Yellow Snow!

 Good morning, it's the start of a new challenge over at CRAFTY CATZ, the theme is always ANYTHING GOES.  I had a play with my Lavinia Stamps and made a Christmas card. A lot of masking and manipulating of the stamps went on... getting the layers to match up was a bit fiddly. I was happy with how it turned out though until I added the 'snow' some glittery paste stuff, meant to be white but looks yellow to me and makes me think of the Frank Zappa song! The stamps I used are a mix of old and new, the little houses and snowy pines are new, the small pines are older. I used watercolours to colour the houses. 

There's more inspiration to get you started over at Crafty Catz.

Today is also my granddaughter Emily's birthday, 12 today and growing up too fast. I won't see her until Sunday when they're all coming over for a meal and a family get together, so looking forward to that.

Thanks for visiting,

have a good weekend.

Chris

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Big Happy Birthday

 Good morning,  this is my DT card for the May Challenge at Stamping Sensations.

The theme for this month is CUTE CREATURES or Anything Goes, there are some lovely prizes from Highlight Crafts.

I made this card for a friend's upcoming BIG birthday, I very kindly haven't splashed her age all over it, although sorely tempted, as I know she can be a bit sensitive about it!

The image is by Anita Jeram (Colorado Crafts) coloured with Copic markers, I chose to use blue/green as much as possible as they're her favourites. The stamped sentiment is part of the same set.

Sadly, this challenge will be the last one, after 16 very successful years Brenda has had to make the very difficult decision to finally close its doors. It would be great to see it go out with a final flourish and a bumper crop of entries so please do take the opportunity to join in one last time. 

There's plenty of inspiration over at the Challenge Blog, full details of how to join in and the lovely prizes to be won.

Hope to see you there

Chris

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Challenge entries:

welovestamping May Challenge

addictedtocas #307

kraftychicks #818

simonsaysstamp Monday Challenge

allsorts #848

classicdesign #04

crittercrazy #110

Feeling 'all white'.

 

Good morning, it's time for our May Challenge at Crafty Calendar, the theme for this month is 

ALL WHITE.

This is way out of my comfort zone - I tried but not loving this card! I  think White on White cards can look elegant and beautiful and tend to think of weddings or Christmas so as I don't need a wedding card I went for Christmas. I used an embossing folder (came with magazine) a snowflake ribbon die from Poppy Stamps and TH sentiment dies. I distressed the edges of the focal panel and added some faux stitching with a white gel pen- it's white so it doesn't show up in the photo. Finished with a few little gems. 

The prize this month is 2  digi images of the winner's choice from LOTV

Now the rest of the team have absolutely smashed this theme so if you need some inspiration hop over to Crafty Calendar and take a look- wish I'd seen theirs before I made mine! 

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

CRAFT #779

MLCCB #68

Pretty in pink

 Good morning, it's time for a new fortnightly challenge at 

Fab'n' Funky, 

we have a colour theme for you this time-

Use PINK, BLUE, and/or YELLOW

I coloured this sweet Conie Fong image using my trusty Copics. This little girl reminds me of my eldest granddaughter when she was small and the dress looks very similar to one I made for her... it was even pink... not a colour I would usually choose but it did really suit her colouring. No way would she wear a hat though and the basket of flowers probably wouldn't have survived for very long!!! I framed it using a piece of DP with an aperture torn out and distressed, and doodled around the edges.

There's some lovely inspiration from the rest of the Team so do head on over to Fab'n' Funky to check it out. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with for this challenge.

Thanks for visiting 

Chris

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Challenge entries:

cdsunday+ #182

creativefingers #321

CRAFT #778

craftygalscorner #276

addictedtostamps #516

So many books....

 A new challenge starts today at Crafty Catz.

As always the theme is ANYTHING GOES.

I've had this image for quite a while, one of Mo Manning's Patreon digis. It makes me smile because it really could be me...the crazy hair - very similar to the style I sport when I get involved in a gripping story I tend to push it back resulting in a sort of tangled bird's nest. The dilated eyes and spaced out look are familiar too....

I've used my copics to colour the image, the book dp are long ago magazine gifts, and the sentiment stamp is Mama Elephant. 

I used this sketch from Sweet Sketch Wednesday

There's more inspiration from the rest of the ladies over at Crafty Catz, hope you can join us this fortnight.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

craftrocket #135

digichoosday #4

sisterhoodofcrafters make someone smile

sweetsketchwednesday April Challenge

craftingfromtheart April Challenge

neglectedstuff April Challenge The book dp and the brads.

Hug a tree

 Good morning, a quick reminder of our April Challenge at Stamping Sensations,

 the theme is The Beauty of Nature or Anything Goes.

 For me one of natures most beautiful creations are trees, spring buds and blossom, summer in full leaf -casting welcome shade, splendid autumn colours and the stark skeletons of winter. One of the most beautiful sights is to see a magnificent tree silhouetted against the skyline at sunset which is the inspiration for my card. 

The  tree stamp and sentiment are, from a set by Crafty Individuals which I've had for many years, stencil from Lavinia and Distress Oxide Inks.

For more inspiration and full details of how to enter and the lovely prize you could win please hop over to the challenge blog.

Thanks for visiting and have a good weekend.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

CRAFT #778

kraftychicks #816

addictedtostamps #515

daisychain #106

farmquestgeneralstore #39

CAS at Fab'n' Funky

 Good morning, it's time for another challenge at Fab 'n' Funky, our lovely Pat is hosting this fortnight, she's chosen one of my favourite themes, CLEAN AND SIMPLE.

It's the middle of April so the obvious choice was to make a Christmas card!

I used some Lavinia stamps and stamped onto a die cut panel of Kraft card using dark brown and red Versafine Clair ink, added the white highlights with a Polychromo pencil then stamped the sentiment, matted the panel onto white card then onto a kraft cardbase...and that's it, CAS and quick to make.

There's more inspiration over at Fab'n' Funky so please check out my teamie's lovely cards and I hope you'll be tempted to join us with a fabulous creation of your own. 

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

FQCCCB #31

daisychain #106

MLCCB #67

dragonflydreams April Challenge

POE #109

allsorts #847

SCAS April 2026

hollyandivy #202