Magical mermaid on the tiles

 Today’s card is for a great niece.

I decided to use some more old stash including this cute vibrant paper.

I used SU Magical Day (retired) for the background and to stamp and die cut the mermaid and seahorse.

The set also has these sentiments and banners to die cut.

I placed them onto a square tile using a newish SU die set Tile Garden.

I hope you have a magical day!

We have an extra hour and a sunny breezy day 😃

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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There’s a mouse decorating the Xmas tree….

 Hi there!

This card was inspired by Emma Goddard, CoastalCrafter.com

SU have a new Stars die of the month, however I used my old set of stars for this.

Retired DSP for the background, A Little Christmas DSP for my fussy cut mouse and teeny box of lights,

retired Reindeer Fun for the strings of lights, tree from Christmas Mice, 

Christmas epoxy shapes, all SU.

The Greetery sentiment.

Challenges:

52cct October - mini scene with shaped die

Jingle Belles-animals

Hope the weather is better where you are (wind and rain here)

Have a great weekend

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Today It’s a pink tag…

 As I had lots of pink bits on my desk I made a tag for Christmas.

I used a retired SU die for the tag, which folds up so you can put a gift card or something inside.

A Gummiapan Hot Chocolate die, and a little stamping to ground the mug,

some more of that old pink ribbon and white twine so I can hang it on a gift.

Challenges :

Tag-along and ATC’s, - anything goes

CAS on Sunday #345 - use a tag

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Lesley

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Pink Santa hat

Here’s another pink card for the Jingle Belles…..and a couple of other challenges…

I used a Gummiapan die  for the hat, cut from old pink and white velvet paper,

an old SU square die, old pretty sparkly ribbon, a few Irridescent dots,

and an embossing folder that was a prize I won a long time ago in the Snippets Playground.

Some of the Snippets used ….

Challenges:

Snippets Playground #543- use snippets 

Cut it Up #367 - pretty in pink

 Jingle Belles Rock- pink

Have a good weekend

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Lesley

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A pink Christmas….

 I’m sharing a pink Christmas card today for the 

Jingle Belles Rock challenge for Breast Cancer Research Foundation.

I used an old SU designer paper, a strip of it was blended with pink ink, upon which I added “snow”.

The trees are die cut from pink flock velvety paper, and the deer from Silver card.

The greeting was cut from both the pink and silver too.

All of the dies are from Gummiapan.

I am making some more, so I will be back soon….!

I do hope you join in this generous event!

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Lesley

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Bringing the presents…

 It’s Christmas card time….I treated myself to a Spellbinders set Window Wonderland.

I knew straight away I would use this a lot, although it can be a bit fiddly.

I’ve taken artistic licence as the background is just an old SU snowflake paper.

This was a trial run, but I’ll have lots of others when I get crafting time.

Challenges:

Allsorts #860 (anything goes)

My NBUS #91  (never before used this die set)

We had a nice trip to York recently, the weather was good,

 we rested and cycled and recharged the batteries….

York Cathedral

Solar cycle path

Naburn Lock

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Lesley

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Scenic Sunsets

 Hi there, it’s getting cooler in Kent, so I’ve been playing with this DSP from SU called scenic coast.

It’s a good fit with the Sunset Coast stamps and dies from SU.

I cased this design from Cindy Elam….Heartsdelightscards.

I love the rich colours of the paper, and it has a lovely sheen on some highlighted areas.

I die cut the lighthouse scene from a white scrap, 

leaving enough room to then cut a detailed circle around it, using SU Spotlight on Nature dies. 

I cut a red lighthouse from a scrap of red, then snipped sections to add to the white one.

It was a much easier way to “colour” the lighthouse.

I cut a piece of two tone paper to follow the line of the land, 

inserting die cut scraps from the darker side of the paper.

I die cut shells, and I used a blending brush to add colour, and birds were die cut from the same set.

Finishing touch of fishing net cut from a scrap of complementary card, 

and stamped sentiment from SU Rolling Waves.

Taking this to Seize the Birthday #336 - double frame/anything goes

Cut it Up challenge #366 - more than one die cut

I did a similar version using the sailboat…..

I’m taking this one over to We Love Stamping - shades of autumn or anything goes.

Have a good weekend

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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