Die cut cacti

I’ve been looking for cacti stamps, have found none,  so I was delighted when I came across this cacti die set from Marianne. I cut the parts and used my promarkers to color all the bits and pieces.
I used a MFT stitched frame die and kept the cut in the die while adding green DOx.
Then I used my script stamp and randomly added grey ink. A bit of splatter, 2 stamps used to make the birthday sentiment and my card was ready.

This card is for:
Happy Little Stamper - July Anything Goes with Dies
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes
Creative Knockouts - #256 Sew It Up

Christmas in July - Photo and freebie

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 7 we have a photo challenge and the DT members are using this week's freebie.


As Santa is enjoying a day on the beach I decided to use my boat and waves die set from Poppy to make the background. Santa and the die cut boat are colored with Promarkers. I framed the panel using my new and much loved MFT dies.

This card is also for:
C.R.A.F.T. - #477 Christmas
Die Cuttin' Divas - #379 Christmas in July
Passion For Promarkers Challenge - #454 Dies and/or punches 

Christmas in July - Colors

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 6 we have a color challenge.

I started out picking my DP - as soon as I saw the colors I knew this DP would be perfect colorwise. Then I colored the image Teddy Bear Winter topper, I cut around the teddies to make room for an embossed background. Then I used my MFT dies to frame the panels of  DP and image.

This card is also for:
Back To Basics - #8 use an Embossing Folder
Fab 'n' Funky - #404 Christmas
Christmas at Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes Christmas

Christmas in July - Photo

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 5 we have a photo challenge.

I used a striped and a dotted paper to make the background and  added white seambinding ribbon from my stash. Santa is die cut with a fancy circle die, I used my ovals for the sentiment and a die cut snowflake with some liquid enamel dots. in the top left corner.

This card is also for:
Sketch Saturday - #523 Sketch
Brown Sugar – " 280 Two patterned papers
Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas - #395 Anything Christmas Goes/red

Christmas in July - Bingo

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. For day 4 we are playing bingo.


I used the horizontal middle row. My three colors are aqua+orange+grey. I have used a new release, the image is part of the Christmas in July winner's set.
I kept it really simple, cutting my DP with MFT stitched dies and mounting the snowman behind the panel. Three die cuut snowflakes and a sentiment and my card was ready.

52 Christmas Card Throwdown - Non Traditional Christmas (Colors)
Crafty Cardmakers - #216 HOLIDAYS/VACATION
The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge - #32 Anything Christmas Goes

Christmas in July - Sketch

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, you can see them all in this post. Day 2 is a sketch.

I used the image Winter Bird 2, colored it with Promarkers and cut it with an MFT die. The die cut frame is also MFT and the Santa with sleigh is from Marianne. The red/kraft colored papers are Tim Holtz ones, the musical notes strip was a leftover from my stash. I used my Dymo to make the Christmas sentiment.

This card is also for:
Sweet Stampers - #22 Christmas
Crafty Catz - #426 Anything Goes/dies/punches option
I love Promarkers - #362 Anything goes/Christmas option

Christmas in July - Baby it's cold outside...

It’s time for my favorite event of the year, Christmas in July over at Catch the Bug. A week of daily challenges, and day 1 is a really easy one,  Baby it’s cold outside.

I used a snowman for my card. I sponged blue DI on the background, added drops of water for snow effect and also white frantage. I cut the panel with a MFT stitched frame die.
A subtle detail, which is almost invisible in the photo, is that I masked off the snowman and stamped a few trees with white ink and heat embossed with frosted embossing powder. Quite nice in real life.
The sentiment is a combo of dymo and a Tim Holtz die cut.

This card is also for:
Tuesday Throwdown - #401 - Stitching - Real or Faux (Stitched frame)
Creatalicious Challenges - #143 Anything Goes/Option No Patterned Paper
The Merry Christmas Challenge - Anything Christmas Goes

Beverage

Today I have two cards to share for the  Twofer Card challenge where the theme is beverage. For both cards I used the champagne bottle and glass stamp that was part of freebie set with a magazine recently. I also used a sweet mouse from Penny Black. The frame dies are from MFT, I used the two largest ones.

Card 1) Happy New Year 2019

This is the first card I made. I stuck a freebie paper onto the card base and added sticker numbers. I stamped the mouse and masked him before I used champagne bottle and glass stamp. The bubbles came with the same freebie set. I stamped and cut out one extra glass. I covered the glasses with glossy accent.

This card is also for:
Crafty Friends Challenge - #88 Food / Drink
Crafty Hazelnut's Patterned Paper - Anything Goes with Patterned Paper

Card 2) It's your day (birthday card)

For my second card I used a DP from Lawn Fawn. The cheers sentiment came with the same freebie set.The larger sentiment is from KaiserKraft. I used a part of a doily for table cloth and ounted the mouse and one glass on foam.

This card is also for:
Inkspirational - #165 Birthday
Fab 'n' Funky - #402 Gingham

Yellow flowers

For this card I’ve used a Penny Black flower stamp together with grey ink.
I colored the image using both yellow DI and Promarkers. I added blue DI with a brush to get a light color on the background, then I added a bit of splatter.
After adding the sentiment I felt the card felt a bit empty so I used a script stamp and grey ink.

This card is for:
Allsorts - #476/477 Flowers All Over
Penny Black Saturday Challenge - Anything Goes
Aud Sentiments Challenge - #207 Flowers + A Sentiment

Flamingo, Pink and Hello

It's a rare one for me, but this is a card with no stamping at all, I've only used die cuts.
The flamingo was a gift from my sister, I colored with my Promarkers and added a little WoS on the wings.
The sentiment and lace frame are MFT dies, the sand banks are made with dies from Poppy and the tall flowers I've used for grass and straws are from Tim Holtz.
I colored with blue DIs to make the sea.
I added the panel onto a piece of kraft card stock.

This card is for:
City Crafter Challenge - #420 In The Pink  (pink, flamingo, hello)
Crafty Cardmakers - #215 At least 2 dies/punches
UnstampaBelles - #81 Fancy frame or border

Trees and snowman with stocking

I have made this card for this week's challenge over at Catch the Bug - it's Anthing Goes week.

I've been digging through my stash of ready made items, which were intended for but not used on previous cards. There I found the snowman from Bugaboo as well as the squirrel (Lawn Fawn) and the stamped trees and stocking (Panduro). I just cut the panels and the banner (dies fro MFT), embossed the smaller panel and used a tree stencil (Tim Holtz) on the larger one. The sentiment came free with a magazine.


This card is also for:

Christmas Cards All Year 'Round - Tree

Sweet Stampin - Christmas in July
Sparkles Forum Christmas - #90 Christmas Stockings
Winter Wonderland - Snowmen

In the ocean

It's Thursday and Oldie but Goodie day over at Catch the Bug.
It's very hot and I envy this little monkey his dip in the ocean.
I made a pocket of vellum to make the water and stitched it closed after adding a few fish and starfish sequins. I ct the image in two to pop the upper part on foam on the water surface.

This card is also for:
Crafting By Designs - July Anything Goes
Crafty Creations - Anything Goes

Red roses

 It's been almost a month since my last post. But after a change of internet solution (which wasn't the smoothest), a holiday and a funeral (my Father in law) everyting is getting back to normal. A part from the weather, 30 degrees celsius isn't exactly normal, but I'm not complaining.
I treated myself to this stamp set of roses earlier this week and thought they would be suitable for the sketch over at Sunday Stamps.
I stamped the roses with red and black ink, a grey one for the script background and I also used a new set of dies to make the frame. 

This card is for: 
Sunday Stamps - #182 Sketch
The Library Challenge - The Rose Garden
Moving along with the Times - #74 June Blooms