Dies To Die For (DT) Cat-Astrope

 Hiya chaps, sorry I'm a bit later than my normal lateness but

this little Squirrel has been and had my second Covid vaccine today.  Got there 15 mins ahead of my appointment, went straight in, jabbed, out, and home again only 5 mins after the actual appointment time!  Now to wait for three weeks for it to be as efficacious as it can be.

Anyhoo, here is a dose of furry feline cuteness for you today

MFT Birdie Brown - Cat-Astrophe stamps  MFT-BB-104

MFT DieNamics Cat-Astrophe dies MFT-1764

A cocktail of MFT 6x6 papers

and a random sentiment from my stash

Kitties painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) as watercolours

Hope you all have wonderful weekends

Hugs

 

Dragon Water Fun (DT) Dies To Die For

  Hello peeps, on this wonderfully wet Saturday!  Rain, at last, we've had the occasional brief shower this week, and some hailstones, but now we have a good, old-fashioned, wet to the bone, downpour.  I can almost hear the garden sighing with relief!

This little chap is totally prepared

Not many ingredients this week

Whimsy Stamps Dragon Water Fun stamps WS-DP1046

Whimsy Stamps Fantabulous stamps WS-CWSD364

Whimsy Stamps Slimline Paper Pack - Buttercup WS-WSDPS04

Image painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) as watercolours.

Dragon was fussy cut, it took some patience, but I got there in the end!

Hugs

Bird or Beast (DT) As You Like It Challenge

Hello chaps, I hope your week is going well.  As it is a Thursday, it means a new theme over at

AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE

This time we would like you to choose your favourite (and tell us why)

BIRD or BEAST

Don't get me wrong, I like birds - out in the garden.  The song of a blackbird absolutely fills my heart with joy, and I love the antics of sparrows and starlings, and of course a cheeky robin.  With no offence to pigeons, they are a blinkin' nuisance though!  However, as much delight as our feathered friends bring, I'm afraid that the furry critters will always win in my affections.

How cute is that smile?!!

Lili Of The Valley Digi Stamp : Little Friends - Rabbit With Daisy

although I used the rubber version (retired now, boo hiss)
Lawn Fawn 6x6 Knit Picky - Fall
Crealies XXL No 70 Open Scallop Square
Poppystamps Bubble Daisy Border
MFT Stencil - Mini Cloud Edges
Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

For this furry and feathery challenge, our sponsor is
CRAFTS U LOVE

Hugs to all

Your Favourite Colouring Medium (DT) As You Like It Challenge

So, it's time for another new challenge with the AS YOU LIKE IT team!

Our challenge this time is for you to share your Favourite Colouring Medium with us, be it marker pens, pencils, paints, you name it, if you can colour with it and it is your favourite then we want to hear about it.

I'm fairly sure that it won't come as any surprise to you that my favourite medium are the Distress Inks (ReInkers) used as watercolours.  I have tried many options over the years but ever since the discovery of the DIs they have become my happy place and I come back to them time and time again.

So I've had a go at the no-lines technique (hmmmm, not cut out for this I think)

Clearly Besotted : Apples & Pears

Stamped with MFT Hybrid Grey Grout ink on Langton Hot Press (Smooth) Watercolour Paper

Bazzil Basics cardstock

and an old Clearly Besotted sentiment set embossed in white detail powder

The sponsor of this challenge is

Lee Holland Digis

I do hope you will be able to pop over to the challenge and join in the fun

Hugs

One Layer or Many (DT) As You Like It Challenge

Morning all, well, it is another Thursday, and I'm guessing you will know what that means?

Yups, time for a new challenge over with the AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE

Our theme for this fortnight is

One Layer or Many (and please tell us why)

I'm more of a middle ground kind of girl, two or three layers at most, but this time I

chose to challenge myself with a one layer make, mainly because I really wanted

to use some of my new kraft cardstock

So this cute is

Wild Rose Studio - Birthday Llama

The sentiment is an old one by Kaisercraft

Llama coloured by Polychromos Pencils

Cardstock from PDA Card & Craft

The sponsor of this challenge is

Prizes: - 3 digi stamps voucher worth £6.75

Hugs to all

As You Like It Challenge (DT) Shape or Fold

Hello everyone, a new Thursday, a new challenge from AS YOU LIKE IT

For this fortnight our theme is going to be

Your Favourite Shape or Fold

I've gone simple with this one, and it is a variation on the square theme

made much easier with the dies I used for the base and layers

MFT You Gnome Me

MFT Die-Namics Stitched Tag Corner Square Stax

MFT 6x6 Proper Pinstripes Pastels

MFT Mini Cloud Edges Stencil

 Entire scene painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

The sponsor of this challenge is

£10 Voucher from 

Fantastic Ribbons

I do hope you will be able to join in this challenge

Hugs

Digi or Rubber (DT) As You Like It Challenge

Morning all, well would you look at that, Thursday again already!

So, over at the AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE, the new theme for the next fortnight is

Digi Or Rubber (which is your favourite, don't forget to tell us why)

I have tried digi stamps, but for me I love the physicality of rubber, the actual process of rummaging through my collection, picking and choosing, selecting one and then putting it back, and eventually with the chosen one, getting it beautifully inky and creating the impression on a pristine

piece of paper.  Digi, for me, just doesn't feel like crafting.

So, for this little chap...

My Favourite Things - BB14 I Knead You

My Favourite Things - BB33 Cool Cat

MFT 6x6 Dots and Stripes Confection

aaaaaaaaaaand I have no idea what the orange paper is

Kitty painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Anyhoo, our sponsor/prize for this challenge is a £10 voucher from

Hugs to all

Dies To Die For (DT) CCD Nerdy

Morning all, here I am again.  Welcome to September, my favourite month of the year.

I have a confession today - I am a Stationery Addict.

(note the capital S and capital A, it is that serious)

I love pencils and pens and pretty notepapers, and I cannot walk into a stationery store and come out of it empty handed, it might only be a packet of standard envelopes or a pencil sharpener but it still makes me happy, very happy.  I may have to live for many more years than my prescribed allotment just so that I can use up some of the numerous notebooks that I just "had to have" (and if I really like a particular one, I have to get a spare as well).

I wonder if there is a therapy available for this, surely I can't be alone in my madness.

So, anyhoo, when I saw this on the CC Designs new release list, I knew it had my name written all over it, in crayon of course.

And for this colourful little number I have used:

CC Designs Nerdy Clear Stamps

Die-Versions Express Edges Just A Note

MFT 6x6 Farm Fresh Gingham

The images stamped with multiple masks and painted in Distress Inks (ReInkers).

Black card (super heavyweight) from PDA Card & Craft

A simple little card this time but with a lot of impact and a whole lot of fun

Hugs

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AYLI (DT) Flora or Fauna

'ello my darlin's, how are you today?

So, it's time for another challenge from the talented team at AS YOU LIKE IT and this fortnight's theme is Flora or Fauna.

I do seem to create an awful lot more fauna than flora cards, and I find it is difficult to cuddle a flower, so I guess it has to be fauna for me, although I'm not sure that I want this particular chap on my lap or curled up on the bed

Neat & Tangled - Prehistoric

Echo Park - Birthday Girl (candle paper)

MFT Die-Namics Mini Cloud Edges Stencil

Image painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

and of course the bit you all want to know is the sponsor of the challenge

Lawn Fawn

Prize:

Hugs to all

Oh Gnome - You DIdn't?! (DT) DTDF

Morning all, it's a chasing-her-tail type of Squirrel today, I'm running a bit behind

Anyhoo, I'm here with a little Bella fun for you

So, what I have used

Stamping Bella - Oh Gnome You Didn't

MFT Die-Namics Stitched Basic Edges

MFT Die-Namics Stitched Scallop Basic Edges

Impression Obsession - Buttons

MFT 6x6 - Dots & Stripes Bright

I just love that snail's face!

and of course the whole image was plastered with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

I made the big flower using a Die-Namics set but I can't tell you what it is as I bought it unlabelled in a destash, but it makes me think of a Dianthus with the frilly petal edges

Hugs to all

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AYLI (DT) Favourite Animal

Morning all, popping by today with my make for another AS YOU LIKE IT challenge!

The theme for this fortnight is Your Favourite Animal (and why).

OK, so, favourite animal....in terms of the one I share a house with, it has to be a kitty, but if it's that other animal then what else could it be but a cute, fluffy, frisky, and now quite rare, little red squirrel!

It's difficult to find cute red squirrel stamps (some of them look a little possessed)

but this set is just sooooooo adorable!

Stamps:  Gerda Steiner - Happy Fall

Die:  Die-Namics A2 Stitched Rectangle Stax Set 1

Stencil:  MFT Mini Cloud Edges

Colouring Medium:  Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Hugs to all

Puppy's Favourite Things (DTDF DT)

Morning all, TGI Saturday!

I started this project with a Distress Ink (ReInkers) coloured puppy, a bit of fussy cutting, and ended up with a little scene, it wasn't planned, it just sort of evolved of it's own accord.

The longish list of lovely things used on this are:

Neat & Tangled - Puppy's Favourite Things

Die-Namics Sunny Skies

Die-Namics Stitched Scallop Basic Edge 2

MFT 6x6 Dots & Stripes Bright

MFT 6x6 Dots & Stripes Confection

MFT 6x6 Watercolor Wash

Die-Namics Our Town

MFT Four Legged Friends

Hope you have a lovely weekend - keep warm, even if it does mean a vest and long-johns!

Hugs to all

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AYLI (DT) Faux or Real Stitching?

1 February, thank goodness, that means miserable January is out of the way!  Let's get on with the rest of the year and another challenge from the AS YOU LIKE IT team.

This time the theme is FAUX OR REAL STITCHING - you will need to use either on your make, and tell us about your preference.

I love the look of real stitching on a card, it seems to add that little bit of extra, but I just can't do it.  I have tried, unpicked, tried, unpicked ...... binned the card.  You get the picture.  So, when the advent of faux stitched dies came along, I thought all my prayers had been answered.  Why have all the stress when the fiddle has been done for you!  The faux stitching adds interest, without being overpowering, and finishes layers off beautifully.

I have used for this little one

MFT stamp set - Lions and Tigers

and the matching die set

MFT dies - Grassy Edges

MFT Die-Namics Stitched Clouds

MFT Die-Namics Stitched Square Stax

Crealies XXL No 22 Squares With Stitchline

and the little Leo is painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) with some

Polychromos Pencil help for his mane

The sponsor of this challenge is Kinda Cute by Patricia Alvarez 

who is providing a prize of 3 images from her store:

So, you can either dash off and haul that sewing machine out of the cupboard, get a needle threaded, or find your favourite faux stitch die, the choice is yours.

Hugs to all

AYLI (DT) Flora or Fauna

Hello everyone, and a very happy Thursday to you.  It's almost the end of the week, which means I only have to get through today and tomorrow and then it's HOLIDAY!!

Anyhoo, before I start rambling, I am here with my DT make for AS YOU LIKE IT and our challenge for the next two weeks is FLORA OR FAUNA (your favourite, tell us why)

I love animals, all animals (with fur) but please don't put me near an insect!

Leopards are my favourite of the big cats, and I have been known to sit for hours

watching them at our zoo.

MFT Lovable Leopards

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Matting layer edged with a Copic (oh the heresy)

Our sponsor for this challenge is

WILD ORCHID CRAFTS

(yum)

Two weeks - Flora or Fauna - off you go!

Hugs, Squirrel xx

DTDF (DT) Doggie (not Dodgy) Artist

Morning all, as it is Saturday it is my day to share a design for the DIES TO DIE FOR blog and this week it is a typical Squirrel CAS affair, although not quite as CAS as last week.

I'll be honest, I was a little bit lost with this stamp (even though I just had to have it) but

his cheeky little smile rather dictated the covers-most-events sentiment

Whimsy Stamps - Doggie Artist

Echo Park - Birthday Wishes 6x6

MFT Die-Namics Cause For Celebration

All the linked items are available from the Dies To Die For online store

The only extras this time are

my beloved Distress Inks (ReInkers) and

the custom sized card base

Hugs to all, and happy weekend

Squirrel xx