Stamping Sensations September Challenge

 The theme for this month's challenge at Stamping Sensations is **Anything Goes** or **Animal Magic**  and my card is certainly in the first category and with a stretch of the imagination might be covered by the second.  I made an inky background with Distress Oxide inks and overstamped with the some word stamps and the diamond pattern.  The bird was stamped directly onto the background and then the little bird stamped again onto some white card and fussy cut with scissors.  A simple computer sentiment was added.  Some great prizes as usual this month for the lucky name pulled out of the hat.

Stamps - all from Crafty Roo

Twofer

 I don't  normally make more than one of any card design but this one really lent itself to being done as a 'twofer' because it required two pieces of double sided designer paper to be die cut for the infills.  I started with a Snippet of white card and cut the cover plate die twice before finding some suitable DSP to cut again for the infills which were alternated on each card.  Next thing was to find some toning plain card snippets for the backing layer.  A small snippet was used for the stamped sentiment and the whole panel was popped onto a 5" x 7" card blank, which left a space at the bottom.  Rather than trim the card down to suit the panel size I decided to leave it as it was and had just enough of the two background colours to die cut three little matching flowers for each card.

This is a twofer in more ways than one because I made it for the Snippets Playground challenge *use snippets* and also for the latest Allsorts challenge **add a sentiment**.  Sorry no photo of the snippets this time - I used practically every last shred of the coloured card and the tiny bits left weren't worth taking a pic so they went into the bin.  There are the usual great prizes from each challenge so why not have a rummage and see what you can come up with.

Coverplate Die - unbranded
Papers used - DSP from Butterflies set Stampin' Up (retired)
Sentiment - From Stampn' Up Daisies stamps and dies
Flowers - Spellbinders die set which was a magazine freebie

Allsorts Challenge #795

 I was pleased to be asked along to the current Allsorts Challenge as a Guest Designer and this is the card which I made to the theme of **Delightful Animals**.  There is of course the option of **Anything Goes** and you can read all the details HERE. 

I decided to make an Anniversary card using Darling Donkeys stamps which were coloured and fussy cut to place onto layered hearts.  The red heart is plain and the white pearl card one has been embossed with some tiny criss-cross hearts.  A layer of grey floral DSP was placed onto the card blank.  Finall addition was a scattering of hearts and a sentiment.

Darling Donkeys - Stampin' Up (retired) coloured with alcohol pens
Embossing Folder - from Creative Expressions (A4) (probably discontinued)
Background - paper from an ancient Docraft paper pad
Sentiment - stamped using a favourite set of magazine freebie stamps

Snippets Playground Challenge #487

 Time for a new challenge in the Playground and some super items in the prize pot as always so why not have a rummage through your Snippets and have a go.

I really was intending to stick by my decision not to purchase any new Christmas-themed items but as you've probably guessed by now I'm weak when faced with temptation 🤣.  This rather cute Santa just had to come and live with me so I rifled through my smaller snippets to find pieces to die cut him - I also remembered to take a pic of the remnants too.  I found a white snippet square which was slightly smaller than my base card and cut a decorative circle from that, which was backed with a snippet of blue snowflake paper.  The Santa and Ho, Ho Ho were cut from suitably coloured snippets and that's it really - a fairly simple card to make once Santa was assembled. Don't you just love his big boots and gold-rimmed specs 😊

Circle Die - from a Stampin' Up set (retired I think)
Santa - dies from Amazon
Words - unbranded die which I've had since last year

I remembered to take a picture of the remnants

Ink Blending

 Once the ink blending was done and it had dried this was a fairly quick card to put together.  Three colours of Distress Oxides were used and I stamped and white embossed a little decoration on opposing corners, stamped the sentiment and added a die cut bird cage hanging from a branch.  Trying to keep cool today which isn't too easy but it is nice to see the sunshine so ought not to complain really.

Colours - Fossilised Amber, Broken China, Worn Lipstick
Die - from Globleland (Amazon)

One Stamp - Different Looks

 I have two cards to share today using the same stamp but with different looks.  I was tempted by this corner floral stamp in a sale and it's certainly already seen a fair bit of ink.

For this one I stamped the image in the corner of a piece of white card and stamped again on a post-it note to cut a mask so that I could sponge on some ink and stamp a little text .  After removing the mask the flower was coloured using matching ink and a sentiment added

For the second card I sponged three colours of ink onto a piece of white card and added some texture by stamping in light grey.  Sentiment was die cut with a shadow in pink to match one of the background colours and I drew a wiggly border using a fine black pen.

Stamp - One of a Kind Corner from Crafty Roo (in the sale)
Texture Stamps - also Crafty Roo

First Sentiment - from a retired Stampin' Up set
Hugs - dies from Amazon

Quick Card

 A really quick card to share today - simply a piece of wide washi tape applied to a square of cream card, topped with a die cut flower and a sentiment, all on a kraft card base.  The flower was die cut from dark brown card and the matching sentiment produced on the computer. Not really much more to be said about this one 😊

Flower - Tim Holtz Wild Flowers die set
Washi Tape - from Amazon