Breakfast (DT) Dies To Die For

Happy Saturday everyone!  Well, this has been a week of treats, lots of nibbles out and about, and this morning a leisurely breakfast, which is why I'm now covered in crumbs and smears of jam.

Yes, I am a messy breakfaster, but then so are these two cheekies, just look at that floor - my mother would be out with the vacuum immediately!

A small but tasty little card

CC Designs Roberto's Rascals "Breakfast" stamps

MFT "Perk Up" sentiment set

MFT 6x6 Tribal Prints

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) used as watercolours and

Polychromos Pencils for those impossible hairstyles!

Coffee you say?  I'm now coming.....

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Good grief, a challenge card

OK, so, I've been off work this week and whilst it has been baking hot and in between

going out to different places and laying on the floor like a limp lettuce, I have been making

Christmas cards (aaargh) for my mother's order.  Feeling a little underwhelmed, I decided

it was time I perked things up with a challenge so had a mooch around to see what I could

find and, lo, what should behold me but a Wednesday Sketch Challenge from MFT Card Challenges

and here is the sketch

I am a sucker for these Pure Innocence little girls so when this one popped up in the new

release I knew that she would be coming home to me.

So, I have used for this:

MFT Pure Innocence Birthday Cutie stamp

and the matching die

a retired Die-Namics Window die

MFT Mini Cloud Edges Stencil

MFT 6x6 Dots & Stripes Sorbet

Black card is from PDA Card & Craft and the brown for the

window frame is Papermania pearlised

I did the clouds with Broken China Distress Ink Oxide and a finger dauber

and the image (the bits not paper pieced) is painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) with

Polychromos Pencils for her hair

Twice in one day is a bit much for a little squirrel so I am off to find a cool, dark, room

to whimper in for a little while!

Hugs to all

You can find my earlier DIES TO DIE FOR post here

Boom! (DT) Dies To Die For

Morning all,  I.m here today with a little one suitable for the fellas

Your Next Stamp - Boom (stamp set)

Your Next Stamp - Boom (dies)

Your Next Stamp 6x6 Birthday Boy

Die-Namics Firework Display

My Favourite Things - You Wow Me

Die-Namics Single Stitch Line Rounded Square Frame

MFT 6x6 Dots & Stripes Sorbet

Hugs to all

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Ribbons or Buttons (DT) As You Like It

Hello peeps!  Are you still enjoying this ridiculously hot and sweaty summer?  You might have guessed that I've fallen out of love with it, just a little, and am looking forward to autumn!

Anyhoo, while we still have the long daylight hours it means you can craft more and

you might like to join in with the new AS YOU LIKE IT challenge and

the theme for this fortnight is Ribbons or Buttons (please tell us about your choice)

Regular readers will know that I have an allergy to ribbons, they never do what I want them to (of course it's not me being cack-handed!) and as for tying bows with them, phah!!  So, my choice would have to be buttons.  Sometimes I push the boat out and use real ones, but if the card is being posted then I can even fake buttons (and often do)

I think this Lili of The Valley stamp may be called Special Delivery

and I believe it has long been retired (which is a shame, it's soooooo cute)

Distress Inks (ReInkers) used as watercolours

MFT sentiment set, which is also retired

Star shaped punch, and button holes (wonky) made with Japanese Screw Punch

MFT 6x6 Dots & Stripes Bright

Our Sponsor for this challenge is (who else could it be)

Crafty Ribbons

£10 voucher

So, that's me and my fake buttons, I do hope you find the time to join us

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Surprise! (DT) Dies To Die For

Well actually, it's probably not much of a surprise to find me here again,

it is a Saturday after all

However, this is a bit more of a surrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-priiii-iiiiise!

( I know it says Party, but the more I look at it, the more it looks like Pasty )

So for this party on a card I have used

CC Designs : Roberto's Rascals Surprise! clear stamp set

Die-Namics : Stitched Scallop Edges

Die-Namics : Party

Lawn Fawn 6x6 : Perfectly Plaid - Spring

Those little Rascals are painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and Polychromos Pencils

and I have just used some generic red card for that pop of colour

Have a super scorcher of a weekend, and hopefully some playtime

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Sue's Birthday Wish (DT) Dies To Die For

Morning all, hope you are ok and ready (in the UK) for another sunny weekend!

I'm off for a tail trim and colour this morning, then scampering back for the British GP qualifying, and then hopping over to France for the start of three weeks with my boys in lycra!

Anyhoo, I have popped in, as is usual at this time on a Saturday, to share my DTDF make with you and it's a birthday celebration today

It's a typical Squirrel CAS card but I think that really suits the fabulous image

and the big sentiment

and because it is CAS there are only a few ingredients

CC Designs Sue's Birthday Wish

My Favorite Things - Birthday Greetings

MFT 6x6 - Hearts & Stripes

I have painted the stamped image with Distress Inks (ReInkers) used as watercolours and her hair has had the helping hand of Polychromos Pencils

Hug to all

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Favourite Celebration (DT) As You Like It Challenge

Morning all, it's a new theme from the AS YOU LIKE IT team (I'm in charge on the challenge blog today!) and it is Your Favourite Celebration (birthday, Christmas, wedding, etc) but please do remember to tell us about it.

It was a tough choice and I do like making special occasion cards, and my favourite makes are for birthdays and, believe it or not, for Christmas (that is unless I am still racing around with snowflakes mid December).  I am being uber organised this year, well actually no, that's a big fib, I managed to get mum to place her order early, lol, so I have made a start on those.

CC Designs : Carollers stamp

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and Polychromos Pencils

Papers are Dovecraft, I think the pack is called North Pole

Crealies loopy circle die

Die-Namics double stitched circle die

and I will check on the word dies - it's a set new to me but I have used it a fair bit already, shame I didn't write the name down!

Our sponsor for this challenge is

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Come and celebrate with us

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