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

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Think Pink
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Oktober - Rosa
Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap Challenge 14 - AG with patterned paper 

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

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes  
Outside the Box Challenge 120 - Sympathy Cards 
Girlz Creative Fun Art of Scrap Challenge 11

Scrap Meeting Sunday

Hello Nomad friends.  I'm doing a virtual scrap this weekend with my local craft store Hobbylageret.  I got a few things finished yesterday and today I am just tootling along gently. 

Challenge 10 - Colour an image

I've been wanting to join the Turner Syndrome Awareness Challenge so I grabbed Curious Corrin, who is her own kind of special, and coloured her with pink, lime and yellow Promarkers 

 

I simply mounted my fussy cut Corrin on a patterned card base and added some sentiment stamps from Rubber Dance in black archival.

 

Joining the fun at
Hobbylageret Digi-Scrap Challenge 10 - Colour an Image 1/2
It's a Girl Thing Turner Syndrome Awareness Challenge I learnt that a Turner girl is a miracle.

Stamping Sensations Challenge - Colour My World 

 

 

 

Challenge 1 - CASE the Card

I've gone with a fishing theme for my CASE.   The fish tag is off a Weird Fish t-shirt.   I used the Imaginisce Bon Voyage paper again and also some Papirdesigns Fiskestenger and Sykkel papers.  The sentiment says Follow your dreams.  

Joining the fun at
Hobbylageret Digi-Scrap Challenge 1 - CASE 1/2
Allsorts Challenge Week 611 - Masculine
Papirdukkene - 3 Forskjellige Mønsterark 2/5
Hobbykunst Utfordring - 3 Forskjellige Mønsterark 2/5
 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Virtual Scrap - Day 3

Hello Nomad friends.  The final few hours of the virtual scrap are upon me and I am really pleased with the projects I have made.  The challenges have been fun and inspiring and, despite hoping to join in with them all, I have not compromised quality for quantity.   But as I say, still a few hours to go so maybe........   I'm back to Christmas again.......

We made some of these cute little tea/giftcard holders yesterday as part of a quick challenge.  They are really quick and easy and fun.  I made two yesterday and thought I'd make another one today with a winter theme.  The paper is very old Imaginisce and the snowman is Marianne Designs.  He's just sitting in there.  You can pull him out and play with him, or write on him.  I thought he made a cute tag!

I didn't have any cocoa sachets, so for illustration purposes I added a tea bag.  You can add some more on the inside and I added a extra little decorative bar with printed circles from another piece of Imaginisce designer paper.  Think this will bring joy, and the one at the far end is a cocoa filled cup.  

Joining the fun at
Unstampabelles Challenge 107 - Joy
I Love Math Challenge 18 - Winter/Christmas circles, triangles and much measuring and folding
Country View Challenge December - Anything Christmas
Paperminutes 672 - Christmas card or goodie

I made a quick little tag using the same Making Memories Poinsettia Flocked Mistletoe paper I used for my coffee cup last night.  Love those little flocked flowers.  The stamp is from Kort og Godt and says Christmas Hug.  Sweet!!

Joining the fun at
Double D Challenge - Poinsettia
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 522

 

And last but by no means least, this cute Kort og Godt dog, this time the Christmas with antlers version.  Awesomely cute!!  I stamped the dog with black archival, masked and then stamped the snowflakes and sentiment with blue archival.  I added a little distress marker colour to the dog and done.  Next years Christmas card?????   Maybe.....

Dog is joining the fun at
Scrappelyst Grublis for Desember - Snø
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 45 - Anything Chrismassy

Thanks for dropping by.  I'm gonna put something in the oven to slow cook and then back to my little crafty space.  Hugz

The Ringmaster

Hello Nomad friends.  The craftroom clean up uncovered some very old Imaginise circus card stickers, so I decided to make a quick card.

The circus tent and koala ringmaster had a white border that I wasn't keen on so I fussy cut them.  I used a Kort og Godt patterned card base and the Have a Fantastic Day sentiment is a printed strip included on the edge of the patterned card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge 9 - Circus

A Very Special Lamb

Hello, hello, blog followers and friends.  Yesterday I got happy mail which worked fabulously with a layout I was putting together for the Imaginisce Challenge.  

This is the sketch for the July challenge.  

This is what I came up with.  I remember this day quite vividly.  The sheep and I were up the mountain.  I was working.  He was enjoying himself.  I always got the impression he was on holiday which was why the Imaginisce Travel Stacker Stickers seemed perfect for this layout.  It was a lovely sunny day, late May, hot and hazy.  I remember seeing this view and asking him to jump on this rock, which he did, and then asking him to stay there while I walked far enough away to photo this glorious scene.  Amazingly he did stay put.  I think he knew home was down the hill and since I was going up the hill to take my photo he knew I would be coming back.

I used Imaginisce Animal Crackers Step Right Up double sided paper as my base 002798.  I was kicking myself a bit cos the other side is full with circus themed tickets, which was why I bought it, but this side was perfect for the layout.  I thought the little triangles looked like a pine forest.  The main picture is the one I took which I had made into postcards.  The image is printed in black and white on the reverse side and I thought it was nice to use the repeat image under the colour one.  It also gives me my Sibbe at Work May 2011 caption.  

I used Imaginisce Travel Stacker stickers 003387, the postcard, the tourist first class tag, cos he was a first class tourist, and the customs declaration, which was a great place for my title and also a bit of journalling about Sibbe.  I added some twine to the tags.  

I really wanted to use my i-Top tool but didn't think brads would fit in.  Then I decided to use the 34mm brad punch for this great spiky shape and some of the packaging from other stacker stickers which had the same triangle design.  This gave me my arrows and I used some other elements from the stacker stickers to add some interest.  The trees are cut using Memorybox Frosted Christmas Tree die.  This was my happy mail!  It's one of their newly released dies that I was lucky enough to win as part of the Memorybox Holiday Release over at A Crear Se Dijo.  Fantastic die.  I cut and embossed some green card and then used DI Mowed Lawn to highlight the embossing.  They fitted perfectly to continue my Norwegian forest theme.  The flourish is Sizzix Flowers and Vine #3.  

For this layout, for my memories of this day and my Lamb in general these papers and embellishments couldn't have been more perfect.  I haven't done many layouts but I am really pleased how all the elements work together to give me a very special frozen moment.  I suppose that is what it's all about.......

Joining the fun at
Imaginisce - July Challenge
Country View Challenges - Summer Sizzler
Stamping Sensations July Challenge 

Thanks for dropping by.  Please leave a comment to let me know you passed this way.  Have a great day.