Musical Musings

Hello Nomad friends.  2nd of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  Make a card, send a card.  Everyone gets a card, everyone is a winner!!  Genius concept!!

My card went to Linda in Minnesota this month.   One of the options was gnomes, which coincidentally is also the theme at Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge this month LOL, and because Linda is musical I selected this wonderful ZZ Top Gnome for her card.

Isn't he cool!!  I also went for the colours, sketch, friendship and stamp option.  I've used Lost Coast Designs Grunge Border 2" on the background, stamped with Picked Raspberry distress ink, smeared with Worn Lipstick and spritzed to make it all blend together.   When it was dry I cut the wholes using a sizzix mixed media die and added my stamped, coloured and fussy cut gnome.   The friends forever are Lost Coast Designs word stamps.  

I hope you have enjoyed my card.  If you would like to see all the amazing card that winged their way around the planet for March check out the REVEAL POST. 

If you would like to join the fun SIGN UP HERE. 

and if you stamped gnomes on your anythings then you could also link up at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge.

Thanks for dropping by.  HUGZ

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Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge - Gnomes 

Odd Socks

Hello Nomad friends.   It's APRIL!!!!  It definitely rates in my top 10 of my most favourite months of the year.  Anyway, 1st of April, and no fooling, there's a new challenge over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  This month we are all about the little people and want you to share your stamped anythings featuring GNOMES!!!

Lost Coast Designs have a whole cupboard filled with adorable gnomes and I recently acquired this very cute Book Gnome.  I love books, and I have lots of friends who love books, so this little dude is going to be very useful.  I paired him with Lost Coast Designs Mayan Stele for an academic feel.  

You have all month to shared your stamped anythings featuring Gnomes for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Hope to see you in the linky.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Allsorts Challenge 846 - Springtime opt AG
Inspiration Station Challenge March inspired by green hats and brown
NBUS Challenge 85 first outing for book gnome 

Easter Bonnet

Hello Nomad friends.   This card was inspired by the Boblende kreativitet's moodboard and then it went a little bit strange.  

I started with a white hammered card base and smeared with mowed lawn distress ink then added a sheet of green paper embossed with a gemini embossing folder.  I smeared the embossed detail with pine needle distress ink to make it pop.  I cut the rosette using sizzix paper rosette die and some small strips of red card.  Then I added some blue scalloped circles and for some reason then I grabbed my missees Betty dies and went with blue hair.  I have always fancied blue hair!!!   Looks like her easter bonnet is exuberant!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Emboss It
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Inspiration Station Challenge March I'm inspired by hats and green

Beer Box Bunnies

Hello Nomad friends.   Clocks forward an hour in Europe today leaving us owls way behind.  So here's a bunch of bunnies to brighten a grey short day.

Staring at the double-sided patterned card I used for my card base I finally decided it came from The Works.  I used a scrap of greenish card cut with Mama Elephant grass die and smooched with Mowed Lawn distress ink for the ground.  The bunnies are all cut from ex-beer box, and hoping my beer loving friend pays us a visit over Easter and brings me a new box, cos this one is disappearing fast.  I actually used three different bunny dies (you don't say!!) from two different manufacturers and three different sets.  Mix and match at it's finest!!  Mummy bunny with the egg is Nellie Snellen Easter bunny.  I added a little promarker detail and paper pieced a few more scraps in for the egg and flower.  Bunny on the left is from sizzix Nature Friends set, and bunny on the right from sizzix Quirky Animals.  

For a change I did a little inside management with the other half of the grass cut scrap and a writing field cut with Kort og Godt wonky circle.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mars - Pastellfarger 
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Deer Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  My second christmas card for the month, this one inspired by a few different challenges.

I kept this scrap of patterned paper from the Nille sheet I was using the other day cos I thought the embossed deer and trees would make a nice background.  Endless Passion had the perfect sketch and I decided to add Poppystamps Shasta Oval Frame and Grand Whittle Reindeer to the scene.  The sentiment panel is a Spellbinders die stamped with some letter stamps.   

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Poppystamps Challenge 136 - Stencil or Pattern Paper 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

A Girl's Best Friend

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm feeling pastel and purple and scrappy and geometrical.

I do like a nice hexagon card.  I used Daisy Mae distressed hexagons for the card base and smeared my white hammered card with wilted violet distress ink.  The little kraft squares are leftovers from when I cut some Poppystamp Clever Keypad details many moons ago, but a cute scrap is a cute scrap.  I stamped the squares with potting soil archival and a Rubber Dance heart stamp which will never be the same again.  Looking at it now, I maybe didn't need to permanently alter it, but heart stamps I have oodles of, triangles? not so many.  The girl is a piece of printed Studio Light paper cut with Poppystamps Simple Rings die.  Now, these are awesome!!   I thought I was buying a set of circle dies, but you actually get a set that cuts 2mm wide rings!!  You also get the circles for inside the rings, but in this case they are the negative cut, from ex-beer packaging.  What lovely kraft card they use for food.    

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

 

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Snippets Playground Challenge 528 
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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

 

Presently Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Christmas time!!!   OK, take a breath!  I am trying for at least two xmas cards a month and here's my first March offering.  

I made a round card with lots of Do-craft cardboard sticker presents and a MFP stamped, embossed, coloured and fussy cut santa.  I cut the background layers of Nille patterned paper with Kort og Godt wavy circle dies.

and then turned it into an easel card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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52 Weeks to Christmas March Challenge - Round Card with Lots of Presents
Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2612
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Allsorts Challenge 845