Autumn mid month WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme from Emma of  

Autumn

   

 

More unused stamps used for this card, I went with this seed head stamp, (I thought it was seed heads!). I found some autumnal paper and decided to stamp on it. Then the seed heads were coloured with DI's, using oranges and yellows, although the oranges don't seem to have shown as well. I stamped a sentiment, knowing what a wicked sentiment I was adding onto the insert. I layered it onto die cut brown card.

It was then I decided to use a cream base card and bend the front in half. I added a ribbon which I thought matched and added the stamped layer to the rest of the half fold.

stamp - Woodware "Autumn Flowers"

ink - Memento black

sentiment stamp - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimon

paper - Nana's Digi Scraps 2012

ribbon - Dovecraft

insert sentiment stamps - Creative Craft Products

 

I cut the paper to size and attached it to the insert, then I went into fun mode, no idea why, that's how my mind works sometimes. I stamped the sentiments and then for more fun added the balloons. The black sentiment says "This Young".

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Three prizes from AALL and Create, two of border stamps and third two stencils 

 

 Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge here

Maths!

 Hi Everyone, well what a time I've had the last couple of weeks, with one thing and another I haven't had time to myself. Meaning not much time on my 'puter. Still short of time, I thought I had better post something of what I've been doing, although another quick card. It was my SiL's Grandsons birthday, and with everything going on, I had forgotten it, another one!

 

Anyhow, I knew I had this file, It has saved my life a few times. So used it again with a quote I saw on the web. I print and cut the sentiment with a layer of the background card, that I thought represented the + sign, and cut the numbers. It was just layer the pieces together and do a quick insert, using a stamp and a piece of the card. Simple, then into the envelope and delivered to his Grandmother, for his visit to her the next day. Whew. Another panic over. 

 

number SVG file - Get Silvered

Patterned card -  Craft Sensations

Silhouette

insert stamp - Woodware, 

a stamp set I won at The Playground, Thanks Di and Sarn.

 

 

the insert, using the same card and the stamp.

 

 

 

Due to our BiL's funeral, it will be family time and visits over the next few days so, I won't be visiting, and I don't know if I can catch up either.  Hope you are all OK and not so rushed as I have been over the last few weeks. Take care.

Little Things - TMR

 

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for  

 The Male Room

 

 A great challenge ay? I had too many options, so decided to go CAS.

 I haven't a clue how this card came about, as it started as something else, then I saw the bee, Ah! stripes! I have a dots embossing folder, dots and stripes, of course! And so it began. I used some scrap card and stamped the bee, then coloured it and used sparkle ink for the wings and 3D glaze for his eyes.  I fussy cut it. The scrap card was even big enough to cut a square, which I embossed with the EF.

 The sentiment was stamped onto another piece of scrap, with a stamp I was very lucky to win in the #455 Snippets Playground Challenge, I even got a glass of champagne in the treehouse! Then noticed even the sentiment has dots.

I needed something to "ground" the dots square, so I embossed a square die (with stitched dots) into the card. The dots square was placed inside it and the bee and sentiment was 3D'd onto it. A few more dots than stripes, but I think it's OK, seeing as the stripes are more prominent?

 

bee stamp - QKR Stampede

 inks - Distress Ink, mustard seed, fossilised amber, tumbled glass

sparkle pen - Crafters Companion

3D glaze - Nuvo

sentiment stamp - Woodware

 sentiment die - Tonic

dots embossing folder - Cuttlebug

square die - Tonic

outer die embossed - Sue Wilson Noble Square die

The square looks on a tilt, I measured and it's straight! My photography I guess?

 

I'll play at Snippets Playground 

 these are the snippet pieces of card I used

 

 

Crafty Animals #75 

 

 

Sympathy TMR

Hi Everyone, my card today is for 

The Male Room Challenge #167 

 

Clean and Simple is something I try very hard to do. This card came about as I was looking through my stamps and I realised I hadn't used this stamp, and others on the sheet for that matter. Anyhow, I stamped it onto a piece of spare card I had on my desk, just about big enough to die cut it and stamp the sentiment also. I then die cut a frame with a stitched edge, made a mistake while joining up the “stitches” hence the doodle, I think I prefer it this way.

tree stamp - Chocolate Baroque

sentiment - Woodware

ink - Memento tuxedo black

centre die - Tonic

frame die - Card Making Magic

 

Sewing card

 Hi Everyone. My card today was one I made for my SiL who is an expert sewer, so I thought this appropriate for her. I also added her face on the control button. I used a wonderful sewing machine by my blog friend Shirley.

I cut the main card and the top shape layer in pearlised card. I embossed the details on navy card, and rubbed over some gold metallic paste. Using the colours of the material for the cotton reels, I cut them out. The scissors were cut into 2 to use mirror card for the bottom. I used the cut shape in the file to cut the material and placed it on the shaped card. The sentiment was cut from the same navy card.

I placed a die cut leaf inside to add a little something with the stamped sentiment, as you can see in the first photo. I added it after I took the photo, as I thought it a little plain.

sewing machine cut file - Shirley Young 

white card for base - 300gsm The Range

navy card and Kraft card - stash

shape of machine card - Crafters Companion Centura Pearl White

coloured card - Dovecraft Textured card

material - old sheet recycled 

ef - WRMK Polkadots

metallic paste - Craft-T Products

stamp sentiment - Woodware

leaf stamp - Chloes Creative 

leaf die - small dies added to make a large bunch - Sissix

  a close-up of the layers and material

 

the centre without the added leaf, you can see in the top photo

 

 

I have already added this to my FB page, but I thought I would add it here too, as it is so funny, I think! It's a little shaky as I had the camera on a long zoom and couldn't hold it still. They are using the butterfly net over the veg, protecting them from the carrot fly.

 The Magpies on their bouncy castle! 

 

Word Art Wednesday #551-552 

 

 

 

B&W Dad

 Hi Everyone, I'm behind showing you this card, I found it amongst a few others I still have to show you. This was for Father's Day, told you I was behind hahaha.

I started by stamping the DAD, then die cutting the letters out with a black card layer added. The sentiment was stamped next and die cut. The car was stamped onto silver mirror card and embossed in silver too. I fussy cut it out. I cut a piece of paper from a pad and laid it onto black card. Simple card and appreciated by my son who requested it and hubby who received it, What more can I want.

Dad stamp - Craft Making Magic magazine freebie

sentiment stamp - Woodware

dies - Tonic (Dad) and Sue Wilson (sentiment)

 car - Magazine freebie

car paper - Craft Sensations B&W Collection

black and mirror card - stash

 

613 Avenue Create 202207

Polkadoodles Craft Challenge wk27 

Another year older! Critter Crazy

  Hi Everyone, I have 2 DT cards today, this is for -

Critter Crazy

Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter...

 

I have had this set of stamps a while, and have been picking up courage to colour these fab goats. I eventually did it with watercolour pencils for the goats, pencil strokes for the grass and some shading around the die cut frame. The sentiment was stamped and I added a green card border for it and the goats, I thought to tie in with the grass? I die cut a few flower heads and added them. Quite a simple card which I am happy with.

 

stamps - Woodware 

square die - Sue Wilson Noble square dies

watercolour pencils - Nuvo

flower die - Tattered Lace 

shading - Distress Inks

 

Allsorts Challenge #674  Option of "Scenic" - maybe?

scrapping4funchallenges #212 ATG

Crafty Animals Challenge #61 Animals

 

My Birthday and a Wish

 Hi Everyone, a card today that I made in Craft Club, to show them how to stencil and stamp with hot embossing. I made it 2 weeks ago and have just realised I haven't posted it. 

It's my 75th birthday today.  I was born after the war, so I don't remember the bombing. However, I do remember queuing with my mother for sugar and orange juice, amongst other things. All requiring Ration Books. It was tough living through the hardships after WW2 and the rationing and shortages that we all had to go through. However, my heart goes out to the people of Ukraine, who are running for their lives with no food, water, or warmth in extreme danger of being killed for trying to save their own and their families lives. 

My card has the sentiment "Make a Wish", my birthday wish is - that this War and others in the world, will end very soon and people will be able to pick up their lives and build them again in their homeland. God Bless you all.

I coloured the stencil with Distress Inks, then stamped the the image, I stamped and die cut the sentiment, layered it all onto black paper to frame it. I forgot to take my antistatic powder to prevent the embossing powder sticking, so I have fly away gold flecks, but I don't mind in this instance. I also went over some of the embossing powder with a glue pen and added more gold powder in places.

stamp - Woodware Autumn Flowers

sentiment and die - Julie Hickey

stencil - Funky Fossil

sentiment card - Crafters Companion Silver Centura.

I didn't mean for this post to be a sad one, but it's how we all feel I think. Although this evening, on a happier note, my 3 brothers will be with us, one who lost his wife last July, the other 2 with their wives, travelling for hours and hubby's sister, who is caring for her dementia husband and is desperate for a break! Her daughter will look after her father for the evening. The 8 of us will talk, laugh and remember good times, it always makes my day when we get together, which as we are all over the UK, we try and do at least once a year, this will be the first time since Covid and they all decided to do it for my birthday.  AW! We will try and forget the heartbreak and worry surrounding families here and abroad. I am so blessed to have them and my darling husband of nearly 56 years.

I hope this hasn't depressed you too much. Try and have a wonderful day and do what we are doing tonight and forget all your worries. Big Hugs to you all. xx

Animals TMR

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for 

The Male Room Challenge

This is my favourite sheep stamp. I saw the sentiment on the web and thought my sheep could be different and here is what happened.

I stamped the sheep twice, once on patterned paper and once on plain card. After  heat embossing, I used the patterned card as the base, fussy cutting it out of it's frame, then, using the plain card as it's head, I used distress ink, shading his nose and ears, also fussy cutting it and 3D layering it onto the patterned card. I used other card from the same pad to layer the sheep onto, then computer generated the sentiment layering it onto black paper. I cut the words out and placed them onto the card. Finishing off, I edged the backing paper with Distress Inks.

stamp - Lino cut Sheep - Woodware Stamps

eyes - Spectrum Noir marker

paper pad - Craft Sensations

dies - Sue Wilson Noble Square dies

Distress Ink

Crafty Animals Challenge #59

Crafting Happiness #121

Stamping & lots of piccies!

 Hi Everyone, I'm stamping again. I blended the background, and then stamped with blue, however I had to stamp twice and just moved the card, I hate waste! so I used some water and blended the most obvious parts, I think it's worked? You will be my judge! 

I also splashed some water over the whole card and added clear glaze in spots, all added to a navy card base and ribbon added. For all the faffing around I did on the card, I think it's OK. Maybe?

floral stamp - Woodware

sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie

inks - Distress Oxides

ribbon - stash

card - Jellybean Crafts

As this is a short post I thought I would show you the up to date, well a few weeks ago, piccies of our new fence and garden, you know I like boring you with the garden piccies. 😉 Look out for a "few". OR just scroll to the bottom. 

Sorry but none of these have been Photoshopped, so colours are not as bright as they should be. This shows the original grass line of the border, it's being reshaped and re grassed, to make the border about 2 feet wide, just 4 plants remain of the original shrubs, they were in the way of the fencers or the narrowing of the border, so had to be dug up. I have to say that my hubby is a hero for all the digging he has had to do at 78 years old.

this is the top corner which has been planted with a hydrangea and an Astilbe for the time being, more to come.

this is along the top border

towards the left top corner, the beans are gone now!

further along

the left top corner, still a mess, but one hebe planted and a saxifrage

still needing to be dug though 

this is the back of the garden, hubby has a new path and more digging to do, poor man.

I thought I would show you some pretty borders along the left side of the garden.

The dahlias are new this year and have put on a wonderful show.

a shame that some of this has to come up, being annuals. We

 have had a wonderful show this Summer.

That's all for now, I hope the lovely weekend weather that we have had in the UK, or at least in our part, got you ready for the rain that's due? 

Enjoy your week.

55th Anniversary

 Hi Everyone, my card is for my hubby, we are celebrating 55 years of marriage today. The sentiment "it was Mint to be" I thought apt, as we were introduced on a blind date we didn't know was happening! arranged by our mutual friends, who were courting (dating) at the time. He asked me on a second date, I had just finished with someone and wasn't ready to start dating again, my friend said just one date to make a foursome so I can go out (with her boyfriend). I said OK.

We've been together ever since, that was 1963. We married in 1966, my Dad said as we were leaving the house, you don't have to get married if you have second thoughts! (I didn't) Bless him. I'm so glad I went through with it, as Hubby has been my rock through all our ups and downs, actually more downs that ups, but I couldn't have done it without him. AH!

OK all that romanticism is over now, just the card for you to see.

I wanted to use stamps I had and had been wanting to use for a while, I saw a card I was going to case, then it went from there, although I used a different stamp! It was only whilst stamping the background, I realised a 55 year anniversary is actually an emerald, how lucky is that! Silly me.

Anyhow, I stamped a background and die cut it to sit on a green mirror card, which also had been die cut. I then punched the heart out, stamped onto it, embossed and added separate punched hearts from card, coloured with the darker green. I stamped lots of mint leaves, fussy cut them (I don't like fussy cutting!) and layered them behind the heart. Another sentiment added and embossed then cut out with a die. It may be different, but as a man who loves his garden, I hope he will appreciate it, especially as we only send each other cards for our anniversaries when their special! 

heart and die cut sentiment card - gold Crafters Companion Centura Pearl

stamps - Magazine Freebies

inks - Distress inks - Shabby Shutters, Mowed Lawn

green mirror card - Hunkydory

heart punches - sm ?, large Woodware

square dies - My Favourite Things, Sue Wilson Square Noble dies

number dies - Magazine freebie

this shows the gold pearl card, which doesn't show face on

this is the insert before printing.

 I'm not good at putting words together, so I copied a verse I found online, just changing a few words here and there.

as I haven't used these stamps before I am entering the 

NBUS Challenge #27

Sheep!

 Hi Everyone, it's The Male Room Challenge today

The Male Room Challenge

A nice easy theme this month - Animals,

 definitely take your choice, all it has to be is - masculine.

Don't forget to add the badge to your post, to be included for the winner.

There is also a DT call, love making masculine cards? 

Come join us. See the blog for details.

This challenge was an easy one for me, I had to use my sheep again, I love this stamp. Although how to use it was another thing as I had already used it a few times HERE. In the end I decided to cut the head from the stamp frame and add a Wobbles. 

I stamped the head in black then added clear embossing powder, (the colour is a reflection in the room,) then added grey marker for shadow on the wool part. I used DO's to colour the background, keeping it natures colours and added a grass stamp to "bottom" the card. I  generated a sentiment on the computer and decided to cut it up and 3D it onto the card. A simple but fun card methinks. Sorry about the photo quality, blame the weather! It was for my #3 brother and he loved it. What more could I want.

stamp - Lino cut sheep, Woodware

ink - Stazon black

embossing powder - Papermania Clear

shadow - Spectrum Noir marker

background - Distress Oxide 

grass stamp - magazine freebie

sentiment - computer generated

This is after I wobbled the head LOL

Crafty Friends Challenge

The House That Stamps Built

Penny's Paper -Crafty Challenge

More of the same stamp!

 Hi Everyone, I couldn't resist making more of these here, with this stamp and making it with more natural colours of the sand mud buildings, (as I remember from my days in Saudi Arabia.)

I stamped the card, then using DI's, I coloured the rounded shape below each building with Speckled Egg, then different shades of yellow to do the buildings, trying to get more of a sandy colour, which in real life they do! I blame the dark rainy day for the picture quality! I added metallic pens to colour the manger images. I am into batch making at the moment, I thought I had already done more Christmas cards than I had, so batch making with a few, as my previous post and these. I think I still have about 30 more to make, so I may even do more batch making?

stamp - Woodware Peaceful Night

inks - Distress inks

metallic pens - Tesco

star die - magazine freebie

gold mirror card - Dovecraft

Autumn Pods stamp

Hi Everyone, more cards I did recently, I have bought a few stamps, can't believe it! I saw these and loved them, I thought they were simple and could be used whatever the occasion. Firstly I had seen (can't remember where now,) of making straight lines and distressing a shade. (If you know please let me know so I can give credit for the great idea.) EDIT - I have had a few people comment that it is the amazing Eileen Godwin, thank you everyone and Eileen too. I thought it sounded simple enough that I could do it, luckily I found it a great thing to do. When I had finished that card, I added water to the colours and pressed my card into it, then when dried I stamped on top of it. The third I just stamped and layered. I bought the other 2 stamps in the set also, so look out for those at a later date!

stamp - Woodware Autumn Pods  

sentiment stamps - magazine freebies

Distress inks

black ink - Stazon

embossing powder - WOW clear sparkle

glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze

This is the one where I used a piece of card, then blending distress inks off it, to make the straight lines. I added colour to the stamped image and added sequins.

This is the one where I added water to the Distress inks left on my glass mat and pressed the card into it, stamping on top with a darker shade of the background and added clear sparkle embossing powder to it and layering just the corners.

This is just plain stamping, no embossing powder.

 I did add glaze to the centre of the flowers, instead of colour.