July Rudolph Days

Well here we are 25th July and there are only five more Rudolph Days Challenges.left this year. I've managed to make 47 cards so far with these three taking the total to 50. So I really feel that the pressure is off and I can concentrate on the special cards for individual members of the family now. My cards for this month is using one of the new releases from Pink Ink Designs, as soon as I saw this I knew that I would have to add it to my stash as my youngest grandson is mad about trains. I stamped it with Versafine Clair and coloured with Alcohol markers. As always over on the Challenge Maureen has a wonderful prize for the winner of the random draw at the end of the month all you need to do is make a card and take part. I do hope that you will pop across and join us this month or just go and take a look and see what it's all about.

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

Sue
 

June Rudolph Days

I'm really late this month with my card for the Rudolph Days Challenge. At the beginning of June we went away on a cruise with friends for 2 weeks around the med. We had a great time, the weather was fantastic and it was nice to be doing what was normal a couple of years ago. However we all returned home with Covid, I'm glad to say that we have now all recovered but it has put me behind with everything. I had stamped my images for this month and taken them with me and I did get them coloured while away. I still had to put them together though. I'm glad to say that I've managed to get them done in time for the challenge this month. As you must all know by now Maureen has a wonderful prize for the winner who is chosen randomly at the end of the challenge, if you haven't entered yet you still have until the end of today to do so. My card this month is a Pink Ink Design of this gorgeous little mouse skiing downhill and as normal I've made four altogether. 

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

Sue

September Rudolph Days

I must apologise for being so late with this post for this Month’s Rudolph Days Challenge. After a bad start to this year with the passing of my Mother who had just celebrated her 90^th Birthday, this week my Father-in-law passed away aged 93. I know they were both a great age and these thing are expected at sometime but it does not make it any easier. So having just finished clearing and selling my Mothers house and finally getting all the bits that I bought home put away, we are having to do it all over again.

Any way onto this Month’s Rudolph Days Challenge, Maureen has a wonderful prize for the person who will be picked at random, anything goes as long as it’s Christmas so you have nothing to lose by joining in. For my cards this month I have used just one set of Pink Ink stamps and I really enjoyed colouring them in with my pencils. I made 12 cards altogether, 4 in each design. Please pop over and take a look at the wonderful cards that my fellow teamies have made for your inspiration.

 

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

Sue 

Add A Number

I'm trying desperatly to get back to some sort of normality after the passing of my Mum. At the moment my mojo has been on holiday and is just getting back. So I looked about at what challenges there are at the moment and saw the Allsorts Challenge wanted A Number Added to their submissions this week. It reminded me that I had a card from the beginning of the year that I had not posted on here yet. It was made for our Great Nephew who turned 21 in January using the lion stamps from Pink Ink designs. I know that he spent the day quietly as he had Covid at the time. He's recovered now though and is back at work.

 Thank you for taking the time to visit and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Favourite Colours

Wow what a long time since I last blogged. What with Christmas and also my Mojo went for a little walk about too, but I'm glad to say that it back now. So my card for today was made for my Great Nephew who turned 21 last week. I've used an 8x8 card base and a stamp for what is at the moment my favourite stamp company Pink Ink. I started by stamping this gorgeous monkey with spiced marmalade distress ink and then smudging it with an ink blender, I then added a little more of the spiced marmalade ink around the head and face area before over stamping with ground expresso distress ink. I then went around the outside with the new rustic wilderness distress ink colour and used a leaf stamp around the edges. I just added a little dot of white pen to highlight the eyes. This week over on the Allsorts blog they are asking for cards using your favourite colour and as I used the lovely warm oranges that I always seem to reach for with card making it has to fall into the category of a favourite colour. So I'm off to join in the fun this week.

 

 Hope to be back with something new soon

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

Sue

August Rudolph Days

Another month has flown by and it's time again for another Rudolph Days Challenge. I'm glad to say that I started making these cards with plenty of time to spare, as my mother had a fall and has had to go into hospital. If I had not already started these cards I doubt that they would have been made. I've used a new stamp from Pink Ink for my cards this month, the sentiment came from a set that I have in my cupboard but can't remember where I got them from.  I coloured the image using Colour Blend pencils from Spectrum Noir and then went around the edges with distress ink - Salty Ocean. I do hope that you have time to join in the fun over on the Rudolph Days Blog, there is always a lovely prize for the winner who is chosen at random.

 Another eight cards to add to my collection.

I hope that you are all keeping well and staying safe.
Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind commetns which are always appreciated.

Sue

Birthday Dragon

I can't believe how time flies, this card was what I made for my youngest who celebrated his 34th Birthday on Saturday. I used Pink Inks Dragon which I stamped onto plain white card and coloured using Spectrum Noir pens, I then fussy cut around the outside and set to one side. I took a background that I made by spraying inks onto card, I think they were Sprinky inks from Inkylicious. The swirls that have been added were from the stamp sheet that the Dragon came on . I then stamped the Dragon onto the background and placed the fussy cut image over the top. This Birthday came just in time for me to pop along to the Allsorts Challenge which this week is Make it Masculine.

Hope that you are all staying safe and keeping well.
Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Thank You

This is a card that I made for a very special friend who very kindly went and searched for a collection that I had tried to buy (unfortunatly Create and Craft failed me) but never received. Thanks to her hard work and effort I now have the collection that I was trying to buy. You know who you are if your reading this, I can't thank you enough. I made the card using Pink Ink's Hare stamp, first by making a background using Picked Raspberry in Distress Oxides and Tim Holtz Stencil. I then inked in some hills and using small stamps from the set in the background made a scene. I then stamped the hare onto the scene and also stamped it onto a piece of white card, after using very pale pink alcohol pens and a blending pen on the hare I fussy cut it out and stuck over the one on the scene. I'm going to enter this card into the months challenge over on the Stamping Sensations Challenge blog as this month their theme is All Creatures Great and Small.

I hope that you are all keeping safe and well

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

Sue

St Georges Day

As well as being St Georges Day today is also Hubby's birthday. Here are two of the cards that I made for him, the top one is from me and the bottom one is from his Dad. For the top one I used one of the newer releases from Pink Ink, I stamped the Elephant and then masked with fluid before spraying the background with Sprinky inks from Inkylicious. When it was dry I placed a stencil over and inked through with a similer colour. I coloured the Elephant with alcohol markers after rubbing away the masking fluid.

 The bottom card was made using dies and papers from The Paper and Wood collection I bought from Create and Craft some time ago. The background was from the USB that came with the Decoupage Collection in the last post and the sentiment is from Crafters Companion.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.
Take care and stay safe everyone.
Sue

Motor Biking

This card has been made at the request of a friend who needed a card for a friend who is turning 60 in the next week or so. Having made it I'm wondering how it is going to be collected now. The stamp is from Pink Ink and called Mel's Angel. I stamped it out using Crafters Companion Finesse Black which is great if you are going to colour using Alcohol Pens. I then used a mixtue of pro markers and metalic markers to colour the image. I finished off by inking around the image using Distress Inks and then adding 60 Today die cut using Rob Addams dies.

Thank you for taking the time to look and your kind comments which are always appreciated.
Hope you are all keeping well and staying safe.

Sue

Make It Girly

Make It Girly is the new challenge this week over on the Allsort Blog. So I got out the Pink Ink designs again and inked up this beautiful image of a mermaid sitting on a shell. Coloured it with Alcohol pens and distress inks blended for the background.

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

Sue

Classy Bird

Another Pink Ink card today, this time for the Stamping Sensations Challenge. They are asking for Feminine Creations this month. I used an 8x8 card base for this card and some teal coloured card for the matting. I coloured using alcohol pens and then some distress ink pads for the blended background. The bird is also coloured in teals and greens as these are the recipients favourite colours.

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

Sue

Hare

I'm here today with a card made for two challenges, Penny Black and More and Make My Monday Challenge. Penny Black is asking for cards with Animals, Birds and Butterflies and Make My Moday are asking for Critters. I think this Hare should cover both challenges although I've not got a bird on there. I used the Hare from the Pink Ink fantastic stamp range for this card, first stamping the image onto some white card stock and then adding the flowers, butterflies and swirly ferns around the edges. I coloured everything in using alcohol ink markers and then blended some distress ink around the outside of the card. Finally I finished it by adding some nuvo drops to the hare and the flower centres. It's now in the post to someone who is feeling under the weather at the moment, in the hopes that this will cheer her day.

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

Sue

Unicorn

I'm back from my week away, I had a great time but it's now back to reality with a bang. I have so much catching up to do including taking my Mum to get her Flu jab later this week. This is a card that has been made for our Great Niece who turns 18 next week. I will admit that since photographing this card I have added 18 Today to the card. It was made using an 8x8 card base and the stamp which is from Pink Ink designs. I then coloured using very pastel shades and then inked around the edges using matching colours.

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

Sue

A Workshop Or Two

Last weekend saw me up at the crack of dawn, no I lie it was still dark when I got up, as I was off to a one day workshop with a friend. It was just outside of Coventry and held by Clare Charvil from My Creative Spirit. Where we made a lovely Travellers Notebook using the beautiful papers from the Graphic 45 Kaleidoscope Collection. It was going to take about 2 hours to reach the venue from home, which involved a trip up the A34 between Newbury and the M40. Then along the M40 for some way. I'm just glad to say that the weather was better than today. When we got onto the M40 and joined there were hundreds of Motorcyclist on the road, and when I say hundreds we drove past 22 miles of them, it was quite a sight to see. We found out later that it was the Ride To The Wall. (I've linked the last bit for anyone who wishes to find out more). We arrived with time to set up and grab a cup of coffee before the day started at 10.00 am.

Only a picture of the front of my Travellers Notebook as I've not taken any of the inside yet. We finished up the day by having a meal with a friend that we met up with for the day before heading from Coventry over to Kettering for the night. Where on the Sunday we were off to another one day workshop.

Sunday saw us finding our way to Brigstock  Village Hall, were we attended the first ever workshop to be held by Pink Ink. We were greeted by Mel and Kathy on our arrival and were made to feel very welcome. We were split into two groups and the first half of the day we spent with Kathy learning how to stamp and paint onto fabric. This was something that I had wanted to try for sometime, but was a bit nervous of trying it. I hope you'll agree that my first attempt didn't turn out bad. In the afternoon we moved over and had a wonderful time With Pauline Butcher using paints, ink and water colour brush pens and made the decoupaged card below. I used the same stamp for both of my projects, the new Donkey stamp that has just been released. This was given to us as part of the workshop (the choice of one of the four new stamps that were released the previous week), although we did have the choice to work with any of their beautiful stamps. I'm glad to say that we had a fantastic weekend and the weather even stayed fine for the journey home.

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

Sue

Whale Hello

This week over on the Allsorts Challenge Blog they want to see things for Boys to Men. This card is for a friend who's birthday is tomorrow and as he doesn't look at my blog I'm fine to post it on here early. Again I've used a Pink Ink stamp and this time the beautiful whale. I've been whale watching twice now and on both occasions was lucky enough to see these magnificent creatures. The second time was with the friend this card is for, hopefully it will bring back memories of the great time we had. The background was created using Distress Oxide Sprays in various colours of blue and green, then when dry I over stamped using similar colours around the edge and then stamped the main images in black. Finally I stamped the large whale again and coloured then fussy cut it out and stuck over the top.

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

Sue

Trees And Leaves

I'm here today with a card for the Allsorts Challenge, which this week is Trees and Leaves. A perfect excuse to use this happy chappy from Pink Ink - Merryfall. I stamped him onto some white card that I picked up at a show in a pack, it's very smooth so I was a bit worried about how well it would stamp and would I be able to colour using Alcohol pens. I shouldn't have worried as it was wonderful, the pens didn't even bleed through the card. You can bet that I will have trouble finding that same card next time. After stamping the main image and colouring I stamped around the edge with the leaves taking them off of the page slightly, then also stamping onto the left over bits from the A4 sheet and cutting out the leaves.  Then I after mounting the card I placed the cut out leaves over the top and off of the edge slightly. I'm sure you'll agree that he looks like he having great fun falling through the air and landing on what must be a pile of leaves on the ground. Or maybe that's my over active imagination making up stories.

I'm also going to enter this into the Cards For Guyz Challenge which this time is - Trees or Leaves or both.

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

Sue

September Rudolph Days

Wow September already and not only that it's the 25th which means that it's time for  the Rudolph Days Challenge over at Scrappy Mos. For my card/s this month I cased a card that I had seen over on Eileen Godwin's Blog, she was teaching the technique at her workshops at the beginning of September. As I knew how to do part of the technique and also had the stamp that she used I decided to see what I could do. The background is made  with a score board and then distress inks pulled gently over the top, I then stamped the large bauble from the wonderful set by Pink Ink  and coloured with Alcohol Markers, then finally I added a sentiment which was from a set by Crafters Companion. I must admit to being please with the results and I now have nine more cards to add to my stash. I do hope that you have time to pop over to Maureen's blog and see what the DT have to inspire this month and come and join the fun, there's even a prize for one lucky person chosen at random.

 Below are the different colour combinations that I tried.

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

Sue

With Wings

Well at the beginning of the year I had hoped to be a better blogger this year, but I've not managed it this past month. Lots of reasons why, my having a bad bout of tonsillitis being one of them. However I am now recovered and showing today the card that I've made to enter into the Stamping Sensations Challenge this month which is Things With Wings. My first reaction was to reach for the Lavinia stamps, but I stopped myself as that was too easy, next was to go for one of the many bird stamps that I have, but then I spotted this Pink Ink stamp that was released earlier this month (that I had to have) and decided to use her instead. Yesterday was the perfect day to stamp and get inky, while it poured down outside I was nice and dry having some me time. I don't very often water colour but for this stamp I decided to go with that for a change, I'm quite pleased with the results. Now I have to go and pack a suitcase, I'm away for just over a week with my Daughter and Grandsons, here's hoping the weather is going to be nicer in Devon next week.

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

Sue

Chameleon

I think I might have mentioned in an earlier post that I'm a bit addicted to Pink Ink Stamps at the moment, so when I saw this one for sale it jumped right into my basket shouting Buy Me, Buy Me. So what else could I do, I bought it. It was stamped onto Sheena's stamping card and then coloured with Spectrum Noir pens, I blended a little ink around the outside and added some Nuvo drops to the flowers. Then it was popped onto some black card and a 8x8 card base. I thought I would go and join in the challenge at A bit More Time To Craft which at the moment is Anything Goes.

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

Sue