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Showing posts with label Theme - Birthday (Belated). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theme - Birthday (Belated). Show all posts

Thursday, 10 August 2023

As You Like It Challenge (DT) Favourite Two Colour Combo

 Oooh, it's a colour challenge theme over as
this time, and we would like to see (and hear about)
Your Favourite Two Colour Combo

I have lots of favourite colour pairings, but I always seem to come back to
blue and brown, I don't know why, to me it's just a comforting combo, and can be
used in so many different ways.


I've used one of the Lili of The Valley Spring Gnomes stamps
Teamed with a mix of Honey Bee and Sunny Studio papers
and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted
Gnome coloured up with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and Polychromos Pencils

The sponsor of this challenge is






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Thursday, 3 June 2021

As You Like It Challenge (DT) CAS or FAF

When your scheduled post is actually a draft, SMH.

Hello peeps, it's time for another As You Like It challenge and this time the theme is Clean and Simple or Fussy and Fancy (CAS or FAF)

It's not hard to guess my preference from this sample.  The only thing FAF about me, is the faffing around I do when I'm making a card!




Image coloured with a mix of Zig Clean Color Brush Pens (flowers) and Distress Inks (ReInkers) leaves and flower pot

and our sponsor for this theme is


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Saturday, 23 January 2021

Dragon New Year (DT) Dies To Die For

  Hello everyone.  Well, despite my best intentions, this year is a continuation of last year......when you are convinced your pal's birthday is February but it isn't.  Sigh.



There actually wasn't any need for me to sign the inside, she saw "that word" and just knew!



Everything (except papers) is Whimsy today

Rainbow paper pad from WH Smith
Scarlet cardstock from Rymans

Image painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) as watercolours on Bristol Board

That's me done here for today - everything has been topsy-turvied as the Oldies are finally booked in for their Covid vaccinations this evening, so it has been all hands to the pump arranging the logistics of it all, borrowing a wheelchair for dad, clearing all my crap out of the car so there are seats, any actually checking that I could fold and unfold the wheelchair, and lift it in and out of the boot.  I have phoned mum and told her to get dad to practice with a mask this afternoon!

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Saturday, 1 August 2020

Lessons In Love (DT) Dies To Die For

Yes, I know I'm late again........ sorry!  I didn't sleep well last night, and then managed to oversleep this morning.  Isn't that just the way of it?

I do love me a versatile stamp - this one was designed with teachers in mind, but I think
she makes a great secretary/PA


Things used:


Image coloured with Zig Clean Colour Pens

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Thursday, 21 May 2020

As You Like It Challenge (DT) Favourite Embellishments

Hello Thursday!  It's time for a newly themed challenge from
and it is Your Favourite Embellishments
(please explain your choice)

Most of you know that I prefer a clean and simple style, so embellishments are very few and far between, however occasionally, if an embellishment is called for, I prefer to use die-cuts or punched shapes as accents as they are more in keeping with my CAS style, for this one I have created a little fountain of stars.


So the ingredients for this are:

I have watercoloured the images with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens.

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Looking forward to seeing all your lovely embellies!

Hugs




Thursday, 9 April 2020

As You Like It Challenge (DT) Animals or People

Good morning everyone, is it Thursday?  I hope it is, the days are a blur, even with home-working, so I admit that I am all a bit vague, as I suspect the rest of you are too!

The highlight of my week has been the delivery of my computer mouse from the office.
I have used a track-ball mouse for about ten years now as I was getting horrible shoulder pain from a normal mouse, and a normal mouse was all we had at home.  I toyed with the idea of buying a new one, but Toad wouldn't use it afterwards, so I held on until I knew some other equipment was being dropped off - and now I have my beloved mouse back with me and, hopefully, that will help to sort out the aches and pains that have surfaced during the three weeks of being sat at a desk in the back bedroom home office.  I am referring to this set-up as the Twig Office, because it is so much smaller than a Branch.

Anyhoo, you didn't come over to hear me rambling, you came over for news of the
and this time our theme is Animals or People (please remember to tell us about your choice)

Not so long ago, you would not have seen a card from me without an animal on it unless I had used a Magnolia Tilda or a Lili of The Valley kid, but since then the wonderful Birdie Brown has entered my life and I absolutely adore her little people.  A close second are the quirky characters from CC Designs Roberto's Rascals, especially Twila and Nancy.  Looking back over the past year of makes, there are far more people than there are animals, so I have gone with people as my favourite for this challenge.

There is such a thing as taking colour coordination too far!



I have used this cute little girl from the CC Designs Surprise!!! stamp set
and coordinated her with some very bright and citrus-y papers from Sunny Studio Summer Splash which are available in the UK from Dies To Die For HERE.
Coloured up with Zig Clean Color Real Brush Pens and a waterbrush

Our sponsor for this theme is
LEE HOLLAND DESIGN
Lee Holland

Happy crafting everyone.

Hugs

Saturday, 4 April 2020

Adorable Elephant (DT) Dies To Die For

Now then, I'm figuring that I have been in the study all week working so this must be Saturday, right?
I had to drag a perpetual calendar out of mothballs to put next to the phone, just so that we stand a chance of knowing the day, that's if I remember to move it on each morning!

I am fast becoming notorious for forgetting birthdays, or remembering them late, so
I am definitely more squirrel than elephant, although at the moment, I am rapidly acquiring that shape.


Lovely things used for this card are

Elephant and balloon coloured with Zig Clean Color pens, and clouds inked with Distress Inks and a finger dauber.

Hope your weekend is a good one (and you can tell it apart from the rest of the week)

The Dies To Die For website it still up and running in these strange times, so you are still able to craft away your hours.

Hugs







Saturday, 12 January 2019

Teddy Birthday Message (DT) Dies To Die For

Morning all, I'm here today with a (cough) birthday message from Teddy, the sort that I am sending more and more often these days.  Whoops.



Ingredients for this make are:

I used kraft card for the base - can anyone recommend a good quality one?  This one is a bit wibbly so I've had to strengthen it, nothing annoys me more than a card that bends/curls/sags when you stand it up!

Teddy painted with, of course, Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Happy weekend to all
Hugs


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