Flowery Birthday

The Simon Says Stamp April kit has some very pretty images in it. I made these cards to add to my stash  as I am running very short of birthday cards.

In real life they are much brighter but my camera has made them look a bit wishy washy!
 

Clarity Stamp Challenge and Cas Mix Up

This month Clarity Stamp Challenge is asking for masking to be used. I decided to use the stencil that was the latest from the NDC, together with some stamps from previous months. there was lots of maskinf to make the hills and river and to have the girl sitting at the front. Originally I doodled round the circle but deidn't like it ao had to cut it off!

The "Dream" sentiment is heat embossed in white.

I'm also entering this into the CAS Mix up challenge who want stamping, stencilling and one other technique. Mine is the embossing and diecutting.
 

Thank You Di!

I recently won a super die over at Pixies Snippets Playground and this is my first make using it.

 I used up a card blank that had been sitting on my desk since doing a SU workshop some months ago. So it was good to find a use for it at last! The papers are SU as well as is the butterfly stamp. Although it doesn't show up in the photo, the butterflies are very sparkly having had Wink of Stella liberally applied.

My LIM one layer card here has been made into two layers.

Although it doesn't look much different in the photo IRL I much prefer it!

Use Your Stuff!

I recently found a "new to me challenge" called Use Your Stuff and this week they are asking us to use kraft.

I had just finished  this page when I came across the site so thought it was serendipity!! Another page finished for my Oz scrapbook, still have quite a few to go though.
 

Less is More - Geometric One Layer!

The ladies at Less is More are asking for a one layer card using geometric shapes! I went with hexagons and four shades of purple.

I masked off the card leaving a strip to stamp the hexagons on. It looked a bit unfinished with just the stamping so I drew two lines top and bottom of the panel to edge it.

I'm never terribly happy with my one layer cards, they always look a bit unfinished to me and invariably I end up cutting them down and adding a mat behind them. I may well do the same here!

And as I used purple will enter it as my 2nd entry over at the Allsorts challenge.
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Purple Butterfly

I made this card to use up some bits off my desk. The card base had been cut out at Christmas then not used and the butterfly was left over from the picture here.

The papers are from a colouring book that was free with a magazine, which I colored with copics. The sentiment was also from the colouring book.

Mrs A's butterfly challenge is looking for fancy folds/fuschia, I think this can be classed as a fancy fold and with a bit (lot) of imagination some of the flowers in the background could be fuschias!

Allsorts are asking for purple - so think this qualifies there as well.
 

Less is More - New baby card

Wonders will never cease! Two posts in one day from me! The reason is Roy went out with some former work colleagues so I had a whole FOUR hours to myself!!!

The theme this week at Less is More is to leave plenty of "white Space" but not white! I have a number of coloured card blanks, bought many years ago when I first started cardmaking, that are now sitting unloved at the botom of my card blank box, so a perfect opportunity to use one!

I diecut the little suit from some dsp and hand drew the seam lines then diecut the hanger.  Very simple card but I rather like it. No new babies to give it to though so it will go into my box of cards - just in case! I'd better make a blue one as well!

Football birthday.

It's my youngest son's birthday on Friday and he is an enthusiastic football supporter so the choice of a football card was not difficult to make.

I cut the hexagons with the SU hexagon punch and embossed the white ones with a Swiss dots EF. I mounted them onto some "Chelsea" blue card, which I made by colouring white with a blue Copic  to get the right shade. Then I die cut the round shape which was quite difficult as it was quite thick. And of course it flattened the embossing! I edged the sentiment panel with a ruler and the same blue Copic. Lots of snippets used so I'm heading off to the Playground again.

Owl with Balloons!

It's Roy's birthday next weekend and usually I try to make him a card which relates to one of his interests, but I'm running out of ideas!  However he used to collect owls ( not real ones😄) so I thought I'd try a bit of punch art.

I love the owl punch - it's so versatile, so that together with the new balloon punch and matching stamp set formed the basis for my card. I glossy accented the balloons which is why they look a bit cloudy - they didn't photo well!

The good news is that he had a follow up appointment at the rehab unit this morning and they don't want to see him again, as he had made such good progress. There's still a lot of improvement needed but that will only happen over time and if he keeps doing his exercises.

I'm entering this into the Playground as it was made entirely from snippets apart from the card blank.

Happy Easter!

Another card using the SSS monthly kit.I think these bunnies are so cute!

I stamped them on some of the papers from the kit and added some white flock to the tail. The sun was stamped with a stamp from a previous kit and the hills are cut with Stitched Slopes and Hills dies.I think they would have shown up better if I'd used two shades of green.

Hope you all have a Happy Easter!

I would like to enter this in the following challenges
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge - Come Rain or Shine
Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything goes