Silly Monster...

Hey,

Happy Saturday to you.

I am off to Brunch today with Lisette, I am looking forward to that.

But first I thought I'd enter this weeks Color Throwdown.

I FINALLY got my Silly Monsters Two stamps by Your Next Stamp (bought from Supermart..never again) it has been a saga.

So last night I stamped, coloured and die-cut them and I think the colours for this week must have been stuck in my mind, as I unintentionally coloured one of the monsters in the green and orange (I added his spots).

I kept the background simple and used a Tim Holtz tracks stencil with Tumbled Glass distress ink.

I know the sentiment feels a bit Halloweeny, but I actually think it works for a 'girlfriend' - what do you think? Stretching it too far?

I am very happy with my card, it kind of left me with a silly monster grin on my face!

Cx

Good or Evil?

Hey,

Happy Friday.

I thought I'd show you a fun little make that I made for a friend.

When the craftgang got together Lisette gave us a load of spare stamped sentiments and the wooden mermaids, so I grabbed one of my fave mini square canvases (super handy for making random stuff) and painted it gold using a Dina Wakely paint that Cheiron gave me for my birthday.

I cut up the sentiment and attached it to the canvas using Glossy Accents, same with the Mermaid.

Super easy and hilarious. I have no doubt the friend who it is going to will love the sassy nature of it.

Have a great weekend, I am off to lunch with Lisette tomorrow and playing at my desk and watching non-stop NFL - YAY!!

Cx

Cheeky Christmas Tags...

Hey,

So I recently bought this great set by Unity Stamp Co, I saw a post on their blog and I loved the cheeky sentiments.

I love tags, so thought it would be fun to use these to whip up a batch of tags to take to JT's Mom when I visited her last weekend.

I used a large sheet of water colour paper cut into three, so I could smoosh it in distress ink.

Here's an in progress shot -

Once I finished the backgrounds, I die-cut them using xCut tag dies, kindly gifted to me by JT.

There are x4 sentiments in the set, so I stamped two of each and chose stamps that would work for what I had in mind.

Lawn Fawn Winter Critter stamp for three of them (Penguin, Bunny and Owl) and the Reindeer is by Clearly Besotted.

Because I didn't want to lose the beauty of the backgrounds I only coloured a couple of areas of the critters - works well I think, you get to see the backgrounds.

I die-cut the holes (the tag dies comes with x2 sizes of hole dies) and added navy blue ribbon - which I stupidly did not photograph.

Super easy to make and fun and cheeky too.

Cx

Tic Tac Toe...

Hey,

So last week turned out to be a fun craft related week for me.

I can't tell you about one part of it yet...soon I promise. But the other part was that I was the headliner over at The Paper Players challenge - how lovely is that :)

I thought that it would be fun to play along again this week with their current challenge #319, which is a tic-tac-toe - can you tell me if there is anyone who doesn't love a tic-tac-toe?

I chose Snowflakes, Washi Tape and Diecut for my card.

I dug out my ancient Sizzix snowflake background stamp, inked him with distress inks and spritzed him, then laid my paper over it. I love the effect you get by doing this, the snowflakes are slightly smudged and feel like they are slightly wet.

I have this roll of glittery washi tape that is seriously rationed because I can't find the colour anywhere and this shade of blue is my fave...

I used a piece of it here on my card and it's the perfect anchor for my sentiment (by Clearly Besotted) and the Sizzix snowflakes - I die-cut them in 3 different types of paper - vellum, embossed photo paper and shimmery white cardstock and layered them onto my card using mini staples.

Super simple to make and another great addition to my Christmas Card stash.

Cx

Retro Rubber #50 Colour Challenge..Still time to play..

Hey,

There is still time for you to join in with the current challenge over at Retro Rubber. 

This time we want you to use the photograph as a colour inspiration..

Show us your interpretation of the photo, check out the makes by the DT over at Retro Rubber for inspiration

Challenge ends on November 4th. Don't forget to use a stamp a year or older and tell us about it that's part of the fun. Also, please limit your entries to 10 challenges including ours.

Cx