(PB Saturday Challenge) – Happy Birthday

Hello and welcome

A new month and time for the May Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge!  The theme  is  Anything Goes (Optional – Pastel Colours).

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome.

Today I decided on a circle card for something different.

My card features PB – Winsome Wreath stamp watercoloured with Distress inks.

The circle panel was cut and had soft pink ink blending around the edge and sparyed with Perfect pearls shimmer spray.

The sentiment is from PB -Lovely Birthday Cut Out die set, coloured soft pink and covered with layers of Wink of Stella to give it a shine.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time!

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Feminine

Just Add Ink #700…Add Shimmer or Shine!

Double D Challenge – Pretty Florals for Mum

Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday – May Challenge Anything Goes

The Flower Challenge #91 – Colour Your Flower

Time Out #262

I would like to thank the team over at Newton’s Nook for selecting my card as Winner of their colour challenge. They have a wonderful range of amazing ‘goodies” to play with.

Hello and welcome

It’s time for another fun “Photo Inspiration” challenge over at Time Out!

 This is a very special photo of a handmade bag made by our wonderful sponsor, Kim Heggins of Running Stitch Design. Kim is a friend, supporter and former DT Member of Time Out. She has a variety of handmade bags in different sizes, shapes and fabric in her ETSY Shop. This is one of her fabulous handmade bags as both the inspiration AND the prize for this challenge. How cute?

Looking through my dog images I fell in love with this new Newton’s Nook image from the “Sky High Celebrations” set. It was copic coloured and fussy cut. Wink of Stella added some shine to the balloons.

The background features Mama Elephant Tri Window Cover die.

I created the background with ink blending and some watercolouring for bushes along the horizon.

The sentiments are from Newton’s Nook sets: Cocktail Mixer and Birdhouse Greetings .

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create for this fun photo inspiration.  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Inky Paws Challenge – Colour Challenge

Cut it Up Challenge #302 – Starts with a ‘B’

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

PIP Challenge 2416

Time Out #260

Hello and welcome

It’s time for our new challenge over at Time Out!

Our wonderful sponsor is Lawn Fawn They’re generously offering a $25.00 store credit.

My card uses a stamp from our Sponsor – Lawn Fawn. It is Birthday Before and After – just perfect to match some pretty striped paper.

I used MFT – Stitch Triple Peek-a-boo die for the main panel and used a smaller circle die for the 3 circles so I could place them where I wanted.

The images were stamped, Distress watercoloured and added back into the panel, except for the present chick that was fussy cut! I added a little glitter to the images too.

To add to the fun, I made the middle circle into a shaker! I do love a shaker card and it works so well with a fun birthday card!

I’m entering in Lawn Fawn’s challenge as I always think “Happy Birthday” is one the happiest and most well known song ever!! Little ones learn it very early in some form! 🙂

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create using stripes. Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Die Cut Divas – Anything Goes

We Love Stamping Challenge – Feminine inspiration / Anything Goes

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Cut it Up Challenge #300 ~ Happy Birthday!

LAWN FAWNATICS CHALLENGE 169 – INSPIRED BY A BOOK, MOVIE OR SONG ( Happy Birthday!!)

Allsorts Challenge – Weeks 773/4 – Anything Goes

(PB Saturday Challenge) – Today is all about celebrating You!

I was thrilled to have my card selected at a Top Pick over at the fun Retro Rubber Challenge. Thanks so much to the team.

Hello and welcome

Just a reminder for the March Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge!  The theme  is  Anything Goes (Optional – Easter).

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome

Again I haven’t gone for Easter but Anything Goes.

I chose the beautiful “Blooming Boots” stamp. I’ve always loved this stamp from when I first bought it over a year ago.

For a bit of fun, after the flowers were Distress watercoloured, I stamped the boots again on some glossy pattern paper, fussy cut them and added them to the original image. I thought it looked cute. The shine made me think of some of the rubber boots I’ve seen.

The panel then had some ink blending around the edge, mounted on yellow before being added to the card front!

The sentiment is PB – ‘Sprinkles and Smiles’ stamp set.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time!

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

We Love Stampng March Challenge – Feminine

Stamping Sensations March Challenge – Spring

Double D Challenge – First Signs of Spring

Retro Rubber Challenge -Spring is on the Way!

Allsorts Card Challenge – Anything Goes

PIP Challenge 2410

(PB Saturday Challenge) – have a Fabulous Birthday

Hello and welcome

It’s time for the the March Challenge over at Penny Black Saturday Challenge!  The theme  is  Anything Goes (Optional – Easter).

As usual, we are sponsored by the awesome

This week my card features PB – Happy Together stamp set which has lots of pretty little florals.

After stamping it was Distress watercoloured using Blueprint Sketch and cut with a diamond die. An ink blended panel was used down the side with a smaller panel blended and stamped with the flowers in the same colour. Aanother piece was used to add a blue frame to half the diamond.

The sentiment is from PB – Sprinkles and Smiles set stamped in blue, heat embossed and fussy cut.

I love blue and white together.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time!

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Die Cut Divas – Anything Goes

Wednesday’s Creative Challenge – For a Friend

Tic Tac Toe Challenge – 242 – (Floral, Embossing, Favourite Colour)

Beautiful Blossoms Challenge – Anything Floral Goes

Time Out Challenge #258

Hello and welcome

We are back with an Inspiration Photo for Challenge #258. It’s Leap Year, and our new challenge opens on Leap Day! We thought it fitting to have some leaping inspiration in the form of a frog!

We are generously sponsored by Lawn Fawn. Our challenge winner will receive a $25.00 Lawn Fawn store credit and an offer to Guest Design at Time Out for a future challenge.

After loooking through my stash, I found a frog stamp set from Katzelkraft. It hadn’t been used before.

After stamping the frog and watercolouring with Distress inks, it was fussy cut and covered with Glossy Accents to give him some shine.

I also found a pretty Lilly Pad stencil from Artistcellar. I inked a piece of green card with Evergreen Bough ink, then brushed some ink over the lilly pads with some greens. Finally the panel was sprayed with Glimmer Mist.

The panel was then added behind a MFT stitched rectangle frame made from the back of a coffee box. Love that kraft colour. The ‘Hello” die is from Avery Elle was added along with the frog.

The sentiment is from MFT- Sunshine & Friendship stamp set.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Die Cut Divas – Anything Goes

Pixie’s Snippets Playground Challenge #474

Time Out Challenge #257

I was thrilled to have my card chosen as Winner of Newton’s Nook, Inky Paws Sketch Challenge. Thank you so much to everyone at Newton’s Nook. I love playing with their fun images.

Hello and welcome

Wow!!! Today we begin a new and special challenge with which we celebrate Time Out’s 10^th Birthday!!!

For this challenge we have so many great sponsors:

So I hope you'll join the fun!!

For my card I decided to use a new set from our sponsor -Newton’s Nook – Birdhouse Greetings. Such a cute set I won recently!

After cutting 2 Stitched Banner Dies from Paper Rose, I stamped and Distress watercoloured the images before adding them to the panel. 

The senetiments are from the same set.

The cloud stencil is fromMFT.

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Time Out Challenge #256

I would like to say a huge thank you to the team over at Stay Crafty with Hero for selecting my card as Winner of their  Stay Crafty with Hero – January 2024 Challenge – everything old is new again! I am thrilled!

Hello and welcome

Here is the new challenge over at Time Out Challenges! – Inspired by Words.

CASE The Designer Sarah Gray – former Time Out DT Member and owner of Funky Fossil Designs.

Our wonderful sponsor is Funky Fossil Designs.   They’re generously offering a £25.00 store credit which must be used within 90 days.

I had lots of ideas around with this fun design and I finally decided on some butterflies.

After adding some ink smooches and adding a little light stamping with HA – Friends text stamp and some circcles form HA – Mixed Design Borders to complete my corner background.

The butterflies from HA – Antique Engraving stamp set were black heat embossed and watercoloured before being fussy cut.

The sentiment stamp and die came from HA – Flowers and Bees set.

I was happy with the way it turned out. A great CASE challenge. 

Please head over to our blog to  check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge this month.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments and will be sure to check out your blog.

I hope you all have a chance to enjoy some crafting time.

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

 Stay Crafty with Hero – January 2024 Challenge – everything old is new again!

SSS Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes

Less is More #496 – Enjoy Every Moment … Happy Birthday

I would like to thank everyone over at PIP for selecting my card for an Honorable Mention. I really appreciate it.

I would also like to thank everyone over at Cupcake Inspirations for selectiing my card as a Sweet Pick. It made my day!

Hello and welcome

Happy Saturday everyone. It’s time for a new challenge over at LIM. The challenge is to create using the theme: Anything Goes – Keep it CAS!

This week my card features the fun pup from Newton’s Nook – Delightful Doxies stamp set.

After ombre ink blending a piece of card with my old Adirondack – Denim ink pad, it was cut into 3 panels using SSS – Stitched Rectangles dies.

The panels were then put on the card front, along with the pup and the kite.

The sentiment is from Newton’s Nook – Porch Swing Friends and Cocktail Mixer stamp sets.

Please head over to our blog and check out the wonderfully inspirational work by the rest of the Design Team!  I hope you will find the time to join our challenge.

I look forward to seeing what you create!  Good luck!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments.

Happy crafting

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #581

PIP Challenge 2344

Stamping Sensations November challenge

Just Add Ink #678…Choose Two! (Bright & Friend)

Birthday Wishes (HLS – Dies)

Hello and welcome

We’re back with a new challenge over at Happy Little Stampers –  Anything Goes with Dies – November .   As always, anything goes in this challenge. So, I hope you’ll find time in  your busy life to join in the fun this month!

I am back with another birthday card.

It features an Distress ink blended background cut using MFT – Zig Zag die and then coated with Glossy Accents.

The sentiments are also from older MFT products.

Time to head over to our blog to check out the great work by the rest of the Design Team!

I look forward to seeing what you create this month!

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit.  I love to read your comments.

Have a good day and stay safe!

Cheers

Helen

Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #456 – Make Your Mark

AAA Birthday Challenge – Game #55 – Large Sentiment

PIP Challenge 2344

Ellibelle’s Crafty Wednesday November Challenge