Decorating Bear

 I’m gradually getting through my to do list, and finding some crafty time,

so I’m sharing my decorating bear that I made for a neighbour.

He’s in the middle of a major revamp of their home, so he probably hated this 😂,

but my intention was to make him smile……best intentions huh!

You can see how dull the day was….but signs of sun and spring are peeking through now.

I’m “shopping my stash”, same as a lot of crafters, and pulled out a VERY old set.

Randomly stamped the background, and added two large paintbrushes

fussy cut from the Trusty Toolbox paper from SU.

Here’s the stamp set, can’t remember the company name….can you? 🤔

Taking this to the following challenges…

Sweet Stampin’ (masculine)

As you like it (masculine for my neighbour)

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Big Bold Joy

 I’m back with my second Christmas card of the year….

I should be nearer 20 but my target has slipped somewhat!!

It was a chance using a new to me stamp set from Uniko,  Big and Bold Joy.

They are celebrating their 13th Birthday, a perfect time to treat myself to a few new sets,

and enter another fabulous grand prize draw.

There’s also a couple of other blogs I like, so decided on Allsorts “shades of blue”,

and We love stamping CAS themes. It often helps my mojo to follow a theme, do you find that?

The inks I used are SU night of navy, (you have to trust me “joy” is navy, although it looks black 🙄),

misty moonlight, coastal cabana, azure afternoon, blueberry bushel.

I also used a stencilled background recently made with the snowflakes stencil,

and I added stars from Mid Century Modern. 

The bottom left one is wonky and too inline with top left star 🙄, but hoping you won’t notice 😂.

Inside I used their Christmas Wishes set……utterly gorgeous fonts!

I’m hoping this fits with the Uniko celebration

Allsorts #817 shades of blue,

and We love Stamping CAS or AG

Little Red Wagon #795 winter blues

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Seagull Valentine

 Mine, mine, mine!

There’s a free sale a bration stamp at SU that I just “needed”…...

I decided to make Alan’s valentine card with it,

having seen many fun things done with it….

I also “needed” their new arch die set, so was keen to use those too,

making a shaped card and frame topper.

The deckchairs were from an old magazine free stamp.

Here’s the inside…

I “think” he found it funny, but he gets me the most beautifully worded large romantic card,

so I wasn’t really sure he appreciated the humour!

I’m taking this to….

Stamping Sensations February challenge (romance or AG)

Snippets Playground, Celebrating 500 challenges, with the theme “celebration”

 (Valentine’s Day and I used lots of white snippets, sadly no photo. )

Sorry I haven’t been around much or visiting many of you.

I’ve struggled with mojo, winter blues, and just had lots on.

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Uniko 13th Birthday Celebration

I don’t usually do more than one post, but I wanted to share these while I had time.

 I needed some quick birthday cards for January, mojo missing after all the Xmas ones,

so I picked a couple of Uniko stamps, that I was able to just highlight parts of.

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Block Party Birthday with Blue sparkly pen

Framed Balloons with Metallic pens

Block Party with White pencil

Do visit the Uniko Studio to enter a fabulous competition to win a prize bundle.

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Gone fishing

 Another oldie but goodie stamp set,

I think it’s  was Papermania

It has a fisherman, golfer and diy man , so it’s very useful.

I just coloured it with blend pens, placed it on a plaid paper, and pool party square die cut.

There’s a challenge at the following blogs with a fabulous prize…..

Stamping  Sensations

We Love Stamping

I think it qualifies for CAS, or Anything Goes

…..and AAA Cards #283 colour challenge, using the colours black grey, green and blue

Have good weekend

Lesley

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Dance With Me

 Yesterday was my sister’s birthday, her daughter in law is a cake maker

As you can see it was a big birthday, but I dare not tell you how old 😂

This called for a special card…..no pressure! 

Actually it was a whole load of pressure, and not without mishaps!

It’s sale a bration at Stampin’ Up!, so I used one of the free stamps,

Dance With Me. 

We used to do old time dancing, and she continued, moving on to music and dance fitness.

She is struggling with her husband who has Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Parkinson’s,

So I wanted to make her laugh.

At the final stage, I glued the above image, the wrong way up on the card, 🙄🙄

and after much deliberation decided to use my plan for the inside, on the opposite outside,

ie the back, that became the front. (Any questions? I expect you’ve done it once or twice too!)

So she laughed at the age jokes, then realised what was on the back, which she loved,

and then I put some nice age jokes inside, because I’m nice and I’m only two years younger,

so didn’t want too much comeback 😃

I also made her a money wallet….no idea what to get her, as she has much better taste than me 😁,

but did get her some flowers and a bottle of her favourite tipple.

Hope it’s made you smile, and now I’m dancing off to join these challenges….

Snippets Playground #499 (snippets used for dancers and balloons)

My NBUS (never before used)

Allsorts #816 (romance and music)

Sweet Stampin’ (Love)

Avenue 613 create (lots of love)

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Rudolph Day January 2025

 I’m just in time to enter this months Rudolph Day Challenge,

the first for 2025, and a reminder to crack on with this year’s Christmas cards.

I’m using a new to me AALL and Create stamp oh christmas tree.

It’s tiny, and super cute.

I stamped and coloured the tree, then stamped part of the trunk of the other tree, 

and it’s star, and fussy cut, mounting it on some paper.

It’s a simple layout, but at least that’s one for the box.

I had to photograph it on my dirty door mat, to catch the light….

yes, the sun shone today!

I’m taking this to MY NBUS, as it’s this stamps first inking

NBUS Challenge #70 (MyNBUS.blogspot.com), and 

Rudolphdayschallenges for January

Rudolph Day Challenge

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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