Make my Monday #109 - Colour Combo - Red, Green and White

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #109 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by Silvi, and you need to use the colour combo - Red, Green and White.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I decided to use this gorgeous design by Alex Syberia.  Alex sent me her latest release, the 2019 Holiday release to play with and unfortunately with being ill, this is the first time, I've had to play.. Please pop over to Alex's store she has the most stunning designs and I am very honored that she chose me to colour/play with her designs! 

I coloured/painted the wreath with nuvo mousse and Arteza pens, I cut the sentiment Joy out of the middle of the wreath and mounted it to a die cut bauble,   and added a ribbon bow.  The background has been splattered with gold and white gold paints. And just a couple of sequins finishes the card...  This card reminds me of those posh (hand made ones) that you buy in a Hallmark store LOL.  I think this card is going to be me go to card for the season, as it's very easy to colour and mass produce LOL, and I need EASY haha

I've tried to take a close up of these so you can see the shimmer!

So other news, my face ache/sinus problems are still with me :( so I've just hopped on to Amazon and bought a facial steamer, with the hope it may clear my sinus problems, and on top of that its the start to the hay fever season (my grass allergy goes off the chart so I've been told :(  LOL  The good news I can get my glasses on again, but it hurts after a while, so I haven't been spending much time crafting or on social media as I can't see to type or see LOL.. The joys of getting older and needing glasses for reading and for distance.. And hopefully my blood sugar is back under control... Because when I go back to the doctors as I don't want to be told off again haha..

Anyway, hope you all have an amazing week, hope you have something crafty planned and thanks for popping in to see me! I do love that you are all still with me!

Hugs

XoX

Make my Monday #108 - Poppy/Poppies

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #108 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Caz, and you need to use a Poppy or Poppies.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I've chosen a very simple card for this challenge as I'm still not well... I must admit it's taking its fair time to go and every day I feel more miserable as I'm losing my crafting mojo, so if you find my mojo, can you please send it back ASAP please :)

So back to the card, this is an Altenew stencil, and I filled in the stencil with distress inks and then went over it with my Arteza watercolor pens, and I just used a water pen to blend/watercolour out the edges, once dried I just went back in with the Arteza pens to put in some fine details. (see told you it was simple! although I made it over a two week period as I can't look down for too long urhhh)  I added a die cut thanks and some sequins and that along with some paper completes this card..  

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired to take part!

Hugs

XoX

Make my Monday #107 - Fruit and or Vegetable

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #107 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Janeen, and you need to use a fruit and or a vegetable.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I've chosen this design for a couple of reasons, it was an easy one to do, and I'm thankful that you guys are still with me, even though I have been MIA with not much happening on here, TBH crafting is hard ATM, I'm hoping that as the weather improves I do too! Not much of an ask is it LOL.

So back to the card, this is an old Stampin Up set "At Home With You" I coloured the door, mat and the pumpkins with Copics and die cut them out.

The paper is also from Stampin Up, I just added a few more lines for more boards and added a strip along the bottom for the decking.  I die cut the door in the backing paper and then added my door in it's place.  The window section of the door has also been die cut, and I just added some clear transparency sheet (acetate) for the windows and popped a tiny piece of paper to resemble wallpaper.

Nothing fantastic about this card other than it fits the criteria of the challenge and like I said I'm thankful that you are still coming to visit me, it means a lot!

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired to take part!

Hugs
XoX

Make My Monday #104 - With Whimsy Stamps

Hi all,

I'm back today with another post this time for the Make My Monday Challenge #104, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Dawn, and it's to use shapes on your card, it can be Circles, ovals, squares, rectangles, etc...

I've gone with circles ...

I die cut a panel of pale blue/green card and I adhered the die cut circles to the panel, the mermaid tales have been coloured with Copics and fussy cut out so I could tuck them in under the circles, I wanted the circles to represent the bubbles created when the mermaids are diving under the water...if you get what I mean LOL...

The sentiment is from the same set too called Mermaid Dreams.  To finish the card I just added some droplets, sequins and rhinestones... and a wee drop of nuvo sparkle, well you have to have some glitter don't you...

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, and I do hope we have inspired you to take part!

Hugs

XoX

Make My Monday - Friendship #102

Its Monday and that means it's time for a new challenge over on the Make My Monday Blog!  The lovely Debbie is out host for this one and she has chosen - Friendship #102

I decided that my new stamp - "Friendship" by Penny Black was perfect for this challenge!

To create this card, I stamped the image in black memento ink, and coloured it with Prismacolor pencils.  The sea has been created using 3 die cuts for stencils, I used Mermaid lagoon distress oxide ink, and the sky was the clous stencil by MFT and I used Tumbeled glass distress oxide ink.  The sentiment is from the same set, stamped in black and die cut using a tag die.

These guys are so cute sailing in some rough seas!

I'm entering this one into the following Challenges

SSS - Anything Goes optional Penny Black

Penny Black and More August - For Boys and Men

PBSC August - Anything Goes...Optional 'Water and/or Watercolour'!

Just Us Girls Challenge #499~Word Week - SUMMER

Always Fun Challenge #122 - Use Stencils - EDITED I got a top 3

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like the card and why not pop over and join in with the challenge!

Hugs

XoX

For A Guy at Make My Monday

Hi all,

Its Monday and that means it's time for a new challenge over on the Make My Monday Blog!  The lovely Meg is out host for this one and she has chosen "For a guy young or old"

This worked out quite well for me, as I needed a retirement card.  My postie is retiring.. I think he may be so tired with always walking up my steep driveway with my craft supplies....OK OK and my wine deliveries teehee!

So here is my card for him, let's hope that this card represents his free time from now on LOL

This is a stamp from LOTV, but they are now available in Digi's.  I've coloured it with Copics.
Used up some of my Old Olive Stampin Up! paper and DSP.  I've also used two punches and a sentiment by SU too.
The fence & grass are by Spellbinders. And a couple of stitched ovals to make a frame and to cut out the DSP.
This card has been popped up on fun foam and the image has been recessed for some added interest.
Here's a couple of more photos

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to come and join us for this new challenge over on the Make My Monday Blog!

hugs
XoX

I'm entering this into the Southern Girls Challenge - Boys are the bomb with team Trace

Make My Monday #100 - Thank you

Happy Monday everyone, and that means challenge time over on the Make My Monday blog

This weeks host is the lovely Caz, and the theme for this challenge is Thank you. And we would like to say thank you to you guys too, we had over 100 entries in our last challenge, which was amazing!
So please join us again in this our 100th challenge!

So for my DT card, I thought what could be better than a bunch of flowers as a thank you, and that's what I have created for my card!

For this card I have coloured the Beautiful Bouquets: Dahlias by Wplus9 with my Polychromos pencils, the sentiment is also by Wplus9 from the Basic Labels set.

The background stamp is by Altenew - Wood Pallet and that has been ink blended with Festive berries Distress ink.

I've paired this card with a couple of Spellbinders dies, from the Tranqil Moments Card Creator, and a few sequins and crystals completes the card!

Hope you like this card and you'll think about joining us for this challenge on the Make My Monday blog

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

Make my Monday #99 - Begins with letter B

Happy Monday to you all, and that means it's challenge time again over on the Make my Monday blog! Amy is our lovely host of this challenge.

This challenge is  - begins with the letter B...  Well I thought of a few things that begin with the letter B... Blue Sky ( I'm missing that at the moment as it's winter here in Melbourne) Birds, Butterflies and a Bike... so I've incorporated all of that into my DT card!

Apart from the background everything else is dies, I haven't played much with my dies lately and it was really rather fun to get them out again and play!

The background is MFT cloud and Radiating Rays stencil, and the sentiment is also MFT from the Full of Sunshine set.

The first strip of grass, the tiny birds are also by MFT, the butterflies are by SSS, and the fence, gate and arbour are all by Taylored Expressions. The second strip of grass a Lawn Fawn die, and the bike I'm not sure on as I've lost my packaging for that..

I coloured the bike with Copics and then went over it with nuvo mousse to give it a bit of shine, and added a few black pearls.  The fence, gate and arbour I ran through an embossing folder to give it a bit of dimension!

Hope you like the card, and hopefully you'll come and join us at Make My Monday! Here's a couple more photo's!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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Make My Monday #98 - Lots of Flowers - more than five

Hi all, and happy Monday... which means it's Challenge time over on the Make My Monday Blog!

This is only my second post for the DT over on MMM, but this challenge is so me...its all about flowers and the host for this challenge is the lovely Silvi.

This is my card, and as you can see it has more than the required five flowers haha..

The background to this is the Wood Pallet Stamp by Altenew, which I've ink blended in the Sea Shore collection of inks. The stamp set I used is Delicate Flowers - by Simon Says Stamp, which I've coloured using my Prismacolour pencils. The hugs die is also by Altenew, from the Script words set.

No sequins on this one but I have used my Gelly roll pens in Stardust, White and Black, and Neptune Turquoise Crystal Drops by nuvo.

And here's a couple more photos

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out the cards on the MMM blog and maybe play along and enter into the challenge also!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

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