Baby, It's Cold Outside...

There's still too much snow outside to venture very far here in my part of the world. Although I live in the suburbs of Birmingham, UK, I live on a very steep hill and the only things that can make it up or down the road are children on the sledges! What a great excuse to hide in my cosy craftroom and play with ink, paper and pens.

I'm still playing with my Globeland kitties set. I really like these fun, chunky cats and decided to make a slightly belated New Year card for a fellow fan of felines. Trying saying that in a hurry!

Because of the weather the light is really poor, but hopefully you get the gist. I really like how you can position these two so that they appear to be looking at each other. Cute.

I'm playing along at Little Red Wagon as The Girlfriends play Happy New? for Challenge #840 (new stamps and new year)...

and at Fiki's fabulous Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge. 

Happy Sunday to you all!

Happiest of Birthdays...

Hi guys, I don't know about you but I often feel the need to go and hide away from the World in my craft room. Today was one of those days. Anyhoo, here's what happened while I was in retreat. 

It's my friend's birthday next week, so I made a kitty card to help her celebrate. I used this cutie from a Globeland set and a sentiment from Sunshine and Bee Designs. I can't provide links to either of these as one doesn't seem quite legit and the other has vanished. The background is one of my gel press prints. 

I'm linking my card to the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More where the gang are playing Birthdays for Challenge #508.

The cat stamps are new goodies, so Darnell's place and NBUS Challenge #82 is the place to play! 

And last, but certainly by now means least, Fiki's fabulous Show Us Your Pussycats Challenge. 

With so many shops and challenges closed or closing I was delighted to be able to play at the above. Thanks so much to the blog owners and their DTs for keeping going. It's not easy right now. 

O Christmas Tree, Tree, Tree and Tree...

 

An afternoon of crafting has certainly improved this Monday!

I wanted to make a card to play along over at Jingle Belles with Steph and Lauren, and also a few other lovely challenges I'd spotted.

 

Steph and Lauren's current theme is Die Cuts and I was thinking layered snowflakes, until I pulled out this Happy Christmas die from Creative Expressions and noticed that it had a little 'shelf' after the word 'Happy'. 🤣🤣🤣

I die cut three Christmas trees using Sizzix Stacked Tiles, Triangles and assembled my card. Just three trees just didn't look right, so I added a fourth! 

This was so quick and simple to make and I used up some of my most fiddley, tiny pieces of DP too! 

I'm also going to link to these lovely challenges:

I do love the DT makes over at Just Us Girls. My one other colour is RED! 

The lovely Darnell's NBUS Challenge #60, 

Peace on Earth who are playing with Green for Challenge #59, as prompted by this gorgeous Mood Board...

and, finally, the good folk over at Shopping Our Stash who are looking for mostly green projects for their Challenge It's Not Easy being Green.

What a lot of challenges! I think I'll need a lie down after I've tided up.

I'm looking forward to my friend coming over tomorrow. She did a heat embossing course recently and I couldn't believe they'd had the nerve to charge a fee for just a few scraps of paper with a single embossed image on each. What a cheek! I've promised her we'll make something nice, and that I won't charge for the tea and biscuits!

Happy crafting, folks. 

A birthday card with an elephant on it...

A lovely friend of mine will be 60 next week and so, of course, I HAD to make her a card. 

Although I met my friend at the Cat Rescue where we both volunteer, I know that she has a real soft spot for elephants, so decided to ink up this fun Katzelkraft stamp and pair it with a sentiment from MFT. I think the crown is also from Katzelkraft. 

Edited to add...

I'm linking this card to Darnell's NBUS Challenge #60

and Seize the Birthday #278, where I'm going with the Anything Goes option.

It's a lovely sunny day here in the UK, so I think I'll go for a walk after lunch and enjoy some Springs rays.