Red Panda

Hi there. I've just returned from a relaxing few days at our beach house and a a couple of days on my own, crafting to my hearts content:)

Here is one of the cards I made. I bought this set last year, because I thought the racoon critter could also be a red Panda, which just happens to be my daughters fave animal. I thought it was about time I used them!

The image stamps are from WPlus9 Curious Forest Friends and the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.
The critters are coloured with Copics and the rest is coloured with Zig Markers.

                                              I'm entering the following challenges:-

My 1st Blueprints Card

I noticed there is a new challenge at MFT Stamps, using Die-namics Blueprint dies, so I purchased one to be able to take part. This month's theme is to use more than one, so now I've ordered a couple more!!! In the meantime, I've made a card using Blueprint nbr 30 and hopefully it's ok to enter the challenge (I've mixed it with the stamps and co-ordinatiing dies.

The stamp set is called 'Snuggle Bunnies' and it was a 'must have' after the last Craft Retreat.

As the dies and stamps are new products to me, I'm also entering Darnell's NBUS Challenge nbr12.

                                                                           
                                        ETA:- I'm also entering the Simon Wednesday Challenge (Anything Goes) 

Stained Glass Effect

Today I am sharing a couple of cards I made for the Ellen Hutson Pin-Sights Challenge. The moodboard is really beautiful and I was so inspired.

My first thing I thought of was a stained glass window or mozaic and so I designed this card with that in mind...

I stamped the leaves and flowers with Versafine and coloured with Zig Markers. The background was coloured with distress ink.

This next card was inspired by the 'Balanced Seaglass' - such a peaceful image!

I used Zig Markers for this card too and thought it would be fun to mix up the colours in the top leaf.

The stamp sets are both from Ellen Hutson - Bold Bloom and Hello Gorgeous. I embossed the black card base with a leaf background from Kaisercraft.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Blue Cat

Here is another card for the Scrapbook boutique challenge.

This is another very old stamp from a company no longer in existence. I love this cat and tought this paper from Kaisercraft suited the moodboard from Scrapbook Boutique September Challenge.

Polka Dot Sheep

Over the weekend I was trying to use up some of the bits and pieces I stamped whilst I was at our Craft Retreat in March and I thought these sheep would be perfect for the current MFT Sketch Challenge.

The sheep are from MFT Ewe are the Best, The balloon and sentiment are from MFT Happy Pandas and the paper is from MFT Sweet Celebration.

I'm entering the following challenges:-

Oriental Orchid

Hi again. I am back with another card for the Altenew Challenge, using a new (to me) stamp set. I think this will be the first of many.

I used the colours from the Altenew challenge and found a pic through Google to give me inspiration.
The stamp set is Oriental Orchid and I white embossed on canvas card stock and coloured with Twinks again.

I'm entering the following challenges:- 

                                                     

                                                      

Beautiful Papers

I'm getting inspired to use papers in my cards again and I found some gorgeous pads at a recent Kaisercraft sale.

I die cut the tag and stamped the image and sentiment  from Honeybee Stamp and Ellen Hutson and gold embossed.
The tag die is from Papertrey Ink, t he rectangle die from Dienamics and the paper from Kaisercraft.

As always, I find it hard to get a good pic of metallics, but I hope you can see hour pretty it is.

I'm entering the following challenges:-