Patchwork Pokey Dog

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm here's some with some inspiration for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Animal challenge.  Something I love to do is paper piecing.   As a thrifty crafter I take care of my paper scraps and even small pieces are useful when you are only stamping part of the image.  Today I decided to make a paper pieced Pokey Dog.  He's one of the *new* Lost Coast Designs animals stamps and he's such a cutie.

I stamped Carmen's Veranda Staircase with grey ink and gave it a grey and pink watercolour wash.  I stamped Carmen's Veranda Happy Birthday and Never To Late sentiments on white card, fussy cut and edged with black ink.

 

 

You have all month to link up your stamped anythings featuring animals for your chance to win some Lost Coast Dollars.

 

Thanks for dropping by. Hugz

 

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Strong and Silent

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh, those rainy days do seem to have woken Mr Mojo up.  Maybe it's all the exercise trying to keep his head above all the water LOL.  Anyway, look, it's the gorgeous Harrison, in a shower of leaves.

I used Sizzix Colorize Harrison dies and the leaf paper is by Tonic.  I added a die cut leaf on Harrison's nose and used a scalloped heart die to cut the aperture.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Allsorts Challenge Week 796 - Autumn Colours

Let's Talk Ammonite

Hello Nomad friends.  We had three days of record heat and then it started raining like Noah had built an ark.  Not enjoying being so wet, especially when wobbling around in the chicken garden where it has become unpleasantly yukky.  We are hoping for it to dry up a little at the weekend.  Of course rainy days gives me a good excuse to repair to the crafty room and play with some goodies.  Funky Fossil want to see NBUS this month so I decided it was time to use this gorgeous Ammonite embossing folder on patterned paper for a fun effect.

I inked the embossing folder with black ink and embossed a very bright piece of Funky Fossil Good Vibes paper.  I stamped the wine bottle sand sentiment from FF Fine Wine stamp set coloured and fussy cut. 

Thanks for dropping by. Hugz

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Christmas Ian

Hello Nomad friends.  Just playing around today with some ex-food packaging and the Greeting Farm's Santa  Ian

 

I used flatbread box and ice cream box which both give a lovely kraft card, although the flatbread box is waxed so a little tricky to stamp on.  I used a scrap of gold paper and embossed the whole panel with a cuttlebug snowflake folder.  I stamped Santa Ian on a scrap of white card and coloured with promarkers and glitter glue. The sentiment is from Carmen's Veranda and, as a lover of cake, I think this is very important question.   

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Snippets Playground Challlenge - 488

Desk Diving

Hello Nomad friends.  I have so much stuff on my desk.   For instance an empty ice cream lolly box, because after good ice cream there remains good cardboard LOL.  I decided to cut a panel with a deckle edge die and emboss with Simon Says Stamp firework embossing folder.  Then I grabbed some embossing powder and went a bit crazy.  I inked my panel and added quite a lot of Pearl Gold Sparkle, decided that would be a bit of a challenge for the camera so reinked parts of the panel and used WOW metallic copper sparkle.  Then I filled in the gaps with Topaz Twinkle to give the blue and white/sparkly bits.

 

Bling!!!!!  I inked the edges of the panel and also the raised firework pattern with potting soil archival ink and offset the panel on a navy card base.  Then I grabbed this MDF dragon, which has also been lurking on my desk for ages, that seemed to fit perfectly with this firey explosion of a background.  I stamped the happy birthday on a scrap of gold card and added it to the card.  Good glue is required to stick paper on all that sparkly embossed texture.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Off to find some more desk treasures....  Hugz

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TaDa

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the second of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  This is an international card exchange.  Make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a card, everyone's a winner.  It's also a new month and a new challenge at Lost Coast Designs, so double bubble this Mouse fitted the bill for the Animal challenge, while also seeming to be perfect for this card winging it's way to my very good friend Linda in Michigan.

I went with the options of Music and Friendship and maybe even Funny.  That mouse, named TaDa, makes me laugh.  I added a little Promarker and gel pen colour to him.  I was also aiming for Rocker Card, but due to 'I don't know what' my rocker didn't want to stay upright.  Maybe my card front was too heavy, maybe my curve was wrong, maybe a tap dancing mouse was rocking too much.  So I'm calling this a faux-rocker! Linda, if you want to round off the bottom and see if he can stand up your side of the pond do feel free.  It works in my minds eye LOL.  I know Linda likes singing, so I added some musical notes, and she travels a lot, so this sentiment from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes seemed perfect.  

'A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles'

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 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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