When it rains…..

 We’ve been away recently, and I knew my sister would be missing us, as she recently lost her husband,

so I took this pre stamped image (stamp was borrowed from a friend), and coloured it in.

It even got to her before we were back home!

We’d been to North Wales, Nefyn area, to visit family.

Unfortunately the weather was absolutely awful, relentless gale force winds and torrential rain.

We were in our old motorhome, with a drive away awning attached.

Almost every seam and zip leaked from the force of the rain.

Some of my craft stash was soggy, but luckily not too much was ruined.

I came home with a stinking cold, and we found a problem with our boiler had leaked through the ceiling,

all over my craft desk 😩! Again luckily not too much was damaged, as I’d tidied it before going away.

Whilst we were away there had been a difficult funeral in the family, and we  also heard that our neighbour has submitted an appeal to build a large house very near our boundary……

….I do hope we are due some good luck soon!

I don’t normally offload like this, but thanks for reading if you got this far,

and you know what they say……when it rains……!

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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FMS Uniko Wonderful Day

 I’m having a play with some new to me stamps from Uniko, 

this one is Wonderful Day, which happens to be discounted at the moment….HERE

It has some fabulous sentiments too, and lots more images.

I wanted to try a clean and simple card, and saw the Freshly Made Sketches sketch challenge #704

I used peach, pink, blue and yellow inks. I did alter the position of the sentiment,

mainly because I hadn’t noticed it on the sketch, silly me 😂🙄

I hope you have a good week

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

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Lesley

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Patterned Tags

 As soon as I saw this new set from SU, I had to have it!

It makes very simple tags, that I layered onto contrasting card…

The two on the left have old ombré glittery card  

Taking these to the following challenges:

Tag along and ATC’s (anything goes for the tag in the centre)

 Allsorts #832 (leaves / anything goes)

NBUS #78  (never before used stuff)

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Lesley

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Two cuties using well loved wooden stamps

I’m trying to make as many Christmas cards as possible, 

so I stamped a few images, and try to colour them in when I get time.

 This one is for We love Stamping (make it cute)

I used a white gel pen to scribble over the white fur, the rest is done with pencils.

I used SU stitched rectangle dies, snowflake embossing folder, Inkylicious sentiment.

(You might just see the embossed snowflakes)

The next one is for Stamping Sensations (CAS)

Another old wooden stamp, a Love2Craft die set, won in the Snippets Playground,

and an old SU sentiment.

This time I highlighted the fur with a blue pen.

I think I will add a star or snowflake above his nose,

what do you think….star or snowflake?

I’m also taking them to the Snippets Playground #515,

as lots of small snippets of card from my stash were used for the layers.

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Lesley

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Winter Wonderland embossed snowflake

 

This was inspired by Emma Goddard (Coastal Crafter),

who has a fab online card n cuppa Facebook group I highly recommend.

I used an old SU embossing folder, Winter Wonderland

with their two tone paper that has a white core. (Secret Sea, like a dark navy)

The folder breaks the fibres, but I also sanded it to make it show even more.

I added twine and an Inkylicious sentiment that I fussy cut.

The white background is also embossed with another SU folder Winter Snow,

which I should have highlighted with a blending brush, as it’s a bit too subtle 😂

I added wink of Stella, which you can’t see either 🙄

Challenges:

Can you handle the pressure

Allsorts #832 (AG)

Stamping Sensations (AG)

We Love Stamping(AG)

Just Add Ink #769 (words, neutral)

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Lesley

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Fallen seagull oops!

 I’ve been making beach scenes recently, having acquired two lovely sets from SU and Inkylicious.

Unfortunately whilst I wasn’t looking my seagull fell off his perch 😂….

I did put him back, perched on the deckchair before I posted it 😃

So, how often do you see “mishaps” when you photograph your creation?

I’m in a place with cra’b’ internet, so apologies for struggling to comment, but rest assured I’m trying!

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Simple Sunrise

Hello crafty peeps, today’s card is

inspired by Mikaela Titheridge of the craftyoinkpen.co.uk HERE

Using Sunrise Sailing set from SU.

With the aid of some scrap paper masks, simple ink blending,

a bit of stamping and some die cut boats….

I used a white pen to highlight the ripples, and wish I hadn’t 😂.

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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