Whimsical Bird Candle

Hello Nomad friends.  Gosh June!!!!!   Hope you have sunshine and long drinks with umbrellas in them.  First of the month so time for a new challenge over at the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity.  This month we want to Save the Trees and see stamping on anything other than normal paper or card.  I went with Lost Coast Designs Flora Whimsical Bird, stamped on tissue paper and added to a candle.

I stamped Flora onto tissue paper and coloured with sharpies.  I went around the outside of the stamped image with a wet paint brush and ripped around the image.  A ripped edge blends much better into the candle.

I use a piece of wax paper to hold the image flat on the candle while heating gently with my heat pistol.   The wax paper also gives you something to hold onto to keep your fingers away from the heat.

Taa Dah!!!!

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Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Papercraft Challenge 70 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Patriotic Pup

Hello Nomad friends.  A little last minute May action cos I just can't miss Rudolf Days!!

Adorable Stampendous Puppy, stamped with black archival, coloured with red Promarker and glitter glue and fussy cut.  I cut a piece of dark blue card with a stitch die and added it and the pup to the blue pearl card base.  I stamped Lost Coast Designs Merry Christmas using blue StazOn ink.  

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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May Rudolph Days Challenge
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Challenge 544
Allsorts Challenge Week 626 - Any Celebration (Not Birthday)
Creative Fingers Challenge 209 - AG
Papercraft Challenge 70 - Anything Goes

Parisian Wedding

Hello Nomad friends.  The weather has been lovely here in southern Norway so I have been out in the garden much.  Maybe yesterday was a bit too much sun so I decided to catch up on a little crafting this afternoon and go out in the garden again this evening.  The light evenings are so lovely.  This weekend there is another online meeting.  These have been wondrous and the Norwegian groups and shops have been fantastic keeping us entertained. 

Here's my card.

Used that lovely Quarto Fold from Mrs A again for a wedding in Paris.....

I used Prima En Francais papers for the tag, tickets and folded pocket.  The Dear Bridal Couple die is from Kort og Godt.

Inside I used a couple more tickets from the Prima pad and I've added some fancy heart staple brad thingies that I've had forever and a day.......

A half folded card base and a little more of the Prima paper to finish the back.

Thanks for dropping by.  Have a wonderful Sunday.  HUGZ

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Allsorts Challenge Week 626 - Any Celebration (Not Birthday)
Unstampabelles Challenge 111- Adventures, Option 3's wedding and Paris adventures with three tags/staple thingies
Country View May Challenge - We Will Always Have Paris
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mai - Feiring

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Red White and Blue Girl

Hello Nomad friends.  Still working on some cards for Confirmants, or failing that, young adults.   I've gone all red white and blue and die cuts.

I die cut a blue panel with Stamplorations Circles All Over Texture Cover Plate and mounted it on a white card base.  You can see some of the white dots showing in the background.  Then I added a white die cut flower panel sent to me by Arlene.  Thanks Arlene.

I added two sentiment strips that were on the edge of a Kort og Godt patterned card sheet and die cut the Kort og Godt girl from blue card.

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 195 - Konfirmasjon/Bryllup/Dåp
The Sketchy Challenges 174 - Confirmation/Wedding
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mai - Feiring
Cut It Up Challenge 226 - Nature

Pentangle Delight

Hello Nomad friends.  I had a desire to do some fancy folding today so I popped over to Mrs A's Butterfly Challenge Blog.   Mrs A is on her second journey through the alphabet, with a different card fold for each letter.  It's actually an awesome resource, and many of the card fold have more than one version, all carefully explained with measurements and pictures.  Thanks so much for this Valery Anne.  I decided to try version III of the Quarto Fold card.  

Isn't that a cool shape!!!

I started with a 20x20cm piece of Imaginise double sided paper and the final card will fit in a 15cm square envelope.  I cut blue paper with a Kort og Godt boy die.  The paper wasn't quite the colour or the weight I wanted so I cut the boy three times, glued them together and then used a Indigo Promarker to colour the top boy.  You can see the coloured and the uncoloured versions here.

I glued the boy, some wooden stars and a sentiment panel onto the folded pocket.  I also made a tag for the pocket.

I cut the tag from the same paper using Stamploration die and stamped a Kort og Godt with an encouraging message for the confirmant. 

I folded a piece of Kort og Godt patterned card and added it to the back of the pocket.  The inside card has just a little blue tree branch detail on it and I stamped the sentiment, good luck for today and the future.

And here's the back of the card.  I used the same green lined paper to cover the top of the pentagon.   The blue is the back of the folded piece and I stamped the fabulous made by me stamp that Jo sent me for my birthday.  Thanks Jo.  It's so cool!!!!!

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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The Sketchy Challenges 174 - Confirmation/Wedding
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mai - Feiring

Secret Sea Horses

Hello Nomad friends.  I am over on the Lost Coast Portal to Creativity today with some inspiration for the Under the Sea Challenge.   I hope you are loving all the undersea adventures the team is sharing with Lost Coast Designs sea themed stamps.  If you haven't checked them out then do hop over and enjoy the teams fun, gorgeous and quirky makes.  

I love the sea and the mysteries beneath and I've used the beautiful Doodle Seahorse stamps to make a picture.

I made a subtle background with baby blue embossed small Doodle Seahorses and distress inks.  I've also used Lost Coast Designs Bubble Background and Cracked Grass stamp and

most of Carmen's Veranda Live In The Sunshine sentiment.  Hop over to the blog for all the details and more piccies.

 

Don't forget to check out all the awesome makes from the team and link up your stamped Under the Sea makes for a chance to win. 

Thanks for dropping by. Hugz

 

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Very Very Pink

Hello Nomad friends.  Comfirmation season is looming.  Will it happen?  Who knows.  But just in case......

There's also the added plus of using up some scraps that were on the desk.

I started with a piece of double sided Kort of Godt patterned card 16cm x 20cm.  I scored it in the middle and 2.5cm from the bottom.  I folded and inked the edges and removed a little triangle from the middle of the two small panels. 

I used the plain side of the card for the outside and the Konfirmant printed side for the inside.  I glued the small panels on each side to make pockets.  I die cut Papirdesign Sjekk Vipps die from various pink scraps and tucked it in one of the pockets.  Vipps is a mobile app payment system that is very easy to use and popular here in Norway.

I cut another panel of the same patterned card and added it to the card base, word side out.  I found the die cut heart, glitter circle and wiggly hot pink scraps on my desk and decided they looked perfect together!!   The girl is from a pack of Panduro die cuts I won in a weekend challenge on fb. A few tiny pink flower rhinestones and done. 

Thanks for dropping by.  Hugz

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Nordsalten Hobbyklubb 195 - Konfirmasjon/Bryllup/Dåp
The Sketchy Challenges 174 - Confirmation/Wedding
Scrappelyst Utfordring for Mai - Feiring
Pixies Snippets Playground Challenge 403