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 August Linky

 

 

Crazy Dogs

Hello Nomad friends.  Made some ATC's using Crazy Dogs.  Oldies but goodies.

I used two shades of pink distress ink on the background and stencilled using walnut stain distress and stampers anonymous halloween stencil.  Then I stamped Concord and 9th Geode rings with black ink.  The crazy dogs were stamped on brown card, fussy cut and I added a little gel pen/distress marker colour.  I used a sizzix ATC die to cut the ATC's.

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Everything You Need Except Vitamin C

Hello Nomad friends.  Well, I'm off to a brisk start this morning which is highly unusual for me!!   Even the hens fell off their perch when the breakfast bell rang early.   It's a bit of a wet and grey Maundy Thursday so now my little darlings are all fed and watered I will be making my self cosy in my crafty space.  But first a little decoupage......

 

 The egg with flowers is printed so I just needed to clippy clippy.  I added the mini magnolia bunny suit girl cos she was lurking with intent.  I was aiming for damson with my card base and added two panels cut with an ATC die.  I diecut some diamonds into the top one and added fussy cut butterflies and rhinestones to both. 

Dimension shot.  The egg is actually flat!!   Wish I could colour like that........
Little bunny girl is perched on the first layer.

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Shroom Potions

Hello Nomad friends.  Made some ATC's in autumn colours with Aall&Create stamps. 

Dubious advice from the bottle maybe!!

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Allsorts Challenge Week 751

What Does The Fox Say

Hello Nomad friends.  The new scraps control system seems to be functioning brilliantly.  Just need to extend it a little bit to cover all colour options and work my way through a bit more of the desk.  Ho Ho Ho.  

Playing with Gummiapan stamps and dies today to make some ATC's.  Raided the orange scraps for the foxes.  

He's wickedly cute!!   He comes with an overalls die but today he is out in the forest au naturall.  Check out the sentiment!!    I dropped the Dear Santa bit but couldn't resist 'just leave the credit card under the tree'.......   Bwahahaahhahaahahahaaaaa.

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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My Spirit Animal

Hello Nomad friends.  I took part in the Visible Image May Royal Purple ATC exchange.  My ATC went to Kathy in California and I just had to use my spirit animal - White Rabbit!!!   

For my ATC base I used a piece of card that was painted with purple Aztec pearlescent paint.  I stamped Visible Image T-Shirt on white card and then stamped White Rabbit onto the t-shirt and fussy cut.  I watercoloured the t-shirt with distress inks and my waterbrush with bling.  Got a bit of bleed of my ink and decided to blob some extra watercolour in places for a tie-dye look.  I coloured white rabbit with distress markers and also some sharpie markers for the royal purple, gold and silver and used the gold sharpie around the ATC edge.

I also sent a tie-dye style card using the white rabbit stamp set.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Old Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  How is your weekend going.  UK peeps hopefully enjoyed the coronation festivities and an extra holiday tomorrow you lucky pepole.  OMG!  I've caught dyslexia!!!  Actually, the inability to spell people is causing major anxiety.  At least I am still OK with all those important X words!!!  Xcelent, Xcel, boX Xcetera.    Yep, too much sun obviously.  But I did make these awesomly cute ATC's!!!!

Look at these oldies!!!  So cute!!!!!  I won these MFT Old Friends stamps and dies over at the Snippet's Playground a while ago and this is their first day out.  Next week the beach!!!   So cute!!!  Ooops, repeating myself!  Signs of Oldiness creeping in!!  Yeah, so, cut your ATC bases from patterned card and blend a bit of ink through a Spiderweb stencil.  I thought cobwebs was a fun touch, or is it just me??  Stamp, colour and die cut your oldies.  Stamp some old Friends sentiments and the middle sentiment comes from MFT leopard set.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Happy Animals

Hello Nomad friends.  Gummiapan is a Swedish company and I love their quirky designs.  I also love their Advent calendar and 2022 was the second year I bought the dies calendar.  Well worth the substantial outlay.  They have a couple of challenge groups on fb and I am joining their January ATC 1st theme of black and white with this cute trio 

I used a variety of stamps, stamping the backgrounds and then adding the cute animals and sentiments.

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Birds and Bugs and Flowers

Hello Nomad friends.  It's time for a new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and the theme for the last two weeks of January is Winged Things.  We want to see your stamped anythings featuring things with wings.   I made some ATC's using the lovely new Mini Collage stamps from Lost Coast Designs.

I used some pastel rainbow paper for my bases and stamped Lost Coast Designs ATC Doodle Flower stamp with Prickly Pear archival ink.   I over stamped with Mini Maritime Collage, Mini Bug Collage, and Mini Bird Collage using black archival and then grunged up the edges with the same black ink. 

 

Hop over to the blog to see all the lovely inspiration from the team and join the Winged Things fun for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.  

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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Not Waiting For the Glitter Glue To Dry

Hello Nomad friends.  It's cold.  Christmas is coming, and I still haven't found my jingle.  If you are hoping for a Christmas card they are made and sitting in a box in front of me.  Plan A failed.  Plan B is to get some written soon, and maybe even posted.  And then something wonderful happened!  Who says you can buy happiness.....   

I just had to share this little cutie.  He arrived today along with some other lovely goodies.  Isn't he adorbs!!!!   He is called Kawaii Jultomte and he is from a swedish company called Gummiapan.  This is an ATC and the border was cut using Gummiapan's mini-slimline Granbar die.  It's pine branches.  I obviously had to shorten it to fit the ATC, but that was a pretty painless process.  And did I mention how adorable I think that little santa is???!!!!  I've coloured him with Promarkers and glitter glue.  

Thanks for dropping by.   Hugz

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We Love Stamping December Challenge - I Love.... new stash, this santa stamp, ATC's

The Fox's Tale

Hello Nomad friend.  A little ATC with Poppystamps dies.  

I used snippet of orange corrugated card for my ATC base and embossed it with Poppystamps Leafy Background die.  I smeared the texture and edged with brown ink.   I cut Poppystamps Peek a Boo Fox from a scrap of card, coloured him with sharpies and backed him with leaves cut with Poppystamps Orchard Leaves die from a scrap coloured with Infusion powder.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Going Wild Cubed

Hello Nomad friends. A few more ATC's I made.  Well, since I was in the mood, and I'd spotted these lovely Penny Black On Safari die cuts that one of my Card Chain Challenge friends sent me.  See, sometimes you don't only get a fab card!  Sometimes your Card Chain Challenge friend sends some little goodies.  It's not a requirement of the challenge, but it is nice isn't it!  Die cuts are popular cos they are flat and don't weigh much.  Since I had three different animals, in three different colours, I made three ATC's!   Cubed cubed LOL.

I used a yellow card base and the idea was to do three different colour treelines.  Luckily Mr Mojo was on point and remembered colour rules!!!  It turns out yellow plus lots of ink colours makes brown!!!!   I was OK with the Dandelion archival, but had to abandon all the pinks and reds and even the pale green.  It's always worth checking the colour on a scrap, or backside, when using colour bases.  So Sepia and Library Green to the rescue.   I used Crafty Individuals 561 medium tree off-block to make the tree background and also stamped the tickets from the same set.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Space Food

Hello Nomad friends.  It's been a busy and productive day.  I used NBUS.  I used scraps.  I finished up the last bits of glue in three glue tubes and binned em!   The desk is looking better.  I put stuff away as I finished with it.  I am building good habits.  And Mr Mojo was humming along nicely.  A good day.

Gotta share these ATC's.  Are you smiling yet???  

This little spaceman is from Gemini To The Moon stamp/die set.  He comes with a matching die but I don't like the white border so I fussy cut him x3.  The moon stamp is also from the same set.  I made the backgrounds by splatting green and blue Aztec pearlescent paint on yellow card.  I cut my ATC's and edged with orange ink.  I had cleaned my brush along one side of the yellow card and decided it would make a fab moon!  Perfect!!!  Stamped and fussy cut x3.  I decided we needed more stars so picked three from the Gemini set and stamped em all over with dandelion archival ink.  Seems aztec paint is self masking!  Aren't they adorable!  They make me happy.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Freedom, Peace and Harmony

Hello Nomad friends.  Today I have made a set of Artist Trading cards featuring a selection of Lost Coast Designs awesome merpeople. 

The current challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity is Under The Sea. 

I used Lost Coast Designs Pondscum Background and Dictionary Words for the background, stamped with two shades of blue archival ink.  Then I stamped Lost Coast Designs Wing Mermaid with Face and two of the Doodle Dolls 1 stamps with Night Sky archival, fussy cut them and added them to my ATCs.

 

 

Do you feel inspired to take the Under The Sea challenge? 

You can join the fun right up until the end of the month.  Hope to see you there.

There be prizes!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Hot Pink Santas

Hello Nomad friends.  I treated myself to the Gummiapan Dies and stamps advent calendars.  OK, I've treated myself to lots of stuff, but sometimes a girl's got to get what she needs!!!  And since we are sitting in the middle of a gale force blizzard right now I grabbed the day 1 stamps and die set and went hot pink!!!

 
The day 1 dies were this cute little Santa dude.  There are a few other tiny embellishments that I didn't include, so a very happy start to the month of fun.  The day 1 stamp was three parcels and that cute tiny sentiment.  I like Gummiapan.  They are a Swedish company, they have real rubber stamps and cute and quirky designs.  I cut ATC bases from blue card, stamped the sentiment in black, the long package in pink and the other two in blue.  The Santa I cut from hot pink and white scraps.  I used a Promarker to colour the face pink and add a little grey to his moustache.  ATC is a perfect size for gift tags LOL.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Lennart Goes Bats

Hello Nomad friends.  Halloween.  Weird and wonderful.  Here's some artist trading cards using Gummiapan's Lennart die.....

I used leaf embossed handmade paper for the bases.  I cut Gummiapan's Linked Ciircles die from neon green paper and added the positives and negatives to the ATC bases.  I cut Lennart from black and gold card and spliced him together.  A few stamped bats and some black grungy edging and bootastic!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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People Like This

Hello Nomad friends.

I cut a stencil using Gummiapan's Linked Circles die and used it with Salty Ocean oxide ink on the artist trading card bases.  Then I used various Gummiapan people stamps, stamped, fussy cut and added little pops of colour.  I fussy cut santa's body and added some tiny gold sticker leftovers.  Some glitter glue has been used in the making of this project.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Allsorts In memory of Kath: Next weeks challenge would have been hosted by Kath and in her usual organised fashion she had selected her theme months ago. We are still having that theme but with a slight amendment to celebrate her style of crafting with some special prizes. So we hope lots of you will join us on 11th September for 'A Challenge for Kath'.

Mini Many Cats

Hello Nomad friends.   And a big hello to you to September!  I seem to have missed August a little but I am going to Carpe Diem September til the cows go Moooooo!   Over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity we have a new challenge and it's Movie Mania!  I made some ATC's using Lost Coast Designs ATC Many Cats and Grunge Cat red rubber stamps.  Grunge Cat comes with a magnificent tail but it missed the cut bwahhhaaahaa.  It's on the cutting room floor!  Bwahhhaaaaaa.

My Artist Trading Cards are based on the movie Cats.  Then I thought, not a movie, only a theatre production.  But teammate Sue assures me it is a movie, the worse one ever made.  Luckily I haven't seen it myself LOL.  I did look it up and supposedly it got the full 6 raspberries.......  

 I made one with blue ink, one with black ink and one became a rainbow.  

Join the fun for a chance to win and don't forget to check out the blog all month, every month for masses of inspiration from the team.  See you there!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Poe Neon

Hello Nomad friends! I have a bright and beautiful Artist Trading Card over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today for the Neon Challenge. 

 

I started by cutting a red ATC base (3.5" x 2.5").  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Goth Shrine ATC on white card with Cactus Flower archival ink and coloured with Salty Ocean, Twisted Citron, Wild Mustard and Spiced Marmalade distress markers.  I fussy cut the shrine and added it and a tiny strip of white card edged with Cactus Flower ink to the ATC.  Then I did a bit of tricky masking and stamped Carmen's Veranda Nevermore Crow, minus his nevermore, on the shrine.  I used a white gel pen to make his coloured bits white. 

 

 

Thanks for dropping by.  You still have a couple of days to link up your neon stamped makes for a chance to win.  Hugz

 

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Career Choice : Lumberjack

Hello Nomad friends.  I always fancied being a tree surgeon.  Or a vet.  Or maybe an astronaut.  Ah well.  For these ATC's I cut Gummiapan Trees stamp in two so trees became tree and fitted my chosen sentiment simply perfectly.

I cut three Artist Trading Cards from turquoise card using a die.  I stamped the larger Gummiapan fir tree using archival inks in green and thistle.  Then I stamped Gummiapan's Dear Santa sentiment.  Some glitter glue sparkles on the tree and done.  

'Dear Santa Just leave the credit card under the tree'

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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