Sweet Stampin GDT- Christmas in July!

Hello all! Hope you are going to enjoy a lovely crafting weekend!

Here is my last card as Guest Designer for Sweet Stampin Challenges. The challenge this week is Christmas in July. This is fabby as I'm still endeavouring to get a decent head start on early Christmas cards. I usually start in October so I'm dead chuffed with myself this year as I have made 17 so far! Yay! Why not come and play as I'm sure we could all do with getting a little head start?

I love this image. It's so funky and different, dontcha think? Stamp is by (who else?) Stamping Bella coloured with lyra and watercolour pencils and a sponged background. I added Glossy Accents to the red baubles/lamp fringe and a touch of Stickles here and there. Papers are by Stampin Up. Little star die is the tiny tags die from Papertrey Ink (I love that set so much, am using it on nearly every card!!) Sentiment is Waltzing Mouse.

I'd like to enter this into:

Bellarific Challenge- Chrismas in July

Pollycraft- Christmas in July

Belli Challenge- Christmas in July

Crafty Creations- Christmas in July

Crafty Catz- Christmas in July

Fussy and Fancy- Christmas in July

Allsorts- free and easy

Creative Inspirations- Christmas in July

Crafty stash used: Stamps (Stamping Bella, Waltzing Mouse); Papers (Stampin Up); Assorted cardstock; Watercolour & lyra pencils; Die (Papertrey Ink); Ink (Stampin Up); Bakers' twine; Stickles; Glossy Accents

Fashion Challenge at Sweet Stampin Challenges

Hi! I know I've been a bad blogger but have been terribly busy in the last week. Another short post today with my guest spot over at the lovely Sweet Stampin Challenges.

This week the challenge is "Fashion" and is sponsored by Stamping Boutique.

I used this gorgeous digi image available from Stamping Boutique. I coloured with usual mixture of lyra & watercolour pencils and copics and I added some hints of Stickles here and there. Papers are by Fancy Pants "it's the little things". The sentiment was a rub on I've had for yonks by Papermania I think.

There are some fabulousa cards from the rest of the DT this week, so pop on over and be inspired!!

Crafty stash used: Stamp (digi stamp- Stamping Boutique); lyra & watercolour pencils; copics; Crystal Stickles; Black pearls (Wild Orchid Crafts); Flower (Papermania); Rub on (Papermania); Paper (Fancy Pants); Assorted cardstock

Happy Beerday!

Helloooo! Things are quite hectic here so just a quick post today, apologies for not being around much this week.

So here is my 2nd card as Guest Designer for July for Sweet Stampin Challenges. The challenge this week is "one for the boys". So c'mon and join in! The DT have done some really gorgeous cards this week to give you some fabbie inspiration.

I made this card for one of our friends. It's called Beer Peeps from Stamping Bella and I love the sentiment on it "Happy Beerday"! I coloured with a mixture of lyra and watercolour pencils. Because it had a lime in it, I decided it must be a Corona so I tried to colour it as such. I think this will be a useful stamp as hubbie and all his friends drink Corona when they get together. Papers are by Basic Grey. The star strip die is a Die-namics by MFT, the star is a nestie. I decided to "dress" the card by adding a Corona and slice of lime!

I'd like to enter this into:

Deep Ocean Challenge- cards

Papertake Weekly- anything goes

Crafty Creations- boys to men

Simon Says Stamp- anything goes

Stamp with Stampavie- birthday

Usual close up. Hope you can see, I added Glamour Dust to the beer bottle to get the look of condensation and Stickles to the lime. I think you can still add glitter to a male card!

Do come on over to Sweet Stampin Challenge this week, there are 5 digital stamps from Fairy Dust Crafts on offer!!

Crafty stash used: Stamp (Stamping Bella); Watercolour & lyra pencils; Copics; Papers (Basic Grey); Assorted cardstock; Dies (Dienamics & Nesties); Button; Pearls; Button twine (PTI)

Sweet Stampin GDT- Cute and Cuddly

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well and feelin crafty!! I've been very lucky the last couple of weeks. First of all I find out that I was "in the spotlight" over at Sweet Stampin Challenges for my strawberry card I made a couple of weeks ago but then the lovely ladies ask me if I'd like to be guest designer for July!!

I also won the challenge over at Fuzzy Wuzzy and won $20 of House Mouse stamps so the card I've made today has been made using one of the stamps I picked when I won!

So the challenge over at the lovely Sweet Stampin Challenge is "Cute and Cuddly". As I said I used this cute House Mouse stamp. I coloured with watercolour pencils and cut out using a nestie using a technique I found here. I did some paper piecing on the kite and sponged the background. These beautiful summery papers are by October Afternoon and are actually called "Fly a Kite"! The sentiment is Pink Petticoat punched out with a Stampin Up window punch.

Do visit the girls at Sweet Stampin, there are some seriously cute cards on display this week!

Usual close up! Such a cute bunny!

I'd like to enter this into:

Papertake Weekly- anything goes

Dutch Dare- Summer Fun

Allsorts- free n easy (2nd entry)

Crazy 4 Challenges- summer

One Stop- summertime

Stamp with fun- sketch

Crafty stash used: Stamp (House Mouse); Watercolour pencils; Copics; Papers (October Afternoon); Assorted cardstock; Nesties; Punch (Stampin Up); Buttons; Gem; Baker's twine

A big thanks to the ladies over at Fuzzy Wuzzy for my fab prize of $20 to spend at House Mouse. These are the 2 stamps I chose. One summery and one Christmasy!

Hope you've enjoyed visiting today! Take care and I will see you on Tuesday for a new Anything Goes Challenge! x