City Crafter - Feathers

It's my turn to choose the challenge at City Crafter Challenge Blog : Feathers - use feathers on your project, with or without a bird attached.

Here I used a digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil , coloured with alcohol markers. The sentiment is Papermania and not only are there feathers on my parrot, but also attached to the card. I will be sending this card to a crafty friend; the woman in the picture is not her , nor is it me (!)  or anyone we know... but yet she seems familiar , almost as if she's all of us!

At CCCB this week Greta  is our talented Guest Designer. I hope you'll come over to the blog, see what Greta and the DT have made and enter your own feathered creations. 

While I've got you ... I'd love you to visit my consumer blog We Want Craft Stuff UK , 

I'd like to enter:

Paper Shelter digital

Mos Digital  ag with Mo image

Fashionable Flamingoes

I subscribe to Like For Ever, a scrapbooking kit. A few months ago there was a kit with quite a few flamingoes in it. So, flamingoes were definitely on my 'to see' list at the zoo today!

I used the sketch from Scrap the Boys. 

I'm also linking up at Shopping Our Stash , anything but a card.

Sunshine Paintbrushes

Regular visitors to my blog have probably already heard about my trip to see Nonni in Finland and seen me post cards I made there. You are probably wondering how many months I spent in Nonni's craft-room producing all these cards ...but in fact, I was only in Finland for two nights and only a fraction of that time was spent crafting! Obviously I found Nonni very inspiring! This however, is the last one I have to post. (Watch out for the scrapbook pages though!) .

I think the paintbrushes and jar were different sets from Papertrey, and the sun was Cas-ual Stamps- not sure about the sentiment.

I'd like to enter:
Just Us Girls photo - I think this jar of brushes would fit perfectly into that craft-room
Just add Ink  b for brushes
Pink Gem  weather -summer - sunshine
Aud Sentiments anything goes

Happy Birthday Kirsty

Whoops! I originally posted this last Saturday - a week too early! I snatched it back as soon as I realised , so I hope Kirsty didn't see it! 

Happy Birthday to Kirsty, who is our fabulous leader at City Crafter. 

I used a Stamping Bella image , paper-pieced with papers from my paper mountain . The sentiment is Waffle Flowers stamps.

Kirsty , I know you are not going to receive this in time, sorry. I stupidly trusted my partner to take it to the Post Office but much later, when he was working in Northern Ireland (we're in England) , he found it in his pocket! That was two days ago, so it will get to you in the US eventually!

Kirsty, have a wonderful day.!

I'd like to enter:
The Craft Barn two different papers
Eureka pink
QKR birthday cards
Alphabet Challenge girlie
My Time to Craft paper piecing

City Crafter - Black and White with gold detail

This week at City Crafter, Stella asks us to take our inspiration from the photo below, and use black and white with gold detail.

The panda and 'thanks' are from W plus 9 and I punched the hearts out of mirror card. 

This week Shawna  is our talented guest designer, so I hope you'll visit City Crafter and see what she , and the DT have made, and join in the challenge. 

I'd like to enter:

Simply Create thank you

Alphabet Challenge furry friends 

Creative Craft Cottage include an animal 

Sparkles animal magic 

Warning : May Contain Slang (Conquering Paper Mountain #10)

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I saw my sister-in-law at a family party during the weekend. She's been married to my brother for 12 years and to my horror, especially given my hobby, I realised that I had never sent her a birthday card. I blame my brother (of course) - he obviously has never told me when her birthday is. Anyway, I swore to make it up to her (wine was involved) and send her the backlog of 12 cards...and this is the first. 

I used an SVG cutting file from SVG cuts and a Prima 6x6 Almanac paper pad from my paper mountain.  I cut the 'sorry' out on the Silhouette and I stamped the cockerel's lower body with a Hero Arts stamp and Pearl Ex powder. I stitched a border, using my sewing machine. 

Inside , I typed and printed out the words: 'Sorry I cocked up.' I realise I have international visitors to my blog who might not know that term...it's slightly cheeky slang for 'I messed up' or 'made a mistake'. 

I'd like to enter:

Sunny Day Crafting  farm photo

Cupcake Inspirations punny

Crafty Cardmakers stitching

Crafty Calendar wings 

Make My Monday - In the Garden

This week's challenge at Make My Monday is, 'in the garden'.

This is another card I (mainly) made when visiting Finland. I used Nonni's stash - I think the gnome is from MFT(?) and the stencil (which I loved) is Stamplorations.

I hope you'll visit the Make My Monday and see the work of the DT, then join in the challenge.

I'd like to enter:
Stamplorations stamps and anything goes
Creative Card Crew masculine
Addicted to Stamps cas
Moving Along with Times man or boy

Igloo

Here I used a very old wooden stamp by Inca 'Lili of the Valley Collection'.  I stamped it three times and cut bits out, so I could make just the igloo shine and sparkle, using holographic embossing powder.  The sentiment was cut on my Silhouette.

I'd like to enter:
Crafting by Designs  Christmas
52CCT critters
Sweet Stampin Christmas winter fun
Lawnscaping sparkle
Addicted to Stamps cas

Inkspirational Photo - Coloured Wood

This week, our challenge at Inkspirational is to be inspired by this picture:

As you can see, I kept this really simple, embossing two shades of cardstock with a wood design and layering a diecut sentiment over them.

I hope you'll come over to Inkspirational and see what the DT have made ...and join in our challenge.

Bus, Bunting, Birthday

Here I used an old Penny Black stamp - I stamped it on gloss cardstock and coloured it with markers, which is why it has a slightly smudgy look. The background and bunting are from  printed from Papermania  Portobello Road CD.  For the sentiment, I combined a frame from Portobello Road and a sentiment from Papermania Happy Birthday CD.

Actually, on screen this card has a slightly more pinky look to the reds than in-real-life . My partner owns a bus like this one (minus the animals!), so I made this card with men in mind.

I'd like to enter:
CD Sunday  something beginning with b
Penny Black Saturday masculine
Male Room transport
Fussy and Fancy  birthday