As The Old Bat Flies

Hello.  Welcome.  Tis the season to say Bwahahahaahhaa. 

I stamped Taylored Expressions Twinkle Twinkle background and embossed with gold powder.  I coloured it with distress ink and wiped excess ink off the gold embossing.  I die cut Taylored Expressions 13 Dead End Drive from black card and extended the base to form a hill.  I paper pieced the moon, windows and road.  I wrote he sentiment using a white gel pen.

'the road to a friend's house is never long'

Especially if she has good coffee and cake.  Bwwwahahahahaaaaahahaaa.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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He Is Still Big

Hello.  Welcome.  Having a bit of a CAS blitz inspired by CASology's BIG.  To be big, maybe you just have to be looked at by someone smaller.  The cue card made me think of this lovely stamp by Unity - First Love, First Hero.  I always thought my dad was so big when I was small.  Now I am growed, he's still big in my heart and in my thoughts.  

I stamped the image and masked it.  Then I added Stormy Sky distress ink to a long acrylic block, wiped away a section, spritzed it with water and stamped the colour onto the card.  The DAD is stamped using letters from Carmen's Veranda's Zen Dream stamp.  

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Big Red Balloon

Hello.  Welcome.  Another card for CASology's Big challenge. 

I stamped the pennant (NBUS) from Panduro's Kids set.  I thought it looked like a balloon string with dangles.  Then I cut my balloon from red card and embossed the sentiment using a sizzix embossing folder (NBUS I think. I don't remember using it before, but it is pretty ancient.  But now I see it, I am wondering why I haven't used it before!!).  I used Barn Door distress ink to highlight the embossing. 

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Everything Is Relative Sister

Hello.  Welcome.  CASology have the cue word BIG.  Well, that's an interesting one.  How do you judge size.  Usually with a reference to something else. Mice are big to fleas and elephants are big to mice.  Squueeeeeek!!  And CAS.  If you stamp something big then there goes your white space.  Unless of course it is your white space!  Or in this case, orange!!!!

Meet Ed.  He's a giant pumpkin.  Well, the biggest one I'm going to see this year.  Terrible year in the pumpkin patch.  Anyway, back to Ed....   He's so big he didn't fit on the card.  There he is, being his own white space.  I used sizzix movers and shapers dies to cut the face from black card, added it to my orange card base and a couple of googly eyes, cos Ed has character!

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Scrapy Land Challenge 74
Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies

Woodland Potato Postcard

Hello.  Welcome.  Mr Potato wanted to play along with the VLVS challenge.  He says he's a forest animal.  

I started with a 6 x 4" piece of pale blue card.  I stamped the VLVS concentric circle stamp all over the blue card using Watering Can archival ink.  I used 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th impressions, stamping til I could stamp no more, and then re-inking.  I took some pages from a dictionary, words beginning with P, and coloured with Old Paper, Tea Dye and Stormy Sky distress inks.  I ripped the dictionary pages up and stuck them over the blue stamped card.  VLVS Mr Potato stamped on old book paper, embossed, fussy cut and coloured with Promarkers and white gel pen.  The VLVS sentiment was stamped and embossed on old book paper and layered on a couple of pieces of the blue stamped card.  I used my craft knife and did some serious distressing on the edges.

"It is as bad as you think and they are out to get you!"

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Blue Berry

Hello.  Welcome.  Kreativ Scrapping have a lovely colour palette inspiration, and Marianne Designs want two main colours and a splash, and I want christmas, so together we made this.....

I went all pink and blue and a little touch of orange.  I cut and embossed the Marianne Designs doily from pink card.  It comes with a matching angel wing (nothing to do with angels me thinks) so I used that to cut my blue Bazzill dots base card a fancy nancy shape.  Then I cut and embossed the MD stars doily.  The cutie was stamped, embossed, fussy cut and coloured with Worn Lipstick distress and promarkers.   God Jul as they say in my part of the world.  

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Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 351
Dies R Us Challenge 81 - Fancy Corners

Tea Leaves

Hello.  Welcome.  We've gone from a warm and wet summer to a warm and wet autumn.  Only thing to do is craft!!

I used Sizzix Labels Ornate #3 dies to cut my rust Bazzill dots card base and DCWV domino patterned paper.  I cut Poppy Stamps Tea Pot Stack from gold mirror card.  The leaves are cut from orange and gold metal sheets using dies from Spellbinders Orchard Harvest Tags and Accents set.  Pile of teapots in a pile of leaves!  Perfect.  

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Allsorts Challenge Week 433 - Feels Like Autumn