Forever friends Santa

 Another old wooden stamp I had fun with….

Embossed the background 

Embossed and die cut the white surround 

Used an SU card blank, added some gold snowflakes, 

which were inked with liquid pearl paint 

Ooooops had to rush back to enter November Rudolph Day!

Have a great day 

Lesley

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Old favourite

 Morning!

Brrrrr it’s ccccold outside, enough to turn your snowflakes blue!

so today I’m sharing an old favourite to warm your heart.

Minimal colouring, mainly blue to go with the sparkly paper,

used as a background, from which I also cut some sparkly snowflakes.

Of course the cat and mouse are much cleverer than me, cutting theirs with scissors 😃.

The eagle eyed among you may notice the sentiment has a blue shadow….

happy accident…..stamped in blue, badly, stamped again, badly….stamped over with black…dada!

Have a great day 

Lesley

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Fancy fold birthday

 Hi there, hope all is well with you and yours……today is a fancy fold I did some time ago,

possibly cased from Emma Goddard, but you should be able to find similar.

To show the front view, I had to hold it down with a coaster, as it’s springy

It’s a good one for using up your pretty papers, and it stands well too.

Have a peaceful day 

Lesley

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Snuggle up….

 I was sad that these gorgeous papers sold out so quickly, 

but grateful that I got a pack that has given me so much fun.

This sheet reminds me of a snuggly jumper…..

……So I used a snippet to stamp a scarf for my cute owl, 

which was stamped on a snippet of white and coloured with blend pens.

The blue strip was the reverse side of another snippet from the same sheet,

And the borders and sentiment were from more snippets of white.

I added 3 enamel dots……see if you can find them!

For a bit more fun, I’m skipping over to the Snippets Playground challenge,

to see if Sarn has anything in her satchel…..

Have a great day 

Lesley

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Christmas autumn bouquet

 An autumn stamp set used for Christmas…retired set

I love the challenge of using non Christmas sets to make Christmas cards…

Cased from Emma Goddard of Coastal Crafter.

Used some lovely distressed gold paper, adding lots of sprays, colouring with red berries,

and a gold banner and twine.

To show you a completely different version using this set, below is a case from stampitupwithjamie.com

The whole image is outlined. The leaves above are from the top left section, cut multiple times.

Have a peaceful day

Lesley

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Football crazy

 This card for a young man uses a technique I saw a while ago…

apologies to the originator that I cannot remember 

Swiping mini ink pads/spots across the card

added a simple silhouette stamp

and added an insert

Here’s my first attempts…too dark for what I had in mind

Have a great day 

Lesley

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Sunny green home

 My Sister and husband moved into their new home a few weeks ago….

when it was sunny and hot! 

I’d got this cute die set which was ideal for this, so stencilled a sunny background,

added the village, and cut another in green, which I snipped off and layered over the top

They are so settled, and not far from us now, so happy days!

Hope you have a good day

Lesley

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Snoopy and CB in the snow…or not

 Hello, I hope you’re not suffering too much with the weather, wherever you are.

It’s wet and windy in the Uk, but a good excuse to hide in the craft room 😃

I’m sharing a few cards today using another old wooden stamp….this does make me chuckle…

This was a card for one of our favourite bloggers and friend, who has the cutest white dog….

I used the Gummiapan stamp in the background, and layered the greeting.

My initial idea though, was for Christmas, as it looked to me like they were in the snow.

The tricky bit was that when I coloured it in I realised Snoopy is white too 🙄

So my next one was on white card instead of crumb cake… 

…which was a lot easier! 

I coloured the sky etc, added some shadows, and left the rest 😉

I’ll leave you with a favourite cartoon….

Hope you have a lovely weekend

Lesley

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