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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Deck The Halls (DT) Dies To Die For

  Hello peeps, how are you on this chilly Saturday morning?

In amongst the chaos that is my dad, mum had a drama.  A couple of years ago she surrendered and accepted that she was struggling with her hearing.  She invested in some very expensive hearing aids, and has looked after them better than she would a new baby.  However!  On the night of dad's last fall, she was so confuzzled that she didn't put them on charge in their usual place.  This time she put them on the set of drawers outside the bathroom door.  The next day, the ear pieces were missing, along with the wires that connect them to the magic parts.  She said it was odd because one of them wasn't even sat in the charger properly.  The only conclusion we could come to, having searched high and low for the missing bits, is that the mice have made off with them.

They are all repaired now and working again but the big question is what the heck the mice would want with them in the first place!

Clearly Whimsy Stamps Deck The Halls Mice WS-DP1079

MFT Stencil Card Sized Star Confetti MFT-ST-120

Impression Obsession word die Ho Ho Ho IO-DIE595-B

Lawn Fawn 6x6 paper Snow Day Remix LF2083

Stars inked with Distress Oxides (Fired Brick and Rustic Wilderness) and mousie was painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

There are only two more posts to come from me before I step down from the Design Team at Christmas.  I've been working with this fabulous team for several years now and it has been a really hard decision to make, but I will still be around on the Facebook pages, you don't get away that lightly!

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As You Like It Challenge (DT) Favourite Wild Animal

 Oh dear, I really am on the naughty step, so sorry I am late, about 12 hours late to be precise.

It's new challenge day over at AS YOU LIKE IT and this time we want you to tell us all

about your Favourite Wild Animal

Hmmm, did I really need to think about this one?  Actually yes, because I love ALL animals (so long as they are furry and don't have more than four legs), and the Big Cats are high up on my list, especially the beautiful and magnificent leopards and jaguars, but on a less exotic level, my favourite animal is the humble British (and European) Red Squirrel - I mean, they are just so flippin' cute!

MFT Birdie Brown Squirrel! stamps - MFT-BB-75

MFT DieNamics Squirrel! dies - MFT-1574

MFT Stencils

Slimline English Brick Wall Stencil  MFT-ST-160

Watercolor Wash Square Stencil MFT-ST-158

I've gently stencilled the brickwork stencil through the watercolour square stencil, so my background has softer edges

Squirrel! has, naturally, been painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Our fabulous sponsor for this challenge is

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and I have linked my items used straight to the right pages on the website for you

Looking forward to hearing all about your favourite wild critters

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Adorable Adventures (DT) Dies To Die For

  Assuming you're not still in a queue for Primark or Debenhams, good morning - honestly, I think the world has gone mad.  Rushing into town to buy a new pair of flip-flops has been pretty low on my agenda for this week.

Anyhoo, I am here with another Birdie Brown make.

Stuff used

MFT Birdie Brown - Adorable Adventures stamp set MFT-BB-108

MFT Dienamics Adorable Adventures die set MFT-1797

MFT Birdie Brown Greeting Galore MFT-CS-335

MFT Stencil Slimline Cloud Edges MFT-ST-149

MFT Stencil Slimline Drifts and Hills MFT-ST-150

Whole scene coloured with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and Distress Ink pads.

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Easter Wishes (DT) Dies To Die For

 Hello peeps, so here we are today on Holy Saturday (yep, Easter Saturday is actually next weekend) - you learn something new every day!

I do make a lot of cute Easter cards, but just occasionally there is a need for something more traditional, but why not mix the traditional with a little bit of cute.

Sunny Studio Designs - Easter Wishes stamp set - SSCL-150

MFT Stencils - Mini Cloud Edges - MFT-ST-100

MFT 6x6 paper

A bit of masking, and a good slosh of Distress Inks (ReInkers)

and that really is it, simple but sweet

Whatever you are up to this weekend, take care, don't go crazy, and stay safe

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As You Like It Challenge (DT) Favourite Occasion/Reason

 These weeks are galloping past, how is it possibly another AS YOU LIKE IT CHALLENGE already?!

Well, it is, and this time our theme is

Your Favourite Occasion/Reason for Sending A Card

(please explain why)

So, the majority of the cards I make are for birthday, but my favourite reason to send cards is for friendship, there is nothing quite like receiving a card out of the blue from someone who cares about you.

MFT Birdie Brown - Mice Day to Celebrate

MFT-BB-120 (stamps) MFT-1938 (dies)

MFT Slimline Stencils - Clouds (ST-149) Hills (ST-150)

MFT 6x6 papers - Road Trippin' (MFT-EP-71)

Coloured up with

Mouse - Zig Clean Colour pens

Background - Distress Inks and a finger dauber

Our sponsor for this theme is

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Harvest Mouse (DT) Dies To Die For

Yes, it's me, sorry about last Saturday's hiccup (did you even notice?), but I am back now.

I have been really struggling with my mood during lockdown, some days I'm fine, bright and chirpy, but other days, such as most of last week, I'm low and tearful and wanting to hide under the duvet.  Working from home in splendid isolation is not suiting me at all.  I really miss the interaction with my colleagues and the buzz of the office.  For heaven's sake, I am even missing my boss!!

Some weeks I find it difficult choosing what to use, I must have bought THOUSANDS of stamp sets from Dies To Die For over the years, and I am not exaggerating on numbers, so this week I had a little rummage through the slightly older, but still available, sets to see what I could find and came across these little cuties.

OK, they are out of season but who cares that it's not autumn yet, let's face it, no one knows for certain what day/week it even is!

And the lovely things used

MFT Birdie Brown - Harvest Mouse MFT BB-24

MFT Die-Namics Harvest Mouse MFT-759

MFT Sassy Pants Birthday Greetings MFT CS-319

MFT Stencil - Mini Cloud Edges MFT ST-100

MFT Stencil - Grassy Edges MFT ST-111

Honey Bee 6x6 paper - Great Outdoors HBPA-004

So, colourwise, I used bog standard Distress Ink pads and finger daubers to use with the stencils for the clouds and grass, and for the mice they are a multi-media mash of Distress Inks (ReInkers), Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens, and Polychromos Pencils.

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