New Home

 HI All, yes it's me again already, ans it not even 2 weeks since my last post 🤣. I've had a busy evening trying to get these cards finished for my mum's neighbour and trying to get ready for work tomorrow.  I'm back to my workplace in Belfast for the first time since last February so it will all feel very strange!!  

Anyway on to my cards... This first one was a super easy and super quick one.  The sentiment was from a never-used-newly-discovered set that I won such a long time ago, so I'm glad to get one of them inked!

I also used a new bit of kit on this.  i was very lucky to win a challenge over at Allsorts and got a voucher for Stamp Addicts - normally if I win some ££s I like to try something I wouldn't normally buy, so I treated myself to this Perfect Layers thingy.  I don't have a straight eye in my head so i think it's possibly one of the best tools I've ever used! 

AAA cards #200 - celebrate

Sweet Stampers #60 - stripes +/or dots 

CASology #396 - view - I've always fancied going up in a hot air balloon, the view must be lovely though I'm not so good with heights so maybe it wouldn't be such a good idea after all hahaha

And this second card uses an MFT Christmas set I bought aound this time last year; the sentiment is a real oldie, from one of the first LOTV sets I bought.  I stencilled in the grass and clouds bu could have been a bit more generous with my blue ink!

Retro Rubber Challenge #168 - tic-tac-toe - I used green / trees / punch

A sparkly new home

 Hi all!  Just a wee quickie card from me this evening.  Well, when I say 'quick' this was version #3 before it satisfied me, so there was nothing quick about it really! 

I won these stamps an eon ago from Taylored Expressions - they belong to a set with a big tree die that never cut right on my slightly warped Cuttlebug plates, so I never actually used the stamps before! 

The sentiment is from an old Simon Says Stamp set - if I was making this again I would centre the words more over the house.  Gloss and glitter added to the red heart and house.

Oh, and just to share, here's the duds that hit the recycling pile ...

As You Like It - favourite tip - I love to use gloss+glitter on my cards and use a little cocktail stick to sprinkle the glitter into the gloss.  It's a great way to limit escaped sparkle as you're only really aiming it at the wet gloss, the little bit of excess can just be brushed off when dry. 

Allsorts #629 - anything goes

Addicted to CAS #200 - sun

Home is where your heart is

My sister moved to a lovely brand new house today, so we'd a busy morning giving her a wee hand and this is the card I've made to send her.
I've used my MFT town die, cut in silver mirri card and added in a few heart sequins and some silver stars.

It took ages to make such a simple card!  Effort #1 ended up in the un-salvageable bin pile and then I couldn't decide what DP to use and then what colour to cut my houses.

• Layout from MFT Wednesday sketch #425
• Your Next Stamp Fun Friday #108 - seeing stars
• Addicted to Stamps #329 - clean and simple
• Simply Create Too #146 - hearts

Get Well and a New Home

Oh Brrrrr it's been such a cold day today and there's a hard freeze on out there this eve, I've got my cosy Xmas PJs on but reckon I need to hit the Sales for some new cosy slippers as my feet are freezing!  I shouldn't complain though when you look at the snow across the pond in America and Canada!

For my get well card I've used this sweet little piggy and fab sentiment from MFT.  No colouring on this card, I paper pieced the little pink guy and gave him some googly eyes.

• Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club MFTWSC365
• That's Crafty - anything goes
• Through the Craft Room Door - anything goes

And here's another CAS card, again with no colouring (unless you count colouring my pink fence and heart with my glitter pen!) 

Stamps from an old Taylored Expressions set.  Central panel popped up on foam pads.

• Penny Black and More December - CAS
• Sugar Pea Designs Mix it Up SPDMIU38 - anything goes
• AAA Cards #105 - sparkle

Home Sweet Home

I thought I'd add this card nice and early today ... it's a beautiful sunny morning and I've lots planned for today
First up is Rubydoo, she's definitely overdue a bath, so that will be a snatch and grab or else she scarpers!  Then get a wash on for the doggy towels and bedding, clean the bathroom, dye my hair, get some weeding done, wash the car, and suff my bake in between with Sunday dinner.  That's the general plan anyway, will we take bets how many I get done ;)

This card uses an oldie from Unity stamps, coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to the windows and cars.  Sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp set.  I think I'm addicted to this splattering, I love the effect it can give to a CAS card!

• Addicted to stamps #254 - CAS
• Addicted to CAS - one layer
• Happy Little Stampers August - watercolour challenge
• Less is More #341 - One layer + vehcile (I might be stretching the challenge with this one, but there's actually 2 vehicles on my card LOL)
• Stamping Sensations August - anything goes

Happy NEW year :)

Pinch, punch, it's the first of the month!  Happy New Year -  here's to a fab 2017!   We're celebrating all things new with our challenge over at Naughty or Nice - hope you'll get out your new stamps, new gadgets or try a new technique and play along.

For my card, I've used Lewis and Trudy's Wild Ride from Eat Cake Graphics and a cityscape die from Paper Smooches. 

• Stamp Ink Paper #79 - anything but Christmas
• Creative Inspirations #265 - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
• Word Art Wednesday #262/3 - anything goes
• Cute Card Thursday #458 - anything goes
• Time Out #73 - inspired by words - I used the 'new beginnings' bit

Hugs and Homes

Eeek, I can't believe it's the 19th already and I still only have 1 present bought!  I'm hoping to get myself sorted with a list and scoop them all on Friday, fingers crossed!

This card used this cute image from Eat Cake Graphics - Hadley and kitty give Buddy a big hug
Coloured with watercolour pencils and clear gloss added to the critters noses and their collars.  Hugs sentiment from Paper Smooches.

• Layout from Mojo Monday #474
• CASology #224 - embrace
• Creatalicious #103 - anything goes

Day 19 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

This one's just a wee quickie.  I re-found this old stamp set from Taylored Expressions when I was looking for other stuff :)  I just stamped it in black ink and added clear gloss and red glitter to the hearts.  Sentiment from Simon Says Stamp.

• Curtain Call November - home is where the heart is
• My time to craft #334 - no layers
• Crafty Catz #347 - anything goes with the option to use red
• Tuesday Throwdown #320 - add gems

Rubydoo and a New Home

Brrrr it's been a cold chilly day today.  I'd big plans to get out to the garden again, but after our walk in the park this morning I was foundered!  A wee Saturday afternoon snooze with Ruby went down much better ;)

A few of my lovely bloggy buddies commented on how my new doggy stamp looked like little Ruby, so I've 'coloured' this one in Ruby colours!  I watercoloured my base first, then splattered more purple, and then popped the dog and the balloon up on dimensionals.  Clear gloss and loads of gold glitter added for lots of sparkle.  I wasn't sure how this card was going to turn out, but once I added the gold peel off sentiment it looked 'finished' so I stepped away and let it be, and I love how it turned out :)

• My general design was inspired by the Happy Little Stampers Case the Designer November challenge -> here's Kylie's original.
• Purple and gold colour theme from Less is More #301
• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #71 - watercolour
• Daisy Chain #2 - glitter
• Day 5 of the Daily Marker 30 day colouring challenge

I had this lovely housey DP in my sash (was a bargain bought in the Range) and thought it would go well with this older Simon Says Stamp set.  Coloured with watercolour pencils; clear gloss added to the windows and some sparkle with my glitter pen to the door and roof.

• Simon Says Stamp Work it Wednesday October - use SSS branded product
• Layout from Sketch Saturday #437
• CASology #222 - welcome
• Tic-Tac-Toe #21 - I chose home / twine / gems

New Home

We had the most beautiful spring day today ... bit nippy but lovely and fresh and bright.  I was full of the joys, and got some of the garden sorted and the car washed ... we've had such a wet winter and it's been aaages since I washed the car, there was actually algae starting to grow on it!  Disgraceful!  ;)  I'm knackered now and my muscles are starting to object a bit, though if I can keep my peepers open, I'll be glued to the Carl Frampton boxing match later.

This stamp set is one of the reasons why I rarely get rid of any of my stamps!  I don't think I've ever used this row of houses before but I love it!  .... its from a kit from Unity (I think) that I won quite a few years ago.  Coloured with watercolour pencils, and watercolour inks for BG.  I wish I'd coloured my sky out more to the edges, but the cloud die was an afterthought and I'm not convinced it wouldn't have been better without it!  Clear gloss added to the windows and some bling to finish.

• Addicted to CAS #82 - Home
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
• Tuesday Throwdown TT282 - create your own background
• Whimsy Stamps #91 - anything goes

Day 27 of the Daily Marker colouring challenge

New Home card

How is it that sometimes you're motoring along and making lots of stuff you're pleased with, and then all of a sudden your mojo just vanishes??  This is effort #3 for a new home card, and I can't say I'm overly delighted with it!  No time left though, so it will have to do.

I think my problems began when I couldn't think what image to use.  I only have 1 new home set but it wasn't suitable as the person this is for is an older lady who's going into a retirement home so I didn't want to use an image of a house.
Anyway, I ended up using this cutie from Lili of the Valley, think the sentiment postmark may also be from them.  Coloured with watercolour pencils and Wink of Stella added to the flowers.

• Layout from The Challenge #54
  
• Less is More #253 - blue and green
• Pixie's Snippets Playground #206
• Tuesday Throwdown #272 - cute and cuddly

Home Sweet Home

I was lucky enough to win a recent Sketch Saturday challenge, and the prize was a voucher to Simon Says Stamp.  This pretty heart border die was one of the goodies I picked :)
My image is an older SSS stamp - coloured with watercolour pencils.  I kinda stamped it a tad wonky, so it looks like there's a bit of subsidence LOL ;)  Door and windows popped up on dimensionals.

#simonsaysstamp

• Layout from Sweet Sunday #255
• 613 Avenue Create #110 - anything goes / colour bingo - I've managed to use most of the colours on the grid except purple!
• CAS-ual Fridays CFC136 - watercolour
• Simply Create Too #78 - Valentine or Hearts
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - H is for ... Hearts and Home

New Home #2

Quickie post now, it's movie night and Greg's getting impatient!  Tonight's viewing is Argo - gets good reviews and sure a movie's always worth a look if the lovely Ben Affleck's in it ;)

It's another Two-Fer tonight, just adding to my New Home stash! I've used an oldie from a much loved Stampin' Up set.  Added a gem to the flower and to the hearts, and clear gloss to the windows.  Coloured my scalloped edge and flower to match my hearts.  Sky and grass chalked in.  Silver peel off sentiment - I didn't have enough room for it, so had to add it as a separate strip.

Layout from Sketch Saturday #331 - though I've just noticed my darker panel should have went all the way to the edge.
Whimsy Stamps challenge #76 - anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned paper challenge - October
Oldie but a Goodie - 1 image, 2 DPs. 3 finishing touches (my wee banners)
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

New Home #1

I had happy mail today when the postie delivered a lovely MME paper pad that I won from Stacey's blog. It's been calling to me all day to have a wee play, shame housework has to get in the way!  :)

I was asked recently for a new home card and used this older set from Simon Says Stamp - Where the heart is.  I paper pieced all elements on my wee house, and then I took a deep breath and stamped my sentiment directly onto my card ... and made an absolute hash of it.  Arragh!  So I just stamped it out again and stuck another over the top.  Looks OK, but just not how I imagined it!

Layout from the Deconstructed Sketch #172
Papertake Weekly - anything goes
Create Something Catchy #8 - one card, one stampset
Sister Act #78 - anything goes

Home is Where Your Heart is

I was delighted to see that one of my favourite stampers, Debby4000 is this week's featured stamper over at Splitcoast.  I could happily CASE Debby's cards till the cows come home, and the hardest thing was choosing which one I was going for!  In the end I went for this fab card ... I used a different city die (mines from Paper Smooches) and added some doodling and an extra wee heart coming out of one of the chimneys.
As you can see, I loved Debby's card so much I didn't change an awful lot!!

Happy New Home

Wow, how did it get to be the last day of June already - this year is whizzing past!  I suppose I should get a move on with my Christmas cards ... sum total so far = 1, I'm not sure what happened to the master plan to make a few every month ;)

This card is for a friend who moved away a few months back and is now moving to a new house - she's a wee bit homesick, so I thought I'd make her a cheery card for her new home.

I've based it on Jennifer's fab card over at the Muse Challenge #74.  My wee house is from a Simon Says Stamp set, and Sm Sunnie from High Hopes.  Coloured with pencils and some red stickles added to the heart on the house.  I thought it needed something so I splattered some pink paint to the white base and hey presto!!  Oh and of course some googly eyes, who doesn't love googly eyes?!

Simon Says Stamp Monday - W is for White
Addicted to CAS #41 - sun
Sister Act #63 - anything goes

New Home

Hmmm, DP overload methinks!  That's what you get when you use up all your bits and pieces on the one card. Ha.
I also didn't plan out my sentiment properly and kinda ran out of room for it.  Oops.

Image/sentiment from Simon Says Stamp - Where the heart is - coloured with pencils and black glitter added to the window sills and hearts.

• Simon Says Wednesday challenge - celebrate Stampember with Simon Says product
• Layout from Sketch and Stash #121
• Tammy's Scrappin Corner #80 - anything goes
• Oldie but a Goodie - dies and punches

Krafty New Home

I needed a new home card, so was delighted to see this week's Muse challenge (pic below) was the perfect inspiration!
My house wasn't as cute and sweet as Therese's, nor was my tag, so I added a bit of red glitter to brighten all that Kraft paper.

Muse challenge #34
CAS on Sunday #16 - welcome home
Totally Gorjuss #200 - anything goes
Penny's challenge #143 - spooled items
Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Home is where your heart is

I won this stamp set from Simon Says Stamp ages ago, don't use it very often, but when I do I love it!  Lots of paper piecing on this card, and absolutely NO colouring :)  Couldn't get a decent pic of it though, it's much nicer IRL!

sketch from MFT Wednesday Sketch Club
Sister Act #2 - anything goes
Creative Inspirations #209 - anything goes with optional heart
Stamping Sensations April challenge - special occasions