Daffy Duckling

Hi everyone, I’m still in the groove with springtime images and colours, and I see that this week’s challenge at Allsorts is to use yellow, so I decided to make an Easter card with this adorable Penny Black duckling stamp …  I’ve had him forever and he still has an outing most years! Sadly the weather here today is anything but spring-like - it is really dark and miserable, so please excuse the rather dull picture! 

I cut a small square of stamping card, stamped my duckling and coloured him with Zig pens, then added some soft cloud stencilling using Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide ink. I cut a stitched square frame and applied soft yellow stencilling using my Lavinia Leaf Trails stencil and Sundance Elements ink. I attached my image panel behind the aperture and attached the whole frame to a 6” square card blank, then added some die cut flowers and foliage and a stamped and cut out greeting.

Stamps: Penny Black Duckling (3347H), Happy Easter (2855D);

Media: Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Tumbled Glass); Lavinia Elements ink (Sundance); Versafine Clair (Nocturne); Kuretake Zig Clean Colour watercolour brush pens;

Tools: Hunkydory Moonstone Duo-Stitched Squares dies; Joy! Crafts flower die 6003/0024; unbranded foliage die; Lavinia Leaf Trails stencil; home made cloud stencil.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Allsorts #771 - Use Yellow

Crazy Is Our Fame, Stencils Are Our Game (March) - Use Stencils with option Easter/Spring

Creative Moments #256 - Flora and Fauna

Cutie Pie #192 - Easter/Mother's Day

Double D - First Signs of Spring (2nd entry)

FarmQuest Country Store #14 - Anything Farm or Country Goes

Make My Monday #221 - Spring - Flowers, Weather, Young Animals etc. - TOP 3

Paper Funday #63 - Anything Goes with option The Dies Have It

Penny Black Saturday Challenge (March) - Anything Goes with option Easter

Simon Says (Monday) - Bright and Cheerful (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Add a Sentiment (2nd entry)

Stamping Sensations (March) - Spring (2nd entry)

Word Art Wednesday #637/638 - Anything Goes (7th entry)

Worldwide Crafters and Colourists #14 - Anything Goes (3rd entry)

Here’s hoping the weather will soon pick up to match the spring vibes! Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Daffodil in bloom

Hi there,

After such a beautiful sunny spring weekend here in the UK I thought I would post another Easter card that I recently made, again using my fab new Uniko daffodil  but trying something different with the background this time.

I cut a square of white card and created a smoosh background with Distress Oxide ink by dabbing it onto acetate, spritzing with water and then "splodging" onto my card. Brenda recommends this and it did seem to give an effect I was pleased with ... my only problem right now is a shortage of suitable acetate!!  

Anyhoo ... I did some 2nd generation background stamping of words with VFC, and some stencilling with my new Lavinia flower stencil. I had seen a video by Corrie stencilling with white acrylic paint on a green background with a statement spring flower, so I thought I'd try something inspired by a similar concept.. I only have a mini tube of acrylic paint which isn't exactly optic white and the stencilling ended up looking a little bit grungy, but I think I actually like that. I stamped my daffodil and coloured with Promarkers, then fussy cut and attached to the background panel. Lastly I stamped a large vertical sentiment (where the letters were well spaced) then cut each letter out separately and edged with a green Promarker before attaching to the image panel, which I then matted onto two colours of green card.

Stamps: Uniko Spring Botanicals - Daffodil; Lavinia - Words of Spring; sentiment - See-D;

Media: Promarkers; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Mowed Lawn); Versafine Clair (Rainforest); white acrylic paint;

Tools: Lavinia flower mask.

Challenges I would like to enter: 

Ally's Angels #57 - Anything Goes

Classic Design Challenge #4 2022 - Anything Goes (6th Birthday Challenge) (4th entry)

Country View Challenges (April) - Spring Is Coming (4th entry)

Creatalicious #232 - Anything Goes with option Easter

Double D Challenge- Easter (2nd entry)

Dragonfly Dreams (April) - Spring/Easter (2nd entry)

Get Creative #110 - Springtime (2nd entry)

Pammie's Inky Pinkies #2215 - Anything Goes

Three Room Studio Saturday Challenge #80 - Water Theme

(watercolour distress oxide background)

Through the Craft Room Door - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

 

Hope you all had a lovely weekend with the sunny weather - we had a couple of great walks in the Derbyshire countryside and visited the fab brand new sculpture exhibition in the park of Chatsworth House. This one was my favourite - "Wings of Glory" - its wings do actually move as if it is flying but sadly we didn't see it in action ... I hope I will though!

Take care and thanks for visiting today.

Hugs,

Spring Botanicals

Hi peeps,

Today I would like to share another card I have made with my fabulous recent winnings from Uniko (see previous post about my win here) ... I decided to get going with a few Easter cards so I had a play with my new Spring Botanicals - Daffodil set.

This is such a lovely statement image and is quite big, so it doesn't really need much in the way of embellishment.  I decided straight away I would surround it with some soft background stencilling, as I also have a new Lavinia stencil I couldn't wait to play with! I stamped my main image and coloured it with Promarkers, then masked it so I could stencil around it with some Distress Oxide ink. I stamped my greeting, then sponged more DO round the edges, and replaced the mask so I could add some spatters of DO and gold acrylic paint. When the spatters were dry I matted the finished panel, and finished off with sparkly punched butterflies and gems.

Stamps: Uniko Spring Botanicals - Daffodil; sentiment - See-D;

Media: Promarkers; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Crushed Pistachio); gold acrylic paint;

Tools: Lavinia stencil - Leaf Trails; X-Cut butterfly punch;

Gems from my stash.

Challenges I would like to enter:

Cards 4 Galz #169 - Spring Flowers (2nd entry)

Crafter's Cafe #283 - Use Some Flowers (3rd entry)

Crafty Catz #588 - Anything Goes with option Easter

Crafty Friends #153 - Flowers (4th entry)

Dream Valley #266 - Springtime (2nd entry)

Everybody Art #510 - Spring

Make My Monday #171 - Use A Stencil

Passion For Markers #633 - Anything Spring (2nd entry)

 Taylormadecards4u (March) - Anything Goes with option Spring Flowers (3rd entry)

Try It On Tuesday - Say It With Flowers (3rd entry)

Hope you are all enjoying the spring weather... it has been absolutely beautiful here.  Take care, and thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Allsorts Challenge #667

Good morning everyone,

It's Saturday so it's time for another weekly Allsorts Challenge. This week Brenda has chosen the theme and it is

Spring Is in The Air

A lovely cheerful theme as we look towards the lighter nights, which will also perhaps distract us from all the terrible things currently happening in the world!!

This week’s prize has been kindly donated by Stampers Grove -  this beautiful AALL & Create stamp set "Birthday Blooms".

Here's my card for this week.

The starting point for this card was the intricate floral punch that I have used down one side ... I have quite a few of these punches but now very rarely use them, though I have to unpack them from my dining room cupboard every time I craft in order to get at my papers and stamps stored behind!

The spring theme also motivated me to go a bit retro with this one, and I had a delve in my stamp boxes to find some old, much loved but sadly much neglected Penny Black wooden stamps that would be suitable for a spring theme. This darling duckling just spoke to me, so I soon got busy colouring him with my Promarkers. I die cut him using my stitched squares and sponged the edges with Distress Oxide ink, then matted him on a slightly large die cut. I cut a square of yellow card which I punched down one side, then layered up my image, paper and matting card with a piece of ribbon onto my card base. Lastly I added my sentiment popped up on foam tape and a few teeny gems to pull the colour scheme together.

Stamps: Penny Black Duckling (3347H) and Happy Easter (2355D);

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers; Tim Holtz Distress Oxide ink (Rustic Wilderness);

Papers: snippets from my stash;

Tools: Stitched rectangle dies from Amazon; Martha Stewart floral Punch Around the Page.

Challenges I would like to enter:

A Gem of a Challenge #6 2022 - Anything Goes

As You Like It - Favourite Interactive or Not (and why) (2nd entry)

(My favourite is definitely NOT - scarcely ever tried an interactive card and wouldn't really know where to start!!)

Card Concept #170 - Wearing O’ the Green

(I was inspired by the colours yellow and green, and the general spring feel of the pic. I think I would call this card style “clean and layered”?)

Crafty Calendar (March) - Spots/Stripes or Easter - TOP 3

Crafty Catz #586 - Anything Goes with option Spring Colours - TOP 3

Crafty Gals’ Corner #229 - Add a Flower

Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper (March) - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Creatalicious #230 - Anything Goes with option Something Green

Creative Inspirations (March) - Spring Flowers

Daisy Chain #61 - Use Dies

Day of the Month #37 - Poultry Day (and 3rd birthday of blog)

Dragonfly Dreams (March) - Something to Make You Smile

Four Seasons (March) - Spring

Get Creative #109 - Use Green

I ❤️ Promarkers #505 - Anything Goes (2nd entry)

Paper Funday #39 - Anything Goes with option Use Green and Gold

Penny Black Saturday (March) - Anything Goes with option Bright Colours

Penny's Challenge #516 - Anything Goes with Patterned Papers

Pixie's Snippets Playground #423 - Anything Goes With Snippets (Ruby's Memory)

Sheepski #60 - Flowers (3rd entry)

Simon Says (Monday) - Add Some Green (2nd entry)

Simon Says (Wednesday) - Bit O' Green

Sisterhood of Crafters - Old Rejected Stamp - TOP 3

(This stamp is from 2005, and I've had it nearly that long!!)

Stamping Sensations (March) - Stamp Something for Spring

We Love Stamping (March) - Anything (Stamped) Spring

Hope you can join us this week, and I look forward to seeing your entries. Don't forget to visit the challenge blog to see more fab inspiration from the rest of the team. Thanks for visiting.

Hugs,

Sending You Easter Wishes!

 

Good afternoon everyone - just a quick post from me today to wish all my followers and visitors a

 

Happy Easter

 

Hope your day is filled with love, peace and chocolate!!

 

Here is a CAS Easter card I made last weekend - actually one of 5 identical I made to catch the post and send a few Easter Wishes.

 

 

Not a great photo I'm afraid - poor light on the day I needed to post these, and my camera didn't seem to be getting on with photographing green (the ribbon colour is actually very close to the colour of the paper!)

 

Stamps: LotV "Arranging Flowers"; sentiment from Easter See-D;

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Me To You "Spring Chic";

Supplies: green gems from The Hobby House; yellow gem from Papermania; ribbon from my stash.

 

Challenges:

Creative Inspirations #207 - Easter Wishes

OSCC #222 - Easter

Crafty Creations #215 - Easter

Fun With Shapes & More #131 - Last Minute Easter

I ♥ Promarkers #161 - Spring Is In The Air

Corrosive #171 - Spring Fling

Simon Says - Anything Goes

Party Time Tuesdays #130 - Anything Goes

 

Thanks for looking - enjoy the rest of your Easter weekend.

Hugs,

 

Papertake Weekly GDT - Sketch!

Good morning Papertakers,. and welcome to the latest Papertake Weekly challenge - and alas my last as Guest Designer as I really do love the PTW challenges. But looking on the bright side I'll be able to enter for the fab prizes again from next week - yay!

 

Anyhoo, as always for the last Tuesday of the month we have a sketchie free for all ... don't forget you can either use this month's sketch or any previous one from PTW challenges - just let us know which one you have used!

 

Here's Dawny's sketch for this month.

 

 

Once again we are sponsored by the fabulous Simon Says Stamp

 

 

with a brilliant $20 online store voucher - so let's get to it!

 

I actually gave everyone an inadvertent preview of this sketch a month ago due to a teeny bit of a mix up, but seeing as it was such a good one I've had another go with it :-) Here's my card - I have rotated the sketch by 90 degrees.

 

 

Yep, my blog has gone somewhat bunny-licious this week (and it's not over yet!!) as I did my best to get some Easter cards done to the exclusion of all other considerations !

Stamps: LotV "Arranging Flowers"; Penny Black "Happy Easter" (2855D)

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Me To You "Spring Chic";

Supplies: blue gems by The hpbby House; yellow gems by Papermania; ribbon from my stash;

Tools: Fleur-de-lys square nestabilities; La La Crafts corner flourish die; Martha Stewart "Monarch Butterfly" punch.

 

Challenges:

Simon Says - Easter / Spring

Little Red Wagon #177 - Easter

Oldie But A Goodie - Easter

(old papers and ribbon)

Kaboodle #164 - Easter / Early Spring

Cute Card Thursday #261 - Easter Parade

Raise The bar #136 - Hop Into Spring (bunny, chick or baby animal)
Craft Your Passion #155 - Make It Cute!

Charisma #11 - Die Cuts

Papercrafting Journey - Ribbon or Lace

Crafty Boots - Flowers

 

Hope you'll take your minds off the miserable and bitterly cold weather by joining in this week - can't wait to see what you create.
Hugs,

Easter Bunny

 

Good morning everyone - hope you are all safe and warm given the appalling weather conditions we've been suffering again here in the UK - definitely a day for staying indoors and maybe getting some crafting done ! :-)

 

I've not had a lot of time for making Easter cards this year what with one thing and another, but I managed to get a couple made yesterday - here's one of them.

 

 

This adorable bunny stamp came free with this month's edition (no. 111) of Quick Cards Made Easy magazine - I don't generally  bother much with craft mags nowadays but I had to have this bunny!

 

 

Stamps: "Some Bunny Loves You" (free with Quick Cards Made Easy issue 111); Penny  Black "Happy Easter" (2855D);

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Me To You "Spring Chic";

Supplies: flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts;  Docrafts bakers twine, Papermania gems; ribbon from Hobbycraft; wooden butterfly in a set from my friend Lil (thanks hun, they're lovely!); button from my stash;

Tools: Cheery Lynn "Queen Anne's Lace" (B160) border die.

 

 

Challenges:

Cutie Pie #40 - Easter

Simon Says - Easter / Spring

In The Pink #17 - Spring / Easter in Pink

Cheery Lynn #72 - Think Spring

Fussy & Fancy #85 - Spring Days

Everybody-Art #228 - Spring

Penny's Paper Crafty #119 - Gingham / Checks

Crafty Catz #175 - Sparkle With A Bow

Crafts & Me #125 - Buttons & Bows

Really Reasonable Ribbon #68 - Flowers & Ribbon

Passion For Promarkers #190 - Butterflies

Bunny Zoe's Challenge (March) - Girly

I ♥ Promarkers - Anything Goes

Shabby Tea Room #158 - Anything Goes

The Ribbon Reel #49 - Pink + Yellow + Aqua + Ribbon & A Flower

 

 

Party Time Tuesdays #112 - Colour Inspiration

 

  

That's all for today.

Hugs,

Papertake Weekly GDT: 3-2-1

 

Good morning Papertakers, and welcome to another Papertake Weekly Challenge. Thanks so much to everyone who entered last week's Anything Goes Challenge - always a popular theme!! Don't forget to check the main challenge blog to see if you have won last week's prize.

 

This week our challenge theme is

 

3 - 2 - 1

 

Yep, we would like you to use three of something, two of something and one of something else!! It's as easy as that!

 

This week we are sponsored by Whiff of Joy

 

 

and J&C Creations

 

 

 

Here is my card for this week, using three gems, two patterned papers and one bow.

 

 

As you can see, this weekend my thoughts turned to spring and Easter ... rather peculiar it now seems, in light of the harsh wintery conditions now battering the UK!! However Easter is in fact only two and a half weeks away, so I thought I'd better crack on regardless!

 

Stamps: LotV "Arranging Flowers"; Penny Black "Happy Easter.." (2855D);

Media: Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Forever Friends "Springtime";

Supplies: flowers by Wild Orchid Crafts; gems by Papermania; ribbon from Hobbycraft;

Tools: "Labels One" nestabilities; Magnolia Doohickey "Heart Swirl Branch" die; Martha Stewart "eyelet lace" PATP border punch.

 

 

Challenges:

Sketch Saturday #249 - Sketch

 

 

Live & Love (March) - Easter

CRAFT #197 - Easter / Spring

Allsorts #197 - Springtime

Crafting For All Seasons #47 - Spring Into Spring

Cute Card Thursday #259 - Spring Fever

Really Reasonable Ribbon #67 - Show Me The Green + Ribbon 

 Simon Says - A Bit O' Green

Crafty Creations #212 - Use Some Green

 Sentimental Sundays #145 - Three Embellishments That Start With a "B"

(Bow, Blossoms, Bling)

 

Hope you can join us this week - can't wait to see what you create!

 

Hugs,

Mmmmm choklit!

Just a quick post from me this afternoon, to show you another Easter card I have made with my Forever Friends free decoupage kit. This time the darling bear is holding an Easter egg ... wish someone would buy me one as big as that lol!  Couldn't get a very true colour pic of this card for some reason, so here is the best I could manage.

Image: Forever Friends decoupage;

Sentiment: Penny Black;

Papers: Papermania "Forever Friends - Springtime";

Supplies: Flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts; lace from The Ribbon Box; ribbon from my stash.

Challenges:

Wild Orchid Crafts #45 - Bingo!

(gems / flowers / ribbon & lace)

Pollycraft Monday #133 - Mmmmm Choklit!

Papertake Weekly - sketch

That's all from me for today - enjoy the rest of your weekend :-)

 

Back in the groove with Penny Black Saturday

Good morning everyone, and welcome to this week's Penny Black Saturday Challenge. I've been missing in action for the past 5 weeks due to a hectic time at work combined with a few health problems, but I'm hoping I've now turned the corner and am feeling ready for some springtime crafting :-). I'd like to thank my lovely teamies in the PBSC DT for being so patient and understanding these past few weeks, and I'm hoping I'll now be pulling my weight again both in terms of cards and commenting!

And what better place to start my renewed crafty obsession than with a fabulous springtime theme? This week it's

Easter Eggstravaganza

No it doesn't have to include eggs (though it can if you want!!), but we would like to see your Easter creations ... don't forget the only rules are that you should use a Penny Black stamp, large sentiment or stickeroo as the main focus of your new creation!

This week we have a fabby prize as always .... from our new regular sponsor Craftwork Cards

..this yummy prize pack from the Moorish collection (definitely looks more-ish to me lol!)

So here at last is a DT card from me.

Stamps: Penny Black "What a Spring!" (2557K); "Happy Easter" (2855D);

Media: bunny coloured with Copics, rest of image coloured with Promarkers and Flexmarkers;

Papers: Me To You "Spring Chic";

Supplies: flowers and pearls from Wild Orchid Crafts; ribbon from my stash;

Tools: small, large and lacy circle nestabilities; Martha Stewart "flower vine" deep edge punch; Marianne D "Branch Forest" die (LR0150).

Challenges:

Dream Valley #28 - Easter

MAWTT - Easter Wishes

Oldie But A Goodie - Easter Wishes

(stamp is several years old .. in fact I think it is now retired!)

Anything Goes #63 - Get Ready For Easter

Marianne's Design Divas - Spring into Spring

Simply Create Too #9 - It's Spring

Crafter's Companion #22 - Spring

Joanna Sheen - Spring / Easter

Crafty Catz #125 - Spring is in The Air

Penny Black & More at Allsorts - Springtime

Really Reasonable Ribbon #44 - Spring With Ribbon

PaperPlay #12 - Spring Colours

Crafts & Me #76 - Light Airy Spring Colours

Ribbon Reel #24 - Inspiration Photo: Pink + Yellow + Aqua + Neutrals + Flowers + Ribbon

Paper Sundaes #112 - Photo Inspiration (inspired by the colours)

Papercrafting Journey #5 - Pretty Pastels

Papertake Weekly - Eyes Down, Look In!

(Gems + Diecuts + Flowers)
Incy Wincy #137 - Things With Wings

Cute Card Thursday #209 - Anything Goes

Stampin' For The Weekend  #6 - Anything Goes

A Gem Of A Challenge #42 - sketch (rotated 90 degrees to the right)

Well hey - I thought I would catch up with a few challenges being as I haven't been crafting much for quite a while lol!

That's all for today - hope you can join us, and I look forward to visiting and seeing your cards this week. Have a great weekend.