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Hello Nomad friends.  I should be doing garden things before it rains, but more UFO's caught my attention.  I stamped and fussy cut Lost Coast Designs Taco John the other day and he looks hopefully at me every time I sit at my desk.  The yellow paper I used earlier really gave me a Mexican vibe so vamos a tener una fiesta!!!

 

He's just so adorbs!!!!  He is stamped on a scrap of patterned card with brown archival ink and I added a little distress marker colour.  The happy birthday is also from Lost Coast Designs.

The panel behind his head was a bit of sock packaging (gotta love it when they use kraft) cut with a postage die (I have so many but probably Gummiapan cos it's square) and then I used a nifty little die from Your Next Stamp to cut the wholes.  Then I stitched with this delicious variegated wool I scored in the bargain basket the other day.  So pretty!!!
 

Inside it's a bit of a sunny explosion so I added a writing panel then stamped Taco John again, peeking onto the card and Lost Coast Designs Do I Smell Cake sentiment.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Lost Coast Designs Portal to Creativity - Cats and/or Dogs Challenge
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - 4 Legged Friend 
Paper Funday Challenge 79 - Anything Goes opt 4 Legged Friend
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stitch It 
Snippets Playground Challenge 513

Quackin' Monotone

Hello.  Welcome.  The Memory Box challenge is to use neutrals so I decided to have a black and white moment.  Then CASology want Fly and YNS has a cute sketch so here comes Quackers........

I cut my black base card with Memory Box Peaceful Countryside die and backed the aperture with a piece of white card.  I stamped YNS Quackers on black card and embossed with white powder and fussy cut him.  I stamped the sentiment from Rubber Dance on the white panel, added some white polka dot ribbon and Quackers.  Hmmm.....

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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CASology Week 255 - Fly
Your Next Stamp Challenge 67 - Sketch
Memory Box Challenge 26 - Noteworthy Neutrals
Country View July Challenge - Things With Wings 
Ribbon Girls July Card Challenge 

Starry Starry Duck

Hello.  Welcome.  This is the card I made and sent to NanaConnie as part of the Card Chain Challenge.  In case you have missed this before, we are a group of crafty ladies all over the planet who each month send cards winging their way around the world in a burst of joy, love and creativity.  Want to join the fun??  The June sign up is open until the 6th.  So here's the card I sent......

I used Rubber Dance Milky Way stamp embosssed with white powder and Worn Lipstick distress ink for the background.  I cut a curve using Sizzix Stitched Oval die and the friendship stamp is from Crafty Individuals embossed with black powder.  The duck is YNS Quackers.  Love that duck!!   I coloured him with Promarkers.  

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Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 158 - Embossing
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
The Artistic Stamper Creative Team Challenge - Winged Things 

Love Buttons

Hello.  Welcome.  Had to roll out Snowman Cowboy again.  He is just so cool!!  

I used the YNS sketch and Repeat Impressions bingo board.  I stamped DRS Snowman Cowboy and coloured with distress inks and my waterbrush.  I punched three hearts from red card, drew a heart outline with black pen and added them over his buttons.  I cut the panel using Sizzix stitched rectangle die with a bit of fussy cutting around the ends of the fence.  I used YNS Crisscross Border die for the panel on the left.  The background as embossed using DoCrafts Cable Knit embossing folder.  The sentiment is from Power Poppy Short Stacks embossed with black embossing powder.   Oh, and a bit of patterned tape under the main panel.  Yee haw.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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YNS Challenge 57 - Sketch
Repeat Impressions Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge - F817 red, embossing, love
Mod Squad Challenge - Let Me See Your Texturize
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Young At Heart
Fashionable Stamping Challenge 119 - Winter or Spring

Frozen Duck

Hello.  Welcome.  So this all started with the wellie boots.  The challenges this year at The Craft Barn are a little different and I wasn't sure if I was going to play along, but then I decided it's good to get out of your comfort zone so.........

The challenge is working through the lines of a poem by Sara Coleridge, which I am not familiar with, but probably will be by the end of the year.   So, include the first two lines in the poem and a bird in a wellington boot!  Why?  Who knows.  That's why it's a challenge.  So I decided to start at the most challenging bit, which was actually the boot, or in my case boots. 

The boots are borrowed from a girl in a sou'wester who came free with a magazine.  I stamped and embossed them on dark blue metal and fussy cut.  Then I chose my bird.  I decided a duck in wellies was a wonderful idea.  This is YNS Quackers stamped and embossed on pale blue metal.  I fussy cut him and the gold, red and mother of pearl colours are actually window paints (but that's a whole new blog post).  I decided to use a grey textured journaling card for my project.  

I used silver sparkle paste through Stamplorations Swirly Bloom stencil.   Here's a picture that shows the sparkle.  

I printed the poem lines on a piece of wintery paper and then did some tearing.  I layered the torn paper and placed an embossed die cut circle behind it with some bobbly white paper.  Then I added Quackers in his very fine boots. A bird in wellies.   

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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The Craft Barn Twelve Month Challenge 
Your Next Stamp Challenge 55 - Sketch 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything But A Card 
Fashionable Stamping Challenge 119 - Winter or Spring
Allsorts Challenge Week 398 - Wings on Things 
Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge

Dancing Feet

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Hello.  Welcome.  I'm combining the YNS sketch with Repeat Impression colours for this fun birthday card for a little man.

CAS.  Love that happy little gecco.  YNS Happy Dance gecco.  MFP Happy Birthday.  The pattern on the blue strip is Artistic Stamper Material background stamp.  

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Repeat Impressions WIW Color Challenge - Orange, Turquoise and Violet
YNS Sketch and Color Challenge 49 - Sketch
Hobbygarasjen Utfordring 41 - Maskulint Eller til Mannen
Hjerteboden Oktober Utfordring - Maskulint 

Travel Cup

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Hello.  Welcome.  Oh my goodness.  I had an idea and I had so much fun making this card.  Here's my travel cup......

I CASEd Ksenija's card, inspired by the cascading coffee cups and the way she coloured her cups.  I started by stamping the small coffee cup from Stamplorations Going Postal set on a piece of card.  I coloured the cups with distress ink.  I used YNS slider die to cut the slider slot.  I used fun foam to raise my stamped panel off the base card and stuck the piece cut out of the slot on the card base.  I used a digi version of the coffee cup for the large sliding cup.  I coloured with the same inks and stamped Born to Roam from Stamplorations Born to Roam set.  I used Stamplorations Crazy Stitched Rectangle dies to cut a kraft frame.  The sentiment 'not all those who wander are lost' is also from the Born to Roam set.  I cut the sentiment panel with the crazy stitched rectangle dies in a crazy sort of way.  Needed some balance so cut out one of the small cups and mounted it on the frame.  Love this.  Hold on.  Made a video.  A real one.  Does this work.......

Nope...

OK, poor man's video

If you click on the first picture it should get big and then you can flick through them.  I will take technical advice on why blogger wouldn't upload my video.......

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Stamplorations Anything Goes Challenge
2016 Fall Coffee Lovers Blog Hop
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes 
Country View September Challenge - Travel it's a travel cup bwahahahahaha

You Quack Me Up

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Hello.  Welcome.  Using the sketch at YNS and their very cute and fun Quackers stamp.

Ain't he a cutie!!  MME pp base card.  Watercoloured background using Stormy Sky distress.  Happy Birthday from MFP.  YNS Quackers coloured with sharpies.  

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YNS Sketch and Colour Challenge 47 - Sketch 
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stamp It
Repeat Impressions DCC914 - Happy Birthday 
Dare 2 B Artzy Happy Birthday Challenge
Lost Coast Portal to Creativity Challenge 28 - Anything Goes 

W is for Widgeon

Hello.  Welcome.  Another fortnight has whizzed by and I am making a final hour link to the Craft Barn Challenge.  The letter is W, and I have gone with Widgeon, a wild duck.  

Well.......... he looks pretty wild to me!!!   I covered my playing card with a handmade background paper sent to me by Kristiina.  Isn't it gorgeous!  Thanks Kristiina.  Then I stamped YNS Quackers, added a quiff, coloured with some wild and retro sharpies and added him to my card.  

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Penny Black and More July Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamps 
7 Kids Challenge 155 - Anything Goes 
Hjerteboden Juli/August - Alt er Lov 
Addicted to Stamps Challenge 201 - Anything Goes 

Feeling Quackered

Hello.  Welcome.  Oof, having a bit of a day........

Just remembered I forgot the googly eyes.  Ah well, maybe he doesn't need them.  I've used the YNS sketch.  It's quite interesting despite the simplicity.  I stamped and embossed YNS Quackers and fussy cut.  The sentiment is a Unity stamp.  The black background is a scrap I found.  Just white paint lines on a piece of black card.  Sizzix swirly dots embossing folder.  

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Your Next Stamp Challenge 42 - Sketch
MFP Stamps Challenge 26 - White
Stampotique Designers Challenge 251 - Black and White 
7 Kids Challenge 155 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

A Strange Thing Happened on the Way to the Kitchen

Hello.  Welcome.  A special hi and hello to Suchi.  So glad you have joined my happy little following.  Hugz all round for all my lovely followers and all you guys and gals lurking around the blogosphere.  So happy you took the time to visit my little corner.

So, over at Simon Says Stamp they want to see Tim Holtz stamps, and Country View want numbers, and Darnell wants NBUS, and she said she'd love to see really old virginal  NBUS.  Darnell, get ready to get happy cos I knew I had some of those blueprint stamps that I had never inked.  Meet the Game Wheel......

I used the sketch from Your Next Stamp.  I stamped Tim Holtz Game Wheel from Ringmaster Blueprints (NBUS) twice on Bazzill Mud Puddle.  I embossed one image and cut it out.  I soaked the Mud Puddle, ripped the edges, screwed it up, sort of flattened it out, added some Walnut Stain, abused it a bit more.  Looks a bit like old leather.  You got to get it really wet.  Impressed the embossing survived the abuse.  I stamped YNS Quackers (NBUS) also on Mud Puddle and coloured with Galaxy Markers.  I used a cornflower blue base card, black inked edges, with a cornflower blue layer, black inked edges.  The black card was embossed with Cheery Lynn Clocks embossing plate and I used Colorbox Alabaster chalk to highlight and give a chalkboard look.  I added some twine with a sailor type knot and don't ask why the duck is hovering on part of a Cheery Lynn Compass die cut.  It seemed like the way to go LOL.

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Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 201 - All About Texture
YNS Challenge 22 - Sketch
Simon Says Stamp Stamptember Tim Holtz
Country View September Challenge - Numbers
NBUS #5

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Pop Goes The Gecko

Hello.  Welcome.  So Kathy has a Pop Up Challenge goin' on and the theme is lines.  I loved this card that Kathy used a stitched die to add texture.  So I grabbed my Simon Says Stamps Stitched Die set and cut a line.  No, actually the very first thing I did was make popcorn!!  It's a pop-up challenge and Kathy says we need popcorn so I made a big bowl. 

Now this is a straight die that cuts a stitch line and an edge.  But I figured that was OK.  Two lines for the price of one!!  So I cut a few in a fan shape.  Ooh look, popcorn....

I did a watercolour wash with distress inks, cut the edge with the stitch die and mounted on a blue base card.  Then I cut a blue cog, added eyelash lines around the edge and some squiggly lines across the middle with my white gelly roll pen.  Then I added this cute little gecho from Your Next Stamp Happy Dance set.  And popcorn.  

Joining the fun at
The Daily Marker Pop Up Challenge - Lines
Allsorts Challenge Week 324 - Favourite Colour that would be blue
That Craft Place Challenge - Blue 

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Bunny Out Of The Hat Trick

Hello.  Welcome.  Can you believe January is over already!!??  Gosh, doesn't time fly when you're having fun!  You are having fun aren't you??  Hee hee.  I've used the Your Next Stamp sketch and Darling Diva Jade stamp to make this fun card.  Spot the bunny!  I think he got tired of waiting to be pulled out of the hat and decided to crash the party. 

I coloured Jade with promarkers and added WOS to her gloves, shoes and hat.  I used Cheery Lynn Tiny Bubble Border cut from white card and a red foil card for the base.  

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Your Next Stamp Challenge 6 - Sketch
Cheery Lynn Designs Challenge 169 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Papertake Weekly- Take Your Pick Week - Warm Colours  

Thanks for your visit.  Have fun.  Hugz