Thursday, 28 August 2025

Dessert Tales

Hello Nomad friends.  I've been juggling ice creams and finally stumbled over the right die/colour combo for some cool summer fun.

I used Poppystamps Art Deco Layers and Grand Whittle Ice Cream Cone.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Poppystamps Challenge 131 - Summer Daze
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

Wednesday, 27 August 2025

Underlay

Hello Nomad friends.  I should be doing garden things before it rains, but more UFO's caught my attention.  I stamped and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Taco John the other day and he looks hopefully at me every time I sit at my desk.  The yellow paper I used earlier really gave me a Mexican vibe so vamos a tener una fiesta!!!

 
He's just so adorbs!!!!  He is stamped on a scrap of patterned card with brown archival ink and I added a little distress marker colour.  The happy birthday is also from Lost Coast Designs.

The panel behind his head was a bit of sock packaging (gotta love it when they use kraft) cut with a postage die (I have so many but probably Gummiapan cos it's square) and then I used a nifty little die from Your Next Stamp to cut the wholes.  Then I stitched with this delicious variegated wool I scored in the bargain basket the other day.  So pretty!!!
 

Inside it's a bit of a sunny explosion so I added a writing panel then stamped Taco John again, peeking onto the card and Lost Coast Designs Do I Smell Cake sentiment.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity - Cats and/or Dogs Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - 4 Legged Friend 
Paper Funday Challenge 79 - Anything Goes opt 4 Legged Friend
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stitch It 
Snippets Playground Challenge 513


Eat More Fish

Hello Nomad friends.  It's very maritime here at my crafty corner at the moment.  I have a few bits lying around from previous projects so here is this gorgeous Hero Arts Layering Koi again.  


The gold mirror panel is the one I cut my koi from the other day.  Seemed a pity to waste a nice negative cut.  I cut it with Stamplorations Double Stitch Die and embossed with Paper Discovery Waves embossing folder.  Then I cut another Hero Arts Koi from green mirror card and added him in the space.  I feel a never ending world of koi cards might be on the horizon bwahahahaaahahahaa.  I added a Kort og Godt Happy Birthday greeting, stamped on a scrap and cut with a stitch fishtail banner die.
 

Monday, 25 August 2025

Something Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a great weekend.  I spent two days dancing with a vicious little virus that came in Saturday morning with a hedgehog in my throat and then hit me with a herd of buffalos and left me feeling like a merry-go-round on a roller coaster.  Don't you just love it when annoying weekend visitors move along!!  Feeling very much more ooman today and found a sentiment to finish this A5 journal page I was working on.


I started with an A5 sheet of Marianne Designs Seabreeze papers.  I added some ripped dark blue strips and some dark blue glitter through a Rubber Dance stencil.  The light house and anchor are from UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers, cut with Studio Light Mosaic ATC die.  I added an offset dark blue ATC behind each of these.  The fish were cut from some maritime themed wallpaper and the sentiment is ripped from a Prima journaling card.

OK, off to water the garden before my tomato plants give up totally. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Friday, 22 August 2025

Keep Swimming

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you have had a splendid day.  I started two projects this afternoon, in the hopes of getting one finished.  Hurrah, success, and the other one is only a few final details away from completion too, so definitely a win win day.  Actually, this one also had me stymied on which sentiment to use, so in the end I went with five!!!!!


I made a double Z-fold card with UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers.  All the stamps and dies are Hero Arts.  

I cut the large Hero Arts Layering Koi Fish die from mirror card and added a little promarker colour.  The Koi Bunch were stamped on white card, coloured with sharpies and fussy cut.  Then I stamped sentiments from Hero Arts Where To Next, Kelly's No Comment and Kelly's All Decked Out stamp sets.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero Challenge - Splish Splash
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Z-Fold
Allsorts Challenge 830 - Something Beginning with B  
Scrappelyst Sommerutfordring - Alt Er Lov 
Knutsels en Kadootjes - Vouwen Maar

Monday, 18 August 2025

Peace, Love and Harmony

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you are having a wonderful day.  I have some inspiration today for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Cats and Dogs Challenge with Pokey Dog and Dictionary Words Artist Trading Cards.  ATC's, little canvasses of joy, and with Pokey Dog involved you just have to smile don't you!!


I used three different colour inks on my three white ATC's.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Dictionary Words and then did a little off block stamping with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog on three different patterned paper scraps, fussy cut them and then added them to the ATC's.
 
 
Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and don't forget to hop over to the blog for awesome inspiration from the team.
Hope to see you in the linky.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz
 

 
 

Monday, 11 August 2025

Orange Hare

Hello Nomad friends.  I've been organising my scraps into colours which I find is the best place to start when working on a project.  Orange isn't a big player in my colour palettes, but I found a few pieces to put together with this lovely hare from Crafty Individuals. 

 I used some Spellbinder dies and an Amy Tangerine (more orange!! ROFL) embossing folder.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz