Happy Birthday to my boy!

 Today my baby boy is 36!  Where the heck has the time flown.   I can not believe I have a 36yr old - who is the father of two delightful little girls!

He is also a connoisseur of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey - and that gave me my idea for his card.   

I search the internet for some images of Jack Daniels and printed this one out.  I due cut with a Spellbinders circle die and cut a scallop circle.   I took some light grey card and used Altenew 3D Masonry folder to add texture.  I search the dafont site and found one called "Bourbon Whiskey"  - it's a free font, so downloaded and typed the sentiments and die cut with Altenew dies.   He loved the card.  

Took some of my Christmas cards to work today and managed to sell around 17 of them.   I had gone overboard this year due to taking a few Christmas card classes online.   So now, just to start addressing the one's left and get ready to post in the next few weeks.  

Inspired by Natasha's Stack and Whack technique.

 I was watching Natasha Foote's YouTube video (number 1099 - ) where she did a technique called Stack and Whack... taking three sheets of paper and tearing it in the same spot.  And then mixed the pieces up and make three cards.  

Here's the three cards I made:

I used some paper from a Rosie's Studio paper pack called Making Merry.  It's a few years old now and loved how I was able to use some of the papers.  I edged each piece with some Distress Oxide Vintage Photo.  I used some Vicki Bouton ephemera that got some ink blending on as well.   The last one I stamped the sentiment from a Rosie's Studio stamp set in Memento Toffee Crunch.   

Love the vintage look with these papers.  

Postage Collage - Four card mix and match set

I finally got some crafting time Thursday and Friday evenings,,  and pulled out my Waffle Flower Postage Collage dies ... the original one and my new block die.... Another of the purchases from the Craft Fair last month...   It's great... it cuts out a slightly larger frame that the original and cuts out the panels.   

I used five sheets of patterned paper from Rosie's Studio pack called Twinkle All The Way and cut the Blocks Die from each.  Then I cut the original die from some light olive card and mixed up the patterns.  I ended up with four cards - messed up a couple of the panel pieces so still have a few pieces over to use on another card.  Some of the cards, I used the frame from the panels behind the original and some I didn't. 

Added a sentiment from Gina K - Holiday Tapestry cut with circle dies from Gina K Master Layout #3

This one used a sentiment panel cut from another patterned paper pack - 

And used the Gina K sentiment for this one too.   I had to use two of one of the pattern on this one, due to messing up some of the other panels. 

For this one I used a circle sentiment from The Stamp Village - the Concord & 9th one.  Cut with a circle die.  All used the Postage Collage stamp set for the added stamping.

And yesterday my package from Krafter's Cart arrived with two more of the Postage Collage stencils to use.  One summer and one the Poinsettia Christmas.  Now to find time to do some stenciling!  

Woodblock Wednesday - Oct 2024

 I did this card for Woodblock Wednesday on Thursday this week, but have been soooo busy that I didn't get time to share it till now!  

I love this challenge from Amy - a good reminder to use those woodblock stamps I have.   At the moment I seem to be on a Christmas blitz... so here's another one!

I used a Hero Arts Poinsettia stamp and the sentiment is from a company called Paper Inspirations.  It's a really old stamp as I can't find if this company still exists.    I started by stamping the Poinsettia all around the edges of the panel - using Altenew Heartbeat red ink.   I stamped the sentiment with some Festive Berries Distress ink.  Added a little blending around the edges.  Added some Nuvo drops in a red and cream and some gold Kindyglitz to the centre of the poinsettias.  

Really happy with this monochromatic card.  

Snuggle Bunny at Die Cut Divas

 Last day of our challenge at Die Cut Divas.   I've got my sample to share. 

This month is all about card making..  celebrating World Card Making Day which was earlier this month.

I used an older MFT set called Snuggle Bunnies to make my card. 

I had this cute little bunny in my "to use" pile.  I had stamped and coloured him a long while ago and used my Scan'n'Cut to cut him and a few of his buddies out.  All the stamps in the set are just adorable. I paired him with a WRMK's embossing folder and an Altenew Slim Sentiments die cut.   A very CAS card. 

Do come and join us - the challenge finishes at 9.00pm US Pacific time. 

Craft Roulette #238

 I watched the replay of the latest Craft Roulette and was really finding it daunting.   Overnight an idea came to me.... Santa in a pair of shorts....   yeap had my big girl pants on to stretch that parameter!

Here is my 25th submission:

This one is a slightly bigger card - 1.5" x 6.5"  Not sure I totally nailed the Project parameter.   It's a bit more mixed media than collage - but there is torn paper, paper piecing, stamp, rub ons, stenciling.  

Smooshed some Festive Berries Distress ink on the a white card base, blended some DO in Vintage Photo around the edge.   Added the stripe of torn paper and then went to town with rub ons. stamping, and made the diagonal lines with the stencil and Slippy When Wet Lunar paste. My splatters were added with a stamp - much more precise placement!   Stamped Simon Says Stamp Santa and coloured him with red and white (to mimic the checked tablecloths in an Italian restaurant)  Used my big girl pants to stretch the Element parameter here! He is also wearing a quintessential NZ black tee shirt!   I paper pieced the cabbage tree (A NZ native tree) and added with Santa to my panel. 

Had great fun with this one.  Nice messy fingers! 

After I had submitted this one to the challenge... I remembered I had some 49th and Market Postage Stamp Washi stickers and thought they would make a great collage... so here's my bonus card. 

 So project - Collage ✔  Colour- Italian Restuarant - reds and greens ✔ Element - Short.  One stamp was the short version of Christmas -Xmas ✔ and Random - diagonal lines - blue and red airmail stripes around the edge. ✔

Wish I thought of this first!

Altenew's October Inspiration challenge.

 I've been doing lots of Christmas cards recently so thought I'd do a floral card (my favourite style)   This one was done yesterday afternoon after having spent the morning looking after the granddaughters.  

Altenew's October inspiration challenge had a gorgeous colour scheme 

I have a LOT of Altenew florals... been collecting them since 2015 - I don't even want to count how many stamps, dies, stencils I have   - LOVE THEM ALL 

So had a fun time trying to choose a stamp set that I wanted to use.  Finally chose Fabulous Florets.

 I purchased the background embossing folder (Altenew Masonry 3D) on my trip to the FYI Craft show and this was the first time I used it.   Embossed some white card and then swiped Charcoal Suit Altenew ink over it.  Stamped the Fabulous Floret with some Purple ink and used a paint brush and water to move the ink a bit.   Added a bit of pink ink and then stamped the third stamp layer with some orange ink. Die cut both images.  Stamp and die the leaves with Parrot, Olive and Moss green inks.   Added the first flower directly to the panel and then added some 3D tape to the front one.  Added the leaves behind the flowers.   Added some Buttercup Liquid dots to the centre of flowers.  And added some Flamingo Liquid dots around the flower.   The sentiment is from the same stamp set, and was white embossed on the black card.  Use an Altenew die to cut it  - doing double die cutting to make the sentiment a bit shorter then the actual die.  

Adding the Inspiration challenge and also Darnell's NBUS challenge as the embossing folder is having it's first outing. 

This morning, we did some Christmas shopping, bought a new bed (hopefully will be delivered in the next week or so) and got some plants and wood for hubby to finish off a front screen on the berry screens.   Been pottering around all afternoon including doing some baking... and not sure where the rest of the day has gone!  

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a crafty day.                                                                             

Halloween colours - Purple at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'.   Our theme is Halloween or Halloween colours.   I don't do Halloween, so thought I'd use Purple on a card. 

I did a birthday card - the design was inspired by Justine Hovey from her recent class.  Her's was a Christmas design, but I liked the design she used.

 Justine die cut the corner of her card and used Poinsettias down the card.   I used a Tim Holtz die to cut into the corner.  Added some purple card behind the die cut.  I made some little roses using Heartfelt Creations - Small Wild Rose die and the matching mold to add the texture.  I used three colours of Francheville purple cardstock to die cut the different layers. I layered them all in different combinations.  Add a silver gem to the centre of each one.   Cut some green card stock with a Poppy Stamps - Orchard leaves and added behind the flowers.   Finished with a foiled sentiment I had in my stash.  Think it came from a class I took last year.  

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge with you Halloween/Halloween colours projects.