Get Well Kitties

Awww how cute are those little kitties, look at their sweet little faces!  And what would kittens be peeping out at, other than a little mouse in his mousehole ;)

My kittens are from Eat Cake Graphics ...
2048-L Kitties in the window
Sentiment from The Alley Way Stamps and mouse from My Favourite Things - BB I Knead You

Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Wink of Stella added to the kittens' collars for a bit of sparkle.  DP from Lili of the Valley.

• Layout from MFT Wednesday sketch #240
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - tie it up
• Sister Act #118 - anything goes
• Sweet Stampin - anything but a birthday
• ABC challenge - O is for Open
• Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper challenge - August

Merry ChristMoose

I'm on a mission to use up my un-loved DPs in an effort not to buy more!  This lot has been in my stash for a while and seems to be never ending, at this rate it will be about 5 years down the line before I get to buy new Christmas stash ;)

My image and sentiment are from Sugar Pea Designs - coloured with watercolour pencils and some wink of Stella added to his scarf and antlers.
Paper Smooches snowflake die.  White enamel dots for snow and then Frosted Lace stickles for the snow on the ground.

• Layout from Sugar Sketch #28
• Sugar Pea Designs challenge theme SPD18 - Christmas in July
• Hazel's Christmas Card Challenge #241 - something beginning with S (snow)
• Christmas Cards all Year Round August - snowflake
• Whimsy Stamps #85 - Christmas
• Christmas at Sweet Stampin July - Oh Deer
• Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge Extra - August
• Crafty Hazellnut's Patterned Paper Challenge - August

Lewis and Trudy

I do love a good sketch and when I saw the new one at Sweet Sunday I immediately saw the strip at the back as a road!  Think it was maybe because I was looking at this car stamp earlier in the week when I was rooting through my stash.

This is another Eat Cake Graphics stamp:
8016-E Lewis and Trudy's Wild Ride
It's only little, but it's definitely one of my favourites!

Coloured with my watercolour pencils.  I added some Wink of Stella and then some clear gloss to the chrome on the car.  I hadn't intended to add the flowers until I had an incident with my clear gloss that needed covering, but I love how it turned out ... looks like the puppy has his head out the window to sniff the flowers!
I had intended to use a couple of staples to the left of the image, but I've ran out and can't find my refill grrr.  Sentiment from an Alley Way Stamps set.

• Layout from Sweet Sunday #281
• Get creative #20 - monochrome purple
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Stamp Ink Paper #08 - designer's choice
• Inspiration Destination #45 - anything goes
• As You Like It - fur or feathers - I'm definitely all for fur ... or my wee dog Ruby might have something to say about it LOL, and let's face it, there's nothing like a waggy tail to cheer you up!
• Crafts 4 Eternity R#238 - transport

Kitties and Puppies

Happy Sunday peeps.  I've had a lazy day today, and spent it making a few cards (don't worry, I'll only share two this evening LOL)

I've used a bit of a mixture of stamps here ...
The row of animals is from Eat Cake Graphics:
8008-I Kitties and puppies (row)
My sentiment is from The Alley Way Stamps and the little mousie is from My Faourite Things BB I Knead You

Coloured with watercolour pencils, and then the BG splattered with the same colours.

• Layout from Freshly Made Sketches #198 
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Fab'n Funky #269 - no DPs
• Colour theme from CAS Colours and Sketches #136

Cow cards

Well it's raining yet again, but we had a lovely summery morning at Ballycastle beach (pic below) ... I couldn't believe how few people were on it!  :)  I'm off now for a week yippee, so it was a nice start to my hols to get a paddle and an ice cream in the sunshine!

I was lucky to win one of the MFT challenges recently so I picked this set as my prize ... The Whole Herd.  I love that cow's slightly surprised expression!

Card 1:

I masked off my cow a couple of times to make this crowd scene and used my Dienamics photo die.  Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Silver sequins from stash.  Cuttlebug embossing folder.

• Layout from Sketch Saturday #373
• Sweet Stampin - anything but a birthday
• A Gem of a Challenge #150 - animals or birds
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - tie it up

Card 2:

I used my MFT stencil to make a cow print background.  Cow coloured with watercolour pencils and Wink of Stella added to the pink on his face, and then popped up on dimensionals.    I always love a googly eye :)

• Layout from CAS(e) This Sketch #135
• Simply Create #91 - anything goes
• CASual Chic CCC02 - pretty patterns
• Clear it Out - anything goes

Beautiful Ballycastle, Co Antrim ...

CAS sympathy card

Just a quickie visit to blogland tonight ... The Great British Bake Off is on the telly :) Yummmmmmm!  Downside is of course the visit to my cupboards looking for something 'nice' after watching it.  Think there may be slim pickings though!

This card uses this beautiful stamp from Lili of the Valley.  Coloured with watercolour pencils.  Sentiment from The Alley Way Stamps.  Pearls from stash.  Dienamics embroidered rectangle die.

• I've flipped the layout from Sweet Sunday #280 again.
• Stamping Sensations August - stamp and a die
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes
• Top Tip Tuesday final challenge - ribbons and pearls (I'm hoping twine counts as ribbon?)
• Creative Inspirations #323 - flowers
• Addicted to Stamps #156 - anything goes
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - tie it up

Christmas card #08

So my Christmas card drive isn't going too well ... instead of one a week I'm averaging one a month.  Could be a few store bought cards at this rate ;)

This fab image is
8102-M Not a Creature Stirring (scene)
from Eat Cake Graphics.  I've coloured it with watercolour pencils and added some red stickles to their candy canes.  Green gems from stash.  Paper Smooches snowflake die.
Old DP from a never ending stash ;)

Layout flipped from Sweet Sunday #280
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra - August
Crafty Hazelnut's patterned paper challenge - August
Allsorts #322 - pearls / gems
Christmas Stampin all year long #52 - anything goes
Simply Create Too #91 - anything goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
Crafty Creations #294 - four (gems)