No stamping Happy Birthday

Morning all.

Just a quick card today and a rather appropriate one.

Today is my birthday and we should have been out and about but the weather and a broken tooth put paid to that and our meal out is in the balance as eating is not easy.

Anyway I rang the dentist first thing and after  explaining that the Monday afternoon appointment was too far off, they said they would ring back later.

So while I waited I played in the craft room making this CAS card without any stamping, MFT small letters and pierced rectangle. Marianne balloon and part of a Happy Birthday die from The Range, possibly X-Cut. 

CASology are celebrating their 5th birthday so I decided to use their cue word BALLOON and LIM's no stamp challenge together with AAA's rainbow challenge for my inspiration. The balloons were coloured with Copics after the letters were die cut and I added some strings with a black fine liner.

I'm back from the dentist now with a temporary filling and an appointment for Monday with a locum dentist, as ours has sadly broken her ankle! Hopefully it will stop the ouch when drinking until they can sort it out. Think I will leave the celebratory meal until the temporary filling is a bit more settled.

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Another die cut Santa

Evening all.

Looks like I will be spending my birthday at the dentist tomorrow. Would you believe that I broke a tooth whilst eating a salmon salad for tea! I think part of my filling came away as well as it feels cavernous at the back. 

At least the wasps that have been plaguing us in recent days appear to have been dealt the killer blow by the very nice Welsh wasp man who came this afternoon, rather later than expected as the pesky blighters have been keeping him busy along the Welsh border today. I hate the little black and yellow stingers, jaspers as my chemistry teacher from Bristol used to call them, they are horrible in any language. 

After my play with my new Santa die, I just couldn't stop making another card, this time I kept it pretty simple.

Plain A6 top fold card stamped with a few stars and a sentiment from Crafters Companion in sparkly gold EP. No shading on his beard just his face and hat coloured with Copics, simples. May be making a few more of these.

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Christmas in July

Merry Monday

Rudolph Days July Challenge

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Afternoon peeps.

It's been a bit of an on and off day today. Rain then sun so as a result I took refuge in my craft room to play with a die I picked up at Hobbycraft last week. It's a fab Santa die from Sizzix that I'd had my eye on for awhile and as it was in the sale, well I just had to have it!

Here is the card I made based on the sketch at the Paper Players.

I decided to use some of my large stash of Christmas DP for the background and unusually for me it's a 5 x 7 base. After cutting out the pieces I added some detail with my Copics and mounted him up on pads over my sentiment strip. The sentiment is a combination of a Marianne and freebie sentiment.

The DP is an ancient pack of papers from DoCrafts which I thought matched both sentiment and image.

There are lots of challenges out there this month that have the same Christmas in July theme so here goes:-

  

   

#26 Pattern Paper                     Christmas in July

Christmas in July

STAMPlorations a reminder and happy summer holidays

Hi and welcome to a reminder that there is still time to join us for the July theme/sketch challenge over at STAMPlorations. It's our last one for a couple of months so we DT can have a break and recharge our batteries. 

Here is my inspiration for you.

I decided i better use some of my NEBUS stash, so got out my Lotus Love set and had a play.

I sort of used both the sketch and the theme, you could use either though.

  

After stamping, masking and embossing, I coloured the flowers with my Zig pens and then washed in some blue for the water. The embossed outline, I used clear over black, allows the watercolour to flow without getting where you don't want it to. I trimmed away the right hand side of the design and slipped under a piece of DP that I had floating around with some added black Copic colouring. The sentiment, from the Fond Expressions #2 set was stamped in black to finish.

For more fab inspiration check out the rest of the team here,

Join us, we'd love to see what you do with the theme/sketch.

If you are hoping over to the STAMPlorations shop then you might want to get an extra 20% off by using this code.

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Stamping on Tissue Paper and Brusho

Good morning all.

It may be summer outside in this neck of the woods but over at Cardz4Galz there is a decided chill in the air, metaphorically speaking that is!

Our brand new challenge theme is -

CHRISTMAS/WINTER in JULY

I'd already made a traditional card for the challenge over at Cardz4Guyz so decided to go a little more contempoary with this.

I was determined to join in at CAS Mix up where they are playing with tissue paper, then I saw the latest challenge at Inkspirational and the ideas just came together. It even evolved again as as soon as I cut my top panel with circle dies, I saw baubles! I had originally decided to go with large stamped and embossed snowflakes but after  the idea of baubles took hold, I went with some smaller ones, stamped over panels of Brusho covered tissue mounted on card. 

I made the panels by sprinkling Prussian Blue and Turquoise Brusho onto my craft mat then spritzing with water, then laying my tissue paper over the top. Carefully removing the tissue I put it to one side to dry before gluing it onto circles of card slightly larger than the apertures on the top panel with PVA glue. I coated the top with more glue and added some fine Brusho powder to give extra texture. When totally dry, I gave them a good dusting of anti static powder and stamped and embossed the snowflakes in white. The position of the snowflakes towards the edge of each panel gives the idea of a sphere I think.

I sketched the neck of the ornaments with a black fine line marker and added water to pull out the colour and blend, then used the same pen to draw in the hanging threads. A Uniko sentiment completes the top panel which sits on pads over the tissue ones, which are glued to the base card.

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Brusho and die cuts