Hatty Birthday

This is my first chance to ink this lovely stamp I won from Little Miss Muffet Stamps April Release.  I've used my favourite colour combo teal & white with a swirly embossed background and teal lace. It's a fun sentiment to go with the stamp, to add a little humour to the 40th birthday card.

Looking  at my background I not sure if it is embossed or debossed. It seemed embossed when I stuck it down, but now with the photograph I'm not sure! The lace is strategically placed over the join and Stickles & Glossy Accents add a little sparkle.

Challenges:
Little Miss Muffet Challenges #43: Writing or Anything Goes with a LMMS image
Passion For ProMarker Week 164: Lace & Swirls
Sentimental Sundays #119: Humor Me
Papertake Weekly: Anything Goes Theme with the Optional Extra of a Non-Square Base Card
DYSU #88: Birthday

Supplies

Stamps: Little Miss Muffet Stamps Eleanor May Hatter, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s

Paper:  White card from stash
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, white gel pen, stickles, lace

Promarkers & Flexmarkers:

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.

Happy Birthday Peggy!

The Stampalot Challenge Blog has posed the question, 'What's your crafty passion?' and my card has a little bit of everything I love about cardmaking: fussy cutting, heat embossing, glossy accents, distress inks, promarkers & die cutting. Oh and of course stamping! I really loved using my new stamps from Waltzingmouse Stamps and I followed their sketch challenge #106.

Going Buggy's Challenge this month focuses on weather and what could be more appropriate than clouds, as that's mostly what I see whenever I look out the window this Summer.

Passion for Promarker are advocating the use of gingham and I found a lovely digital paper in just the right colour created by Bev Rochester.

Crafts4Eternity have a recipe for you to take your colours from the olympic parrot. I've chosen to focus on blue and this ties in nicely with the DYSU challenge which wants you to play with cool colours, so I picked cool blues for Peggy's card.

Challenges:
Stampalot Challenge July: What's your Crafty Passion?
Waltzingmouse Sketch Challenge: #106
Going Buggy July Challenge: Under the Weather
Passion for Promarker Challenge Week 157: gingham/checks
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge R#80: Olympic Parrot
DYSU Challenge #80: Cool Colours

Hope you enjoyed sharing my crafty passion!

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroines, Half Pint Heroes

Paper:  White & Silver card from stash, Digital Paper from Bev Rochester
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Paris Dusk, Tsukineko Versamark, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Stormy Sky, Shaded Lilac

Dies: Spellbinders Nestabilities Stars

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, White & black gel pens, white embossing powder

Promarkers:

Happy Birthday!

I love playing with distress inks & fussy cutting. The cat, dog, bee, butterfly & tree were paper pieced and the flowers, sky & grass were coloured using distress inks. I've highlighted the flight paths, the bees wings & the birds on the patterned paper with glitter glue and I've only used one Promarker to stripe the bee. The flower stamps come in parts, so each one is unique.

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #35: Use patterned paper  

Young Crafters Unite Challenge #10: Flowers or flower image

Do You Stack Up Challenge #75: Paper Piecing

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters in the 'Burbs, Jessie's ABCs, Gnome Sweet Gnome

Paper:  White card from stash, Dovecraft Back to Basics II, Docrafts Woodland Folk, Papermania Birdsong
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint, Broken China, Stormy Sky

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, Glitter glue, Stickles, Gems

Promarkers: Black

Thanks for dropping by, bee happy :)

Sun

One of the first stamp companies I came across was Papertrey Ink, but being in Europe it's difficult to get hold of these lovely stamps. A friend kindly gave these to me & I love them. It's my first time using solid stamps, so I didn't have any specialist ink to hand. The distress inks don't give the sharp edges & even coverage I usually like, but I hope I've achieved a more natural weather beaten sunflower, like the one I grew & photographed in October.

A Passion for Papertrey's Challenge this fortnight  is 'Whatever the Weather!'. We've been having a mix of hail, sleet & bright sunshine, but I wanted happy weather so that means sun, sun, sun! What's more sunny than sunflowers? Thankfully I was able to photograph this outside in between showers.

DYSU has challenged you to 'Use a Flower' & I've taken up their gauntlet. I've fussy cut the sunflowers & leaves, then layered them to create this Mother's Day Bouquet. I stamped the flower centres directly onto the sunflowers, but you could fussy cut these as well for extra dimension.

TheYoung Crafters Unite Challenge is 'No Colouring'. This makes quite a change not having to colour- just stamp, cut & stick! I really enjoyed trying this & must get some rainbow inks to do more no colour stamping. (I still love my distress inks though!)

Supplies

Stamps: PTI Simple Sunflower, Lawn Fawn Sally's ABCs, Chevron Backdrops

Paper:  Bazzill Kraft cardstock, white card from stash

Highlights: White Gel Pen
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mustard Seed, Walnut, Peeled Paint

Challenges:
A Passion for Papertrey Challenge: Whatever the Weather using PTI Simple Sunflower
DYSU Challenge #71: Use a Flower
Young Crafters Unite Challenge #9: No Colouring

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon!

Happy Easter!

With the wonderful weather last week (even if we had hailstones recently) Spring is in the air & the bunnies & chicks are bouncing! I hope today saw lots of chocolate eggs & treats for you.

Challenges:
Crafty Sentiments Designs Challenge  : Bunnies
Di's Digi Designs Challenge: Easter (Spring)
Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge #66: Bunnies & Chicks
I ♥ Promarkers Challenge #111: Springtime
Papertake Weekly Challenge: Anything Goes
DYSU #66: Friendly Critters

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters in the 'Burbs, Docrafts Forever Friends Spring Time, Hero Arts Magical Background

Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Ovals

Paper:  White card from stash
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mustard Seed

Embellishments: Glossy Accents, Glitter glue, Liquid Pearls White Opal

Promarkers: 

Thanks for dropping by, hope you enjoyed your visit.