Dotty

 Hello lovely crafters!

Here is a dotty card I made. Not my usual sort of style, whatever that is, but I made this dotty stencilled background and then wondered what to do with it. Tell me I'm not the only one who does that?

I inked through a dotty stencil with only blue, yellow and red ink. The green is where it has blended. It was quite random, there was some overlapping and some areas still white which I quite like. 

My first plan was to add some white die cuts but I didn't find one I fancied so I stamped these Stamplorations balloons, cut them out and coloured with ink. They are slightly raised up with scraps of card and then tied down with thread. A little fiddly.

The greeting is from the same stamp set. One I use often. 

I'm hopping over to Stencil Fun challenge, for the second time this month, where the optional theme this month is Birthdays. I hope I'll have time to browse later, some of the cards look A Maz Ing!

Also Seize the Birthday challenge 

I hope the dots count as circles, if not the theme is always optional. 

And DITTO with the great cards!

And why not 

?

The dotty stencil is new (and cheap from a Range store in the UK)

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. 

Christmas Kitty

 Hello lovely crafters

I have not made many Christmas cards so far this year so a prompt of Christmas in July from the Snippets Playground encouraged me to make one. 

 

I had an idea in mind and it all worked out, for once and quickly too. I may have seen something similar somewhere but I don't know where. 

First of all I inked in green then added the cat (Lavinia). Then stamped the foliage at the top and the baubles. The wood stamp gave my cat something to sit on and I added a little more ivy at the bottom. Some gold splatters, gold colouring, a greeting and gold Liquid pearls and it was all done. 

The stamps are from various places so if you need to know, just ask. 

The snippets I used were one large white for the base. A piece of dp for the mat and black snippets for the greeting. I'm using up design papers I don't really want as mats and frames. I did have to colour the edges slightly with this one but it saved me using a new piece or a colour I like. I've got loads of paper, I know I'll never use, in fact I rarely use papers on a card I always make my own. 🤣

Christmas in July. 

And here is my black cat Little Mo. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. 

Soft stencilling

 Hello lovely crafters

Here is my latest card. 

This background is a gel print made by brayering ink over a gel press, pressing a stencil into the ink and removing it and then taking a print. You never know what you will get and it's always fun. 

One of my favourite flower stamps cut from scraps and inked in. Then I added some metallic watercolour as I'm obsessed with them, and some delicate splats and liquid pearls. 

I can't always do delicate but it worked today!

I'm joining in with Stencil fun Challenge The optional theme is Birthdays and I confess I forgot that when making the card. It is optional, though. 

Also Try it on Tuesday where the them is Summer Blooms. 

I hope you like it. Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. 

It's only a number

 Hello lovely crafters

Here is a snippet busting card for the new challenge at Shopping our Stash. My last as a member of the DT. 

Thank you for having me. Surely the best idea for a challenge - to use what we have!

SOS - #500! Celebrating by numbers. 

For our 500th challenge we are asking you to create a celebration card that uses at least one number. 

I used a few. I used two scraps of inky card, one to cut out the numbers and one to mount them. The I added two white numbers to highlight the age for the card. (These are not actually glued down yet so I may change them to another number when I actually post the card 😁). Other snippets used for the greeting and white border. 

I'm also pleased with myself for using some patterned card for the base. This does have a design on both sides which makes the inside interesting too. From the previously mentioned daughter's stash, which she has left here and I'm allowed to use. 

Do join in and celebrate. 

I'm hopping over the the Snippets Playground to show my homework. 

Thanks for visiting, enjoy your day. x