Make My Monday Challenge

Over at Make my Monday we are on the last week of the 'June Events' themes and this time it is based around Wimbledon, strawberries and cream or associated colours of red. cream and green so a very wide choice.  I remembered I had this very nice Penny Black stamp with a cat enjoying a cream tea and strawberries with a couple of mouse friends so it was an obvious one to use.  Backing paper is from Papermania with a doodled line drawn to define the edges; image was coloured with Polychromos pencils and cut out using Nestabilities; a sentiment from a collection by Cuddly Buddly and a scrap of embossed green card (still using up bits).

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The lovely folk at Bah Humbug tell us that we are nearing the end of their challenges for this year - a brilliant way of amassing a good selection of cards for Christmas without the last minute rush. I do hope they will be back next year with more wonderful themes for us. The theme this week is snowmen and there are some great examples from their DT so do take a look if you are stuck for ideas.  My snowman is made from a Spellbinders die which I had forgotten I had until trying to decide what to do this week.  The 'scene' I've placed him in was printed from Polkadoodles Magical Winter and the ticket sentiment was from Cuddly Buddly. Once the various pieces were die cut this was a fairly quick and easy card.

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The lovely team over at Bah Humbug this week are looking for 'something good to eat' as their challenge for the week.  Luckily I remembered I had a cute Cuddly Buddly unmounted stamp with a cat and mouse sharing a pudding that I thought should fit the bill and once I'd managed to actually find it I stamped and then coloured the image with Polychromos pencils.  I used a Marianne die and a Nestability die to cut out the circles, cut a strip of Coredinations whitewash card, embossed with snowflakes and then sanded to show up the design. Background paper is by Papermania, the glittery snowflakes with added gems were cut with a cuttlebug die and the swirls were cut from a scrap of spritzed card from my 'bits' box which just happened to be the right colour. The greeting was produced on the computer.

Forgotten Friday 33

When I saw the Midweek Motivation post on the MMM challenge I remembered that several years ago I'd bought a reel of this DIY aluminium tape and that it was somewhere in my craft stash (certainly not purchased for DIY). Believe it or not I actually knew where it was so I dug it out to use for Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge this week - it certainly qualifies because it hasn't seen the light of day for many years. I stuck a piece of it onto some card and then cut out a small birdcage using a Tim Holtz Sizzix die - this was coloured using alcohol inks.  The robin was cut out with a Stampin Up two step bird punch - another item which probably hasn't been used for a couple of months - I cut an extra wing in red to turn it into a robin.
Background is a piece of Kraft card stamped using a lovely brocade stamp from Chocolate Baroque - again a neglected item.  The clock die cut was sent to me by a very kind friend and I sponged it with Distress ink and then rubbed some Treasure gold on to show up the pattern on the centre which I'd put through a Cuttlebug embossing folder. A ticket style Christmas Greeting from Cuddly Buddly and there it is a sort of vintage meets steampunk Christmas card.

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Goodness don't the Fridays come around quickly - I swear someone has seriously shortened all my days but I wish they'd asked my permission first.  Anyway I've managed to make a card for Judith's Forgotten Friday challenge using a stamp from Cuddly Buddly which I used quite a lot when I first bought it but can't say she's seen the light of day for some months now.  I fished her out to get back into the swing of colouring using alcohol based markers because if I don't keep practising I find my colouring suffers.  A mix of Flex, Promarkers and Copics were used to get the colours I wanted and the image was cut using a Nestabilities label, then mounted onto a Sizzix die cut shape from Stampin Up.  The buttons were cut using another Sizzix die (SU).  Background paper is from my stash - stamped around the edge using a faux stitch stamp (Chocolate Baroque).  The paper and also the ribbon have been in my stash for ages so they qualify as well - the greeting was a free download popped onto Cuttlebug die cut shapes.

At the Seaside - Funky Hand Challenge

The challenge for this month at Funky Hand is 'at the seaside' and they are giving away a lovely download to use - really bright colours.  I decided to use their Colour Me Happy CD and papers (equally bright) from the Barbadian Ecstasy Collection.  The little beach huts were adapted from a  house which is on this CD and I printed it several times with reduced sizes of backing papers behind them so that I could paper piece to get colour variations. The sentiment is from Cuddly Buddly.

Another Reindeer

It was such a wet miserable day yesterday that I treated myself to a day in the craft room with a few breaks to sit by the fire with warming cuppas.  I made a Christmas card and realised that it fits the Bah Humbug challenge so that will be two cards for that one this week.  Image was stamped and coloured with Copics using a stamp which came with a bargain grab bag many years ago and the poinsettia was die cut using a Marianne die set which I only bought on Monday.  Background papers are from Papermania, ticket came from Cuddly Buddly and the poinsettia was overpainted with champagne shimmer paint.

Anniversary Bears

I was asked to make a Wedding Anniversary card recently and not quite knowing what the recipient might like I made a couple in different styles. This decoupage one uses a downloaded design from Cuddly Buddly showing a happy bear couple celebrating. The daisy background paper is from Papermania and just happens to match the daisies on the balloon in the image - how lucky was that!! I added a computer sentiment and some punched daisies.

Bah Humbug Challenge 17

This week the Bah Humbug challenge is 'Christmas Food' and I was reminded by looking at the great DT cards that I have this stamp from Cuddly Buddly which I think fits the bill. The image was coloured using watercolour pencils, the holly (coloured with Copic) and the greeting are stamps by Polkadoodle cut out and layered with Pinflair gel glue. Papers are bits from my stash and from various sources.

Nip and a Punch

This is the theme this week over on the Cute Card Thursday challenge blog and I have die cut the pieces for the teddy using a Cuddly Buddly die set and the sentiment is punched with Stampin Up oval punches.