Penny Black And More Mid May – Hello

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we’re half way through may already, but you still have plenty of time to play along with the penny black and more challenge and our theme of punches and dies. visit the blog for some fabulous creations by my teamies.

hedgies hello

i water coloured this cute penny black hedgie image from the hugs! clear stamp set with twinkling H2Os; here’s my tip for Top Tip Tuesday – use unexpected colours; a clay pot doesn’t have to be coloured in rust tones.

i used marianne designs dies for the flowers and leaves, a punch for the tiny flowers and die cut the hello with the memory box typewriter alphabet lower case set.

i hope you’ll come and play along – remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won from: Penny Black, Crafts U Love, All Occasion Dies and Stix 2.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
Great Impressions – Celebrate Spring
Top Tip Tuesday – Animals; my second submission
One Crazy Stamper  Anything goes
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Tiny Mouse Celebrates

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This adorable little mouse was so much fun to colour; he’s one of the images in a clear stamp set from the Cuddly Buddly Crafts Spring Collection called Tiny Mouse Celebrates.

Tiny Mouse Celebrates

I watercoloured with twinkling H2Os and watercolour paints and used some Buddly Crafts digi papers called Soft Spring, matted with kraft.

I’m playing along with Mynn’s Birthday Bash Giveaway  that she’s holding for the month of May.

I’d also like to submit this to:
Top Tip Tuesday Animals 
Pile It On #68 – Cute Animal
Graph It Colouring –  week 19 square

Visit the Cuddly Buddly Crafts Facebook page and blog for some very creative projects and updates about new products.

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Watercoloured Sentiments Part 3

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this is my third submission to the Lawnscaping Challenge theme of watercolours.

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i spritzed the leftover twinkling H2Os that i used on the first and second card and pressed the watercolour paper on to the fine droplets; then i dragged a yellow ink pad across the paper, spritzed it and stamped different sentiments from the lawn fawn ‘so much to say‘ clear stamp set. i coloured the hat with a watercolour pencil.

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Watercoloured Sentiments Part 2

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this is my second submission to the Lawnscaping Challenge theme of watercolours.

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i used the same twinkling H2Os as the first card; i spritzed them and then pressed the watercolour paper on to the large droplets until it was covered. while it was still wet, i pressed it with a damp paper towel, which gives it the illusion of texture. i used different sentiments from the lawn fawn ‘so much to say‘ clear stamp set.

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Splattered Sentiments

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i’m playing along with the Lawnscaping Challenge theme of watercolours. although i have a collection of watercolour media, i usually use my twinkling H2Os to watercolour images because that’s my favourite thing to do.

lawn fawn sentiments

but today, i created something different – a quick and easy card. i used a red and yellow twinkling H2O, combing them to make an orange, and painted washes over the stamped sentiments from the lawn fawn clear stamp set ‘so much to say.’ i splattered the same colours both when my paper was wet and dry to get different splats/splatters. thanks for popping by.

Rose Garden

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I created this card with one of the images in a clear stamp set from the Cuddly Buddly Crafts Spring Collection called Rose Garden that I watercoloured with twinkling H2Os and Winsor & Newton watercolour paints.

Rose Garden

Here are the links to all the supplies I used on this card. I love the stamping linen paper; i sponged around the edges with green distress inks and then lightly sanded to reveal the texture.

Cuddly Buddly Clear Stamps – Rose Garden
Eline’s House Digital Papers – In the Meadow 2
Eline’s House Digital Papers – In the Meadow 1
Marianne Design Creatables Dies – Anja’s Vintage Swirls LR0271
Leane Creatief Cutting Dies – Small Flowers & Leaves 450331
Joy! Crafts Stamping Linen – A5

Visit the Cuddly Buddly Crafts Facebook page and blog for some very creative projects and updates about new products.

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PEACE

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the current jingle belles’ prompt is a sketch by stephanie; i had so many ideas of ways to use it, but i only had time for this one for now. one idea was to make a one layer card, but i had to trim off a flaw so i ended up matting it to make an A2 card. IO.PEACE i painted twinkling H2O watercolour washes, embossed with a leane creatief embossing folder that i love and sanded it to reveal the w/c paper. i added the impression obsession peace sentiment die cut from black mirri paper that i found easier to attach using my xyron sticker machine than a glue pen. the tiny dots are also cut with the mirri. one more christmas card for my stash.

i’d like to also submit it to these challenges:
crafty cardmakers & more – make your own background
merry monday #157 embossing
use your stuff #182 embossing
v’s sweet ideas – #34 emboss it! thanks to karen for letting me know about the challenge.

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Baby Hedgie – Penny Black And More

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it’s the first sunday of the month and the penny black and more challenge theme for may is punches and dies!

i watercoloured this baby hedgie image from the penny black bundle of joy clear set with twinkling H2Os and winsor & newton watercolour paints. the onesie is a memory box die that i cut apart to pop on foam tape; i made the buttons with a circle die.

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to play along, remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous sponsors offering stamps/dies/gift certificates as prizes. i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some inspirational creations by my talented teamies.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
the ABC challenge – i is for inspire us, show us your style: my style is to showcase watercoloured images with pretty papers and minimal embellishments
my time to craft – new baby
Kraftin’ Kimmie Stamps! challenge 278 a baby shower
little red wagon – Challenge # 287 – “B”elieve It! i used baby hedgie

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Twinkling Bokeh

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it’s the first of the month and time for a new theme at the house of cards challenge – we’d like you to use the bokeh effect on your creations. if you haven’t already tried it, you can make interesting backgrounds imitating this photography technique.

HOC bokeh

i created my bokeh with twinkling H2Os and sponge daubers on 140 lb. cold press watercolour paper and simply attached the balloons and die cut sentiment.

mynn has provided a written tutorial on the blog today and movies, tips, and more from other DT gals later this month! i hope you’ll try this fun technique and play along! different DT creations are featured every monday so be sure and check them out for more inspiration.

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Christmas Shopping

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i made this card for my daughter and even though she’ll get a sneak peek of it here, she’ll have to wait to see what kind of gift card goes with it. this was such a fun image to colour – i watercoloured with twinkling H2Os and winsor & newton watercolour paints.

christmas shopping

christmas shopping inside

all the marianne design items used on this card were purchased from cuddly buddly crafts – check out the new website: christmas shopping image, poinsettia, leaves, merry christmas, just for you, classic christmas papers.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
marianne design divas – use a stamp or decoupage sheet from Marianne Design
Marianne’s Design Kreadiva’s Challenge – everything goes with marianne design
rudolph days challenge at scrappymo’s – create a christmas card on the 25th of every month
challenge up your life – watercolour
papertake weekly – cute as a button

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Case-ing A CAS Card

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one of my house of cards challenge teamies, monika, is celebrating her birthday throughout april by asking participants to case one of her cards displayed in her post and join her LINKY PARTY for a chance to win the prize of a 25$ gift voucher to a store you like.

of course i had to case this cute bunny card:

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impression obsession bunny thanks

i used impression obsession dies for the bunny, flowers and sentiment, created the background with distress inks, painted the flowers with twinkling H2Os and added yellow stickles to the centres.

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Birthday Cupcake

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i’m back to share a card i made mid-way through the month to remind you that you still have plenty of time to join us at the penny black and more challenge blog for our birthday theme this month that is open until april 29.

penny black cupcake mice

for my DT card,  i used twinkling H2Os to colour this cute penny black image from the clear stamp set, critter party, and stamped the sentiment from the salutations set.

remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some fabulous creations by my teamies.

thanks for popping by.

Fa-la-la-la-la at Jingle Belles

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i had every intention of avoiding a last minute creation for the jingle belles prompt, but time and energy have not been abundant enough; better late than never should be my motto.

bells

the current jingle belles prompt is to create cards that:

  • incorporate music
  • are inspired by a holiday song or
  • include a holiday song title

i started off with silver bells (the song was stuck in my head) but that looked kind of blah so i pieced the memory box bells together using different colours of mirri paper. i attached the vellum music piece to some light blue card stock and then to the mirri.

because of the reflective nature of the mirri, my camera kept appearing and of course then my battery had to be recharged so this is from my cell phone, taken on an angle so you won’t see it or me in there. this card looks much better in real life and now i have my dad’s christmas card done.

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Birthday Hedgies

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it’s the first sunday of the month and the penny black and more challenge theme for april is birthdays!

for my DT card, i water coloured this penny black cling stamp, cake dance Product #40-060, with twinkling H2Os and winsor & newton watercolour paints; the balloon was painted and cut using a die that was a gift, thank you daniela!

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to play along, remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some inspirational creations by my teamies.

thanks for popping by.

Spring Bunnies

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this is another card I designed for Cuddly Buddly using one of the stamps from the new spring release; this adorable image is another in the Country Church set.

Cuddly Buddly Country Church Bunnies.Linda

i used twinkling H2Os and Winsor & Newton watercolour paints to paint the sky, grass and bunnies. the flowers were die cut with marianne design flower set; i lightly sanded off the edges of the paper and attached them to a marianne design branch forest. the papers are brand new studio light #11 and also available at the cuddly buddly shop.

i never knew, until my daughter rescued two bunnies, just how intelligent, animated and sweet they are; but they do require maintenance and time, a consideration that is, sadly, often not part of a decision to obtain a bunny, especially at easter. chocolate bunnies are preferred, and welcome, yum, unless there is a strong commitment to follow through with a long range plan to raise a pet one. make mine chocolate!

check out the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature a range of products available at Cuddly Buddly shop and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more news.

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Take Time

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wow, it’s april 1st already so it’s time for a new theme at the house of cards challenge; this month we’d like you to add a butterfly and/or use the colours in this inspiration photo:

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for my DT card, i used different colours and i added a die cut butterfly. the smaller butterflies were already there but they were an ivory colour so i coloured them with colour pencils to match mine. visit the blog to see what my talented teamies have created and then i hope you’ll play along!

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Country Church

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This is another card i designed for Cuddly Buddly using one of the new stamp sets from the spring release called Country Church.

Cuddly Buddly Country Church Linda

i stamped directly onto a 6 x 6 sheet from the Studio Light Paper Pad #11 and just coloured with colour pencils.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:

30 Day Colouring Challenge – the daily marker/kathy racoosin
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check out the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature more Cuddly Buddly stamps and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more news.

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Christmas Ornaments

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the current jingle belles prompt, which i’m playing along with at the last minute once again, is embossing – dry and/or heat. this was one of the fastest cards i’ve ever made – i dry embossed and added a gold peel off sticker that looks copper in the photo.

dry embossed ornaments

i’m also playing along with rudolph day, hosted by scrappymo, since i missed last month; there just aren’t enough hours in the day. thanks for popping by.

Spring Flowers

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spring seems to be taking so long to arrive this year. in the meantime, i can create with spring flowers; this is another card i made for our march penny black and more challenge theme of blossoms and bows.

i used another image from the penny black clear stamp set chick to chick; they’re adorable and perfect for spring and easter.

penny black flowers

i water coloured with twinkling H2Os and winsor & newton watercolour paints.

remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some fabulous creations by my teamies.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
penny black saturday – spring blooms
Card Mania # 66 Spring
Natalie and Amy’s Challenge #30 Flowers
One Crazy Stamper Anything goes
Addicted To Stamps and More anything goes
30 Day Colouring Challenge – The Daily Marker/Kathy Racoosin (day 15 and my third entry)

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Happy Spring!

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it’s almost here and i can’t wait to see spring flowers in bloom so i really enjoyed designing this card for Cuddly Buddly using another adorable image from the clear stamps spring release – Toby Tumble’s Easter Day.

Cuddly Buddly Easter2.Linda

i water coloured with twinkling H2Os and Winsor & Newton watercolour paints and the pretty blue papers are Cuddly Buddly digi papers – Cottage Collection – Sapphire by Kim MacFarlane.

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:

Graph’It Colour Challenge – Spring Colours
Card Mania # 66 Spring
One Crazy Stamper Anything goes
Little Red Wagon – #280 Cute, Cute, Cute
Really Reasonable Ribbon – #113 – Flowers and Ribbon Theme
30 Day Colouring Challenge – The Daily Marker/Kathy Racoosin (day 11 and my second entry)

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check out the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature more Cuddly Buddly stamps and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more news.

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Happy Easter

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I designed this card for Cuddly Buddly using an adorable image and sentiment from the clear stamps spring release – Toby Tumble’s Easter Day.

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this was so much fun to colour; i water coloured the image and die cut flower with twinkling H2Os and Winsor & Newton watercolour paints and the pretty purple papers are Cuddly Buddly digi papers.

Kim’s Digi Papers – A Portfolio of Papers – Berry 
Leane Creatief Cutting Dies – Small Flowers & Leaves
Studio Light Paper Pad – 6×6 #14 (green mat)

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
ABC Challenge ‘E is for Exceptionally Cute’
Animal Friends Challenge # 23 Easter (Image must have animal)
Card Mania # 66 Spring
One Crazy Stamper Anything goes
Little Red Wagon – #280 Cute,Cute,Cute
Stempelgarten Challenge – Spring
30 Day Colouring Challenge – the daily marker/kathy racoosin
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check out the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature more Cuddly Buddly stamps and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more news.

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A Very Vibrant Christmas Card

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the jingle belles have a beautiful inspiration photo for their very vibrant prompt. i was inspired by the green, purple and blue and the geometric shapes, which somehow ended up as stripes on my card; i usually start off in one direction and go somewhere completely different.

memory box merry christmas

in this case, i like the traditional typeface with the non traditional colours and i have one more christmas card for my stash. thanks for popping by.

Sending Hugs

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i’m playing along with the lawnscaping challenge and the dots and stripes theme.

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i created a clean and simple card using the bunnies and heart stamps/dies from the lawn fawn snow day set and the sentiment from the so much to say set. the heart is popped on a foam square and i added a tiny gem to the sentiment. thanks for popping by.

Easter Treats

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i’ve been having fun playing with new clear stamps from the Cuddly Buddly spring release and created these with the sentiment and egg images from the Little Poppets Springtime set.

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everything was water coloured with twinkling H2Os and the topper is a cute Joy! Crafts Cutting Die – Mery’s Sweet Bag Toppers.

i’d like to submit this to these challenges:
Card Mania # 66 Spring
craft your passion – anything goes
Crafting By Designs – March Anything Goes
Inspiration Destination – Always Anything Goes

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Sweet Chicks

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it’s time for a new challenge theme at the house of cards and this month we’d like to see some creations with enamel dots, a fun product i’ve not used before.

EnamelDots

for my DT card, i water coloured one of the chick images from the penny black chick to chick clear set with twinkling H2Os and added turquoise and yellow dots; the banners were included in the paper pad – my mind’s eye ‘the sweetest thing.’

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check out the blog for a video on how to make your own enamel dots and for links to all the design team members for some very inspiring projects.

i hope you’ll join us at the house!

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A Spring Chick

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it’s not quite spring, (almost!) but it is the first sunday of march so time for a new challenge theme at penny black and more and it’s blossoms and bows!

for my DT card, i used one of the chicks from the penny black clear stamp set chick to chick.

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as usual, i water coloured with twinkling H2Os, rounded the image panel corners and popped it on foam tape.

remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some fabulous creations by my teamies.

thanks for popping by.

A Cute Couple

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i designed this card for Cuddly Buddly using an image in the new Love Is In The Air clear stamp set from the spring release; aren’t they adorable?

Cuddly Buddly Love is in The Air

i watercoloured with twinkling H2Os and Sennelier watercolour paints, added tiny pink gems to the frame and flower and used the following, available online at the Cuddly Buddly shop:

-circle frame and flower dies: Marianne Design Craftables Dies – Circle & Flower Stitch CR1248 by Marianne Design
-digi paper: Kim’s Digi Papers – Cottage Collection – Rose by Kim MacFarlane
-embellishments: Marianne Design Romantic Hearts – Pearls CA3109 by Marianne Design

check out the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature some more Cuddly Buddly stamps and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more news.

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Lawnscaping’s 100th Challenge

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the lawnscaping challenge is having a 100th birthday celebration with extra inspiration on the blog. i didn’t think i’d have time to join in, but i created a CAS and quick and easy card.

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i heat embossed the multi-coloured sentiment from the ‘so much to say’ stamp set and used coloured pencils to colour the randomly stamped star from the same set. i added fine glitter, matted it onto a black card base and i have another birthday card for my stash.

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Penny Black And More – Mid February 2015

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i made this card to remind you that you still have plenty of time to play along with us at the penny black and more challenge where the theme for february is anything goes, but no digis.

penny black special wishes

for my DT card, i stamped a sentiment from the penny black ‘special wishes‘  clear stamp set with archival brilliance peacock ink on white glossy paper, layered it on blue shimmer card stock onto a pre made green card. the tiny butterfly is a peel off and so are the tiny dots but i coloured them to match with a permanent marker.

check out the blog for some beautiful creations by my teamies. remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image. as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along.

thanks for popping by.

Jingle Bell

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i’ve not been well, the usual RA symptoms, but i really needed to create something. the jingle belles’ current prompt is to make shaped christmas cards, so i drew a bell and decorated it with designer paper, holly and a poinsettia, all edged with gold ink and finished off with a bow. the fold is at the top, but i really like lauren’s idea of ‘post card’ style cards and might do that next time. jinglebell thanks for popping by.

Love Is In The Air

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it’s the first of the month and time for a new theme at the house of cards: it’s a Word Cue Challenge and the word for february is LOVE.

LOVE

for my DT card, i created this valentine card for my husband. i used this adorable bear couple from the Cuddly Buddly Clear Stamp set – Love is in the Air CBS0017, water coloured with twinkling H2Os; i stamped and cut the heart sentiment from the Cuddly Buddly set – Little Poppets in Love CBS0016 four times to give it some dimension.

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i used used Kim’s Digi Papers – Pretty Mix – Pink by Kim MacFarlane and finished it off with an impression obsession die heart border.

i hope you’ll come and play along!

i’d like to submit this card to these challenges:
cute card thursday – Challenge 358 – Stamping Mad!
fairy tale – #110, Etwas mit einem Herz / Something with a heart
sweet stampin’ – LOVE
really reasonable ribbon – hearts and ribbon

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Penny Black And More – February 2015

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it’s the first sunday of the month and the penny black and more challenge theme for february is any easy one – anything goes!

for my DT card, i stepped outside my comfort zone of coloured images and used sentiments from two penny black clear stamp sets: just a note…from tiny wishes (30-026) and it’s your special day from sweet wishes (30-104).

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the notebook edge was cut with MFT die-namics and i added some pink gems.

remember, you can use any company’s stamp for your focal point, just no digis please; a future guest designer will be selected from those who use a PB image and as always, there are some fabulous prizes to be won so i hope you’ll come and play along. visit the blog for some fabulous creations by my teamies.

thanks for popping by.

Christmas Pressies

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a warm welcome to a new follower; thank you for taking an interest in my creations.

the jingle belles would like to see new supplies so i’m sharing a card that i created with two new items i treated myself to: a hero arts background stamp that i heat embossed with white embossing powder and coloured with twinkling H2Os and the merry christmas sentiment die that i just had to have after admiring one of my teamie lynn’s cards; i die cut the sentiment three times to give it dimension.

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i’m also playing along with rudolph day – scrappymo is now continuing this monthly challenge started by sarn and sponsoring it at her blog, scraps of life by scrappy mo on the 25th of every month, but you have until the end of each month to join in.

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Cuddly Buddly Spring Collection

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i designed this card for Cuddly Buddly using a set from the new release of spring clear stamps that has something for everyone, from cute to floral.

i initially stamped the Rose Collage in green chalk ink and then heat embossed with white embossing powder four times to layer it, water coloured with twinkling H2Os and used the same twinks to create my background and die the ribbon. we used to have hybrid tea roses this colour before i had to give up gardening due to my RA, so i love colouring florals as much as i love colouring cute images.
CB Rose Collage Linda
i’d like to submit this to these challenges:
craft-dee bow: Anything Goes and include a HANDMADE BOW

visit the Cuddly Buddly blog for some very creative projects that feature some more Cuddly Buddly stamps and visit the Cuddly Buddly facebook page for more projects and news.

thanks for popping by.