Things Boys Do

Hello Nomad friends.  Well, April is going out with a bang as the little chick I got last summer decided she wanted to sit on eggs and today two adorable cuties hatched out.  Mummy hen is still sitting so I am hoping there may be some more chicks hatched overnight, but we must just wait and see.  I haven't had much crafting time the last few weeks, but I have had a request for a confirmation card for a young man who likes cycling, fishing and gaming, so I made this.  Hopefully it will be a hit!

I used Football Pattern, Fish and word die from Papirdesins and the patterned papers are also from Papirdesigns, Sykkel and Hytta på Fjellet.   I also used some metal charms from Korthobby to cover the love of gaming.  

Thanks for dropping by.  See you in May!!!!!  Hugz

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Keep Your Hat On

Hello Nomad friends.  I have been absent a few days mostly due to us having a lot of hot sunny days which have been spent in the garden.  It's been lovely.  So here I am with some inspiration for the Lost Coast Designs challenge, which is HATS.  I've gone for a Christmas theme, cos I am also elfing out over at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge this month where the theme is From My Gnome to Yours.  Gotta love a twofer!!!!

This Lost Coast Designs gnome is called Profile Gnome, but I always think of him as Looking Up, and he's fun to use with things hanging or falling from the sky.  In this case it's large glittery balls!  Well, we all need a bit of bling at Christmas.  I stamped the gnome, masked him and stamped ATC Doodle Circles with blue archival ink.  Then I filled the circles with red/blue glitter glue.  I inked the edge of the stamp and used the same blue ink to stamp the line for the ground and filled it in with iridescent glitter glue.  I did consider glittering my gnome as well, but in the end just went with Promarkers.  I finished off by stamping the Merry Christmas.

 

 

Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!

And/or grab your gnomes and join the fun for a chance to win Rudolf's Raffle.  Don't forget to keep it Christmas!!! 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Posh Hat

Hello Nomad friends!!!  It's been a toasty hot, hot, hot Spring day in Norway so I am drifting in with a little cool inspiration for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity HATS Challenge!

 

 

Anything with a hat, or even hats by themselves, but don't forget we need to see real rubber/clear stamping as well.  I've used Lost Coast Designs doll from Doodle Dolls 1 set, Travel Quotes and Concentric Circles Background.  Concentric Circles is my new favourite background!!!!  I wonder why I haven't grabbed this one before!  I used Sky Blue, Blue Bird and Cactus Flower archival inks and randomly smeared them on the stamp to get this mixed colour background.  I stamped, coloured and fussy cut the doll and added her and the sentiment from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes to the background.  

 

Grab your stamps and hats and join the fun for a chance to win Lost Cost dollars.  Don't forget, real rubber/clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project.  Linky closes last minute of the month!

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Strangely Weird

Hello Nomad friends.  Happy Easter!!!   I hope the bunny brought you plenty chocolate eggs and candy.  All that sugar has obviously gone straight to my head and Mr Mojo had a bit of a weird moment throwing some unrelated items together for an unlikely, but strangely pleasing result.  It's time for a little inspiration for the Let's Squash It!! Geometric challenge and I decided to stretch my sizzix Spiderweb folder in this colourful creation.

I embossed some purple glittery glossy card with the spiderweb folder and added some purple and orange Promarker and Spiced Marmalade distress marker colour.  I die cut the panel with a stitch die, added a preprinted birthday greeting and The Greeting Farm polar bear. 

 

I hope you find time to grab your geometric folders and join the fun at Let's Squash It!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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You Silly Gnome

Hello Nomad friends.  There is a new challenge starting at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and the theme is Hats.  That's fun isn't it!!  I decided to use Lost Coast Designs Silly Gnome, who has just come to live with me, and pair him with a new Carmen's Veranda sentiment, which is almost as silly as he is!

Since we are thinking silly I decided to colour my gnome in a rainbow of Promarker colours.   Do you know how difficult it is to colour one glove one colour and then remember to reach for a different colour for the other one????   Ahh well, shades of green will have to surfice.   I cut a white panel, stamped Lost Coast DesignsFlagstone Background with sepia ink, and edged the panel in a half rainbow of colour.  I stamped the Strait Jackets Left sentiment onto the panel, but it wasn't clear enough for my liking, so I stamped it on a white scrap, crazy cut it and covered up my boo boo.  I stamped Silly Gnome, coloured him rainbow, fussy cut and added him to the card.  I decided to mount the panel on a white base and used the other half rainbow colours to edge that.  

Grab your stamps with hats or people with hats, or anything with a hat and join the fun for a chance to win!

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Sunshine Rocks

Hello Nomad friends.  How is Spring progressing in your corner of the globe??  Or for my antipodean friends, Autumn!!!   It's quite warm here today for April in Norway, but no sun!  I love sunshine.  It gives me energy and makes me want to do things.  I joke that I am solar powered, but I think I really am!!!!   So if nature won't supply sunshine I decided to stamp my own!!!!  And to make it more fun, I made it rock!!

 

This is a very simple card using Carmen's Veranda Sun Tiles Background.  I just stamped the Sun Tiles Background on yellow card using Dandelion archival ink.  Then I cut around the swirly sun top right so I could tuck away the end of my sentiment strip, which I stamped using a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Party Words.  I mounted the panel on a top fold card, trimmed the edges and rounded off the base so it rocks. 

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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Surreally Salvador

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm back with some surreally silly inspiration for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Things Beginning with S Challenge.  The team have been having some serious stamping fun with this theme.  Do hop over and check out all their awesome makes and join us.  I'd love to see your project in the gallery and we send our real rubber stamp prizes all over the world.

Today I used Carmen's Veranda Salvador Dali and some Lost Coast Designs Steampunk Fish and had some fun.  

 

I stamped Salvador, masked him, then stamped the line of fish, masking between each impression.  I stamped the script stamp from Lost Coast Designs Piece of Calligraphy with Sepia archival ink and smeared the card and edges with the same ink.  I used Tea Dye distress to give a watercolour wash to the background and finally stamped the Do I Smell Cake? sentiment.   Fish cakes maybe Salvador LOL.

 

You can submit your entries to the linky party by 23.59PST on the 14th.  Why not take a few minutes to hop over and check out the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity blog.

Take care.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Taxi To Paris

Hello Nomad friends.  Getting back into the swing of things after a quick trip to the UK.   It was lovely to see my family after such a long time but now I am home, and Spring is coming.  Lots to do in the garden, but April is being a bit wild and the wind is knobbling cold, so I shall do a bit in the green house later.  But first.... it's the 10th of the month so time for a new challenge at Let's Squash It!!!   This month we want you to use embossing folders with Geometric and/or Repeating Patterns.   I grabbed one of my all time favourite folders by sizzix which is a lovely collage style folder called Eiffel Tower.

I embossed a pale blue panel, edged with teal ink and stuck it on a white card base.  I added a left over die cut piece that was hanging around on my desk.  It was the right colour and looked interesting, and then I grabbed a scrap of pizza box, embossed with sizzix A7 Artful Muse car folder, fussy cut and added to my scene.  A pre-printed happy birthday scrap, layered on a patterned card scrap and done!

Hop over to the challenge post to check out Jo's gorgeous inspiration and join the fun.   See you there.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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From My Gnome to Yours

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm elfing out at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge this month and you gotta include a gnome.  Or two.  Or three.  You know you love em!!!!   Grab your gnomes and give em a bit of jingle.   I went all CAS, cos it's great to have something simple you can knock out at Christmas......

I've used Lost Coast Designs Sunglasses Gnome, although they have a whole donsy of awesome gnomes to choose from.  I also went with a Lost Coast Designs Merry Christmas.  Then a little marker colour and some glitter to finish.  This gnome doesn't usually have a pom pom on his hat, but it's Christmas! so I used a fine black pen, did a little squiggle and filled it with glitter.

Join the Christmas Kickstart fun and show us your gnomes!!!

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Forest Walks

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 2nd of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  In case you missed it this is an international card exchange.  You make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a card.  Everyone's a winner!!

This time I sent my card to Michaela in Austria and I used the colours, the sketch and the theme of forest.

I embossed the background with Do-crafts Cherry Blossom stripe folder and gave it a pink watercolour wash.  I used various dies to cut the trees and grass from various scraps and stamped Time For Tea girl and butterfly, coloured and fussy cut them.  

You can see the whole reveal HERE

You can Sign-up for the next exchange HERE

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Sun, Sheeps and Smiles

Hello Nomad friends.  Happy 1st April.  Time for a new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and we are kicking off the month with an I Spy challenge using the letter 'S'.   I Spy is always fun so grab your stamps and Things Beginning With S and join us.  Don't you love Sheeps in the Springtime?? and so many of them......

I made a scene that will hopefully make you Smile.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Many Sheep Background on a piece of white card.  Then you just pick your spot and cut along the top of a line of sheep to give you a complete line of wooly heads.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Sun and Carmen's Veranda Smile on a white card base and gave the background a blue watercolour wash.  Add a little colour to the sun, glue on the Sheeps and done!

Join us for chance to win Lost Coast Design dollars!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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