Friendship and walkies....

A card for a friend who loves nothing better than walking her lovely best friend Pippa, a black Labrador, in the local woodlands..... afraid my photography is a little wonky....
                                                         Entered into the LiM challenge

 

Birds of Paradise.....

That’s what I had in mind on this beautiful day, I simply brightly watercolored a piece of scrap card and diecut these cute tiny birds...I cut lots of them and selected these 5 - placing them on a hand drawn line on a plain white square card a simple sunny message completed the look .entering this card into the AAA card challenge to celebrate their 4th birthday

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas.....

a simple but a bit different red and green Christmas card....

Platinum embossed stamp, partly coloured in red and green (and I resisted the temptation to add some glitter!).  With a simple stamped Script Merry Christmas with a little tiny holly leaf for the dot on the i ....

Entered in this weeks LiM challenge red and green

Let it shine...

and they really do (but a nightmare to photograph 😂🙏🤣....my Christmas cards made especially for my son and daughter and their respective families....

The first one is stamped with my all time favourite ( I’m finding this stamp so versatile!) it’s the Altenew Sketch Floral  stamp.   Simply embossed with Wow Jingle Bells (it looks a little more gold than the old silver it really is) and to keep it cas I used a glue pen to colour in some of the flowers and sprinkled with  Glamour Glitter.  It was then mounted on some red sparkle card and a plain white A5 card.   I die cut the word Noel from red glitter card and another 3 Sets from white scraps of card,  these were all adhered together so that they stood proud of the stamping.

The second card was simply die cut ( an MFT script word) with the word Joy - keeping the tiny bits from the diecut, I placed a piece of silver behind the word and then carefully glued. the tiny bits back.  To finish I added a small diecut poinsettia in silver...hope you like them!

Entered into;simply less is more...let it shine 
Aaa cards-christmas.  Addicted to stamps clean-and-simple 

Watercolour card

After an extremely busy and wonderful summer with family and all the grandchildren (& shock horror- internet problems which are now sorted!! Haha). Back to some card crafting, not that I haven't been busy on that scene too having made a start on my Christmas cards!  Rekindled my crocheting (is that a word?) and Crocheted a beautiful little amigurumi penguin at a knit and natter group etc etc...

Anyway here's my card for this weeks challenges - Altenew image stamped on watercolour card, heat embossed with platinum powder, watercoloured with zig clean colour watercolour pens which I found to be so easy I have ordered a few more as I really love them...not so easy to see is that the card is layered with deep blue card and grey onto a blue card base....to enhance the colours and because water colour card/paper is usually creamier than plain white card and usually needs something more than a plain white card background. Enjoy

Entered into Less is more , All the little things , Addicted to CAS

Centre stage wording

That's the challenge over at AAA card challenge and that gave me the idea for a birthday card for one of my grandchildren using birthday word power..., can't believe my gorgeous Grandson is 14yrs old!!

After stamping the different words and heat embossing in silver, I've simply layered the black card with silver card to enhance the silver embossing and added a red smile diecut which was stamped with red ink and heat embossed with clear embossing powder to give the ink staying power

Ice cream

Namely the old fashioned Neapolitan ice cream and that's the challenge this week at Less is More, sooooo I thought I'd try to do a 70's theme using a bit of feather and these super ice cream colours...


I've used a stencil of trailing leaves and flowers and used a selection of colours in Sahara sand pumice stone for the chocolates shades and frosty pink and coral berry for the strawberry ice cream shades...For the bird I stamped him on cream card in Saharan sand - fussy cut him and added some dusky pink feathers to his tail for a vintages/70's look.  Topped off with a simple gold embossed phrase on a strip of Vellum that I thought went well with the theme and a few 70's sequins that are again now fashionable in the card world and on clothes.  What goes round comes round so the saying goes.....

Also fits in with Fairy tale - Things with Wings challenge

Some family time on holiday last week on the Yorkshire Coast (some beautiful stretches of beach there were too) and had to show my youngest enjoying his ice cream in the sunshine we were lucky enough to have!