be merry

 hello stampers!

I'm thrilled to be the Guest Designer for the Just Us Girls Challenge for the month of November - and this week is word week with challenge #609 - Merry.

Like many of you, I am slowly building up my Christmas card stash so took the opportunity this week to make another Christmas card.

I began with some new designer paper I received with the loveliest colours - pretty and fresh with a modern Christmas feel. I was inspired by a sketch from Donna Lewis that I thought looked like a present with ribbon! The paper pieces were mounted on shaded spruce card and then adhered to a card base making sure the design was kept in the right order. 

I stamped the sentiment using Altenew Warm Blessings with my Misti using memento tuxedo black and also versamark, then heat embossed it. The sentiment was also mounted onto shaded spruce card and popped up on foam tape on the card panel. A few stars were fussy cut and also adhered with foam tape around the sentiment.

Come along and join the fun this week at Just Us Girls challenge - we'd love to see your 'merry' cards!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!

look pretty

 hello lovely stampers!

The fab sisterhood of snarky stampers have a new challenge this fortnight: E is for Everything Pink and Edna is looking mighty fine!

Now I have never been a girly girl and pink is not my favourite colour but I can certainly see the allure when it is presented with different hues and shades, so that formed the basis for my card. That decided, tho, I could find in my stash no pink card whatsoever! 

I began by blending pink distress oxide inks all over a white card panel. A circle was punched from white card for the moon and adhered to the panel, then given a solid cover of wink of Stella (hard to see in the pic). The wildflowers and starbursts were stamped using Altenew Wildflower doodles with a combination of distress oxides and Altenew inks. A couple of clouds using My Favourite Things Rolling Clouds were stencilled in distress oxide ink. I die cut the fairy using Paper Rose Fairy Isabella die from pink metallic paper, mounted on card, and adhered in position. The sentiment was printed on pink paper, mounted on card, edges inked in pink and popped up on foam tape for dimension. The whole panel was adhered to a white card base that had the edges and perimeter inked in Altenew Pinkalicious.

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peekaboo

 hello there stampers!

I made a card today for the fantastic challenge at AAA cards. This challenge is one corner with optional twist "boo!". 

Ironically, we don't really celebrate halloween here so not so much call for a halloween card, but I also didn't read the blog so closely and didn't actually realise it was meant to be a halloween card! oops! But I did manage to incorporate the optional twist - with a twist of my own! Hope it brings a smile to the team anyway...

I began by blending distress oxide ink in the lower corner of the card panel. I die cut the basket using Paper Rose Cupcake die but used kraft card to make it look like a basket, making sure all the little die cut bits stayed in place. Some orange distress oxides were blended on a card scrap and the kitty was stamped over the top then fussy cut. The sentiment was printed, mounted on card and popped up on foam for some dimension.

I remember as a child we had a cat that loved sleeping in the basket of clean warm clothes waiting to be sorted. She would leave her ginger fur all over the towels! This image really brought back memories lol

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hugs

 hello crafty stampers!

Today I have a card I made for the fun challenge at Just Us Girls. It's colour week and this week's colours are:

Beautiful colours together, and so many ideas in my head. But I thought I'd use a new die I received last week with sweet butterflies.

I started by stamping the wildflowers using Darkroom Door Wildflowers Vol 1 stamp set, with Memento tuxedo black. The butterflies were die cut using Paper Rose Amaya Butterflies die and popped them up with foam so they hovered over the flowers. The dots were scraps from other die cuts (I throw out nothing! lol).  I die cut the sentiment using Paper Rose Hugs Fine Script die twice and glued them together for definition, then glued the sentiment to the card panel.

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sympathy

 hello stampers!

Today I made a card for the latest challenge at perfectlyCAS #20 Sympathy

I wanted to use one of the new die sets that I just received this week - one has different feather shapes and one has butterflies. I'm using a feather today and also putting this card on the NBUS blog - thanks Darnell!

I began by blending distress oxide inks with muted colours and then die cut a rectangle shape from the panel using Paper Rose Stitched Rectangles die set. I then die cut the feather using Paper Rose Feather Trio from white card. The rectangle and feather were glued to a white card base. The sentiment was stamped directly onto the card base using Altenew Sentiment Strips with distress oxide ink to match the blended colour. It was stamped 3 times using my Misti, then heat embossed with clear.

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*Edit: Big thanks for the recognition from the DT for choosing my card as the winner this month!