Chevrons or stripes at Sweet Stampin'

 Good morning, this is my DT card for this fortnight's challenge at Sweet Stampin', the theme is 

CHEVRONS OR STRIPES

I made this for a very special friend's birthday, he'll be 92 in September, although you would never believe it if you saw him, he really does wear his years very well.

He is a hero, one of the last surviving veterans of the Korean War, his regiment was the Royal Engineers, my card design is a nod to his passions- his patriotism and regimental colours...and motorcycles! The panel with the chevrons was created with a stencil, the motorcycle is stamped and embossed with white EP (sorry have misplaced the stamp, will add the make when it surfaces!) and the sentiment stamped and embossed in gold. 

There's more inspiration from my lovely teamies over at Sweet Stampin' so do pop over for a visit!

Thanks for looking, have a good weekend

Chris

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GD at Kleuren met Potloden

Good morning, I was invited to be a Guest Designer for the July Challenge at Colouring with Pencils, and was given a sweet sponsor image to play with, Mabel with balloons.  She could be used for lots of occasions but I decided on a Christmas card as haven't made many yet this year. I printed the image onto muti media paper and coloured using my Polychromo pencils, adding a touch a sparkle with glitter pens. I used  aone of the lovely sketches from Sweet sketch Wednesday, matting the papers (The Works) onto silver glitter card, added small gems and a die cut snowflake to finish. 

There is still time to join in with the challenge, the theme is Anything Goes as long as you colour with pencils, please check out the challenge blog for lots of lovely inspiration. 

Thanks for visiting and happy weekend

Chris

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Challenges entered 

CRAFT #785

avenue613. July Challenge

SAS4Kids July Challenge

crafterscafe #332

dragonflydreams July Challenge

sweetsketchwednesday2.  July Challenge

sketch #331

Guest Design at TIOT

 Good morning, I was honoured to be invited to Guest Design for this fortnight's challenge at TIOT.- .

The theme for the challenge is SUMMER BLOOMS.

I stepped out of my comfort zone and used die cuts instead of stamps/digis to create my card...in fact there's no stamping at all which is rare for me. The flower dies are from Polkadoodles, they are a bit larger than I expected when I  ordered them! I cut them from white card and coloured them with distress oxides in soft shades of blue and mauve, two different stencils and same ink pad for the backgrounds. The happy birthday die, cut several times from white card and stacked together, is from Amazon (unbranded). 

There's lots of fabulous inspiration from the lovely ladies at TIOT so be sure to pay them a visit!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

acutabove July Challenge

polkadoodle. #7

beautifulblossoms #43

daisychain #109

just-add-ink. #790

I'll be watching you

 Hello, I had some time to play yesterday evening and made a tag- O/H was watching the football, not my thing, give me tennis any day, at least you don't see the kind of behaviour that the losing team exhibited after the match, totally appalling! Maybe if they can't be sportsmanlike enough to concede defeat gracefully, they shouldn't be allowed to take part. 

Anyway, enough of that and back to the tag, I die cut a tag shape from a scrap of smooshed and stencilled card (one I made earlier) and stamped the dog, a Pink Ink stamp, directly onto it. The stencilled background showed through and I didn't like the effect (a weird patchy dog!) so I used darker colours of Zig water colour pens to colour him. I stamped the sentiment using tiny little alphabet peg stamps that I've had for many years with Twilight Versaphine Clair ink, then stamped the dots and paw prints. I've used my favourite, blue/brown colour combo so I'm entering the Tag-Along ( and ATC) Challenge.

Thanks for visiting

have a good week

Chris

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Also entering these challenges-

MIUCB #84

craftyanimals #107

asyoulikeit Favourite pet- definitely a dog, because they are the best!

craftrocket #138

Summer poppies

Good morning, a reminder post for this month's challenge at We Love Stamping, the theme is Summertime or Anything Goes.

The prizes on offer are some lovely  Lavinia stamps and watercolours.

I used several Lavinia stamps and a Lavinia stencil to create my summery scene-Garden Poppy; Wild flower; Orchard Grass; Birds; Small Pixy Houses; Small Pine Trees., I used the same stencil and a couple of Lavinia fairies on the front of the card, and decorated an envelope to match

 

For full details of how to play along with the challenge along with some fabulous inspiration from the rest of the design team please click HERE.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

HQFSCAT #18

LTSCB #180

MIUCB #84

thefourseasons July Challenge

tripleb July Challenge

creativeinspiration #40

Ellibelles Garden Party #17

Petal Pixie

 Good morning, today sees the start of a new challenge at Crafty Catz- the last one before we break for the summer. As always the theme is Anything Goes and you have two weeks to join in. 

My card, a very simple design-it was  too hot to think of  anything else- features a new Mo Manning cutie, Petal Pixie Pansy. If you haven't visited Mo's new shop recently you've missed a treat- new images are coming thick and fast at the moment, all of them so tempting!

I've used my markers to colour, old papers from LOTV, a stamped sentiment and a border die, brand unknown.

Well that's it from me, there's more inspiration from the rest of the team over at Crafty Catz, so why not pop over and join in with this challenge before September.

Thanks for visiting

Have a good weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

HQFCB #53

polkadoodle #7

CRAFT #784

Ally's Angels #108

classicdesign #07

MAWTT #191

lilredwagon #867

creationsinmostlypink #94

Noel

 Good morning, today sees the start of a new challenge at Fab'n' Funky, this will be the last one before we break for the summer. 

The theme chosen by our lovely Pat, is Christmas in July.

To make my card I've merged three little angel images, available in the new shop. The background paper comes with one of them. I've used my Copics to colour and given them some die cut clouds to float on. The die cut musical notes are Memory Box and the 'noel' is part of a TH set.

There's more inspiration over at F'n'F so please do hop over and check it out- hope you can find the time to play along, you'll be needing those Christmas cards before you know it.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

addictedtostamps #521

CCAYR N for Noel

craftingfromtheart June challenge

MLCCB #69

pearlysparkles #121

girlzcreativechristmas #184

POE #115

hollyandivy #207

dreamvalley #364