Silver Wedding

First of all I was deeply saddened this week to learn of the untimely death of a blogging friend, Kath of Plain and Simple. She made beautiful cards, very often floral and paperpieced. She was a long term commenter on my blog, having comented on almost every post over the last few years.  She will be sadly missed in blogland.

R.I.P Kath xx

Now onto a card I made for a friend's silver wedding earlier this month. I went for elegant and understated and hope I managed to achieve it!

The background stamp is yet another NBUS from Simon Says Stamp, Inked and stamped in silver using the Misti . The numbers are SU dies which I cut out three ties and layered up to make them stand out. I am sharing with NBUS challenge and Try it on Tuesday

Rudolph Day June

Thank goodness it's a bit cooler her so I was able tospend a pleasnt afternoon making a card for Rudolph Day while Roy hosted the monthly meeting of the local branch of the British Model Soldier Society. he van no longer paint them as he is unable to manipulate the paintbrush with the arthritis in his hands, so every so often I get the job!!!! Here is a photo of one of the ones I am currently doing. The background is my SU grid paper showing centimetres.

 

Anyway onto more interesting things like cards. I have used a NBUS stamp that I bought last September and which has been sitting on my desk ever since.

 

The die is from an old SU set and is the only Christmas one I have that fitted the space. I'm going to share this at the NBUS challenge as well.

Twins Birthday Cards

Gosh it’s a long time since I posted anything. Did you miss me? I haven’t done much crafting in the last couple of weeks as I had cataract surgery on both eyes last week. Distance vision is now better than it was with my glasses. The downside is I need reading glasses to read my phone! 

Anyway onto some cards which I made some time ago. You may remember from last year that there are twin boys living next door and they recently had their fourth birthday. As I’m writing this they are out in the garden, playing with what seems to be new toys - bicycles with bells!

As they are not identical twins I always make the same card but different for them. This year I used the Lawn Fawn double slider die set with suitable traffic!

 

 

 

A red one and a blue one!

 

 

 

Apparently they were delighted with them! Lots of snippets used  so I’m sharing in the Playground.

June Rudolph Day

Its Rudolph Day again at Scrappymo’s, only 5 more to go before the big day! So if you haven’t made a start yet on those Christmas cards, maybe you should start! 

I used a new stamp from Chocolate Baroque which I thought would make a quick and easy card. Wrong! Eventually I stamped in red and clear embossed it as it looked too flat just stamped.I found some matching red card for a mat and mounted it on a large square card. The matching bow is some old SU ribbon, added to hide where the stamp missed a bit. The sentiment is a PaperRose die.  I’m also sharing at NBUS challenge and Pixies Playground even though my snippets (the card I stamped on and the mat) are rather large!

Perfectly CAS June

The middle of the month means its time for a new challenge over at Perfectly Cas.This is my last card for it as a design team member, as explained in my HLS posts.

This month we want you to use just one corner and remember that you must only use one third of the card as well to keep it Perfectly Cas.

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I used a Simon Says Stamp die and coloured it with Copics. I also used one of my last hemp card blanks which are no longer available from Craft Creations. Such a pity as I really did like them.

Do go and have a look at all the fabulous makes from the rest of the DT.

HLS Stencil June

And now it's time for the fourth Happy Little Stampers challenge for June - Stencils. As I'm sure you will have realised by now this is my last DT card for the challenge. It is as ever Anything Goes.

 

I used a Clarity stencil which is definitely one of my many NBUS items. I sponged over it with Distress Inks. I added two bees from a freebie set of stamps. 

The sentiment is stamped on a strip of inked card that was trimmed off the stencilled piece. Lots of inspiration on the challenge blog so do head over there and have a look.

HLS Christmas June

Welcome to the Happy Little Stampers Christmas challenge. As I said in my previous post this will be my last  DT card for the challenge.

 

Normally I would have gone with the  optional twist but I couldn't find anything in my stash with tinsel. So instead I used a new Simon Says stamp and die set and a new Paper Rose die for the sentiment.

The sentiment and red layer are red glitter paper, and red stickles were added to the baubles.

There's a whole heap of lovely inspiration on the challenge blog.I’m also sharing at NBUS challenge.

HLS Watercolour June

It's the first of the month (well it is in Australia!) so it's time for the first of the monthly challenges at Happy Little Stampers. Sadly this will be my last DT make as I made the decision to step down when I was diagnosed with Polymyalgia in March. I need to keep the stress levels down. But I'm hoping to join ib from time to time.

  As always it is Anything Goes but must include watercolouring.

 

 I used a Penny Black stamp which I love and did some no line watercoloring. I used White Knights watercolours.

Do pop over to the challenge blog where you will find lots of inspiration from the rest of the DT and I hope to see you joining in.

Rudolph Day - May

I'm not sure where the month has gone but it's time for Rudolph Day again! Normally I have a card made well in advance but not this month!  I  have used a NBUS Woodware stamp that I won in the mega Christmas Draw at Pixies Crafty Playground. Thank you Di.

I stamped the image in  black and heat embossed it on  watercolour card as I have a lot of offcuts lying around from my painting classes. I coloured it with Derwent Graphitint watercolours, then added a slimline scalloped frame from Simon Says Stamp ( another snippet and NBUS) so I'm also sharing this at Pixies Playground and the NBUS challenge.

Perfectly Cas May

My goodness it's the middle of the month already so time for the new challenge at Perfectly Cas.

 

 This month we want to see repeat stamping, but remember to only use one third of the crd so that there is lots of white space.

I used some fairly old peg stamps from Cardio to stamp a floral panel across the card.

The sentiment is a Clarity stamp one. 

There's lots of lovely makes on the challenge blog from my fellow DT memebers.