365 Cards Day 155 Super Sketchy Sunday. Cute Card Thurdsay #71 Let's Get Fruity & Stamp Something - Paper Piecing

I have wanted to try out this stamp from June's KOM from Unity Stamps, and this was my chance. I decided to combine the sketch from 365 Cards with the technique from Stamp Something and the theme from Cute Card Thursday.
So here is a card with fruit for Cute Card Thursday, a small amount of paper piecing... the partridge and the tree trunk, for Stamp Something, altogether in 365's sketch.
I stamped a piece of the brown paperbag that my Unity stamps arrived in, with some old French script and used that for the background and the paper piecing. I used another small piece for the sentiment. The green background paper was stamped with random dots in gold.
I don't always like what I end up with, but I quite like this one!

Thank you!

Just before I take down my birthday cards, I thought I'd like to share some special ones with you from some of my blogging buddies (before they go into a keepsake box).
So a huge thank you to Sheila (Sheila's Wheels from the DoCraft site), Kathy (my SBS22 sister) June (from Virginia, where I lived in the 70's) Eileen (from Stoke-on-Trent, my hometown) and Victoria (my friend who's the proud mum of a gorgeous new baby, Blake).
Thank you ladies all, I love everyone of them, particularly as they were made especially for ME!

365 Cards Day 154 Planes, Trains and Automobiles

My cardmaking supplies in the transport department are sadly lacking it seems and I have had to resort to using this train border punch from Martha Stewart.
This is a simple birth congratulations card using a Forever Friends stamp and a Cuttlebug Swiss Dots embossing folder. The sentiment is from MSE.
I quite like simple cards!

Friday Sketchers ~ Dare U 2 Digi Stamp - Distressing & Simon Says Stamp - Distressing

I started with the sketch from Friday Sketchers and decided to use it for the challenge from Dare U 2 Digi Stamp, which entails distressing, as does the challenge from Simon says Stamp. I haven't entered any of the latter challenges before, but as they say, there's always a first time.
The digi-images are from Dustin Pike. I dropped the smaller dino into Word and reduced the size and flipped it to face in the other direction.
They are coloured with Derwent Inktense pencils and a water brush. I have discovered that I can colour onto much more porous card with pencils and obtain deeper colours, than I can with colouring pens.
The background was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder onto Core'dinations card and sanded. The rectangle was also embossed in a Cuttlebug, inked embossing folder. The circle was stamped with a Hero Arts stamp in Adirondack Woodland ink and over-stamped in gold with a dotty background stamp. All the edges were distressed with a file and the edges inked with Tim Holtz distressing inks.
The sentiment is from Unity stamps and I'm not really sure where the footprints are from, except that they are in a set of clear stamps of cats.
It was fun to do!