On Display

 I needed quite a few birthday cards for December, and wanted to use another new set from SU,

that features a “dresser” or “armoire”, and lots of things to go on the shelves, called On Display.

I used wood grain paper from SU for the dresser, then filled it with books, cats, and ornaments.

Allsorts #838 anything goes

MyNBUS # 81

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Lesley

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Treescape with Light and Wonder

 Today’s card is using another new set, Light and Wonder.

It has various landscape dies, this was my first quick experiment.

(I can assure you there’ll be more “light and wonder” next time!)

The background paper is Peaceful Garden SU.

I used SU two toned green paper, cut the trees background,

then one of the other dies with the contrasting side, and used the waste bits to infill.

 (The pale background paper would have shown through otherwise).

I’m assuming the black line is a piece of thread on my camera lense?!

Challenges:

Allsorts #838 (new…..new die set, or anything goes)

NBUS  #81 (never before used stuff)

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Lesley

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Paper snippets cat

I’ve been busy using lots of old stash, as we don’t like to throw anything away do we?!

 I have some really old Irish folding cards, that have apertures, this one being a cat…

I wanted to use up some of my paper scraps, which I cut into narrow strips.

I used some tree garlands from Gummiapan to make a sparkly “collar”, also from scraps.

The sentiment is from a Clarity sheet

I’m taking this over to the Snippets Playground #520

where there’ll be hot chocolate and another fabulous prize bundle.

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Lesley

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Winter Berry Branch, PB

When I saw this card by Bonnie Klass I knew I had to find this Winter Berry Branch die from Penny Black. I’ve not had much watercolour experience, but cut it out of watercolour card, and painted on different inks.

As this was for a birthday, I chose purple berries for autumn, adding wink of stella,

and glued it onto white card  embossed with SU Leaf Fall.

The sentiment is from SU Beautiful Moments, which I used to decorate the inside and envelope.

I’m hoping I haven’t missed this challenge …. 😉

Penny Black Saturday Challenge

Happy Saturday 

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Lesley

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Textured tag

 Hope you are doing ok in the run up….

I made a few tags, having almost finished my cards.

I also wanted to enter the Tag-along and ATC’s challenge, but I’ve missed the deadline 😢.

        I’m not surprised as I’ve been so busy, and with that comes brain fog, but I expect most of you know that feeling!

I cut the tag from SU Greetings of the Season 

I stamped with SU Yuletide Village, fussy cut the house and tree, coloured with pencils.

Die cut the snowflake cutouts with SU Snowy Delights, 

added glitter glue and bells,

onto ribbon and twine.

Here’s the others I made….

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Lesley

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Teal and silver snowflakes

 I have some really pretty foil card I thought would go well with this large snowflake from SU,

(Snowy Delights). Plus I really wanted to join the Colour Hues challenge #122 (teal + silver)

It’s proved very difficult to photograph though!

Below it looked like a dark blue,

so I stepped out into the sunshine, which shows more of a true colour.

This one has sparkly white die cuts for Jingle Belles rock challenge (banner) but my attempt at 

editing the brightness turned the white a bit blue, and still didn’t show the true colour 🙄

I’ve used this layout a lot. Just cut the rectangle in two diagonally, to make two cards.

I also embossed white card the same size. Die cut the snowflake and sentiment for four quick cards.

I’m also entering Try it on Tuesday (snowflakes)

Time out challenge #302 (emboss, white, sparkle)

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Lesley

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Merry Mice at the carol service

 Thanks for popping by, it really makes my day.

Diving into my stash again, I retrieved Merry Mice stamp set from SU.

I used blend pens to colour them, and some wink of Stella sparkle.

I thought I was going to have to do some masking, to make what was in my head,

but in fact it wasn’t necessary, as it fitted on my card topper just right.

So, the carol singer is welcoming the members into the service, 

while the little ones take some decorations for the tree, and gifts for the children into the church.

Well, they do say it’s the “silly season”.

Merry Christmouse!

I’m taking this to Christmas card Throwdown (stamps)

Have a great day

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(Google/blogger has had some gremlins in today, or is it just me?!)

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Lesley

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