Prettiest Pomander and post #1800

I finally got some time to play with the "Prettiest Pomander" stamp set from Altenew.  I had a go at layering the stamp but wasn't happy with the colours I used, so gave it a second go.  I recently saw that someone (and now can't find who it was!) advised if you want to make white flowers - miss the first layer.  So I thought I'd make the lilies in the Pomander white.

I used a pale green ink for the second layer on the white lilies

I was inspired  by Lydia Evans - for drawing stems in the vase.    After stamping the vase, I drew the stems with a maker and a Copic multiliner pen.  I added some pale blue Copic marker.  I made my background with some blue marbled patterned paper to ground my vase.  A strip of dark blue shiny washi was added. My base card is a soft grey.  A simple Happy Birthday finished off the card.

I've got another Altenew stamp set I haven't opened yet, so hopefully I'll get some time tomorrow to get it out and inked.    This afternoon I got a couple of quick stenciled cards done... I'll post them tomorrow...

I've just realised that this is my 1800th post.  My first post was 15 March 2009 - over 10 years ago.
Here's one of the first cards I shared.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Happy stamping this weekend.

Crazy Cat Birthday

It's my day to share at Die Cut Divas today.  Our theme this month is Animals.....

I've used stamps and dies from Tim Holtz together with a sentiment from Catherine Pooler Designs and the speech bubble die cut is from Penny Black.  I did some selected die cutting to make the speech bubble longer to cover the sentiment. The background is a Tim Holtz embossing folder.

Entering into the challenge at Naughty or Nice this month - Feature a Creature,

This one is heading it's way to Australia for my son-in-law's birthday.    I forgot to take it with me when I say over the weekend. 


Here are a couple of photos of our few days away.

We had a fun day at Australia Zoo, spend a lot of time at the beach and generally had a great time with our grandson, daughter, son-in-law, my Mum and Dad and my son and his girlfriend.  As you can see our little man is growing up quickly and is a real water baby.

Thanks for stopping by

WCMD continues.............

I really am trying to get all 10 challenges at StampNation done... two more done

Challenge #6  Australia - Aboriginal Art

I started by stamping the dragonflies in black ink onto the blue card.  Then overstamped with a Hero Arts background in white pigment ink.  The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.  The die cut dragonfly was cut from dotted vellum.

Challenge # 7 Malaysia - Batik

I was inspired by a pink floral batik in the inspiration board.  So created my own batik.  I clear embossed the Inkadinkado flourish and added some flowers from Eva's Favourite flowers by Winnie & Walter.  I then used Picked Raspberry to cover the entire background.  I used some Zig markers to colour the flowers.  I stamped the dots in white ink but it faded into the background, so I used a Signo white gel pen and coloured over them.  Add a few single dots here and there.   I decided to do a hidden sentiment by using the Winnie and Walter Happy die and adding it to a layer of 4 other die cut.    Adding this to Winnie & Walter's watercolour challenge with Vanessa. 

Only two more challenges to go  - just a few more days to do so. 

No stamps were inked to make this card.....

Yes... I've done a totally digi hybrid card today for the latest Mygrafico inspiration.    I chose to use a set by Shery K....

 This is a free set that has cutting files and printable files ~ so if you are in a hurry... this is a great card to just print and cut... but as it comes with all the elements as separate files, I was able to make the card with a few personal touches.

I took the PP and resized it to fit a square card size.  Added the heart and the scallop and then printed it out.  I added a stripe of green card to define the two areas.  I then printed out the heart onto card stock and die cut it with a Spellbinders die.   I imported the banner and added the sentiment over top and printed it out, fussy cut and added to the panel.  I added some flowers and a button tied with some twine, a pink pearl and the little corner embellishment.   Another one of my handmade teddies as an accompaniment. 

So as you can see, you can do it the easy way or add your own touches with this kit.   Pop over to the challenge blog and see what the other's have made.  And join our Anything Goes challenge and have a chance to win some digi images.

Off to have a quick play before bed.  Got my next month's sets from Mygrafico and can't wait to start creating.