Allsorts Challenge #825

 We are into another fortnight with a new challenge from Allsorts and the theme, which has been chosen by Gail is **What Makes You Happy** (stamps/dies/weather/flowers etc) so a wide choice and of course there is, as always *Anything Goes*. Two prizes this time of Penny Black stamps/dies. 

There are many, many things which make me happy so it was a difficult decision but eventually I decided that as I enjoy making cards, love nature and flowers, a floral card would be my choice.  I started by cutting a slatted circle into a square of white card and backed it with a Gelli print from my box of inky bits.  Next I die cut and coloured the cone flowers, cut the stem and leaves from green card and assembled everything, adding a simple sentiment.

Slatted Circle - dies from Craft Addiction UK
Flowers - a very old die, maker unknown
Sentiment - computer generated using MS Word

Butterflies

 It's taken me quite a while to get my hands on a set of the popular slatted square dies - I just couldn't keep up and missed the boat trying to order when I spotted they were back in stock.  However there is now a handy button on the website where you can request a notification email when 'sold out' items are back in stock.  This worked well and the dies arrived so I just had to have a quick play - this card is the result.  I die cut three butterflies from a snippet of inky card and the word from an even smaller snippet of purple cardstock.  I decided to add two of the smaller square dies in the corners to add a bit of extra interest. The large square was backed with a piece cut from a Gelli print.  There's some shimmer on the butterflies which, of course, doesn't show in the picture.

Butterflies - dies from Gummiapan (exclusive to their Easter Calendar 
Hello - die from Gummiapan
Slatted Squares - dies from Craft Addiction UK

Tag-along (and ATCs)

 The optional theme for the current challenge at Tag-along (and ATCs) is **DRINKS** and I was pretty sure I had nothing to use which would fit onto an ATC until I remembered I had a CD which came out back in 2010 containing images connected to wine.  I managed to resize one of the cartoons so here is what I've made - pretty simple really and not that much work once I'd fathomed out how to make the image fit the ATC.  The most difficult part was choosing which of the designs to use😊 

Image - CD 'The Wine Buffs' from Katy Sue Designs dated 2010. Images designed by Mike Payne.  I'm guessing this CD is no longer available