Happy Christmas

 Well it's that time of year again and it's time to wish anyone who is still visiting my poor neglected blog a very Happy Christmas.  Like a lot of people it's not been a very good year for us and I've found crafting difficult. I'm hoping to try and do better next year 

This was a very simple card to make using the lovely Woodware collage stamp but I was quite happy with it. I'd like to enter a few challenges with it

Time to Start  Blue Christmas

My Time To Craft - Christmas animals

Sweet Stampin - anything Christmas

Peace On Earth - ATG Christmas

and a second card

Crafty HazelnutsChristmas challenge - Anything goes with the option of use the word Merry

Snowflakes

 The new challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Snowflakes, the design team have lots of inspiration for you over on the challenge blog so I hope you will pay them a visit.  This is our last challenge for 2021 but we will be back in January with new challenges.  For my card I have used a Tim Holtz stamp, the background is a 3D embossed piece coloured with metallic gilding wax, quite irridescent but that doesn't show up on here.  I'm hoping this will be the last Christmas card I make in 2021, I gor rather carried away this year and have probably got enough cards for the next few years !

Winter Wonderland

 Christmas is fast approaching and I've been really busy making Christmas cards.  It's time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time it is Winter Wonderland.  For my card this time I have used bits and pieces from a box I keep all bits kept over from Christmas card making and now and again I do try to use up some of them, The centre topper is from quite a few years ago and now I can't remember how I made it, know its using some two sided sticky paper and the glitter is trapped in between but don't quite know how , I'll have to look it up as it does give a lovely glittery finish without any glitter falling off. Why is it that I never notice a wonky layer until I put it on the computer? now it's really annoying me so might have to do a bit of taking apart and straightening up!  Hope you will visit the design team on the challenge blog and see the lovely samples they have to show you.

Make It Magical

 The new challenge that starts today at Try It On Tuesday is to Make It Magical.  I thought I would choose a magical unicorn for my card, I love this unicorn stamp from Indigo Blu and it doesn't get much use now the great grandchildren are getting past these kind of cards !  The stencil and wording are both from Inkylicious.  The design team have some fabulous samples on the challenge site so I hope you will pay them a visit,

We have been to "Pawtry" this afternoon, a party for one of our Grand daughters Yorkie dog who is one year old today, whatever next !  LOL , was very nice if a bit hectic with four very excited dogs creating havoc but fun anyway.

Its all about time

 The weeks are rolling by so fast and it's time again for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday, this challenge this time is It's All About Time and please visit the challenge page to see the fabulous samples the design team have made.  For my card I have used a piece of a master card I made a long time ago, a stamp by Visible Image that I've also had a long time and a couple of pocket watches from another very old set that I've had so long I have no idea what make it is, computer generated the wording but seems my black ink is running out so it's rather grey !  Been busy the last few days between the rain showers trying to get the garden tidied up and plants cut back, the lawn is covered in leaves from a neighbours tree so just waiting until its dry enough to try and sweep them up, the blackbirds are busy raiding the berries off my shrubs and the little crab apples on my tree attract them too, not so cold this week either.

Halloween

 Today the new challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Halloween.  The design team have some spooky makes for you over on the challenge blog so I hope you will join them there.  For my journal page I have used stamps from Crafty Individuals and used the Edgar Allan Poe quotes as my inspiration.  I have struggled to get a decent copy of my page as the background is very irridescent and reflective, I maybe should have used lighter colours but it does look better in real life !

Going round in circles

 The new challenge starts today at Try It On Tuesday and this time the theme is Going round in Circles, the design team have some brilliant samples over on the challenge blog so I hope you will visit them. My sample is nothing like I intended making but having left it to last minute as usual I couldn't find the stamp I wanted to use ,most annoying!.  So I have made a journal page using a distress oxide background and various stamps , there are lots of circles on there but quite hard to see on here, The man on the bike and the clocks are some very old stamps , I think they came from The Stamp Man but not sure.

Monochromatic

 I've not been crafting for a few weeks now, had a bad fall, small fracture in bone in knee and very painful torn ligaments in the back of my knee, other than issuing me with a Zimmer frame NHS didn't seem to be able to offer any other help. Anyhow I do need a few cards for later this month and after seeing one made by a blog buddy I have naughtily cased her card, hope she will forgive me.I have used different colours and changed the layout a bit. I used some brads to attach the bits and pieces, seem to have an awful lot of them and hardly ever use them nowadays, I think we all stopped using "bumpy" embellishments when the postage went up for thicker cards !

I'd like to enter this card into Sparkles Challenge - Monochromatic

Use Book Paper

 It's challenge time again at Try It On Tuesday and this time we are asking you to use book pages on your entry.  The design team have some fabulous samples over on the challenge site so I hope you will visit them.  For my page I have used a page from my Art Journal that I had already got ink on from rolling off my brayer after making something else, I just added a bit more distress ink and some stencilling which doesn't show up too well on here and then stamped the whole page with an AALL and Create stamp( this stamp is huge!)  restamped the bottle on dictionary pages and added some words cut from a magazine.

Summer Blooms

 Time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time the subject is Summer Blooms . The design team have some fabulous samples over on the challenge blog so I hope you will pay the a visit. For my card I have used a Penny Black Wreath stamp coloured with water colour paints.

Pretty Flowers

 First time using this stamp which came with the Indigo Blu 3rd box set and I love it, so easy as it fills a complete card and just needs a mount and sentiment to finish off.  I would like to enter my card into Make My Monday challenge which is slimline cards

Keep it simple

 I,m late with my design team card for the new challenge on Try it on Tuesday which asks us To keep It Simple.  The design team have lovely samples on the challenge so I hope you will visit them..  For me card I have used some inky paper from my stash, an embossing folder and two butterflies from a Tim Holtz bigz die.

Feathered friends

 Time for a new challenge at Try It On Tuesday and this time the challenge is "Feathered Friends"

For my card I inked a piece of card with distress inks to make the background for the lighthouse which I stamped , coloured and fussy cut, stamp was a freebie in a magazine, birds are an Inkylicious stamp.  The Tide table stamp and the seagull are both Crafty Individual stamps.  The design team have a great set of samples on the challenge blog so hope you will visit them there.

Travel and Adventure

 The new challenge at Try It On Tuesday is Travel/ adventure. The design team have some great samples to show you over on the challenge blog so do pop over and visit them.  For my card I have used some papers from Heartfelt Creations that I have had for a very long time, the wording is also from their papers,the motor bike is a stamp from a Creative Stamping magazine a couple of years ago.

Hit The Road

 I thought I'd make a card for the Cardz4guyz challenge which is travel. I always seem to use trains,planes or boats for these challenges so for a change I've used this cute camper van that came fom a Creative Stamping magazine a couple of years ago as did the other stamps. We no longer have a car so don't need the map books anymore so I appropriated them for craft use, the piece I've used on here is an area where we used to spend quite alot of time with our caravan, happy days !