Embossing Fun

 Good morning,

I have had a slightly hectic week, but it's been wonderful. First a trip to the Quilt & Stitch village, then up to Manchester for a Dimenson 20 show with my youngest

 

And my bluebells have finally come out

 

But lets get back to the important business of crafting, because over at Fab'n'Funky challenges...

Embossing

wet/dry

yes we want you to choose which method you like most, or why not mix the up

Soo I got a lovely embossing folder for xmas and I've been dying to use it........

And here it is

Embossing folder - Wisteria background from Lisa Norton

Inks - Perfect plum & Garden green

My foam pad was a little small and I think that is the reason so much ink got on the main body of the card.

But it does seem to give it a little something

Well please check out our lovely ladies at Fab'n'Funky challenges and leave them some love.

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy x

Add a Sentiment

 Well life has been rather chaotic but I'm still standing (for the moment....lol)

We are ask you to 

Add a Sentiment

for our challenge over at Fab'n'Funky challenges.

 

I have decided to go girly with my sentiment card

•  F.L.o.S - Happiness Blooms sentiment
• Cardstock - White card blank & S.U.Strawberry slush
• Papaer - From stash possibly from TL magazine
• Ink - (on flowers) S.U. Strawberry slush & (sentiment) Momento Tuxedo black

Have fun joining in with us and leave the ladies some love

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

Has Spring sprung?

 Hello Lovelies,

Is spring really here? I know my spring flowers are out but I'm not feeling it...anyway

 Well the theme over at Fab'n'Funky challenges is...

 

Spring

show us your spring inspirations

 

 Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

 

Stripy C.A.S

 Hello

We have a great new challenge for you over at the Sisterhood of Crafters 

Dots and/or Stripes 

I will confess now that I went for a very simple and clean design

The striped paper is from an old Tattered lace magazine and the sentiment stamp is from Woodware.

I hope all of you have fun crafting your enteries.

Hugs & Happy thoughts 

Buffy xx

Love to love

Hello my lovelies, it's that soppy time of year again. 

Now I'm not being negative about valentines day but I think we all reach a certain age and all the romance has been used up, and we're happy with a takeaway and a video (a film at home).

But our theme over at the Sisterhood of Crafters is 

Love

we want you to join us in get all lovey dovey, so show us your soppy side.

I have decided to go simple and understated, with another of my F.T.L.S stampsets.

 

I found this lovely Heart paper in my stash (I think it's from an old Tattered Lace mag) and decided it was perfect to go with my stampset (F.T.L.S - Essential Overlay Sentiments).

So for "Love" I used S.U. Melon Mambo and for the "lots of" and "& hugs" I used S.U.Rich Razzelberry Inkpads.

Don't forget to drop by the Sisterhood and leave some well deserved love for our fabulous DT

Well, I have to get back to costume making as Japan Day at daughters Uni is in 10 days. 

And yes of course I'm going to share all the fun we have. I might even put a link to the fashion show video (if I remember to charge the camera 😉)

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

New Beginnings

 Good morning

Well it's that time again...........Fab'n'Funky challenges and the theme is...........

New Beginnings

so that could be a New baby/house/job/car???

 

I dug out one of my lovely WMS stamp set and used a soft neutral colour palette. 

The nice thing about this stamp is that the door section is an additional stamp, (house has roofed door plus roofed door stamp).

I felt the neutral palette makes the card universal.

Please check out our lovely DT's inspirational examples....Here  And leave them some love.

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy x

Feeling Blue?

 Good morning world

I don't no about your weather but ours has been crazy, last week freezing and now, blowing a gale with downpours....ahhhh the beauty of living on an island (300miles at our widest point)

Well that's enough of that, the Sisterhood of Crafters would like to invite you to go

winter BLUE

yes, let us see your blue side, with a variety of shades

 I've tried a little bit of masking with a stencil and then adding a little depth using colour, not sure if I pulled it off. What do you think?

The stencil - Cardio Church Window - you might think these windows are cut out and foam backed BUT no, I traced the the windows, the ran a fineline pen over the pencil line. I then coloured in the background with a Tan promarker, then one the right-hand edge of each I used a Cinnamon then a Cocoa promarker to give depth/shadowing.

The balloons stamp - F.t.L.o.S Birthday Balloons - more masking to get lots of balloons to be passing by the window, the texture stamped in S.U. Pacific point and Tempting turquoise. The balloon strings are free-hand with a fineliner pen.

Sentiment - F.t.L.o.S Essential Overlay sentiments - Happy in S.u. Marina Mist and Birthday in Momentos Tuxedo black, on white cardstock mounted on S.U. Denim blue cardstock (same as lower layer). Mounted to the card with 2mm foam pads.

Our lovely DT have made some inspirational cards, so go over and share some love with them....HERE

 

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

Beat it, Eat it, Stamp it.

 Do you remember?

Micheal Jackson told us to Beat it, Weird Al told us to Eat it 

and over at Fab'n'Funky challenges we want you to....

 

Stamp it

 

Yes we want to see your Stamped images, they can be a  rubber/silicone stamp or a digital stamp. 

I have dug out one of my old Woodware stamps for this one...

It called - Three Toadstools

A variety of red, beige and green Promarkers to colour it in.

I used a cloud shaped punch from S.U. for the sentiment, I felt it broke up the rectangular feel of the card.

Please make sure to pop over and share some love with our Fabulous DT's - HERE

I've been working on my daughters costume and we are almost at the end, I can just about see a the light at the end of the tunnel, it's faint but I'm sure it's there   👀   so back soon with a sneak peek

Keep on creating

Hugs & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx

Chilly

 I hope everyone had a super New year. 

We don't do the whole party thing, hubby and youngest don't like the noise of parties (that's the beauty of Aspies) but we toast in the new year then pray the fireworks will stop. Easy answer is to put on an old Godzilla film and when I say old I'm not joking, we have the original 1954 film and it's amazing. We have dozens of old Godzilla films that are older than me!!

BUT

we're here to craft are we not. Over at Sisterhood of Crafters we are a little chilly, our theme this time is 

Icy Cold

yes we would like to see all your cold creations. I've experimented with paste for this one

Yes I made my own glitter paste, using glue and glitter. Yeah I know that just sounds like gluing then sprinkling glitter but I decided to mix them togeher first and see how it would work with one of my favourite stencils.

Now it dried quite thin, which I think is a good thing, it did leak under the stencil in a few places too.

NOW! The downside, I got glitter everywhere when I started stirring it together. It's going to take a few months to finally get it all vacuumed up 🙄Thank goodness I have a crafting shed to do this experimenting in 😂

But hey, that's what crafting is all about, messy experimenting and have fun.

Please drop by and leave some love for our lovely ladies, HERE

Back soon with more crafting craziness

Hug & Happy thoughts

Buffy xx