October calendar and a pink wedding

We had a lovely bright sunny day today - a great day for getting my washing dried outside and ousting the dust bunnies from inside!  So as I was a good busy girl all day I'd no qualms about getting crafty all evening ;)  I had a serious loss of mojo recently (too busy in work combined with a stinker of a cold) so it was good to get colouring again.

 Here's Mum's calendar page, actually early for a change!  I've used my little bee again from Tracey Hey at Alpaca Pals - it's hard to remember sometimes what stamps I've used on her calendar pages so I usually use my most recent one!  Coloured with polychromos - glitter added to his wings and gloss to his nose and to the hearts.  Background chalked up with my hexagon stencil.

• Penny Black and More September - animals
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - stitch it
• Papercraft challenge #46 - no design paper

This one is a special request - and yes, I have checked that Alex is a girl LOL

I've used my good old Lily of the Valley stamp - coloured with polychromos and clear gloss added to her roses.

If I was making this again I would have moved the 'congratulations' down a wee hair, my spacing isn't quite right.  Silver hearts from stash.

• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Aug/Sept - celebrate
• Moving along with the Times #107 - wedding
• Word Art Wednesday #405-407 - anything goes

Snowman and a tipsy penguin

Say Hello to my new favourite snowman!   I'd been watching out for something to use for my unmounted stamps on my stamping platform, so when I spied this one at Purple Onion Designs I couldn't resist adding the Jolly Snowman to my basket too!

Coloured with polychromos - clear gloss/glitter added to his nose and I also went over his scarf/pocket with my clear glitter pen so it's all nice and sparkly.  White enamel dots for falling snow.

• The cover of the book at the Library Challenge inspired my blue background and outstretched arms image
• ABC Christmas - S is for Sparkle
• Your Next Stamp Fun Friday - just for fun
• As You Like It - Santa or no Santa - I don't have very many Santas in my stash, and I definitely have waaaay more snowmen.  

This one uses the little penguin and drink/flower from an older MFT set along with their Cheers die.  Coloured with a mixture of watercolour pencils and polychromos.  I added some sparkle to the drinks, clear gems and some white enamel dots.

• MFT Superstar Contest - I'm entering this into the Clean and Simple category
• Layout from Freshly Made Sketches #403

Bee happy

Just a quickie post tonight ... I'm absolutely dosed with the cold and trying to watch Peaky Blinders in between blowing my nose! :(

My mojo is on sick leave too, so I did what I always do when I'm stuck ... go copy someone else!  This one's based on this weeks Splitcoaststampers Featured Stamper - here's Laura's original

I've used my sweet litlte Tracey Hey bee again, coloured with polychromos and popped up on foam pads.

• Simon Says Stamp Monday - stamp it
• Word Art Wednesday #404/405 - anything goes
• Crafty Calendar September - lots of layers
• Love to Scrap #125 - anything goes

From one Elf to Another

I'm in Christmas mode this weekend, and I've been playing with these cute MFT elves.

This first one also uses a Uniko stripey background stamp - I nearly went cross eyed colouring it, and then I decided it was way too much and my wee elf was totally lost in it so covered most of it up with a red strip!

Images coloured with polychromos and popped up on foam pads.
Clear gloss/glitter added to his hat and to the dog's antlers

• Christmas Kickstart #18 - be inspired by their header - I went for the colour and stripey theme
• ABC Christmas - S is for Sparkle
• Layout from AAA Cards #148

And here's another little elf from the same MFT set.  This time I've added a die cut sentiment and snowflakes cut from glitter card, so there's lots of sparkle on this one!

• Through the Craft Room Door Sept3 - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Stamp it
• Addicted to Stamps #357 - make your mark

Some mountains and a Bunny-Bee

I was asked to make a card for a young lad who fundraised for his school all summer by completing a 9-peaks mountain challenge. I was absolutely stumped until I remembered this little mountain range that I won ages back, it might be from Hero Arts but I wouldn't like to swear to it.

For such a simple card it took an absolute age to make and this is version #3!!  I stamped my mountains then masked them off and shadow stamped again.  I'm hoping he will know that it's supposed to be mountains! I was trying to get 9 peaks into my image but think I've only managed 8.  Ah well, he'll hardly notice haha.

• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday Aug/Sept - celebrate
• Cardz 4 guys #227 - celebrate
• Word Art Wednesday #402/403 - anything goes

And here's another one of my new Tracey Hey stamps, awwww so cute!

I've coloured my bunny-bee with polychromos and added clear gloss/glitter to his wings.  I added some hearts from the set and also used my Gummiapan burlap stamp for a faint background.

• Layout from Sketch Saturday #579 - I chose to use #332
• Penny Black and More Sept - animals
• Moving along with the times #105 - things with wings
• Pixie's Snippets Playground #360 - I had the tiniest snip of yellow card left, just enough to cut half a heart, but sure wasn't that just big enough for what I needed LOL