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Sunday 17 March 2024

Current Allsorts Challenge

 The theme for the Allsorts Challenge this week is **Feathers and/or Fur** with of course the usual anything goes option.  What better excuse for me to bring my favourite bunny out to play and this time he is seated on the window sill, probably looking for Spring 😊.  Guess what, it's raining again today so I hope he's taken shelter.  I've used an archway image stamped by a generous friend and the flowers were fussy cut (they are quite small so not the easiest option) 🙄.  The arch was masked off before using a stencil for the wall effect.  Some lovely prizes this week so good luck everyone!


Arch stamp - from Paper Artsy
Wall effect - stencil from Tim Holtz
Sentiment - produced on the computer

Wednesday 13 March 2024

Silhouette Flowers

 Amongst the crafty items sent to me recently were two stamped and embossed floral silhouette images. die cut using a stitched rectangle die.  I've turned them into two 'same but different' cards which I'm sharing here.  The first one had the background 'smooshed' with Distress Oxide inks adding a little bit of stamping for interest.  The second one was stencilled in a quite different colour with the addition of three die cut butterflies in a toning colour.  Both images were mounted onto a black background and die cut sentiments were cut from the same black card.  



Sentiments - dies from Crafter's Companion
Stencil - unknown source
Butterflies - Crafter's Companion
Texture stamps - from my stash Elusive Images (now Chocolate Baroque)

Tuesday 12 March 2024

Spring Flowers

 I've been playing with some die cuts and stamped images which I received from a kind bloggy friend - it was a lovely surprise to receive out of the blue an envelope containing some 'happy post'.  Very many thanks - you know who you are.  This is just one of the cards I've made so far - starting with an arched window stamped onto white card which had been die cut using a stitched rectangle.  I masked off the arch and used a stencil to make a stone effect wall, then die cut a selection of leaves, flowers and grass to build up a little Springtime scene. The window box was added using part of a window die set from my collection. No sentiment added yet but it's handy to have a few cards without so that any message can be hand written on the insert.  I do enjoy the challenge of working with something chosen by another crafter and there will be more cards to come.


Wall Effect - a very old Tim Holtz stencil
Window Box - Snipped from a Crafter's Companion window die (not recent)
Daffs, Crocus and Snowdrops - dies from Gummiapan
Grass - unbranded die
Leaves - from a retired Stampin' Up die set
Arched Window - stamp from Paper Artsy


Sunday 10 March 2024

On The Fence

 This card is for the current Allsorts Challenge where the theme is **USE YELLOW** - there's certainly a fair bit of yellow here, both in the image and also the stencilling.  I started by pencilling a faint circle onto a piece of card before building up the surrounding foliage and then stamping the baby owl sitting on the fence.  The final touch was to stencil around the outside using a Lavinia stencil.  The stamps are also Lavinia designs.



Thursday 7 March 2024

Another One

 Another of my Stickeroo cards to share today, this time a small tall one which I thought suited the proportions of the mage . I  found some toning background paper and just added a narrow pierced strip of card and a computer sentiment .


Pierced Strip - from a Tonic embossing die set
Background paper - from a Phill Martin pad

Tuesday 5 March 2024

A Few More

... cats again.  This time I made a smaller card using up the remainder of the colourful cats which were left from my previous one.  Thought I'd use them straight away rather than consign them to the 'to be used in the future' box  which is brimming over with oddments.  This one was quick and easy to put together.- once I'd managed to find an A6 card blank (not a size I use very often).



Sunday 3 March 2024

Multicoloured Snippets

 Challenge # 475 in the Playground and my homework this time has used up snippets of several different colours - barely made any inroads into the snippets mountain but every little helps.  I thought these 'cats' were rather fun, especially in some cheery colours; they are all the same height (they've been trimmed) but come in three varying widths and I have a few left over to play with another day.  I've included a photo of my pile of snippet leftovers after cutting them out, something I often forget until it is too late and they've disappeared into the bin.  A lovely selection of items for the prize this fortnight as always so time for you to see what you can make using Snippets.





Frame - Noble Pierced Squares Creative Expressions
Greeting - die from Gummiapan
Sentiment - stamps from a magazine giveaway set
Tall cats - unbranded die