Happy Jingle and Magic

Hello Nomad friends.  I have some red, white and blue Christmas in July inspiration for your today.

 

 

I've made some artist trading coins with Carmen's Veranda Elf and Lost Coast Designs PMC Circle Frame background.  Words selected from the Misc. Words set.  I cut my coins with studio light dies.

Aren't they adorbs!!

 

 

Join the Christmas In July fun at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and ink up your stamped anythings featuring Christmas!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Turtle Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the second of the month so time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  Make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a real, handmade, snail mail card, everyone's a winner at the Card Chain Challenge.  I sent my card to first time player Ashwini in India this month.  Welcome to the fun Ashwini.  The postal gods were good and my card arrived in good time!!  Miracles happen LOL.  

I went with the sketch, the something beginning with Tu and friendship options.  My Crafty Individuals turtle is swimming through a sea of Craft Individuals patterned paper.  The sentiment is from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes stamp set.

Hop over and check out the awesome card REVEAL 

If you would like to join the exchange you can SIGN UP.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Chihoahoa

Hello Nomad friends.  Happy July!!  Halfway to the silly season and over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity we are all about Christmas this month.  I am also elfing out with Jo's 100th Christmas Kickstart Challenge!!  Awesome achievement and so much fun to be Jo's elf for this special challenge.  The theme is Merry Go Round and we want to see spots, dots and circles on your xmas cards. 

I've used the gorgeous Taco John from Lost Coast Designs and given him some furry baubles to bark at, created using Lost Coast Designs small Circle Shadow Frame and a bit of gold sharpie doodling.  Taco John borrowed his hat from Lost Coast Designs Santa Mona.  She is very good at lending it out and so stylish TJ!!

So, the choice is yours!

Anything Christmas with real stamping at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity 

and Christmas including some circular things at the Christmas Kickstart Challenge. 

 Hope to see you both places.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Holiday Photos

Hello Nomad friends.  I made a thing.  Not the thing I should have been making, but there you go.  

I used Stamperia Capture the Moment steampunkty guy stamped on some grungy stripey patterned paper.  The Vacation is sizzix Holiday words die and the spades are cut and emboss, but seem to have lost all their definition in my photo! 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Christmas Fox

Hello Nomad friends.  I am having a bit of a crafty moment.  Let's hope it lasts all weekend LOL.  My first Xmas card of the month.  I do like to try and make a few every month and I am very grateful to the Christmas all year round challenges that help us on our way.

This cute Woodware Foxy Christmas stamp has been kicking around on my desk for ages.  Isn't he adorbs!!!   The desk also yielded some useful scraps, including this painty die cut tree line!   So glad to finally get that used.  

A nibbled circle!!??, the painty trees, and a scrap of green off of scrap mountain.  Hurrah!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Sympathy

Hello Nomad friends.  It's time for one of those difficult cards.  Always a good idea to have some of these on hand.  Keeping it clean and simple with muted colours using this lovely Memory Box Leafy Tree Frame.

I used a small piece of white bazzill to cut the tree panel and some more scraps for the Poppystamps Orchard Leaves leaf and Memory Box Palace Oval Frame sentiment oval.  I cut the larger frame from a scrap of cream card.  The base card is Imaginisce patterned card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Lucky Lanterns

Hello Nomad friends.  From new stash to old!   Nice to revisit those things that were former must haves.  I loved this Simon Says Stamp Luminary Circles when I bought it and I stumbled across it today and decided it was still a stunner.  I've cut it three times into the red cardstock to give me my circle background.  

I backed it with a piece of patterned glitter card, that reminded me of bamboo, and then added some Hero Arts lanterns, stamped on gold mirror card, gold embossed and fussy cut.   I stamped a simple good luck from Lost Coast Designs

Thanks for dropping by.  Hope you are having a wonderful day.  Hugz

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Relax

Hello Nomad friends.  Motivation seems to be on holiday this month, but I always work well to a deadline so hoping for a flurry of creativity as the month draws to a close.  New stash always makes Mr Mojo sit up and take notice and I managed to grab this lovely Carabelle Studios stamp of a girl on the beach and it seemed a good place to start.

Managed to use lots of scraps for the sea, circles and bits I stamped the girl on.  The embossing folder is sizzix.

Thought I'd use the last two stamps on the inside and continued the circle theme.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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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.  

 

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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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Allsorts Challenge 825 - What Makes You Happy love this Jester stamp and yellow is such a happy colour

As You Like It Challenge - Add a Sentiment or Not love Do I smell Cake sentiment and always add it when I can.  Also always happy to eat the cake!!  

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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Word Art Wednesday #700/701 

 

 

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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Time Out Challenge 289 - Your Favorite Winged Thing  gotta love a rooster

 

 

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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Word Art Wednesday #700/701

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.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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