Use a Digi Stamp

Hello, thanks for your visit, I hope you are safe and well. 

Today we begin a new challenge at Make My Monday

Meg has chosen - #121 Use A Digital Stamp.

Please pop to the blog for details and to see the DT's

inspiration. 

I don't often use digi stamps, but I do have a small amount,

if I need anything in particular, I check the free digi stamps

on Pinterest. This is where I found the young lady shopper  .

Coloured with Promarkers.

The background words, shopping bags and sentiment are

stamps by Craftwork Cards on their stamp sheet Fashionista.

Please stay safe.

B is for Boy's Card

Hello, thanks for your visit. I hope you are staying safe.

Crafting is a wonderful, peaceful escape from the news.

Today at Alphabet Challenges we have the letter B.

B is for Boy's Card. 

Please check out the blog and see the inspiration 

from the design team.

I made an A5 card, with a decoupaged dinosaur,

the dinosaur and papers are all from a CD by Kraftyhands

Dangerous Dinosaurs.

I have found this a very useful CD in my collection, lots of 

boys (and girls) love dinosaurs. 

Black and Pink

Hello, thanks for your visit. I hope you are safe and well.

Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. 

Leslie has chosen #120 Black and Pink.

Please pop to the blog for more details and to see the 

inspiration by the design team. 

I made a 6" sq black card, matted a piece of pink card, then 

again black card.  The stamped butterfly, onto pink card, is by 

Sheena Douglass- A Little Bit Sketchy - Flying Colours.

Decorated with Diamond Frost glitter on the wing tips. and 

black gems on it's antennae and thorax. 

Pink gems for the trail. 

Hope you enjoy and again, thanks for popping by. 

Use Dies as Main Feature

Hello, I hope you and yours are safe and well. 

If you keep crafting, I am finding it helps to keep 

your mind on creating rather than the virus.

Mind you I have no idea, yet, what I will do with all

the cards I am making. Who cares!?

Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz

Dawn has chosen # 243 Use Dies as Main Feature

Now I will be honest from the off set, I am a stamper,

it's impossible for me to count how many I have. 

The only dies I mainly have are shapes and words, 

which is how I created my card. 

Black card for a rectangle and a circle die.

Papers from Making Cards & Papercraft Magazine.

'Hello' die from my stash. 

Here Comes the Rain

Hello, I hope you are well and coping with the lockdown.
Crafting is a wonderful way to occupy the mind, I am so
grateful, I have this hobby.
Today at My Time To Craft there is a new challenge
'Here Comes the Rain'
Please pop over for the details and to see the cards
made by my fellow teamies.
During this time of long hours to fill,  I found a kit I
had bought ages ago, and had only made one card.
Here is my second card from the kit, it is 8" square.
Gold backing, patterned card from the kit as was the
 deoupaged image, very stylish in Paris, in the rain.
Die cut sentiment words and pretty gems.
Take care and stay safe.

Spring is in the Air

Hello, how are you? I hope you are coping with your 

lockdown situation, staying safe and well. 

Today we begin a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges 

#127 Spring is in the Air - chosen by Cathy

Please check out the blog for details and to see the 

inspiration by the Design Team.

I blended 3 Distress Inks, splashed with water,

then dried the card. Tulips stamp was by Dimension Fourth.

I painted the tulips with mica paints and

splashed several times with green paint. 

I love the big bold sentiment by My Paper World.

My best wishes, please stay safe. Happy Crafting,.

Spring Flowers

Hello, I hope you are well and coping with your lockdown measures.

Crafting is good for your well  being, so I am hoping you will join us.

Today we begin a new challenge at Make My Monday, chosen by me,

Spring Flowers

Please visit the blog for details and to see the wonderful

inspirational cards from the design team. 

I have a 6" sq. white 4 card, along the bottom of the card, I stamped

directly onto the card with a selection of Wayside Grasses by

Stamps Away, when dry, I lightly coloured with Promarkers.

The main image is a stamp of unknown make, I bought it for

 50p at a craft event, the only markings on it are 

Casa de flores - I coloured the image again using Promarkers.

I decoupaged the bowl of hyacinths.

Matted onto yellow and green card.  

The Springtime stamp is from my stash. 

Anything Goes

Hello again, I hope you are well, thanks for your visit.

Today at Alphabet Challenges we are starting all over again

with our A- Z of challenges. 

It may surprise you to know that 2020 is the 10th Anniversary

of Alphabet Challenges - it's first full year being 2010. 

For our letter A we have - Anything Goes

Please check out the blog for details and 

to see the inspiration from the DT.

For my card - the main image is a Polkadoodles 

girl saying Hi on a Swing. Coloured with Promarkers.

Background papers, card, layers, pearls all from my stash.

The flowers are from a stamp and die set free with a craft magazine.

Use A Kite

Hello, sending good wishes and hoping you are all safe

staying indoors, unless going out is essential. I'm fine,

though missing my family, just as we all are.  Thank goodness

for visual calls on the telephone, the kids keep asking to see us, 

they too need reasurance all is well. 

Today we are happy to introduce a new challenge at

Cardz 4 Galz. Misti chose the theme for

#119 Use A Kite in your Design.

I hope you pop over to the blog to check for details and

not to miss the wonderful inspiration from the DT.

For my femine card ( laughs) well maybe she is a tomboy!!

Sorry, the only source I have with a Kite is the stamp -

Nostalgia by John Byars from Papermania.

 Stamped onto a section of a stencil by Honey Doo Crafts.

Image coloured with Prtomarkers. 

Greetings stamp from my stash.

On, In or Beside the Sea

Hello again, I hope all is well with you and yours.

Please stay well, stay crafting and stay smiling.

Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz.

Helen has chosen for #242 On, In or Beside the Sea

During these lockdown days, we can only dream of 

being by the sea, unless of course 

you're lucky and live there.

Please check out the blog for details and don't miss 

the wonderful creations from the Design Team.

I started with a white piece of card, 

I stamped the Sweet Dixie Lighthouse first, and

covered it with a mask.

I then used Tim Holtz technique, which he calls 

Wrinkle Free Distress Technique. 

I used two Distress Oxides - Broken China

and Mermaid Lagoon to provide the splattered background.

I used all four of the stamps from the same set.

Removed the mask, coloured the lighthouse, 

yachts, rocks and birds with Promarkers, a white Gel pen,

and pencils,

Happy Little Stampers - ATC -Background

Hello, thank you for your visit. Today at Happy Little Stampers 

we begin a new monthly challenge at ATC Challenge -

We would love to see you Make Your Own Background.

We look forward to sdeeing your ATCs. Please visit the main blog, 

to check the dedtails and be sure not to miss 

the inspiration by the design team.

Here is my ATC - My own background

I started with a piece of white stamping card. 

Sprinkled Lemon and Light Green Brusho onto the paper.

Sprayed water and watched the magic of Brusho powders.

Patted off the excess water. Heat dried. 

Stamped and stamped again with a mask over the first stamp,

with a stamp from Crasty Roo Stamps. 

Added small flowers to the background. Added a 

sentiment from my stash. Looking forward to

seeing your ATC's backgrounds.

Easter Cuties

Hello everyone, thank you for joining me. 

I am thrilled today to be re-joining the wonderful challenge

blog, on the design team at  My Time To Craft.

Please have a look on the blog to check the rules and to see

the fabulous DT creations. 

The challenge is Easter Cuties - bunnies, chicks etc.

My main image of the tower of chicks is an old one, a 

free downlaoad digi stamp, source was via Pinterest.

Coloured with Promarkers.

Background paper, strip and eggs are all from a sheet

from my background stash. I had sprayed a white sheet 

with similar colour sprays and then water to bleach areas.

It was stamped when dry with several leaf stamps. 

Christmas Critters

Hello, welcome to my blog. I hope you are all well and

staying safe, during these Covid 19 days and nights.

Today we begin a new challenge at Sparkles Christmas Challenges.

Helen has chosen #111 Christmas Critters.

Please pop over to the blog for more details and to see the 

Christmas Critters creations by the Design Team. 

For my card 6"square, backed with a sheet of DP from my stash.

The stamp is by Sheena Douglass - Scenic Winter-

Wishes of the Season.  Coloured with Promarkers.

Edges stamped with a small branch stamp,  again 

coloured with Promakers, with lots of glitter added

the the edges and on the snow. 

Please saty okay and enjoy your crafting.