It's Autumn at Sweet Stampin'

 Good morning, at Sweet Stampin' this week our theme is 'Autumn', a favourite of mine as the autumn colours are so beautiful. I coloured up a sweet image from All Dressed Up and popped her inside a stamped frame - the leafy vine stamp is from Lavinia Stamps (one of my most used stamps ever!)I added a bunch of die cut leaves berries and an acorn, tied with twine. Tiny stamped tag is LOTV.

 Hope you're all keeping safe and well in these continuing uncertain times.

Have a good weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

colourcrazy #38

allsorts #591

craftyfriends #145

craftygalscorner #211

alldressedup #109

worldwideopendesignteam #9

Crafty Catz #520- Colours of Autumn

 Wow! Where did that week go?? Once again it's time for our Crafty Catz Challenge, this week it's Jac's turn to host and her chosen theme is 'Colours of Autumn' - how lovely! Our sponsors for this week are 

Sherry West Art

and

Crafty Ribbons

My card features a gorgeous image courtesy of Sherry West Art- Girl with basket of apples, coloured with copic markers.

As always, my teamies have produced some beautiful cards using these sweet Sherry West images, please do hop over and take a look. It would be great to have you play along with us this week, so come on don't be shy- there's no need to follow the theme it's optional- so no excuses!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

audsentiments #260

kraftychicks #526

paperfunday #21

craftysentiments. (22/9 Challenge)

digichoosday. #38

lemonshortbread #129

artsystamper #24

Steampunk ATCs

 Good morning- and here's something completely different from me! I've never made ATCs before but wanted to play  along with the new challenge blog,  Steampunk Challenge.  I have to say I really enjoyed creating these tiny projects and I could get completely hooked, such a great way of trying out different techniques and using some of the tiny stamps that get a bit lost on a card. I do love Steampunk style too- the mixture of fantasy , time travel  and technology really appeals to my imagination. My base cards (carefully measured) were cut from a previously made experiment using brushos and texture paste. I added a bit of stencilling and stamping. 

This one is my favourite- I stamped and embossed the boot, added a little colour with a bronze metallic pen and fussy cut. I stamped and fussy cut a pair of wings which you can't actually see because I stuck the feathers on top, then added them to the base. The row of  metallic hearts are actually silver, look quite dark in the photo. 

For the second one I used another stamp from the same set,  stamped and embossed but left uncoloured this time. Tore the edges and sponged with distress ink. Added some cogs and a button and a tiny metal plaque that says 'why not?'The silver elements are the chain, safety pin and key charm.

These were such fun to make and I really enjoyed doing something that was, for me, a little bit different.

Thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Entering these challenges:

.steampunkchallenge #1

sandee-and-amelie steampunk ch.  September Ch.

sweetstampers #48

welove2create. #9

Jingle Bells

Good morning...errr afternoon! It's time for our September Bingo Challenge at Catch the Bug, I made a Christmas card for this featuring the gorgeous Heels- Christmas Shoe image which I love- 

 

Using the diagonal line from the bingo grid -embossing, bugaboo image, ribbon, I made a shaped card base using white cardstock and a set of layering dies, used the same set to cut the red layer and the holly patterned DP. 

The image is coloured with copics and sparkle pens, diecut into a circle with just the toe peeking over, hen adhered to card base. I added a few tiny green gems to the image for more sparkle, a stamped and embossed sentiment , a bow and the tiny bells - a perfect Christmas card for my very glamorous younger (much!) sister.

There's more to see over at Catch the Bug, and as always, great images to win, so why not play along this week.

Thanks for visiting, have a great weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

colourcrazy #37

jinglebelles gold (bells, embossing)

cardz4galz #130

stinkininkers x3 (bells)

hollyandivy #79

2sistersontheblog #42

christmas-craft-creations 

Crafty Catz #519 - Make it sporty

 Good morning, hope you've all had a good week, I'm back from my holiday a little earlier than planned- we drove back yesterday instead of today. Can't say it was the best holiday I've ever had- it was great to have a change of scene, the weather was amazing- so warm and sunny but I got fed up with having no hot water for baths and showers! It packed up on Monday- owner came out and fixed it- still no hot water- came again on Tuesday- still no hot water - came again Wednesday...you get the picture. I am NOT a fan of cold showers and do not enjoy having  to constantly phone and complain when I want to be relaxing and enjoying myself. There were several other problems with the property too- definitely won't be booking that one again! Had such a lovely long soak in the bath last night- pure bliss!

Anyway back to the card- this week at Crafty Catz we are sponsored by the amazing 

Doctor Digi

the theme for the team to use is 'make it sporty' chosen by our lovely Ginny, who is hosting this week.

As always the theme is optional- anything goes at Crafty Catz!

My card features Hole in One Hal, he's coloured u with Copics and fussy cut to stand smugly surveying the golf course. Background is created with die cuts, stencilled clouds, stamped birds and I made a flag to finish. 

Thanks for stopping by and a huge thank you to all of you who left comments while I was away- much appreciated!

Chris

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Challenge entries:

MAWTT #122

watercoolerchallenges #289

digichoosday #37

diesrus #153 (Sue Wilson Stitched Borders; Find it Trading trees)

LTSCB #137

alwaysfun #180

Happy Bird Day

Hello, my card today is for 'Oldie But A Goodie' Thursday at Catch the Bug. A quick and simple card featuring the cute Happy Bird Day Chickie. Image coloured with copics, die cut with a stitched label die and added to the stencilled background panel. Added the sentiment that comes with the image. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Chris

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Add a button at Fab'n' Funky

This week our Fab'n'Funky challenge is hosted by our very talented N-eva, she's chosen 'add a button' as the theme..

This is the card I made for a very dear friend, he's 86 this year although no one would believe it to look at him! He and his lovely wife still do everything for themselves even though they have family (and friends) who are more than willing to help. 

The image is stamped and embossed, coloured (very quickly) with Copics, DI sponged around the edges. The button is a recycled metal one that I cut off a jacket.

Thanks for visiting,have a great day.

Chris

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