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.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Stay Crafty With a Blog Named Hero Challenge - Splish Splash
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Z-Fold
Allsorts Challenge 830 - Something Beginning with B  
Scrappelyst Sommerutfordring - Alt Er Lov 
Knutsels en Kadootjes - Vouwen Maar

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

 

Joining the fun at
Tag Along and ATC Challenge - Travel opt. AG
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Not a Card
Kreativ-Tanten Challenge 104 - ATC's
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Fun with ATC's

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.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Girls Creative Splash It With Color Challenge 1 - Orange
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Quite Quirky  
Allsorts Challenge 829 - Animals/AG  
We Love Stamping Challenge - Flowers opt AG  
Scrappelyst Sommerutfordring - Alt Er Lov

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

 

Joining the fun at
De Egel Sketch Challenge 209
Show Us Your Pussies Challenge 114
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Quite Quirky  
Allsorts Challenge 829 - Animals/AG  
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Happy Birthday 

 

 

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 

Joining the fun at
Memory Box Challenge 122 - Animal House 
Snippets Playground Challenge 512
Lunar New Year Challenge August 2025
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  
Allsorts Challenge 829 - Animals/AG  
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Happy Birthday

 

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

 

Joining the fun at
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity -  Cats and Dogs  

As You Like It Challenge - Cats or Dogs Cats, by a hair.  Cats are independant, aloof, smart, demanding fur balls and I love em......
Scrappelyst Sommerutfordring - Alt Er Lov

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