Fiendishly Fiddly

Last night I amused myself by stamping this Indigo Blu crowd scene onto subtly patterned paper and then paper-piecing some of the dogs using two other patterned papers. It was fiendishly fiddly!

I was going to add a sentiment, but realised I hadn't left any room for one! It will have to go inside.

I'd like to enter:
QKR Stampede paper-piecing
Paper Artsy paper piecing

City Crafter - Hang out the Flags

It's my turn to choose the challenge at City Crafter  and I challenge you to use bunting, banners or flags on your creation.

I made a wedding card, featuring a row of banners. It was made largely on my Silhouette electronic cutting machine and I dry embossed the banners in a manual die-cutter.

This week, our Guest Designer is Kelly, so I hope you'll come over to City Crafter and see what Kelly, and the rest of the DT have made, and join in our challenge.  

I'd like to enter:

Crafting When We Can   any occasion

Dragonfly Journeys embossing folder 

Eclectic Ellapu wedding 

Cas Wedding

Gosh, this is a CAS wedding card, using just two stamps. I did include a couple of luxe touches that are hard to see in the photo - embossed linen base and Wink of Stella on the drinks.

I'd like to enter:
Casology  congratulations
Addicted to Stamps  clean and simple
Sparkles Forum  wedding

Good Company

Another layout - this is me and my son playing with a selfie stick that was an impulse buy in the pound shop! I used a sketch from Like For Ever . The title was drawn with a sketch pen on the Silhouette Cameo.

I'd like to enter:
Lasting Memories  let me take a selfie

Tiniest Tent

I'm entering this into the moodboard challenge at Scrapbooking Top 50 . It's not winter here though, thank goodness.

Shabby Wedding (Conquering Paper Mountain #11)

My daughter asked me to make a shabby chic wedding card.

This card was great for my scheme to reduce my paper mountain , as it used 3 sheets from a 6 x 6 Prima pad. The  heart (dry embossed and coloured with mist) and leaf flourish are manual die-cuts and I electronically cut the sentiment on the Silhouette.

I'd like to enter:
Tuesday Throwdown distressing
Eureka  wedding
Craft Rocket  wedding
Eclectic Ellapu  weddings
Crafting Musketeers wedding

Way To Go

Here's a card I made for a friend and craft teammie who has passed her driving test.

I smooshed pink and lilac inks for the background and stamped the row of houses (Little Claire) and the car (Stampin Up) . The 'youre amazing' is Waffle Flower.

I added 'way to go' (Avery Elle) at the bottom - it's not a very British sentiment! But I thought it had a double meaning of 'you've done great' and ' driving is a way to get places'.

I'd like to enter:
Sisterhood of the Snarky Stampers vroom
That's Crafty   in the pink
Love to Scrap anything goes

Runaway Baby

I've had this baby stamp a long time..the brand is 'Stamp World' and it says it was made in Australia ..I think I must have got it 2nd hand.

I welded the word 'baby' to the hill in Silhouette Studio and cut it out electronically.  The word congratulations was cut out of spotty paper and I used the same paper to paper-piece some of the pram.

I'd like to enter:
Aloha Challenge  baby
Casology congratulations
Addicted to Stamps  cas
Words to Craft By  new beginnings
Crafty Catz going dotty

City Crafter - White and Bright

Stella has chosen 'White and Bright' as the new challenge at City Crafter and she wants us to 'create a card or project using lots of white and add an element or elements from the photo (below) .

For my DT card I used a very old Penny Black stamp, with paper scraps and ribbon to reflect the tea towels, and a splash of red on the tulips. 

Our Guest Designer this week is Sid, so I hope you will come over to City Crafter and see what he and the rest of the DT have created and enter your own project. 

I'd like to enter:
Fussy and Fancy  say it with flowers
Pile it On  old (stamp) new(diecut) blue
Retro Rubber red, white, blue - stamp must be over 5 years and maybe even 10!

It's Started to Snow!

If I have one overused motif on my Christmas cards, it must be the deer in the landscape! So I was looking for a way to give it a twist.

The deer and trees are a die-cu from Miss Kate Cuttables and I stuck it onto some snowfall acetate. Behind the acetate, I layered two colours of glitter card and then mounted it all on some gold mirror card.

I'd like to enter:
Jingle Bells  clear element
52CCT landscape
ABC Christmas L for landscape
Winter Wonderland sparkle
Addicted to Stamps  holiday