Number 9

 Good morning, time for our September Challenge at Stamping Sensations,  Helen chose the theme of CAS- with the option of Anything Goes (as long as there is visible stamping on the front of your project)

 There are two prizes of stamps from Grafton Crafts, a well stocked bricks and mortar and on line shop offering fee p&p on all orders over £15

I used Hickory Smoke D. O.I and some torn paper to create my snowbanks and stamped a branch several times using one of a set of clear stamps I've had for years, sadly they're minus their packaging and I can't remember the brand. I've used a white gel pen to add some snowy highlights and red one on the tiny berries. The sentiment stamp is Paper Smooches.

As always there is plenty of inspiration to be found over at the challenge blog.

Thanks for visiting 

Chris

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Challenge entries :

POE #95

alphabetchallenge K-Keep it simple

scscards September Challenge

MLCCB#64

Crafty Calendar September Challenge

 Good morning, Crafty Calendar Challenges are back after the summer break. The theme for this month is ADD LAYERS.

I have another Mo Manning cutie to share, this is Otto, such a sweetie! I've used my markers to colour, adding a little shading to his fur with a brown pencil. The gorgeous autumnal papers are from Honey Bee Stamps. I've added some die cut leaves (TH), a stamped sentiment and some little candy dots.

I used a sketch from Creative Sketchy Girls

We hope you can join in with our challenge this month- for more inspiration please hop over to Crafty Calendar to see the lovely creations from the rest of team.

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries

creativesketchygirls #106

paperfunday #80

hereisaplacetostart September challenge

inspirationstation September Challenge

crafterscafe #322

craftyanimals. #98

letscreate #223

Number 8

 Good morning, sun's disappeared for a while- it actually looks like rain, something we haven't seen for a while here in the SE, attested by our very sad lawns! I think a lot of re-seeding is going to be needed.

A Christmas card today, featuring tis sweet little angel, singing her heart out. She's one of Mo Manning's new images and is available HERE in the new shop. I've coloured her with my markers and kept the design very simple, I used pastels for the background and stamped and embossed some tiny stars and the sentiment.

I'm off now to take Marvin for his walk..I suspect it could be a wet one!

Thanks for visiting

Chris

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Challenge entries:

peaceonearth #94

asyoulikeit favourite colouring medium- my Copic Markers, I love the brush nibs and the way the colours blend- and so many colours to choose from.

CRAFT #762

kraftychicks #782

abcchristmas P for Pastel colours

CCAYR O Holy night

rudolphdays august challenge

thehollyandivychallenge. #190

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