Butterfly Wreath

I seem to be the clean and simple mode at the moment or maybe I'm just too lazy to get involved in anything too complicated right now .  Looking for something else I came across the Hero wreath stamp which I have had a very long time and had never been used, shame on me! now I have inked it I see all kind of possibilities for using it .Stamped sentiment and two memory box butterflies and done.

Less is more - sketch

Tickled

Playing about with Clearly Besotted feather stamps again, I have made this card three times up to now and each time something has gone wrong, the first one which had perfect stamping I dropped the ink pad on it! air was blue to match the stamping.  The little marks are not on the card but on my scanner glass, I really must try and give it a proper clean,get rid of the bits of glitter and glossy accents stuck on it.

Alphabet challenge - Feathers
Simon Says Stamp - keep it clean and simple
Crafty Creations Challenge - white plus one

Big Butterflies

Trying to get some semblance of normality into our lives after the traumatic last few weeks. Today my OH and I have been out for the day, to Helmsley for lunch and then this afternoon a lovely walk on Rievaulx Terraces, beautiful sunny day, wild flower banks covered with primroses, cowslips and wood anemones and the beech trees just coming into leaf, a few bluebells starting to show too, the views over the Abbey are stunning.  Anyhow back to the crafting...  my sister sent me this amazing butterfly stamp for my birthday and I have just started to play with it, its huge, this is a 6x6 card and it doesn't quite fit on it. I have stamped it just in black and white here and I think its stunning just as is !  I may add a bit of bling later but for now I'm just loving the simplicity of it.  I'm entering it on these challenges

That's Crafty - Black and white with a splash of colour

Simon Says Stamping Blog - Use a big stamp

Fashionable Stamping -flying things

I also made a blue version of the card

Off now to play with some of the coloured versions I stamped and coloured.

Feathers

Well I have to freely admit that I "cased" this card from Made With Sparkle Blog, A friend gave me the lovely Feathers stamp set and matching dies from Clearly Besotted Stamps for my birthday and I had naughtily treated myself to several of the Wendy Vecchi designer archival ink pads, yummy colours and this gave me a chance to try some of them out! Not made this for anything in particular, just to play. The Alphabet challenge is just as you like it which seems appropriate so entering into their challenge

Alphabet challenge - just as you like it

 

Masking tape technique

Saw this technique using masking tape on You Tube the other day and had a play with it, I loved the distressed look of it and its something I will certainly be using again. Dug out this Woodware stamp I've had a while and made a quick and simple card.

Fantasy Stampers - Easter -photo inspiration -pink tulips and the green from the eggs

Alphabet challenge - Easter

Crafts4Eternity - Easter

Easter

Been making a few last minute Easter cards so thought I might just put a few on here as my blog is feeling very neglected.  We have been and are still going through a very difficult and sad time in our family, a little time out with a bit of crafting does help.  Made this 10 minute card with pan pastels, serene silhouette stamp from Stampin up set{a lovely birthday present from my sister} and the rabbits are a craft stamper freebie.

Less is more challenge  asks for  a one layer card with shadow stamping

Inky flowers

Been "practicing" with my inkylicious ink dusters, bought them ages ago, had one go and didn't seem to get the hang of them and because it wasn't instant gratification chucked them in a drawer to gather dust, however having just bought another bunch of Inkylicious stamps thought I'd have another go with them, did watch a couple of youtube videos first and I am liking them better I think.?

I thought this card would be appropriate for Fashionable Stamping Challenge which is Silhouettes .

My computer is playing up and its taken longer to make this post than make the card LOL!

White space!

More playing tonight with new Adirondack brights inkpads, loving the vibrant colours, need more!
Bit scared of leaving all that white space on this card, not something I often do.  A very, very old stamp for the sentiment, one of the first unmounted stamps I ever bought, a new inkylicious flower stamp and the honeycomb stencil.  I'm so enjoying this aimless playing!

Day Dreamer

More aimless playing, this time with pan pastels and another new Inkylicious stamp. The wording is from an old Hero Arts stamp set

More stencil playing

I've not been posting much to my blog recently although I have been making/playing but nothing that I have made for any challenges.  I'm going to be just posting stuff I have made because I want to not to any specific theme or challenge. I love it when I get comments and appreciate everyone so I do hope that my followers will still have a look at what I've been up. I will still enter the occasional challenge if I have made something appropriate.  I got quite a lot of new stuff at the Great Northern
Papercraft show, even though I didn't like the venue and the overcrowding! also was missing a lot of the usual exhibitors. Hopefully I'm off to Port Sunlight on the 29th, weather and health permitting!
The above card made using memory box honeycomb stencil,inkylicious flowers and woodware sentiment.

Totally different style, Love Tulip stamp from Woodware and papers from Whichcraft.

Vintage

60th birthday card , colours are really not as dark as they look on here, used a bit more of my Tim Holtz papers and various stamps

The Male Room - Vintage

Birthday waves

Another card using the waves stencil, this time on a more masculine colour theme

Cardz4guyz challenge - typography-words/name

making waves

This wave stencil arrived in the post today and I wasted no time in getting playing with it, love it .
I have to say I have been in the doldrums with crafting for a while now and it was lovely today to get excited about making something!  So simple but such a lovely background, the hardest part was deciding what stamp to use on it, its going to be making a lot of appearances I think...............

Tuesday Taggers - Use a mask or stencil


and a second one -just because........

Sew Special

Love this background paper from Crafty Secrets Typography CD, which I was lucky enough to win from Astrid a while ago, it hardly needs any thing adding to make a card. I have had the sewing machine stamp for ages and never used it, the scissors, needle and thread and sentiment are from a freebie that came with a magazine. It would have been made quicker but I have spent ages looking for another stamp that seems to have gone walkabout, so aggravating!

Sugar Creek Hollow - Sew fashionable
Fantastic Tuesday  - anything goes ( must be square)
 

Buttons and bows

After my marathon masculine card making frenzy its been a pleasure to make something a bit more feminine. I had seen a lovely card made by Avril for the Alphabet challenge and it inspired me to get going. I loved how she had sewn round all her layers but I don't have room to keep my sewing machine out and it was too much effort to drag it out so I paper pierced all my layers( can't see it very well on here) I had seen Sue Wilson on create and craft using the Tim Holtz piercing ruler and I have had mine for ages and never used it so had a go at that, very quick and easy. I also cased her idea for using the memory box chloe die, thanks Avril !

Alphabet challenge - Buttons and bows
ooh la la creations - fashionista