Cat with a Balloon

 Here's quite a minimalist birthday card with a cat (Stampin Up) and a balloon (Avery Elle), some paper piecing and a restrained black, white and yellow palette. 

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Antlers

 Decided to combine my need for Christmas cards with a couple of challenges. The reindeer is a Flora and Fauna stamp and the wobbly circle and snowflake were just leftovers I had hanging around. 

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Jingle Belles  leftovers 

Fab n Funky  cas

Stay Warm

 

A little while ago I had a great time splattering diluted white acrylic paint at coloured card, and I'm using some here. I can't really decide whether the splatters are stars or snow ...maybe both? The cocoa-drinking polar bear and sentiment are MFT stamps. 

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Jumping Squirrel

 

Here's an autumnal birthday card I made using Lawn Fawn stamps.

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Fab n Funky  colours of autumn 

Sparkles Monthly  autumn leaves 

Leaf Shaker

 

I made a shaker using a piece of patterned paper with squirrels on it, die cut leaves and sequins , and a stamped birthday sentiment. 

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Cardz4Guyz  autumn 

The Sisterhood of Crafters  fall

Aud Sentiments  fall

Lion Card

 

This card arrived a little early for the baby boy's birthday, and I was told it was the first ever birthday card he received, which was sweet. It's very simple, using old stamps from different sets and slightly dimensional number and hearts. 

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Snow Day

Here's a cute MFT penguin having a snow day. (Or maybe a white gel pen day.) 

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Christmas Kickstart  snow alert 

Peace On Earth  

Super CAS Santa

 Here's a very CAS Christmas cards - 3 stamps : Santa (Mama Elephant), Jingle and flourish (Pink Paislee) - coloured with markers. 

I'd like to enter:

Christmas Kickstart  santa 

Addicted to Stamps  Christmas 

Cat in a Gift Bag

 I was inspired by the challenge at Shopping Our Stash - The Cat is in the Bag. 

I stamped these presents and then cut the bow off  the tall one and added a handle - hopefully, it now works as a gift bag. The cat is one of the Avery Elle Peek-a-Boo Pals. The background looks painted but it is actually patterned paper. 

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Shopping Our Stash 

Sisterhood of Crafters  birthdays

Bits and Pieces

 I do like to make backgrounds, but then I usually put them aside to use later - often, much, much later! 

This background was made by splashing watercolours around (I think they're Twinkling H20s) then stamping and embossing over it in black. The est of the card was made with bits of ephemera and die-cuts that have also been left languishing for a long time.

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Cardz 4 Galz dies and punches 

The Neglected Stuff Challenge 

Double D  background 

You Rock!

 

Both manual and digital die- cutting is great but one advantage to digital cutting files, like this one, is being able to size them up for more impact on a card front. 

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Jumping Giraffe

 

I made this card to combine some challenges. 

The giraffe and the balloon stamps are from different MFT sets. I will miss MFT now it's closed - I particularly liked the inspiration on their website, which now seems inaccessible. I did feel, however, that they were releasing too much and repeating themes too often - maybe that's why they didn't survive.

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Make My Monday  hot air balloons

Alphabet Challenge j for jump

Boating

 This little boat is a Penny Black stamp. I used patterned paper clouds and waves cut from cardstock. 

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Shopping Our Stash  in or on the water 

Cardz 4 Guyz boats 

Little Red Wagon  Gentleman

CAS Lillies

 I find flower stamps quite tricky : some of them I can look at and feel totally stumped, while others - like this one - I use over and over again. I've made several sympathy cards with it,over the years, but birthday / thankyou cards too, 

I'd like to enter:

Sparkles Monthly - CAS

Triple B 

Car with Tree and Lights

 I find my blog post titles becoming less and less imaginative! 

This car stamp is by Stamping Bella - I coloured it with markers and added white gel pen, liberally. 

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Sparkles Christmas  include a tree

Make My Monday  snow in August 

Make a Wish

 I designed and cut these candles on my Silhouette cameo. The star-shaped 'flames' and sentiment are stamped and I dry embossed the card base.

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Shopping Our Stash  hot 

Give a Crafter A Cookie 

Norse Day

 Almost a one layer card (excepting the 20) : I used MFT viking set and Catherine Pooler sun stamp. 

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Make My Monday  masculine

Little Red Wagon  masculine 

Pizza Party

 Here's a birthday card for my pizza-loving son. I used an SVG cutting file. I stamped the banner and sentiment (Avery Elle??) and created and cut the 18 on my digital cutting machine. 

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Little Red Wagon  Food 

Frosted Noel

 It's warm and humid here in south east England but it's very frosty on this Christmas card. I used a Hobby Art stamp, white embossing powder, white pencil and a border doodled with white gel pen. 

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CAS on Friday