Ladies Night...

As soon as I saw the new theme over at Lost Coast Designs I knew I'd be playing along!

I broke out some VLVS images and got to work.

My husband didn't find this card very amusing, but I quite like the idea of the beautiful Geisha offering a little homecare advice! The stencil is from Aall and create and I tried to create the effect that she's standing in front of a shōji screen.

My second make also features VLVS images. It was a lot of fun to make this postcard of Momma Earth striding into Autumn.

The DT inspiration for this theme is amazing, so why not go take a look? Psssst, there's always prizes too!

But is it CAS and snowy enough?

Hi guys, I'm hoping that my card is CAS enough for the September Challenge over at the CAS Christmas Card Challenge... 

I'm also hoping my card is snowy enough for the ABC Challenge S is for Snowy!

What do you think?

Isn't this bear just the cutest?

My original plan was to have the bear holding a tree, but I wasn't happy with how that looked and went with Plan B instead. For me the candy cane gives a nice 'pop' of colour in the middle of the card so it all worked out well! I always enjoy using this cute set from Sugar Pea Designs (Hey, Winter) and love that the bear comes with the option of adding a hat and a jumper! The sentiment is an oldie that has lost it's packaging.

There are some gorgeous inspiration cards and a lovely gallery for this challenge, so I'm going to grab a cuppa and go visiting!

Stay safe and keep crafting! 

Cute kitty!

I don't know about you but I have to admit to being rather smitten with the kitties from Birdie Brown MFT set Cat-Astrophe. This card features my favourite of the set - what a cheeky little soul.

I just had to have this cute kitty telling a joke!

I'm entering my card over at Show us Your Pussycats Challenge #58 (Anything Goes) 

and also at Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge where the team are inviting us to use our favourite stamps.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #168 - F is for Friends

 

Don't you just love this graphic of Edna and the girls?

We're all about Friends for our latest challenge at the sisterhood, and we're going to celebrate it in our usual snarky style!

Hope you like my crazy kitty card. The image is from The Cat's Pajamas; I really enjoyed paper piecing the cup and colouring the cat.

Please come and play along and help us celebrate friendship - we'd love it if you got snarky but it's not essential!

Card Chain Challenge Reveal - August 2020

We had 24 gorgeous, sparkly participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month (making our total number of exchanged cards 3,077 thus far!) using at least one of the following options:

Colour Palette Option

or

Sketch Option

or 

Theme Options:

Summer/ Pets or Friendship

or 

Product / Technique Options:

Vellum or paper piecing

 My recipient this month was Gundi in Germany. 

And here's Gundi's sweet, little dog in real life!

I was the lucky recipient of this little beauty from Tina in Slovenia. 

Isn't this such a cheery card! 

If you'd like to see the whole reveal post you can do so by clicking here. There are just a couple of days left before the September Challenge closes and then we'll be opening the October Challenge! 

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #37 - Festive Furbabies.

Welcome, welcome! It's time for a new challenge over at Christmas Kickstart and to welcome back regular elf Gail from Crafty Nomad!

We have an uber cute challenge for you as we'd like to see Festive Furbabies on your cards! Puppies, kittens, guinea pigs, mice, rabbits, reindeer (Santa's favourite furbabies) - whatever you choose!

Both of my cards for this challenge feature adorable MFT Furbabies.

Don't you just love these Birdie Brown pups?

Talking of furbabies, this is what happened when I tried to photograph my second card. I'm actually quite surprised Custard didn't just try to sit on the card!

Rudolph has another random raffle prize on offer and it's a rather gorgeous stamp set from WPlus9:

Gail and I hope you'll come and play along with this challenge. Don't forget all Christmas Kickstart Challenges are now fortnightly so that we can grow our card stash in plenty of time for the festive season! Take care everyone, and keep safe.