As You Like It Challenge (DT) To Beach Or Not (Holidays)

 It's time for another new themed challenge over as the

AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE

It's all about holidays, your favourite, to beach or not to beach!

I only live about 8 miles from the coast, so spent most of my childhood on beaches.  Our beaches though aren't beautiful soft, golden, sand, they're hard and lumpy pebbles!  I do like a day-trip to the beach, for a picnic or a paddle, but I couldn't spend a week there, I'd be bored rigid after one day.

So I have used one of the uber cute Dustin Pike dragons from Whimsy Stamps

Dragon Water Fun

and a tiny shrub from Colorado Craft Company

with the Mini Cloud Edges Stencil from MFT

all painted in Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Papers are a mixture of Sunny Studio Designs

Our sponsor for this theme is DIES TO DIE FOR

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As You Like It Challenge (DT) Fave Christmas Image or Animal

 Would you credit it, just as I start getting things into a routine again, I finally go down with Covid!  I'd tested positive for 9 days and was beginning to give up hope but today is my third negative day so I'm back at work, even though I still feel a bit ropey.

Anyhoo, you didn't come here for that, you came for the

AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE

and our theme for the next fortnight is

Your Favourite Christmas Image or Animal

This stamp is a new one to me, but it has already become a favourite - what's not to like, it has a cute bunny in a sweet Christmas scene, and it's relatively quick to colour up.  I shall be going into production shortly.

Colorado Craft Company (Anita Jeram) Getting Ready

Whimsy Stamps Merry Christmas Sentiment Assortment

MFT 6x6 Christmas Text

Snowflake punch from Hobbycraft

Distress Inks (ReInkers) as watercolours

The winner of this challenge will receive a digi prize from:

Amanda Jayne Designs

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Art Is (DT) Dies To Die For

  Hello peeps, hope you are ok.  It's been a bit of a damp start to the weekend, but actually, I really don't mind.  It gives me a great reason to park my ample behind at my craft bench and get inky without feeling too guilty!

I seem to be having a phase of extra CAS cards at the moment, and here's another one

Colorado Craft Company - Art Is.... stamp set ccc-AJ503

Colorado Craft Company - Art Is..... die set ccc-AJ504-D

The cute little squirrel in the portrait is a separate stamp within the set, and I could not resist stamping him onto the easel to be immortalised by the rabbit.

This is a large stamp, and I found it difficult to get a clean image with a traditional block, so you might want to use a stamping platform for this one.

Main image painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers), terrible grass done with Polychromos Pencils

Blimey

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BTW, the new MFT release, including the first Vault Release of Birdie Brown stamps, is now in store, if there is anything left by now that is.

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Birthday Wishing (DT) Dies To Die For

 Hello peeps, isn't this a rather damp and chilly Saturday?  Still, last Saturday it was snowing, so that's an improvement at least.  My schedule has been thrown to the wind by a rather hectic and erratic work week,, but, never mind, I made it, eventually.

Something cute and fluffy for you today ......

And the things I have used are:

Colorado Craft Company - Birthday Wishing stamp set : CCC-AJ373

Colorado Craft Company - Birthday Wishing die set : CCC-AJ374-D

MFT Clear Stamps - Bitty Hugs & Kisses : MFT-CS-532

MFT DieNamics - A2 Stitched Circle Stax : MFT-1675

MFT DieNamics - Stitched Sentiment Strips : MFT-1028

MFT 6x6 paper - Gift Wrap : MFT-EP-73

Bunny painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) as watercolours.

I hope that whatever you are doing today it involves keeping warm and lots of crafting!

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