It's Your Day

Hello Nomad friends.   I have been meaning to join the De Egel sketch and use gnomes challenge and finally today is the day!!!   For gnomes I always reach for Lost Coast Designs stamps, cos they have so many designs and da gnomes are so cute!!!!!   Today it's one of my favourites Looking Up.

 Isn't he adorable!!  I used a base card then a panel of patterned card.  I added a snippet of pearlescent embossed card and the kraft circle I embossed with a sizzix folder used to be part of a wine box.  I stamped the gnome on a scrap of white card, coloured with distress markers and added him to the card.  The silver doily cut behind the kraft circle is a marianne designs die.  I used snippets and spellbinders dies for the triangles and flowers and the sentiment is papirdesigns die and more snippets and says It's Your Day.

Thanks for dropping by.  HUGZ

Joining the fun at
De Egel September Sketch Challenge 232 - Gnome
Passion for Markers Challenge Week 859 - Birthdays
Snippets Playground Challenge 543

 

Gothic Window

Hello Nomad friends.  Making a start on a few October Christmas cards.  Well, 'be prepared' is a good motto.  The Christmas Kickstart Challenge has a Goth theme this month.  What fun!!  I haven't gone all dark and gloomy, but hope my gothic window and goth style text fits the bill.

The window is a Lost Coast Designs stamp, stamped and coloured with distress markers.  Then I gave the background a watercolour wash with Pumice distress ink and stamped the tiny brickwork details randomly, to make it look like a church wall??  Vaguely maybe??  I recently acquired this goth text merry christmas second hand.  I don't know who makes it, but Scrapmagasinet have ones in a similar style.  Anyway, it's big and beautiful.  I cut it from pink holographic card and twice from black and layered them.  

For those of you going 'that's not pink'.  I decided pink wasn't very goth so used an dark purple promarker to colour the holographic card.   It is still very blingy in the real but a nice shade of purple now.  The alcohol marker takes quite a time to dry on the glossy card, but was worth the wait.  Also check before going ahead that the alcohol marker is not going to destroy your mirror finish.  This holographic card has a plastic cover that is OK with excess alcohol, but some mirror finishes don't like it at all, so a spot test is worth doing.

 Anyway, thanks for dropping by.  Back soon......  Hugz  

Joining the fun at
Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers - Falling For the Holidays

Christmas Kickstart Challenge 112 -  Reindeer Games
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Oktober - Bingo die, stempeltrykk, noe glitrende

The Outlawz Christmas Challenge - October 

The Outlawz Challenges October Linky 

 

 

Hello Sugar

Hello Nomad friends.  It's Day 14 of the 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza over at The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  Today I've made a simple slimline card using Lost Coast Designs Three Sugar Skulls

I used a white card base and a black panel that I cut with Lawn Fawn double stitch circle die.  I stamped the skulls on white card, fussy cut and added them to the card.

 

 

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. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
The Outlawz Twisted Challenge - AG 1 Colour Scheme Challenge
The Outlawz Challenges October Linky 
Paper Funday Challenge 92 - AG opt Pumpkin Spice 
Allsorts Challenge 860 - More Than One Fold opt AG
Two Old Bats Halloween Challenge - Anything Goes Halloween 

Melon Boxes Without Topses

Hello Nomad friends.  I made this.  

Memory Box have a black, white and orange challenge so I decided to use this lovely Memory Box Lady Dancing die and pair it with Hopmeadow Circle and a couple of stitched circle dies to make this pretty tag.  I embossed the lady's dress using Memory Box Grand Galaxy embossing folder.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz  

Joining the fun at
Memory Box Challenge - Black, White and Orange
De Egel Oktober Challenge 233 - Tag
Tag Along (and ATC's) Challenge - All Things Autumn opt AG 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Tag It 
The Outlawz Anything But a Card
The Outlawz Challenges October Linky 

Welcome to the Crypt

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today for Day 10 of our 31 Days of Halloween extravaganza.  Today I have created a scene.

 

I used Lost Coast Designs Cartoon Racoon, Large Tigger Shrine and Large Shrubbery Background with Carmen's Veranda When Witches Go Riding sentiment.  I made the background by stamping the Tigger Shrine with grey ink, masking and stamping Shrubbery Background both sides with black ink.  I gave the background a watercolour wash with blue and mauve distress inks.  Then I stamped the top of the goth shrine, fussy cut it and added it to the Tigger Shrine. I stamped the new Cartoon Racoon, coloured with distress markers and gel pens and fussy cut him.  I added him to the stamped panel and to finish stamped the last line of the Witches Go Riding sentiment on the lintel.

 

 

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. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

Joining the fun at
Paper Funday Challenge 92 - AG opt Pumpkin Spice 
Allsorts Challenge 860 - More Than One Fold opt AG

 

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

Joining the fun at
De Egel Oktober Challenge 233 - Tag
Tag Along (and ATC's) Challenge - All Things Autumn opt AG 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Tag It 
The Outlawz Anything But a Card
The Outlawz Challenges October Linky 

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. 

 

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. 

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

Joining the fun at
We Love Stamping Challenge - Shades of Autumn opt AG
Snippets Playground Challenge 542
Kreativtanten Challenge 118 - Halloween