Crafty Calendar June Challenge - Big Birthday Wishes Card

Good morning I hope you are keeping safe and well.  I can't believe we are nearly halfway through the year already.  Finally summer has arrived and I'm enjoying some nice weather for a change.

As it is the first Saturday in the month we have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is 'Add A Sentiment'

For my card I have used:

Concord & 9th Artisan Petals Turnabout Stamp stamped using Versafine Clair inks in Hawthorn Rose, Avocado, Arctic and Medieval Blue.

The sentiment was cut from black card and layered with black foam using the Time for Tea Designs Big Birthday Wishes Large Sentiment Die.

Pop over to Crafty Calendar and check out all of the gorgeous DT cards and to join us in this months 'Add a Sentiment' challenge.

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Crafty Calendar May Challenge - Spellbinders Birthday Dinosaur Birthday Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  We have a new challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this month is for a child.

My card is for Martyn's niece Grace that who is turning 4 this year.

For my card I have used:

Spellbinders Birthday Dinosaur Die Set from the Monster Birthday Collection

Spellbinders Birthday Balloons Die Set

Spellbinders Make a Wish Arch Labels Etched Dies

Pink polka dot DP is from my stash

We are offering these two stamp sets to the lucky winner of this months challenge.

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Spellbinders Floral Bunny Basket Easter Card

Good Morning, I hope you are safe and well.

Just a quick post today to share another Easter Card.

For this card I have used:

Background: Created using Distress inks and the Lawn Fawn Plaid Stencil

The dies are from the Spellbinders Floral Bunny Basket Die Set.

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Time for Tea Easter Wishes Card

Good Morning, I hope you are safe and well.

Just a quick post today to share an Easter Card that I made for my niece  I managed to get it delivered to her before she headed off on a trip to Norway with the Guides.

For this card I have used:

Background: Time for Tea Designs Eggstra Special Layering Stencil - base layer coloured using Simon Hurley Create Piggyback ink and second layer using Simon Hurley Cross my Heart Solar Paste.

Sentiment is created using Time For Tea Designs Easter Wishes Large Sentiment Die.

The images are from the Cottontail Cuties stamp set by Neat and Tangled coloured with copics.

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Crafty Calendar April Challenge - Spellbinders Foiled Mothers Day Card

Good morning, I hope you are keeping well.

We have a new monthly challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme is "Feminine".

I had a request to make a Mothers Day card so I thought that would fit the challenge and I went a bit over the top with foil.

For my card I have used:

• Monoline Stars Glimmer plate foiled onto pink card with rose gold foil.
• The flowers were created by foiling the March 2025 Betterpress society plate and pastel peach satin foil then cut with the coordinating die. 
• I foiled the peach satin foil waste onto rose gold metallic card to create the arch background.

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Crafty Calendar March Challenge More Than One Fold Card

Good morning, I hope you are well.

It's the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over at Crafty Calendar and the theme this week is "More than one fold"

I was inspired by one of my favourite Disney films for this card.

For my card I have used:

The balloons are from the Time for Tea Designs Love Is In The Air Clear Stamp Set coloured with copics.

The house is a digi image from etsy.

The card layout is from Lori Whitlock and is the called the French Door Easel Card

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Crafty Calendar February Challenge - MFT Monster Love Valentine Card

Good afternoon, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  A little late posting today as I was working this morning and then out at the theatre this afternoon.   A few of us go every year to see the annual Agatha Christie production.  This years play was Murder on the Orient Express, I must admit I was curious how they would adapt it to the stage but it was fab.

As it is the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over

at Crafty Calendar and the theme is "HEARTS" and I went for a lot of hearts...

For  my card I have used:

• The monsters are from the Monster Love stamp set by MFT (My Favorite Things) stamped in Bee Sting and Love Struck Simon Hurley inks.
• The background was created using the Simon Hurley stencil Happy Hearts and the same Bee Sting and Love Struck inks.  You can't really tell in the photo but the Bee Sting hearts have a bit of sparkle from the addition of some Astro Paste.
• The black heart was embossed using the Sizzix embossing folder Confetti Hearts.

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Crafty Calendar January Add a Die Cut Challenge - Delightful Butterflies Birthday Card

Good morning and a happy new year,  I don't really make resolutions but I normally state that I will get through the various craft kits that I have received over the years and never got round to doing so we will see how that goes.  It's the first Saturday in January 2025 so we have a new monthly challenge for you over at Crafty Calendar and the theme for this month is

Add a Die Cut.

For my card I have used:

Crafters Companion Photopolymer Stamp - Delightful Butterflies stamped with Versamark and heat embossed with white embossing powder.

After I heat embossed I sprinkled some color burst powders over the top of the butterflies and then sprayed the image with water so that the powders react and give little explosions of colour over the background.

The sentiment was die cut using the Lawn Fawn Scripty Happy Lawn Cut die.

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and join us in this months challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT creations.

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Sizzix Santa Greetings and Stampers Anonymous Mr Frostie Christmas Tree Decorations

Good morning, I hope you are keeping safe and well.  Today I have woken up to a blanket of snow, luckily I work from home so I can look out of the window and think how nice it looks and not have to worry about travelling to work in it.

When I went to the Frankfurt Market in Birmingham I saw a Christmas tree ornament on one of the stalls and that inspired me to make these.

I have made two Christmas tree ornaments which are snowy windows and each of them have a character looking through.

• The window frame was cut using the Spellbinders Vista View Window die set.
• I cut two out of brown card for the front and the back and a further six in black to layer in between and give dimension and structure (I removed the inner window pane pieces from the black card so that it was just the outer frame).
• I cut two window shapes in acetate and I used the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Layering Stencil Speckles (THS021) with Distress Snowfall paste to create a snowy window pane.

For this Christmas tree ornament I have used the Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Cling Mount Stamp: Mr Frostie (CMS499) coloured with copics and then fussy cut.

He was then layered in between the the window frames and snowy acetate

And for this Christmas Tree Decoration I have used Sizzix Santa Greetings Die Set by Tim Holtz layered in between the window frames.

The little sentiments on each of then are from the Lili of the Valley 60 Everything Christmas - Sentiment Labels which I printed using a laser printer and then foiled in gold

I then just added couple of gold pearls to each sentiment, a bow and some gold string.

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Crafty Calendar November Challenge - Lawn Fawn "Here We Go A-Waddling" Christmas Card

Good morning, I hope you are safe and well.  It is only 54 days until Christmas so my festive card making is now in progress.

It is the first Saturday in the month so we have a new challenge over at Craft Calendar.

The theme this month is Anything Goes.

I have made a Christmas card for this months challenge and I have used:

• Lawn Fawn "Here We Go A-Waddling" stamp set coloured with copics.
• For the background I stamped the lamp post from the stamp set using black versafine, masked the bottom section of the card to create a snow covered ground and the sky was ink blended with Stormy Sky and Black Soot distress inks (A little lamp light was created with Mustard Seed distress ink).

We are sponsored for this challenge by:

Lawn Fawn

Please pop over to Crafty Calendar and share your projects in this months Anything Goes challenge and also check out the gorgeous DT cards.

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I'll see you soon x