The Library Challenge - The Sewing Machine

Visiting Librarian Arlene chose the new book at The Library - The Sewing Machine by Natalie Fergie. I'd not heard of it before but it looks interesting.The cover and title gave me lots of crafty ideas: stitching (real or faux), sewing themed stash...

For my card I used a free Dearie Dolls digital image and coloured it with Promarkers. I paper-pieced some old free-with-magazine paper, which I also used as a mat. The sentiment was a free-with - magazine stamp , and I stamped a frame of stitches (49 and Market). 

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Fab n Funky  paper piecing 
CD Sunday  downloaded digital image 

Retro TV Skater

I made this card shape by adapting a retro TV  svg (electronic cutting file) I got for free, years ago. For my TV picture, I used a Penny Black skater stamp, coloured with Promarkers.  Then, to make it look like a TV title, I stamped an Avery Elle sentiment over the top.

I'd like to enter:
My Time to Craft
Krafty Chicks 
Penny Black 

Santa Steps Out

I'm really stepping up the Christmas card making now!  This Santa is an MFT stamp (coloured with Promarkers) and the sentiment is by Pink Fresh. I made the snowy backdrop using stencils and white ink.

I'd like to enter:
Christmas Kickstart 
Sparkles Forum 
Passion for Promarkers
Penny Black and More 

Sheepish

Here's a card I put together from a bag of scraps. The sheep had been stamped and cut out as a spare when I was making another card, and the stripy paper was a leftover bit of My Mind's Eye scrapbooking paper.  I use Promarkers to colour the sheep and stamped and embossed the Merry in red glitter ep.

I'd like to enter:
Cardz4galz s for sheep
Passion for Promarkers  old paper
Use your Stuff scraps
Jingle Bells  creature
Christmas Cards All Year Round  winter clothing 

Library Reminder - The Worst Class trip Ever

Time for a reminder at The Library.

I made a birthday card inspired by the cover.  First I stamped the balloon (Happy Little Stampers) repeatedly, masked them and inked the clouds using a homemade stencil.  After stamping 'wishing you the '. I created the large sentiment on my Silhouette digital cutting machine. 

You can enter the challenge here. 

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Watercooler

Aud Sentiments 

Sweet Stampin'

Jingle Bells

Early signs - special editions of magazines on Readly, glittery stock on the supermarket shelves - indicate that Christmas is creeping up on us so.....

Here I lightly stencilled a background and stamped the 'string ' (Mama Elephant ), bells (Avery Elle) and sentiment (Pink Paislee). Finally I coloured the bells, added some glimmer pen and doodled dots around the card edge.

I'd like to enter:
Christmas Kickstart 
Fab n Funky 

Inkspirational Challenges - One Layer Card

Our new challenge Inkspirational  is to create a one-layer card.

For my DT card  I used stamps from two different sets, stamping in grey and added silver glitter drops for (I hope) a frosty look. I hope you'll join in.

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CAS on Friday 

Merry Little Christmas

The Library Challenge - The Worst Class Trip Ever.

Visiting Librarian Julie chose the new book at The Library - The Worst Class Trip Ever by Dave Berry. I'd not heard of this book before but it looks really fun and is probably aimed at the age group of my son (12) , so maybe he might be interested in it. 

I hope you can see how I drew inspiration from the cover! I actually bought these Waffle Flower Roman stamps especially for it as I was inspired by the cover's historic building and statues. I coloured the Roman with Promarkers and stamped a balloon (Clearly Besotted) to echo the kites/balloons on the cover. I looked up the Latin for Happy Birthday and designed and cut it on the Silhouette. (Hope I got this right and it doesn't say something rude!) Finally, I stamped 'You are a classic' from Neat and Tangled's record player set. 

I'd like to enter:

Watercooler 

Cas on Sunday 

Passion for Promarkers 

Addicted to Stamps 

Day of the Month Card Club 

Did I miss the cake?

I was late with my (grown-up) nephew's birthday card last week...but at least I got the chance to use these fun sentiments from Wplus9.  The cat is by Katzelcraft, I heat embossed him in black on coloured card, masked him and stencilled the background,

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Just Add Ink  masking and stencilling
Animal Friends 
My Time to Craft 
Allsorts make your own background

Santa Cloche

This little Santa came in a new MFT set and it was smaller than I'd expected, so I decided to put him in a Flora and Fauna Bell Jar. I coloured in with Promarkers , stamped the stars (from the F and F set) and added silver gel pen. The sentiment is from the same MFT set and the falling snow is white gel pen.

I'd like to enter:
CAS Christmas 
Passion for Promarkers 
Christmas at Sweet Stampin 
Addicted to Stamps