A little bit of 'new romantic' style

 Morning blogland,

Today I am swinging by to share with those of you who 'do' Facebook my card for the All Dressed Up Facebook Group April challenge.

The theme this month is Die-cuts and/or punches and the only rule is you must use an All Dressed Up digital stamp. Other than that - card / ATC / scrapbook page - doesn't really matter what you make to enter.

So here's my DT inspiration for which I went sort of floaty and romanticy!:

Supplies used:

Digital stamp:

All Dressed Up - Pretty in Plaits

coloured with my Copics

Dies:

Time for Tea - Lots of Love cover plate die (I used as a stencil to make the background)

and Big Hugs

MFT - Die-namics - Photo corners

un-branded stitched rectangle

Anything else:

Memento - Dew Drop ink pads

blending brush

flat backed pearls

Copic fineliner (for the doodled edge/frame)

I do hope you find time to pop over to the Group and have a look at my Teamies fab makes - they are gorgeous! If you're not a Facebooker ADU do have a blog which you can find here.

Hope everyone is well and happy.

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Passion for Markers: Week 687 - Frame It! (I do hope the doodling counts as a frame, if not no worries if I'm not put in for winning)

Crafty Catz: Challenge #634 - Anything Goes (optional twist - celebrations)

Use your Stuff: #482 Layers

Variations on a theme

 Good morning blogland,

It's Saturday and Team Wends' turn for the new challenge at Sweet Stampin' - this fortnight the theme is Clean and Simple (CaS). As always this is a stamping challenge - so there has to some stamping (digital or rubber) on your project somewhere. Doesn't have to be a card and doesn't have to have colouring, just stamping.

So, as I'm sure you long time bloggy friends (if I have any left after my lacklustre performance so far this year!) will know I'm rather enamoured of the CaS style.  I like it almost as much as I love colouring, so I've popped up two cards for this challenge. One I would consider my 'pared back style' and one more classic CaS.

Cards:

Paired back style:

Supplies Used:

Digital stamp:

Saturated Canary - '60/'70 Decades fashion (there are two images and I used one)

unfortunately Krista closed her etsy shop closed so I don't know where you'd get this image anymore.

Coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Birthday

Dies:

taylored expressions - Simple Strips: Well rounded

un-branded stitched rectangle

Anything else:

scraps of patterned paper

More traditional Clean and Simple:

Supplies used:

 

Rubber stamp:

Catherine Pooler - All Around Wishes

Dies:

Whimsy Stamps - 'Birthday' word and shadow die

Anything else:

My Favorite Thing Stencil - Wonky Dots

Cosmic Shimmer - Victorian Gold

I like both the CaS styles and probably my favourite is with colouring (as I love to colour, I might have mentioned that) but the 'proper' CaS really does get my brain thinking and I enjoy that as well.

Why not pop over to the challenge and see what fabulous cards my Teamies have made as well - and they are fabulous!

Right well I'm off now to do some stretching as, not only did I get Covid recently (from which I've totally recovered thankfully), I've also now done something to my back from lugging wood effect tiles around!  We are having our dining / sitting room re-skimmed and painted with a new tile floor being laid next month.  The new tiles we ordered were delivered to the drive but not brought in - so me and hubby have lugged 100mm thick 1200x800mm long/wide ceramic tiles from drive to conservatory and my back went pop.  Oh what a fun Easter holiday it's been!

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Crafty Catz : Challenge 633 - Anything Goes (option for a child). Entering first card - it was made for a teenager!

Gem of a Challenge: Wk 8 - Anything Goes. Entering first card.

Fab 'n' Funky Challenges: Challenge #570 - Use die cuts. Entering second card.

Less is More: Challenge #481 - Anything Goes.  Entering second card (I'm guessing the first one would be too busy for the rules).

New digis

Morning blogland

I'm wandering into the blog to share a card made with this month's new release from All Dressed Up Stamps, and hoping that everyone is well and happy.

For some reason I've not given any images I've been colouring a background for ages, and felt the need to exercise the old 'lets draw and colour' muscle! In the end I've gone with a very simple card, but a totally freehand coloured background. Took me ages, but was fun to do, I really need to work on my perspective though - the sweet little girl and her pony look like they're standing in front of a Redwood tree - look at the size of the thing!!  

It also made me realise that I need  a 'number' of Copic refills - the amount of pens I took out that are nearly dry and then find I've no refill for them? Ummm, quite a lot :-)

Supplies used:

Digital Stamp:

All Dressed Up - Magical Pony

The stamp is purely the girl and pony - everything else is hand-drawn.

Coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamp:

Neat and Tangled - Together

Dies:

un-branded stitched rectangle set

Neat and Tangled - Tangled Dies

Anything else:

spotty lightweight card

Hope everyone else is having a better Easter holiday than I am - it's half term and we've lost the first week to all of us developing Covid! First time that me and Hubby have had it, second time for TTT.  Me and TTT coping fine and recovering much quicker than Hubby - he's still coughing and feeling quite bowled over by it.  

Personal opinion incoming.  I'm relieved and thankful all three of us have very mild symptoms - I'm all for getting as much inoculation as possible and looks like all the jabs have done their work. Aaaaand personal opinion done.

On that note I'll say cheerio and see you the other side of the school holidays.

Cheers,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Passion for Markers - Week 684 - Animals

Krafty Chicks Challenge : #658 - Stamp Act

Crafty Catz : #632 - Anything Goes (option add some Blue)

April already?

Good morning blogland,

Can you believe it's a new month already, feels to me like this year is going past rather rapidly!  

As it is a new month, we have a new challenge from Crafty Calendar Challenge which this month is sponsored by Lawn Fawn and our theme is Die cuts. Fairly simple, yes? Just use die cuts on your project, link up to the challenge and you are in with a chance of a prize!

My inspiration card:

Products used:

Digital stamp:

Now there's a mystery - it's an ages old image (which I think is a digi stamp) but I've no idea where it's from!

coloured with my Copics

Rubber stamps:

Catherine Pooler - All Around Wishes

Whimsy Stamps - Simple Sentiment Strips

Dies:

Creative Expressions - Noble Collection : Double Stitched Squares

Julie Hickey - birthday

My Favorite Things - Die-namics

un-branded stitched rectangle

Paper:

echo park - Sweet Girl

If anyone recognises the digi - I'd be be most grateful for the info and then I can amend the description.

Hope you all have a lovely weekend,

See you soon,

Sarah

Challenge/s:

Krafty Chicks Challenge - #657 - Anything Goes