Felines

 I got these feline stamps for my birthday back in April and this is the first time they've seen ink.  Just made an inky background with distress inks and a brick stencil, all the stamps are from Visible Image

 Crazy for Cats challenge - cats

Cardz4galz - cats or kittens

Country view challenges - Four legged friend(s)

Use three colours

 Its time for another challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time it's use three colours (this does not include black ink for stamping or the colour of the base card)  We welcome all type of art, cards, ATCs ,art journal pages etc just as long as it is true to the challenge theme.  For my card my colours are blue, red and yellow plus the black stamping.  The stamp is from an Indigo Blu box set from last year or maybe the year before that and its first time of inking!  think it might be getting more use now I've sen how well it stamps and it makes a really quick card too.  

My Type

 Having another play with my favourite typewriter stamp and also another new woodware stamp with lots of number stamps. Background is distress oxides and Funky Fossil stencils.  I need to try and find some more small sentiment stamps to fit in the message space and then will fit  a lot more occasions 

Daring cards Makers - Just my type (typewriter or type font)

Seize The Birthday - number crunching

Summer Blooms

 The new challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Summer Blooms and there is some lovely inspiration from the design team over on the challenge blog so hopefully you will pay them a visit. We welcome all kinds of crafts provided they follow the challenge theme so hope you will join in the challenge.  My card is quite simple as the stamp says it all, its a large stamp from Studio Light called Honey Bees, I'll probably add a sentiment when I know where its going. I deliberately kept the colours light as I do tend to be a bit heavy handed, I just used water colours and lots of water !.  

Chase the sunset

 I usually seem to make masculine cards in darker shades, blues and browns but I loved the wording with this stamp set and went with the sunset colours, all the stamps are from Visible Image Ride the wind set. This card is for our son-in-law's birthday, he seems to have a hobby of collecting real motor bikes !

I'd like to enter these challenges

Shopping our stash - Lets hear it for the boys

Daring card makers - make it masculine

Simon says stamp - monday challenge -Masculine

Moving along with the times - man/boy

Birds and/or feathers

 The new challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Birds and/or feathers. My first dilemma was which stamps to use as I seem to have a rather large collection of bird stamps accumulated over the years, I finally settled on yet another old set of stamps, this time from Oxford Impressions, I have made a page for my little Kraft journal using inky background, some stencilling and layers of stamping. It looked a bit flat so I thought it would be a good idea to drag out the sewing machine and sew round it, big mistake ! had to unpick the first try and by the time I'd finally finished the sewing took longer than making the page .The design team have some fabulous inspiration over on the challenge blog so hope you will pay them a visit

Vintage

 I got the latest issue of Indigo Blu box set in the post yesterday and last night intended having a play with the lovely stamps and stencils so how did I end up with this instead !  The elegant lady has been hanging around in my box of unfinished stuff for ages and for some reason I decided to do something with her instead,also found the Just Rite background stanp which made for a good background for her, the other stamps are all from the same set as the lady, a very old unmounted red rubber set that came from The Stamp Man shop back in the mists of time  I really enjoyed making the inky background with several different stencils and stamps and wasn't too keen on covering it all up .  This page will go in my little Kraft journal when I get round to making another page in similar style for a double spread.

I'd like to enter this into Country View Crafts challenge of Vintage

and

Simonsaysstampmonday challenge - not a card

D is for dragonfly

 I seem to be having a bit of nostalgia at the moment when it comes to stamping as I keep going back to my older stamps, I have had this Stampendous one a long time and its not had much use . For this card I simply stamped the background with inkylicious splats and splatters stamp inked with distress ink and spritzed and stamped the dragobfly over it with versamark ink and gold embossed, just added a little extra colour to the wings, The card I stamped on is white glimmer which has gold in it and I added some sparkle to the wings too which doesn't show on here

I'd like to enter my card into Alphabet challenge which is D for dragonfly

Make It Masculine

 Its time again for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time we are asking you to Make It Masculine. As always we welcome all kinds of projects, cards, art journal pages, atc's etc as long as it follows the challenge theme.  For my card I have used a large background stamp by Studio Light on a piece of distress ink coloured card. The ship and nautical bits are Stampin Up .no idea where the die came from. A fairly quick card to make once I had stopped dithering about what to do. I actually enjoy making male cards , usually try and keep them fairly simple though.  The design team have some lovely samples over on the challenge blog so I hope you will pay them a visit.

also adding my card to Make my monday challenge which is Masculine

The Reading List

 I was happy to see that the The Library Challenge had started up again. I have not read this book so only have the cover to go by so I have chosen to use the cat on the window sill.  For my card I have used an old Penny Black stamp that I've always loved so was pleased to give it another inking, I think the brick stencil is a Funky Fossil one but not sure.

also like to enter Retro Rubber Challenge - anything goes,  My stamp is probably eight or nine years old, maybe older!

classic

 I've been trying to catch up on family birthday cards this week, this one is for an adult Grandson, I usually make him a golfing card but I've run out of stamps I've already used on his card so used this Visible Image car stamp instead. The background stencil is a Gina Kay and there is also a bit of a gear and cog stencil that I have no idea where it came from but I've had it for years,

Seize The  Birthday - Wheels

Sweet Stamping -      Masculine

TGIF -                       Your The man

Things with wings

 I've had this Studio Light stamp for a while but just got round to using it, it's a big stamp,only just fits on this DL card.I stamped and clear embossed it and put a wishy,washy watercolour wash all over it, then water coloured the flowers and stalks. I had stamped the butterfly images onto another piece of card ,painted them,cut them out and 3D d them onto the card, I really love this stamp and will be using a lot in different colourwise !  

Sparkles Monthly challenge - Things with wings

Creative Crafting Uncles - Butterflies

dd-tripleb.blogspot.com - Birds,blooms, butterflies 

Keep it simple

 Another two weeks flown by and it's time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday. this time the theme is "Keep it simple" We welcome all kinds projects, cards. journal pages, atc's , mixed media etc as long as the project follows the challenge theme.  For my simple card I lightly stencilled the background with an alphabet stencil and stamped the typewriter and birthday message with black versafine, just added a strip of washi tape to finish it off. The stamp is a new one by Woodware and I really like it, reminds me of my working days back in the 50's and 60's rattling away on an old manual typewriter(not quite as old a model as this one!)  never felt the same when the electric ones and then the word processors came in !  The design team have lots of lovely samples over on the challenge blog so I hope you will pay thm a visit.

Use a stencil

 Its time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time we want to see some stencils used. Any kind of art is welcomed as long as it follows the challenge theme.  For my card I tried for the first time using water on a stencil and I really loved the soft effect produced.  My focal stamp is from Visible Image and ,at the moment, one of my favourite stamps.  The design team have some fabulous samples over on the challenge site so I hope you will pay them a visit.

A few special birthdays

 

I haven't been in the mood for making cards recently but as there were a few special birthday cards needed I had to get going and now I'm feeling a bit more motivated !  These are not really my type of cards but made to suit the recipients (I Hope)  Having got these completed I've been busy getting a bit more inky tonight and have another couple almost finished so will be posting them soon.  I have really neglected my blog and spend too much time aimlessly snooping on facebook LOL.