Under the Weather?

This is my second card of the day. I am going to give it to my friend who has bad Gout and Arthritis in her foot, and she is hobbling about at the moment on my borrowed crutches.

When I saw the "Singing in the Rain" theme at Less Is More, I thought of the iconic dance scene where Gene Kelly dances around a lamppost, and so I went straight for my lamppost stamp. After stamping it I coloured it with my AP and markers, fussy cut it out and placed it on a base card. The dots and drops were stamped  

in the opposing corner with random teardrop gems added. To give the design some colour and texture, I stamped the small flowers and leaves and grouped them at the base of the lamppost. I know it's corny, but the only sentiment that I could think of was "Feel better soon", as the rain drops made me think of being "Under the weather".

I will be entering these challenges :

The sketch is from Sunday Stamps,

the colours are from

Color Throwdown,

and lastly, the idea of the card comes from 

Less is More  with the theme of 

SINGING IN THE RAIN

Supplies :

Card - Whisper White, and base FMS

Stamps - Flower Soft, Baby Blossoms, and Express Yourself

Inks - Black Archival, Black, Crushed Curry, Bermuda Bay, and Rich Razzleberry

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

Extras - 3D Pads, and Gems

That's all for today, but please call again soon

New Home

Morning everyone....I started my day at 3am because I was driving my friend to the airport to jet off to sunnier climes, so I feel like it's now afternoon!!

Anyway, I needed to make a new home card, and while looking through blog challenge land I see that I made Top 3 at CAS Colours and Sketches Yaaaaaaay! So Thank You to their lovely DT.

Right, here is my card, and I'm entering it into these two challenges :

First the sketch comes from CAS Colours and Sketches, 

and the colours are from Just Add Ink

Supplies

Card = Whisper White, Cherry Cobbler, and Base FMS

Stamps = Good Neighbours and Flower Soft

Inks = Baked Brown Sugar, Primrose Petals, and Gumball Green

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, X-Cut, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = 3D Pads

It's another busy week for me as its half term again, so I'll be spending time with my niece and nephew. Hopefully, Sophie will have the plaster off her arm on Thursday, so we can do a lot more things......maybe even some crafting??

Thanks for dropping by today, and I hope you'll call again soon

He's a Wanderer!

My card today is for two challenges.

First, it's my DT card for The Male Room where the theme this week is 

THE GREAT OUTDOORS

and second, is this sketch from the Paper Players 

Here's my card

I rotated the sketch 180*, and sponged the scene with the grassy hill and clouds in the sky. The wanderer was stamped and coloured with an Aqua Painter and cut with a Nestie label, before being placed on the scene with 3D pads. The stamped sign post shows the way to the top of the hill, and the tufts of grass are made with the ends of tree branches stamped over the edge of some torn paper.

Now for those of you who don't know, I live in the shadows of the Malvern Hills, which are famous for their pure waters, and that our lovely Queen Elizabeth takes bottles of it with her on her travels. The wanderer on the card is climbing the highest hill, Worcestershire Beacon, which is 1,394 feet above sea level. In the past, fires were lit here to send messages of impending attack to the surrounding counties, and in more present times, to signify special events such as the Queens Jubilee and the Olympics.

Supplies :

Card = Chocolate Chip, Whisper White, and white base FMS

Stamps = Papermania, Flower Soft, and Lovely as a Tree

Inks = Black Archival, and numerous (9) SU colours.

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Post Its, Aqua Painter, and Sponges

Extras = 3D Pads

Things are still a little crazy with Mum being ill, and my treatment, but I hope to be back to normal soon

Thanks for all your well wishes and kind thoughts

There'll be Blue Birds Over......

Today's card is for three challenges

                                                                                       

First, is CAS Colours and Sketches with this sketch,

second, is Addicted to CAS looking for something to TAKE FLIGHT

and lastly,   Paper Players with TIC TAC TOE

I chose Birds/ Blue/ and Birthday

Here is my card

The birds and Dove Cot were stamped in shades of blue on white card, coloured with an Aqua Painter, fancy cut, and placed on 3D pads. 

I played with the sentiment to add a bit of fun to the scene, and arranged the two flower heads under the dove cot and behind the stand that has a Clematis wrapped around it.

Supplies :

Card = Whisper White and white base FMS

Stamps = Flower Soft, Simply Soft, and Verve

Inks = Midnight Muse, Island Indigo, and Bermuda Bay

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

I'm in hospital tomorrow, but I hope to be back very soon

                                                        

Fathers Day

Today my card is for two challenges

The first is CAS Colours and Sketches with these colours,

and the second is a new Male Only challenge called The Male Room. Jacqueline who has started it is looking for a DT, so if you fancy a go, pop over to the Male Room and give it a try. 

Here is my card

I decided on a Fathers Day easel card, and used my Aqua Painter to make the three colours into varying shades. The flowers were stamped separately from the wheelbarrow in Archival black, and then once coloured I slit the card following the top of the barrow.

Next I cut around the flowers and long green leaves so that the wasted coloured in card went into the slit, where it was stuck into place. It was then raised on 3D pads to add some dimension. It was finished with a sentiment, ribbon, and butterfly on the bottom part of the card.

Supplies :

Card = Whisper White, and white base FMS

Stamps = Flower Soft, and Papermania

Inks = Black Archival, Gumball Green, Primrose Petals, and Cajun Craze

Tools = Aqua Painter, Elegant and Bitty Butterfly Punches

Extras = 3D pads, Ribbon, and Gems

I'm suffering today with my joints as I over did things doing my garden yesterday, so I'm going to have to take things easy over the weekend to recover. I hope you enjoy it whatever you are doing.

Yappy Birthday #2

This is the same card as posted earlier today, but without the green vines. I think my card needed it to make sense of the flowers. What do you think?

I'm entering this again for CAS Colours and Sketches.

Supplies are the same as before but without the Lucky Limeade vine.

Be back soon

Yappy Birthday

We're still covered in snow here, so It's a good excuse to stay in the warm and craft while waiting for the Grand Prix to start.

My card today is for two challenges.

Firstly CAS Colours and Sketches with this colour palette,

and then CASe this Sketch with this sketch

 Here it is

My dog is a Die-Monde die put through the Big Shot and made in Crumb Cake ( as I don't have River Rock )and edges sponged with Suede. He is actually sat down, but I've manipulated his body so he looks like he has jumped up onto a Flower Soft white picket fence stamped in Suede on Natural White. I pieced together the sentiment and stamped it in red. I then punched some Red flowers for the fence, but they didn't look right so I've added a green vine ( I'm crossing my fingers that I haven't broken the colour rules?! ), and Crumb Cake and White Pearl centres.

Supplies :
Card = Crumb Cake, Real Red, Lucky Limeade, and White base FMS
Stamps = Flower Soft, and Verve
Inks = Soft Suede, Black, Real Red, and White Gel Pen
Tools = Big Shot, Die-Monde Die, Marianne Vine die, Readicut Flower punches, and Stamp-a-ma-jig#
Extras = White Pearls and 3D pads

I had a fun night playing Bingo at Nathan's school on Friday, and I won a prize. Have a look

Poor Nathan thought that he had marked a full house, and Mike ( his Daddy ) shouted out. One of the PTA members came over to our table to check the card and he realised that there was one number not marked off, so it was a false call. Talk about embarrassing with everyone looking at us, but someone else won with the next number called, and Nathan was gutted. I offered him my mug but he didn't want it, so hopefully next time he will be luckier.

Thanks for dropping by

Watch the Birdie!!

My heating engineer has only just left ( 5.22pm ), thank goodness I didn't have anywhere important to be today!!

While waiting for him I had chance to do another card.


 It's for the Clean and Simple challenge where they have this sketch

and CAS-ual Fridays where they want to see feathered friends

 This is what I made

   

 I still had my blue and green inks and sponges on my desk so I sponged a label and layered it on a dark green one. I then stamped and coloured the dovecote on some white card, cut it out and stuck it on the label. I then stamped the white doves in grey ink, cut them out and added them to the picture, with the flying dove on 3D pads overhanging the scene. The sentiment was added, and the whole thing was added to some green card that had been embossed. Simples!!!

Here is a closer view of the white doves. I have softened them with an Aqua painter and some grey ink. I tried stamping them in black at first, but they looked too severe so I used the grey.





Recipe :

Card = Garden Green, Green Galore, Very Vanilla, Whisper White, and cream card base FMS

Stamps = Flower Soft and SU Basic Phrases

Inks = Pool Party, Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Sahara Sand, and Basic Black

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Budding Vine embossing folder, and Aqua Painter

Extras = 3D pads

That's it for today, Thanks for looking and I hope to be back tomorrow?



New Home

Yaaaaaaay !! I've come Top3 at Make My Monday again, I'm really chuffed that someone else likes my creations, so Thanks Very Much to their DT.


Today I've made a quick "New Home" card using the colours from the Simply Stampin' challenge

and over at Less is More  Chrissie and Mandi are asking for a charm to be part of the project.

Here is my card made with a new eBay purchase.

I love this colour combo, but I don't have any Pink Pirouette, so I've used Blushing Bride for the house, and then I've coloured the edges of some Very Vanilla with the same SU Write Marker to make the Nestabilitie matt. I have also had to substitute the Marina Mist for Bermuda Bay, so I hope that my card is acceptable to the Simply Stampin' DT?. The sentiment is raised on 3D pads so the charm can hang and dangle from the ribbon bow.



Recipe :

Card = Very Vanilla, and cream card base from my stock

Stamps = Good Neighbourhood and Flower Soft sentiment

Inks = Soft Suede, Blushing Bride, and Bermuda Bay

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

Extras = Ribbon, 3D pads, and Silver metal heart charm

I'll be busy tomorrow, battling my way around Tesco's with Angela in a wheelchair, so if I survive that I should be back over the weekend with some more projects ( fingers crossed! )

Thanks for dropping by



Gardening days

Well as Tuesdays are crafting at Jacqueline's days, that's where I was this morning when I started my male inspired card.

It's for the Make My Monday challenge, where the theme is MEN AND BOYS with added MALE SPORTS OR HOBBIES

Here is what I came up with 

The wheelbarrow and its contents are separate stamps which I coloured with Pro markers and SU Write Markers. I then cut them out, stuck them together, and water coloured the background before matting it and placing it on some card stock with the die cut vines bordering it.

Recipe :

Card = Wild Wasabi, Whisper White, and card base from my stash

Stamps = Flower Soft and Verve

Inks = Basic Black, Bashful Blue, TH Tea Dye, and various SU Write Markers and Pro Markers

Tools = Big Shot, Nestabilities, Marianne design vine, and Stamp-a-ma-jig

I will be giving this to my friend's partner on his birthday, as he spends hours pottering around on his allotment, regardless of the weather!!! so when you see this Rita, don't tell Bill.

In my last post I mentioned the sculpture that Nathan had made for me, and I know how you've all been waiting to see this masterpiece, so here it is.                                                  Jacqueline came up with a great idea to hang bird feeders off it, and I think that's what I'll do. The only problem is keeping Monty away from it as he keeps stealing it and wants to gnaw on it!!! 



We had a great day yesterday with Sophies first Birthday, we walked the dogs in the woods ( well I went as far as I could and then returned to the car to wait for the adventurers to return!!!), flew a kite, had a picnic, then opened and played with presents, ate too much cake, and then went for a pub meal in the evening............no wonder I dont want to do too much today!!

Anyway, thanks for dropping by, and hope you can come back again soon

French Foliage Secret Garden

I've got my fingers crossed that this post gets published on my original blog, but here goes.....

Over at Make My Monday Challenge it's still "things with wings", and this week that means 'birds or bugs'.

As I've just received my new SU French Foliage set, I decided to use it for this challenge.

Here's the card and then I'll tell you how it was made.

I started with a white 6" square card from my stash and sponged the center with Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. Onto the lower sponged green area, I stamped the grassy image from Just Believe in Sahara Sand, and 2 fern images (from a stamp set I cannot recall the name of), in Always Artichoke, CCelery, and Adirondack Pesto.

I then stamped the text in BBlue over the upper sponged blue area, and randomly stamped the splats
stamp in SSand over the entire background.

Next, I stamped the leaves in a random square in CCelery, Handsome Hunter, and Adirondack Pesto, Rust, and Butterscotch, and cut out the inner section to create a foliage frame. This was then mounted on some Garden Green card and stuck onto the background with 3D pads to give some dimension and the impression that you are looking through a hedge into a secret garden.

Using SSand I stamped the Summer Dovecote and 4 birds from Flower Soft stamp set onto some Very Vanilla card, and soften the lines with an aqua painter before cutting them out. The pair of doves and the single dove were stuck onto the Dovecote itself, and the 2 doves in flight were placed in the sky on 3D pads to give them more dimension.

I hope that the photo shows what I am trying to describe!?

Anyway, my eyes are struggling now as I've been staring at my laptop for far too long and they are feeling really sore.

Hopefully I will be back soon with another post.

Thanks for sticking with me.