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

Playground Challenge #486

 Time for another Playground Challenge and some cool treats in the treehouse I hear😊.  A CAS card from me this time using a few snippets and a whole card blank.  I've been re-visiting the use of a Gelli plate with acrylic paint which is where I started some years ago but sadly I was never particularly pleased with the results until I switched to using inks instead.  However during some online chat with a crafty friend we discussed using acrylics again so I had a bit of an experimental day recently and I was slightly more pleased with what I produced.  That said, I still think that, for me, inks would be the preferred choice., but each to her own 😉.  Anyway back to my card - I used a snippet of one of the Gelli prints along with a snippet of toning plain card and a snippet of white to die cut two flowers which I glued together to give them a bit more stability.  A stamped sentiment and that's it, job done for my Snippets card this time.  Some lovely prizes as always and I'm sure there are plenty of snippets just waiting to be used up so why not have a go??

Not many snippets but I remembered to take a picture!

Flower - Memory Box  Poppies die
Sentiment - from Stampin' Up Daisies stamp and die set

Postage Stamp??

 Well it's been a week since my last post and much as I feel bad complaining about the hot weather I'm afraid it's been a bit too  much for me this past week and just 'being' has been hard work 🙄.  I checked my files and have a few cards made at intervals and never posted so here is one to share today.  I used my postage stamp die but instead of adding individual smaller images to the apertures I've covered the whole central area with an image from a book of mixed images on card, backed the whole thing with a toning layer and added a sentiment.  I also over stamped with the two postage-related images.  Fairly quick and easy if I remember rightly.

Enjoy the weekend - thankfully it does seem somewhat cooler today

 Postage Stamp Die - unbranded
Image - from Lily of the Valley, probably no longer available

Seasonal Delights

 The Allsorts Challenge is running for two weeks this time with great prizes as always.  The theme is **Seasons Delights** or of course you can opt for *anything goes*.  I've chosen the Summer season and have used some Honey Bee stamps which I've had for some time but I think bees will always make me think of Summer.  I stamped the honeycomb twice onto a piece of cream card and the beehive onto a separate piece.  Both images were coloured using pencils and the beehive was fussy cut and layered over the background honeycomb.  A sentiment was added and two bees stamped and die cut to fly around the card.

Honeycomb and Hive - stamp set from Chocolate Baroque
Words - stamp which came with a magazine freebie set
Bees - stamps and dies from a Stampin' Up set (retired)
Colouring - Polychromos pencils

Mischievous Cats

 A scenic card to share today using some dies from a set which I'm not sure I've used before although they were definitely a 'must-have' at the time.  Oddly, these cats don't come with eyes included but I felt they were needed so I trawled through quite a lot of my die sets to find something with a suitably sized 'waste' piece which I could use and then added teeny tiny black snippets to finish them although I realised - too late - that a black fine liner pen would have been an easier option 🙄.  I embossed a brick wall for the lower part of the card and added an old-style post box and a couple of little birds which were hiding in 'useful bits' pot on my desk.  The sentiment was computer generated and cut out with a banner die.

Cats - Mischievous Cats die set by Tim Holtz for Sizzix
Post Box - Britannia die
Birds - Memory Box dies
Banner - Creative Expressions
Embossing - Brick Wall E/F from Stampin' Up (retired I think)

Rudolph Day

 Well a quick scramble this morning because Rudolph Day has caught me completely by surprise with no card made for the challenge. I know that time flies but it seems to have been particularly speedy this month.  Fortunately I already had some die cuts stashed away - thanks to a very kind friend who loaned me her Santa Wineglass dies recently, so all I needed to do was assemble one and find suitable background and sentiment to make this quick card.  If you follow the link you will see  super cards for inspiration made by guest designers Bunny, Pauline and Darnell and of course Helen.

Happy Rudolph Day 😊

Background - retired snowy DSP from Stampin Up from a few years back
Wineglass Santa - unbranded die
Snowflake - die from my Christmas stash SU I think
Words - also a die from my Christmas stash (unbranded)