Food or Drink

 I'm here to tell you about the new challenge starting at Sweet Stampin' today.  Our theme for the next fortnight is "Food or Drink".  You can make anything on this theme provided we can clearly see some stamping.

I used a recently purchased set from Altenew to make my DT card

Not my usual style of stamp set, but I was tempted partly by a Jennifer McGuire tutorial and partly by the opportunity to use lots of bright ink colours.  It took a bit of messing about to get the individual parts to line up, but once I had my eye in, I couldn't stop! 

I do hope you can play along with us this fortnight.  All of the challenge details, along with some fab inspiration from the Team Susan Sweeties, can be found here at the Sweet Stampin' challenge blog.

Hope to see you over there!

xx

For my mum

I made this card quite some time ago but didn't get around to posting it. 

I stamped the image (from Altenew) onto a white mat cut with a stitched square die.  I then took the Altenew Alphas die, placed the letters m and u directly over the image and cut them out.  I cut the letters again from craft foam and adhered this to the back of the image pieces.

I cut a square of patterned paper and adhered this to my card, adding a square doily on top.  I then used double sided tape to stick the main image on top of that.  The last step was to fit the letter pieces into the spaces on the card and glue them down.

I'm really quite pleased with the way this turned out.

No school for me from today, so we're trying to teach the kids remotely.  Sadly the system can't cope with the number of people using it so it's all been a bit hit and miss.  Still, much better to have the children and staff safely at home and not contributing to the spread of this dreadful virus.  Here in Scotland all non-essential shops have now been asked to close.

Stay safe and well.

Wishing you Peace, Love and Joy

Here's another Christmas make.  No colouring on this one, just stamping & embossing using an Altenew stamp set.

I didn't have cardstock to match the blue ink, so I rubbed the ink pad over some plain white card to get the colour I needed.  I love this sentiment and have used it loads - it's from a Wplus9/Simon Says Stamp collaboration set.

This was the first chance I had to play with this stamp set but I quite fancy trying it with gold ink on black or  navy cardstock.

Back soon with another Christmas card!

xx