Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow

Good morning and happy Saturday! A new month always means the start of a new challenge at Rubber Dance, and it's an extra special one this month. This time it's a month long challenge with a colour theme, and/or glitter. As it's Christmas I've gone for lots of glitter!

Yes that frost is real, in fact we had a full on blizzard a couple of days ago.

I started with this tea light holder from a rather well know Scandi store. I thought the colour was just right for what I had in mind.

Then I started to stamp the images from Whimsical Winter, Playful Penguins, and Winter Wonderland with Stazon inks. 

Did someone say glitter???

I coloured them all in with DecoArt glass paints, glass pens, and Stickles.

Then I added some Snowtex and ultra fine glitter.

It looks even nicer in the dark.

Such a cute penguin!

I love this tree.

Here's our mood board, and look at that fabulous prize! Remember you have all month to enter so what are you waiting for!
If you need more stamps (and who doesn't) just quote SDFreeShip for free worldwide P&P on orders of 15 Euros and above.

I'll be back to see you later in the month, and thanks very much for looking xx

It's Begining To Look A Lot Like Christmas

Good morning Happy Friday, and happy December! Yes it's nearly Christmas and of course I'm massively behind with my preparations, - well it wouldn't be Christmas otherwise! The new challenge over at Country View Crafts is Christmas with an option of red, green, and rust, so I've taken the opportunity to make some gift tags.

I started by taking 3 manila tags and scraped them with Amsterdam acrylics. 

Next I added some stencilling with White Linen Dylusions spray ink.

Time to stamp now, I used Tim Holtz Christmas stamps, and Ranger Archival ink with clear embossing powder to give a glossy look.

Next I added some Frantage rust.

They've been embellished with Tim Holtz Christmas Quote Chips, Thinlits, Bigz Dies, and On The Edge dies. I've had some of these for many years, and some for only a couple of weeks, but everything works so well together. Tim Holtz is VERY clever!

I'm sure you're all in full swing for Christmas (if not, why not), so please share your makes with us for the chance to win £20.00 to spend in the store.

I'm also entering my tags into the challenges at A Vintage Journey - Winter Wonderland, and Craft Stamper TIMI Anything Goes.

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

Beauty In Simplicity

Good afternoon and happy Tuesday. I'm over on the Lost Coast Designs Portal To Creativity with my second C&S card.

This is my new favourite Carmen's Veranda stamp Birds Collage Background, that's been inked with Distress inks.

There's still time for you to join in with the challenge, but be quick, but hey it's only C&S, what could be easier.... - well, just about anything!!

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

Live With Passion

Good morning and happy Friday, welcome to the weekend. I'm over on the Rubber Dance Blog today, where the rest of this will be revealed.

If you click the link here I'll meet you over there.

As always, if you want any of our fabulous stamps just quote SDFreeShip on all orders of 15 Euro's and over for free worldwide P&P. 

Have a wonderful weekend, and thanks very much for looking xx

No Internet For A While

Hi everyone,

I won't have any internet access for nearly a month! I've scheduled a few posts for November, but I'm afraid I won't be able to visit your blogs.
I look forward to catching up with everyone at the end of November.
Be good!

Clean and Simple for Lost Coast Designs

Good afternoon and happy Monday. The Lost Coast challenge this month is a very scary one (to me) it's Clean and Simple eek!

I started by stamping the Lost Coast Designs Flower Flourish onto a scrap of a Gelli print and embossed in black.

Then I stamped it again onto a piece of white card and embossed this. It's not easy is it white card and black embossing powder! Then it was just a case of matching the two up.

The sentiment is one of the wonderful Carmen's Veranda clear stamps, Born To Stand Out.

Please head over to the portal and check out my teamies wonderful creations - they're not scared of C&S like I am!

I hope you join in, there's Lost Coast $'s up for grabs! Have a fun week, and thanks very much for looking xx

A Crazy Birthday Card

Good morning and happy Friday. It's time for my second 'stencil' piece for Country View Crafts, and this time I've gone a little 'crazy'

If you remember I made a master board for this challenge so I started by cutting a piece 7.75 x 7.75. I really like it, but it's a bit busy for a background, so I decided to chop holes into it!

In the first one, I put this Crazy Cat.

And in the other, I put this one!

I've also used a die from the Tim Holtz Halloween Sizlits set, and my go-to Celebration Words set.

I really like how it looks, and as the recipient is a 'cat person' I hope she'll like it too.

There's still lots of time for you to join in, so please dust off the stencils and play along.

Have a fun week, and thanks very much for looking x

Shhhhhhhh

Good morning and happy Wednesday. Today is the start of a fun new challenge over at Rubber Dance, it's your Favourite Movie. Here's mine (with apologies to Donna and Bibi) for the (mis)use of the stamp.

Yes, it's The Sound Of Music... oh wait a minute, I couldn't do the von Trapp family, - I hope you can tell what it is, but for those who can't, it's The Silence of the Lambs. I've used the cloud that Donna designed for the Whimsical Summer Rubber Dance plate.

I made a background on mixed media paper with Fresco paints and Porfollio oil pastels. Then I stamped the cloud (as a cloud this time).

Now I don't like to brag but I drew these myself lol. These are the ones that made the grade, you should see the 2 sheets of  A4 that ended up in the bin! Who knew drawing an oval could be so hard. Actually, I did, that's why I buy rubber stamps.

Then just a bit of washi tape to ground my lambs, and some rain drops - well they won't be very happy with their mouths taped up will they.

It's your turn now, so please join in and show us your favourite movie. Remember to quote SDFreeShip for free worldwide P&P on orders of 15 Euros and over.

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