Little Hellos

I must admit I am a real bozo when it comes to measurements and quantities. In the past when I've done online grocery shopping I've found myself with a bag holding one tomato, and another with 16 carrots.....

So I shouldn't have been surprised when the card blanks I ordered, thinking they were a standard size (around 6x4) turned out to be minis of around  4x3.

I hope I've turned this mistake into a positive by making some cards for little notes or possibly to go in with a gift. I used this month's freebie from Craft Stamper and a 'hello' stamp by Waffle Flower.

I'd like to enter:
Craft Stamper  anything goes
Lawnscaping  colour splash
Addicted to Stamps  clean and simple
My Time to Craft  flowers
Stamping Sensations  flower power

Inkspirational Challenge - Pink and Grey

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is 'pink and grey'. For my DT card , I used an Avery Elle elephant, combined with stamps from three different sets by Paper Artsy (two of which I reviewed here ) .

We have a wonderful Guest Designer, Susan, so I hope you'll come over to Inkspirational, see what she and the DT have made, and enter your own project.

I'd like to enter:

Penny Black  feature a creature 

Alphabet Challenge  anything pink 

Tuesday Throwdown  create a scene 

Addicted to Stamps CAS ( hope it's cas enough) 

Easter Basket

I couldn't resist these round Easter animals from Sami Stamps - they remind me of 'angry birds' except not angry!  For the sentiment I used a Clearly Besotted stamp and used the Silhouette free design to cut 'Easter'.

I will be entering this into the new Silhouette UK Blog challenge  - I am really pleased to see this challenge as it will encourage me to use these designs. I do like seeing the weekly free design and usually download it - just occasionally it is too American for me .( Not against Americans, of course! - just we don't have Thanksgiving or Independence Day for example.)

As well as the Silhouette blog, I'd like to enter:
A Snowflakes Promise spring
Creative Card Crew  chicks
Let's Craft and Create   Easter
Fantastic Tuesday  Easter

Going Places

My daughter's got a promotion at work!

For her card I used umbrella and heart stamps from Hero Arts , and the girl and sentiment stamps from Mama Elephant.

I'd like to enter:

Addicted to Stamps   cas

Fab n Funky  paper piecing 

Eureka paper piecing  

Tuesday Throwdown create a scene 

City Crafter - I'm working on my PHD

This week at City Crafter , Kirsty wants us to complete our unfinished projects. PHD = Project Half Done!

I didn't have any major unfinished projects but what I do have is bags (and bags) of bits: patterned paper scraps, extra die-cuts, images I've coloured and never used....

So I decided to make a trio of 'thank you' cards using stuff from my bits bags.

For this card, I used a Paper Artsy flower that I'd white embossed, coloured with Distress ink (using a watercolour lifting technique) .... and left!  Here, I paired it with a scrap of patterned paper and a Hero Arts sentiment.

Our Guest Designer this week is Evy, so I hope you'll come and see what she and the DT have made, and enter your own completed project.

I'd like to enter the lifted ink flower card :
Come and Get it  favourite technique
Stamping Sensations  flower power
Just us Girls  flowers

Make my Monday - A Square World

Our new challenge at Make My Monday is 'A Square World ' - only squares allowed.

For my DT card I printed a large image of a robot. (It's from an old CD called Papercraft Factory. Then I stamped a Hero Arts squares stamp off-centre over the image and trimmed it. The letters are stickers and I dry embossed the back layer with ink.

Please visit us at MMM and see what the DT have made, and enter your own creation.

I'd like to enter:
Fantastic Tuesday  for a child
Crafting by Designs  anything goes
ABC Challenge  cute
Naughty or Nice  at the movies ( inspired by movie robots incl the ones in Star Wars)
Sparkles Forum for males

Spring Gardening

Spring....it's cold here ( near London) but sunny and at least we don't have snow as in many parts of the country.

Here I used a set from Altenew, coloured with Promarkers and then Distress ink. The sentiment is a stray (!) and I used a Bo Bunny brad and paper from my paper mountain. 

I'd like to enter:
Time Out  spring and I used the masking twist to put the pot on the table.
Aloha in the garden
A Snowflakes Promise   spring
Eclectic Ellapu  flora and fauna
Suzy Bees touch of spring

Glitter Felt Tree (Conquering Paper Mountain #7)

Enough of those CAS cards! They won't reduce my paper mountain!

Here I cut a Sizzix Christmas tree die out of glitter felt and layered it with lots of patterned paper.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping our Stash  white out
Stamp Ink Paper  felt
Crafty Catz 3 different papers
52 CCT sketch
Jingle Belles layers

Sweet

Entering this into the Sweet challenge at Scrapbooking Top 50.

City Crafter - The Elephant in the Room

I chose this week's challenge at City Crafter.  I've noticed a lot of elephant images around lately, so I hope to see some used.

For my DT project I used a set by Avery Elle, teamed with number stamps, a 'My Sentiments Exactly' circular text stamp and a party hat from Papermania. I added some stickers to the stars and pompom.

Please come over to City Crafter, see what the DT and our Guest Designer , Sarah, have made, and link up your own elephant project. 

I'd like to enter:

Mod Squad  animal fun 

Aud Sentiments cute plus sentiment  

Abc Challenge  cute 

Unicorn  clean and simple