Acorns WLSC

   Hi Everyone, my DT card today is for

We Love Stamping.  

This month, we would love to see your cards with the theme of  

Anything Autumn

 

 

It was my SiL's birthday a few days ago, and as I had shown her how an embossing folder worked on a recent visit, I thought I would include one on her card.  I wanted to use a new embossing folder with leaves, and leave it white, but, it needed some colour. I added some to the folder and placed the already embossed sheet into it. It produced a feint effect of colour, which I liked.  

 

I used the same colours on the leaves after stamping them with green. The acorns were stamped and coloured, then both were fussy cut. I cut a strip of white and stamped the sentiment. Then left it a couple of days, thinking what to do next. 

 

I thought a touch of ribbon? So off to my ribbon drawers, and I came across the hessian.  Of course, I had to use that. I cut it to fit the sentiment piece of card. I glued the embossed piece onto the base card, then added the hessian and sentiment piece.  Next I added the leaves and acorns to the top corner and placed just the acorns onto the bottom, beside the sentiment. 

 

Another simple card, even using similar colours as my first challenge card this month for the WLSC.

 

stamps - Magazine freebies SC&P

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, twisted citron, ripe persimmon, carved pumpkin

embossing folder - Lisa Horton, Fancy Foliage. 

hessian and card - stash 

 

 

I just have a few words to add. Thank you all for your continuing support, whilst hubby isn't well.  xx 

 

 

 

There will be a few 'random surprise spot prizes' this month, announced mid most and end of month posts.

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. 

Under The Sea TMR

Hi Everyone, my card today is for 

I've gone overboard, literally with my card today, so many items on it, not like me at all, but I had to do it!

Anyhow, I started with embossing the shell images, then I decided to colour it, back it went into the ef after I added ink to the plain side. I then thought of sand, so blended some sand colour around the centre.  It was then I had a look at my dies and found the perfect ones, rather than use one or two, I used the lot. They were coloured with DI's. Next I looked through my paper pads and found one that looked like it was under the sea, I used that as the background. 

 I added all the die shapes, putting some at the back of the embossing folder. They were then added to the "sea" layer and all added to the base card. I couldn't find my stamp sea sentiments, why do they disappear like that? I did have some digital sea sayings, but they wouldn't fit into the space, so I added a digital birthday sentiment, printed and layered 3 times and 3D'd onto the card. A busy card, but as I said, for some reason I had to.

embossing folder - Creative Craft Products, magazine freebie

ef ink - Distress Oxide uncharted mariner 

dies - I think they are Cut & Make, no packing

die inks - Distress Inks, lots of colours

birthday sentiment - Crafters Companion, mag freebie  

 

 

I hope to see you at The Male Room, great inspiration for those men out there, if you're having trouble making a card for them. 

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon 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 Cathy of  

Fav stamps/add lace or ribbon

   

 

I don't know which of my stamps are favourite, but I really like this set, I've not used it much though. For some reason I thought of stamping on ribbon, I tried it years ago, and it wasn't successful, my mind works in strange ways, and things pop up. 

Anyhow, I tried it on blue hessian kind of ribbon, a complete fail, I tried it on brown hessian, another sort of fail, I tried embossing in white on red ribbon, I got too much antistatic powder which didn't want to be removed. So, I looked for a paler ribbon and found pink, then thought, pink and gold are a lovely match. That's how this card came into being.

I stamped the ribbon and embossed in gold, then stamped the card, so that the complete stamp was visible when the ribbon was placed onto the card. I stamped other images and a sentiment, all from the same set on a piece of white die cut card.

Next I found an embossing folder that fitted the stamped layer, after embossing I rubbed over the same ink I had coloured the flowers on the card. The embossed layer was attached onto a piece of card, then inked around it in the same ink. They were all layered. 

The ribbon was attached to the top layer, matching the stamped image. I felt it needed something else to balance it, so I cut more ribbon and folded and glued it onto the side edges. The top layer was 3D'd onto the embossed layer. A die cut butterfly was added, coloured in the same colour.

Cherry Blossom stamps - SC&P Magazine #215 2021

embossing powder - Altenew Antique gold

ink - Distress Ink spun sugar

ribbon - stash

card - Crafters Companion

embossing folder - I think from a magazine freebie, no packing

butterfly - could be Cut & Make, no packing

scalloped die - Tonic

 

 

For our prize winner this month, we have beautiful stamps from

  Fairy Hugs
 

Daffodil birthday

 Hi Everyone, another daffodil card, well I do love the flowers and have some lovely stamps. I had made it for a DT challenge but forgot I had made it, looking through my pictures I realised I hadn't posted it, so here it is.

I embossed the card first and then stamped the daffodils and the sentiment, and coloured the daffodils with DI's. Then decided to punch a round corner. Next it was just layer and glue on to gold card. A very simple card, with limited supplies but, I really like it.  

stamps and embossing folder - Magazine freebies SC&P #240 

inks - Distress inks mustard seed, fossilised amber, squeezed lemonade 

Here are some daffs in the garden at the moment, on a very dull day today, such happy flowers, that brighten my day. Spring is definitely springing, everything has begun to show itself, hubby has been out pruning and mowing the lawn. I just hope the frosts, supposed to be due this weekend, don't stop them in their burst of life.

CAS WLCS

 

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

CAS

   

 

A search through my stamps, brought up 2 sets that I could use, so I actually made this and the mid month card at the same time, whoop, whoop.

I stamped and coloured the image with DI's in a different colour way to what I would normally use, it must have been me on the day, then die cut it. Next, I stamped the sentiment and die cut that. I decided to add another layer, so die cut it and embossed lines diagonally. After adding all the layers, I added the sentiment matching the diagonal lines. The die is 5x7inches, so I had to juggle it to fit the image, and the sentiment, so the edges matched.

stamps - Colorado Stamp Company free with SCP #228

die - Card Making Magic

inks - Distress Ink abandonden coral, seedless preserve,specled egg, iced spruce

 

this shows the embossed lines

 

Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We 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.

 

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

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

Anything but a square card 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 of  -

Anything but a square card

   

One of my nieces has a birthday this month and I made this card for her, taking the opportunity to use the challenge as inspiration. I used the Silhouette to make a scalloped stitched circle card. Which I edged with pink ink. I stamped the jumper and the scarfs, using the main colour of yellow, to colour and make them more feminine. I then added the pink and a green. Perhaps I should have made the embossing folder bigger, to hide the fold, would you believe it, I didn't think of it until I had put it all together. DUH!

The background was embossed with a cable design, the scarfs were stamped with the sentiments, and 3D'd onto the embossing.

stamps and embossing folder - Nordic Winter, SCP freebies

stitched circle design - Font Market CCC234 Stitched Nesting Shapes

inks - Distress Ink & Oxide, kitsch flamingo, scattered straw, peacock feathers.

 

 Don't forget, your image must be hand coloured. We 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.

  Important - Please read the updated Rules of the Challenge Here

There are Three great prizes from AALL and Create, a die set and two stamp sets

Mid Month at the Christmas KickStart Challenge

  Hi Everyone, I'm honoured to be Guest Elf for October at the Christmas Kick-Start Challenge #91 -

 

 This month, Jo and I decided on this beautiful colour theme. Such a lovely combination.

 This is the link to my first card. Loving the colour mix so much, I had to do another for the mid month make. How about you, seeing what you can do with this mix?

I was looking through my embossing folders, for another project, and found this one, that had a plain rectangle centre. Then off I went looking for a Christmas stamp and found one I liked, I hadn't used it before, amongst others not used! Anyhow, I stamped the image and heat embossed in clear powder, then fussy cut it, thankfully a simple cut. I don't think I'll ever like fussy cutting. I coloured the image with DI's, although the photo doesn't give justice to the matching colours of the theme, I used.

Then I embossed the embossing folder as the background, and decided to paint the stars with gold paint. 

I found some bright blue card to layer the embossing on and attached it to the base card, then added the image and sentiment. 

car stamp - Chloe's Creative magazine freebies Simply Cards & Papercraft #249

sentiment - magazine freebie

inks - Distress Inks, mustard seed, spiced marmalade, ripe persimmon, stormy sky, weathered wood, broken china, faded jeans, candied apple

gold paint - Kuretake

sentiment die - Card Making Magic

embossing powder - Papermania Clear

gold ink - Kuretake 

embossing folder - Cuttlebug

I hope you join in and start, or even continue, your Christmas cards with Jo and me. The colour combination is so pretty to use on our Christmas cards.

A Super prize is in the offing for the Rudolphs random raffle