Purple Parrot

Hello Nomad friends.  It still feels like summer here and I've gone all bright and happy with this piece.  I used studio light say it with flowers papers and the butterflies are studio light paper elements.

 

I used a preprinted vellum sentiment by DCWV.  The parrot is Lost Coast Designs Polly Parrot, stamped, coloured with promarkers and fussy cut.  Isn't she adorbs!!!!

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Scrappelyst Utfordring Juli/August - Alt er Lov 
Allsorts Challenge 857 - All Creatures Great and Small
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 

A Boy and His Dog

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some more masculine inspiration for the For The Men Challenge.  They say man's best friend is a dog and, starting them early, here is Milo and Raphael.  

Love this little boy and dog stamp.  I stamped it onto a white panel with archival ink and water-coloured with distress inks.  Then I took 4 pawprints from Lost Coast Designs Pawprint Border and stamped them repeatedly up each side of the image.   I had a little over inking on the top of the rubber but liked the effect, so left it in and accented it a little with the hickory smoke distress ink.  

 

You have all month to join the fun with your stamped makes featuring men or masculine things.
We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

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Joining the fun at
We Love Stamping - Summer Blooms opt AG
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Paper Funday Challenge 90 - Anything Goes opt Fancy Folds

 

Truckin'

 Hello Nomad friends.  Playing with Poppystamps Whittle Panda Pickup today and I decided to cut it from patterned paper.  This first attempt was a fabulous success me feels.

I used Stamperia design paper for the truck and some from Authentique for the background.  I cut Poppystamps Brilliant Star Oval from yellow Bazzill and Whittle Witch, cut from white card and coloured with promarkers, is your driver today.  

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Poppystamps Challenge #141 - Let's Go Travel

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Lots of Layers 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Paper Funday Challenge 90 - Anything Goes opt Fancy Folds

 

 

Souwester Mouse

Hello Nomad friends.  I am snowed under with beans and picking fruit like it's going out of fashion.  I do love this time of plenty.   The weather is a very changeable so harvesting is interspersed with making when it gets showery.  

Today I made a maritime themed card with this awesomely cute Memory Box Rainy Day Mouse.  Isn't he adorbs in his rainwear!!!!   I used paper addicts Ahoy There patterned papers and added some aztec paint blue and silver splatts.  I used lots of little scraps to cut the mouse, and also the fish and frame, from Memory Box Underwater Scene, and to stamp my sentiments, which come from Memory Box  Oceanside Typewriter Sentiment stamp set.

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Joining the fun at
Memory Box Challenge 131 - Splattered
Snippets Playground Challenge 539 

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - On/Under The Sea 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Going Round In Circles 
Paper Funday Challenge 90 - Anything Goes opt Fancy Folds

 

Travelling Boris

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity with some inspiration for the For The Men Challenge.  

I've used Carmen's Veranda Boris.  Isn't he wonderful!!   I do love these big people faces stamps. 

I decided to go black and white for this card.   I stamped Lost Coast Designs Mini Phrenology Collage twice on a white card panel with black archival ink.  Then I stamped Boris on white card, fussy cut him and added him.  To finish I stamped a couple of stamps from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes set.

 

You have all month to join the fun with your stamped makes featuring men or masculine things.
We need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

Joining the fun at
We Love Stamping - Summer Blooms opt AG
Scrappelyst Utfordring Juli/August - Alt er Lov 
Paper Funday Challenge 90 - Anything Goes opt Fancy Folds
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Monochrome 

 

Forever After Fusion

Hello Nomad friends.   I do enjoy making wedding cards.  This one was inspired by a sketch and 7 Gypsy papers.  

It all started with that spellbinders stitch die panel cut in black and red and the marianne designs wedding couple silhouette.  Goth wedding me thinks, but then I found these lovely 7 gypsy papers and the background went a bit vintage.  Used scraps for the tiny tag, those cute little heart envelopes at the bottom, the vertical stripes, and the just married and mr and mrs words were hanging off a partial cut sheet.

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Joining the fun at
Snippets Playground Challenge 538
Kreativtanten Challenge 116 - Alles Geht 
Allsorts Challenge 855 - Colours of Summer opt AG 
Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks 764-765 

 

 

One Man and His Truck

 Hello Nomad friends.  The new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is For the Men.  Did I hear you groan???!!!!  Where's your spirit of adventure??  Your get up and go??  I know, it got up and went bwahahahahaaa.  But do not despair!   The team and I are going to inspire your socks off and masculine will be our new favourite topic, at least for this month LOL.

 

I started by digging out some game stamps, Carmen's Veranda Dice Background  and Lost Coast Designs Domino Border.  I stamped the dice background with midnight blue archival on pale blue card.  Then I stamped the domino border a few times on white card, fussy cut and added it as a frame around my background.  I stamped and Carmen's Veranda Old Truck with black archival ink on some UHK mottled blue patterned card and fussy cut.  Then I cut out the windows with a craft knife and backed them with a piece of the same UHK card.  WHY???!!   Why did I do that??  Answers on a postcard to me..........   Of course, it looks so much better because I did use a piece of the patterned card that was 2 tones lighter bwahaahhaaaaaaaa.  

 

 

Anyway, hop over and check out all the wonderful man makes.  The team has so many amazing ideas, and we even give a real red rubber prize when we get more than 20 entries in the linky.   New ideas will be added all month so grab you coffee and box of after eights and join us.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz  

 

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Kreativtanten Challenge 116 - Alles Geht 
Allsorts Challenge 855 - Colours of Summer opt AG 
Word Art Wednesday Challenge Weeks 762-763

 

Howdy Friend

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 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, everyone is a winner!!  The participants of the Card Chain Challenge have now exchanged OVER 5000 CARDS!!  How amazing is that??

 This month there were 26 participants and my card winged it's way to Brenda in the UK.  Brenda is a longtime online friend, and I know she loves dogs, so I used this cute Pokey Dog stamp by Lost Coast Designs.  Pets was one of the options for July. 

I used a Marianne Design die for the stitch detail round the aperture and the panel is a piece of filter paper splashed with Brusho powder and water.  I stamped Pokey Dog on the card to get the extra details I didn't want to cut out.  Then I stamped him on some slightly brown card, added some distress marker colour and fussy cut.  The gold letters are stickers.

If you would like to see all the amazing card that winged their way around the planet for July check out the REVEAL POST. 

If you would like to join the fun SIGN UP HERE. 

Thanks for dropping by.  HUGZ

 

Joining the fun at
Paper Funday Challenge 89 - Anything Goes opt Summer Splash
Scrappelyst Utfordring Juli/August - Alt er Lov  
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Stitch It 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  
Kreativtanten Challenge 116 - Alles Geht