Crafty Calendar April Challenge - All Dressed Up Wellie Boots Birthday Card

Good morning, I hope you are well and had a good Easter and haven't eaten too many Easter eggs.   It's the first Saturday of the month and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  

The theme this week is Dry/Wet Embossed

For my card I have included both wet and dry embossing.

The image is Wellie Boots from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.

The background is blended with distress oxides inks and then embossed with the Spellbinders Scattered Fall embossing folder.

I did swipe a white ink pad over the raised part of the embossing just to try and make it a slightly lighter shade.

The happy birthday sentiment has been heat embossed with white embossing powder.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

All Dressed Up

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog and I'll see you soon x

Sizzix Papercut Chicks Easter Card

Happy Easter, I hope you are keeping safe and well and haven't indulged in too many chocolate eggs.   We have met up with family today and I cooked Sunday dinner....so we are now just having a relaxing afternoon.  I have another Easter card to share today.

For my card I have used:

Sizzix Papercut Chicks Colorize die set by Tim Holtz.

The background was created using Distress inks and the Eggstra Special Layering Stencil by Time For Tea Designs,

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Easter Bunnies Easter Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Today is Good Friday and I have an Easter card to share.

For this card I have used:

The bunny, chick and sentiment are from the Easter Bunnies stamp set by Simon Hurley Creates.  They have  been stamped with Memento ink and coloured with copics.

I cut an egg aperture from a 5.1/4" x 4" piece of cardstock and then embossed it using the Spellbinders Woven embossing folder by Simon Hurley.

Now off to tuck into a hot cross bun, it's just not Easter without one...

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See you soon x

Crafty Calendar March Challenge - Lawn Fawn Eggstraordinary Easter Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Today we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is

MORE THAN ONE FOLD

For my card I have used:

The bunnies and sentiment are from the Lawn Fawn Eggstraordinary Easter stamp set.  They have been stamped using Memento black ink and coloured with copics.

The basket, box and eggs have been cut using my Cricut.

The background has been embossed using the Spellbinders Plaid Company embossing folder (SES-018).

We are sponsored for this challenge by

Lawn Fawn

Pop over over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards.

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Crafty Calendar February Challenge - Add a heart Valentine Card

Good morning I hope you are well.  I'm a bit under the weather, I am suffering from a cold at the moment, Martyn was ill first and I thought I had dodged it but no it's arrived.

It's the first Saturday in February and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

Love is in the air and the theme this week is

'ADD A HEART'

For my card I have used

Bob from Sheepski Designs coloured with copics,

It's a bit difficult to tell but the white background has embossed hearts on which was embossed using a heart stencil.

The pink & red background is ink blended using Distress Oxides in Kitsch Flamingo and Lumberjack Plaid.

I decided to add a heart aperture and made a shaker card filled with little heart embellishments from the heart sprinklets set by Buttons Galore.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Sheepski designs

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months 'Add a Heart' challenge and check out the gorgeous DT cards using other images from this months sponsor Sheepski Designs.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar January Challenge - Polkadoodles Pickles Balloon Birthday Card

Good afternoon and a happy new year to you.  A bit later posting today as I have spent this morning taking down all of the Christmas decorations.  This weekend was the first opportunity we had and as long as they were down before twelfth night I was okay with that.

It's the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and a nice easy theme for you to start the year:

'ANYTHING GOES'

For my card I have used:

Pickles Balloon from Polkadoodles.  This is a pre-coloured image.

The background is inked with distress oxides.

The white eyelet border had been cut using one of the dies from the Pretty Pink Posh Eyelet Rectangle die set.

The DP is from my stash.

 

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Polkadoodles

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months 'Anything Goes' challenge and also check out the gorgeous cards from the other DT members using images from this months sponsor Polkadoodles.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  See you soon. x

Bold Tidings Joy to the World Snowman Christmas Card

 Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Here in the UK today snow has arrived.  In my family they joke that I only have to look at ice and snow and I fall over and true to form I slipped over on the ice yesterday so today I'm nursing a grazed knee and a few aches and pains but luckily nothing major.

I have been doing bit of batch card making so I have four cards to share today with the same design only different colours

For these cards I have used:

• Tim Holtz Bold Tidings #2 by Stampers Anonymous CMS419 stamped on black card and heat embossed in white.  I masked out the O from joy and replaced it with the snowman from the My Favorite Things Christmas Cuteness stamp set
• The backgrounds are ink blended using Distress Oxides and then I have stamped snowflakes on it which were then heat embossed in silver.

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All Dressed Up Christmas Penguins Christmas Card - Crafty Calendar December Challenge

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  It's the first Saturday in December so we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.

The theme this month is

'CHRISTMAS'

For my card I have used:

• Christmas Penguins digital stamp from All Dressed Up coloured with copics.
• The background is ink blended distress oxides in Cracked Pistachio and Salvaged Patina and then I stencilled some snowflakes over it using Distress Sparkle Texture Paste.
• The red striped background is Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide ink through the MFT Diagonal Stripes stencil.

For this challenge we are sponsored by:

All Dressed Up

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months Christmas challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations using other images from this months sponsor All Dressed Up.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,  see you soon x

Stampers Anonymous Snow Globe Christmas Cards

Good morning to you and happy December.  I have a couple of Christmas cards to share today.  I love snow globe stamps and dies and todays card uses one of my favourites which is from a stamp set by Stampers Anonymous.

There are two cards using the two different snow globe designs from the stamp set in slightly different shades of blue and one of the backgrounds is using distress snowfall texture paste through a stencil and the other using distress sparkle texture paste....can you tell the difference?

For this card I have used:

• Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous CMS472 Festive Print stamp set stamped with Distress Archival Ink and then over stamped with versamark ink, heat embossed with Ranger sticky embossing powder and then covered with rock candy glitter.
• The Merry Christmas sentiment is from the same stamp set and heat embossed in white.
• The backgrounds are Grey Distressed Woodgrain cardstock.  One of them has been stencilled with Distress Snowflake Texture Paste and the other with Distress Sparkle Texture Paste and then coloured with a combination of distress mica spays and distress inks.  One of the pastes holds the ink colour and the other you can lift the ink from it with a damp kitchen roll.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog.  I'll be back tomorrow with a card for our new challenge over at Crafty Calendar

See you soon x

Crafty Calendar November Challenge - Polkadoodles Little Gift Theo Christmas Card

Good afternoon.  I hope you are keeping safe and well.  A little bit later posting today due to spending this morning at the Creative Craft show at the NEC Birmingham.   Nice to see a couple of new suppliers there so I made a beeline to the new Spellbinders stall, met Yana Smakula who was doing some demos for them and picked up a few goodies.

It's the first Saturday in the month and we have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar.  The theme this month is ANYTHING GOES.  It's November so I feel it's okay to start sharing Christmas cards.

For my card I have used:

Little Gift Theo from Polkadoodles coloured with copics.

The background is Distress Mica Sprays

and stars stencilled using Distress texture paste and rock candy glitter.

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Polkadoodles

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months anything goes challenge and check out the gorgeous cards from the other DT members using images from this months sponsor Polkadoodles.

Thanks for taking the time to visit my blog,

See you soon as I have a few Christmas cards to share in the coming weeks.