Trying something new for today

 Happy Monday , had a busy morning sorting out my paperwork and blogging some future DT bits and bobs but this afternoon I was at a loss.

Then I remembered a set I had brought a little while back and decided to pop it away as I wasnt sure how to use it

Well big knickers pulled up this afternoon I decided to play ~ If I had looked at it properly inside was a little booklet full of instructions, you just can't go wrong

So the set I am talking about is Crafters Companion Birds and Bloom, a stamp and die set that allows you to make over the edge cards. Adorable I have had a great afternoon , following the booklet I made no mistakes and here is my finished card

It's a dull day so a bit hard to catch the over the edge part so I hope you can see it.

In the set you get a few sentiments and some lovely foilage stamps. The three flowers I stamped, coloured and fussy cut out , stuck on with dimensional glue . I also stamped part of the main stamp again to give me another little chippy bird that was also stuck on with dimensional glue.

The sentiment was matted using Crafters Companion Textured Cardstock, using sticky pads too give it some height.

And finally I coloured up using Tri-Blend markers , I adore them so much 

Thank you for looking 

I Would like to enter this into

613 Avenue Create ~ With Wings

Cute Card Thursday ~ Stamping

Lavinia World Challenges ~ Stamping
Moving Along With The Times ~ Birds

Tweet, Tweet ~ JMC Designs

Happy Thursday Everyone

I am here to share with you a little project that I made yesterday

I loved these little tweets so much I could not resist another play

I also love 3d and don't seem to make it as much these days so after a little think 

here is my make

I used my portrait to cut out the houses, branches and flowers

I have used the lovely quirky birds from JMC Designs

I have used 

Lovely Lashes Edna

&

Suzie Sweet

Coloured up with Distress Ink

The Flower centers have Nuvo Drops Gloss ~ Ripened Pumpkin
The Papers are delicious and are a selection the lovely Jo from Pinflair sent me

I loved making this and pretty pleased how it turned out

Thank you for stopping by

I would like to enter this into

Arty Divas ~ Anything Goes

TTCRD ~ Anything Goes

Paper Shelter ~ Use A Digi
Crafty Gals Corner ~ Fall Colours
Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes/Fall Colours
Ellibelle's Crafty Wednesday ~ B ~ Birds/Birdhouse/Branch
Crafty Sentiments ~ Fall colours
Digi Doodles ~ Animal

Hochanda ~ Card

This is my last post for today ~

 I will be back tomorrow with some Little Miss Muffet Stamps fun

This time I am sharing with you a card

I used a soft yellow Distress oxide as the base

and then stamped over using

Flower Power

&

Believe

I then used a darker shade of yellow Oxides

and the stencils came out to play

totally in love with the feather and butterfly

I then doodled round

and used a few bits from the 

Posy Doodles Splash of Summer

Thank you for stopping by today

xx
I would like to enter this into
Addicted to Stamps and More ~ Anything Goes
Crafty Creations ~ Anything Goes
Creative Moments ~ Anything Goes
Double D ~ Stripes and Dots
Simon Says Wednesday ~ Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday ~ Anything Goes
Make My Monday ~ Stencil Stories

Hochanda ~ Tag

Make sure your tuned in to watch Nikky on Hochanda at 2.00 for her final show today

For my second make today I am sharing with you a fun little tag that I made

I used a plain manilla tag

Covered with Distress Oxide inks and then a splattering of black paint

I used one of the new small stamps for her hair

I then used the stencil 

Creative Angel

I cut her body out onto watercolour card and used Distress inks to colour

I used the Posy doodles A4 kit for her dress and to decorate

Finishing of with some doodles and ribbons and a feather for fun

Thank you for stopping by today

xx
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Everybody Art Challenge ~ Tags
Crafty Cardmakers ~ An Explosion of Colours

Bunny Love ~ Polkadoodles Crafting

Happy Wednesday Everyone

Did you see the lovely Nikky on Hochanda yesterday?

What great shows with some scrummy stamps

I have used the stamp set

24 Carrot Friend

An amazing set of stamps I just love

I also used the stump and toadstool from

Nuts about you 

I coloured up using Distress Inks

The papers used are from

The Great Outdoors 

&

Just Smile

Thank you for looking

xx

Polkadoodles ~ Yipppeeeeee ~ Hochanda take 2

Whooooo Hooooooo

Are you sitting comfy

are you tuned into Hochanda

If not, why not?

A complete overload of cuteness

This afternoon I am sharing with a frame that I decorated

You know one of those cheapo one's I adore decorating them and often pick up a pack

This time I've used

The Animal Die sets

How cute are they

I have also used

Die Cutting Essentials paper pack 

apart from the grey background

thats from Paper Pack

The Great Outdoors

# 

Thank you for looking

xx

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Allsorts ~ Use at least 2 dies Fox/Clouds/Mushrooms/leafs
Die Cut Divas - Animals

Frame It

Happy Tuesday to you all

I am here today to share with you a little Frame that I decorated

I started with a little frame from the cheapo shop

and I used one of the toppers from

Posy doodles Splash Of Summer

I then stamped up the birdhouse, birds , toadstool, bee and sentiment

I used watercolour Pencils to colour up and glitter on the bees wings

The stamps are from the new sets

So very easy to make up

Thank you so much for looking today

xx

Happy Birthday Chick

Happy Birthday to my lovely friend 

Tanya

yepidooo today she gets to eat cake, play with balloons , spoil herself rotten

(hey wait a minute..... Tanya is always noshing on cakes!)

Why not pop across to her blog and wish her a happy day
SSSSShhhh you might even find Birthday Candy

There is always something nice to see and I know she would love to have you stop by....

I am hoping this has arrived safe and sound**edit its arrived**

What started of as a card ended up as a little hanger

(I so could not get it to sit right)

But you know when its just perfect for someone... It must be made

I cut the chick out twice using sturdy card  the teplate is from the SIL store, and decorted using papers printed from Cherryblossom Lane collection . The feet and wings were matted onto the card also and then attached with foam pads. 

The envelope is from Lily bug Love collection and I just added my own sentiment

I adore her little glasses they were cut out from pearl cardstock

The googly eyes were just a must have and finished off little chick

Thanks for stopping by , have a good day

xx

I would like to enter into
Crafting From The Heart - Anything Goes
Craft Your Passion - Anything Goes
A Gem of a Challenge - Animals
Digi Choosday - Anything Goes

Plain and Simple

Happy Saturday

It's a little cooler today in the South West of England, we have had a scorcher of a week so nice to get a little breeze and some cooler air.

This week I have been very frugal using lots of my scraps of paper/card from my box where I put any waste I have in it there is quite a lot of black , half sheets here and there so I pulled a couple of those out to use,

I started by cutting our 2 white card blanks 12 x 6 inches

Scored down the middle

I cut the black card   and matted up

then cut white card and matted that too

(I added a ribbon to the white card stock on card 1)

Card 1

I used a dandelion stamp (love dandelions) and stamped it twice using Tuxedo Black memento ink - The sentiment was also stamped in this - I then added those cute two little birds using Paris Dusk Memento ink . Added a few tiny pearls and card 1 was made

Card 2

I adore this stamp , simple but contains so much detail , I was going to colour it in but I loved the black and white look, so I stamped a butterfly and coloured that very pale pink with my Graph'It Markers, then added a few pearls here and there and a sentiment to finish off.

The main stamp and sentiment I used Tuxedo Black memento ink and for the butterfly London Fog Memento ink

I would like to enter
Card 1
Thats Crafty - Birds of a Feather
Wordart Wednesdays - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Stamp and Ribbon
The Corrosive Challenge - Nature
Sweet Stampin - Outdoors
Card 2
Cardz 4 Galz - No patterened paper
Simon Says Stamp - Things with Wings
Unicorn Challenge - Make it pearly
Penny Black & More - Must Stamp
Fantasy Stampers - CAS