Mix and Match small stamps and a few extras!

Good morning peeps.

It's week two of my GD stint over at JUGS, so here is my card for your inspiration.

Now can you guess what is hand drawn?

I wanted to make a wreath but I couldn't get the full coverage with the stamps I had about so after stamping the first 4 sprays with the Uniko Originally Organic Additions and the flowers from Big and Bold - Hello, using my homemade wreath maker, I drew in a few more leaves, some berries and a tiny flower and coloured every thing in with Copics. The greeting, also from Uniko, Simply Said Christmas was stamped and embossed with gold EP. My finished panel was then mounted on a panel that I'd previously edged with a Versamark pen and embossed with the same gold EP. Both panels were then mounted on a white, 5 x 5 square base card. 

Go on, be brave and add some hand drawn elements to your project, we'd love to see them.

By the way, if you are a subscriber or you just pick up a copy of Craft Stamper, you'll spot me in the October issue in part of an article featuring Uniko stamps!

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Another one for the stash

Hi and welcome to a post for the brand new challenge over at ATSM.

Here is my inspiration for you.

This week our theme is:-

Always needing to add to my stack of Christmas cards I ignored the up coming festival of Halloween and went with the opportunity to add to my stash.

The colour challenge at CAS-ual Fridays put the idea of snow and cooler times into my head and my layout was inspired by the latest challenge at CAS(e) this Sketch.

To start I masked off a panel on a white base card then added a background of heat embossed snowflakes with a retired STAMPlorations stamp, before inking with Altenew's Minty Mint. My die cut bauble, cut from silver mirror card was a freebie from a couple of years ago and the sentiment is from Uniko. The top panels were popped up on fun foam and the bauble string added freehand.

For more HOLIDAY inspiration, check out the rest of the girls here.

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Challenge #79
Beautiful Backgrounds

CAS on Friday Sketch

Evening all. It's time for a new challenge over at HLS CAS. Here's my card for this month's inspiration.

Our theme for the month is -

Lots of ideas went through my head but eventually I decided to use some Tim Holtz 'Wild Flowers' die cuts and the sketch from CAS on Friday. I did rotate it 90 ' but hope that's OK.

The panel and die cut circle were inked with a mix of various DOx inks and gently spritzed with water for a little extra texture before being glued to my base card. The black die cut wild flowers were glued over the panels and a stamped and embossed sentiment strip added to complete.

We are off to a funeral for a friend's mum tomorrow so this card rather summed up the mood, autumn skies and harvest moon. She was in her mid 90's, so a good innings but sad none the less.

So where will wild take you, for a wild night out perhaps or include a wild animal, unsure? Well pop over to the main blog and check out the rest of the fab team here. Just remember these guidelines.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

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Guesting with JUGS

Hi and welcome to a very early scheduled post. I'm very excited to announce that the reason for this early start is that I am guesting over at JUGS for the month of September. Here is my first card for you.

Our theme this week is -

This is a card I made for my Sister -in law and husband's golden wedding anniversary. Sorry the pic is a little dark but taking a pic of gold mirror card as well as glitter card is a mite tricky!

I totally went with the gold theme here, using a foliage die from MB, a free rose die from Altenew as well as sentiments from Uniko and a CC diecut background.

For the roses I cut some of the layers from a panel of watercolour paper and some from glitter card. The w/c die cuts were then coloured using  Zigs in golden yellows. The foliage was also cut from various scraps of gold card and arranged around the 3 roses. My background panel was cut from pale cream card using the CC die and glued onto a matching 5 x 7 cream base card. 

The celebrate was stamped and embossed with gold EP before being fussy cut. The sentiment strip was stamped, the 50 cut from mirror card added and then slipped under the bouquet.

OK, that's it from me but please check out the rest of the team here and join in.

Ladybird Thanks

Morning all. Hope you all had a great BH weekend those of you over here in England and Wales. It was a tad damp but the offspring and theirs came down, so fun was had by all I think.

Over at Cardz4Guyz our new challenge for you is:-

BUGS

Make of that what you will, but I went down the ladybug route with this!

I used a tiny part of a freebie Do Crafts set for these cute bugs, stamped, coloured and fussy cut.

Using the layout from CASe this Sketch I added a Create a smile die cut thanks to some CC greenery, all topped off with an Altenew sentiment stamped in black and heat embossed with clear EP and all on a linen effect white base card.

Talking of Altenew, I recently won their July challenge and happily spent my winnings plus some, as you do. However, along with some winnings from Concord and 9th I waited in vain for delivery. A week after arriving in this country from the US, they were held up at the Post Office due to unpaid import VAT and a handling fee. Now I have had plenty of things from the States before with no probs but I did know a friend once who got clobbered sending for too many Cricut cartridges.

Anyway after receiving my 'sorry we couldn't deliver card', I went to collect the parcels and pay over £30 in VAT and handling fees. The guy behind the counter at the PO said there were loads of similar labelled packets mainly from the US and was most surprised at this. I think that Customs are getting keener about purchases from outside the EU, as, according to my OH the UK was hit by a fine for not collecting dues esp from China, for the EU. So that cheap knock off from China may not be as cheap as you thought but no sympathies from me for that, but that aside, if you do buy from Altenew and ilk be warned you may get hit. The limit for import is £15 so please beware, it will cast you about the same again if you are only just slightly over!

Anyway onto the reason for this post. 

Please check out the rest of the DT at Cardz4Guyz for inspiration for cards for the men in your life.

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