Funny Bunny

Urgh, Sunday evenings come round waaaaay too quickly!   We've had another glorious sunny day, but so cold ... we were at the park this morning (even our local duck pond had a layer of ice on it), Mum's for dinner, a wee afternoon of crafting, then back down to Mum's again for tea and a play with my nephew and niece.  Back home and now in my PJs and a nice evening's viewing on the telly.  What a lovely relaxing day!

I've had another play with my Paper Smooches stamps - popped my sentiment and bunny up on dimensionals and added clear gloss to his eyes and teeth.  Blue gems added for a wee bit of sparkle.

Colour theme from Paper Smooches SPARKS cool shades challenge
Totally Papercrafts #155 - hope for Spring
Allsorts #195 - animals
Papertake Weekly - buttons and/or bling
Tuesday Alchemy #50 - hearts and/or wings
Penny's Challenge #115 - anything goes
Cute Card Thursday #257 - simplify

CAS Doggy

Oh BRRRRRR it's such a cold evening here.  We've  had flakes of snow falling all day (not enough to lie) and a real hard freeze tonight.  Where did Spring disappear to?   Ruby loves it though when the grass is frozen and crunchy ... has a good roll in it and goes a bit daft.  Silly dog.

This doggy is from an old Artemo set - stamped him on my white CS, popped another layer up on dimensionals and then his head again.  Sentiment and wee heart (with added red stickles) from Paper Smooches.  Wee silver domed stickers from stash.

Sketch from Clean and Simple Stamping #229
CAS-ual Friday CFC91 - Hi Ho Silver
Less is More #108 - paper piercing
Penny's Challenges #115 - anything goes
Cute Card Thursday #257 - simplify

High Hopes challenge #164

This week's challenge at High Hopes is to use

Grey or Silver

So you can use grey or silver as your base colours, or simply pick out some elements in your card ... I've coloured my wee dog grey and added some silver eyelets!  Easy peasy!

My card uses some oldie stamps from High Hopes - Time Well Spent (coloured with pencils and glitter added to highlights in the water) and  Gone Fishin sentiment (minus the fish as I ran out of room!)

Hope you'll play along with your High Hopes stamps .... if you're not in you can't win LOL!

Other Challenges....
Layout from Deconstructed Sketches #89
Cute Card Thursday #256 - an eye for detail (my silver eyelets)
My Time to Craft #209 - men only
Oldie but a Goodie - bright colours
A Gem of a Challenge #67 - dies and punches

Xmas Card #4

Heee, another lovely Spring day and another Christmas card from me! This one uses an older High Hopes stamp ... Snowy Portrait.  Coloured with pencils, scarf and hat popped up on dimensionals; glitter added to hat band and scarf, and clear gloss to the rest of his hat and nose.
Marianne Design poinsettia dies and Lili of the Valley postmark.
Memory Box border die.

Layout from Christmas Challenges with Sketches #60
Charisma Cardz #6 - anything goes
Sparkles Christmas Challenge #25 - anything goes
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra (Feb) - anything Christmas

Xmas card #3

We had a lovely Spring-like day today, no sun, but no rain!  I even got my washing out on the line for the first time in months, and the birdies are tweeting like mad.

So, I thought I'd plough on with my Christmas cards (work that logic out LOL!)  This stamp is Ski Bum Snowy from High Hopes, coloured with pencils and flower soft added to his hat.
Marianne Design and Memory Box dies.

Layout from Merry Monday #49
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge #112 - snow
Party Time Tuesdays #107 - 3 and 3 (I used 3 DPs)
Tuesday Throwdown #134 - anything goes
CRAFT #194 - Christmas in February
Charisma Cardz #6 - anything goes
Winter Wonderland - Christmas card
Sparkles Forum Christmas Challenge #25 - anything goes

Happy Anniversary

I'm just watching a fascinating programme on Ch4 about our crappy weather last year.  The UK had the wettest year ever - it started raining in April and basically forgot to stop!  Having said that, we'd the most beautiful winter's day today, nice and crisp and cold.  But guess what's on the forecast for tomorrow? .... yip, rain!

I'm going to be making more of my cards using pencils to colour in as markers have got to be so expensive, and times are tight!  So I've plenty of practice to get in!

This card uses a lovely Lily of the Valley stamp - I added the heart from a Paper Smooches set, but wish I hadn't as the lines on that image are a lot thicker than the main image.  Sentiment is an oldie from Elzybells (now closed)

Sketch and Love theme from Tuesday Morning sketches #185
Papertake Weekly - hearts and flowers
Top Tip Tuesday - let me call you sweetheart
My top tip .... if you don't have the right colour of cardstock to frame your image, use some plain white and just colour the edge in your desired colour with a marker (I've used a dark olive copic here)
Inky Chicks #3 - Valentine or Anniversary
Lili's Little Fairies - a touch of romance
There She Goes #194 - flowers

Get Well with Lemonade!

Our new challenge at High Hopes this week is

Two by Two

(two people or animals)
Play along with your High Hopes stamps to win a new one of your choice!
(Oh, and if you're on Facebook, come join our High Hopes group here)

My card uses an oldie stamp - Drink Lemonade.  I always think this image is a good one for get well cards.  Don't ya just love the expression on the wee ant's face holding up the other dude, he's obviously heavier than he looks!
Coloured with copics and orange stickles added to the straw and to the orange on the side of the glass.
Paper Smooches sentiment.


Other Challenges:

Colour theme from Annabelle Stamps AC156
Layout and drinks theme inspired by Muse Challenge #4
Stampin for the Weekend - something metal (I've used staples)
CRAFT #193 - get well
Copic Marker Europe #13 - anything goes with copic markers