Woofing You a Happy Birthday!

 Hi, Happy Monday and Happy International Women's Day to you all!

Today, I got to play in one of my favourite challenges: Seize the Birthday.

It's my friend's birthday next week and as she's a dog lover I thought I'd put a pup on her card!

Three smooched shades of gorgeous green Distress Inks, with one of them used to stamp the MFT numbers, plus a sentiment and sweet pup from MFT Woof Pack and it was job done. I'm so into kraft card right now - had you guessed?

Take care, everyone.

Happy Birthday to you, CAS Christmas!

 

So here's a card that proved VERY tricky to photograph!

I couldn't resist joining the fun over at CAS Christmas Challenge as I LOVE kraft, red and white as a Christmas colour combo.  I kept it all very simple, and almost single layer, by adding a smidgen of coloured paper and that sweet Wplus9 image. The sentiment comes from the same set, and the snow comes curtesy of a background stamp from MFT I'd forgotten I had! 

The colours are Waaaaaaaaaaaaay off in this photoghraph, and the shading on the girl's hair and hat has disappeared completely, but hopefully you can get the drift!

Edited to add: Here's the same card under different lighting.

I'm sending BIG congratulations to the gang over at CAS Christmas Card Challenge as they are celebrating their third birthday! They are such a talented bunch and, as always, the inspiration on offer is gorgeous. There are some lovely prizes on offer too, so why not head over, wish them a happy birthday and play along!

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #180 - Z is for Zoom Meeting

For our latest challenge over at The Sisterhood we bring you a very topical theme: Zoom Meeting!

To say the sistahs have had fun with this one is a serious understatement. We had a blast, and we've got a fabulous guest who clearly enjoyed the theme too.

I had heaps of fun creating my card. I knew right from the off that this gorgeous set from Jane's Doodles would do the job perfectly.  I stamped the glasses from a variety of other stamp sets and then masked to add the images of the girls.

Please drop by and join the fun!

Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge #397

Hi there, I'm delighted to be playing in the playground at Pixie's Crafty Workshop.

I played for the first time a couple of weeks ago and love the idea of using up those little snippets of paper and card, so here I am joining the fun again. Thanks to Di for the lovely welcome, which was such a sweet surprise!

My card uses some leftover yellow dotty card. I was so lucky that I had just enough to cut a circle and a tiny sentiment strip. I thought the dots would be a fun contrast with the bunting of the embossing folder.

I coloured adorable Edna (Edna Needs A Martini by Stamping Bella) and added lashings of Wink of Stella to her rose, martini, shoes and wings. Such a fun way to use up snippets and scraps.

So, stay safe and keep crafting everyone!

Chain Chain Challenge Reveal - February 2021

Hello and welcome - it's time for another, fabulous Card Chain Challenge reveal.

We had 32 participants who exchanged cards across the globe this month thus making our total number of cards exchanged an amazing 3,245!  

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

 

Colour Palette Option

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

 

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Chinese New Year/ Polar Bears/Love/Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Ribbon/Texture

It turned out that February 27th was International Polar Bear day so I snuck in an additional theme option of polar bears and was thrilled to see how many of our participants picked up on this!

 

My recipient for this month is the lovely Linda W in Minnesota. I just hope my card reaches her as the birthday card I sent after sending her CCC card has managed to overtake it en route!

Long time CCC player Robyn Oliver in Australia was my sender, and just look at this gorgeous bear in his starry jumper! Thanks, Robyn, I love him!

If you want to join in the fun, you can sign up for the March Card Chain Challenge until Saturday, 6th March. If you miss the March sign-up then why not join our April Card Chain Challenge sign-up which begins the very next day on 7th March and ends on 6th April. Hope to see you there!

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #48 - Green Christmas

It time for a new challenge at Christmas Kickstart and I'm thrilled to be joined by The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers (and our beloved mascot, Edna) to supply the inspiration for this month!

I'm so grateful to my fabulous sistahs for getting green and festive, so please come and take a look at their beautiful cards.

Here's what I made for the challenge.

I just couldn't resist inking-up some Ink Road fun (Happy Holla Days) for this one - Santa looks good in green, right?

For my second card I used the same Pine Tree Forest MFT stencil and created an inky background and then stencilled with a mixture of acrylic paint and embossing paste. 

The die cut sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp and looks gorgeous IRL, but proved impossible to photograph! The green and silver just looks so good together.

For his Random Raffle prize this month Rudolph has bagged a cheeky little sentiment stamp from Crafter's Companion.

Hope you'll come on over and play along!