For the women in your life

Hi and good morning to you.

It was a real miserable day yesterday, all the lambs were huddled with their mum's out of the wind so no photo opportunities. Maybe we will get another delivery from the lambing sheds today as it is supposed to be a little better.

Anyhow, here is a card I made for my DT over at Cardz4Galz.

As it is Mothering Sunday this weekend and International Women's Day the week after we would like to focus on -

WOMEN /WOMAN

Sadly it is nearly three years since my Mum passed away so no Mother's day cards for me to give, so I made my card that could be given for any occasion really.

I chose this cheeky little bear with balloons from LOTV after seeing the Muse card this week. I used one of my favourite techniques for the layout, using some NitWit papers left over from another project and colouring the bear's balloons with Copics to match the DPs. The linen effect card top was cut with a Spellbinders oval die then embossed with a freebie EF. If you do it the other way around the embossing gets flattened!

Top panel trimmed to size, grass cut with a MS punch from scraps of green, a little bit of purple at top and bottom and a sentiment finish off the scene.

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Love the cute elephant with all those balloons, my teddy with his letter one's should fit the bill. The scene in the Muse card was interpreted slightly differently too, not too many liberties taken with this interpretation I hope.

C is for Cute

LIM meets NEBUS

Good afternoon peeps.

I hope you are all safe and well what with the white fluffy stuff around much of the UK today. 

Max was not impressed with the weather this morning, so when I took him out at 9 he just took one look at the wind and sleet and turned tail. However he must have been pretty desperate as he did eventually venture about 10yds into the yard, did the necessary then came back in!

He's been sitting next to the log burner most of the morning but as he likes to see what's happening outside he spent a lot of time in his cosy bed by the glazed kitchen door, until the hail rattled on the glass and woke him up!!! I just feel sorry for the new born lambs, not the best start to life.

Here is a piccy I took earlier in the week.

Anyway down to business.

The wonderful Darnell is hosting another of her NEBUS challenges. I love her idea, we all have unused stash in our hoard that we saw and just had to have and never used, so it's good to get it out and do something positive with it!

Here is my entry, though there may be more as I still have stuff I got for Christmas unused in boxes.

This is made with an MFT die set that I saw in a craft shop and simply had to have!

I cut the pieces from some flecked blue card, except for the zip and HB2U, which I cut from some ancient silver card in the scrap box. I ran the pockets and front panels through a Taylored Expressions Cable Knit embossing folder, then assembled the pieces. I had some linen textured card left over, so added a T shirt underneath which doesn't really show up on this photo. The toggle on the zip was a bit of a head scratcher as thread was not right then I remembered that Less is More would like to see wire on your CAS project so that was what I did, it did give a little weight to the star toggle so it hangs better.

That's about it, the sun is now shining, so hopefully the white stuff is a thing of the past for today, anyway.

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Recipe week - use some wire

Just the picture

Holiday @ATSM

Good evening and welcome to a post to announce the latest challenge over at ATSM.

This week the theme is - 

HOLIDAY

So, any project that celebrates a holiday, Christmas or as Easter is just around the corner why not an Easter card, the choice is yours.

For my card I went with Christmas as I have plenty of Easter cards and my stash of Christmas ones could do with an addition.

My inspiration for this came from a couple of challenges. I used the sketch at Sketch Saturday and the photo at Christmas Card Challenges.

I used Wilted Violet and Chipped Sapphire to create the inky background and I used some linen textured card to die cut the panels as well as the base card.

After inking the purple panel I spritzed it with my own mix of Platinum Inca Gold and water to give the sky some shimmer, then added some white stars with a gel pen. I cut a circle in the top white panel with a MFT stitched circle die then cut a frame for it with two of the same. From scraps of textured card I cut a tree scene using a Marianne die and assembled the bits to create the scene. A length of silver chord was wrapped around the central panel and tied with a bow to finish. The assembled panel was popped up over the purple one and then that was glued flat on to the base card.

OK, that's a wrap from me. Please check out the rest of the team for more inspiration and then why not join us?

This week we are sponsored by

with the winner getting their choice of 3 digis.

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Sailing By

Good morning.

Have you said March hare this morning? 

Well it is the first of a new month and there is an 'R' in March as per the old English tradition!

Anyway it is Tuesday so as it's 9 o'clock it must be time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week we would like to see a masculine project where you -

MAKE YOUR OWN BACKGROUND

For my card I went with an inked background to my little sailing boats.

I'd come across a card by Chari Moss for Lawn Fawn, I used her idea of the inked and masked waves.

I cut a mask from a post it and started with Twisted Citron DI then added Salty Ocean and Mermaid Lagoon in alternate layers until I got the effect. I cut the panel in three, using a thin strip of the darker blue for the horizon then with the other two panels I used a circle punch to cut away the edge to create a wave pattern.

The sky was inked using Mustard Seed and Spiced Marmalade, blended to give a smooth finish with some die cut clouds as smoke from the Woodware boats, which I stamped then coloured with Copics before fussy cutting out. Arranging the boats behind the waves, I popped up the top layer on pads.

As the greeting was surrounded by other bits on the actual stamp, I masked them off with post it's before inking then removed them and stamped the MFT die cut banner.

OK, that's it from me but please check out the rest of the team for more inspiration and why not join us this week.

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That Craft Place - Anything Goes


Anything Goes - no sketch for me this time

Spring has Sprung?

Good morning folks.

Just popping by to share a card I made to share for the new challenge at Cards und More.

This time we are celebrating

SPRING

Well it is the 1st of March today and we have had our third lot of lambs, so spring can't be far away.

Here is my DT card for your inspiration.

For this challenge we are sponsored by 

so I have used their 'Bulb Window', they are generously offering the winner a $12 voucher.

After printing it out, I coloured the freesias with Copics then trimmed around the window and the buds and using the sketch, patterns and colours from the latest Fusion challenge I arranged it on the card.

The blue panel was printed using an embossing folder and Blueprint Sketch DI and the die cut filigree panel was cut using a Creative Impressions die. The LOTV sentiment was also stamped with Blueprint Sketch and die cut with a MFT stitched circle die.

OK, that's about from me so please check out the rest of the teams fab inspiration and then why not join us this time.

As I said earlier we have a few new born lambs down from the lambing sheds, so here are a couple of photos.

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