Christmas penguins

 It appears that I have been neglecting my blog in favour of FB and Instagram ..... Time to put that right!

I am sharing this with Craftyhazelnut's Christmas challenge 'Anything Goes'.

I have christened a set of new stamps from Creative Expressions, penguins shaped as baubles!  The images were stamped in Versafine Clair black, then coloured.  I masked off the central one to bring him to the front of the group.  The sentiments are from Papermania (possibly) and Visible Image.

The complete stamped image was then matted onto a Julie Hickey die, I didn't have any coloured cardstock with me, but I do really like the white on white :-)

Mother's day card - blog challenge - 100 day challenge

 

I am sharing this with the Cardz4Galz challenge which is Mother's Day.

The image is 'Lovely Lattice' from Stampin Up, the sentiment is from Creative.  Both were stamped in Versafine Clair in grey rather than black, for a softer feel.

I coloured with Marvy alcohol pens and applied Wink of Stella on the flowers only for a nice gleam - that's as close as I get to glitter!

The background is stencilled, using DI's.

See my other 100 days challenge posts over on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/craft.cook.repeat/ 

Day 72: Birthday Card

I wasn't feeling very inspired today, mojo has completely left the building!  So I found this stamped Woodware image and coloured with alco markers, then assembled a card.

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Day 70: Thank you card

A thank you card today - SU stamp, coloured with alco markers and matted onto patterned paper.

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Day 66: 7 x 5 flower birthday card

Another outing for the SU Butterfly Basics set flower stamp. Also a new 7 X 5 background die from Card Making Magic, sentiment from Woodware. Coloured with alco markers.  The die looks greyish in th ephoto, but is purple IRL.

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Day 34: blog challenge - use flowers

Today I am joining in the current Retro Rubber challenge, which is to use flowers.

Yet another 'found' pre-prepped background ( I must run out soon...??), which was run through an embossing folder and over-inked with Distress Oxides.
So I stamped the image onto a die-cut panel (SU Butterfly Basics, from around 4 years ago, I think).  The coloured with various alcohol markers in yellows and greens.  I am very pleased with it, must do a few more in different colourways, I think it will be suitable for several sentiments.
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Day 31: Get well card

Another pre-coloured topper ... I must run out soon, surely??

The stamp is from Woodware, the sentiment from SU.  Coloured with alcohol markers.

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Day 7: Birthday card with Woodware flowers

I am doing well on finishing off previously prepped stuff!  I had stamped these a while ago and have now coloured them in :-)

The stamp image is from Woodware, stamped with Memento because I knew I wanted to use Wink of Stella for a subtle gleam, and for that I needed to use alcohol markers.  I learned the hard way that WoS makes watercolour pens re-activate and drift over the image lines!!  A thin silver mirri mat completes the cards.
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