No snow here on the beach

 Today’s card was sparked by 52christmascardthrowdown’s challenge,

where they’ve asked for Christmas cards with no snow.❄️ 

I immediately thought of a beach scene, as I’ve been making beach cards recently.

This is what came to mind…a favourite Penny Black, Margaret Sherry wooden stamp “Chill Day”.

Luckily I had a scene prepared in my stash, so I stamped the image on it, then stamped it again on white card** so that I could colour it and fussy cut the main elements.

I also used SU Beach Day for the palm trees, seagulls and a few details stamped on the sand.

The sentiment was in my stash from when I occasionally do batch making,

which definitely saves time especially for Christmas cards.

Challenges :

52cct Christmas without snow

Snippets Playground #539 as I used white “snippets” **, and green and brown offcuts for palm trees

Peace on Earth #118  inspiration board

Pennybfriendssaturdaychallenge anything goes

Krafty Chicks challenge  #833 Christmas 

Jingle Belles rock Masculine merriment

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Have a paddle in the sea…

 As the sunshine continues, I escaped to my own imaginary beach,

using Rolling Waves, a clever set from SU.

This card was inspired by The Crafty Owl…..

I used two tone card for some of the layers, which are die cut.

I stamped on the darker blue and “sand” to add texture and interest, and stamped the sentiment.

Shells and umbrellas die cut also. All using the Rolling Waves set.

Taking this to….

Just Us Girls #836 (water)

We Love Stamping (summer but no blooms, so Anything goes) 

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Wonders Poinsettia Pines

Back so soon? I hear you ask….

I’m trying to catch up with the list of challenges I wanted to join in, so that I increase my card stash.

 I used lots of my old SU stash for this one…..

Poinsettia Petals, Christmas Pines stamp sets,  North Pole Wonders dies, Boughs of Wonder DSP.

DSP background, die cut a contrasting stitched rectangle, added stamped, die cut, coloured with blends poinsettia, and die cut stag from brown card.

Stamped and die cut sentiment and added a few gold “berries” for a bit of bling

Excuse my black blobs on the photo….gremlins when I was editing 🙄

Challenges:

Just add ink #791 -Christmas 

Merry Little Christmas #69 -AG

52 Christmas card Throwdown - red, green, brown

Slightly different background paper, Stag cut from gold card, and sentiment heat embossed in gold.

I should have used the same gold pearls instead of the liquid gold that turned into a blob.

I blame the heat 😂, but I’ll probably rectify it before I send it to a friend 😉

Challenges:

Jingle Belles -tic tac toe (die cut, red & green, heat embossing)

Christmas kickstart challenge #113- friendship

Huge thanks to those who run the challenges…it keeps us on our toes and provides our inspiration 🙏

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With love Cone flowers

Yesterday’s village garden safari went well, a good turn out,

 and the gardens looked great considering the lack of rainfall.

It was too hot for me but I took my rechargeable fan which helped,

 and tried to stay in as much shade as possible.

We were all sensible and took water with us.

 Today I’m sharing another card made with the Spellbinders Wild Cone Flowers.

This time I chose a deep pink cardstock, (summer colour) with dark brown cones and dark green stalks.

Looks like I forgot the leaves, or maybe it was artistic license 😂

I then stencilled grass and sky (might be Gummiapan 🤷‍♀️),

Found an old pre cut sentiment which fits the word theme, and added some gems.

Challenges:

Allsorts Challenge #855 “colours of summer”

Shoppingourstash #579 “what’s the good word”

Just Us Girls #835 “dies”

Cut it up #362 “add a sentiment”

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Santa’s Sleigh

 Today I’m sharing a Christmas card made with another very old SU set 

North Pole Wonder, Wonder and Wishes.

I’d seen the CAS Christmas challenge which sparked the idea.

The deer and sleigh are not designed to connect, but I wanted to find a way, so,

I stamped one deer, stamped and die cut another, and two sleighs.

I fiddled with alignment before positioning the first sleigh and second deer.

I then fussy cut the sleigh’s side panel and used an old gold WOS pen to colour it.

That pen was also old, and dry, (like me 😂) so I went over it with a clear pen.

I then used my Stamparatus to place the sentiment, which also grounds them.

It’s not perfect but hopefully it meets the challenge!

We’re going on a small “garden safari” today in our village, wearing hats and sun cream.

It’s for charity and will be nice to support the local hospice, and the garden owners,

who must be struggling to keep them looking good in this extreme heat wave.

Please can we have some ☔️ rain!

Challenges:

CAS Christmas challenge - Santa’s sleigh

Sparkles Christmas challenge #187 - CAS

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#Elfie tag-along

 Hi there, I’m still doing Christmas in between life, and here’s a cute tag using a very old

SU set called #Elfie

I found the tag in my unused box, it is also an old SU item, no idea of name unfortunately.

So I coloured and fussy cut him, simple but it will be useful.

I’m taking this to the following challenges 

Tag-along and ATCs August -“fashion” or AG in my case

Peace on Earth - AG #117

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Summer flowers flutter by

 I can’t believe we’re in August, and I’m exhausted with this heat,

my garden is exhausted, and so too I think, is all of nature.

However, there’s lots of suffering around the world, so I’m very lucky really.

  Allsorts inspired me with their summer colours challenge, to break out a new to me 

Spellbinders set, Wild Cone Flowers, with which I die cut lots of snippets in yellow, orange and green.

I’m taking artistic license with the colours 😃

I also used a new to me set from Uniko, English Country Garden Butterfly, 

which I coloured and fussy cut.

I didn’t realise the phrase was wonky, until I looked at the photo 🙄

I used SU coverplate Stitched Greenery for the Lemon Lolly background,

and made a frame with their Arched dies in Calypso Coral.

I’m not totally happy with the overall look, but I’ve got lots of die cuts left to play with,

maybe when it’s cooler, as I find it hard to concentrate in these high temperatures.

Snippets Playground #538 - snippets used for flowers, leaves and butterfly.

Allsorts challenge #855 -colours of summer

AAA Birthday #88 -Flowers

 Triple B august challenge - blooms, butterfly

MyNBUS #89 -never before used Spellbinders and Uniko sets

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