Fish Friends

Hello Nomad friends.  Over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity the challenge for May is No Body Here, as in no people allowed.   We want to see your stamped anythings featuring anything except people.  I went with fish i\using Lost Coast Designs Fish and Heart stamp set.

I used blue and red archival ink and fussy cut the fish.  The sentiment is from Lost Coast Designs Travel Quotes set.

Grab your stamps and join the fun!!  You have all month to share your stamped anythings featuring anything EXCEPT PEOPLE!!  Real rubber or clear stamping and the theme must be the focus of your project and we need at least 20 entries to award the prize.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Word Art Wednesday Weeks 750-751 
Inspiration Station Challenge #85 inspired by red white and blue

Fish and Flamingos

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the second of the month and time for the Card Chain Challenge Reveal.  You really must hop over and check out all the amazing cards that were exchanged this month.  So many talented ladies sending love one card at a time all around the world.  

This month I sent my card to Linda in Michigan.

I used the colour option, teal, gold and candyfloss, and also the options of Flamingos, Fish and Foil, and I might grab Silhouette too for the white fish in the background..........

The fish paper is ummmmm, I'll get back to you on that.....Imaginisce!!  I used Studio Light Grunge dies for my gold accents and a Pink and Main sticker.  The flamingo is a fuzzy lemon die. 

I received a gorgeous card from Robyn in Australia, thanks Robyn 💖.

If you would like to see Robyn's card, and all the other ones that were sent this month hop over and check out the REVEAL 

If you would like to join the fun you can SIGN UP for October until the 6th 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap Challenge 14 - AG with patterned paper 

Eat More Fish

Hello Nomad friends.  It's very maritime here at my crafty corner at the moment.  I have a few bits lying around from previous projects so here is this gorgeous Hero Arts Layering Koi again.  

The gold mirror panel is the one I cut my koi from the other day.  Seemed a pity to waste a nice negative cut.  I cut it with Stamplorations Double Stitch Die and embossed with Paper Discovery Waves embossing folder.  Then I cut another Hero Arts Koi from green mirror card and added him in the space.  I feel a never ending world of koi cards might be on the horizon bwahahahaaahahahaa.  I added a Kort og Godt Happy Birthday greeting, stamped on a scrap and cut with a stitch fishtail banner die.

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Something Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you had a great weekend.  I spent two days dancing with a vicious little virus that came in Saturday morning with a hedgehog in my throat and then hit me with a herd of buffalos and left me feeling like a merry-go-round on a roller coaster.  Don't you just love it when annoying weekend visitors move along!!  Feeling very much more ooman today and found a sentiment to finish this A5 journal page I was working on.

I started with an A5 sheet of Marianne Designs Seabreeze papers.  I added some ripped dark blue strips and some dark blue glitter through a Rubber Dance stencil.  The light house and anchor are from UHK-Gallery Lighthouse papers, cut with Studio Light Mosaic ATC die.  I added an offset dark blue ATC behind each of these.  The fish were cut from some maritime themed wallpaper and the sentiment is ripped from a Prima journaling card.

OK, off to water the garden before my tomato plants give up totally. 
Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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The Outlawz Challenge August Linky

Allsorts Challenge 830 - Something Beginning with B B is for blue

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

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Knutsels en Kadootjes - Vouwen Maar

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 

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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Allsorts Challenge 826 - Seaside 

 

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!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Polkadoodle Challenge 5 week 3 - AG

Bunch of Koi

Hello Nomad friends.  I was playing with the patterned scraps and decided to try a bit of collage.    Ooh, pretty background.  Add a few fish and done!!!

I picked scraps in shades of green, orange and brown for an autumn feel and then I stamped Hero Arts Koi Bunch on yellow paper, coloured with Promarkers and white gel pen and fussy cut them.  I cut the collage background using a Daisy Mae tag die and added some orange and brown autumnal wool.  

Lots more bits in the box.  Might make some more of these backgrounds.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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We Love Stamping September Challenge - Hand Coloured Image opt AG

Sealed With a Fish

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the second of the month and time for another awesome and amazing Card Chain Challenge Reveal.   What dat???  OMG, where have you been........

The Card Chain Challenge.  An international card exchange that has been running non stop since 2009.  Make a card, send a card, get a card.  Everyone gets a card.  Everyone's a winner.  Spreading love around the world one handmade card at a time.  You gotta give it a go at least once in your life LOL.

Here's the card I sent to Imke in Germany

I sort of used the sketch and the feathers, friendship and ribbon options.  Seagull die from Waffle Flower.  Ribbon weave frame die from Marianne Designs.  Sentiment from Hero Arts. Starry/Stripey designer paper from Kort og Godt,

You can check out the whole amazing JULY REVEAL here

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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz 

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Word Art Wednesday Weeks 659-660
Papercraft Challenge 107 - Holiday Time

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul

Hello Nomad fiends.  The voice of the sea does speak to my soul.  Here's a brave little dude doing a bit of wave riding on a hot summer evening.  

I made the background using Colourcraft Aztec pearlescent paint and added some black splatts.  The boy in canoe and fish are Aall and Create stamps and the sentiment is a huge favourite of mine from Crafty Individuals.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenge Uitdaging 194 - Maritiem

Do Fish Sing In The Night

Hello Nomad friends.  The sun is trying to come out but I've been feeling inspired and creative with a little mini journal page.  Well, maybe not so mini.  

I used Aall and Create stencil, die and stamps and borrowed some lyrics from Tom Walker Leave a Light On.  What better light to leave on that a Lighthouse lamp.  Get home safely everyone.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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In The Cat House

Hello Nomad friends.  Having another big moment for the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Cute and/or Fluffy challenge, and what's more cute and fluffy than cats!!

I was feeling lazy so I fussy cut everything.  Nightmare for some, but I enjoy fussy cutting and everything here was pretty simple.  I used Lost Coast Designs Yourba Adire Background and Fourth Dimension Background for my cat house.  Then I stamped three Yoga Cats and the Anchor Fish with blue ink and fussy cut.  I stamped ATC Many Cats on an inky scrap and added a die cut frame.

 

 

You have until 23.59 PST on the 30th to join the Cute and/or Fluffy challenge and don't forget to follow us so you don't miss anything!  The team will be posting more inspiration throughout the month so do hop over and see their awesome makes.

 

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

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As You Like It Challenge - Cute or Floral I'm not really a flower fan so cute gets my vote anytime.
Stamping Sensations Challenge - AG optional Spring Moodboard
Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2414

Diamond Sands

Hello Nomad friends.  It's all about the Bling over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and I have Carmen's Veranda awesome Ballerina with Fish on a sparkly beach.

I stamped Ballerina with Fish and embossed with gold embossing powder.  I water coloured everything and then went crazy with blobs of glitter glue on the beach.  Finally I stamped part of Carmen's Veranda Everything Will Be Fine sentiment.

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 for your chance to win Lost Coast Dollars.

 Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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That's Fishy

Hello Nomad friends.  I have been playing in my art journal.  It's been a while.  If you want to see some of the other pages they may possibly be under the label 'art journal'.  Organising has never been my strong point, but miracles do happen.  I was looking through the AJ and was wondering who had been in there doing stuff, but then I managed to make this page, so maybe it was me.  

I got lost in the process and didn't take any pics except this one, which we possibly all regret, but basically......... ripped book paper, Colourcraft Aztec Paint blue and green applied with a brush, then white pearl paint applied with my fingers.  Squirts of red ariondack spray (never opened, don't know where that came from and for a minute it started to look a bit like a crime scene) and black splatts, again applied by fingertip because the brush splatts were just not working for me.  Uhhhhh, oh yeah, random mark making with Rubber Dance Carved 1 and 2 round stamps, some text using Rubber Dance Take the Plunge Public Bathing Rules (love that one) and Textured Fish stamped on random yellowish scraps, fussy cut and a little glitter to make them sparkle.  A couple more text stamps from Rubber Dance Take the Plunge and some scribbles and I quite like that.  It's very pearly cos of the Aztec paint and a bit wavy cos I went straight into the journal, but I am sure it will straighten out once I put it back on the shelf.

Thanks for looking.  Hugz

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Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge 43 - Maritim

An Interesting Experiment with Stamping

Hello Nomad friends.  Tis the merry month of May!!!!   Well, the calendar says that but mother nature still seems to be clinging to winter.  It's not warm and the brave spring flowers are looking a little battered, but we live in hope that the wind will turn and spring will bounce in.  Over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity we want you to play with Paper Piecing.  Now I am a fussy cutting fan, so this is right up my alley.  It also gives me great expectations of conquering scrap mountain.  Well, at least a scrap hillock.  Here's my card using Lost Coast Designs wonderful Dark Girl Geisha

I stamped Dark Girl Geisha on various scraps and snipped away until I had a nice collection of bits to piece together.

 

I found some narrow strips in shades of yellow, orange and gold, pieced them together and stamped with Lost Coast Designs Concentric Circle Background and dandelion archival ink.  It stamped quite well actually, even on the pearlescent embossed bit.   Emboldened, I stamped the Carmen's Veranda sentiment and added my paper pieced girl. 

Join the paper piecing fun with your stamped anythings for a chance to win Lost Coast dollars.

Thanks for dropping by.  Oooh, sunshine.......  Hugz

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
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Snippets Playground Challenge 453

Collaged Collage

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the first of the month and time for a new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and we want to see you using at least three stamps on your projects.  

I used Lost Coast Designs Mini Fish Collage, one in a new series of collage style stamps, Arches and Door Background, Shooting Står Background and words from Misc. Words.

I started by stamping the Arches and Door Background with bluebird archival then stamped over the top and bottom again with midnight blue archival inks.

I stamped the Mini Fish Collage on white card and coloured with distress markers.  Then I fussy cut around parts of the image.

I cut out the door

I positioned the Mini Fish Collage behind the aperture and poked the partially cut elements through to the front.  I stamped the Shooting Star Background, added some distress ink colour, ripped it up and added it either side of the panel.  I mounted the whole thing at an angle on the base card and stamped the words.

Thanks for dropping by.  If you are stamping I hope you join the fun at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  Hugz.

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A Day At Zombie Beach

Hello Nomad friends.  I hope you are having an awesome day.  I spotted the new challenge at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers and it finally made me sit down and make this special beach scene.  Welcome to Zombie Beach.  It's a bit like Bondi, just more un-dead..........

Bwahaahahaaaaaaaaa!  

I couldn't resist these Art Gone Wild Zombie Beach characters when I spotted them a little while ago at a shop in Norway.  I blended distress inks blue, yellow, blue on a slimline textured base card.  The sign is DRS Beware of Zombies stamp.  I used Cheery Lynn dies for the zombie hands, stars and nuclear bottle and sizzix dies for the sentiment and black crosses.  The fish is a magazine die.  I stamped, fussy cut and coloured my Art Gone Wild zombies with distress markers and gel pens.  I also used a white galaxy marker to add some 'waves', since the zombie hands were too busy to wave LOL. 

Hope you enjoy my Zombie Beach as much as I do.  Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Something Beginning with S sea, sand, stars
Country View June Challenge - Seeing Stars
Double D Challenge Beach Time
Scrap the Rainbow - Moodboard