Where's My Hat?

I can finally share this card as I know it's arrived safely with it's recipient in Norway!

Doesn't this little VLVS guy have the sweetest face. I wanted to create a fun background, so got busy with some Distress Inks and torn paper. I wish I'd plucked-up the courage to doodle a border, but I didn't want to spoil the card. It's so often those last little decorative touched that can make or break a project!

I'm sharing this card over at Lost Coast Design, and also at Seize the Birthday where the theme for the current challenge is Stenciling.  

It's a lovely sunny day here in the UK, so I'm off to 'play' in the garden. I hope your day is happy too!

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #97 - Reminder

 

Welcome back! It's Reminder time over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge as we play...

Positively Poinsettias

with our good friend the very talented Bobby from Bits and Pieces.

 

Bobby has kindly created a second card for this challenge! You'll have to head on over and take a look on the main blog... You'll thanks yourself that you did as it's such a beauty.

Here's a little reminder of Bobby's first card for our challenge together.  

And here's my 'homage' to Bobby's card. I love her colour palette and knew I wanted to 'grab' it for my card. Thanks again to my mom for supplying the dies. The packaging is missing so I can't give the details.

This was fun to make as I don't usually create die cut cards, however I seem to be having a little run of using dies and I'm quite enjoying the change of technique. 

Rudolph's Random Raffle this month is offering a cute little set of Sizzix dies. 

I very much hope you'll come and play along with Bobby and me!  

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers Challenge #261 - M is for Manly

 

All together now... 

"Edna's a lumberjack and she's OK

She sleeps all night and she works all day..."

Bravo to Sister Lee for yet another awesome Edna to get us in the mood for Challenge #261 - M is for Manly. 

For some reason I decided to grab a Grim Reaper die from Sizzix for this one. 

A balloon die cut and a Dani Doodles stamp also jumped on board to join the fun. 

There are some truly brilliant macho creations on offer for this challenge, so please come and join us over at The Sisterhood... lumberjack shirts are optional. 

Dani Doodles

Hi there, welcome to another post showcasing the fun stamps created by Dani of Dani Doodles.

Once again, I teamed-up my fave Funky Fossil stencil with a yet another fun sentiment by Dani. 

I did a little masking and then reversed the stencil to get the effect of the orange bird doing it's own thing. I think this bird is a female... possibly about to turn 60, but trying to keep going and living her best life! 😉😜😜

You can see more of Dani's new stamps over on Facebook here or on Instagram here. You can shop the new release and purchase other sets here and don't forget to use my discount code: ddjo10 to get 10% off.

 

Have a happy day, guys. 

Card Chain Challenge Reveal March 2025

 Hello and welcome to the March 2025 Card Chain Challenge Reveal!

We had 24 wonderful players who exchanged cards across the globe this month. In these odd and challenging times it's good to know that international friendship is still a thing!

 

All the cards exchanged this month used at least one of the following options:

 

Colour Palette Option

 

(Exact matching is not required.)

Sketch Option

(Orient as desired.)

Theme Options: Stripes / Africa / Friendship

Product / Technique Options:  Felt / Layers

Here's the little card I sent Brenda in the UK. I was thrilled to discover Brenda loves hedgehogs and actually cares for them in her garden.

My sender this month is the lovely Gundi in Germany

Isn't this gorgeous - thanks so much, Gundi, I love it!

If you want to join in the fun you can sign up for the Card Chain Challenge.  All sign ups run in advance, from the 7th of the preceding month to the 6th of the exchange month.  All reveals happen on the 2nd of the month after the exchange is complete.

Why not come and join the fun! 

The Christmas Kickstart Challenge #97 - Positively Poisettias

No kidding, April Fool's Day or not, it's time for a brand new challenge over at The Christmas Kickstart Challenge!

There's a rather fabulous guest as our April Elf as we welcome on board the very talented Bobby from Bits and Pieces. If you've not visited Bobby's beautiful blog thus far I'd urge you to do so as it's a treasure trove of gorgeousness. This lady certainly knows what she's doing with card, inks, die cuts and pens. 

The theme Bobby has chosen is...

Challenge #97 - Positively Poinsettias

We'd love to see a poinsettia or poinsettias on your cards for our April Challenge. Nice and simple, and so much scope for making something gorgeous.

I don't have many poinsettia stamps or dies in my stash, but I know a lady who does, so off I went to raid my mom's stash. Thanks Mom, you're a star! 

My mom's made some gorgeous cards using the Sue Wilson Poinsettia Mini Striplet, and it's a great pity that she never photographs her work. Anyhoo, here's my take on the theme:

Here's a close-up of the centre panel. I wanted to create an embossed style focal point, so I didn't layer my die-cut. It looks really nice IRL.

I flipped the die before cutting the second panel to give as close to a mirror image effect as possible for the two panels. I hoped this would guide the eye to the centre and the greeting, and it seems to have worked. This is a really pretty card and I can imagine it would look equally lovely with coloured papers or different sorts of card behind the die cut panels.

Rudolph's Random Raffle Prize for this month is a super cute set of Sizzix dies.

 

Bobby and I both hope you'll come and play along!