Autumn Colours

more autumnal stamping, thought this Artistic Outpost stamp lent itself to an Autumn scene. I seem to have a large box full of skeleton leaves so added a few of those and a cut out leaf which was already on my desk from a previous project. Would like to enter this on these challenges

Fashionable Stamping - Trees with autumn colour
The Artistic Stamper - Autumn colours
Lunagirl moonbeams -Autumn
Artistic outpost - anything goes

Sail away

 

Hardwood stamp making yet another appearance, I think this is going to be one on the most useful stamps I've ever had, it seems to go with anything. Made this quick and simple card for Cardz4guyz challenge which is not to use any designer papers. The ship is from an old Artemio set ,everything stamped in archival cobalt blue.  I think I'll probably add a sentiment to the bottom left hand corner when  I decide where the card is going.

 

Cardz4guyz. - Do not use any patterned paper

Addicted to stamps - for a man or boy

Speedy fox and friends- masculine card using navy

We Do Doobadoo -  something  masculine



 

 

Clean and simple

This is a very quick clean and simple card except for the fact I have had to make it three times! first time I dropped the happy birthday stamp on it, second time all stamped fine, drew a squiggly line round it and then decided to draw another line and smudged the first line. It is a one layer card, the black is just the card I scanned it on, not easy for me to do clean and simple as I'm usually covered in ink but good to try something different now and again. Stamps are all from Stampin Up.

Cardz4guyz challenge - clean and simple
Cards und more - clean and simple

En Vogue

Have to say I love this Flonz craft stamp because it reminds me of my youth! these are the styles of dresses we wore in the late fifties, early sixties, strange times for fashion as  as well as wearing these ladylike styles we also wore drainpipe trousers , I was thrown out of a dancehall for being "inappropriately dressed" because I was wearing them and the obligatory tight polo neck sweater, so funny when you think of how young people dress (or rather don't dress LOL) nowadays, still think we had the best teen years ever !

Anyhow, back to what I'm supposed to be talking about , made this card for Fashionable stamping challenge which is Fashion, one of my favourite themes ,just hard to choose which stamps to use. The background paper is dusted with Victorian velvet DI and then stamped with the same colour ,old butterfly kisses stamp used. The flowery/net trim is a bargain buy from the Works.

Fashionable Stamping - Fashion

Eclecticellapu  - Ladies Birthday

Allsorts Challenge - Pretty in Pink

Things with wings at Stamping Sensations

I've been dying to tell everyone that I've been invited to join the design team at Stamping Sensations and this is my first post as a DT member!

The challenge for September is Things With Wings , the sponsors for this month are Crafty Devils and the prize is a very generous £35 voucher

My DT piece is here

 

The background is inked with distress inks and I water stamped butterflies onto it, can hardly see them though, then stencilled with a memory box stencil. Stampin up swallowtail butterfly stamped and embossed and painted with distress inks and some glitter added ,bit of frontage embossing powder in the top corner , the thank you stamp is from Inkylicious.

Autumn colours

I'm still loving this Hardwood Stampin up background stamp, seems that it goes with everything depending on the colour its stamped with, really useful for masculine cards but it also looks great in paler colours with flowers on it,.  This is just another quick card while experimenting with the stamp.
The trees are an Inkylicious stamp and the leaves are a very old freebie from crafty individuals.

The Male Room - Autumn / Fall

Artistic Stamper - Autumn colours

Bright colours

I've spent ages tonight trying to put a card together but it just wasn't working so abandoned it for now and made this card instead, very quickly.  few taps of Brusho powder, few spritz of water and a quick blast with the heatgun, I do love these Brusho paints.  Stamped with Inkylicious create a collage meadow and the verse is from their Dandelion wishes set. Entering it for

Make My Monday - Indian Summer
Sunday Stamper - Bright Colours  (Mr Brightside)

Trade winds

After looking at Country view Challenges I took it upon myself to do my own little challenge of making a nautical card without using blue, I have a load of nautical style stamps as they are something I really like and they are so handy for masculine cards but I always make them tones of blue, everything just goes together then.  I have struggled with this card but I'm reasonably happy with the finished project. DP is from Portabella road pad, thought it looked vaguely sea like, the script stamp is a very old one from The Stampman, schooner is from Hunkydory, compass from Indigoblu, anchor from Kanban and wording from Artistic Outpost, no wonder my table was such a mess !

Country View Crafts - Nautical

Scraps

Last year I joined in an ICAD swap (think it was last year ?) never being happy with what I make I had made several which were not used, found them the other day, along with a box full of tags, anyhow this topper is one of them, struggled to put it on a card until I suddenly realised I was trying to use it with a square card and it just didn't go! I hardly ever used anything but 6x6 cards but I did have a few 5x7 so tried it on one and yes, made all the difference. The two back layers are out of my mountain of inky papers, stamped the middle one with the same TH stamp as on the topper and mounted all the layers on black card, will maybe add a sentiment later.  Just squeezing it in for

Make My Monday - Tags or toppers

and also

Red Rubber designs - stay focused on stamping - anything goes

and after my yesterday post about my printer, my DH squirted some magic stuff  from an aerosol into various apertures in the printer and hey presto its working again! I am still looking for a wireless printer but can take my time in finding the right one.

printers

My trusty all in one printer decided to die a couple of nights ago, I have had it for 10 years and it has been excellent for all I needed it for. I have been wittering on about buying a wireless all in one so now it seems I have to make a decision!  Anyone bought one recently? any recommendations ?  Although my HP was high on ink costs it produced good quality prints and copies, quite true to originals , I'm dreading getting a new one and being disappointed !

Pink Lady

I've been doing that boring task tonight of sorting out cards for another charity event, my daughter is doing a Strawberry Tea for MacMillan Cancer next weekend and she wants some cards to sell.  I'm always saying I'm going to actually finish cards at the time of making but I hate doing inserts and sorting out envelopes etc so inevitably I end up with a lot to do at once. I also realised I haven't blogged quite a lot of them either so trying to scan the ones I haven't used before. I'm pretty sure I haven't shown this pretty lady before so I'm entering her onto Sugarcreek Hollow challenge. All papers etc are Graphic45.

Sugar Creek Hollow - Lets celebrate - Birthday/anniversary

Life

 I have had two whole days in which I could have been creating all kinds of wonderful things and what have I done nowt! Well I did manage to put together this card which is made up of bits and pieces from previous projects. Don't know why I made the piece of paper with stamped leaves but it was in the pile, the next piece up is  resist stamped from when I first got my Hero flourish stamp and tried it out in all kinds of colours and techniques, there's still quite a few of them in the pile.The wording (Inkilicious) was already stamped on a piece of brusho experimental paper and the flourish is die cut from the same piece, all that is new is the card blank and the black card for matting,that said I put it together for Try It On Tuesday challenge -Use your stash

Try It On Tuesday - Use your stash
Country View Crafts Challenge - Word Play

F.E. LINUS

I have had this cat stamp for quite a while but it doesn't get used very often, don't know why as he is rather smart, thought he fitted rather well on my new hardwood stamp, looks quite relaxed on there.

Craftroom Stamping - cats

Penny black and more -anything goes

Sunflowers

Looks like summer is over for us, its been quite chilly today even though the sun has been out most of the day, had to dig out my winter slippers and a sweatshirt tonight. I was tempted to turn on the heating but did resist.  Love this cheerful sunflower stamp, don't know why but sunflowers always make me want to smile ! Background paper stamped with versamark and coloured with pan pastels, the stamp is a Penny Black and is coloured with inktense blocks.Couple of challenges:-

Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Floral Fantasy
Pan Pastels UK - bold and bright

Sew Special

Saw a couple of challenges that mentioned sewing and I don't need much encouragement to get out my sewing themed stamps.  This card is not as dark as it looks on here, the backing paper has a red stripe but it looks brown on here, can't get it to look any brighter! Justrite Grandmas attic stamp and a few bits of sewing theme ribbons.

Artful Times - Sewing
A Little Bit Crafty -Sew what?

A sequel to the shrew drama yesterday, this morning we were presented  with a headless corpse ! It was even smaller than the yesterday one, there are times when I just hate my cats !!!! We are keeping them in at night as it seemed to be then that they did their hunting, as shown by the times they brought in live mice in the middle of the night but it seems they have just changed their hunting times too.