It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Autumn

Good morning and happy Wednesday. It's a lovely day here today, but I can't kid myself that Summer is still here, it's definitely Autumnal now, so out have come my Autumn colours.

The owl's are a Rubber Dance set, Owl Do Good and I've coloured them with PaperArtsy Infusions and Satin Glaze. I don't know why I associate owls with Autumn, I'm sure they're an all year round bird lol.

Don't forget we have a new Facebook group at Rubber Dance where you can enter our challenges and show all your Rubber Dance makes. Just click on the link if you're not already a member https://www.facebook.com/groups/311557542913461/    

I'm entering them into Dot's challenge at Ink Art Designs, the Happy Little Stampers Anything Goes With Dies, and September's TIMI challenge at Craft Stamper.

  Have a very happy day, and thanks for looking xx

Where Does The Time Go

Good afternoon and happy Sunday. Well somehow my baby turns 25 next week! It doesn't seem like 2 minutes since he was born. I had all my own hair colour then, and Neil had (some) hair! My baby boy is now 6'2'' and I couldn't be more proud of him, but enough of the soppy stuff, here's his birthday card ;-)

His favourite colours have always been orange and green, so there's plenty of these here. I've used my new favourite for today stamps which can be found here. Lost Coast Designs also have a growing range of Katzelkraft stamps and they can be found here.

The background has been made with lots of Distress Oxides and stencilling, so I'm joining in with the Simon Says Stamp Monday and SSS Wednesday challenges which are both Stencil It, and The Happy Little Stampers Watercolour and Anything Goes With Dies challenges.

Have a very happy day, I hope the sun continues to shine, and thanks very much for looking xx

Fill Your Heart

Good Morning and happy Monday. Over on the Paperbabe blog there is a new fun challenge 'dots'. I've just got a new stamp set from there (now that the January spending ban is over) so I wanted to give it a try.

 I started with a piece of a brayer clean up sheet cut to slightly smaller than 4x6.

 Then I added my dots - lots and lots of them. There's washi tape, and also background stamps from the Paperbabe Whimsical Woodland set.

 Then I stamped my sweet foxes. It's a two part stamp so you can have any colour you like. The sentiment is from the same set.

I think they look really sweet altogether. The eagle eyed amongst you may notice the shiny silver heart - in the words of 10cc 'it hides a nasty stain that's lying there' Note to self, never try to remove a tiny mark that doesn't even show - it turns into a HUGE mark that does! I've matted it up onto a piece of black card so now it's 6x4 and one for my postcard album!

There seems to be lots of hearts around at the moment - it must be the time of year;-) so I'm also entering this into the Happy Little Stampers  Anything Goes With Dies challenge, and Craft Stampers TIMI challenge for February.

Have a very happy week, and thanks very much for looking xx

It's Spike Friday!

Good morning and happy Friday. The sun shone for about 30 seconds, so Spike said he wanted to go outside.

This has been made with the Rubber Dance Textured Flowers set, lots of  Distress Ink, and embossing powder.

I love these colours!

I'm entering my flower into the That's Crafty anything but a card challenge, and Happy Little Stampers Watercolour and Anything Goes With Dies challenges.

Have a great weekend, and thanks very much for looking x

Summer Sun (In the Rain)

Good morning and happy Monday. Well I'm back from my week away in Sunny Scarborough - who am I kidding, it rained every day, and when it wasn't raining it was blowing, and when we got really lucky it did both! Still we managed to walk loads so my step counter was very happy. 
There's still time to enter the colour challenge over at Rubber Dance, and so to celebrate Summer, I made this.

I've used Owl Do Good, Retro Beach, and Giraffe.

I've also added lots of rain! These owls are so cute, I think they are definitely sheltering from the weather. If you would like them to wing their way to you, don't forget to use SDFreeShip on orders of 15 Euros and over.

I'm entering my rainy owls into the Happy Little Stampers Die Cut challenge.
Have a fun week, and thanks very much for looking x