Pleasant Poppies

Happy 4th July to all my friends in USA, I hope you're having a great time and have plenty of celebrations planned. Also, a big "Hello and Welcome" to my new followers. I'm quite surprised, and really excited that I've got almost 50 now!, so thanks to you all for joining my blog.

Anyway, today I've made this card while watching the fantastic Wimbledon semi final.

I am also entering it into these challenges :

The sketch is from Clean and Simple,

                                      

I took the colours and poppy theme from Fusion Cards,

Stampin' Royalty want us to

KEEP IT SIMPLE,

Addicted to Stamps want us to MAKE YOUR MARK,

and lastly, CAS-ual Friday want SUMMER HEARTS

First, I stamped some poppies on white card, masked them, and re-stamped them, before cutting them into a hand drawn heart shape.I coloured them with my SU markers, and then hand cut a heart frame from blue card and placed it over the flowers and stuck it down with 3D pads on a square base. I then embossed a strip of blue card with diagonals and added some black marker stripes. The finishing touch was the sentiment banners highlighted with red heart sequins.

Supplies :

Card = Marina Mist, Whisper White, Black, and white base FMS

Stamps = Pleasant Poppies and Tea Shoppe

Inks = Black, Poppy Parade, and Certainly Celery

Tools = Big Shot, Sizzix Textures, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = Post Its, Heart Sequins, and 3D Pads

I'm still not feeling 100% after my treatment, so I am going back to bed for a little nap. I need all my energy for shouting at the TV this weekend as it's the men's final at Wimbledon, and the British F1 Grand Prix. Yaaaay!

Thanks for dropping by and have a great weekend whatever you are doing.

Loads of Love!

Another quick post today with a masculine card

I am entering it into these lovely challenges :

Paper Craft Crew have this sketch,

CAS Colours and Sketches  have these colours      

Addicted to CAS want to see TRANSPORT

and lastly,
CAS-ual Fridays
 want to see a



 CAS  male card  using NO KRAFT at all, and include a RIBBON

                                                         
After stamping the truck and its presents, I masked them with a Post It note and stamped the trees. Everything was coloured with SU Markers and an Aqua Painter. Some white card was textured, matted on some green card and laid on a base. A tag shape was cut freehand, and finished off with a stapled ribbon and some gems.

Supplies :
Card - Whisper White, Green and base card FMS
Stamps - SU All Natural, Loads of Love and LOL Accessories

Inks - Archival Black, Tempting Turquoise, Crushed Curry, and Pistachio Pudding
Tools - Big Shot, Sizzix Textures, Nestabilities, Stamp-a-ma-jig,  Aqua Painter

Extras - 3D Pads, Mini Stapler, Ribbon and Gems

                                    

Sophie has had her plaster off her arm this week, so tomorrow we'll be catching up on playing with things that she hasn't been able to handle with one arm! Let's hope that the thunder and rain storms will have finished by then?

 Thanks for dropping by, see you again soon I hope

                        

Arctic Friends

My mojo is still AWOL, but after suffering with a chest and inner ear infection, I've tried to get back into the crafting saddle with this card for my brother in law's birthday next week

I stamped the bear and penguins (my 3 animals) with black Archival, and coloured them with markers (in 3 colours). I sponged blue over some torn paper for the snow under the bear and cut him out with a Nestie and laid that on two more (3 circles in all). It was finished off with a sentiment.

I will be entering it into three challenges:-

Less is More with this sketch

Dynamic Duos with these colours

and CAS-ual Fridays who want things in "THREES"

                                       

Supplies
Card = Pool Party, Whisper White, Yellow and white base FMS
Stamps = Zoo Review
Inks = Black Archival, So Saffron, Pool Party, and Smoky Slate
Tools = Big Shot and Nestabilities
Extras = 3D Pads and computer generated sentiment

Hope to be back soon

Mosaic Medallion

Yaaaay! I made Top 3 at Make My Monday with my wetland bird scene, so a big Thank You to their DT.

I've not had much spare time lately, and I'm still fighting off this cold and cough, but I managed a few hours to myself this afternoon, to create a card which is for four challenges

The sketch is from Mojo Monday, 

the colours from ColourQ, 

CAS-ual Fridays who want to see some

       STITCHES            

and lastly, Addicted to Stamps with    ANYTHING GOES

Here's my card

Supplies

All are Stampin' Up unless stated otherwise

Card = Naturals White, Black, and white base FMS

Stamps = Medallion, Mosaic Madness, and Simply Sketched

Inks = Versamark, Black, Dusty Durango, Crushed Curry, and Tempting Turquoise

Tools = Big Shot, Mosaic Madness EF, and Heat Gun

Extras = Black EP, 3D Pads, Gems, and Ribbon 

Thanks for dropping by

                         

Feather Rainbow

My card today is for two challenges
                                               

First, is CAS Colours and Sketches with a RAINBOW theme

and secondly, CAS-ual Fridays with

  BACK TO SCHOOL

Here it is

I went back to my school days to remember the acronym for the rainbow colours, and then I simply stamped a line of feathers in those colours.

R     Richard     Red

O     Of            Orange

Y     York        Yellow

G     Gave        Green

B     Battle        Blue 

I      In              Indigo

V    Vain          Violet 

Supplies :

All Stampin' Up unless otherwise stated

Card = base FMS

Stamps = Fine Feathers and Simply Sketched

Inks = Poppy Parade, Only Orange, Yo Yo Yellow, Gumball Green, Bermuda Bay, Brilliant Blue, Lovely Lilac, and Black

Tools = Stamp-a-ma-jig

Thanks for dropping by

                                                   

Washi Tape Goose

Yaaaaaaayy!! I must start today's post with some "Thank You's" to DT's who have chosen my card as their Top 3. ( Sorry for blowing my own trumpet, but I'm over the moon!)

First, Make My Monday, for Top 3 with my Silhouette card...........Thank You DT

Second, CAS Colours and Sketches, for Top 3 with my Pastel Flourishes card...........Thank You DT

and thirdly, Color Throwdown, for choosing me as their Featured Stamper.........Thank You DT   


Now down to business! My card today is for three challenges

First, CAS Colours and Sketches  

gave us this sketch,

second, CAS-ual Fridays with these colours,

and third, Less is More, who want us to use

    WASHI TAPE

                                                     

Here is my card

First, I coloured some masking tape with green SU WM, and stamped feathers on it with Archival ink, and once dry, I coloured the large feather with blue.

This was used to frame the stamped goose, who was coloured with orange using my Aqua Painter. He was then placed on 3D pads and laid on a diamond of green card, and onto a white base. Three corners were stamped with the wading birds in orange, and the sentiment was placed in the fourth.

Supplies :

Card = Whisper White, Green and base FMS

Stamps = Wetlands, Fine Feathers, and Simply Sketched

Inks = Black Archival, Pistachio Pudding, Peach Parfait, and Coastal Cabana

Tools = Aqua Painter, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = Masking Tape and 3D Pads

Before I leave you today, here are the birthday and get well cards, Nathan and Sophie made for my Mum ( Nana to them). I helped with the heat embossing, and cutting the Swallowtail out, but the colours and positions of flowers etc., were all done by the kids themselves. 

Don't you think they have the artistic flare?

Mum comes out of hospital tonight, so I'm nearly back to normal, except I'm having my hospital treatment tomorrow again!! ( these four weeks soon come around! ) , so I'll be back very soon.

60 Years Young!

My card today is for three challenges

Firstly, Pals Paper Arts gave us this sketch,

secondly, ColourQ have these colours,

and lastly, CAS-ual Fridays want to see

           NUMBERS

 

       

                                             

This is my card

The banners were made by repeated stamping on white card, using my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig, all topped off with the sentiment on a Nestie. The embossed green card reminds me of a Crocodile skin, what do you think?

Supplies :

Card = Lucky Limeade, Raspberry Ripple, Whisper White, and white base FMS

Stamps = Mosaic Madness, Verve, and Papermania

Inks = Black, Lucky Limeade, Island Indigo, Bermuda Bay, and Raspberry Ripple

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Wild Dashes Sizzix Textures, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = 3D Pads

This card is for my friends partner, Bill ( the old Croc!), who has been 55 for the last decade, it seems, so now he wont be able to pull the wool over our eyes again this year!!   

Enjoy the rest of the weekend

Bee-autiful Florets

Here goes the start of another week of scorchio temperatures in the UK, so I hope you all have your fans at the ready? I'm definitely staying out of it as it's too much for me!

My second card today is for four challenges


First is Clean and Simple with this sketch,


second is Play Date Cafe with
 Burnt Umber,    Honey, and Butter

third is CAS-ual Fridays with                     POLKA DOTS

and lastly, Friday Mashup with                                                                                              NATURE

Here is my card

After embossing some white card with dots, I swiped half of it with a Butterscotch ink Pad, and the other half was reversed and sponged lightly with the same colour. I then made the panel by stamping and fussy cutting the flowers and leaves and mounting them on a Nestie that had been laid on some white card coloured with a distrees ink pad. The bees were stamped onto tracing paper, cut out and placed in their final positions. It may be the heat affecting my eyes, but I think the spotty background looks almost like honeycombs ( well,  if you have a vivid imagination they do..........don't they? ) For the finishing touch, the busy bees have left a bead of honey on the sentiment banner!!

Supplies :
Card = Naturals White, Whisper White, and Daffodil Delight
Stamps = Fabulous Florets, Tea Shoppe, and Inkadinkado
Inks  = Archival Black, Crushed Curry, Adirondack Butterscotch, and TH Tea Dye Distress
Tools = Big Shot, Dots EF, Nestabilities, and Fiskars Scissors
Extras = 3D Pads, Tracing Paper and Gems

It's my sisters birthday tomorrow so I'll be back very soon, and I've got some exciting news to share with you all

                                                         

Lilac Lovelies

Yaaaaay! I won Top 3 at Try Stampin' on Tuesday with my Ark card. I'm really thrilled, so "Thank You" to their DT.
My card today is for five challenges

The first is Try Stampin' on Tuesday with this sketch,

second is Play Date Cafe with these colours,

third is CAS-ual Fridays who want to see ARROWS

forth is Stampin' Royalty want to see   STRIPES

and lastly, Addicted to Stamps where ANYTHING GOES

This is my card

My stripes of arrows are made from the leaf designs repeatedly stamped onto white card and laid diagonally on a white base. I then stamped the Allium three times

in Archival ink on white card cut with a Nestie, and used my Aqua Painter to colour them lilac. I stamped the sentiment, and then AAAAAAAAHHH!!!! I dropped it on the bottom of the panel, so I quickly covered it with a butterfly, can you tell? The finishing touches were the gems.

Supplies :

Card = Lovely Lilac, Whisper White, Primrose Petals, and Blushing Bride

Stamps = Simply Soft, Madison Ave, and Tea Shoppe

Inks = Black Archival, Lovely Lilac, Primrose Petals, and Blushing Bride

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Post Its, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly Punches

Extras = 3D pads and Gems

What a week I've had. I have been helping my Step Dad, Dave, to build a retaining wall between my garden and that of my new neighbours. I've carried bricks, shovelled soil, mixed concrete, swept paths, and hosed the garden down from dust made when he cut concrete slabs. I don't think my joints have ever been this swollen and painful. It even hurts me to blink!!! And, I've missed some fantastic tennis at Wimbledon.

On top of this, my poor boy, Monty, has got streaming eyes from the grass pollen. I made a right fool of myself at the Vets as well. To get Monty to sit still for me to bathe his eyes, I say to him " show me puppies eyes" and he does just that, so, I told the Vet to say this for her to examine him, and, when she stopped laughing she treated his eyes with drops. Hopefully, if we have to go back I'll see a different Vet!! 

Sorry for all the moaning, and thank you so much for dropping by