Wintry treescape

I was driving north yesterday and enjoyed a glorious wintry sunrise, this easel card is an attempt at the stunning colours, all using Distress Inks in Spiced Marmalade, Mustard Seed, Worn Lipstick, Weathered Wood.  Trees and Dottiness stamps are from Stamp Addicts, I used the dotty cloud to create the card base.  Sentiment is from Pink Petticoat and lacy ribbon from Stamp Attic.  I drew in the birds with a permanent marker - even I can draw these!

My card is for the following challenges:

One Stop Craft - no designer paper

Bearly Mine - easel does it

Raise the Bar - orange and black

Aud Sentiments - sentiment and a winter theme

Tuesday Taggers  - taking to the skies

This robin is an imposter!

Fred She Said has a lovely image of a pair of robins, sitting on some festive holly, so I'm not quite sure why I felt the need to disguise the chickadee as a robin, with the berries matching the red breast, it must be a contrary streak somewhere in me lol!  Here's a link to the winter bird series, so you can see both the robins and the chickadee, as well as a cardinal, all available as digis or pre-coloured.  I matched my undercover chickadee with Memory Box DP, a MS punch and some traditional red and green ribbons, sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.
Don't forget, you've one more day to do the Fred She Said Fabulous Fall Blog Hop, with great prizes, closes midnight tonight (Thursday).

My card is for the following challenges:
Papertake Weekly - sketch
Raise the Bar - things with wings
Critter Challenge - anything goes
Crafty Boots - things with wings
Paper Makeup Stamps - resize your digi
Simon Says - anything goes

Dog Days of Summer

 

There have been a couple of challenges around called Dog Days of Summer lately, I rather think I've missed the boat with most of them but when I saw this new image from Tracy at Fred She Said, called Emma & Rosie, available from the shop here, it cried out to be made in warm summery colours.  Emma's dress is paper pieced and the DP I've used is by Pink Paislee.  I've added some dew drops, stitching, Stickles and some Crealie die-cut scrolls.  Hope you like my card for the dog days of summer:).

My card is for the following challenges:

Incy Wincy - 3 embellishments (dew drops, Stickles, scrolls), 2 papers, 1 image

Cupcake Craft - sketch

Stamp Something - dog days of summer

Cupcake Craftroom - soft and sweet

Heart Song Inspirations - animal or pleated ribbon

The Pink Elephant - stitching

Stamping Scrapping Central - dog days of summer (card uses Stickles which is stocked by SSC)

Clearly Inspired - things with wings (butterflies)

Frosted Designs - animals

Raise the Bar - dog days of summer

Clean & Simple Christmas trees

 Here are some more clean & simple Christmas cards that I've made.  Sorry for the poor photos, I'm not quite sure what I was doing with the angle here!  Each card has an area masked off with Post-its to stay white and I've brushed Distress Inks onto the background, then overstamped with an Artemio clear stamp set I bought last year.  The sentiments are a clear stamp set from Kaisercraft.

 The cards are for the following challenges:
Raise the Bar -trees
Alphabet Challenge - F is for foliage
AiFactory Challenges - winter

Delightful donkeys

 

We've had many pets over the years, but one that Geoff has always held out against is a donkey :(.  I think a donkey would look perfect alongside my Norwegian Fjord horse (and of course the Welsh pony) but hey, sometimes you can't get everything in life!  So of course I fell for the donkey image on the new Joann Sheen DVD by Glynn Williams and had to make a card with it!  There are special decoupage images on the CD but I simply printed out 3 times and made my own decoupage.  I followed the sketch at Pear Tree Designs, adding a leaf border cut with my new MS punch that I bought at the NEC.  The sentiment is a Personal Impressions stamp, DP is Papermania and I used my first ever MS punch to make a scalloped border underneath, I think it's called Baroque and it doesn't have the markings to line up that are on the current punches.  A piece of raffia and some green gems finished it off, hope you like my donkey card.

My card is for the following challenges:

Pear Tree Designs - sketch

Cards for Men - animals, I've kept it un-fussy and used raffia not a ribbon bow so it can be a man card

CD Sunday Challenge - the natural world

Craft Your Passion - 2 of anything (2 donkeys)

Lexi's Creations - anything goes

Crazy4Challenges - square cards

Raise the Bar - scallops and curves

Stamp Insanity -punch drunk - used 2 border punches

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