Winter Flowers & Fauna

   

 Hello friends. We have a wintry optional theme at Allsorts this week

Winter Flowers & Fauna chosen by Brenda and the prize is this

2 prizes AALL and Create A5 stamp sets

I love being on this Design Team they are such an inspirational bunch and I have tried to extend my  repertoire!! It's working and these days I don't always go for "cute".

I have had the Cheery Lynn poinesttia die for many years and normally use it as an embellishment on the aforementioned "cute" cards. This time I wanted it to be the star so cut it in some lovely satin board that came from Joanna Sheen a long time ago and stuck them on a heat embossed hessian Wow stamp (also very old). The die cut sentiment is one of Sue Wilsons. To finish off I splattered gold watercolour paint. The card is actually a lovely clotted cream colour but the glare from the gold has lightened them somewhat.

As we kiss goodbye to November I thought I would share some pics of the last couple of weeks where we seem to have had ALL the weather thrown at us!!

Sunny days

Frosty Days (and kisses)

                            

Snowy Days

Rainy Days

Thank you for paying me a visit today. I hope you have a good weekend xx

Gold, Silver or Glitter

 Hello everyone. 

The new theme at As You Like It is a perfect one for Christmas makes, so that's what I did.

I did a little bit of inky smooshing first and added some powdery shimmer that I can't remember the name of!! I used a Crafters Companion stamp and die bauble set and heat embossed the stamps in silver and gold, used mirri card  or glitter card to die cut the shapes and layered them up. My good old LOTV Christmas sentiment stamps were used for the sentiment. I made ten in all for my work colleagues.

See you on Saturday!!

Sparkle & Shine

 Morning All!! Only a month to go but there's time still to add to your festive cards.

The new challenge at

is Sparkle and Shine so I dug out a gorgeous glitter card and holographic mirror card to make this...

I used a super cute stamp from MFT and coloured him with Promarkers. Mounted him inside a snowflakey die frame (Lawn Fawn I think). the sentiment is a Sue Wilson one from several years ago and one that I've used a lot. I layered it with some black card so that it stands out a little bit.

I hope that you will come along and join the party!!

Thank you for stopping by and paying a visit, it's much appreciated xx

Ribbon and/or twine at Allsorts

 Happy Weekend everyone. 

I've a Christmas card to share with you today it's adorned with lovely ribbon and some glittery twine to inspire you to join our optional theme at Allsorts challenge this week. Anything Goes is also most welcome.

I used an old Do Crafts vintage paper pack for the base of my card then stamped my lovely Stampendous stamp and heat embossed it with a lovely pepper coloured WOW embossing powder. All the edges were torn using my lovely Indigo Blu tearing tool and then inked. I had a perfect festive green organza ribbon that I wrapped around one of the panels and added a twine threaded button too.

The prize this week is a

Sizzix die set from Craft Stash

Can't wait to see what you make!!

I hope you have a good weekend. It looks like we are in for 48 hours of heavy rain and gales so I am really not looking forward to that. It's been an interesting week weatherwise with snow and sub zero temperatures too, it actually felt quite festive!!

See you on Monday xx

Food and/or Drink at Allsorts

Hello friends. I am inviting you to join me for a beverage this morning. Gail has chosen the optional theme at Allsorts this week and it's

Food and/or Drink

I have kept my resolution to use old stash this year and while having a rummage, as you do, I found a lovely coffe cup stamp set. I know I have mentioned my exploration of other papercrafts this year  and in doing so found a lovely lady called Amanda Charlesworth on You Tube (Create with Scrimping Mommy). She shares so much inspiration that I used one of her Journal Slide and Reveal techniques on my card.

Closed

Open

It's a really easy technique using a folded "slider". 

 

AYLI Favourite Embellishment

 Another two weeks has rolled by and here we are mid November, can you believe it?!!

Anyway, my post today is to invite you to join in at

where Elaine is hosting and has chosen the theme of

Favourite Embellishment (and why)

I have been on a mission to actually use my paper pads this year so have been making other papercraft projects. Along the way I found hidden paperclips that are really fun to make and functional too in journals, folios or on cards as embellishments or can be used as a paper clip!! They are also a really great way to use up strips of paper, fussy cuts and actually any little bits and bobs that you've saved. I've made a few Christmas ones to add to cards or tags. 

I cut interesting bits from several paper collections by Do Crafts, & Craftwork Cards.

If you google hidden paperclips on You Tube there are countless videos to immerse yourself in!! 

Thank you for your company today . See you on Saturday xx

Special Occasions

 Happy Monday everyone and I hope this week is kind to you. Today is the first of three visits for me so I will kick the week off by inviting you to join in at

where the theme this month is

Special Occasions.

I am getting on a bit and seem to be making an awful lot of retirement cards lately for colleagues and friends so what better special occasion than that!!?

I used a super cute LOTV rubber stamp and coloured him to match the Bo Bunny paper pad. I used my lovely tearing rulers again for the panel and used a MFT die cut frame too. The sentiment was cobbled together using two different stamp sets, happy was a freebie and retirement from Whimsy. All edges were inked for a little bit of interest.

I am looking forward to seeing your interpretation of Special Occasion.

See you on Thursday xx

Christmas at Allsorts

 We are feeling festive at

Allsorts Challenge

the alternative theme is Christmas this week and the prize is from Lavinia Stamps

I have been pretty good this year keeping up with the festive makes but I realised that I had way too many cute cards in my pile so made some more grown up models. I am always in awe of inky backgrounds so had another go making these two featuring Card-io stamps. The pretty papers are from Craft Creations.

I added some super sparkly glitter glue that really packs a punch!!

We are looking forward to seeing your Christmassy makes xx

The Magic of the Season

 It's the Magic of the Season (Christmas) at Allsorts this week, as an alternative to anything goes if you fancy!!

I have been a little bit naughty and recently bought some Lavinia goodies that I wanted to try out. One being a ink brush and the other the gorgeous Christmas Joy tree. The lovely fox was already in my stash and he was crying out to be included in the scene.

I inked, glittered and splattered some snow about!! 

I hope that you have a good weekend.  The forecast looks good so we have some field jobs to do. I suspect the leaf blower will be involved!!

See you soon xx