happy birthday

I recently splurged and bought a few stamp sets that I had my eye on for a while, I managed to buy thme from Make the Day Special (very reasonably priced and it means no buying from the states and incurring those custom charges!).  One of these was Lawn Fawns alphabets, quinn's abc's.  Love this set but need to play more with it.  I love the way it's so easy to line up on my block as the letters are still in rectangles of polymer so they sit beside each other perfectly and the spacing looks great.  I stamped in Memento, coloured with copics and then added the glitter! Jobs a good un!

I thought I'd show you a close up so you can see the glitter (i used stickles)

Christmas in August

I recently bought some Elzybells stamps, unfortunately Elzybells is closing down but it does mean they have a sale meaning I bought quite a lot!  So here is my first round of Elzybell cards (more to come, I'm sure!)  I've uploaded this to Splitcoast Stampers Christmas card challenge (means I'm another 5 up!)

A flurry of snow in June

Here's my untimely flurry of snow.  I recently bought Stampendous' Perfectly Clear Snowflake Symphony stamp set and well I kinda got carried away.  I made this set of cards (mainly for the SCS Christmas card challenge) but I used some other challenges for inspiration.

These are the five together:

This card is for the CAS FTL 93 I decided to make this a one layer card and as one of my first attempts at masking I'm relatively pleased with the results:

This card is for Susan's Simplicity One Layer Wednesday , Repetition and Die Cut Dream's Christmas Club, Snowflakes:

I really like the pale pink for the snowflakes it's so unchristmassy! (I don't think that's a real word!) Just a shame my sentiment doesn't look that great, oh well practice makes perfect!
I made this card with  CAS-tastic, focus on sentiments, in mind:

Hope you like the home-made button - a nestie and an Xcut ribbon slits punch! I made this for the DigiDoodles, buttons challenge:

Winter wishes

Don't you just love this stamp! I've seen it around recently and really liked (but not thought about it because I'm trying to be good and not buy any more stamps at the moment!). I was looking at some magazines the other day and saw it came free with Cardmaking and Papercraft, well no decision needed! I'd been struggling with Mercy's latest sketch as I didn't seem to have and rectangular stamps that I thought would work, but my new acquisition does!!!

White card blank
Image: Bentley Bear stamp free from Cardmaking and Papercraft
Other: Purple card, handmade white paper, snowflakes

I did it ...

... I got 5 S's on the card!

The challenge for Pollycraft Monday Challenge was to use at least 2 of the following S words : SNOWFLAKES, SPARKLE, SPOTS, STRIPES, SWIRLS

I have managed to get all 5 on to my card but you might hav to look closely!

The background paper has got spots, stripes and dotted swirls, there are spots on the borders, snowflakes around the edge of the nesties and sparkle on the teddy's hat and sentiment - phew!

Really enjoyed this challenge and I've ended up challenging myself by using colours that I wouldn't normally use for a christmas card. Hope you like it!

Card blank: square white
Image: Clear stamps designed by Adam Pescott free from a magazine
Other: Paper free from magazine, big shot and nesties, snowflakes, card from stash, gel pens