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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Spring at Stamping Sensations and Allsorts

 Hi there,

today’s card is all about spring flowers.

There seems to be a lot of challenges with this theme recently, understandably,

so I’m taking this to

Stamping Sensations March theme which is Spring (or anything goes)

Allsorts Challenge #846 -Spring

I received a Sizzix die set Jar of Flowers for my birthday….

I cut a lot of flowers and stems in various colours of scrap card.

I cut the jar from white card and vellum.

I blended some blue ink on the reverse side of the vellum, and glued the stems behind.

A strip of glimmer paper acts as a table for the jar to sit on.

I added the twine before glueing the jar down, adding the flowers last.

The little label is from the Greetery, stamped and die cut.

I added some detail with a white gel pen, but not very successfully, I need more practise.

I did cut lots of spares from this set, so I will be back sometime with lots more ideas.

As it’s the first time it came out to play I’m also taking it to MyNBUS  #84

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

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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