Mammoth Autumn

Hello Nomad friends.  Isn't it sad so many cool animals are extinct.  Would have loved a Dodo, or a Quagga.  How about a Mammoth.  All that gorgeous hair and tusks to boot.

Loving this.  I went autumn colours and a Mammoth!!  I used yellow plaid Paper Rose Easter Sunday patterned paper and embossed with Couture Creations I Dream embossing folder.  I smudged the texture with archival inks in orange and red.  I cut another piece of the Easter Sunday papers with Paper Rose Radial Circle die and added Beach Scene Circle cut from scrap of coloured paper.  I stamped one of the mammoths from the Wooly Mammoth stamp set and one of the sentiments on brown card and added a touch of colour.  Fussy cut your mammoth and add him to the card for autumn perfection.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at 
Kaartjes Inspiratie Challenges Uitdaging 198 - Moodboard
Simon Says Stamp World Card Making Day 
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Patterned Papers
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Add Some Texture
We Love Stamping Challenge - Autumn
Stamping Sensations Challenge - Autumn Colours

 

Shape of a Santa

Hello Nomad friends.  Hope you are having an awesome Saturday.  It's a bit drizzly today so I'm messing about a bit in the craft room.  A few years ago I turned into a Christmas all-year-round gal.  Jo has a fab challenge over at the Christmas Kickstart blog so I used retro santa and gave him a couple of gifts to juggle.

Love the sizzix colorize dies.  Great for using up scraps!!!   The gifts, also cut from scraps, are sizzix Santa's Workshop dies.  I stamped the Kort og Godt sentiment which says 'Christmas hug to you from me', on a piece of ex-stamp packaging and cut it with a fishtail banner die.  The grey background I used a Paper Rose die to get the pretty circle cuts.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 87 - It's A Gift
Allsorts Challenge Week 785 - Masculine
Snippets Playground Challenge 482
Die-cut Divas May Challenge - Favourite Die Cut Shape love colourize dies for fun shapes and fishtail banners.

Basket Of Eggs

Hello Nomad friends.  Easter is coming!!   I have my doubts about Spring at the moment, but Easter is a certainty, although it always confuses me!!   If Jesus was born on the 25th December every year how come the day of his death can be anywhen from mid-March to mid-April?   Wouldn't it be easier for everyone if they just picked a day??  They seem to be very good at picking a day for so many things......

Anyway, I made a basket of eggs card using Paper Rose products.  Love this Australian company.  They have so many unique and lovely designs.  I have a modest stash of their products and decided to use the Circlet Layered Background 1 die to make the basket shape.

I cut Paper Rose Circlet Layered Background 1 die from green bazzill bling card and paper pieced the negative cuts back in after cutting away parts of the circlet die to make the basket shape. The bazzill bling had a nice contrast between the front and back colour so very little waste here today!   I used sheets from Paper Rose Easter Sunday 6 x 6 paper collection for the background pieces and the eggs and Happy Easter were fussy cut from other sheets in the collection.  Adorbs.  

In case you are interested this is the circlet die I used.

Thanks for dropping by.  Take care.  Hugz

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Spring and/or Easter
Papercraft Challenge 91 - Easter
Double D Challenge - Easter

Summer Down Under

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh, me again!!  So, I been trying to get my head around this one for a few days.  I treated myself to some Paper Rose dies and papers for christmas.  I have had my eye on this beautiful Romance Arch and the Scandi Texture Plate dies were so cute and scandi I just had to have em.

I also bought some paper Rose Easter Sunday 6x6 papers and they had these plaid pattern in blue, pink or yellow.  Messing around I finally settled on the blue.  I die cut the Romantic Arch from black card and there is some lovely cut detail on the couple but my camera lost it.  I backed it with the blue plaid and cut the row of hearts using the scandi plate die and backed that with red.  Some card mats to layer it up and a wedding/engagement/valentines card is in the bag. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Time Out Challenge 230 - Inspired By Words
Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge 2303
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Die Cut Divas - Valentines

Framed

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 15th of the month so time for a new challenge at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity and we want you to get your jingle on!   Yes, we are joining the Christmas spirit which appears to be suffusing blogland.  It's Christmas in July and the team are rocking it out of the manger so do hop over to the blog and check out the inspiration creations.  I decided to keep it simple, cos as with life, sometimes keeping it simple is good, and I used Carmen's Veranda Snow Cowboy.  Yee haw!!!!!!!

Isn't he adorable!!  I used Lost Coast Designs Small Snowflake set and Salty Ocean distress ink and stamped a sheet of white card.  I used Paper Roses Stitched Rectangle Frame dies to cut it and then I blended more blue ink over the centre panel.  I stamped the Snow Cowboy with black archival on white card, fussy cut and added him to the card.  The Merry Christmas is from Lost Coast Designs Party Words stamp set.  

I hope you have time to join the Christmas in July fun if you are working on xmas projects.  We accept any type of project as long as it features the theme and real stamping.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Christmas Kickstart Challenge 64 - Show Us Your Snowfolk
Die Cut Divas Challenge - Christmas In July
Lift Challenge 171
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Make Your Own Background
Dies R Us Challenge 197 - AG

Neigh If You Are Happy

Hello Nomad friends.  Just wanted to share this card I made for the Paper Roses fb Geometric challenge.  I am a big fan of Paper Roses, it's just a little tricky to get hold of their products here in Norway!  But I have a few dies and a few more in my sights LOL.  

 

Being an Australian company they have some lovely different motivs and I love the silhouette dies.  This is Stockman with Cows Border Die and the lattice is from the Stitched Rectangle Frames set.  I added a copper metal charm from Korthobby as a stylised sun.  

 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

 

Joining the fun at
Allsorts Challenge Week 684 - Allsorts of Animals