Tea or Gin?

 Today’s little offering is an ATC made with some of the new SU

Celebratory Sips designer series paper.

I used an offcut of zesty orange cardstock, an unused white circle die cut,

and fussy cut images from a strip of one of the papers with teeny tiny images.

I stamped a background with SU Itty Bitty greetings, added a strip of the same card 

and a sentiment from my stash that was embossed in white on black card.

It’s only 2.5” x 3.5” , the standard for an ATC

I’m entering the Tag-along and ATC’s challenge (Drinks…..here it’s definitely Gin cocktails, not Tea!)

MyNBUS #75 as the paper that is new to me,

Also Little Red Wagon, as there’s a little heat embossing on the black sentiment strip

I’ve used lots of snippets, so do head over to the Snippets Playground too

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Simple arch cards for the boys

 Sometimes we need quick and simple ideas for our cards,

so I made these using die cut arches, paper, and a few stamps.

For products used, see the labels list 😃

Have a great day

Lesley

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Tag along

 Hello again, today I’m sharing a tag I made using Yuletide Village from SU.

I bought it late last year, so I wanted to use it for a lot of my Christmas cards and tags this year.

I sometimes buy a set for the following year so I can get a head start, 

and we all know how nice it is to play with something new.

I stamped the houses, then masked them to add “snow”.

Coloured them in with Blend pens, added wink of Stella to the white snow areas.

I then tied some ribbons and twine through the hole, 

adding a die cut piece of silver foiled paper to the die cut tag. 

(Old tag die, can’t remember the name)

It’s quite a large tag that is good for large or family gifts.

I’m entering Tag-along and ATC’s, 

using the Anything goes option, but I hope to return with a themed one soon 😃, based on tea or gin!

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 Wishes

 Hi, today I’m sharing a card for a couple of favourite challenges.

I am loving Stampin’ Up! Arch dies, and coordinating stamp Arched Wishes.

This was simply stamped (stamping is what makes me happy),

I added a few sequins to some of the letters, and used a snippet of the leftover dotty paper,

to stamp, fussy cut, and fold, intending to look like a paper case.

It didn’t work quite as well as planned, and now I worry what it looked like for the recipient,

having gone through the postal system, as it may have got squished 😳😂🙄🙈

Entering :

Snippets Playground #508

Allsorts Challenge #825 

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Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Bluebirds fancy fold

 Hello, today I’m sharing a card made some time ago, a winter birthday, 

I think it was inspired by Emma Goddard of Coastal Crafter, but have seen this fold elsewhere.

It is images fussy cut from the Nests of Winter DSP, and a couple of white embossed panels.

Below it’s (almost) closed for posting.

Taking this to the Allsorts Challenge #824 where they are celebrating 16years

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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