Rainbow Warrior

 HI all!  Sunday evening already, how quickly the weeks whip in.  I can hardly believe how quickly the evenings are darkening, I don't think I'm ready to see them yet!!  We had a good dry weekend so got out to get the weeds tackled before the weather changes, lawn moved and summer baskets emptied, so we're looking nice and tidy at the minute.

Anyway I've a wee fun card this eve, I love to colour this dude from Tracey Hey.  I've popped his head up on foam pads and added some highlights of gloss and glitter.  I've also used some gold lines from my neverending sticker stash and the top coloured panels are from my scraps pile.

 Layout and rainbow theme from Inspired By #186

Time Out#196 - Brave

Pixies Snippets Playground challenge #411 - it's a Ruby's Memory challenge and there's a fab prize up for grabs which is perfect for your Halloween cards.  It's easy to play along, just use up some of your scrap papers and join in the fun! 😃

Simon Says Stamp Monday- Stamp it

A rainbow lion

Evening all, hope you're all well!  We've had a fab run of sunny weather here, but it's all going to change for tomorrow and it feels like we need a good rattle of thunder to clear the air.  A humid 25degrees is the very last thing my fuzzy hair needs!  Poor Rubydoo has just been spending her time searching for shade in the garden or digging out the border to get to the cool soil! Bad girl!  She's off to the groomers tomorrow, I dread to think how much dirt is going to come out of her! At least we'll get our moneys worth out of her haircut!  I'm tempted to ask him to have a go at my own LOL

This little Tracey Hey lion definitely looks like he's been at the hair dye ;)    Coloured with polychromos and some sparkle added to his headband and the markings on his face.  The die in the background is an oldie from Gummiapan that for some reason is seldom used.  My snazzy DP kinda does a lot of the work here and makes it look more complicated than it acutally is!

• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
• Craftyhazelnuts patterned paper challenge June 2020
• Sweet Stampers #44 - animals/birds

Dancing hippos and a big scary lion

It's not very often I make a card that I really REALLY love but this is one of them!  It was  bit of a faff in the making and went through several transitions and colour combos before we got to the finished effort!

I've used my little hippos (from Clearly Besotted) - popped up on foam pads and a couple of layers of sparkle added to their tutus.  Pink heart sequin and gems from stash.

I recently bought some stencilling brushes after a bit of debate.  I had kinda wondered if they were really the big whoop that they seemed to be .... and I wish I'd bought them ages ago!!

• I flipped the layout from CAS Colours and Sketches #355
• Time Out #154 - affectionate
• Addicted to CAS #177 - ombre

And here I've used this fab lion from Tracey Hey Alpaca Pals.  Though it's a lesson in planning your card before you get stamping as I ran out of room for my lion and I had to post him with his tail folded back!  If I'd had any sense, I would have stamped the 'be a warrior' further down in that great big space ;)

• Word Art Wednesday #424-425 - anything goes
• Penny Black and More February - animals, birds and butterflies

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

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

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 

A two-fer

I've discovered new-to-me stamps - Alpaca Pals by Tracey Hey and I'm in love!! So of course I had to go on a wee spending spree ;)

This little dude was first in my shopping basket.  I'm not entirely sure if he's a cat or a lion, but I suppose he can be whatever I want!! I actually managed to use up some of my rainbow washi tape - if I was being picky I'd point out that that rainbow only has 6 colours!

Lion coloured with polychromos; clear gloss + glitter added to his cheeks and headband, and gloss to the little feathers.  Clear gems from stash.

• Time Out #143 - I chose the rainbow theme
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - S is for Stripes
• As you like it - favourite way to add text - mines using stamps. I don't have a printer, I've only a few sentiment dies and my writing is awful, so it's really my only other option!

And here's Mum's calendar page for September.  It's a much simpler affair - I think I only used 6 pencils on this one as opposed to my entire arsenal on the last one LOL

Silver September sticker; pink metallic heart sequins; and again gloss/glitter on his cheeks and headband

• Your Next Stamp #121 - anything but a card
• Less is More #401 - metallics
• Addicted to CAS #167 - pink and purple