Only Sometimes

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the colour challenge.   Have you seen all the wonderful colour inspiration on the blog this month??  Two beautiful colour schemes to choose from and today I went with Terracotta and Turquoise.

I started with a pale turquoise patterned card panel and randomly stamped Lost Coast Designs large circle Shadow Frame with salty ocean distress ink.  I egded the panel with the same ink.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Pokey Cat on the card panel and then on white card using archival sepia ink.  I water coloured the cat with rusty hinge distress ink and blue gel pen and fussy cut.  The sentiment is Carmen's Veranda Ask For Directions sentiment. 

 

Join the colour challenge fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring the colours LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE.  

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Just Citrus

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some more Lemon and Lime inspiration.  This month we are asking you to pick a colour scheme between Lemon and Lime or Turquoise and Terracotta.   The choice is yours!  Your anything should feature mostly your two chosen colours and don't forget to stamp.

I've kept it simple and used the lovely Jester Square by Carmen's Veranda coloured with green and yellow distress watercolouring.  I stamped the Happy Birthday and Do I smell cake? from Lost Coast Designs Party Words using Prickly Pear archival ink.

 

 

 

Grab your stamps and pick your colour scheme and join the fun.   We give a real rubber stamp prize to our randomly picked winner, but we do need at least 20 entries to award the prize, so tell your friends and get stamping!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Old Yellow

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today.  This month it's all about colours with a choice of two colour schemes to choose from.  I've gone all Lemon and Lime and used this beautiful Old Truck stamp from Carmen's Veranda. 

The background stamp is Carmen's Veranda Cracked Mirror.  I used green ink for stamping and distress inks for water colouring.  The sentiment is from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes set.

 

 

Join the colour challenge fun.  Link up your stamped anythings featuring the colours LEMON AND LIME or TERRACOTTA AND TURQUOISE. 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Chicken In Paris

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 2nd of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  21 awesome artists took part in the May exchange including a new player, Wendy in Ireland.  So nice to have new friends to send snail mail to.  

I sent my card to Dagmara in Poland this month and went with the options of Chickens and Smiles and Laughter. 

 I embossed the kraft background with sizzix paris folder and grunged it up with old paper distress ink.  I stamped the Hobby Art chicken, fussy cut and added him to the card.  The sentiment is from Carmen's Veranda, which is my go to for funny words!

 

 Do hop over and check out all the awesome cards in the REVEAL

 

If you would like to join the fun there is still time to SIGN UP for June

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Panda Party

Hello Nomad friends.  Made an envelope fold card for the Lunar New Year Challenge featuring Beloved Panda in relax mode.

 

I used Funky Fossil red and yellow papers and from the Comic Book Chaos paper pad and folded it into an envelope pocket card.  

 

I have a removable tag in the pocket stamped with Hero Arts Autumn Moon stamps.  I have folded up the bottom of the tag so it a gift card or tea bag is tucked in the pocket it will lift out with the tag.  The panda's are Funky Fossil stamps.  The tag removed reveals sleepy beloved panda.

 Inside I added another panda, with a gold and red parasol.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Because You Are Special

Hello Nomad friends.  I've been having fun creating today and since I was doing a gold blue palette I rummaged through the scraps before I started and grabbed all the golds and blues I could find.  It made a nice pile and an even better result.

I used a simply lovely sketch from Endless Passion and Tonic Ava dies.  The 'to you' and lightning bolt and heart are Papirdesign dies.  The holographic gold scrap was embossed with sizzix rays folder.

I turned it into an easel and used another Papirdesign die for the stop.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz  

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What a Weird Day

Hello Nomad friends. Happy Accension day.  Hope you have had a lovely day.  I've made a hello baby card using some Memory Box and Poppystamp dies.

I found some fancy handmade blue pearlescent paper and backed the die cut circle with some smooched aztec paint card.  I used Memory Box Baby Script and Precious Mobile cut from scraps of blue and yellow card respectively.  I used markers to colour the frame, hearts and stars.  Then I used some more scraps of the blue and Poppystamps Hello Background die for the hello!

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Pink Spirit

Hello Nomad friends.  Not a bad day in spite of the forecast.  We live in an area that experiences very very local weather so it's always fun to grip the day and see if the weatherfolk have been hit or miss.  Today the miss was in our favour.  I have a hen in the process of hatching some chicks.  Three were hatched this morning and she is still sitting on a couple more eggs.  Not expecting much from those, but hopefully I will be pleasantly surprized.  Eggs and chickens are amazing things.  Decided to celebrate with a boosy bottle tag.

 

I made a distress ink splashy background and cut it with Avery Elle Sip Sip Horray tag die.  Then I embossed with the spider web in Poppystamps Halloween Assemblege die set.  The cute Ghost is from the same set.  I did a bit of tricky die cutting using a circle frame and Poppystamps Echo Blossoms die sets for the bit behind the ghost.  Then I found a couple of stamps and some die cut letters to make the Enjoy The Boos sentiment. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Drought, Bugs and Awesome Folds

Hello Nomad friends.  April and May have been hot and toasty here, with occasional big winds and very cold nights.  They forecast rain today so I was determined to get my craft on.  The rain hasn't really made a huge appearance yet, but I did manage to make this card with an awesome sliding panel centre inspired by dimensions from Scrappehygge med Scrappehuset.  

I used ScrapBoys Rosalie papers and dies from Kort og Godt to make a special confirmation card.

Inside.  All the panels slide out and there is more space on the back of the panels to add some photo's or messages.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Purple Polar

Hello Nomad friends.  I've made a cozy christmas card using Hero Arts layered bear dies and the lovely sketch from Build Your Stash Holiday Cardmakers. 

I decided to go with shades of purple using some scraps of purple.  Love this sketch for it's simplicity, cool look and it's great for using up small scraps.  I cut the bear from white bazzill and used sharpies to colour the bear, and some of the scraps of white to cut the snowflakes and sentiment strip.  The sentiment is a Hobby Arts stamp.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Bad Beanie

Hello Nomad friends.  with a little inspiration for the the Are You Kidding Me!! challenge.   Lost Coast Designs has a new set called Comic Kids and I've used Beanie and a slightly naughty sentiment from Carmen's Veranda.

 

Beanie!!!   What a sassy little fellow he is!  I stamped the background with Lost Coast Designs Cat Quotes stamp.  Beanie was stamped, coloured with distress markers and fussy cut.

 

 

 

I hope you get time to join this fun challenge.  Share you stamped anythings featuring kids, funny kids for extra points and funny if you really can't find any kids to stamp.  And don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team and leave them a little love.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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More Christmas

Hello Nomad friends.  Well, I was in the groove.  Gotta grab these inspired moments, they seem to have been in short supply the last few months.   

I used some gifted items for this one.  I sometimes take part in a happy share where we send a small gift of crafty goodies to another crafter, and that's where this doily, pretty house background paper and Marianne Design girl came from.  It just looked good together.  

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It's Christmas!!!!

Hello Nomad friends.  Relax!  Breathe!!   Just fancied a little Christmas making on this lovely sunny May day.  I've gone bright with some offcuts from Funky Fossil's Comic Book Chaos paperpad and Jo was kind enough to send me these cute Funky Fossil Snow Folk stamps.  The snowman and all the little motifs come from the same stamp set.

 

I cut the little squares from a 9cm x 10cm piece I had and then the large square was another scrap from the same paper pad.  I had the idea to cut and stamp the small circles and cut them all from small scraps of white card, of which I have a multitude.  I coloured the big snowman with promarkers and I've used the BYSH sketch for my design.  

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Embracing my Inner Child

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity again today with some fun kids for the Are You Kidding Me!! challenge. There is a new set called Comic Kids that Linda has been selling at shows, so I know some of you have already got these crazy kids.  I've used two of them on my graffiti style card today

 

I've used Hero Arts Neon Ombre inks on this card for a bright effect.  I stamped the Carmen's Veranda sentiment with black archival and then stamped the two Comic Kids with the neon inks.  I cut one pair of hands off of Lost Coast Designs Handprints Border and randomly stamped it in various neon inks.  To finish I inked the edge with the neon ink and mounted on a green base card.

 

This is such a fun challenge.  Shared you stamped anythings featuring kids, funny kids for extra points and funny if you really can't find any kids to stamp.  And don't forget to check out all the awesome inspiration from the team and leave them a little love.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Bunny Friends

Hello Nomad friends.   2nd of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge reveal.  Make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a card.  We are all winners!!!   This card exchange means a lot to me.  So many fabulous friends and amazing artists sending love around the planet every month.  This time my card went to Barbara in Switzerland and I used the sketch with friends and bunny options.

 

I went with spring colours of yellow and green and this lovely bunny die by Papirdesigns cut from black and kraft card.  I've applied orange distress ink to my yellow card by simply stamping with the ink pad randomly over the yellow card.  The sun is also a Papirdesigns die and I stamped the words using Lost Coast Designs Misc. Words stamp set.

Hop over and check out the complete REVEAL and all the amazing cards which whizzy whizzied around the planet.

If you think you would like to give it a whirl the SIGN UP is open

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Beanie Baby

Hello Nomad friends.  1st of May!!  I hope you have an awesome sunny day.  We had a 4 year old twins party to go to.  A fun time was had by all.  But now......

Start of the month so a gazillion of new challenges.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with a card for the Are You Kidding Me??? challenge.  We want to see kids on your stamped anything.  If you make em funny kids we will be so happy.   Just in case we will also accept something funny, but we really really want to see kids.  There hasn't been so much support for our challenge, which is a pity because we do have an amazing team, working their socks off to inspire you, and we also have a real rubber stamp prize.  But we need at least 20 entries, so do think of us if you are stamping children and/or funny ha ha ha.  Here's my card featuring the Baby Checklist and a new comic kid...

Love this Baby Checklist from Lost Coast Designs.  It's pretty comprehensive, even including an adult section!!   And look at that cute Beanie boy.  Love his helicopter hat.

Do hop over to the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and check out all the amazing inspiration from the team, and of course, join the fun.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Panda Post

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm having an inspired day.  Had to play again with panda.  He's so adorbs.  Put him in a cut die cut envelope, cos who doesn't want an envelope filled with a panda!!! 

I've used sizzix oriental elements for my cherry blossom branches, which I coloured with distress markers.  I then gave the background a watercolour wash, because who doesn't want blue skies on a spring day.  The envelope was cut using a Studio Light die and edged with gold sharpie.  Another Funky Fossil panda stamped and fussy cut and slipped into the envelope.  So cute!!  I used a piece of card to make a frame and popped it up for added dimension. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Beloved Panda

Hello Nomad friends.  Last of the month and still places I want to craft along with.  I love the Lunar New Year challenge and I've made this New Year card featuring beloved panda and his lotus flower parasol.

I used a Funky Fossil Bamboo stencil and gold embossing powder for the background.  I cut it with a stitch die and popped up the middle.  The panda is also Funky Fossil and I printed a sentiment on the computer and cut it out with a pretty die.

 Hope you are having an awesome day.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Down by the Water a Whittle Hippo Stands

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a wonderful weekend.  It's been sunny and springy, although we are still getting cold nights.  I've made another watery scene using brusho's to make the background.

I sprinkled turquoise and blue brusho's and spritzed with water.  I've used Poppystamps Twisted Tree Oval and Happy Whittle Hippo.  Isn't that hippo adorbs!!!

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Otter Photobomb

Hello Nomad friends.  I've made a little watery project for the Poppystamps challenge using some very cute otters.

The background die is Poppystamps Lamplight Pathway, but I thought it made a good river.  The otters are from the Christmas Friends stamp set and the sentiment from memory Box Oceanside Typewriter sentiments.  

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Sweet Treats

Hello Nomad friends.  You can't go wrong with a basket of treats.  I've used scallop heart dies to cut the sides of this one inspired by Endless Passion Easter Scrap day 19.  I used some confirmation style dies and pretty flower paper from Lexi Home Sweet Home papers to make it girly.

It's quite a nice size and I added some kvikk lunsj for photo staging, but I am sure you could fill it with all sorts of goodies.  

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Bobbing Along

Hello Nomad friends.  My last rocker card kinda crashed and burned.  No idea why.  Must have been having a moment.  This one rocks!!!!   Inspired by Endless Passions easter scrap to make a boat card.  I have also had a request for a fishing card so maybe this cutie will be liked.

I used some Hunkydory papers and Joy Craft dies for the fisherman and fish.  The base is just a folded circle and a couple of triangle pieces for the sails.

 On the backside I added 'the one that got away'.

It rocks!!!

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Fridge Bunny, Bunny Fridge

Hello Nomad friends.  Always fun to make something other than a card and today I made a couple of egg shaped bunny themed fridge magnets.  

I used Marianne Designs stitched dies for the rose gold mirror card bases.  The bunny is a Papirdesign die and the flowers were made using Spellbinders dies.  I added some clip art from P13 Forest Tea Party papers and the sentiments are Time for Tea printed sheets.  Then I added some thin adhesive magnet sheet to the backside. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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