It's a little spotty!

Good morning blogland,

It's time for a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin' and this fortnight the theme is 'Spots and Stripes'.  

As always, this is a 'for fun' challenge, so no prizes - we do this just for the fun and love of stamping!  There are also only two rules - follow the theme and stamp (rubber or digital) on your project somewhere.

Here's my card:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamps:

Image:

Whimsy Stamps - Ruffles / Time for Tea Designs

coloured with Copics

Sentiment:

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: Friendship

Dies:

Creative Designs - A2 Card Creator

a very old tab die - so old I can't even remember where I got it

Taylored Expressions - Simple Strips: asymmetrical

Anything else:

Time for Tea Designs - Simple Stripes Stencil

Cosmo Cricket - Pixie-Licious

Distress Ink

blending brush

flat backed gems

Back in the using smaller un-inked rubber stamps groove, so the American sized card die came out and I've made another diddy card.

Right I'm off now to do some painting - of the walls sort!

Bye for now,

Sarah

Late to the party

 Evening blogland,

This should have been posted on Saturday, to coincide with the new challenge over at Crafty Calendar Challenge but I obviously pressed the wrong button and it didn't happen.  So here's the post as it should have been:

After a bit of break Crafty Calendar Challenge is back!  This month there's no sponsor, but a lovely prize for one lucky winner and an easy peasy challenge theme of 'Anything goes'.  For this challenge I decided to share on the birthday cards I'd made for TTT when she turned 17 in June.

Here it is:

Supplies used:

Rubber stamp:

The Stamp Hut - Linda Ravenscroft: Gothic Fairies

coloured with my Copics

Woodware - Just Words (sentiment)

Anything else:

Home made cloud stencil

Distress Inks

blending brush

very old chipboard numbers

I always make her two cards for both Christmas and birthdays - I will share the other one at some other point, hopefully before her next birthday!

Hope everyone is doing well so, until the next time

Cheers for now,

Sarah

Ooooh how spooky - not!

Good morning blogland,

This post is all about my DT card for this month's new release from All Dressed Up - I am posting it a little late (but then when isn't that a recurring theme with me?!) as always life happens and I've only just found time to do this post.

So - the new release, and how adorable is this little witch!  As you probably know I don't properly 'do' Halloween, no big ethical reason why not, it just wasn't a thing when I was younger and now, living as we do in the middle of nowhere, we don't get Trick or Treaters.  The most we've ever done is carve a pumpkin and take TTT, when younger, to the nearest village so she could knock on a few doors.  Although I don't do cards or decorations or spooky film marathons - I can still appreciate a cute image to colour and this is just what that is!

So here you go, the October New Release from All Dressed Up - the digi I got to work with is called Magic Broomstick and is available from the Etsy shop.

Here's the card:

Supplies used:

Digi stamps:

All Dressed Up - Magic Broomstick

coloured with Copics

SVG printing / cutting file from an Etsy seller - for the sentiment

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangles

Sunny Studios - stitched circles small

Stencils:

Honey Doo Stencils Collection 

Home-made cloud stencil

Anything else:

flat backed gems

striped card

Distress Inks

blending brush

The Honey Doo stencil is difficult to describe, it's a stencil with lots of holes cut out but they also provide you with the cut outs.  Here's the link, which is probably more use than my mad ramblings! It's useful as you can use either the stencil itself or the solid cut outs to make negatives.  I used one of the cut-outs to create the moon up in the left hand corner.

To have a look at the rest of this month's releases - you can go here to the FaceBook Group: here to the Blog or. to purchase, go here to the Etsy shop.

And that's me done folks,

until the next time,

Sarah