Sun Sea & Sand mid month WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Emma of  

Sun, Sea & Sand

 

I haven't got many stamps with the theme of the Sea, but sorting my craft room, I found a couple, the beach house was amongst the few. We have a beach not far from us that has quite a few beach huts, and I thought yep! That's what I will go for.

 

Firstly I found a cream pearlised card, I blended blue for the sea, and a mix of yellows and brown to get a sandy appearance. I then stamped the sea and embossed it in white, it wasn't my best stamping, but that's the sea, isn't it? Lots of frothy foam, so I went with it. I stamped the beach huts and coloured them with DI's. I also added a darker yellow to make a shadow under the huts. The sentiment was printed out and die cut. It was then added to yellow card and attached to the base card. 

 

sea stamp - Inkylicious By the Sea, Waves stamp set

 hut stamp -  docrafts Papermania, inside Simply Card and Papercraft magazine, a while ago

inks - Distress Inks

yellow card - stash 

sentiment - Gingers House 2016

sentiment die - Craft Making Magic

 

these are the colours, but I forgot to add the beach colours which are wild honey, antique linen, fossilized amber, tea dye,

 

 

More fabulous prizes for the Winner this time from -

Lisa Horton Crafts Petal Flourish bundle, embossing folder and coordinating stencils

 

These Green Woodpeckers were feeding on our lawn recently, just as I snapped them in a hurry, a magpie came in to shoo them away. I was mad, as the Dad usually stays about half an hour, and he brought his young to feed on OUR lawn, AW! I hope he brings it back again.  

 

 

I've just noticed I have had over a million views, WOW! Who would have thought it. Yes it took  15 years, but whose counting. hahaha A BIG Thank you everyone. 

Four Legged Friends WLSC

Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme chosen by Pinky of  

Four Legged Friends

  

 A wonderful theme, don't you think? I had to go with bears, as I love this stamp, it's for a friend who loves her washing on the line, blowing in the wind, as I do. Anyhow, I stamped the image and coloured it with DI's, I then cut a "sun" with a flower die twice, it was too big, so I cut each ray, then coloured it with DI's. Next, I die cut the word out of yellow card. 

The image was added to the same yellow card and added to the card base. Then with the sun, and the bears eyes and noses, each was glossed.  When dried, they were added with the stamped and layered sentiment onto the card. 

stamp - Stampendous Laundry Line, House Mouse

inks - Distress Inks list with photo below 

sun die - Craft Making Magic 5 x 7 card & box die set

sunshine die - Crafters Companion

yellow card - Lidl

sentiment Crafters Companion

there were too many colours to write, so took a photo instead.

 

 

this shows the shine with the gloss

 

 I hope to see you at our challenge, where there are wonderful prizes, which are -

Two prizes of Lavinia Stamps and stencil (photos not to scale). Please note, we (Lavinia) cannot provide exchanges/replacements/refunds for any products received through this third-party giveaway.

 

 

  

 

 

 I'm entering this card into

House Mouse Challenge ATG or add a ribbon - ATG

Cut it Up Challenge #329. Have to use a diecut (sun and sentiment)

Spring Mid month WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme SPRING.

My birthday being in Spring, I love the season, to see the bulbs coming up, the leaves on the trees in their lime green (mostly) appearing, just lovely, and the sun coming out for longer, apart from the rain that is!

Anyhow, my card today has a hyacinth, we had some come and go in the garden, such joy to see them and enjoy the delicious perfume.

I embossed and coloured the background hyacinth, then die cut a frame to 3D over it. I don't have DL size dies, so I used the double cutting technique to get the die size to fit. Then stamped the sentiment with the DI to match the flower, and clear embossed it. The hyacinth was stamped and coloured in the same colours as the embossed hyacinth. I quite liked this card, but it was too thick to post, however our neighbour had her birthday a few days after I made it, and it went to her.

Hyacinth embossing folder - Lisa Horton, mag freebie

sentiment - Stamps By Me

hyacinth stamp - Pink Fresh, mag freebie 

frame dies - Craft Making Magic

inks - Distress Inks, twisted citron, mowed lawn, kitsch flamingo, picked raspberry.

 

 

Three prizes from AALL and Create, 1) Key Botanicals 2) See you Soon and 3) Hexagon stencil with Delicate Wings stamp

 

 

Don't forget, we will now require At least one stamped element on the front of all entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

 

I just want to add, THANK YOU, for the lovely messages and support from you lovely ladies, through this difficult time we are having, it really is so kind of you all, and much appreciated. I realise that many of you are going through difficult times too, many more serious than mine, and I hope you your coping mechanism is better than mine, at this time. I suppose I'm what many people will call a wimp at the moment. God give you strength to carry the load you have. I pray he helps us too. 

 

Reading some lovely words on this challenge, helps too.

Word Art Wednesday ATG #643-644 * 

 

Feminine WLSC

  Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month we would love to see your cards with the theme Feminine.

 

 I decided on a laugh today, I had downloaded a background stamp image, that I thought could work, I printed it out, and it was paler than I thought it would be, mmm, what to do? Well, I went to my inks and had inks to match the colour, so that's what I worked with. I could have printed it again, but thought I would try the colours.

 

Anyhow, I added stamped hearts, in a semi circle, to the left of where I intended the image would be. The old woman was stamped and coloured with DI's in shades to match the background. I stamped the sentiment in the same colour and even found a ribbon to match. They were all added to the printed and stamped background, and it was attached to the base card with 3D pads. The colours quite different for me.

 

 stamp image and sentiment - "Never too old to laugh" by Art Impressions

heart stamps -  Craft Making Magic magazine freebies

inks - Distress Inks, milled lavender, shaded lilac, seedless preserve, dusty concord, tattered rose, tea dye.

background digital stamp - Billie Irene

die - Craft Making Magic

ribbon - Papermania

 

 

This months lovely prizes are from 

Lavinia stamps two prizes: 1)Small Pines, Christmas Joy and Eve, 2) Fairy Chain

 

 

Don't forget, we will now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Romance mid month WLSC

 Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for We Love Stamping. This month, we would love to see Romance.

 

Who has trouble making a Romance card? Me! I actually made 7, and they all ended up in the bin. I had this vision of a rabbit amongst leaves and flowers, so I stamped and cut a mask, took the mask off after stamping and it was a mess! I redid it, nope another in the bin. 

 

Then I tried again, forgetting what was in my mind, turned out OK, then I dropped ink on the rabbit! Another in the bin, I tried again. I made a mess of fussy cutting.

 

I decided maybe it was the rabbit stamp that didn't want to be used. Next a different rabbit was stamped and die cut 3 times, all failures. I was on the point of giving up again, I decided to try one more time, then it turned out OK. I could carry on.

 

I stamped and die cut the sentiment, dragging the ink to colour the hearts. Then a heart was die cut, and although I wanted CAS, I felt it needed more, so I die cut a flower stem and left it white. All put together and attached to the card with 3D pads, then a small pompom was added, well, I had to. Whew, 4 hours later! 

 

I had planned to do so much more, such as comments to catch up on, more DT cards. Oh! Well, here's the card.

 

bunny, sentiment and hearts - Uniko Stamps

die cut heart - Sissix

ink - Distress Inks, hickory smoke, candied apple

red card - Jellybean 

flower stem die - Craft Making Magic

 

 

There are 2 prizes from AALL and Create, A 5 stamp set and Miss Dee love trio

  

Don't forget, we will now require At least one stamped element on entries. Those of you like us, who love to stamp, we would still love you to enter your fully stamped entry.

Handsome Lion!

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for -

Critter Crazy

 Anything Goes but they MUST feature a critter as the main focus 

Whether Furry, Feathered, Fantasy, Fairytale, 

Scaly, or Insect, there must be a critter...

This is the other Lion, I told you about in this post.

My Son's 47th birthday is this month, I usually add his age, and he hates me doing it, so I thought I would be kind to him for a change. hahaha. I had an incredible win from Stamp Addicts in February and after seeing this magnificent Lion, I decided to have him included in my winning stamps. I kept him especially for my Son's birthday.

He was stamped and coloured in DI's, adding a stencilled grass base and patchy colouring for the sky, then I 3D glazed his nose and eyes. He stayed like that for about 2 weeks, with me not knowing what to do from there on. I was looking at sketches online, and came across this lovely card, that I decided to case.

I die cut him, layered him onto brown card and used card the same colours as the grass, 2 colour greens, and the blue of the sky. I stamped the sentiment, used brown card to layer that also, and it was finished in no time. Thank goodness for the case. Although, now looking at it, perhaps the blue piece should have been on top! Oh! Well, he won't notice.

Lion - Stamp Addicts

inks - Distress Inks. wild honey, tea dye vintage photo, walnut stain, salty ocean, black soot, 

mowed lawn, twisted citroen, forest moss

3D glaze - Nuvo Crystal Glaze 

 sentiment stamp - Magazine freebie

all coloured card - Lidl

grass stencil - Funky Fossil 

die - Craft Making Magic

I look forward to seeing your animal as the main focus in our challenge at Critter Crazy .

Crafting Happiness Challenge #145

Crafty Animals #75 

NBUS Challenge #53 

Shrimply? QKR

Hi Everyone, my card today is a DT card this one is for  

http://qkrstampede.blogspot.com/

We will select two winners each of the weeks 

1 using QKR Stampede  or Eureka Stamps image

 and 1 using any image!

Anything Goes every 1st & 15th of the month

I saw the image and the sentiment on this card on separate days, then happily coloured and made the card, before realising. that this image is a Lobster! (I blame what was going on at the time in the UK when I made this card!) However, I thought in my strange sense of humour that the person who receives will probably know as soon as they see it and I hope, gives them a smile as I hope it gives you one too. 

Anyhow, as I said I coloured the image, using DI's, I added a very light blue marker pen around the image. I computer generated the sentiment and cut it out with a die. The background was embossed onto orange card, then rubbed it over DO's with the same colours of the image.

 image - Lobster QKR Stampede, 

inks - Distress inks / Oxides, abandoned coral, dried marigold, ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin, spiced marmalade

image die - Craft Making Magic

sentiment die - Julie Hickey

embossing folder - Cuttlebug, Thanks