Sending sunshine your way and wishing you a beautiful day

 Hi there, a couple of cards today using SU Beach Day bundle.

I used snippets of white card for chairs and umbrella, green and brown snippets for palm trees, and snippet of blue and sandy paper for the sea and sand.

I grounded the trees and stamped some small shells

Next is similar, but I also used paper for the sky

One of the dies cuts the waves out. You can see the white card behind the cut outs.

I also used small white snippets for the cloud and birds.

I decorated insides and envelopes.

Thanks to Val for the reminder (life’s been a bit challenging of late!)

I am also taking card one to the Allsorts Challenge #826 “seaside”!

I’m taking this second one to the Snippets Playground #509

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Hats off to you

 A very old set that I often go to for male cards, this is a simple layout.

(Stampin’ Up! Guy Greetings)

Used coordinating card and paper and ink,

stamped the hats in black and die cut the hexagonal shapes (retired SU also)

Taking this to

Stamping Sensations (AG)

We love stamping (AG)

Allsorts #826(AG)

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Lesley

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Tea or Gin?

 Today’s little offering is an ATC made with some of the new SU

Celebratory Sips designer series paper.

I used an offcut of zesty orange cardstock, an unused white circle die cut,

and fussy cut images from a strip of one of the papers with teeny tiny images.

I stamped a background with SU Itty Bitty greetings, added a strip of the same card 

and a sentiment from my stash that was embossed in white on black card.

It’s only 2.5” x 3.5” , the standard for an ATC

I’m entering the Tag-along and ATC’s challenge (Drinks…..here it’s definitely Gin cocktails, not Tea!)

MyNBUS #75 as the paper that is new to me,

Also Little Red Wagon, as there’s a little heat embossing on the black sentiment strip

I’ve used lots of snippets, so do head over to the Snippets Playground too

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Simple arch cards for the boys

 Sometimes we need quick and simple ideas for our cards,

so I made these using die cut arches, paper, and a few stamps.

For products used, see the labels list 😃

Have a great day

Lesley

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Tag along

 Hello again, today I’m sharing a tag I made using Yuletide Village from SU.

I bought it late last year, so I wanted to use it for a lot of my Christmas cards and tags this year.

I sometimes buy a set for the following year so I can get a head start, 

and we all know how nice it is to play with something new.

I stamped the houses, then masked them to add “snow”.

Coloured them in with Blend pens, added wink of Stella to the white snow areas.

I then tied some ribbons and twine through the hole, 

adding a die cut piece of silver foiled paper to the die cut tag. 

(Old tag die, can’t remember the name)

It’s quite a large tag that is good for large or family gifts.

I’m entering Tag-along and ATC’s, 

using the Anything goes option, but I hope to return with a themed one soon 😃, based on tea or gin!

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Arched Wishes

 Hi, today I’m sharing a card for a couple of favourite challenges.

I am loving Stampin’ Up! Arch dies, and coordinating stamp Arched Wishes.

This was simply stamped (stamping is what makes me happy),

I added a few sequins to some of the letters, and used a snippet of the leftover dotty paper,

to stamp, fussy cut, and fold, intending to look like a paper case.

It didn’t work quite as well as planned, and now I worry what it looked like for the recipient,

having gone through the postal system, as it may have got squished 😳😂🙄🙈

Entering :

Snippets Playground #508

Allsorts Challenge #825 

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Lesley

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Bluebirds fancy fold

 Hello, today I’m sharing a card made some time ago, a winter birthday, 

I think it was inspired by Emma Goddard of Coastal Crafter, but have seen this fold elsewhere.

It is images fussy cut from the Nests of Winter DSP, and a couple of white embossed panels.

Below it’s (almost) closed for posting.

Taking this to the Allsorts Challenge #824 where they are celebrating 16years

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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