Create A Card

This month the challenge over on the We Love Chocolate Baroque blog is Christmas. Now you don't need to use Chocolate Baroque stamps for the challenge but as I own rather a lot of Chocolate Baroque stamps it would have been rude not to have used one for this challenge. I knew that in my stash I had this beautiful big bold background stamp (in fact I have several different one's) but this is one of my favourites. First I stamped and embossed with gold embossing powder before colouring with my Spectrum Noir pens before mounting onto some matching card stock then onto a 7x7 card blank. The sentiment was stamped and embossed onto vellum and I wrapped it around one of the layers so it was not stuck down on the front. I was colouring this in as my husband went and collected our 5 year old grandson from school. Colouring with expensive alcohol pens is not the thing to be doing with 5 year olds around, so I'm not quite sure what I was thinking while sitting there enjoying myself. As soon as he came through the door it was Nanny can I do colouring with those nice pens please. I managed to find some promarkers I didn't mind him using and we had a very quiet little boy for the next 2 hours as he coloured in the others that I had stamped and embossed ready for more cards. He took his lovely coloured pictures home to show his mummy.

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

Sue

The Great Outdoors

OK so this is strange, so far I've avoided the new blogger but today it seems like I'm stuck with it. Sorry that I have been absent for a long time but as you will have read in my last post my Mum had a fall and went into hospital. From being able to get about (I say that in the loosest of terms as it was agony for her to walk)  with the aid of a walker, she can now no longer walk. My Sister and I with her best interests at heart have been trying to talk her into going into a care home for some time now. This has now been taken out of our hands and three weeks ago Mum went into a care home from the Hospital. This has taken a lot of the worry away from us as we now know that she is getting proper care 24 hours a day, rather than 2 times a day morning and evening. However it does mean that we have to sort her house out and sell it. Something were not looking forward to. I was 8 years old and my sister was 4 when we moved into the house as children, we have so many happy memories there.

Anyway onto my card for today which is The Great Outdoors, just what is being asked for by the Stamping Sensations Challenge blog this month. I was lucky to get my order in for Sheen Douglas's first USB earlier this month and so I have use an image from that for this card, which is for a friends Birthday today. We have just had a few days away in the Lake District and I've tried to colour the mountains how they look at the moment up there, with the bracken turning to a lovely rust colour, with a bit of green showing through (I might have more green than rust). I used my Spectrum Noir Coloursoft pencils to colour the image. I have also decided not to use a sentiment on the front of the card too.

Well I'm off now to get this posted before they shut the door and it's to late to enter the challenge this month. Thank you to everyone for their kind comments on my last post regarding my Mum.

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

 Sue

 

 

 

July Rudolph Days

Wow I can't believe that it's time for the Rudolph Days Challenge again. The time is certainly rushing by even though we've been in lockdown. I'm a little late joining in this month, but with the rules on social distancing relaxing a little, this weekend I had a couple of my Crafting friends around for a bit of a catch up and craft. We sat a distance around a large table. It was so good to see them again after so long. Anyway onto my cards. I found some backgrounds sitting on my worktop the other day and used these to make my cards this month. Two were blended inks, Prisma by Hunkydory and the other three were Spectrum Noir sparkle pens that were blended on the paper with a wet brush. I over stamp onto these using  this gorgeous stag by Studio Light. As there is a verse of "Chestnuts Roasting" running through the middle of the stag I decided not to add a sentiment at this stage, who knows I might at a later date. As normal Maureen has a fantastic prize for the person who is picked at random at the end of the month, I do hope that you can join in the fun.

Hope you are all keeping well.

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

Sue xx

Say It With Flowers

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend? Mine was quiet yesterday as my husband and son (who still lives at home) decided that they would go fishing. Something neither of them has done for a while now. It gave me time time to clear a little space and get my new Sheena Douglas stamps out. This is the card that I made using the rose stamp from the set. I stamped with a Spectrum Noir Finesse ink pad in black then coloured using the only Spectrum Noir Tri blend pen that I have, this was a free gift that was with something else that I had bought. I had not used these pens before and had not splashed out and bought them when they launched as I have so many others. However I have to say that I am quite impressed with the result and it does do what it says on the packet and they do all go together and blend. I found the sentiment stamp to be quite appropriate at the moment.

I'm off now to join in the following challenges:

Stamping Sensations...... Say It With Flowers
Allsorts..... Anything Goes
NBUS...... Never Before Used Stuff (Sheena Douglas Stamp)

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

Take care and stay safe
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

Happy Birthday Allsorts

I am loving these fantastic stamps from Pink Ink, so when looking what to make for The Allsorts Birthday Challenge this week I found myself reaching for the beautiful Giraffe Stamp. I started with a card blank and a piece is white card. I sprayed the white card with a combination of yellow, green and orange distress oxide sprays and then when dry I over stamped the images. Then I used Spectrum Noir pens to colour in the giraffe, while the leaves had been stamped with green ink. I then cut a Happy Birthday sentiment using a Paper Boutique die. All that left to do is to stick it to the card base and say Happy 10th Birthday Allsorts, may you have many more.

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

Sue

Christmas Trees

So much to do and so little time. I feel a bit like a headless chicken at the moment, I'm rushing here there and everywhere and not really getting anywhere. I've just noticed that the new challenge over on the Allsorts Challenge blog this week is Christmas tree's and I have just the card to enter into the challenge with. The background was made with Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens and then splattered with white gesso. I mounted it onto some silver mirri card and added the die from Spellbinders. The sentiment is one from Chocolate Baroque. It was a nice quick and easy one to make so needless to say I made more than one. Well I must dash still so much to do for the big day.

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

Sue

Rudolph Days

This month has flown by and I can't believe that it's time for the Rudolph Days challenge once again. This month I've used a stamp that I bought in the sale in January at Oyster Stamps, it's by C C Designs. I stamped it four times onto an A4 piece of water colour card and then coloured by using my Spectrum Noir Aqua pens, I then went over the snowy areas with a clear sparkle pen (this doesn't show up in the photos). The sentiment is from Chocolate Baroque and seemed to go so well with the scene. Once finished I cut them down slightly and with the addition of some red card stock from the scrap box I popped them onto some A6 card bases.

 Below is my small collection for the box this month.

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

Sue

A New Forest Wedding

My sister has just been to a wedding that was held in the New Forest. So when she asked me to make a card for her this gorgeous image from Lili Of The Valley was what popped into my head. I stamped onto white card and coloured using Spectrum Noir pencils, giving the veil a touch of Wink Of Stella. I then cut the image out using a Spellbinders die and another to back it onto. The corners were cut with a Crealies die as were the flowers. I created the sentiment on my PC and printed on a laser printer then put it through the laminator with some silver foil. I know my sister was pleased with the end result, hopefully the bride and groom were too.

I would like to enter this into the Stamping Sensations challenge this month which is Anything Goes.
Last month I was lucky enough to win the fantastic prize of ribbons and embellishments. The photo did not do the prize justice.

Thanks for taking a look and for your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Hobby Art Bird Song

Hubby arrived home yesterday evening after a wet but enjoyable weekend of golf, with a bag full of damp clothes (guess who gets to sort it all out). This card is one of the cards that I managed to make over the weekend while he was away. I used the Hobby Art Bird Song stamp set for this and coloured the birds to look like blue tits. I used versamark Black Onyx ink to stamp the images and then coloured in using Spectrum Noir pencils. Then it was mounted onto some navy blue card and a 6x6 card base.

I'm off now to see if I can get some of this washing dry before the rain moves in today. Thanks for taking the time to stop by and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue