Easter Sunday

 Here’s another card celebrating spring and all it means to us

Same products as yesterday…..plus a Gummiapan box planter, that even has a slit to place the flowers.

Have a peaceful day

Lesley

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Happy Easter

 Happy Easter weekend!

I don’t send Easter cards, but I do love Spring and all the nature bursting with new life and colour.

Don’t we all love Daffodils?

So here’s a birthday card, background an old SU paper,

with some adorable Dies from Gummiapan….

Love the circle sentiment, and the cute daffodils and bow were coloured with SU blend pens.

The pink strip is a snippet of the reversed paper.

Have a great weekend 

Lesley

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Rudolph Day March is on

 I’m trying to get ahead with Christmas cards, and what better inspiration than

Rudolph Days Challenges

This is where we share our makes on 25th of the month,

although you do have until the end of the month to enter.

This month I’m delighted to share as a guest designer 😊

I made some backgrounds (more of that another day!), using glitter embossing paste.

I added some inked stencilling to the “wall” for added depth.

I’ve added some birds, which I thought was appropriate to include, as the Red Admiral set was a kind gift from Maureen who ran this challenge for many years.

Santa (from Gummiapan) is either having a rest, or has lost his Reindeer 🤔 😃

Happy Rudolph Day!

Also sending this in to Peace on Earth challenge, and

NBUS challenge #60….Never before used Santa

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Snippets Xmas tree

 Hey there, I’m here with my homework for the Snippets Playground challenge #476

where anything goes as long as you use up your snippets.

You may want to make a cup of tea now, or afterwards…….

It took me the equivalent of a whole day to make 🙄😂

Why? I hear you say!……

Well, I die cut  a few trees, and lots of little ornaments, tinsel,  and a few star toppers from glitter paper.

The rug was the easy bit…..I’d forgotten how difficult it is to glue onto glitter card,

plus the ornaments and tinsel are sooooo tiny :-

Here’s some of the snippets used…

I remembered to take pics this time 😃

It then took me some time to find a sentiment I was happy with, except I wanted to add some glitter.

So, die cut a snippet of gold, then gutted it so that I could put the sentiment on top of the gap with some teeny foam pads,  and then would stick together better.

It worked, but really?! Talk about make it hard work 😂

I then took more pics so you can see how glittery it is….hopefully 😊

and just in case you forgot where I started…

So after all that effort, I hope to get an A+ at the Snippets Playground,

and because it’s full of bling I’m just in time to enter the

Jingle bells rock challenge

and the Allsorts Challenge which is clean and simple and / or anything.

Phew I now need to lie down in a darkened room, before I use up all those snippets left over!

Thanks for listening 

Lesley

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P.s. the Gummiapan dies are 🤩 brilliant

Birthday cards

 Hi there, I thought I’d share the lovely hand made cards I received recently….

(I belong to some crafty groups, hence so many)

A huge thank you to everyone 🤗

I am so lucky!

Enjoy your day!

Lesley

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From the Toolbox

 I recently got some of the Trusty Tools paper from SU, 

which I knew would be easy to fussy cut. 

I found lots of card ideas, from the many generous and talented designers that share them.

The following were cased from Helen Read, All Things Stampy…

Do visit her blog for more inspiration.

I hope you have a good weekend

Lesley

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Detailed snowflake

 I’m on a mission to use up some of my older stash, 

and at the same time use some of my new “toys” that have been waiting to come out to play.

My aim is to make more Christmas cards each month, to avoid the rush,

and I wanted to make some quick and simple ones using these two Dies.

Here I’ve used the negative of the circle die, which I’m hoping works?

The snowflake has lovely detail, so I cut some different coloured snippets of glittery paper.

The circular greeting was cut from the middle of some old cards meant for Iris folding.

I’ve kept the positive die cut for later, along with snippets from the card blanks.

The pieces with the apertures can be used for sentiments etc.

So I’m using some card stock that would otherwise probably just stay in the drawer.

Some had a separate piece with the the aperture, so I used the card blank,

and some I just cut them in half and used them as a layer.

The tree snippet above will appear at a later date :)

Here’s the small batch.

I’ve also got a rule that they’re not put away until I’ve stamped an insert,

which is a time saver when it comes to writing in them!

I’m skipping over to the Snippets Playground with this homework,

so do visit the treehouse to check out the prize bundle, and see all the inspiration.

I’m also taking this to Darnell’s NBUS as both these little dies are never before used schtuff!

Lesley

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Spring sunshine

 I’m back with a few more cards using Spring Garden in different ways.

This is possibly the last of my layering stencil obsession cards….for now at least!

I used a couple more of my textured backgrounds.

Just love the Bermuda Bay blend pens with Parakeet Party.

You can colour the stamp in with anything …..

Next up…..leave it white!

I just did a bit of shading with yellow and green ink and pens.

I inked the sentiment background with a brush to make it pop more.

And finally…..no line version….using the layering stencils on their own..

I backed the sentiment with a snippet to match the card blank

I hope the sun shines wherever you are…

Lesley

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Brightened our day….

 A recent visit to Bodiam Castle….cute alert!

Lesley

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More lovely layers

 I made some more cards using the layering stencils of Enduring Beauty,

and some more stencilled backgrounds with the shimmery paste…

The weather has been so dismal but here’s hoping for brighter days very soon!

I walked in the pouring rain to our mobile library that visits the village once a fortnight.

The books all have thick plastic covers, but I took extra plastic bags just in case!

It’s a marvellous service, and I’m trying to persuade 

as many of my local book loving friends as possible to join in. 

You know what they say…..use it or lose it…!

Lesley

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