Driving in my Car

Hello Nomad friends.  How's it going???   Decidedly autumnal here.  Missing crisp and moved right into soggy and cold.  Definitely stodgy pudding and cosy food weather.  

I decided to make a tag for a learner driver.  Don't know why.  Maybe I just wanted to test drive this fun car die from Papirdesigns that I hadn't tried yet.

 I used a Simple and Basic tag die and a piece of watercolour paper sprinkled with brusho's and spritzed with water.  I die cut a couple of clouds and the Good Luck is a Kort og Godt stamp.  I cut the car using the Boblebil die from black card and blue patterned card and added some promarker colour.  I cut a white square, edged it in red pen and added a red die cut L.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Eyes Like Dark Pools of Dark

Hello Nomad friends.  I love October!!  The days are cooler, the nights are chilly, the leaves are falling and it's full of bootastic makes and challenges.  Over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity it's Day 8 of our 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza and today was a happy mail day when some of the brand new stamps from Lost Coast Designs dropped into the mail box.  Have you spotted them??   They are gorgeous and I couldn't wait to ink up Cartoon Man and made him spooky!!! 

 

Here he is, out in the woods.  I used Lost Coast Designs Tall Trees Background stamped on a white panel.  Then I stamped ATC Perspective on a scrap of brown card with grey ink and fussy cut it.  I used a circle of stamp cushion to stamp the yellow sun/moon using archival ink.  I stamped Cartoon Man and the head of the large Dancing Skeleton on scraps of white card and fussy cut them.  I coloured the man with distress markers and used a marker to colour in his eyes black and add a tiny dot of white gel pen. 

 

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Thanks for dropping by and don't forget to check out the fun new stamps.  Hugz

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Moon Tales

Hello Nomad friends!  Over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity it's Day 7 of our 31 Days of Halloween celebration and today I shall entertain you with whimsical acrobatic cats.

Maybe his broom has just exited stage left.......

I made a smeared background with Mustard Seed distress ink and then stamped Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame Background with Scattered Straw distress ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Moon and Yoga Cat 5 on white card with black archival ink, fussy cut and added them to the card.  To finish I stamped part of Carmen's Veranda When Witches Go Riding sentiment.

 

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Pumpkin Party

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the most spooktacular month of the year and over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity it's our annual 31 Days of Halloween celebration.  The team is posting every day this month with suitable inspiration for the bootastic October, and we hope you will join the fun. Today I used Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat and dressed him up in his autumn best!!

Love this cat stamp.  He has attitude!!!   I gave him a pumpkin jumper.  
The white panel has blended and smooched with Peeled Pint distress ink, and then I stamped Carmen's Veranda Flying Monkey Background with black archival ink, and added a little colour to the non-silhouette monkey.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Fat Cat directly on the panel and also on a piece of white card.  I coloured the cat, fussy cut and added him to the card.  I die cut the jack o'lantern pieces using a poppystamp die, stuck them on his jumper and done!!

 

 

Submit your stamped anythings with a Halloween theme to the linky party by 23.59 PST on the 31st and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so check back and join the fun. 

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Spooktacular October

Hello Nomad friends.  It's warm, it's windy.  Perfect day to blow away the cobwebs, or maybe blow them in cos it's SPOOKTACULAR OCTOBER!!!!!!  It's also the second of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge September Reveal.  This month I received a beautiful card from Tina in Slovenia and mine waddled it's way to Gundi in Germany.

I went with the Great Outdoors option and added a little lady of mystery courtesy of Sweetpea stamps.  The foliage background is a Lost Coast Designs rubber stamp and I used distress ink for the moon and watercolour wash background.   I coloured the lady with sharpies.

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Feeling Blessed

Hello Nomad friends.  Today the postal service was good for me!!   I got a card from my Card Chain Challenge friend Tina in Slovenia, a lovely package of goodies I won at the Snippets Playground, and a huge pack of goodies from my lovely friend Mia in Greece.  I felt the love and am so grateful for all my worldwide friends.  HUGZ

One of the things included in my package from Mia was a beautiful postcard with a lovely message on the back.  I was immediately inspired and have made an autumnal card.

I am impressed with myself that I was able to rip up this lovely postcard because I do have a box of collected postcards.  But I think it made a lovely bit of collage art.  I edged my base card with yellow distress ink and used a panel of white card and finger painted with water and distress inks to get my background. I did some off block stamping with a lavinia stamp to get the foliage and ripped around the edges and images on the postcard.  I added some spellbinder leaves die cut from gold mirror card and some sticker words from Papirdesign which say Harmony, Passion and Friendship.

Here's a pic of all the goodies Mia sent me as part of her name day celebration.  I am already working on ideas for a few more of these things Mia.  Thanks so much.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Little Boos

Hello Nomad friends.  Another card using Poppystamps dies.  

 

I love this cute little ghost!!  He comes from Poppystamps Halloween Assemblage.  The background is Poppystamps Leafy Branch Oval which I backed with a piece of paper painted with copper aztec paint.  To finish I added a couple of fun sentiment from Whimsy Stamps Pick Your Poison stamp set.

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