Sending wishes

 I’ve been making some one sheet wonders recently.

Do visit Ruth Trice at Artful Stampin’ for inspiration.

It’s great for quick and easy cards, with any stamps you like.

Stamp in your favourite colours on an A4 sheet, cut into 4 or more,

and layer onto base card and decorate.

(Old SU sets Daisy Lane and Sending Smiles)

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Rudolph Day for April

 Rudolph Day is here!

25th of the month means it’s time to add some cards to our Christmas stash.

So, here goes using up some more backgrounds I’ve have for a few years, from a batch make 🙄

I layered that lovely tree die over my sparkly pasted trees,

added the truck from Gummiapan, loaded up with the tree and gifts 

I used pens to make it shabby (perhaps too much 😂)

Next up that cool Santa, sat on a wall, cut from yet another pasted background 

(I did make quite a few, so it’s my challenge to use them all 😉)

Santa was cut from card, snipped and layered.

Above I coloured the gifts with pens,

below I just did the “ribbon”

A piece of embossed white for the snowflake background.

This Santa was also cut from card, but I cut his trousers short and coloured his pink legs 😃

I also used up some old tea bag folding card blanks.

You can just about see the teapot.

It’s amazing how you can use up old stuff in a different way.

The bits from the aperture were used for sentiments etc.

Happy Rudolph Day!

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth

Christmas Kickstart #85

NBUS #61 (truck and tree)

Lesley

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By the Sea

 I’ve been making some one sheet wonders, where you stamp an A4 sheet,

then cut it up for backgrounds.

This one was perfect to wish a friend a speedy recovery…

Using old SU stamps and bright pastel colours (is that contradiction?) for the seashell background,

and Gummiapan dies for the beach hut scene

I inked the topper for the sand and sea, and added sea glass embellishments.

Details coloured with SU blend pens.

I think the colours and huts meet the Inkspirational challenge #314

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Birthday Wishes

 I treated myself recently to some new stamps from Uniko.

They’re fun, funky, unique designs, perfect for a dear friend…

It’s mainly simple stamping with a bit of decoupage, fussy cut bows, and a Rhinestone.

I used my stamping platform to get clear crisp and even inking.

(Mid century modern Birthday)

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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From the Toolbox

 It’s a new Snippets Playground challenge and these cards used up lots of paper snippets!

Backing paper, tools, faux peg board and sentiment all from snippets.

Fancy fold from Emma Goddard, Coastal Crafter.

This one uses the part images left on the edges of the tools paper.

I hate waste but you can tuck partial images under things or around the edges.

I think I went a bit over board on this one!

Cased from Stacey Marsh.

Hoping to be first at the Playground gates, so I can share some of Sarn’s chocklit!

Snippets Playground Challenge #478

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Picture in Picture

 A special card for my Sister today.

My plan was a Picture in Picture effect….

I used some old SU paper as my painted landscape.

Gummiapan’s artist dies come in two sizes, perfect for what I had planned.

I used double layers for depth and strength, some mounted on tiny foam pads.

The easel was cut from wood effect paper, and the grass from scraps of the background paper.

Colour added to the tools with marker pens , winked for sparkle. (Wink of Stella)

Seam binding ribbon along the bottom, added texture and filled the space of the 5” x 7” card base,

as the background paper was only “6 x 6”.

Here’s some of the Snippets used, so I can go and play at the Snippets Playground #477 with this card,

and it’s the first time the Artist sets have come out to play,

 so I’m entering the Never Before Used Schtuff (NBUS) Challenge #61

Enjoy your day!

Lesley

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Easter Sunday

 Here’s another card celebrating spring and all it means to us

Same products as yesterday…..plus a Gummiapan box planter, that even has a slit to place the flowers.

Have a peaceful day

Lesley

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Happy Easter

 Happy Easter weekend!

I don’t send Easter cards, but I do love Spring and all the nature bursting with new life and colour.

Don’t we all love Daffodils?

So here’s a birthday card, background an old SU paper,

with some adorable Dies from Gummiapan….

Love the circle sentiment, and the cute daffodils and bow were coloured with SU blend pens.

The pink strip is a snippet of the reversed paper.

Have a great weekend 

Lesley

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Rudolph Day March is on

 I’m trying to get ahead with Christmas cards, and what better inspiration than

Rudolph Days Challenges

This is where we share our makes on 25th of the month,

although you do have until the end of the month to enter.

This month I’m delighted to share as a guest designer 😊

I made some backgrounds (more of that another day!), using glitter embossing paste.

I added some inked stencilling to the “wall” for added depth.

I’ve added some birds, which I thought was appropriate to include, as the Red Admiral set was a kind gift from Maureen who ran this challenge for many years.

Santa (from Gummiapan) is either having a rest, or has lost his Reindeer 🤔 😃

Happy Rudolph Day!

Also sending this in to Peace on Earth challenge, and

NBUS challenge #60….Never before used Santa

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Snippets Xmas tree

 Hey there, I’m here with my homework for the Snippets Playground challenge #476

where anything goes as long as you use up your snippets.

You may want to make a cup of tea now, or afterwards…….

It took me the equivalent of a whole day to make 🙄😂

Why? I hear you say!……

Well, I die cut  a few trees, and lots of little ornaments, tinsel,  and a few star toppers from glitter paper.

The rug was the easy bit…..I’d forgotten how difficult it is to glue onto glitter card,

plus the ornaments and tinsel are sooooo tiny :-

Here’s some of the snippets used…

I remembered to take pics this time 😃

It then took me some time to find a sentiment I was happy with, except I wanted to add some glitter.

So, die cut a snippet of gold, then gutted it so that I could put the sentiment on top of the gap with some teeny foam pads,  and then would stick together better.

It worked, but really?! Talk about make it hard work 😂

I then took more pics so you can see how glittery it is….hopefully 😊

and just in case you forgot where I started…

So after all that effort, I hope to get an A+ at the Snippets Playground,

and because it’s full of bling I’m just in time to enter the

Jingle bells rock challenge

and the Allsorts Challenge which is clean and simple and / or anything.

Phew I now need to lie down in a darkened room, before I use up all those snippets left over!

Thanks for listening 

Lesley

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P.s. the Gummiapan dies are 🤩 brilliant

Birthday cards

 Hi there, I thought I’d share the lovely hand made cards I received recently….

(I belong to some crafty groups, hence so many)

A huge thank you to everyone 🤗

I am so lucky!

Enjoy your day!

Lesley

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From the Toolbox

 I recently got some of the Trusty Tools paper from SU, 

which I knew would be easy to fussy cut. 

I found lots of card ideas, from the many generous and talented designers that share them.

The following were cased from Helen Read, All Things Stampy…

Do visit her blog for more inspiration.

I hope you have a good weekend

Lesley

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Detailed snowflake

 I’m on a mission to use up some of my older stash, 

and at the same time use some of my new “toys” that have been waiting to come out to play.

My aim is to make more Christmas cards each month, to avoid the rush,

and I wanted to make some quick and simple ones using these two Dies.

Here I’ve used the negative of the circle die, which I’m hoping works?

The snowflake has lovely detail, so I cut some different coloured snippets of glittery paper.

The circular greeting was cut from the middle of some old cards meant for Iris folding.

I’ve kept the positive die cut for later, along with snippets from the card blanks.

The pieces with the apertures can be used for sentiments etc.

So I’m using some card stock that would otherwise probably just stay in the drawer.

Some had a separate piece with the the aperture, so I used the card blank,

and some I just cut them in half and used them as a layer.

The tree snippet above will appear at a later date :)

Here’s the small batch.

I’ve also got a rule that they’re not put away until I’ve stamped an insert,

which is a time saver when it comes to writing in them!

I’m skipping over to the Snippets Playground with this homework,

so do visit the treehouse to check out the prize bundle, and see all the inspiration.

I’m also taking this to Darnell’s NBUS as both these little dies are never before used schtuff!

Lesley

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