Giveaway!

As part of my big craftroom purge I am doing a giveaway! There are two bundles of Little Claire stamps, Bundle A  - all DL sized, and Bundle B.  All have been lightly used, but are in good condition. Unfortunately due to the high postage costs I am having to limit this to UK only.

Bundle A

Bundle B

If you are interested in winning either of the bundles please leave a comment on this post. The closing date for entries is midnight on 15 April 2022.

I will do the draw over the Easter weekend.

Good luck!

A Masterpiece for Rudolph!

No not one of mine(lol)! I recently saw a post from Miss Di using the Penny Black Materpieces made Simple toppers which inspired me to get some. The title of them is very apt as they do make simple cards that really are very nice. 

I chose to use a pale blue card with a shimmery gold mat. Very simple. The hardest part was finding a rectangle die that was the same proportions - this was the best out of the many I've got - but is still not quite right. The sentiment was just stamped with gold ink., and I added some Wink of Stella to the snowy bits for a bit of sparkle.

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

NBUS - the topper

Snippets Playground - the mat

Anyone for coffee?

Roy's birthday is coming up soon and I was feeling a bit stuck for ideas for his card. I was sure I had bought a stamp sometime ago especially for it, but there was nothing sitting on my desk that looked remotely suitable, so thought I must have dreamt buying it. The trouble was I couldn't even remember what the image was! So Plan B got put into action.  Coffee!

The stamp set is from Altenew . I used a piece of gingham paper to represent a tablecloth, although that well known chain of coffee shops that he frequents for his flat white certainly doesn't have any!

Typically as soon as I had finished this card and was clearing away I found the stamp I had bought. Oh well it will come in handy for next year - if I remember I've got it.

 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - Food and /or Drink

WOYWW

I haven’t joined in with WOYWW for absolutely ages but thought it was a good idea to show you why I haven’t been producing any cards. This is my desk.

And then there is the floor!

We’re having ceilings plastered in one of the bedrooms and bathroom so crates of stuff from them are currently living on my floor!  I’ll be so pleased when I can put everything back.

Rudolph Day - February 2022

Well it's time for the second Rudolph Day of the year. Rummaging through my drawer of unfinished bits I found some pre-printed stamped toppers from SSS that had come in some of their kits. This was the first one I found and as my watercolour paints were still on my desk from a painting workshop I decided to use them to colour it.

I then simply mounted it onto a red card blank and added some red twine. 

 

 

The second one is also watercoloured but is not my favourite! And the paint looks very blotchy in the photo but not IRL.

A Bit Later Than Intended

I fully intended to post again last week after my valentine card but time seemed to run away from me. Anyway better late than never, so here are my latest paintings.

This one was following a tutorial by Rebecca de Mendonca with a view of Dartmoor.

 

The second was also a tutorial from Rebecca . Both were done using Unison soft pastels.

 

The third one is watercolour done on a Zoom workshop with Alison C Board.

Hope you like them! I need to get them mounted and framed now but they all have to be made specially as I still haven't managed to paint anything standard size!

A Valentine!

I suddenly realised that it was Valentines's Day next Monday so yesterday I made  a quick card after I had cleared away all the mess from my pastel painting. I will show you those later in the week.

As you can see it was a very quick card. I die cut a red heart with an old SU die set and the added the Penny Black train. I've had this die for ages waiting for an occasion to use it.

I'm finding card making a bit difficult since I had my cataracts done. I'm constantly having to take my reading glasses on and off, not a problem I had before, in fact I'm thinking of asking the optician for varifocals when I next have my eyes tested, just for card making!

 

Challenges entered: 

Pixies Snippets Play ground - red and black snippets.

NBUS Challenge - Penny Black die

Cardz for Guyz - 

Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes with Dies

I'm Back!

Well it's been quite a while since I posted anything! First of all we went on a cruise over Christmas, which was great even with Covid measures in place. Then after we got back had paperwork to do, dental visits, and setting up a new computer plus reformating the old one for Roy. Then I had to help son with his tax return, Today I have managed to make a card for two challenges - hooray!

It is fairly simple though. I heat embossed the Woodware stamp in gold then mounted it on gold mirri card. 

Challenges:

 Rudolph Day

  52 Christmas Card Throwdown

Christmas Cheque Holder

The challenge at Make My Monday this week is for a gift card holder. Well this is close, it's a cheque holder!

It's always difficult to know what a teenage boy wants and cash seems to be appreciated! I used a very old  sheet of card that has been in my stash since I first started making cards, maybe from QVC! The stamp set is one of my favourite Christmas sets, and I can't remember the make. Old age is creeping up!

Great Tit

I recently did an online Workshop with Matthew Palmer to paint a Great Tit. As it was only a small picture I decided to make it into a card. 

I matted it onto grey card twice to give it a good frame.No sentiment as I will add that when I send it to someone.I would like to share this at HLS watercolour challenge. It’s the first time I have joined in since leaving the DT team!