Monsters

 This is another card made using one of the stamps in my bargain Mystery bag.  The monster was stamped a couple of times onto scraps of card, coloured using alcohol markers and then fussy cut with scissors. I thought it would be fun to imagine they were singing a birthday greeting so I stamped some notes and a stave, finally adding the 'text speak' sentiment.  That's it, a fairly CAS card making use of another of my newly acquired stamps and dies.  The square mat was cut using a die already in my collection and was backed with a plain square to match one of the monsters

Music Stamps - Lavinia
Monster stamps - Gummiapan (retired)
Square and Greeting -  dies from Gummiapan
Colouring - Copic alcohol markers

Allsorts Challenge #763

 Here is  my card for the current Allsorts Challenge where the theme is **make your own background**.  My background was made using spray starch and pigment powders.  I coloured a fairly large piece of card and the background used here is just a small piece left from a previous project.  Luckily there was enough  for the dragonfly body and the wings were cut from a scrap of toning pearl card..  The background was embossed and I added a die cut frame around the aperture and finally a sentiment and a scattering of gems.

Circular Frame - die set from Daisy Mae
Embossing Folder - magazine freebie
Pigment Powders - Pixie Powders
Dragonfly - Gummiapan

Today's Share

 Today I'm sharing another card using a couple of items from my mystery bag of dies and stamps.  This time it is a quirky little stamp and a die which I had to study for a few minutes until I realised it was a 'text speak' sentiment.The qu8irky character was stamped onto a tag and then I sorted out some patterned paper,  scrap of ribbon and matching card to complete this simple card.  A little light stencilling was added to the tag

Stamp and sentiment die - from Gummiapan Mystery bag
Tag - unbranded die
Stencil - Aall & Create

Mystery Bag

 Back again with something else made using items from the Mystery bag mentioned yesterday.  I discovered that the  dies which I didn't quite understand are actually for cutting a large speech bubble, using the width of the card.  Also amongst the contents there was a really cute llama with a matching outline die so I've combined these with some dies from my collection for another card.  I've also had an idea for one of the little stamps which isn't my normal style and that one will be appearing in due course.  I'm quite enjoying the challenge of using items which wouldn't have been natural choices for me, although the llama is one which I would probably have bought and the speech bubbles could prove to be more useful than I'd initially imagined.

Llama and Speech Bubble - stamp and dies from Gummiapan (retired)
Sentiment - from Stampin' Up (retired)
Bridge, puddle and foliage - from Playing in the Rain set Stampin' Up