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Saturday, 30 March 2019

Bee Awesome

When I saw what the challenge was over on the Allsorts Challenge blog this week (it's to use Yellow) I knew straight away what stamps I was going to use. I have fallen in love with the Pink Ink stamps and am now the proud owner of 11 of them. This is the first outing for not only this beautiful Bee but of any of the ones that I have.The bee is quite a focal point as the card base I used is 7x7. I stamped using a stamp platform just to make sure that I got a good image before changing to a smaller block to use some of the extra stamps in the set around the outside of the card. Then I stamped onto heat proof acetate for the wings using StazOn,, again I used the stamp platform for this as I find stamping onto acetate a bit tricky. Then I coloured in the back with a clear sparkle pen and left to dry before cutting out and sticking to the bee. I don't think you can tell that they are separate in this photo so next time I might just try a pale blue sparkle pen.


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Sue

Friday, 29 March 2019

Christmas Die cuts

I've noticed that there is a new Christmas Challenge blog on block, Christmas Kickstart Challenge. I think it a two week challenge and this time they are asking for cards with die cuts. For my card I have used a die from Spellbinders that was released last year in a bundle of Christmas themed dies. I cut it from black card and then with some textured wallpaper that I found in a DIY store (I took a largish sample) I made a backing paper. It has a rather nice silver sheen to it and there was enough there to make 9 cards all the same. I'm off now to join in the challenge.



I'm not sure how I've managed to post everyday this week, hope I can keep it up.
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Sue

Thursday, 28 March 2019

Mothers Day

I'm back with a card today that I've made for my Mum for Mother's Day. I used the Burst Of Spring collection from Heartfelt Creations for the card, the pansies from this collection are gorgeous. I used ink pads and dabbers to colour the pansies and added some matching stickles to the centres.  The sentiment die used is from The Paper Boutique. The challenge over at My Time To Craft is Mothers Day/For A Female so I'm going to join in this week.



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Sue

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

Feathered Friends

Well things have settled down here after the excitement of last week so I made time to make a card to enter into the Allsorts Challenge this week which is Feathered Friends. I've used a 5x5 card base and a stamp that was free on the front of Creative Stamping a couple of months ago, where there was a whole A4 sheet full of stamps with birds and related things. I used the Wren stamp, the reason for this is - outside my sitting room window is a large Clematis which every year blooms beautifully for a good 2 -3 months starting about the end of March beginning of April. After it finishes blooming a little wren can often be seen hopping about around the bottom of the plant, I not sure if it nests in there every year or just visits daily, I've never cut it back far enough to find out. The Wren stamp reminded me of this. I coloured my Wren using pencils and made a brushed background using distress ink pads. The sentiment comes from the same stamp sheet and the branches were from a Lavinia stamp.



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Sue

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Our New Arrival

I would like to show off my new Grandson Eric Steven (named after his two Grandfathers). He was born on 18th March and although both of these photos were taken at the hospital he was born at home on the stairs, delivered by my son-in-law. My daughter said she had been having a few niggles but nothing major since about 2.00 in the afternoon. Then at 5.30 they got a bit stronger so I got a phone call asking if I would have our eldest grandson for the night this was about 5.55. Son-in-law dropped him off at 6.05 and got home just in time to ring the ambulance and be talked through the delivery. By 6.22 Eric was here. I'm glad to say that everything went well and apart from being taken to hospital and kept in for the night Mum and baby are both doing well. He wasn't due until today, so I had no card ready (it was still on my to do list). Andrew our eldest grandson loves his baby brother and delights in showing him of to all the visitors that they have at the moment, I'm sure that the novelty will wear of soon.



Above the brothers meet for the first time


Below, my card which I managed to make and will be delivering this morning. I used a Groovi plate for this my second parchment card. I've not added any colour just used a royal blue card behind for and some beads which was how I attached the parchment to the card.


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Sue


Monday, 25 March 2019

Rudolph Days

I can't believe that it's time for the March Rudolph Days Challenge already, the time has flown by. This month I tried a new (to me) technique called Black Ice, there are lots of videos on the Internet showing how to do this so I won't bore you by telling you how I done this, but needless to say it gives a great effect. I used Tim Holtz snowflakes stamps with a sentiment stamp from Chocolate Baroque.



As usual I made more than one for the box ready for this year.


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Sue

Friday, 15 March 2019

Playing With Mixed Media

No card from me today, but I have been having a bit of a play with a kit that was from the Creative Craft Academy and I'm going to pop along to the More Mixed Media Challenge with it. This month it's Anything Goes with the option of Green. You get everything in the kit to complete the project, so there no need to go rummaging around your Craft Room or supplies to see if you have everything. Initially I thought that this was too dark, as everything is painted with black gesso. but then you get onto the decorating and there was some nice gold and bronze paints in the box for this part and I've managed to get a lot of dry brushing around the edge as well.



Tomorrow I'm off to the NEC with a friend with tickets that I won in a Facebook draw compliments of Claritystamp.

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Sue

Tuesday, 12 March 2019

CD Sunday - Anything Goes

Today I have two cards that I made for my Father-in-law to give to his two grandsons that had birthdays this last week. I always seem to get stuck with male themed cards and end up reaching for my tried and tested favourite, Pollyanna Pickering's collection of CD's. These two were made using the latest of her CD's British Wildlife vol 3. As both of these were made using a CD I'm off to join in the challenge over at CD Sunday which is Anything Goes.





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Sue

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Somewhere Over the Rainbow is the theme of this months challenge over on the Stamping Sensations blog. So with this in mind I was singing this to myself as I got my inks out to make a background for my card. I now can't get it out of my head. I was not sure what I was going to stamp on it but as I was finishing the inking I got a magical feeling, so I reached for the Lavinia stamps, they are never far away. The fairy that I used is Luna, she is my favourite and always seems to make a great card I also added some leaves to the branch and some foliage stamps. I've mounted it onto some black card and then onto an 8x8 base card and added some sparkle pens to her wings and the flowers at the bottom.



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Sue

Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Banana And Bluebell

Banana and Bluebell these are just two of the things on the butterfly wheel this spin. So I've made this card to enter into the Butterfly Challenge this week. There are seven things on the wheel altogether, Bi-fold, Bluebell, Banana, Burgundy, Buttons, Bows and Butterfly. I've used a Bluebell coloured base card along with Banana for the matting. Bluebell and Banana are colour on the backing papers which are from issue 28 of the Tattered Lace magazine, it you look closely at the top backing paper there are little blue butterflies all over it. I added some buttons from my stash and some die cut butterflies using the same card as the matting. The die cut sentiment is from Paper Boutique.



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Sue

Friday, 1 March 2019

My First Parchment Card

Sometime ago I treated myself to the starter kit for the Groovi, then a couple of weeks ago they had a smaller starter kit on Hochanda and I treated myself to that too. So when it arrived I decided rather that put it to one side I would get the first one out and combine the two. This is the result of my playing. It's for my Daughter and Son-in-laws Wedding Anniversary today and I'm glad to say that she loved it. My first attempt ended in the bin as I very stupidly put the names on the right side (on the back of the work) at the top turned it over to look at and then put the parchment down and started on the Happy Anniversary on front of the card, which of course was the wrong side to do it. The backing paper is from the Rainbow River collection.



Thanks for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue