Gone Fishin'

When I saw the title of the  new challenge theme at Crafty Cardmakers - 'Cute and Furry', I had a bit of a panic attack. I don't realy do 'cute', so I hope the girls will forgive me for reaching out for a craft CD.
This is Popcorn the Bear from Crafters Companion.
I printed out the image and a super matching background paper.
A piece of blue cardstock for layering, I used a punch on the corners.
I added the thread rope with a fish charm on the end, so he was quite a lucky bear to make such a good catch. Extra shading round the edges was Broken China distress ink.
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You don't Scare Me.

Sharing  a couple of Halloween  tags with you today. but first of all an apology for not getting to visit everyone recently. We are in caravanland yet again, enjoying  some lovely weather for the time of year, so lots of outings with Meg.
The first tag has a random stamped background and a scrap piece from an old box as  base layers.
I had a try fussy cutting the skeleton, but the bones on the hands defeated me.
The pumpkin and cat are scrap pieces I had tucked in a box from last year.
The stamps came from the Stampers Anonymous 'Almost Haunted  set'.
Shading is Vintage Photo and Spiced Marmalade distress ink.
I tried to imitate some soil on the bottom of both tags using Vintage Photo distress glitter,

Absolutely legless

This second again has a random stamped background, all the stamps used for the tag are from Stampers anonymous and Graphics 45. This time  I used Vintage Photo and Broken China distress inks.

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Going Dotty

Isn't that a great title for our new challenge theme over at Try it on Tuesdays. 'Going Dotty'.
I have kept this card quite plain and tried hard not to be tempted to add extras.
So basically its one layer with trimmings. I used Embossalicious folders for the dots and the roses. These new larger sizes are so easy to use. The sentiment is a Whimsey stamp layered up with Spellbinders  die cuts.

As in most of my cards the shading is Vintage Photo distress ink.


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Colours of Autumn

Today I am sharing with you another Autumn project. This is my take on the new Challenge at
 Fashionable Stamping Challenges, which is 'Autumnal Colours'.  We are a stamping challenge blog, stamps do feature on this hanging but for me  the colours just seemed to take over this piece. So apologies to my DT sisters. I do hope you will pop over for all the details and see what we have all been making.

On the left are the base layer papers, painted with acrylics,you can see the stamped poppies and script..
I then used  distress inks, Spiced marmalade, Vintage Photo and Bundled sage, to build up the colours, to the shades  you can see above.
The  words on the small hanging  are  from a Stampers Anonymous set, stamped with Brown Staz-on.
All other items are from my stash.



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Autumn

'Fall is in the Air', or as we would probably be saying here in the U.K. Autumn has arrived. This is the new challenge theme over at Sugar Creek Hollow.
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Autumn for me is using some of my favorite colours. Browns, beige, cream,  a touch of orange deep red and faded green.
The colouring on this hanging is a mixture of watercolours and distress inks.
The stamped image of the birds is from Inkylicious.
The photo on the right was taken before I added the shading.
One of the layers is a piece of red material.
All the leaves are die cuts. I  used twigs from the garden to hang it by.

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Winged things.

'Winged Things', is the new challenge over at Crafty Cardmakers.
I have had this topper on my desk for quite a while. As I never like to discard anything, especially if it has been cut from a Graphics 45 page. I just had to use this handsome rooster  as my 'winged thing.

I used a kraft card base together with more G45 papers from the French Country stack  for layering.
 Extra shading is Vintage photo and Walnut stains,  distress inks.

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Go Wild

This is one of those cards that just evolved and I had to stop myself from wanting to add more.
It all began with the Crafty Individuals stamp, stamped up  with brown ink,  shaded with antique linen distress ink,then edged with some Vintage Photo distress glitter.
So back to the base, The card was dry embossed using the dotty Embossalicious folder.
Then a piece of  printed Kraft card.
The tree bark layer was also made using an embossing folder, I rubbed the ink pad  [walnut stain]over the surface to highlight the knots in the bark.
The piece of  corrogated card is from  an old box and added a bit more texture.
The  colours and shading  were all distress inks, Walnut Stain. Vintage Photo and Tea Dye.

Challenges that I think this will fit are-
Crafts Too Challenge You  Challenge 3 week 1.  Texture with a Twist. Choose your own style.
I will try most styles but I realy love the vintage/aged , grungy look and nothing pleases me more than to use these shades of distress inks.
Simon Says Stamp The Monday challenge over here is Embossed.

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