Taking some time out

 Apologies for my sudden disappearance.

Mathilda, our beloved Great Dane passed away on Tuesday. 

We are totally devastated and I need to take a break for a short while.

Chris

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Stella Says Sketch at Catch the Bug

 

There's a brand new sketch ready to play with over at Catch the Bug- 

here's the sketch

and here's the card I made featuring Heels and Accessories

The image is coloured with Copics and a sparkle pen, unfortunately (as usual) the sparkle doesn't show on the photo.

Click here for more inspiration from the team- and to add your own lovely entries.

This challenge is open for two weeks- so plenty of time to join in, after all we won't be going anywhere now we're in Lockdown again!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Crafty Catz Challenge #525 - optional theme- Winter

                 Good morning,  I'm here with my DT card for this week's challenge at Crafty Catz,

Billie is hosting this week, she's chosen the theme of 'Winter' and our sponsor is

All Dressed Up Stamps

The team were given some sweet sponsor images to create with- I couldn't decide which one to use so I used both (greedy-eh!) 

I coloured up Sledging Pup and Sledging all the Way, fussy cut the images and placed  them onto my embossed zig zag card.  I added a few die cut snowflakes,a tree and a die cut sentiment to finish.

There's plenty more to see over at Crafty Catz, where my teamies have been busy creating with these sweet images. We'd love to have you join in this week- remember the theme is optional- Anything Goes at Crafty Catz.

Thanks for visiting, keep safe and have good weekend

Chris

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Challenge entries:

alldressedup #110

TIOT embossed

52cct fancy folds

CHNC #513

Rudolph Day- October Challenge

Fab'n' Funky Challenge #500- Blog Hop

 

Exciting news this morning- it's our 500th Challenge  over at Fab'n' Funky- we are celebrating this momentous occasion with a blog hop and to thank all our wonderful followers and challenge entrants we are giving away loads of fantastic prizes. 

To find out how to play along and be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes on offer you will need to start off at Fab'n'Funky Challenge Blog.

Here's my inspiration card for this challenge-

I'm being careful not to give away the theme- but I can tell you that I've created the background with Distress inks and most of the stamps are Lavinia. Sorry the photo is at a bit of a weird angle, I was trying to catch the sparkle, the light was really bad! The colours are much better in the second photo but you can't see the glitter!

Thanks for visiting and I do hope you decide to play along- here's a quick reminder of the rules-

• Note down the key word on each blog
• Leave a comment on each blog
• Make a project that fits with the challenge request that will be revealed in the words you collect when you have visited all of the blogs
• Make sure to link our challenge blog in your post
•  And link your entry to the  Fab'n'Funky Challenge Blog(Please ensure your link is to your post for this challenge not just your blog, Thank you
• No more than 2 entries per person

The word you are looking for is 

and

(just click on the link to take you to the next blog)

Chris

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Challenge entries:

avenue613 October Challenge

intaas #195

fairyandtheunicorn October Challenge

laviniaworld #38

A turtally cute New Release at Bugaboo!

Good morning, this week's New Releases at Bugaboo ae a couple of cute turtles- one for Thanksgiving and one for Christmas- as we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in the UK I opted to use the Christmas one- 

here he is-

I think he's 'turtally' cute.

As always, there's loads of inspiration over at Catch the Bug, and there's still time to take part in the current challenges so why not hop over and take a look.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

12monthsofchristmas #70

craftyfriends #147

lilpatchofcraftyfriends #144

 

Halloween at Sweet Stampin' Challenges

 Good morning, this week's theme at Sweet Stampin' is Halloween, I don't have a lot of use for halloween cards but they are fun to make and there are some wonderful stamps and images to choose from- ranging from extremely scary to cute and fun. I took the opportunity to ink up a sweet little witch stamp (Bells 'n Whistles) that I've had for years and never used. coloured up with Copics, then masked off so I could sponge the background with Distress ink and stamp the swirly sentiment and stars (Lavinia). Stars are coloured over with a  clear sparkle pen,  the papers are Doodlebug. 

There are more spooky makes from the rest of my team over at Sweet Stampin'- and we'd love to see what you create for this fun theme so why not join us this week.

Thanks for stopping by, keep yourselves safe!

Chris

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Challenge entries:

cck-digitalstamps - October

creatalicious #197

creativecraftcottage #134

digidoodle #32

sweetstampers #10

thepapershelter #446

twooldbats #1

cutiepie #152

Crafty Catz Challenge #524- optional twist 'Hats'

 Good morning, another week is drawing to a close- it's been a bit of a mixed week for me- on one hand my daughter and one of my granddaughters have both celebrated birthdays- Ruby's 11th and my daughter's ??? not going to say in case she ever reads this post! We are still allowed to see family (rule of 6!) at present so we were able to see both of them on their birthdays which was lovely. Sadly, on the other hand, we've been told that our beautiful Mathilda has a heart condition. She's 8 years old now which is getting on a bit for a Great Dane as they do not have a long life expectancy, but she's always been so fit and healthy that it's a bit of a shock to say the least. The vet has put her on medication and is monitoring her, she seems really well, a bit quieter than usual but otherwise perfectly happy- eating her head off and asking for walks so we're hoping it's not as serious as it sounds. She's definitely lapping up the extra attention and coddling and any little bits of chicken that might be coming her way.

Today's card is for this week's challenge at Crafty Catz, our host for this is Aunty Sue and she picked the optional twist of 'hats'. 

We have a brand new sponsor this week

Hetty Clare

and we were given some gorgeous images to play with, I just love this little pony in his Christmas hat! He was so easy to colour too as the shading is done for you!

I created the card base by cutting a semi circle, scoring and folding to make it stand up. It does fold flat for posting, which is a bonus! The rest of it is pretty simple- DP, die cut trees and snowflake border and a few gems. 'Merry Christmas' sentiment die cut in red and white then layered together is on the front of the folded card.

My lovely teamies have made some stunning cards using fabulous sponsor images,

 just click here to take a look, hope you can find the time to play along too.

Thanks for stopping by

Chris

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Challenge entries:

jinglebelles - not a creature was stirring..

classicdesign #10

creativesketchygirls #53

merrylittlechristmas #27

kraftychicks #530

MAWTT #123