be had over there, so do go and take a peek and join in the fun!
This is another submission for the Male room - No Designer papers

Musical birthday

Happy New Year to you all!

As most of my cards are sold as a fund raiser for my choir and purchased by its members, the purchasers often like to have cards with a musical link or theme!

Here is one such, for the CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers

I added a little extra texture to the front panel with an embossing plate from Papertrey Ink, over which I added a strip of Tim Holtz Washi Tape. The violin was stamped with a very old stamp from Rubbadubbadoo, using Versafine Black Onyx ink and then clear embossed. It was cut out and mounted on dimensional pads.

The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.

We had a great holiday for our anniversary and came home straight into the celebrations for Christmas spent with our daughter and grandchildren. 

We managed to find a rocking horse for our grandson... something which he has wanted for quite some time, but until this year my daughter didn't have space to house one, but having moved to a new property, we thought now was the time. Keeping him sequestered in the back of the car until Christmas morning was a challenge, but all was well!

He loves him!

Black & White Christmas

Here is a card using the sketch from CASe this Sketch

It's a really simple make using a Free stamp from a Magazine, a strip each of Washi tape and black card and a circular mount for the image.

I stamped the image in Versafine Black Onyx and then clear embossed it to give some shine. The dies used for the circles were Framelits and Spellbinders.

It's also for the CAS challenges at Addicted to Stamps and More

 & CAS on Friday Use Washi Tape

Bravo

Some weeks ago I took my gorgeous granddaughter Daisy for her tap exam.

I watched the pre-exam practice and was really impressed with how well she was dancing in her set of 4 girls. The icing on the cake came when she returned to her dance school after the summer break to be told that she had gained a distinction in her exam.

This is the card I made to congratulate her.

The image was downloaded from the internet and the sentiment made from a die from Cutplorations, cut in three layers with her name added using the computer. The peekaboo frame was from a die by MFT. The front panel was cut with a stitched square die also from MFT, but extended a little to fit the front of my card.

Bravo daisy!

It's for the CAS challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

Here's that sketchy elephant  from Stampers Anonymous again. This time I paired it with a simple die cut Birthday sentiment from Papertrey Ink. Sadly I don't remember the make of the 'wish' die. 

Just us Girls is asking for Hand Drawn elements, so this was hand drawn... albeit not by me!

I did think about using a stamp which I drew and which was on the front of Craft Stamper Magazine as their 'FREE' stamp, but I feel it's a little passe now!

Another Christmas Card

This dear little image from a Day for Daisies has long been a favourite of mine.It has been gently shaded with Promarkers and given a little Glamour Dust to the top of the stocking. The sentiment was computer generated straight onto the card and the dry embossed snowflakes were effected from a Freebie folder from a magazine. The image was cut out and popped onto dimensional pads.

I used a few challenges as inspiration for this simple card.

The sketch from Case this Sketch

The subject matter from Addicted to CAS

CAS is the theme at Addicted to Stamps and More so it's for that too, I trust that a digital image still counts as a stamp!

AAA Cards has Christmas in July so it's for that too!

Clean and Simple butterflies

Four of my favourite things for cards...  die-cutting, smooshing, butterflies and a CAS design.

A piece of smooshed card was placed behind the Sizzix die cut and the three All Occasion Dies butterflies were die cut from the remainder of the card.

For the smooshing technique I placed a small amount of Inka Gold paste onto a craft mat and added some Aqua Tint inks before spritzing with water. The colours merge together beautifully and the Inka Gold adds a subtle touch of metallic shimmer. It can be used for backgrounds or as here, for die cutting.

The sentiment from Just Rite stamps was stamped with Ranger Dye Ink in Caribbean Coast. The front panel of the card was cut with a stitched rectangle die from Simon Says Stamp, elongated slightly to fit British card proportions.

It's for 

The Paper Players

Happy Little Stampers  

Double sided!

Lots of things tell us when we're getting old... for example I wondered why I couldn't find the first of my two cards here today when the time for photographing them arrived. Eventually I realised that I had made one card on the back of the other!!!! DOH!

Like Siamese twins, they are now separated again, but what a palaver!

This first one follows the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches ...

and is using the theme from Kylie's challenge at Addicted to Stamps Blog

It's simply a bunch of die cuts from Memory box, MFT, Lil Inkers and I can't quite remember where the sentiment die is from... getting old again!

Many congrats to Kylie on the upcoming happy event in her family and as you may see I've gone with the girly option! I have the cutest granddaughters and can only say what a joy they are. Here is a pic of the little one recently!

~

This card uses the sketch from CASe this Sketch

with the theme of Grunge from Addicted to CAS

All the stamps used on this card are from Stamplorations, who are sponsoring the challenge this time.