It has absolutely poured with rain all day today. After a wonderful week of lots of sun and wind, all the mud surrounding the house (all our concrete paths have been removed) had dried out and were easy to walk on. After today there is mud everywhere in the house, especially from Bella the dog and our two cats, who's little paw prints are even all over my bed. I can't wait for the concrete to be poured soon!!!
Since its such a yucky day I thought it would be good to share one of my cute cards using the Uniquely Creative - August Stamp and Colour Kit 'Fairytale Wishes':
This card uses all the items that come in the basic kit. You also receive a magazine showing all the cards the DT created and I was shocked to see this card on the cover!!!
To start off I wanted to create some hills for the castle to sit on. As I didn't have a die I cut a piece of patterned paper from the kit freehand with scissors and adhered to the card front.
I stamped all the clouds, birds and castles using Gina K Amalgam Black ink on white CS and coloured them all with my Altenew Artist Markers. Unfortunately I didn't have the matching dies that come with the kit, so had to patiently fussy cut them all out.
The birds were glued in place and the clouds and castle put on foam tape. I white heat embossed the sentiment on black CS, backed with white CS and popped on foam tape as well. And finished off with some coloured dots, also in the kit.
I've just stamped out a HUGE pile of images from stamp sets I've received over the last month or so and not used yet. I'm going to sit in Phoebe's room with her and watch some movies tonight, do some colouring and maybe sneak in the odd chocolate or two. Heaven!
Take care
Shona
Hi everyone, hope your week is going much better than mine and that your able to fit in a bit of crafting here and there! I'm absolutely flat out with work, kids, painting etc and feeling very overwhelmed but it will pass soon...I hope..... Thank goodness for card making, it always makes me feel good!!
There is a HUGE RETIREMENT SALE going on at the moment at CAS-ual Fridays Stamps where you can save 25% on so many amazing stamps and dies, including a lot of my favourites. I thought I'd create a card for you today showing off one of the Christmas sets on sale:
These images are all from the 'Sugar Plum Fairy' stamp set, which is filled with lots of snowflake cuteness!!
I started off with a white CS panel cut slightly slimmer than the card front. Using inks from Waffle Flower I stamped the tree across the panel, alternating the pattern and ink colour. I then die-cut a circle from the middle of it using a die from the 'Ornament Tag Fri-Dies'. I adhered a panel of dark grey CS to the card front and then used foam tape to pop up the stamped panel.
The 'Snowflake Ballerina' was silver heat embossed on white CS and die-cut using the 'Ballerina Fri-Dies'. This was put on foam tape in the middle of the circle. The sentiment was stamped in grey ink (also from Waffle Flower) on a strip of white CS and popped on foam tape, along with some Neat and Tangled sequins.
I also have a special code that you can use with the sale that would make a total of 40% savings!! How can you resist that!
Thanks so much for stopping by and I'll see you back here later this month with more goodness from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps!!
Take care
Shona
Its finally stopped raining!! Well, for today anyway, supposed to start again tomorrow morning but making the most of it. Its rained non-stop for the past three days and everywhere its mud puddles and mushy grass etc. Was hoping it would dry out over the weekend and I could do some gardening on Monday but its supposed to rain that day too!! Oh well, gives me time to make some cards and paint the remainder of Phoebes room.
With it being September, that means its 'Stamptember' at Simon Says Stamp. They release a new stamp set nearly every day which is a collaboration with another stamp company. Its such a wonderful idea and so much fun. The theme for this weeks Simon Says Stamp - Wednesday Challenge is 'Stamp It' which is very appropriate!!
This is another one of those cards were I coloured the images AGES ago and they have been waiting to be used. I showed a card last week with the same stamped and coloured panel but in different colours etc. Love this one against the grey:
I had a panel of white CS and stamped it randomly with floral images from the Studio Katia 'Together We Bloom' stamp set using Gina K Amalgam black ink. I then coloured it using Altenew Artist Markers. Once I was happy with it I die-cut the panel using a Studio Katia 'Nested Oval' die.
After adhering a panel of dark grey CS to the card front, I popped the oval on a piece of white foam. I then white heat embossed the sentiment (from Studio Katia 'Its your Birthday') on a strip of black CS and put on foam tape. I then glued on some Studio Katia Pearls for a bit of shine.
Better go and grab the washing in and take Bella for a walk before I get to settled in the warm. Hoping to do some colouring tonight and start one of my new Diamond Art projects too. Need to find a good movie to watch so I can stay awake!!
Take care
Shona
