Cats, dogs and birds, Cutest Crew

 Hi there, I’ve shown you the birds with this new SU set, Cutest Crew.

My first post with this set is HERE

Now it’s time for the dogs and cats.

I ended up making four cards, with more ideas in my head!

This front flap or flip top card inspired me, but I’ve searched in vain for the originator.

 Cut a piece of A4 white into quarters for the base, cut coloured card at 9cm wide x 29.7cm (A4),

score in half at 14.8cm, adhere to base, and decorate.

This was a sympathy card for a neighbour, hence the stamped paw prints going off the page.

(In memory of his sweet Terrier, “Polo”)

There’s stamps and dies. I like how they can hang over the side edges of the front flap.

Then some birds flew by…..(this is what happens when you edit your post multiple times 🙄)

The birds are in a group of 3, which were not enough, so I’ve just added two groups.

The stripes and paw prints border strips are another die in the set.

Dogs with paw print borders in the blue and white.

The line of cats was die cut too, pretty in pink 

Here’s the inside of the cards, upon which I added a single animal, (the cat ran away 🙄)

and an extra die cut of the “line up” of animals to hide the back of my blend pen colouring, 

and it adds strength.

I can see me using this set a lot for animal loving friends and children.

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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Sketches with Snowy and Hedgy

 I’m back with some more Christmas cards…..

there were some challenges I liked the look of, 

and it was a chance to get some of my old wooden Penny Black stamps out.

Penny Black Saturday challenge is for pastels or anything goes.(AG)

Christmas Kickstart #109 wants “brimming with style” ,

Jingle Bells “vintage” (my vintage stamps)

so out came snowy and Hedgy……Snowy has his hat on.

For a long time I’ve wanted to try some sketches that I’ve admired from Jules, Always with a heart.

I expect it will get easier with practice, I’m not sure I have anywhere near Jules talent!

(She even stitches hers together, and they are so pretty)

It was nice to have a plan though, rather than just adhere the image to a plain background.

(Sketch 24)

I used retired SU papers, and an old hunkydory sentiment, coloured with blend pens.

I did flip the sketches from portrait to landscape, to fit with my images.

Next up, the same stamp with some more old SU papers and an old SU card blank.

I did faux stitching with a fine tip pen.

(Sketch 22) (again flipped to landscape)

ABC Christmas challenge has ‘H’ for Hats, ‘I’ for image only

Peace on Earth #109 has a mood board, I focused on the red scarf.

I used lots of snippets of papers and white card scraps, so I’ll also visit the

Snippets Playground #530 !

I have a few more wooden stamps, all with hats, so watch this space 😂

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Cutest Crew in the garden

 Hello there, today’s card was inspired by Laura Mackie.

I used the Cutest Crew set from SU, and their Arch dies to create a shaped cards.

I was imagining a spring day with dogs playing in the sunshine.

I used various old stencils for the background, stamped, coloured and die cut the pups,

and stamped a sentiment from the set.

I’m taking this to 

Stamping Sensations , nature

We love stamping, spring

Allsorts #847, in the garden

Here’s Laura’s card…

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Remarkable spring flowers

 Hello

Today is a tag / bookmark for the

Tag-along and ATC’s challenge, Blossoms, Butterflies and Birds….

We Love Stamping, spring

I cut a strip of white card 2”wide, and punched the top with an old SU tag punch.

I used SU You are Remarkable for the stamping, Cutest Crew bird and butterflies die cuts,

so I’ve managed to cover all three options.

I blended some blue ink for sky, and added WOS on bees and flower centre.

Next up is one for Stamping Sensations, inspired by nature,

and Allsorts challenge 847, in the garden

using the you are Remarkable SU stamp set again, this time using just the infill stamps.

I think this is a bit too abstract and messy, but was quite fun to do.

I used what I think is a “wrap” stamp (a small rectangle) to make the “grass”, and the “dots” create a sky.

🌺🌼🌸Hope your weekend is going well 🌸🌼🌺

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Hobby Haven all rounder

 Happy Easter Monday!

Here’s another card made with the Hobby Haven SU papers for my sister,

who loves coffee, baking, embroidery, painting, and reading…and green!

This is the opposite of clean and simple!

I used circles from Gummiapan, and sentiments from the Greetery.

(Can you spot the hand written word?)

All the images were fussy cut apart from a few that were laser cut.

SU have a laser cut sheet in some of their DSP packs)

Enjoy your day

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Arched Poinsettia on paper

 Happy Easter Sunday 

to you lovely people.

I don’t make Easter cards, but do have another Christmas card, 

using the Crafty Roo stamp that I used  recently HERE

I stamped and heat embossed in gold onto the old SU green paper with the whole design,

then onto the red paper that I used for the background as well, just cutting out the flower.

Mounted onto a SU Arch white die cut,

Taking this over to the Peace on Earth Christmas challenge #109,

anything goes, and a mood board.

I hope you have a peaceful day.

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Hobby Art Baubles

 Happy Easter! 🐣 

Today I’m sharing another Christmas card, sorry!

Another fab prize from Snippets Playground challenge,

Hobby Art Christmas Baubles, which I stamped onto DSP (old SU) and heat embossed in gold.

I fussy cut them, adding gold WOS on the crowns.

I heat embossed the sentiment too, and “hung” them on gold twine.

I’m taking this one to the latest Snippets challenge #529, where there’s another fabulous prize on offer!

(Snippets photo further down below)

I then did a portrait version using another old SU DSP, but used stem die cuts in gold instead of twine.

I’m taking this one to the Allsorts challenge 846 anything goes (or spring)

Here’s some of my snippets!

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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