What's Good For Your Soul!

Hello and thank you so much for visiting me!  I have a cute card today using some fabulous quirky stamps from Aall and Create.  There is a whole set of these gorgeous little characters and this is the first time I have used them.  Its a birthday card for a friend of mine who, luckily, doesn't know about my blog as her birthday isn't until next week.

Firstly I inked the background with Picked Raspberry, Salty Ocean and Fossilised Amber Distress Oxides then I laid a stencil by Aall and Create - No. 95, over the background and sprayed with water, dabbed with kitchen roll and removed the stencil which left a lovely ghost image where the inks lift with the water.  I stamped the girls and flowers on snippets of white card, embossed with clear powder, then fussy cut out and coloured with a mixture of Phil Martin's watercolour pens and Promarkers.  I stamped the grass from another set several times across the bottom and coloured in then added the fussy cut images along with the sentiment, again from Aall and Create.  The stamp set Nos are 255.

297 and 359 all designed by the fabulous Janet Klein - the stencil too. 

I am not very good at colouring in but these quirky images are such fun that I really enjoyed it and have several more of these girls and some cool birds Janet designed too, so will be making more of these fun cards.

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Use Snippets - My girls, flowers and words are all snippets.

Penny Black and More - Favourite Stamps - These cute girl stamps are my favourites at the moment.

Stamping Sensations - Make it Colourful.

Time Out Challenges - Proust Quote.

NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff - All the Stamps and the Stencil are used for the first time.

Thank you again for visiting me, I wonder if you are venturing out to the shops or back to work now lockdowns are easing everywhere?  We are staying firmly indoors and away from everyone/  Way too scared to venture into the wider world just yet.  Mind you, with both our medical conditions, we can't go out much anyway so really is no hardship there although miss seeing family and friends.

Take care and stay safe.  Hugs Christine xxx

1st Birthday Card

Hello and thank you so much for visiting.  My card today is one I made for a little boy across the road who was one year old on Saturday.  His Mum and Dad have been so kind to us during this Covid 19 nightmare. Picking up our prescriptions and odd bits of shopping and surprising us with lovely cakes and treats and last weekend a yummy steak pie!  All homemade!  People are just so kind.

I stamped the gorgeous image from a fab stamp set by Clearly Besotted called Balloon Bunch Buddies.  The set contains the balloon and lots of different cuties to float on it and some little sentiments too.  I embossed the image in clear powder then watercoloured the background using Distress Oxides and water.  The image is coloured using Promarkers with a little white Posca Pen on the balloon with a die cut number 1.  The sentiment is from a Stamplorations clear set Party Time and I added 2 colours of little die cut stars using a die from Mama Elephant.  The main and yellow panels are cut with a Stamplorations die set but I can't remember what it is called. 

I would like to enter the following challenges.

Time Out Challenges - Free - I think I would feel very free floating from a balloon!
Pixie's Snippets Playground - I used snippets for my sentiment, number and stars.
Darnell's NBUS Challenge - My Never Before Used Schtuff is the stamp set I used for my main image.

Thank you again for visiting me.  I hope you are all coping ok with everything that is going on in these strange times.  Take care and stay safe!  Christine xxx