Let's Go Fishing!

Hi Crafters,

I think the lovely weather we've been having here in the South has turned a corner, it's not looking as good for the next few days - I will enjoy the cooler nights though.

I've been making a series of hobby themed cards for my stall covering various pastimes.

Both cards are using a Woodware Stamp called Casting The Bait and I have added the Silhouette 'FISH' cut file using the positive and negative for a different look. The first card is quite a clean and simple design for me, the second has a bit more going on with some embossing and die cut grass borders.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

The Craft Barn - What Men Like To Do on a Bank Holiday

Addicted To Stamps - #130 Not a Square

Come & Get It - #133 Black, White + One Other Colour

OSAAT - #269 ATG + For Men

Cardz 4 Guyz - #135 Something Beginning with 'F'

Aud Sentiments - #163 ATG + Sentiment

C.R.A.F.T. Challenge - #379 Embossing

Addicted To CAS - #95 Silhouette

Just Keep On Creating - September Anything Goes

Thanks for popping in today, I appreciate the time taken to read and comment here.

 I will be back tomorrow with another Christmas Card Club post - yes, that's another two weeks gone by in a flash!

Oh and by the way - not to panic you at all but it's only 113 days to the Big Day!

Lorraine

xXx

A is for Angler

Hi Crafters,

I've been getting inky over the Easter weekend and this is what I've created using my Distress Inks and a variety of stamps.

Recipe

Distress Inks for the background

Versamark Onyx Black Ink foreground Stamping

Memento Green Inks

Woodware Angler Stamp and Sentiment

Various Sheena Douglas Stamps

Lavinia Stamps

Marianne Corner Die LR0143

I created the background by tearing a piece of paper and using the jagged edge with my inks for the mountains and water. The clouds were inked using another piece of card that I had cut to shape. Then it was just a case of over stamping the foliage and Angler image. I'm quite pleased at how this turned out.

Challenges I'd like to enter:

Cardz 4 Guyz - #113 Something Beginning with 'A' (Angler)

Unicorn Challenge - #7 Clean & Simple

One Crazy Stamper - March ATG

A lovely day in Norfolk today, cool and windy but the sun is shining beautifully. It certainly makes me feel happier - plus I have managed to get three lines of washing dry and that somehow makes me even happier - sad house wife I guess :/

Hope you are having a great day too.

Lorraine 

xXx 

Fishing

Hi, hope you are all keeping warm and dry today. What a mixed bag of weather, I woke up to pouring rain and now, as I'm writing this, the sun is shining brilliantly although it's quite windy.
I've been busy in my craft room but I'm afraid they are all cards that I can't share with you yet. Both my daughters' have birthdays coming up soon and I have been making cards for them from various family members and of course they look at my blog so I will show them when it is safe to :)
Here is a card I can show though....

Card Recipe:

6 x 6 textured cream card blank

Background paper - 'Go Fish Stripes-Carolyn Holt

Image - Art Impressions stamp ( pre-coloured images given to me in a swap)

Sentiment - Computer generated

Spellbinders Classic Circle Die

 

I got the idea for this card from none other than, wait for it......Pinterest. Where would we be without it? lol. The original card can be found here. Hope you like my version too.

I'm entering it in to these challenges:

Through The Craftroom Door - Anything Goes

Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes

Scribble and Scrap - Anything Goes

One Crazy Stamper - Anything Goes

My Mums Craft Shop - Spots &/or Stripes

 

Thanks for all the wonderful comments here recently, they are very appreciated and also a big welcome to my new followers, hope you can find some inspiration here and enjoy my ramblings.

Hope to get round some of your blogs today and leave some love.

 

See you soon,

 

Lorraine