Bee Happy

 Good morning, hope you enjoyed a pleasant weekend, weather here was lovely, plenty of sunshine but felt so much cooler and fresher now that the temperatures have dropped a bit.

Today's card is a reminder for our August Challenge at Stamping Sensations, the theme is

 Birds, Bees and Butterflies- or Anything Goes. There are lovely prizes of  Lavinia Stamps to be won.

I started with some die cut hexagon shapes and frames, inked and stencilled the backgrounds and stamped my pretty Lavinia bumblebees. 

The background was made by smooshing yellow, orange and brown distress inks onto my cardstock and letting them run down a bit. I added some stencilling and stamping using an A&C stencil and a mesh stencil, and a variety of stamps including the tiny Lavinia bees.

There's still plenty of time to join in this month, please hop over to the challenge blog for some lovely inspiration from the rest of the DT and full full details of how to enter- and the lovely prizes.

Thanks for visiting

have a good week.

Chris

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Challenge entries:

welove2create. #8

allsorts #830 B for Bees

creativeinspiration #29

Ellibelle Garden Party #6

hereisaplacetostart. August challenge

tripleb. August Challenge

thefourseasons August Challenge

Hey there, Mousie!

 Good morning, there's a new challenge starting today at Sweet Stampin' - the theme is ANIMALS.

I made a one layer CAS card using a lovely Uniko stencil. The inks are Elements (Lavinia) in Sahara and Olive shades. The mouse is A&C (so cute!) Border is also Uniko and I think the sentiment is Paper Smooches (packaging disappeared many moons ago!)

There's plenty to see over at Sweet Stampin', as always my Teamies have produced some fabulous cards to inspire you, so please do pop over and take a look.

Time for a proud Grandma moment- my beautiful Liv did brilliantly with her A levels and is off to her chosen Uni to study Psychology when the new academic year begins, she's worked so hard and I'm so happy that she achieved the grades she needed. A new chapter begins!!! 

Thanks for visiting, have a great weekend.

Chris

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Challenge entries :

alphabet - ink blending

scscards - cute animals

craftrocket #128

paperfunday #79

addictedtostamps #499

CCC #101

A card and a hare...

 Well. where did that week go! This summer is rushing by so fast, I'm glad I've been making the most of the lovely weather we've had. I hope the warm spell lasts a few more weeks as we're off on holiday in September - Devon is a lovely place to be, especially when the weather is good, so fingers crossed.

I used my Copics to colour up this cute Mo Manning image and made this quick card using old papers from my stash, it looked a bit plain so I added some stamping to the edges of the image panel and the grey background panel using Uniko border stamps, the  digital sentiment stamp is from Polkadoodles.

I've also been having a go at needle felting, inspired by Pinky's amazing projects. I discovered that my cousin knew how to felt and spent a lovely afternoon with her, my sister and a friend being shown how to wet felt and needlefelt. Since then I've bought some basics and tried the needle felting at home. My first attempt was a sheep. It looked a bit like an emaciated dachshund with mange and dodgy legs and went in the bin. My sister and my daughter are still laughing about it- rude!! Next I made a bear- well a head of a bear- it was far to big and I ran out of the yarn I was using...another resident for the bin. Yesterday I sat in the garden and made a hare...

Ok- his eyes are wonky and one ear is bigger than the other but I'm quite proud of him- he's a lot better than the sheep!

Thanks for visiting

Enjoy the weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

(card)

thesisterhoodofcrafters stripes/dots

ilovepromarkers #588 (atg)

PFM #800 

unicorn #112

(Hare)

CCC #101

allsorts #829

Butterflies

 Good morning, hope you are enjoying a lovely weekend, it's been pretty quiet here but today we're joining my sisters, brother and brother-in-law for lunch, so looking forward to that- no cooking is always a  winner in my book!

Today sees the start of our August Challenge at Stamping Sensations, the theme is Bees, Birds and Butterflies chosen by Carol, of course you can choose to use the Anything Goes option as long as there is visible stamping on your entry.

There are 2 prizes of beautiful Lavinia Stamps to be won.

I used an Aall & Create stamp to make my card, together with a script stamp and sentiment from other brands. I stamped onto white cardstock and added some subtle colour to the background using inks and a mesh stencil, stamped the butterfly twice more, coloured with watercolours and covered with Wink of Stella for a bit of sparkle. Fussy cut and added one over the top of the original stamped image and the other over the script. I added a few tiny gems to finish.

As always there is plenty to inspire you over at the Challenge blog where you will find full details of  how to join in and the lovely prizes to be won.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

kraftychicks #779

allsorts #829

craftyanimals #97

HQFSCAT #8

creativecrafters #90

tripleb august Challenge

Number 7

 Good morning, so far this year I have managed to make the grand total of 7 Christmas cards... this is number 7.  A winter scene using Card-io and Inkylicious stamps and Distress Inks, quick and simple which I what I need.

A quiet day in store for me today, Hubby has gone to a Classic car show with his partner in crime, so just me and Marvin, a walk in the woods, a quiche to make for later, then the rest of the day is mine...reading or crafting?? decisions, decisions!

Have a lovely day, whatever you are doing.

Chris

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Challenge entries

CRAFT #760

craftrocket #127

addictedtostamps #497

FQCCB #22

MLCCB #63

avenue613 July Challenge

POE #92

rudolphdays July 

Super Duper Birthday

 Hello- what's happened to the sunshine today? It's a bit disappointing after the lovely weather we had yesterday but a lot more typical of our British summers. My son and his family are camping this weekend so I hope it perks up a bit for them, not a lot of fun if everything gets soaking wet, not that it will bother the girls, they love sleeping in a tent and have been known to sleep through high winds and thunder storms! 

I made this card just because. The image is one of Mo Manning' s older ones and always makes me smile, reminding me of Ruby when she was small- wild hair, a big smile and oh how she loved to dress up! Coloured with Copics, I kept the design very simple because of the big die cut, it would have looked better if I'd stuck the 'birthday' on straight, by the time I noticed it was stuck too firmly to do anything about it :(

Ruby, aged 3 " Nanny, of course fairies wear wellies when it rains"

This chubby-cheeked little poppet is now almost 16- where did those years go! She still gives me the best hugs , even though she does have to bend down to do it these days!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries

Double D- kid's cards

I Spy with my Little Eye

ilovepromarkers #587

PFM #798

die-cut-divas July Challenge

acutabove July Challenge

Happy mouse

Good morning, today sees the start of a new challenge at

  Crafty Catz,

we are sponsored this fortnight by the fabulous 

PAPER SHELTER

 the theme is 

ANYTHING GOES.

I made a fairly CAS card using the delightful

Happy little mouse with flowers image, courtesy of our sponsor.

I coloured using my copics, added some stencilling with Elements inks, a stamped sentiment and some glossy dots. 

Don't forget to check out the fabulous makes from the rest of the team over at Crafty Catz- this will be our last challenge before we break for the summer so We hope you'll take the opportunity to play along.

Thanks for visiting- have a good weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries

CAS on Friday #314

paperfunday #78

girlzrebel #42

dragonflydreams- use polygons

polkadoodle #8

thepapershelter Summer break 2025