Sweater Weather

Today's card features another of the cute bears from the 'Beary Merry Christmas' set by Funky Fossil. I stamped him on to a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured him using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut him out. I stamped one of the sentiments from the set on to a kraft card blank, then added the bear above using 3D foam pads.

Challenges for this card:

• 52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Colour an Image
• Addicted to CAS - Critter
• C.R.A.F.T. - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

Tweetheart

Today's card features another couple of the cute bird stamps from 'The Tweets' set by Funky Fossil. I stamped them on to watercolour paper, along with one of the sentiments from the set, then coloured them using watercolour pencils. I distressed the edges a little, then added it to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Crafts Galore - Anything Goes
• Creatalicious - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes
• Stamping Sensations - Moodboard Inspiration

Guest Designer - Rudolph Days Challenge!

Today I'm sharing a card for a Guest Designer spot over at the Rudolph Days Challenge!

For my card, I used some of the stamps from a set by Funky Fossil called 'Beary Merry Christmas. I stamped them on to watercolour paper, then coloured them using watercolour pencils. I doodled a simple border using a black gel pen, then added the panel to a DL kraft card blank.

For more inspiration, please pop over to the Rudolph Days Challenge - thanks Helen for inviting me to join you this month!

Elegant Stems Notecards

I was one of the lucky winners of the Allsorts 16th birthday challenge, and received this lovely set of floral stamps by AALL & Create called 'Elegant Stems' as part of my prize. I decided to use the main flower stamps in the set to make a little set of notecards. I stamped them all on to watercolour paper, then coloured them using watercoour paints. I distressed the edges a little then added the watercoloured panels to some kraft card blanks.

Here they all are together:

Challenges for these cards:

• Allsorts - Blooms, Butterflies & Bees
• Beautiful Blossoms - Anything Goes
• CAS on Friday - Nature
• I Spy With My Little Eye - Something Blooming Lovely
• Krafty Chicks - CAS
• Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Let's Paint
• Sweet Stampin' - Fabulous Flowers
• We Love Stamping - Fabulous Florals

Robins in the Moonlight

I have a Christmas card to share today...featuring another of the stamps from a cute (and as yet still unidentified) set of clear stamps that I picked up recently in a charity shop. I stamped the robins on to a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured them using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut them out. For the background, I used a piece of starry night sky paper from a pad called 'Christmas Night' from The Works. I added a star cut from a snippet of gold mirror card using one of the dies from the 'Snowy Stars' set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix, and a sentiment cut using a Memory Box die from another snippet of gold mirror card. I matted it all on to some more gold mirror card before adding it to a card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• C.R.A.F.T. - Christmas
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets
• Sparkles Forum Christmas - Use Dies
• The Holly & the Icy - Anything Christmas Goes

The Tweets

Today's card features one of the quirky stamps from a set by Funky Fossil called 'The Tweets', that I got with a prize I won over at the AAA Cards Challenge recently. I stamped it on to watercolour paper, then coloured them using watercolour pencils. I added a sentiment from the 'Birthday Buddies' set by Paper Smooches, then distressed the edges a little before adding it to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - Anything Goes
• As You Like It - With or Without Words (With for me...I especially like a good 'punny' sentiment!)
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Everybody Art - Use Your Most Recently Acquired Stash
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Sparkles Forum - Funny/Puns
• We Love Stamping - Anything Goes

Dad's the Word

Today I'm sharing the card I made for my Dad for Father's day. It features a cute stamp that I found in a charity shop a little while ago, called 'Dad's the Word' by Lili of the Valley. I stamped it on to watercolour paper, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. The papers are from the 'Fresh Florals' pad by Craft Sensations...I distressed the edges a little, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen before layering it all on to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes (Optional 'Father's Day')
• Cardz for Guys - Father's Day
• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes (Optional 'Masculine')
• Cutie Pie - Dads and/or Lads
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Bright & Cheerful
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
• Sweet Stampin' - Father's Day

I also made a simple gift tag for my Dad's present...using a cute Penny Blac chicken stamp called 'Present Pile'. I stamped it on to a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured it using watercolour pencils, then carefully cut him out. I heat embossed a chicken wire background stamp (by Darkroom Door) on to a kraft luggage tag using silver embossing powder, added the chicken on top using 3D foam pads, then tied it all together using some red baker's twine.

PBSC June - Anything Goes (Optional 'Happy Birthday')...More Inspiration!

It's the third Saturday of the month, so that means it's time for some more inspiration for this month's Penny Black Saturday Challenge...where the theme is:

'Anything Goes'

or

'Happy Birthday'

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch:

Prize - a $20 voucher!

I inked up my oldest Penny Black stamp...'Birthday Dog'...for my card, stamping him on to watercolour paper, then colouring him using watercolour pencils. I paired him with papers from the 'Party Day' pad by Crate Paper...distressing the edges, and adding some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen. The sentiment stamp is from the 'What This!' set by Anita Jream for the Colorado Craft Company.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• AAA Birthday - Cute
• Crafty Animals - Anything Goes
• Just Us Girls - Celebrate
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Bright & Cheerful
• Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes

 

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.

Garden Bouquet

Today's card features an old Hero Arts floral silhouette stamp called 'Garden Bouquet'. I inked it up using a trio of bright Distress Inks (Picked Raspberry, Wilted Violet & Mermaid Lagoon), then stamped it along the bottom of a piece of watercolour paper, overlapping the colours. I added a sentiment using a stamp from the 'Go To Words' set by Visible Image, then distressed all the edges before adding it to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• AAA Cards - Anything CAS
• Allsorts - Optional 'Flowers Galore'
• Dream Valley - Summer Colours
• Incy Wincy - Summer Flowers
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Bright & Cheerful
• We Love Stamping - Fabulous Florals

ABC Christmas Challenge - L & M are for?

We have a fun new ABC Christmas Challenge starting today...Marie is the host, and the themes are:

'L is for Lanterns'

&

'M is for Music'

The prize for the lucky winner is this cute 'Santa  Activities' die set from Sizzix & Olivia Rose:

For my 'L is for Lanterns' card, I used a Crafter's Companion stamp from the 'Moonbeam Meadow' collection called 'Christmas Delivery'. I stamped it on to watercolour paper, along with one of the matching sentiments, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. The papers are from a pad from The Works...I distressed the edges a little, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

On my 'M is for Music' card, I used a Penny Black image from the 'Christmas Hugs' set, stamping it on to watercolour paper along with a sentiment from the 'Carolling Chicks' set by Stamping Bella, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. The papers are a mixture of Folia Paper 'Geomentrics' (the pink & stripey ones), and Poundland 'Pure Frozen' (the aqua snowflake one). I distressed all of the edges, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

I'm also entering these cards into the following challenges:

• Christmas Cards All Year Round - Cats and/or Dogs (Second card only)
• Creative Knockouts - Two or More Patterned Papers
• Everybody Art - Three Patterned Papers (Second card only)
• Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
• Jingle Belles - At Least Three Different Papers (Second card only)
• Just Us Girls - Pink & Aqua (Second card only)
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Let the Music Play (Second card only)

For more inspiration from my lovely DT buddies, please pop over to the ABC Christmas Challenge.

Game Changer

Today's card features a stamp I won as part of a prize from the Allsorts Challenge 15th birthday...it's called 'Game Changer' by AALL & Create. I stamped the images on to watercolour paper, adding a sentiment using a stamp from the 'What This!' set by Anita Jeram for the Colorado Craft Company to the screen, then coloured the images using watercolour pencils. I used papers from a Christmas pad from Poundland called 'Let it Snow' for the background...distressing the edges a little, and adding some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

Challenges for this card:

• C.R.A.F.T. - Masculine
• Crafty Calendar - For a Child
• Simon Says Stamp (Mondays) - Masculine
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Masculine
• The Sisterhood of Crafters - All About the Men

Trimming the Tree

I have another Christmas card to share today, featuring another charity shop find...a Penny Black stamp called 'Trimming the Tree'. I stamped it on to watercolour paper, added a sentiment using a stamp from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous, then coloured the image using watercolour pencils. I was away from home when I made this card and didn't have any suitably coloured papers with me, so simply matted the image on to green and then red card before adding it to a kraft card blank.

Challenges for this card:

• Christmas Kickstart - It's a Gift
• Gem of a Challenge - Anything Goes
• Krafty Chicks - Stamps
• Moving Along with the Times - Early Christmas
• Penny's Paper Crafty - Anything Goes

Christmas Pandas

I have a Christmas card to share today, featuring a cute panda stamp from a set I found in a charity shop last week. It wasn't in its original packaging, so I'm not sure what brand the stamps are...they look a lot like Wild Rose Studio, but despite persistent Googling, I've not been able to identify them - if you do know what they are, please let me know! I stamped the image on to watercolour paper, adding a sentiment from the 'Scribbly Christmas' set by Tim Holtz for Stampers Anonymous, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. The papers are from the 'Let it Snow' pad from Poundland...I distressed all of the edges, then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and black and white gel pens.

Challenges for this card:

• Allsorts - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - Anything Goes
• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Creative Inspirations - Christmas in June
• Little Red Wagon - Cute
• Peace on Earth Christmas - Moodboard Inspiration
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes

June Desk Calendar

Today I'm sharing my desk calendar page for June...featuring a cute Penny Black sheep stamp called 'Butterflies & Ewe'...for no other reason than I already had him stamped, and he was the perfect size! He was stamped on a snippet of watercolour paper, coloured using watercolour pencils, then I used one of my Nesties to cut the circle shape. I paried it with snippets of papers from a My Mind's Eye pad called 'Pretty Please'. I distressed all of the edges then added some faux stitching using my CutterBee Bug and a black gel pen.

Challenges for this calendar:

• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Lil Patch of Crafty Friends - Anything Goes
• Polkadoodles - Anything Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

PBSC June - Anything Goes (Optional 'Happy Birthday')!

It's the first Saturday of the month, so that means it's time for a new Penny Black Saturday Challenge...where the theme is:

'Anything Goes'

or

'Happy Birthday'

(In honour of the PBSC's 16th Birthday this month!)

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome 1-2-3 Stitch:

Prize - a $20 voucher!

I picked '...to You!' as the image for my card...I love the way the cow's markings are part of the sentiment! I stamped it on to watercolour paper, then coloured it using watercolour pencils. The papers are from the 'Geometrie' pad by Folia Paper (found at TKMaxx). I matted everything on to aqua card before adding it to the card blank.

I'm also entering this card into the following challenges:

• Creative Fingers - Anything Goes
• Krafty Chicks - Anything Goes
• Seize the Birthday - Anything Birthday Goes
• Simon Says Stamp (Wednesdays) - Anything Goes

For more inspiration, please pop over to the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.