Under a Lavender Sky

Hello Nomad friends.  It's the 2nd of the month so time for the first Card Chain Challenge reveal of 2020.  The colours, sketch and options proved very popular with our awesome crafty ladies this month.  I went with the colours, walnut, lavender and jade, sort-of the sketch and the bear option.  Here's the card I sent to Kath in the UK.

I have used the very lovely Blue Knight Stamps Lovable Panda stamp.  I must admit this is my second attempt.  On the first card I thought I'd try lavender panda and it really didn't suit him LOL.  So for my second try I simply masked the outside foliage and stamped the center of the image with black archival.  Then I coloured with my distress markers and gave the background a lavender distress ink wash.

Hop over to the January reveal and check out all the cards exchanged last month.

If you would like to join the fun the February sign up is open until the 6th February.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Panda is joining the fun at
Penny Black and More Challenge - Animals, Birds and Butterflies
Stamping Sensations February Challenge - Feminine
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 180 - Til Kvinnen
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Mod Squad Challenge - Use A Critter

Beer Bubbles

Hello.  Welcome.  We have a friend who makes his own beer and always turns up with something new and unusual for us to sample.   When I saw this moose stamp from Ocean Heart Hobby I knew it would be just perfect for him!

Or for any beer aficionado!!  

I stamped the Ocean Heart Hobby 004 moose using brown archival on a piece of white card and coloured with distress markers.  I cut around the tips of his antlers and then used a circle die.  The cut antlers slip behind the die when cutting which gives more dimension to the image.  The moose image didn't extend down to the bottom of the circle so I inked it again, turned it upside down and added some of the hair detail to the blank area and then coloured it again to match.  I went a bit over the into the white area and thought that was pretty cool so I inked the bottom of the stamp and worked around the circle to give it a bit extra interest.  

Then I decided I wanted a few more circles and went a bit crazy with circle dies and Kort Og Godt Samklang patterned paper.  I am told Samklang means in tune, so we have both learnt something new tonight maybe!  This paper is shades of grungy brown with music staves in parts of it.  I cut lots of circles and edged them with brown ink.  I stamped the Gratulerer Med Dagen (Happy Birthday), which is one of the sentiments in the moose stamp set, on one of the circles and embossed with brass embossing powder.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Paperbabe Stamps Challenge 111 - Picture Inspiration I went with circles
MFT Stamps Wednesday Sketch Challenge 474
Hobbykunst Januar Utfordring - Dies
Papirdukkene Januar Utfordring - Dies
Scrappesyken - Gratulerer Med Dagen

What's That Look

Hello.  Welcome.  All the paper and card I used on this card came from scrap mountain!!  Yeah!!!

The base card is about 9 x 12cm, cos that's how big the scrap was when I folded it in half.  I took the marbled pattern card scrap, cut it with Stamplorations medium double stitch die and then with a small oval die to make the aperture.  I stamped Taylored Expressions Party Pals candle on a scrap of white and cut it with the matching die.   I coloured it with distress markers and added some small googly eyes.  I added some blue/white twine behind the aperture and the sentiment strip is from a printed sheet from Kort og Godt.  These cute greetings are printed on the back of the bit with the sheet name and I have lots of these useful scraps......  It says Gratulerer med Dagen which means Happy Birthday.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Pixie's Snippets Playground Challenge 370
Fan of Taylored Expressions - Grey/Oval/Mask
Hobbykunst Januar Utfordring - Dies
Papirdukkene Januar Utfordring - Dies
Scrappesyken - Gratulerer Med Dagen

Colouring Like a Girl

Hello Nomad friends.  There's a new challenge in blogland and it's being run by some crafty blokes.  All the challenges are going to be masculine themed, which is great to help with those difficult male cards, and they are kicking off with Cars.  Now, I gotta admit I am not a petrol head, although I have a number of nephews who are, so I am going to apologise in advance for my colouring of this car, which I realise is far from perfect. 

Some time ago I saw this Trading It Amy Design Car Frame die and I couldn't resist.  I loved the cool circles and the car.  But I've never used it!!!  Today I spotted it while looking for something else and decided today was the day!  I cut it from some retro patterned paper.  I backed the cuts in the car with some black paper that I embossed using the die to give a bit more dimension.  I'm thinking maybe the door panel and that bit on the wing should have remained retro colour!  Say la doo dah!!   Then I decided to colour the car with Promarkers.  I'm actually quite pleased with how it turned out, although I admit the wheels were a bit of a challenge.  I would probably do some things differently next time, but overall, I think it's acceptable.  I used red Promarker for the car body, grey on the grill/mirrors and black on the tyres.  I really like how the pattern from the paper adds some shading to my Promarker colours.  I used the die to cut some gold card for the headlights.  The Gratulerer med Dagen (happy birthday) was cut from a Kort og Godt paper sheet.  I edged it with blue ink and added a couple of green pearls.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
Creative Crafting Uncles Challenge #1 - Cars
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Anything Goes
Die Cut Divas Challenge - New Things first time using this car frame die
Hobbykunst Januar Utfordring - Dies
Papirdukkene Januar Utfordring - Dies
Scrappesyken - Gratulerer Med Dagen

Three Musketeers

Hello.  Welcome.  My friend Elin had a birthday today.  Happy Birthday Elin.  Hope you've had an awesome day.  Here's your card.

Actually, Elin got this in the real this morning and I got a lovely cup of coffee.  Elin makes great coffee.   She also has horses which was a major deciding point when I picked this picture from Kort Og Godt Barn klippark sheet.  Ooh, vintage again!!  I used various printed kraft sheets for my layer and stars.  I used Spellbinders star dies and the Beste Venner (best friends) die is also by Kort og Godt.  This is a new die I haven't used before but I love those little stars and am sure it's going to become a favourite.  Everything got distressed and edged with ink and the leaf printed panel was also cut with Stamplorations Double Stitch Rectangle die.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

3 boys on a horse are joining the fun at
Elin's house.  Big party there.  Big!!!
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes
Scrap The Rainbow - Bruk Klippeark Bilde
Die Cut Divas Challenge - New Things beste venner die is new to me
Nordsalten Hobbyklubb - Anything Goes
Word Art Wednesday Week 424/425 - Anything Goes

Foxy

Hello Nomad friends.  UFO #2 is complete!!!   I seem to be doing more masculine makes this month.  This cute fox is by a Norwegian company and I love the size and simple lines.

I used a brown base card and added a panel of Papirdesign Melisglasur paper cut with Sizzix deckle edge die.  I stamped the fox from Papirdesigns Revestreker set on white paper, coloured with Molten Lava and pink Promarkers and fussy cut.  I added a metal star charm from Korthobby.no, cutting off the little hanger dingsen and stamped the sentiment from the fox set with black archival.  It says 'Hurrah, you have a birthday' in Norwegian.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Fox is joining the fun at
Papirdesign Utfordring For Januar - Bruk Charms
Mod Squad Challenge - Use A Critter
Country View Challenge January 2020 - Love
 

Five is a Magic Number

Hello Nomad friends.  If you dropped by yesterday you might have caught me doing my mini-craftathon.  It was really, really mini, cos I ended up with only two completed projects.  In my defence, not that I need a fence, but...... the newly baked focaccia and saturday night movies did distract me.  Since today is also grey and wet I decided to get back to it and finish up at least some of the 4 UFO's I started yesterday.  So let's start with christmas.   I totally blame this one on the fact that as I was putting away embellishments these wooden reindeer leapt out of their packaging.  The fact that there were 5 of them meant that the 52 Weeks To Christmas 5 Year celebration immeadiately sprang to mind.

I've used 2 Maja Design papers for this card - Holidays in the Alps 'Snowflakes' and 'Let It Snow'.  I love that they print something useful on the back of the paper description bar, in this case that row of lovely snowflakes at the bottom of the card.  So it looks like three, but is actually only two pieces.  The edges of these papers are a bit distressed so I just used my craft knife to rough up the edges I cut.  I added the 5 wooden deer and then came to a grinding halt cos I couldn't decide on the sentiment.  The upper paper is quite busy, but I didn't want to go too dark.  And it needed to be quite big.  In the end I went with this Stamplorations die.  I cut it from a scrap of cream card to echo the natural wood deer.  It still looked a bit lost so I grabbed a bit of leftover cereal box from yesterday, cut it twice and stuck the three die cuts together, offsetting the cream one so I got a darker shadow.  It really helped it stand out whilst still keeping with the natural wood type colours.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

Joining the fun at
52 Weeks to Christmas Challenge - Week 4 and 5 Jaar 5 wooden deer
The Funkie Junkie Boutique Challenge - Repeat Performance used cereal box die cuts
Swedish House January Challenge - Winter/Snow
ABC Christmas Challenge - A is for Anything Goes
Papercraft Challenge 54 - Use At Least 2 Designpapers