Get Well Soon

Would you believe it, all the dogs are now sleeping after running around all morning, so I've time for another quick card.

This is the challenge over at Cas-ual Fridays.
The long and short of it means a DL card, 4" by 8", which is a shape I haven't used for some time, as the square card seems to have become my favoured size.

Anyway, before the hounds wake up, this is what I came up with.

Out came the SU Growing Green set and I stamped the rose in Rich Razzelberry in the bottom left corner, masking it several times till there were 3 roses. Then with all roses masked I stamped the leaf frond in Certainly Celery twice, and ended with the RRazzelberry Woodware sentiment.

Here is a close up of the stamped images, and I decided that I liked the simplicity of the outlines of the roses and leaves, so resisted the temptation to get out my water colour pencils, Aqua painter, and Pro markers, and leave it well alone.

    

Well that's me for today, if you have stopped by I'd love to know what you think, as I do read all your lovely comments and really appreciate your time in writing them.

Thanks very much and hope to see you here again soon.

All Natural Thank You

Today I'm in my usual place in front of the TV, but I'm not getting much done as there is chaos all around me in the form of the four legged variety.My sisters dogs have landed!!

Over at Less is More the challenge is 'Feeling Fruity', and the only thing I could think of was the pear in SU All Natural.

So for this really quick card I started with a cream square card from my stash and stamped a pear in Always Artichoke in the bottom left corner. I then masked it and stamped another one lying down about 1 1/2cm to its right, and then masked this one as well, so another pear could be stamped behind both of these pears. I added 2 little leaves which are from the Lovely as a Tree set, and coloured the fruits with water colour pencils and an aqua painter. Once dry I added some shadows under the fruit in brown water colour pencil and smudged it, then lastly added the Thank You sentiment in AArtichoke.

Here's the finished card, very sweet and simple I think ( just like me !!?), and the BS hasn't been used at all in this one which is a miracle for me!

I'm amazed that the sentiment from this set still looks okay when stamped, my darling dog, Monty, had decided that the wooden block looked good enough to eat, so he did!! He ate every bit of it except the tooth marked gnawed red rubber letters, but I did a quick rescue job and mounted it on some Eazi- mount and now use it with an acrylic block. This is the first time I've used this sentiment for ages, and I'm glad that I was able to save it from its awful fate as I like the font of the letters.

Thanks for dropping by, and I hope to show you something else later.

Summer by the Sea Mojo

Well have I had a busy few days?? I wont bore you with the details, but I have been a Super Hero helping my nephew Nathan save the world!!! and 'NO', I did not wear my knickers over my tights!!

Phew, it's been really muggy here today, and it didn't help that I had loads ( and I mean loads!! ) of housework to do. I don't know how I ever found time to go to work?

Anyway, this evening, to regain my composure and cool down in front of the fan, I decided to make my card for Mojo Monday Challenge and follow their sketch.

I chose to make a square rather than a round one.

I started with a 6" square white card and masked off the top half of the card with Post Its. Then I randomly stamped the leaf and flowers from Growing Green in Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo, and Bermuda Bay. I then stamped the leaf in RRazzleberry onto watercolour paper and dragged the colour in from the outlines with an aqua painter. Then I stamped the little girl from SU Summer by the Sea in waterproof black Archival ink and coloured her in  with Crushed Curry, RRazzelberry, MMambo, BBay, Always Artichoke, and the green,blue and purple inks in Vibrant Primary Big and Juicy.

The papers with the leaf and little girl on were then put through the BS with a SB labels nestabilities, and once cut, layered onto the same shape label in RRazzelberry. 

The leaf label was laid first at a jaunty angle to the left hand side of the card, and a ribbon from my stash stuck across the center of the card, before the little girl label was stuck with 3D pads over the ribbon, set again at an angel towards the right hand side of the card. The Woodware sentiment was stamped in RRazzelberry on watercolour paper, layered on RRazzelberry, and again cut with a labels nestabilitie before placing with a bow on the ribbon by 3D pads. The finishing touch were the 2 pink flower shaped buttons from my stash.

I'm exhausted from typing the way it was made, but see what you think of it

Now I am a bit weird where pictures of people and faces are concerned, they freak me out (like clowns do to some people), but the Summer by the Sea set doesn't show any faces so I feel happy using them. Now they have resurfaced I may use them for another challenge I've seen today, but you'll have to wait for tomorrow for that one. 

One more little thing that happened yesterday was, a bath time for the dog. Nathan had heard me say at the weekend that Monty was smelling a bit doggy so he offered to help me bath him!! Being clever I said we'd do it in the garden with the hose so his mummy's bathroom carpet wouldn't get wet.

AM I MAD??? a crazy retriever, a hosepipe, and a 3 1/2 year old boy!!   All I can say is that a whole bottle of shampoo was used, everybody needed a change of clothes, the dry lawn was having a lovely soaking, and it was lucky it was a warm sunny day!!.......but the laughs we had were priceless.

What a joy and pleasure children are, especially when you can hand them back at the end of the day!!

Anyway, thanks for stopping by, and I hope you can call again soon

Clean and Simple Growing Green

I'm sorry but I just had to use my new  Growing Green stamps again for this challenge over at Clean and Simple.

I started with a White card from my stash and put a Lavender Lace mat on it.I stamped the Growing Green leaf in Certainly Celery to make the flag tails and its top and blended the colour with a water pen. I then used a MS punch to make the scallops in some Green Galore card and layered it with a strip of Whisper White. I stamped the rose in Orchid Opulence on some WWhite and put it through the BS with a scallop circle nestabilities and did the same with with  Lavender Lace card, and layered them on top of the CCelery. I added the Woodware sentiment in Black Archival.

Take a look ( the colours remind me of Wimbeldon?)

I've  just realised the challenge ends today so I hope I,m not too late.

Anyway, guess what??...........It's a Grand Prix weekend so I know where I want to be.

If you are just starting the long summer break with the kids off school,I hope the weather stays good for you, if not, enjoy your weekend doing whatever you do.

Call back soon if you can, Thanks for stopping by today

Mojo Monday is Growing Green

Hello fellow crafters,

I'm sorry that I've been so busy lately, but here I am keen as ever to blog again.

My new long awaited SU set Growing Green has arrived and I picked it up yesterday at my friend Jacqueline's, and I just had to start using it, after of course we'd had a good old natter over coffee. I decided to enter my card into the Mojo Monday Challenge so followed their sketch.

I started with a cream card from my stash and randomly stamped the GGreen rose in Real Red over it. I then stamped the leaf spray one above the other and sponged over it in Certainly Celery, and then cut away the right hand edge to make the vertical ribbon. I cut 2 SB nestabilities labels with the BS, one in Wild Wasabi, and one in Whisper White which was then stamped with the GGreen leaf in CCelery and coloured with a water pen to spread the ink. I then cut a circle in Real Red and one in WWhite ( I drew around 2 glasses for the round shapes as I don't have these nesties yet!) and stamped the rose in RRed on the white and again spread the ink with a water pen.A red ribbon and bow from my stash was placed across the card before the layered shapes were stuck on top of it. It was all finished with a RRed sentiment from Woodware.  Phew, there is steam coming from my laptop's keyboard now!! Ooooops.

 Anyway, take a look at the finished article and see what you think

Please drop by again soon if you get a chance to as I've got another,very different, card to show you.

Things with legs take 2

After submitting the insect card, I decided that it was a bit OTT, so for a simpler card I made this one

I used a cream card from my stash and stamped it with SU Tailgating in black Archival ink. I then used watercolours and pencils to colour it in and a white gel pen for the white poodle so it would show up ( not that you can see it very well in my photo). With my RA I'm not very good using the roller so I removed the rubber,stuck on some Easymount so it would cling to my ruler ( an idea poached from Vicky,Thanks Vicky, see her brilliant blog here).This was finished off with a Woodware sentiment.

I'm happier with this card,what do you think?

You've got Male!

Hello all
This morning I have been busy helping my friend Rita tidy her house as she's got relatives from New Zealand coming to stay, but I just had to get home to watch Nadal play on the first day at Wimbledon. Needless to say he's won his match easily,so I'm waiting for Murray's match to come on ( if rain doesn't stop play!!).

Anyway,while waiting I've popped over to the Simply Stampin challenge to see that they want a card for a male.So here is what I came up with

I started with a 5" x 7" SU Whisper White card and rounded the corners.Then I used a label die through the BS to cut some watercolour card and dark blue card from my stash. I stamped the pickup, hearts,and sentiment from SU Loads of Love in black Archival ink, and coloured it in with water colour pencils.I then masked the pick up with a Post It  and stamped the leaf from All Natural in Certainly Celery to look like trees behind.I inked the edge of the Xmas tree from LOLove with Always Artichoke and used it to make a grass verge at the roadside.

Once the images were coloured and stuck down I added beneath it a blue tartan ribbon with a double bow,hanging from which is a silver metal heart. I hope it still looks like a masculine card, what do you think??                                                                                           That's me done for today  and I am now going to get my bag packed ready to go to Jacqueline's tomorrow to do whatever the theme is she's set for her blog Make My Monday  . Hopefully we will get some crafting done in between the chatting and drinking coffee.!!  

Please pop back tomorrow to see what we got up to,if anything at all.

Thanks for all your lovely comments, I do appreciate each and every one. 

                                                                                       

 Bye for now,Bev.x

Organic Grace

Hi everyone,I have another busy day ahead of me,(just for  change!),so I needed a quick card for the Less Is More challenge. Today the theme is Monochrome and here is my take on it,what do you think?

I've used SU Whisper White card stock, and then sponged through a circle cut in scrap paper with Always Artichoke ink.I then used an old favourite stamp set, Organic Grace to create the view,and finished it off with a Woodware sentiment.


Thanks for dropping by and if you have time please leave me your comments as I do appreciate what other crafters think.

Hope you have a great weekend and I'll be back soon. Bev.x