Double sunshine

Hi all!  This was one of those difficult cards to make as it's for a good friend in work who has been made redundant and it has all been a very traumatic experience.   I think I was living in an alternative universe when I made it and have managed to give it 2 sources of sunshine!!.

It is of course one of the Colorado Crafts stamps - I got my watercol our pencils out to colour the mouse and the background of the clover and polychromos for the rest.  

• Cut It Up #223 - what's your weather?  This was an easy challenge for me as our weather has been completely mad - sunshine and blue skies one minute, and dark as night with hailstones the next!
• Your Next Stamp #161 - sunshine and smiles

Floral sympathies

 Hi folks, it's been a brrrr chilly couple of days here, the weatherman definitely got it right! We had a bit of snow last night so it was all very scenic this morning, but I'm glad to say it's all away, bar a couple of sad looking snowmen ;)

I've a few sympathy cards this evening, I never seem to have any in my stash.  Both use an older stamp from Whipper Snapper - I absolutely love their stamps but I get whacked with customs charges every time, so I try to resist as best I can!

Bonus points for this one using up some DP that's been in my stash for years, I was lucky to have some pale blue card that matched it perfectly and just enough left over for my sentiment and corners :)

• Layout from Mojo Monday #557
• Pixies Snippets Playground #400

• The Flower Challenge #55 - pastels
• Simon Says Stamp Monday - layer it

A couple of my chilly tulips with their snowy hats!

Last Easter bunny!

 

Hi all, and a Happy Easter to you!  A quiet one for us with just me and his nibs for dinner - hopefully by next Easter we'll be more sociable!   I got my 1st jab last week, next ones due beg June, so I'll be sorted in time for my birthday 😁. We've had a lovely couple of sunny spring days, I even got out to the garden today to tackle a few weeds (some of the roots must go to Australia), but snow showers due tomorrow so it will be a stay home and turn the heating on kind of day! 

For this card I masked off a border (not a very straight one LOL) and inked up a swirly stencil.  Nice and easy and quick!

• Crafty Calendar - April - Easter / Spring
• The Card Concept #152 - I went with the Easter bunny theme
• Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes
• Word Art Wednesday #485-486 - anything goes

More Easter bunnies

 Hi all!  I'm back with another few Easter cards this evening, still have another few to make but it could be chancy if they all arrive in time!  This stamp from High Hopes is a real old oldie from my stash but still one of my faves.  My own tulips are almost blooming - we had a lovely day of sunshine today so hopefully that will bring them on.  

Bunny popped up on foam pads and I added clear gloss to the tulips and some chunky glitter to his tail. 

MFT Wednesday sketch #534

Your Next Stamp #160 - I used the pink/grey colour theme from the inspiration pic

Cut   it up #222 - spring flowers and butterflies

And here's another the same but different for my uncle!  I punched out a grass edge on my fancy DP but it's got a bit lost and probably wasn't worth the bother!

Inspired by #167

Word Art Wednesday #483-484 - anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Easter

Bunnies!

 Hi all!  Oooh it's as dark as night here and the wind has gotten up, looks like we're in for a splash of rain!  I can hardly believe that it's almost that time of year for the clocks to go forward, seems like no time since they went back!  But then every day is like Groundhog Day and they all kinda merge together, I think this entire past year I've hardly known what day it is any day!  Except the weekend, I haven't made that mistake yet LOL

Anyways, I've a few quickie Easter cards this evening...

I've used a real oldie for these - from Shirley's 2 Girls - it's at least 10 years old so it's good to give it an inking again!  Double bonus points for me for using up this DP which has been knocking round my stash for quite a while too!  I think I prefer this 2nd one with the stronger colour

• Retro Rubber challenge #154 - anything goes
• Word Art Wednesday #483-484 - anything goes
• Sweet Stampers #54 - Easter / spring
• Cutie Pie #157 - bunnies and blooms

I spy with my little eye something beginning with C

 Hi all!  Sunday evening already, I've had a few days off work and had a lovely time faffing about and putting my time in rightly!  A bit of gardening, a bit of housework, walks in our local park and Lough shore, and the sun even shone today when I was out doing a bit of fence painting! 

Anyways, you might spot a few cats on my blog today...

The lovely Di at Pixie's Snippets Playground's challenge today is in memory of our beloved Rubydoo.  Hope you'll play along, all you need to do to join in is to use up a scrap of paper on your card, easy peasy!

I spotted this stamp from Kwan Crafts after seeing it on Cindy's lovely blog (Stamps, paper & ink) - a couple of the eyes don't stamp right but they're easy enough drawn in.  The floral kitty is popped up on foam pads and I added gloss and glitter to his flowers.  My card just didn't look finished, but I had a scrap of red card left that was just big enough to partially cut some circles and a bit of a scalloped edge and I think that's it done now 😁

• Word Art Wednesday#483-484 - anything goes
• Addicted to Stamps #401 - make your mark

And here's the same stamps again, thought I'd join the slimline card bandwagon, but a DL envelope was the slimmest one in my stash 😉  This time I glossed/glittered elements on all the kitties.  

I should have done my middle hill a slightly different shade of green.  I had thought the embossing would work, maybe I should have left the outer hills plain and just embossed the central none. Ah well, too late now!

I stencilled in some clouds and then also used my sunburst stencil as it looked a bit bare.

Layout from MFT Wednesday sketch #533

Fab'n funky #515 - no square cards

And finally, here's a wee pic of a few of the daffodils at our park.  They are even more fabulous this year than usual, must have been our nice damp winter!

Happy St Patrick's Day!

 Hi all and a very happy St Patrick's Day to you!  We had a beautiful sunny spring day, made even better by a free day off work and I have the rest of the week booked off too, yippeeeee!  Just a shame that everywhere is shut and there's nowhere to go!   Ah well, it was still lovely to get my washing all done, dried on the line AND bonus points to me for ironing it all too ... I must be one of the few left who irons everything!!

I had bought this Colorado Crafts stamp to use as a 'good luck' one, but figured I'd make a St Paddys card for my mum, plus another couple for my Canadian aunts ... didn't bother with any of the Irish crew LOL.  

• Pixies Snippets Playground #392 - I've had this little strip of DP knocking round my stash getting curlier and more ragged by the day so it was great to get it used up!
• Stamping Sensations March - monochrome
• Get Creative #99 - St Patrick's Day
• Crafty Hazelnuts patterned paper challenge - March