Delightful Duo

Hello, how's it going?

Hope your weekend is off to a good start.

Here's a delightful duo of projects Liz brought us recently

Cute card for many occasions

using the postage stamp and bow builder punches

with lots of splatters

This gorgeous hanging ornament made from clay

impressed with stamped images

sooooo cute!

Huge Thanks to Liz for these 

Hope the sun shines wherever you are

Lesley

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Magic Slider

Morning!

Here's what I'm sharing today

I did this at a recent gathering,

and it's a bit of a challenge, I can tell you! 

 It's a pocket.....

pull out the slider....

and the stamped picture goes from black n white to colour

See, it's MAGIC!

Well, it's not magic really, just clever.....

and don't ask me 'how'

it's hard enufff to explain in person!

(for me anyways!)

Have a MAGIC weekend!

Lesley

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February Rudolph Day

Hello again

thanks for dropping by.

Today is 25th of the month

and that means Rudolph Day Challenge,

which in turn means making more christmas cards!

Here's my attempts with a stamp set and die 

that I won at the Snippets Playground

(I shall go and play on the swings while the hound is asleep!)

This poor snowman had an argument with his hat!

This one had an argument with his arms!

This one is better......

well, my excuse is that I was trying to incorporate the inlaid dies technique

at the same time.........not a good idea with all his 'bits'!

Perhaps I can pretend children made them?!

Sort of got the hang of it in the end,

and if nothing else I know he'll make you smile!

Have a Wonderful Wednesday!

Snippets Playground

Happy Monday!

Hope you all had a splendid weekend,

and that your week will be full of things you like to do.

I've been trying to make cards in every spare minute,

and here's one that's used lots of snippets,

so I'll hop over to the Snippets Playground later......

as long as the guard dog lets me in of course!

I embossed a snippet of red card

with a folder I won at the Playground,

cut it to approx 1/3rd and mounted on foam pads,

but before I stuck it down,

I stamped three trees from white snippets

and stuck them top and bottom,

to hold the red together.

Snippets of glimmer paper for stars,

snippets of gems, and some gold wink of luna,

and there you have it!

See ya later!

Lesley

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Fab Friday 58

Decided to enter a couple of challenges, 

whilst making some.......shhhh xmas cards....

Here's a sketch from Fab Friday Challenge

I'm hoping it doesn't have to be a circle, and that my tree is ok?

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Then the 52 Christmas Card challenge had this theme

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and The Male Room challenge is

to create your own background paper

so I'm hoping this is masculine enough too!

Phew!

It definitely has sequins and pearls!

which I used glitter glue to adhere, as the glue always oozes out

(some pearls on the tree are hard to see,

 and the snowflake atop the tree is a sequin isn't it?)

I did create the background,

using a lovely sentiment set I won at the Snippets Playground.

I stuck 'em all on my clear block, then stamped a couple of times

to cover my card blank.

Added some stars randomlike too!

I also dry embossed the red card with part of my win too,

does that count as creating your own background?

Anyhow, it's all a bit of fun,

and I'm hoping I'll get the hang of the rooooools the more I 'play'!

Gotta dash off to enter now..........

hope you are having a relaxing Sunday....

Lesley

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Hidden Happy

I love this technique.

Camouflage.

Sarn showed us a simple but stunning stamped one recently,

and suggested I try it with paper, which I did here

This was for a nephew growing up fast.

Great masculine card, few candy dots to add interest.

Happy Friday

Lesley

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Inlaid dies

I tried experimenting with the Inlaid Die Technique

The idea is to have a flat card by laying or piecing back in altered die cuts,

that have been stamped, or in this case patterned paper ones

Thursday Thanks

Lesley

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