Colorado Craft Company goodness

I might be a tad late to the Colorado Craft Company but I'm so glad I got to find out about their fabulous stamps! I must say I love their Anita Jeram stamps, seriously my new fav!

I wont pretend to be a fabulour colour-er but it's a slow learning process for me & i'm enjoying the process.  These stamps are a joy to colour. The cards above were either watercoloured, Polychromo coloured or Promarker  and/or Zig real brush coloured lol

A belated 'Happy New Year' to one and all.

Keep safe,

Stamp supply list:Anita Jeram -Puppy's Quilt  Anita Jeram-Christmas Presents Anita Jeram-Lots Of Love

Leaf it out

I'm back again with another couple of cards to share....both are floral cards which I'll be entering into  The flower challenge .

Here's card 1:

Love this sentiment & it's my first time using it.  This card came about by going through lots of my die cut flowers I had stashed away.  I decided to use coloured card, and stamped my sentiment first and then using Distress Oxides,  ink brushes, & a stencil, I inked through the stencil, keeping the middle of the card darker and getting lighter at the edge.  To finish my card, I used a gelly roll gold pen and framed the sentiment, and added a few dots here and there.  I loved how this turned out, considering I had no previous thought of what design it would be.  I just 'went with the flow' as they say!

Card 2:

Now, it wouldn't be a shocker to those that know, but I'm a huge fan of WPlus9's stamps and dies - and I'm a little late to the game of purchasing this Tossed floral stamp  but I liked it as soon as it came out.  I've admired so may cards with this stamp set.  It's small but beautiful.  After stamping I decided to colour with my ZIG clean colour real brush pens & Zig blender pen.  SO easy to use, especially when stamping on Bristol card stock. I finished off my card by adding a ' hello' word die sentiment from Wplus9's Basic greetings die.

That's it for now.  Hope you have a good week :-)

Mandy

Frosty flower

Good evening everyone!

Talk about cutting it close! I had a chance today to craft today just

 for the sake of crafting. Lately I have been making cards for 

peoples birthdays and a few orders too but today was all about

 crafting for me! BUT, I’ve seen a challenge I’d like to enter 

into...but I have45 mins to do so….can I do it??

Anyway, my card today is all about the sparkle/frost effect and 

Catherine Poolerstamps and inks. I’ve been wanting to use the 

Bloomin’ happy stamp set like forever (well, it feels like it) so out 

came my stamps and ink and I came up with the following design. 

 I really like how its turned out and boy does it SPARKLE!!

Take a look and let me know what you think!

OK..now to enter my card into the following challenge:

Addicted to CAS - Frosty

I'll be back soon!

Gate shaped card with flowers

Happy Friday morning to you!

I’m posting a card that I made yesterday, using the free 

Modern Anemone stamps and dies from the ‘Simply cards &

 paper craft’ magazine, issue #200, along with Altenew’s

 alcohol pens & another free Altnew sentiment stamp from a precious Simply cards mag.

I started off stamping out all the flower and leaves, using the

 outline stamp with Altenew’s Obsidian pigment ink & I decided

 to colour in the flowers, rather than stamp the inner part ofthe flowers, with the colours 

Y204, R403, R601 & G702. 

 I had an idea to create some kind

 of garden gate & having the flowers growing up and over 

different parts of the card & highlighting a sentiment. I used

 Altenew’s pens Y911 & Y932 to create a wood panel effect for

the ‘gate’ & for the sentiment, I used Hero Arts gold 

embossing powder. I used the embossing powder on the flower

 stamens and scattered dashes along the wood effect on the card.

I enjoyed making this card and would like to enter it into the 

following challenge{s}

The flower challenge #40 - shaped cards

That's all for now.  Enjoy your upcoming weekend!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to one and all!

I'm posting pics of my batch Christmas cards.  I used stamps from one of my fav stamp designers, WPlus9 - Holiday Houses stamp set.  I remember last year, or rather Christmas 2018 now, seeing Yana Smakula design her Christmas cards using the same stamps.  I loved her card designs, so I borrowed it! But, I did add touches of my own to my cards.  

I hope this year brings all you wish and hope for <3

Christmas Wishes 2019

Gosh!! Can you believe it, I haven't visited my blog for just over a year.  I guess having cancer treatment and not making many cards contributed towards that! But, I'm here today, having made a small amount of Christmas cards, and show casing them on Instagram & a dear friend telling me to enter the card into a challenge - so Michelle, consider myself told! And thank you, I'm happy that you nudged me into looking at my blog again.

The two cards below were created using an old poinsettia stampset calle 'Poinsettia Box' from the Woodware Company.  I love this stamp and it's one that I would not pass on - I love it.  Ive had it a few years now so I can't find it to link it up.

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Day of the month card club

Christmas kickstart challenge

  I do have more cards to post but I may save those until the new year.
Sending my all best Christmas wishes to any readers that have dropped in - and I wish you also a very Happy New Year!

All the best!
Mandy

Should I stay or should I go now...

Well, hasn't it been a very long time since I was here last? WOW! time definately does fly!
So, where have I been? Gosh, now that is a question.  To be brief, lets just say, life has it's curve balls & we have to deal with what we have, so cutting it short, health was and still is an issue.  I am now dealing with breast cancer, I lost my Father the beginning of this month and 19 months ago, I lost my Mother - both to cancer. 
But despite that, I can say that I am grateful that both my parents we cared for and passed peacfully and I remain positive in dealing with my cancer.  I have a wonderful husband & family & their support is constant.  I live for the day and deal with whatever is thrown at me and, when I need to shut off my little ol' craft room gets a visit! And talking of craft room, I want to mention that I was approached by a card making editor, asking me if she could do a feature on me! That was a lovely surprise and came in a time when I needed distraction (I was waiting on results at the time).
So, without further a do,  here is my card, featuring stamps used from one of my favourte stamp companies, WPlus9! 

I used the stamps from the Holiday Houses stamp set.

Making cards & Papercraft Magazine (in your shops now)

Here's the feature!!
So, that's my little update.  I'm hoping to maybe get back here more often, in my good weeks between treatment, so watch this space.
Until the next time.....

Guest designer over at Addicted to CAS

Hi everyone!

WOW! How excited am I? Yep, pretty much! I only won the watercolour challenge over at Addicted to CAS a fortnight ago - I am soooo happy & grateful - if you joined in then you would have seen all the beautiful creations that entered.  Honestly, I am so glad I didn't have to choose a winner - they all would've won if it was my choice.

SO, I'm still excited as I was invited to be a

Yes! I find it difficult to believe too! I am however, very grateful for the honour, as I was for winning the watercolour Challenge a fortnight ago!

The Codeword challenge for this fortnight is

Just in time for Halloween! This theme can be interpreted anyway you like but please bear in mind that your card will need to be clean & simple! 

Here's my card

So, what are you waiting for, go & join in!!!! 

Thanks again to everyone over at Addicted to CAS

Until next time,

Hi everyone!

I've had a fun time playing with my WPlus9's LOVE MOM stamps, LOVE MOM layer dies & ' THAT IS ALL' sentiment stamps 

I used my Ranger dye ink to stamps the sweet little stitched flower, button and leaf images for the background of my card. I then die cut the flowers, leaves and little button from plain white paper to add to my card.  I die cut the circle from an unbranded die and then stamped the 'we LOVE YOU' in the blue ink.  I finished my card off with a few iridescent sequins.  I love this card as the colours are really as vibrant as you see here- and of course, I love anything Wplus9 so it's an all round win for me!  This card will be heading off to my Sister!

Just a side note regarding the Ranger inks -which I sincerely LOVE - I purchased them in a UK online store, for a fabulous price - click the link if you've been thinking about purchasing some - they were on offer and selling fast.( At the time of this blog posting, there were not many ink pads left but lots of re-inkers in stock).

So, that's it for now.  Look out for my next post (Saturday) I have some exciting news to share!

In the meantime, take care,

Until next time,

Leaves so bright!

Good Morning, all :)

Hope you are having a good start to your day?

These two cards below, were posted on over at my Instagram account - the second pic was posted with a caution - that background....it's so bright! lol

I have been enjoying playing with the Autumn Morning, rustling leaves stamps from Crafter's Companion UK.  I've created cards with traditional Autumn colours but on these two cards, I fancied a change - Oh my...seriously, they are as bright at they look.  I used Ranger Dye inks to stamp these leaves and I have to say I LOVE these inks! The background of the second card was made using Distress inks.  I'm calling that card my 'Tree of Hope' - I shall be framing it & placing it on my craft room wall.

I hope my cards have 'brightened' your day ;-)

I would like to include my first card into the following challenges:

Katscrappiness - World card making day challenge

Mod squad challenge - falling-leaves

Thanks for dropping by,

Until next time,

Autumnal leaves

Hi di hi everyone! I'm back!  I have a a card to show you that I thoroughly had fun creating! I stamped the Autumn morning rustling leaves stamp set-from Crafter's Companion with Distress inks & continued to water colour.  Such a relaxing, enjoyable time was had making this card! I love how it turned out.

I would love to enter my card into the following challenges: Addicted to CAS - challenge #98 - Watercolour Katscrappiness - World card making day challenge Mod squad challenge - falling-leaves Thanks for stopping by! Until next time,

Stress free Distressing!

Good Morning!

Just a quick post as I am needed in the garden, hubs has an agenda and I am on it LOL

My card today is one of de-stressing & distressing - creating this masculine card!  I'm pleased with how it turned out & enjoyed the process of bending the inks!

I will be back soon with a longer post!

Hi!

I have a couple of cards to share today.  I must admit, to get the results of the cards below I have had to practice, practice, practice!  I have been frustrated to the hilt I can tell you.....Oh these layering stamps ...while the end result looks gorgeous, trying to get them lined up when I started  out stamping them,  and looking half decent - DID NOT look decent - ha! But I persevered and believe me, these results look a 100 x better that when I started out.  I still have a lot to learn, so long may I continue learning - heehee! 

These gorgeous stamps come from Wplus9 and are the free-hand florals stamps.  

Hope you like?

That's it for now, see you next time!

Get Well

Hi everyone - Happy Thursday to you!

Today, I am sharing with you a card I made for my Father - he's out of hospital recovering from an aortic arterial aneurysm repair -he's doing well & he loved his card! 

To make my card I used Papersmooches stamps & coloured the plasters & background with Distress inks & then added a little clear wink of stella to the hearts. I then Matted onto red & black card & then added to my card base. Simples! And fun do to -I do love a bit of distress' smooshing'!

 That's it for now!

Until next time,

Morning all!

I've got myself into a habit of creating cards but not blogging them! Why do I do that? I can't promise that I'll change but here's a start, a card I created using WPlus9's freehand floral stamps by Dawn Wholeslagle.  I just love her stamps & video's on YouTube - she makes it look so easy creating her little beauties - me, on the otherhand, finds it NOT so easy BUT I do enjoy the learning part, so that's something!

I CASEd her card (so gorgeous), although I do need more practice in stamping these layered dies - good job I love 'em, so it wont be a problem in trying to layer them right lol

I'm pretty pleased how the card turned out & happy to have it posted out  to a lady who has been diagnosed with cancer.  There is a request from her darling Daughter, on the Stamping Enablers Facebook group (click link for actual post request).  I know it's a tough time for her & her family & I so hope receiving all the handmade cards will bring a smile to her heart :) 

That's all folks!

See you next time!

Long time no see!

Good morning, Peeps!

Wow, am I a bit late to wish you a Happy New Year, seeing as it's now MARCH! Erm, this is my first visit to my blog this year! I've been slack in that department, although I have been visiting blogs to see and read all about your crafty yumminess!

Anyhoo...I decided to POST a card I created last night - apologises though for my rubbish photo - it certainly has not captured the brightness of the finished card.  I was playing with die-cutting, trying to get ahead of myself by diecutting a batch of my word dies, one of which, was Mama Elephant's Happy word die.  As I was poking the negative parts out from the word I had the idea of trying to make something with the 'bit's - so after paying around I came up with this little creation.  I had such fun! The rain drops. flower, stem, leaves & butterfly/bug (whatever YOU think it looks like-hehe) were all from the HAPPY word die! To spice it all up, I used Tim Holtz distress inks to colour and shade plus the background of my panel - which incidentally, was used on the shiny side of Centura Pearl card stock.

I'm hoping to get back into the swing of things with posting more creations but bear with me - we have a new addition to our family, a ten week old puppy! Things have been interesting since having her for the past two weeks - she's a fast learner and an ever faster grower LOL
Here she is with our older dog!

Until next time,

World Card Making Day on Stampnation!

Hello!

I've been a busy bee this month so far - making cards for WORLD CARD MAKING Day over at Stampnation!  These challenges are so fun! Below are the cards I have made!

  The challenge is based on prints and patterns from around the world! Ten countries are being represented around the Stampnation community for this challenge.  If you would like to take part, you have until the 16th of October to get all your cards made! To take part, hop on over to Stampnation and have a read and/or listen to Catherine Pooler telling you all about the wonderful place that is, STAMPNATION!!

I hope you get to join in the fun!

Until next time,