Easter Bunny

 Hi all!  I've a couple of Easter cards to share this evening, using this cute bunny from Creative Depot.  I inked up the background, added a fancy die cut, a few metallic paint splatters, and some blue and gold sequin discs.  The bunny is popped up on foam pads, sparkle added to his bow and clear gloss to the carrot.

As you like it - freestyle or stencil background - well, it kinda depends!  If I'm layering up as I've done here, I'll use a plain-ish inked background.  

Word Art Wednesday #585/586 - anything goes

I've been really struggling with my mojo  so I've been going back to basics, practising my colouring and just casing other cards.  This one was inspired from a card Simon Says Stamp had on their Facebook page (here's the link in case you want to see Yana's fab original), so I'm just sharing here to keep a record of it but not entering into any challenges..

Alexandra's 13th Birthday

 Hi all.  I'm  here this evening with a birthday card for my niece.  I can hardly believe she's going to be a teenager. Seems like no time at all since she was a wee tot and now is taller than me! 

Image from Lili of the Valley, coloured with polychromos - sparkle added to the cupcakes and clear gloss to the jelly.  I also glossed and glittered the numbers and of course a few wee hearts as she was a Valentine's baby!  (Kinda wishing I hadn't added the splatters though)

AAA Birthday #46 - use a stencil (my clouds)

Moving Along with the Times #151 - numbers

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - fun with dies 

Cut it Up #271 - have a heart

Fuchsia sympathy card

 Lol I have to check how to spell 'Fuchsia' every time I write it, you'd think I'd know by now!  This is an older stamp from Clearly Besotted, coloured with polychromos - I normally colour from light to dark, but this time I started with my shadows first and actually used my white pencil!  Butterflies from Penny Black.

Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch Challenge #630

Snippets Playground #446 - the panel i cut from the lilac base was just big enough to cut a few butterflies 

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - anything goes

Word Art Wednesday #579/580 - anything goes 

Chick, chick, chicken!

 Hi all!  Well I'm glad to say all our snow has disappeared, a few days of it is quite enough for me!  And all of a sudden our daffodils have popped their heads up, hopefully spring will be here soon 😁

My card this evening looks like it should be a quickie, but oh my goodness, such a lot of faffing about!  Bits on and then off again, then other bits on and then off again too!  I've used this oldie set from Gerda Steiner, coloured with a mix of polychromos and watercolour pencils, and then pink metallic paint for their chickeny bits 🤣 and also splattered in the background.

Layout from Freshly Made Sketches #569

Colour theme from MFT Colour Challenge #204

Gerda Steiner January 2023 challenge 

Seize the Birthday #253 - winged things

Miss Molly wasn't so keen on her first experience of snow.  It was fine the first night when it was nice and fresh, but after the top layer froze her wee pokey feet would go through the ice and then down into the snow and she didn't quite know what on earth was going on!  It was funny though watching her chase snowballs trying to figure out why they disintegrated when she touched them! 

Greg's Birthday card

 Hi all!  Gosh, Sunday evening already!  It was a bit of a dark damp old day today, not one to inspire you to go anywhere!  So I busied myself instead and got ahead of the game with Greg's Birthday card.  This adorable bear is from a set I bought from Creative Depot last month, destined to be 2023's Christmas cards, but I reckoned the bear would be fine for a birthday.

I got my scraps out for this one - I love all my MFT paper packs and always end up keeping end bits as they're too nice to chuck ...

I found a couple of little silver stars on my table (I mustn't have cleared it since Christmas LOL) so I stuck them on to use them up.  Some blue and green splatters with my metallic paints, and a bit of cord to finish.  Sentiment is from a Penny Black set.  I absolutely love how this turned out, I have sorely missed my mojo for such a long time that it is nice to make 2 cards in a row that I am pleased with!!

Snippets Playground # 445 - show us your snippets (it's their 11th Blogaversary and a brilliant prize up for grabs!!)

Layout from MFT Wednesday Sketch #627

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - something new

Your Next Stamp #194 - gifts

AAA card challe nge #231 - all about bears

Nautical Birthday for David

 Hi all!  Well I'm a bit more pleased with my card today than some of my recent efforts!  I love it when a sketch sparks some creativity! 

I think the bear, stripes and little hearts are stamps from Creative Depot.  I added splatters from my metallic paints and then a red twine bow just to lift it a bit.

Sketch Saturday - free choice of sketch. I used this oldie from 2018

AAA Birthday #45 - anything Birthday 

Sweet Stampers #75 - anything goes 

 

Happy New Year!

 Hi all, and a very Happy New Year to you all!  Hard to believe Christmas is all over and done with after the months of run up to it!  Our tree and deccies have all been tidied away, normality resumed and the spring cleaning already started LOL 😂. And my only resolution is to give myself a good shake and get crafting more often!

So my first effort of the year is Mum's calendar page (and my only defence for it being not my best or most interesting effort is that it was a rush make!)

I'm not sure what make this die is, possibly Creative-Depot - the numbers and stars were cut from the central scrap and the silver ones were leftover from Christmas makes.

Snippets Playground #444 - use a snippet for anything but Christmas

Cut it Up #268 - Happy New Year 

Word Art Wednesday #575/576 - anything goes 

Miss Molly had a great time on Christmas morning and loved ripping open her own pressies and shredding all the rest of the wrapping paper LOL - the green thing under her paw is a squeaky pea pod from her Aunt and Uncle, still going strong unlike the indoor ball from Santa that went in the bin on Boxing Day!