surprise....

There was something about this cutie popping out of the box with all of the confetti (ok sequins) exploding out around him that just makes me smile... I've used the highlight in prismacolour over copic technique again and love how this card turned out.

Avery Elle Monsters

we'll miss you Fraggle

I was sad to hear that my brother's cat Fraggle had to be 'put down' due to complete kidney failure, he was an old cat, but still behaved like a kitten, and it seems so strange that she is gone. Her sister Muppet is wandering around lost...

So I had to send something, a small note to say that I was thinking of them all. The die is Paper Smooches, and sentiment Clearly Besotted.

only two years late...

I shared this on instagram ages ago and didn't manage to share it here on my blog and so here it is...

Lawn Fawn winter bunny coloured in copics with a winter llama sentiment with a distress ink sky. The silver splashes are a distress stain spray.

an excuse to buy stamps

looking around at what other people are doing I'm seeing a lot of people detailing their copic colouring with their prismacolor pencils, and so I thought I'd give it a go on this little cutie

I have specifically bought this stamp to make my valentine's card, but he has exchangeable sentiments so I'm sure you will see him again (otherwise it was a really expensive valentines card

the background is a hero arts stamp set with the little hearts each stamped randomly

in all I'm quite pleased with my colouring efforts, especially around the ears, but I'm most pleased that I used enamel accents for the nose without ruining it before they enamel accents dried

thank you for free gifts

another card with lots of lovingly cut out scraps, and I am loving this miniature winnie & walter thanks die that came free with my order on black friday

the hexagon die is by crafters companion

fishy

when it comes to crafts I hardly throw anything away, if a piece of card is big enough to cut a circle from I will keep it, and all of those scraps have been lovingly cut using my smallest spellbinders nestabilities circle die over the weekend so that I had hundreds of little circles in blue and green

These have then been layered together to form this fish scale look, I look some card and covered it with double sided tape (I use a 2" wide tape from elizabeth crafts to do this) then just started sticking the circles down in this overlapping pattern

finished with a lawn fawn sentiment, then I have a card, but I don't just have one card, like many of the cards I make I have also made 'kits' up as well, this is so my mum can make up a few cards as well

hippo birdie

back to my more usual style with fun lawn fawn and bright colours, but this effort was made to use up some of the scraps on my desk

seeing spots

I adore these winnie and walter in a word dies, they have refreshed my card making style

the dots are a hero arts stamp set and inks all lawn fawn, it is finished with my all time favourite pretty pink posh sparkling clear sequins

yellow & grey

finding a new groove and I love how clean and fresh this card is, I'm really pleased with my colour combination as well.

the paper is american crafts, the die winnie & walter, finished with some pretty pink posh sequins

playing with old toys

I'm in a rut, I've got no inclination for colouring even though it's the daily marker 30 day challenge, and so I have dug out a very old toy, my silhouette, to make this card, oh and scraps too, I like cards that use up scraps

hugs at the end of a rainbow

i love rainbows and I made an attempt at one today, but I always forget that the lawn fawn red ink tends to badly stain a stamp and you can see that in the light blue line... gutted it wasn't perfect but still nice enough

slowly getting there

still making christmas cards, slowly getting to my target, this one is a mixture of lawn fawn and mama elephant goodies, and I adore my colour mix... all lawn fawn inks

christmas wreath

Using up all of my scraps of Neenah solar white by stamping flowers and leaves from Lawn Fawn Penelope's Blossom stamp set - also loving the the tone on tone background stamp from MFT .

The sentiment is from Pretty Pink Posh and it just wraps up a simple card.

glitter is awesome

sometimes when you have a patterned paper the card you make with it just has to be simple, this DCWV rockstar paper is one of those cases, so I've just used a simple neat & tangled die and a simple avery elle stamp set finish the card

so many thanks

still loving that concord & 9th turnabout stamp, and those winnie & walter in a word dies too

bright, but also blending in

more lawn fawn snowflakes, but that bright is just double sided tape cut and covered with glitter for this really subtle look

purple, rhymes with murple

another christmas card, and more tone on tone stamping, but this time it has been lots of smaller stamps, everything is lawn fawn

remember that promise...

despite my best intentions to keep up with my christmas cards I've done nothing since february... now the rush begins

using another of the winnie & walter dies stamped tone on tone with an mft stamp, the snowflakes are lawn fawn

turn this about

more use of my lawn fawn cube inks on this card and I am loving this turnabout thing from concord & 9th, this is one of the most innovative things I've seen in card making in years and feel it is likely not going to be my only stamp set of theirs

splats intended

making the most of all of those coloured ink pads I've gathered over the last year and using this fun ink splat card from wplus9 - with cards like this I positively feel adventurous