Just tagging along

Yesterday I made a tag to join in with this month's Tag Along and ATC Challenge, a fun way to spend a wet afternoon! The tag base is an A&C die, cut from white cardstock inked an stencilled in shades of green, I used 2 Lavinia stencils for this. I cut an arched aperture from the centre and stamped and embossed the garden sentiment on the black base tag.  The silhouette stamps were a magazine 'freebie' many moons ago, I added a die cut leafy sprig and another embossed sentiment.

The insert is ATC size, not sure if counts as an ATC because I added the little tab to the side. I stencilled the clouds, stamped the birds and sentiment and added another die cut sprig and a doodled border.

 Have had a lovely day today, celebrating my youngest granddaughter's 6th birthday. It seems like yesterday she was a tiny baby, they do grow up too fast!

Thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Challenge entries

tag-alongandatc

ellibelle's garden party #5

cardsgalore July Challenge

Dream Factory #141

letscreate #221

tripleb July Challenge

acutabove July Challenge

welove2create. #7

Did someone say cake?

Good morning, is it just me or is this summer just flying by! Late July already and the children breaking up for the summer, I do hope we have some good weather over the next month or so, it must have been horrible for them to be shut inside a hot classroom - or exam room- when the sun is shining outside. I think it's much easier for parents to keep them entertained when the weather is good too- and a lot less expensive to be able to go the park or beach for picnic than it is to try to keep them occupied when it's raining all the time.

Ok, enough waffling and on to the card- my DT make for this fortnight's challenge at 

Sweet Stampin',

 the theme is Anything but a square.

I think this fold is called a bandstand?, quite simple to do and it folds nice and flat to post. The cute image is from Beccy's Place and I've coloured using my markers. Papers are from Polkadoodles. I've stamped and white embossed the Happy Birthday sentiment.

back of card

Thanks for stopping by today- don't forget to check out the main  challenge blog, there are some fabulous cards from my lovely teamies! 

Chris

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Challenge entries:

creative creases #105

Double D a card for kids

pearlysparkles #109

thesisterhoodofcrafters stripes/dots

seizethebirthday #309

A quick reminder

 Good morning, a quick post today with a reminder of our July Challenge at Stamping Sensations. The theme for this month is Anything Goes with an option of Summer Blooms. I found this floral stamp in my stash- years old, it's part of a set of clear stamps, lost its packaging years ago, so I don't know the brand. A quick and simple card, the background is Distress Oxide ink in shades of pink , yellow and orange through a postage style  stencil. The sentiment is from another very old stamp set, I think Woodware, but guess what- no packaging!

Please hop over to the main challenge blog for some lovely inspiration from the rest of the team, full details of how to join in and the lovely prizes on offer.

Thanks for visiting, have a great weekend- whatever the weather (thunderstorms forecast here but we really do need some rain!)

Chris

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Challenge entries:

ellibelle's garden party #5

paperfunday #78

stencilfun July (atg)

TIOT Summer blooms

beautifulblossoms #31

Triple B July Challenge

Fairy Cari

 Hello, a non-DT card today, few and far between lately! It's been too lovely outside to be indoors ....and then of course there was Wimbledon....not a lot of time to craft! 

I recently saw that a new Challenge blog had started up- new ones are few and far between these days so I  wanted to join in and show some support. The Challenge is CRAFTS FROM THE FAIRY DEN, pop over and take a look!

I made a card, using the optional sketch and one of my favourite Mo Manning fairies, which I've coloured with my markers, light stencilling in the background, white looked too stark!  Papers are from The Works and I've added a couple of die cut leaves.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenges:

craftsfromthefairyden

digichoosday #7

aperfecttimetocraft July Challenge

conjurerofdreams July Challenge

morgansartworld #90

sparklesforum #189

Monster birthday

Good morning, it's time for a new challenge at Crafty Catz.

This fortnight we are sponsored by Last Minute Manda

The theme is Anything Goes with the option of Child's Birthday

I made a birthday card for a little boy using sponsor  images from a set called Monster Birthday Train.

For the front of the card I cropped the engine image to use just the monster balanced on the top, coloured it with my markers and added the die cut 'hello' and stamped sentiment. It looked a bit too bare so I added a doodled border. 

Inside  there's a pop up train, all coloured with markers and cut out to stand on the hand drawn track. Stencilled clouds and a peeping sun in the background. I had a lot of fun making this!

There's plenty more inspiration to enjoy over at Crafty Catz Challenge Blog.

Thanks for visiting

Have a great weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

creativeinspiration #28

MAWTT #180

Ellibelles Crafty Wednesday

ilovepromarkers #587

crafterscafe #320

mirtillamente #45

allsorts #827

 

Summer blooms

 Good morning, haven't we had a great summer so far, so many days of lovely sunshine. Ok I didn't enjoy the extreme temperatures (extreme for the UK that is!) at the beginning of the week but it's been a lot cooler since then but still lots of sun. Not enough rain to keep the grass green but plenty of flowers in the garden to enjoy, which brings me on to the theme this month over at Stamping Sensations- Summer Blooms, chosen by Avril, or of course you can always use the Anything Goes option. There are 2 lovely prizes of  Aall &Create stamps/stencil to be won. 

I decided to go for hot colours to match the weather, so stamped and white embossed my image (a Woodware stamp) onto white cardstock blended several colours of Distress Oxides over it  then added a little stencilling using A & C stencil #-249- Circular Disruption (my new favourite!) I added a die cut frame and stamped sentiment. 

For full details of how to enter, the lovely prizes on offer and fabulous inspiration from the rest of the team please hop over to Stamping Sensations.

Thanks for visiting, have a good week.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

cardz4galz #253

ellibelle's garden party #4

creativeinspiration #28

lilredwagon #814

beautifulblossoms #30

creativecrafters #89

addictedtostamps #496

...and another Christmas card!

 Good morning,  it's time for a new challenge at Fab 'n' Funky. 

Our lovely host for this fortnight is Pat, her chosen theme is 

CHRISTMAS IN JULY.

It was so hot I went with a frosty look!

A gelli plate background in cool blues, I die cut the word 'snow' using my old Cricut machine and used the negative and an embossing pen to stencil the word 3 times onto the panel, then heat embossed using white EP. I stamped and embossed the snowflakes around the edge and stamped the 'Chill out' sentiment a few times. Two die cut snowflakes and a cute A & C snowman added to finish.

This will be our last challenge before we break for the summer so I do hope you'll find the time to join in.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

CCAYR Blue Christmas

lostcoast #199

MLCCB #63

12monthsofchristmas #124

girlzcreativechristmas #131

peaceonearthchristmas #90

thepapershelter #645