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”

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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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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Lesley

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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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Lesley

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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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Lesley

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Christmas presents and stockings

 Hello, hope you’re all keeping safe and well….

I’m desperately trying to get ahead with cards, but I’m not finding it easy in this heat,

which is soooooo frustrating.

Anyway I managed two small square cards using some old wooden stamps from Paper Nation,

which I then coloured and fussy cut (the girl and boy).

I used SU retired Ready for Christmas for the backgrounds.

There’s a few challenges I want to enter before the deadline, so…..

Peace on Earth #116 

Little Red Wagon #869 (one thing)

Merry Little Christmas #69

Christmas Kickstart #112 (presents)

Addicted to stamps #522 (Christmas)

Inkspirational #372

Stay safe, keep cool (or warm), and see you soon!

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Lesley

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Blue Balloon Festoon

 Today I’m sharing a couple of cards using SU Ballooon Festoon.

There’s a nesting set of balloons and lovely stamps giving enormous possibilities,

which made it difficult for me to decide what to use.

I decided to keep a simple layout using the sentiment stamps, and I think third largest balloon.

I stamped the stars after adding the “highlight”, which also has three sizes of dies to choose from.

I added a twine bow on this one.

I’m ashamed to say it’s been waiting to be played with for months now, so I’m taking to MyNBUS #88, 

where there’s a celebration going on for sharing our new or never before used schtuff.

Also We Love Stamping where the theme is Summertime but I’m using the anything goes option.

The second card is similar, but switching the stamps around,

and adding the die cut “string”, of which there’s two, which saves time when producing multiples!

I did also wink the stars, and added a few sparkles,✨ which you can’t actually see,

because I hadn’t added them until after I took the photo 🙄😂

This one is my homework for the Snippets Playground #537.

It’s also for Dudley’s birthday, who’s 8years old and so cute. 

Here’s a photo of some snippets. I used some packaging to cut extra balloons,

which I glued to the back, to add dimension.

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Lesley

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Happy Birthday by the sea on our bikes

 It’s my beloved’s birthday today, and I made him this card…

It’s been sooooo busy here and soooo hot, it’s been hard to keep up with my card making.

Waterside Retreat from SU to the rescue!

Images are from the DSP, fussy cut the bikes, used die cut words from my stash,

and added some “pebbles”.

Fingers crossed he likes it, as it’s a reminder of some of our leisurely bike rides 😍

EDITED TO ADD:

I have been reminded by a couple of lovely crafters that I could enter this into the following challenge,

so as long as this is ok I’ll enter in the Allsorts Challenge #854 “At the Seaside”

There is also a “Summertime” Challenge at We Love Stamping

Have a great day!

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Lesley

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