Something Fishy at Allsorts

Such a fun challenge at Allsorts this week where Gail is hosting and has chosen

Something Fishy as the optional theme so it would be fabulous to see your projects based around the sea, fish or underwater. You can of course go for Anything Goes too.

 Prizes for weeks 787 and 789 of Lavinia stamps (photos not to scale)

I found a lovely little Mulberry Wood stamp in my stash and coloured him with Promarkers.

It's coloured with Promarkers and I found some scraps of suitable paper that I stuck together and cut to make a background. The image didn't look quite right so I made a frame from a lovely piece of shimmery navy blue cardstock that worked a treat. The sentiment from the set (one of four actually) was also mounted on the navy and, I think, finished it off really nicely. The fish was coloured to look like a trout, with shimmer and all but hasn't photographed particularly well so just use your imagination!! 

Thank you once again for your support and I shall see you soon xx

Birthday Girls at The Cutie Pie Challenge

I might have mentioned that I am branching out a bit in my papercrafting and have made several folio/journal type projects. The new theme at

this month is Birthday Girls 

so it's the perfect opportunity to share a lovely little gatefold folio that I made from a kit that I bought at My Porch Prints, it's called Cottage Girls and is absolutely adorable.

Here is the front

the kit is complete with all the little tags and ephemera so I had a lovely time fussing with the bits and pieces. 

Here it is unfolded

I think it would be a lovely way to present a gift card or real life money too!!

I hope that you will support the Cuties and join our Birthday Girls challenge this time. This prize is up for grabs as its our Birthday!!

See you there xx
 

Autumn Colours

The mornings are chillier and darker so I guess Autumn must be on it's way in the northern hemisphere. That leads me nicely to the optional theme at Allsorts Challenge this week

AUTUMN COLOURS, Anything Goes is welcome too.

I made hidden paperclips using a kit from My Porch Prints. I'd forgotten how relaxing fussy cutting can be and it was lovely to faff about with them to arrange on the little sleeves. These will probably be added to journals and/or greeting cards. The paperclip is, as the name suggests, hidden between the layers of paper so can be attached anywhere. They would actually make a rather fancy bookmark.

There are Lavinia stamps as prizes for the next couple of challenges so well worth an entry or two.

Thank you for your visit, it's much appreciated xx

AYLI Layered or Flat

 Hello friends and visitors

starts today with the theme of

Layered or Flat?

I have gone with the flat option. Postage is so costly these days so I do tend to make postage friendly cards more often than not.

This one used a very old Woodware stamp that I inked and stamped on to multiple pages from a MME paper pad. I then cut them out and stuck them onto a paper base that I'd stamped first. A very effective and flat card!! 

Thank you for your continued support xx