Hi all! Just a quick visit tonight as I am busted and have a long day tomorrow. I've been wanting to play along with the new Dynamic Duos challenge but somehow have kept missing it until now. This week we are to use the colours Bashful Blue and Marina Mist. I pulled out some Hero Arts stamps for this one and kept it simple. Just how I like it. :) I'm also going to enter this in the Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes challenge. Have a lovely evening!
For some reason this was a complete nightmare to photograph. I'm not thrilled with this shot but it's the best of a bad bunch I'm afraid. It's a special order card for a baby shower and I used the colours from the Play Date Cafe to get me going. Love those PTI baby clothes dies and I'm excited to actually use a few letter stickers! Got a few special order cards taken care of today so I feel rather accomplished. Still have to complete the big order but I have another couple of weeks to get that done. Hope you've all had a lovely weekend!
I finally got my head around the sketch at the Paper Smooches Sparks challenge. I broke out my new Metropolis stamps and (drum roll please!) some patterned paper! Whoop whoop! I may just put a dent in the ol' stash yet! LOL! I'm also going to enter this over at the Simon Says Stamp CAS challenge.
It's another grey, humid day here but the drizzling has stopped so we took the hounds down to the dock for a swim. The water is super clear and our neighbourhood turtle came by to say hello as well as our friend the pufferfish. It's been busy down there this week as we've also seen a ray, a huge rockfish and some gorgeous parrotfish. Now if our octopus would just come back it would be perfect!
It's been sprinkling all day here and I swear the grass has grown two inches since yesterday! We still need a few good heavy downpours to fill up the water tank but at least the grass isn't quite so crunchy now. After going to the pub for lunch Luis declared it a sofa and TV kind of afternoon so I headed off to the Craft Cave and left him to enjoy his loafing. :) I did a lot of puttering and tidying so only ended up making this one card. I used the colours from ColourQ and several punches and dies so I could play along with CAS-ual Fridays. I'm also going to join in with Simon Says Stamp's Clean and Simple challenge. Have a lovely evening!
I got another big card order from the same lady who asked me to make her two sets of cards for Christmas. Whoop whoop for repeat customers! I'm working on birthday cards for it at the moment and decided to break out PTI's Tiny Treats: Birthday set and use that cute little birdie. It means I can play along with CAS-ual Fridays this week for their Feathered Friends challenge! Nothing groundbreaking here but I'm trying to keep the cards for the set relatively CAS and flat for easy mailing. Hope you're all having a lovely day!
The latest Play Date Cafe challenge was another one that almost thwarted me. I pondered, flipped through my stamp books and discarded one idea after another until finally I looked at my dies and punches. Some days I feel like I will never have another halfway decent idea again so it's always sweet relief when something finally comes together. It also feels good to use things that have been languishing untouched for ages. I had just been thinking the other day how I hardly ever use SU Tangerine Tango (I'm more of a Pumpkin Pie girl) or Garden Green and lo and behold they have made an appearance today!
I'm back to celebrate some more birthday goodness with Cas-ual Fridays (which has just turned 1) and the Simon Says Stamp blog(which has turned 3)! There are never enough birthday cards in my stash so any little push to make more is a good thing. :) If you haven't checked out or celebrated with either of these fabulous blogs yet then what are you waiting for? Hop to it, check out all their amazing inspiration and play along!
Hi all! Just popping in with a quick entry for the sketch challenge at Skipping Stones Design and also for the birthday challenge at Simon Says Stamp. It's our second wedding anniversary today so Luis and I are having a nice chilled day with the hounds and are going out for dinner tonight. Hope you're all having a lovely one!
I used the sketch from Less Is More for the card, I'm going to join in with Unity's Friends with Flair blog hop and I'm entering this in the Simon Says Stamp birthday challenge!
Good day! It's grey and humid here today. We've had a bit of rain. Not enough to make a difference to the water tank but hopefully it will help reduce the crunchiness of the grass!