Anabelle Needs Your Address

Hello chaps, a bit of a surprise for me to be here on a Sunday evening, but I made a card that I wasn't going to blog and then a bloggy friend pointed out that it would fit with a challenge and I didn't have many hours left to squeak it in, so here it is.

So this little one contains:

Stamping Bella - Anabelle Needs Your Address

Woodware Time To Go sentiment

MFT Die-Namics Blueprints 31

MFT Graphic Grid papers

Tim Holtz Distress Inks (ReInkers)

and a teeny flower punch from Hobbycraft

and the challenge that this card coincidentally fits is

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge - Make A Rainbow

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

Autumn Harvest

As you may have seen from my previous post, I had an MFT afternoon on Sunday so I'm here to share my second make from that session.

When this particular set was released they seemed to be rarer than hen's teeth in the UK, so it was quite some while later that I managed to get my sticky mitts on them.

It's one of my trademark CAS cards but I had so much fun colouring these little chaps

My Favorite Things BB Harvest Mouse stamp set

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Personal Impressions sentiment

Hobbycraft chocolate brown card for matting layer

Custom sized card base

Love, love, love how this one turned out.

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

Colin's Cousin, Charlie

Hello peeps.  For those of you who fell in love with Colin the other day, I would like to introduce you to his slightly more flamboyant cousin Charlie.

Charlie also comes from the Colour Chameleon set by Clearly Besotted.

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers) and fussy cut

Colour streak from the stamp set, as are the sentiments

Memento inks used for the coloured stamping

Wonky stitched rectangle from MFT Die-Namics

Paper from scraps

There are two more cousins to introduce you to, so keep your eyes peeled for those!

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

SRC Wild Things Challenge Reminder

There are two weeks left for you to enter the Squirrel's Random Challenge of Wild Things - there haven't been that many entries so far so anyone who does have a go is in with a very good shout of winning a fabulous prize.

As a reminder of what the challenge is about, it's anything wild - animals, plants, weather, party people - so there is plenty of scope to play with.

Here is my reminder card

That talented photographer, Squinty McSquint, has been busy again

So, a CAS layout from me

A Whimsy stamp from Krista Heij Barber called Hanging In There

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Sentiment from Clearly Besotted

Matting layer is from a Dovecraft Christmas collection!

I go ages with hardly any postings at all, and suddenly you get two in one day, you can tell the computer has been fixed, ha ha!

Right then, off you go and have a wild weekend, but please do enter it into the challenge.

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

AYLI (DT) Favourite Food or Drink

Hello chaps - it's another Thursday, and that means another new challenge from

AS YOU LIKE IT

This time the challenge theme is FAVOURITE FOOD OR DRINK

(and you must tell us about your choice)

Here is my DT make

Oh I do like me grubs, but I find nothing perks me up more than a delicious coffee, hot if the weather is cold, or iced if it is a really hot day.  My current addiction is a Costa Flat White (other brands are available)

So, for this I have used

Image stamps from Your Next Stamp - Hammie: Coffee and Tea

and the die word is Your Next Stamp - Fancy Coffee Die

Happiness is a good... sentiment and the coffee beans from

Sugar Pea Designs Espresso Yourself

Papers are BoBunny Double Dots

Image painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

Our sponsor for this challenge is

Dies to die for

Prize - £15 voucher

I very nearly resigned my DT position so that I could enter the challenge and try and win this prize!

Right then, it's over to you to go and get delicious - looking forward to seeing your makes.

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

AYLI (DT) Favourite Animal

Morning all, time for another brilliant challenge from the AS YOU LIKE IT team, and this time the challenge is for you to use your favourite animal (and tell us why) for your make.

I found this a really difficult challenge as there are so many animals that I love to use on cards - cats, teddies, bunnies, hedgehogs, but when you have been called Squirrel for 30+ years then what else could it be?!

Loving these Nutty But Nice squirrels from Clearly Besotted

Painted with Distress Inks (ReInkers)

and cut out using the companion dies

Papers are stray sheets of Basic Grey and Echo Park

and I have used my favourite MFT inside out rounded corner stitched squares

The wonderful word die is a new one, to me, from Paper Smooches

The sponsor of this challenge is

Crafty Ribbons

£10 voucher

Hugs to all, and really looking forward to seeing your critters!

Squirrel xx

In The Pink (DT) Bling It On

It's another pink day chaps, and over at IN THE PINK this time the challenge is BLING IT ON

so we'd like to see your sparkle!

I may have gone a little over-the-top

OK, so I made the gift box with pre-glittered cardstock by First Edition

and bordered it with some beautiful cotton lace that I had in my stash

The enormous flower was punched from some self-adhesive holographic foil and then

I layered on the gorgeous fabric flower with the gemmed centre

The ivy swag is a Joanna Sheen Signature die which I cut from kraft card and then green glittered the leaves only, leaving the stems bare

I cut the sentiment from the same foil with Lawn Fawn Scripty For You die

Gems and pearls from stash

It's quite spectacular in the sunshine!

Of course, we have a sponsor for you too and it is the lovely Tracy

from DIES TO DIE FOR with a £10 voucher for the winner

Hugs to all

Squirrel xx

As You Like It (DT)

Morning all.  As you might have twigged from the post title, I have been invited to join the Design Team of those super talented crafters over at As You Like It Challenge!

This is my first challenge for the team and the theme for this fortnight is

Paper or Non Paper Project

(and remember to tell us why you chose what you did)

Here is my first DT project

It wasn't a difficult choice for me, having tried many crafts over the years, some more successful than others, I have always come back to papercraft.  I love that you can create something so colourful and/or dimensional from a flat piece of paper!

I decided to have a go at making a perpetual calendar, which I did completely freestyle with no template.  It took the best part of a whole day to make but I am quite chuffed with the end result.

Papers used are all from the First Edition Sweet Owl pad, with the exception of the black card

Numbers done with Memory Box dies

Days with letters from a Clearly Besotted set

Months (cut down, they were too long otherwise) from a MFT Die-Namics die set

Flowers made with Woodware punches and an office hole punch

And some lace trim from my leftovers box

This challenge is sponsored by DIGISTAMP BOUTIQUE with a £10 voucher

digistampboutique.co.uk catalog

digistampboutique blogspot

So there you have it, do come on over and join in the fun - this challenge is wide open for you to make all sorts of projects, from a simple card through to a wedding cake (if you feel that ambitious!), it's all about your style of craft.

Hugs, Squirrel xx