Christmas baubles

Evening all, how are we today?   We had a grey damp old day here, but such a beautiful sky at sunset.  I think we were totally spoiled there with a few weeks of sunshine, hopefully that wasn't summer!

I finally got round to making another Christmas card.  At the start of lockdown I'd thought I'd get a good headstart but it hasn't quite gone to plan.
I think the thing I love most about card making is the colouring in and will happily spend a few hours in front of the telly with my pencils on a cutie like this :)   No new stash shopping for me so this stamp is an oldie from Marianne Designs that I first used back in 2012!

• Layout from CAS Colours and Sketches #368
• Tuesday Throwdown #456 - doodle something (my borders)
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
• Your Next Stamp #137 - stripes

Brushos Effort

Yippeee for Friday! The beers are chillin in the fridge ready for an outing to our friends so it's just a quickie post tonight. ☺☺☺

I finally joined the bandwagon and got myself some brushos, so this is the first effort.  Not sure if it entirely works on this or not, but here it is anyway!  Reckon I'll be studying some tutorials over the weekend ;)

• Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club #322
• Happy Little Stampers Watercolour challenge March 
• Word Art Wednesday #272/273 - anything goes
• Creative Knockouts #183 - dies or punches

Day 3 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

New Stash

It was a bit of an icky day today, so no gardening for me, my housework was all done, so I treated myself to a load of crafting!  These are all from my haul from Bunny Zoe's Crafts sale, I know it looks like I had a massive spending spree but I think it all came to about £25!  Though I also had a bit of a spree at the new Range shop that's just opened and added to my stash of papers!  Oops ;)

This one uses this sweet image from Marianne Designs.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and popped up on dimensionals.  Spellbinders sentiment frame and some blue enamel dots.

• Layout based on the sketch over at Pals Paper Arts #322
• Creatalicious #101 - anything goes
• Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper challenge - October

Card 2 uses this new doggy stamp from Wags and Whiskers .... as if I didn't have enough doggy stamps already LOL!
I've based it on this week's featured stamper challenge at Splitcoast - here's Jaydee's fab original.

Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Balloon covered with my clear sparkle pen and then clear gloss.  Red enamel dots add to his hat.  Nice and simple!

• Dream Valley #142 - one for the boys
• Seize the Birthday anything goes

And finally, this one uses my new stamp from Nellie Snellen.  I paper pieced her cactus and flower, and added sparkle and clear gloss to her feathers.  I kinda wish I'd stamped her a bit lower down, she looks a bit floaty!

Fancy frame for my sentiment is an oldie die from Dienamics.

• Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club #301
• Sweet Stampin - spots and or stripes
• CASual Friday #158 - 8 of something (my bling)
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - explore the world - I'm off to America! 
• 613 Avenue Create #190 - green and gold

Right, that's me.  I'll be oogling the gorgeous Mr Poldark for the next hour in case you're looking for me ;)  And if you don't watch it, here's what you're missing!