Hot Dog Birthday

I just received this frame die and a new set of Stampin Up stamps

Could not wait to try them out!

 Snippets of card for the puppies and the frame.

Puppies coloured with Faber Castelle watercolour pencils

Frame coloured with Kaisercraft ink pad cubes - dabbed directly onto the card after being cut out with the die from Wish. Then Stampin Up sentiment stamped in Kaisercraft Bark ink (LOL) and the bones stamped in Vanilla.

I am entering this creation into the following challenges

Cardz 4 Guys #268 - use something new to your stash

NBUS Challenge #25 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #400

Die Cut Diva's - Window or Aperture Card

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

 

Hummingbird Birthday

One of those dies you just have to have... & getting back to watercolouring which I love!

Die & Sentiment stamp are unbranded from Wish!

Watercoloured with Faber castell watercolour pencils

Glitzy glitter glue on the eye & belly of the hummingbird.

White square card base and snippets of white for the die cut bird & flowers.

I am entering this creation into the following challenges

HLS March Watercolour Challenge

NBUS Challenge #24

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #399 - Ruby's Memory

                                             Sieze The Birthday #210 - Sketch

Not sure if this meets the sketch brief so just playing in the anything goes category 😀

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

 

Peacock & Purple Flower Birthday

Peacok Distress ink on a pale purple card base was the naminy inspiration for this creation.

The dies left behind a black window frame - love double bubble opportunities.

The colours are way brighter IRLand the contrast with the black is super!

 SU sentiment stamp, unbranded dies. Peacock distress ink on a lilac card base.

Not linking up to any challenges with this one 😀

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Cheers

Maurs xxx

Fairy Happy Birthday

 

My very first Lavinia card... plus DP from my stash that went perfectly!

I have since purchased way too many Lavinia stamps!!

All Lavinia stamps in versa magic chalk black & white.  DP from my stash. Avocado liquid pearls, Faber castell pencils for the fairy wings and Glitzee glitter glue.

I am adding this creation to

  Crafty Hazelnut's Patterened Papaer Challenge March 2021 😀

NBUS Challenge #24 😀

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

White Yellow Aster

 An any occasion card just in case... Birthday, Wedding, Thank You, Thinking of you...

I have used snippets of white for the aster, the die is unknown, two different washi tapes from Kmart snippet of yellow card on a pink card base & a yellow bling, yellow on the asters is Chameleon pen.

I am adding this creation to 

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #398

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Cheers

Maurs xxx

Pink Silver Petals

It has been ages since I used my stickers - silver strips on this creation.

Left blank so it can be used for any occasion at the last minute...

 Silver card base, silver strip stickers, floral die free from a magazine - pink bling

Not entering into any challenges with this one 😀

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Cheers

Maurs xxx

Hee Haw Birthday

 My baby turns 25 tomorrow...

This may seem like a jokey card - but my girl just loved the Stampin Up stamp set when she saw it as it reminds her of a donkey song she heard. Pink & Black are her favourite colours so the window frame from a left over card snippet (from a previous card) was perfect - the pink and colouring of the donkeys with Chameleon pens.  All mounted on a snippet of cream card then onto a square white card.

I just know she will love it.

I am entering into NBUS challenge #24 as I have not used the stamps before.

Stay safe & well all

Cheers

Maurs xxx

Green Enjoy

A really quick card to brighten someone's day...

 I used Japanese rice paper which has gold throughout purchased a very long time ago, mounted it onto a piece of card using craft glue spread with a popstick to get it even. Let that dry and then mounted onto a light green card base.

Cut a label using Paper Rose Die - and stamped with a Mama Elephant sentiment in bright green ink.

I used a versa cube gold ink around the edges of the label as a highlight.

I am entering into Crafty Hazelnut's Patterened Paper Challenge March 2021

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Cheers

Maurs xxx

Koala Love

Got some really lovely Heartfelt Creations Stamps the other month - using one for the first time...

Cream card stock - I stamped the Koala on a cream mini card front and coloured it with Derwent watercolour pencils and blended with water. attached it to a snippet of Gum Leaf Green card.

The sentiment is Mama Elephant (A gift from my sister Cathy @ Cathy's Card Spot) 

Open up the mini card and the sentiment is a stamp free from a magazine.

I am entering this creation into the following Challenges:

NBUS Challenge #24

Every stamp used is NBUS 

Cardz for Guyz  #265 - Thinking of You

Stay safe & well
Cheers

Maurs xxx

It was a lovely surprise to find I had made the top 3 picks over at Cardz for GuyZ

Mxxx

 

Blue n White Candle Birthday

 We were off to a Greek Restauraunt for a lazy Sunday lunch when I had the inspiration to create this Birthday Card - The two shades of white adding a sharp contrast to the vibrant blue...

Candle Dies from the ether known as Wish...

Sentiment die is Kaisercraft.

Not adding this creation to a challenge
Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs  xxx

Cutout Floral Birthday

Dies make things so quick and easy - adding just a tinge of colour and Voila!! 

I have been buying dies from wish - I just cannot help myself - they are so tempting and pretty!
But there is no branding so I cant identify them and have to mark them all as Unknown...

This one is a floral side cutout which I have coloured with pink & yellow The Happy Birthday die - unknown also.

Not entering into any challenges with this one 😀

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

Rose Birthday

 

Roses - such a beautiful flowers and so many colours and perfumes... just lovely.

I used one of my Chameleon pens for this one - still getting used to the art of using them but like anything practise is fun... I then used a Chameleon pen fineliner to define the edges of the petals.

Fussy cutting is becoming a lost art I fear with all of the dies now available - but I am happy to fussy cut so I get right into the image and not have a "border" around things. In this case - there is no die that I know of for this stamp 😁

Stampin Up Fifth Avenue Floral stamp, Birthday Die - Unknown, Versa Colour cube Gold Ink 
Dark Green card base, Snippets of white & pink card stock.

I am entering this creation into 

Seize the Birthday # 208-Create a Scene or anything goes

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

Circle Sentiment Birthday

 Using snippets of card to create is really satisfying.... as well as NBUS - Never Before Used Schtuff...

I fell in love with Creative Expressions Circle Sentiments Dies - after doing a project with the Friend Die at the start of this year - I am now getting to use one of my other dies for the first time - This one is the Birthday Die. They are quite large compared to my normal dies - but it makes it all the more fun working around them.

Square white card base, snippet of white - using brushes to apply the ink (Stampin Up) and then L Design scallopped circle die for the background, snippet of pink for the Birthday die cut, then tiny flowers from my stah to finish off.

I am entering this creation in the following challenges:

NBUS Challenge # 23

Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #397

Seize The Birthday - This time around it is Create a Scene or Anything Goes

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

Know...

 When friends reach out it is nice to be able to send them a handmade card

This was my very first experiment with make up brushes to apply ink... quite enjoyable - lots more experimentation to be had...

I am adding this creation into the NBUS Challenge #23 

I am also adding to Pixie's Snippets Playground - Challenge #396 - Ruby's Memory

Oatmeal card base, White card snippets for the stamped image and the label

NBUS - Stamps: Sullivans Paper xtra clear stamps

NBUS - Sentiment: Stampin Up - Celebrate Sunflowers

NBUS - Label Die: Stampin Up - Tasteful Labels

NBUS - Inks: Stampin Up

Bling from stash

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx

Rainbow Friends

My little brain decided in December when I finished all my Christmas Cards that I would begin a project to finish out the year called Rainbow Friends. It took a bit longer to complete this than I anticipated... 

I asked significant friends what their favourite colours were - and then I began....  

While I worked on the words for the above insert I created cards reflecting the personality of each friend and their significance to me - in their favourite colour 

All creations used: NBUS - Creative Expressions Circle Sentiment Die - Friend

Label Die - unknown, Die'sire Upper & lower Alphabet dies, different coloured card snippets and ribbons from stash. Couture Creations 5x7 white card base. Foam squares, double sided tape in different widths, and white craft glue.

Red - A dream fulfilled by becoming a Mummy

this friend now glows with pride - so happy to now be known as Nanny M!

Red: NBUS - Paper rose stencil background using Rocket Red dewdrop ink.

NBUS - Kaisercraft Heart Border die.

Orange - A real crack up this friend goes walkabout all the time and does not like to do so on her own - always loves to be surrounded by happy people!

NBUS - Stampin' Up Thankful Grateful Blessed stamps & dies, & pumpkin pie ink

Yellow - A caring, generous and sweet person - one of my longest friends - 50 years and counting - we will be happy growing old and being crafty together!

Kaisercraft Floral stamps, Stampin' Up Yoyo Yellow ink

Yellow / Green - One of my oldest "Boy" friends - again in the 50 year mark - he went from the fashion industry to a farmer - and I have a cow in my name - what more could a girl want!

Paper Rose gum leaves die #1 & NBUS small Cockatoo die

Chameleon fineliner - yellow for the cockatoo detail

Green - Working with this girl is easy - we share work and experiences - not all good - but support each other as needs - a young Mum with an adorable child and partner!

Unity Stamp Company - Quiet Essence stamps,  Stampin' Up inks.

Forest Green - When I think of this girl I think tinkerbell sprinkling joy around as she flits from one person to the next - another social butterfly who shares my sense of fun!!

NBUS - Paper Rose mandala die & NBUS fairy die, Glitzee glitter glue - crystal.

Aqua / Sand - A strong lady who supported me when I had to make a big life changing decision - she promised to wear a gold lame bikini - I kept her to that promise at her 50th Birthday ! It was a hoot...

NBUS - Crafters Companion Nautical Collection stamps,  

Stampin' Up Coastal Cabana & Versa Colour - Beige Sand inks

Aqua - Crafty and generous this lady helped re-boot my creativity back in 2012 - the stamps on this card were the very first SU purchase I made!

Stampin' Up Fifth Avenue Floral stamps, & inks Coastal Cabana & Chocolate Chip

Coastal Cabana - A new friend in 2020 - this crafty lady will feature big in the future I am sure - very competitive but generous... Said her partner doesnt know what flowers are - so here are some!

Stampin' Up Petite Petals & Flower Shop stamps & Coastal Cabana ink

Butterfly Blue - Sister, friend and confidant - this is the butterfly queen in our neck of the woods - her other creations arent too bad either (Cathys Card Spot) 

Love her to Bits!!

Creative Expressions butterfly dies, Various brand Butterfly stamps, Stampin' Up inks.

Blue - This man generous to a fault picked me up when I was at my lowest and helped me piece my stuff back together - then encouraged me to get back out there and live! Am so very grateful...

NBUS - EZCUT die Jigsaw 2.

Maroon / Purple - A teen friend - spent our formative years together and didnt look back 😁

Now a cool granma she just thrives on family!

NBUS - Creative Expressions Frames & Tags - Delicate Garden die

Purple - A work friend from the 80's and a hoot at parties - positivity is her thing and she shines...

NBUS Sizzix - Tim Holtz 3D Texture Fades - A6 EF, Versa Colour white & Dewdrop irridescent lilac inks

Violet - My current Boss - so supportive and kind - always looking for ways to make people happy and would give you her last cent if you needed it!

NBUS Creative Expressions Frames & Tags - Flora die

I posted them off and a few have received them - I think they liked them judjing by the response 😀

So - my project is complete for 2020 / 2021.

With all this NBUS (Never Before Used Schtuff) floating around there is only one place for it - 
I am entering this Project of creations into the 

NBUS Challenge #23

Bring on all the new creations in my brain 

I am looking forward to it

Thanks for popping in 

Stay safe & well

Cheers

Maurs xxx