Never Fear...A Hedgehog Is Near!

Near, but not ready to appear!

Expect more hedgehogs next week, but for now a little lady...

I love these Art Impression images, got a few now and this is the first time I've used this lovely lady.  Great sentiments with these stamps too - had to modify it slightly today, but it's much the same as the original.

Challenges;
Papertake - Using the given sketch
Sweet Stampin - Autumn - Colours...shades of brown
Passion for Promarkers - Make it Feminine
Crafty Catz - All Sentimental
Allsorts - Autumn - Colours of

Weight Watchers!

Quick post tonight, had to make this card for a friend, and have taken so long to do so!  Partly due to the stamp coming from the USA and partly cause I'm so busy just now... thought I was supposed to have more time once the boys moved out!

Challenges;
Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 - Super sketch

As for Merlot, he's still not great, he's back at the vet tomorrow so I'll update this post tomorrow night, Jx

MAWTT - Colour Inspiration

So how's everybody today?  Summer holidays for the Scottish schools are now in full swing - not that that concerns me now with both boys left! With the summer season, MAWTT decided to drop to being a fortnightly challenge to give us DT ladies a rest.  Somehow or other I haven't noticed the difference though as I flipped teams last challenge and now I'm back to team A, so as of yet I haven't had a break!  Not that I mind though as I was eager to use my new Art Impressions stamp for the latest challenge as today we are looking for Nice Bright Summer Colours as we take on a

Colour Challenge 

and use the colours below for inspiration...

For my card, I picked up on the torquoise and green shades and made this...

The image is a new one I got from Art Impressions, the sentiment tags LOTV and the paper MME, Be Amazed.

Sponsoring us this week is Clare, a past DT member of MAwtt and she is offering our lucky winner the robot stamp set below,

Challenges;
A song in your He(art) - 3 times a lady - loved the song, remember it well!
Crafters Cafe - Birthdays
I Love Promarkers - Girls - Well big girls really!
Come & Get It - Colours of Summer
Art Impressions - Big Birthdays
Crafty Little Fairies - Summer Fun
Milk Coffee - Birthday Challenge


PS - I've lost my voice, chatted too much to my sis and nieces yesterday! Some however in the household don't see this as a bad thing!!! Jx

The Grill Father

As soon as I saw this stamp, I knew I needed it - and I knew who for!

The image is by Art Impressions, the papers LOTV and the barnner La La Land.  Colouring as always is done by Promarker.

Challenges;
Papertake - Sketch
Passion for Promarkers - Rags to Riches - honest, I needed new pj's!

Craft Your Passion - Ribbons
The Paper Nest Dolls - Anything Goes
Pile It On - Outdoor Fun
Sentimental Sunday - Summer - The season of BBQ's!
Sweet Stampin - Summer Fun - At a BBQ!
Choc Coffee & Cards - Summer Days
Crafty Catz - Anything Goes

The Happy Gardener

After using my Uptown Girls stamp last week I decided to use my Lawn Ranger one this! I so love the Art Impressions stamps, it's just they are not that easy to get a hold of in the UK at reasonable prices.  For that reason I went to 123 Stitch in the US and ordered another couple - naughty I know, but I only had two AI stamps and I thought they were lonely!

Anyway, back to todays card.  It uses old Basic Grey papers and a couple of dies.  Colouring is by Promarker and the sketch a super one from Papertake.

Challenges;
Art Impressions - Male card
Papertake - Sketchie
Penny Black & More @Allsorts - Anything Goes
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
The Male Room - Give us a giggle

Pretty Pastels

Gosh, this post almost went live with just a card and zip else!  Must attend to that now.

Morning all and welcome to this weeks challenge over at Moving Along with the Times.  Today Kelly has chosen

Pretty Pastels

as our theme - a theme that wasn't too well received by some of our design team - but we all got there in the end and if you pop over to the main MAWTT page I'm sure you'll agree the selection of cards is delightful.

For my card, I went with a super Art Impressions stamp called Girlfriends - Uptown Girls - I think these ladies are perhaps the Mums/Aunties of the Stamping Bella Uptown Girls - what do you think???

So the pastel Promarkers made their mark on this onw and because the stamp is so large, there wasn't much room for anything else apart from an MS doily trim and a couple of buttons. Papers a 12x12 Craft Creations sheet.

Challenges;
Simon Says Stamp - Anything Goes
Crafty Sentiments - Anything Goes
Pink Elephant - Pastel Colour Combo
Penny's Paper Crafty - Pastel colours
Scrappers Delights - Pretty Pastels

The Lawn Ranger

I can't believe it's been over a week since I posted a card on here - think that must be the longest break I've had since my blog started!  Card production was down so much I didn't even have challenges to check over the weekend to see if any of my cards got a mention.

The break was down to the good weather, gardening and the boys being around.

The last couple of days have been cooler again and all bedding plants are now in so I thought I'd make a card tonight for a treat.

I do so love Art Impression stamps at the moment - I bought a few a while back and this is the first one I have to show.  He's called The Lawn Ranger and is just perfect for my neighbour - who drives a sit on mower, once even into his lake! Oopsie - he said the bank gave way!

The card is a simple design, text computer generated then the grass made using my Die-namics die - with a bit cut off where the mower has been.  Finally I popped a couple of brads onto the wheels to be the axils and that's about it.

Challenges;
Art Impressions - Use brads/eyelets
Allsorts - In the garden
Cards For Men - Boys will be boys - why use a push more when you can drive a machine!
Papertake - Anything goes
Simon Says Stamp - Male card