Underlay

Hello Nomad friends.  I should be doing garden things before it rains, but more UFO's caught my attention.  I stamped and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Taco John the other day and he looks hopefully at me every time I sit at my desk.  The yellow paper I used earlier really gave me a Mexican vibe so vamos a tener una fiesta!!!

 

He's just so adorbs!!!!  He is stamped on a scrap of patterned card with brown archival ink and I added a little distress marker colour.  The happy birthday is also from Lost Coast Designs.

The panel behind his head was a bit of sock packaging (gotta love it when they use kraft) cut with a postage die (I have so many but probably Gummiapan cos it's square) and then I used a nifty little die from Your Next Stamp to cut the wholes.  Then I stitched with this delicious variegated wool I scored in the bargain basket the other day.  So pretty!!!
 

Inside it's a bit of a sunny explosion so I added a writing panel then stamped Taco John again, peeking onto the card and Lost Coast Designs Do I Smell Cake sentiment.  

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Snippets Playground Challenge 513

Eat More Fish

Hello Nomad friends.  It's very maritime here at my crafty corner at the moment.  I have a few bits lying around from previous projects so here is this gorgeous Hero Arts Layering Koi again.  

The gold mirror panel is the one I cut my koi from the other day.  Seemed a pity to waste a nice negative cut.  I cut it with Stamplorations Double Stitch Die and embossed with Paper Discovery Waves embossing folder.  Then I cut another Hero Arts Koi from green mirror card and added him in the space.  I feel a never ending world of koi cards might be on the horizon bwahahahaaahahahaa.  I added a Kort og Godt Happy Birthday greeting, stamped on a scrap and cut with a stitch fishtail banner die.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Something Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a great weekend.  I spent two days dancing with a vicious little virus that came in Saturday morning with a hedgehog in my throat and then hit me with a herd of buffalos and left me feeling like a merry-go-round on a roller coaster.  Don't you just love it when annoying weekend visitors move along!!  Feeling very much more ooman today and found a sentiment to finish this A5 journal page I was working on.

I started with an A5 sheet of Marianne Designs Seabreeze papers.  I added some ripped dark blue strips and some dark blue glitter through a Rubber Dance stencil.  The light house and anchor are from UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers, cut with Studio Light Mosaic ATC die.  I added an offset dark blue ATC behind each of these.  The fish were cut from some maritime themed wallpaper and the sentiment is ripped from a Prima journaling card.

OK, off to water the garden before my tomato plants give up totally. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Keep Swimming

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you have had a splendid day.  I started two projects this afternoon, in the hopes of getting one finished.  Hurrah, success, and the other one is only a few final details away from completion too, so definitely a win win day.  Actually, this one also had me stymied on which sentiment to use, so in the end I went with five!!!!!

I made a double Z-fold card with UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers.  All the stamps and dies are Hero Arts.  

I cut the large Hero Arts Layering Koi Fish die from mirror card and added a little promarker colour.  The Koi Bunch were stamped on white card, coloured with sharpies and fussy cut.  Then I stamped sentiments from Hero Arts Where To Next, Kelly's No Comment and Kelly's All Decked Out stamp sets.

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Peace, Love and Harmony

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you are having a wonderful day.  I have some inspiration today for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Cats and Dogs Challenge with Pokey Dog and Dictionary Words Artist Trading Cards.  ATC's, little canvasses of joy, and with Pokey Dog involved you just have to smile don't you!!

I used three different colour inks on my three white ATC's.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Dictionary Words and then did a little off block stamping with a stamp from Lost Coast Designs Pieces of Calligraphy set.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Dog on three different patterned paper scraps, fussy cut them and then added them to the ATC's.

 

 

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and don't forget to hop over to the blog for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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The Outlawz Challenge Anything Goes in a Card Free Zone 

The Outlawz Challenge August Linky

 

 

Orange Hare

Hello Nomad friends.  I've been organising my scraps into colours which I find is the best place to start when working on a project.  Orange isn't a big player in my colour palettes, but I found a few pieces to put together with this lovely hare from Crafty Individuals. 

 I used some Spellbinder dies and an Amy Tangerine (more orange!! ROFL) embossing folder.

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Kitty Pink

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the Cats and Dogs challenge.  At the moment it seems team cat is in charge.  Lost Coast Designs and Carmen's Veranda have a multitude of cat and dog stamps in all sorts of styles, so there is something for everyone.  Today I am using Carmen's Veranda Large Peekaboo Kitty and some Lost Coast Designs Pawprints.

 

 

I used a sketch from De Egel and lots of scraps in shades of pink.

 

 

I stamped the Happy Birthday using pink archival ink on shrink plastic and cut with a circle die.
Here's one shrunk and one not.

I stamped Peekaboo Kitty on a cream scrap, fussy cut and added her to the card.
A few Pawprints and done!!

 

Link up your stamped anythings featuring Cats and/or Dogs and don't forget to check back often for awesome inspiration from the team.

Hope to see you in the linky.  
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Silhouette Horses

Hello Nomad friends.  We have had some wild weather today which has laid the garden flat, picked the fruit and berries and left everything decidedly drowned.  Crafting seemed the thing to do.  I usually check challenges when they are published and sometimes I have ideas!!  And then the month whizzes by and my ideas are still just in my head, or more likely floated away to a remote tropical beach.  Anyway, the Memory Box Challenge of Animal is right up my alley, and I had an idea, which didn't pan out, but I made a card anyway using the horse part of the original idea.

Oooh look, horsies!!  I used the horse from Memory Box Horse and Sleigh die set and cut it four times from four different colour scraps.  I found a thin strip of green shaded paper and cut it with Memory Box Gentle Stitched Landscape dies and edged the two pieces with green ink.  I used a slimline textured card base and smudged the top part with salty ocean distress ink.  I think the rose circle is also an old Memory Box die which I've lost the name of, cut from yellow scraps.  The Happy Birthday chippy sentiment is Memory Box as well. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Starship Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  The second of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.

20 fabulous artists shared their handmade cards and sent them winging their way around the world, carrying love and friendship in every envelope.  I am so proud to be a link in this awesome chain.  I was thinking about it yesterday as I was putting the final touches to the reveal that this is actually quite an amazing thing.  Started by Deborah Nolan, running since 2009, and we are creeping out way towards 5,000 cards exchanged.  That is quite an achievement.  If you are involved, or have ever been involved, then give yourself a pat on the back and take my love and gratitude for your participation and support.  

My card went to Jo in the UK.  Jo, my partner in craft, my strong right hand, my backup and pick up when things get tricky, my very good friend.  Glad you liked my experimental card making bwahahhahaahhaaaaaaaa....... 

I saw a thing, and had an idea, and this pop up sentiment card was the result.  I used the Card Chain Challenge options of More than 3 folds and Friendship

I started with some Tonic Studio patterned paper, scored and folded my mechanism.

♪ Star trekking across the universe,
Always going forwards cos we can't find reverse ♪

 

Ahhh, yes......   Back to planet earth.   Another piece of the Tonic paper on my card base and my space defying popup mounted on top.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat with a bit of maskery trickery on the card, then on plain card, fussy cut and added the daring duo to their stamped selves.  I did some square die cutting for the layered sentiment panels and stamped Carmen's Veranda Best Friends on the front, then mounted it on the mechanism.  It pops out a bit from the card base,in a fun and floppy manner.

 

Lift the flap for a second endearment..... 

The Lost Coast Portal to Creativity has a Cats and Dogs theme this month so if you are stamping and featuring Cats and/or Dogs we would love to see you link up.  

If you want to see all the cards exchanged this month hop over and check out the REVEAL

If you would like to join the card exchange fun the SIGN UP is open 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  
Allsorts Challenge 829 - Animals/AG  
Paper Funday Challenge 78 - Anything Goes opt Fun with Stencils

  

Friends Won't Desert You

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh, Mr Mojo is obviously having an end of the month moment.

Love those little scenes from Hero Arts Where To Next stamp set.  The stylised snakes are from Hero Arts Autumn Moon set, the Happy Birthday from Jawsome Sharks and the mountain continuations and Let's Get Lost from Cowboy Adventures. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers 264 - H is for Hot Hot Hot

Everyone Is Different

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the Year of the Snake and I am sorry if you don't like them.  My mum is ophidiophobic.  I remember the day I tossed a shoelace onto the kitchen floor and she followed with a kilo of salt!!!!   Sorry mum!!  I think snakes are rather beautiful and curiously mesmerising and I couldn't resist these lovely papers from Alchemy of Art for their magical images. 

 

 

 

I did a stripey, sparkly distress ink watercolour wash and then stamped Hero Arts Word Pop with the same ink for my background panel.

 

 

 

 I cut the arch and snake from Alchemy of Art Legends of the Magic School and used the same watercolour to edge the arch die cut to blend it in.  I stamped the happy birthday from Hero Arts Koi Bunch stamp set and grunged the whole thing up a bit with some more of the salty ocean distress ink.  Perfect for an snake loving friend, and I do have a few of those......

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Allsorts Challenge 828 - Pretty Flowers/AG 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Summertime Blues

Mini Me Three

Hello Nomad friends.  More snowmen!!  This is the mini version of Mr Frosty available in the TH Vault Winter Wishes die set!!  Also fun but a bit more fiddle.  

So cute I had to cut three!!  Great for using small scraps, but not for using a lot of scraps LOL.  A small piece of white, black and red with a tiny tiny touch of orange.  This is a mini slimline size card, cut with spellbinders label die.  I used the largest die for the base and the next one down for the crossbar.  I embossed the base panel with Simon Says Stamp All Star Burst embossing folder and archival ink and the crossbar with Simon Says Stamp Splendid Snowflakes embossing folder.  I cut the snowflake from the vault die set from blue glitter and added a foiled sentiment.  

Remember if you are using real stamping with your anything Christmas you can link up at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and if you include some circular things you can join the fun at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. 

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Redcurrant Accents

Hello Nomad friends.  It's still warm and a bit overcast, and I really should be picking redcurrants, but my mind got distracted by snowmen and my body followed........

I folded my card base from a mottled brown card and then used sizzix Forest Shadows and Mr Frost dies and lots of little bits of card.  I cut the sun/moon from a scrap of yellow and stamped the Kort og Godt Merry Christmas sentiment.  First time using Mr Frost and he was surprizingly fun and easy to put together.  

Remember if you are using real stamping with your anything Christmas you can link up at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and if you include some circular things you can join the fun at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. 

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Surfing Dude

Hello Nomad friends.  Had big fun making this card today. 

 

I was inspired by an ice lolly card over at Bikuben Inspiration Group, hence the shape, but I haven't added the 'stick'.  I used distress ink and ripped paper to make my waves, sky and sunshine.  It also makes me think of stripey ice lollies LOL.   Then I used iridescent glitter glue through a Funky Fossil medallion stencil for an icy look.  The sun is a Gummiapan die and the dog is Simon Says Stamp Chillin' Frenchies stamp set.  The card base and panel were cut with a Daisy Mae die and the anchor is a Spellbinders die..  

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