WOYWW 103 and Butterflies and Flowers PiF

Wasn't that fantastic last week at the Stamping Ground for the 2nd anniversary of WOYWW?  It certainly went smoothly here with Rebecca receiving my Pif gift and me receiving my wonderful present and matching card from Sue - I was really delighted with her wonderful hanging plaque which for this week is hanging off my drawers for you to see. So a BIG THANK YOU to Sue. I will find a more permanent home in my craft room and hang it properly but for now I'm just happy to have it infront of me.

Not a lot to see creatativity here today but I had a few goodies arrive - LOTV stamps, some under the sea stamps, 6 favourite water flowers  stamp set ( on offer at Joanna Sheen ) and a couple of others. I index the stamps using a technique I saw Kay Carly from The Stamp Man doing once. It's a bit time consuming but it does mean you know what's on each stamp and which is the right way up.

The beautifully wrapped gift I received and the gorgeous card.

Isn't it brilliant.

Now for a view of the gift I made. It's a Maze book which I had so much pleasure making I just had to keep on adding to, if I'd had longer I probably could have added more. 
Lots of photos to show but I need to show page by page.

Martha Stewart butterfly stamp - Inktense water colour pencils and  diamond sparkles

Sizzix cut letters, artylicious words, Aspects of design butterfly  with mica powder

Jayne Netley Mayhew rabbit stamp water coloured, Marianne swirly die, MS leaves sm butterfly,  punch and cut flowers glitered

Creative expressions botanical stamps, artylicious words, Small square brayered and purple distress ink

Sentiment from Craft Robo, nestie rectangles inked and stamped from CE botanical set

Aspects of Design Butterfly Beauties stamp water coloured and pearly doodles , Sizzix corner, bee and butterfly ( underneath ) printed and cut on Robo 

JNM stamp, artylicious words

MS Butterfly stamp set water coloured with Inktense pencils

Selection of tags and LOTV friendship sentiment which seemed appropriate

The End

Hope you all had a wonderful week and that all the PiF gifts arrived safely.
Thank you Julia for organising such a great event.

Happy Crafting
Teresa x

Unusual teenagers card

This is an unusual card for a 13 year old boy but he's not your normal teenage. His name is Drew and he's into acting in a big way having stared in several shows and just winning his first paying part. He's also a brilliant cartoonist. But the most unusual thing is his appreciation of my handmade cards ! 
His mum has 3 cat's but one particular one Pandora follows him and him alone,  even sharing his bed with him. The piece of newspaper is from an original 1881 copy of the times I picked up in a charity shop for £2. There were the words YOUTH and GRAND THEATRE staring at me so I highlighted them with glossy accents.
It almost seemed shameful to cut it up though but it's much thicker than modern papers which makes it great for making flowers with.



The two tickets were cut and printed using my Craft Robo which I am slowly starting to master.

Challenges
Fussy and Fancy - man or boys
Lothian Crafts online - for a ( young ) man 


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Flower Power

I'm not very happy with the photo of this card but I wanted to post something today. In RL I'm actually quite happy with it.

I have foxgloves self seeded around my garden, they look so elegant and eyecatching. On close inspection they are all varying shades of magenta to pale pink. No white ones this year although I have had them in the past.
This makes it sound like I have a lovely garden but the truth is it is a mess. We inherited lots of concrete, gravel and paving slabs and are still no nearer creating a beautiful garden that I dream of.. I suppose I should post a photo but I don't have one. May be I'll add one later.
I have this beautiful foxglove stamp so decided this would fit into a few challenges. The flowers are painted in H2O's with glamour dust in the centres for extra sparkle. The strip along the top is from a quilling flower cutout I had left over.

Materials

DCWV paper

Jayne Netley Mayhew - foxglove

LOTV - birthday sentiment

Martha Stewart - doily punch

Butterfly and ribbon from stash

Nestability saclloped rectangle die

Challenges

A spoonful of sugar - flower power

Truly Scrumptious 58 - summer sparkle

Whoopsi Daisy - ribbon and lace

Oh La La Creations - birthdays

Simply Stamping 9 - floral frenzy

Sarah Hurley - summer

2 Border collies and a table

I usually like to post in the morning - I'm a bit of an early bird and love the peace and quite while everyone else is asleep. I never have been one of those who can lie in, not even when I was a teenage. Before I joined blogland I use to take Ice for her walk about 5.30am but now I find myself stopping at my computer ( just to check something ), next thing I know it's time to get Robin up and ready for school. This morning however I couldn't get my photos loaded so had to leave it.

This is a bit of a cheats card since the  K&Co Hopscotch paper looked too good  to spoil with  any extras. The stamp is another from Jayne Netley Mayhew and a joy to work with. Stamped and embossed in black, eyes and tongue coloured with Promarkers , cut out, layered up - job done! 

Similar idea here but this time using purples and lime greens. Birthday tag  printed from Silhouette .

Yesterdays animal charity dog show was less nerve racking than I expected and although I didn't sell that many ( 12 ) nearly everyone who took the time to look actually bought one.  As I have mentioned before I have an outlet at a pet parlour ( hence lots of animals on my cards rather than cute characters ) well one good thing was that another lady doing the same thing asked me if she could have a set for her shop too. Wow, what a compliment. Biggest problem is it's the other side of Plymouth and I'd probably spend all my profit on petrol getting them to her. It may be cheaper for me to post her a batch. 

My set up before the sale. What you can't see in this picture is the water coming off the  canopy! At least it did clear up and the sun came out later.

Challenges Alphabet - D is for dog
Here comes the boys - Father's day, husband, partener
Charisma cardz 21 - boy oh boy
  Crafty Emma's 38 - embossing
Do You Stack Up  21 - animmals

Are you ready for tomorrow's special event at Julia's blog for WOYWW  PIF  - I'm relieved to say my gift is ready to be sent. I can breath a big sigh of relief.
See you tomorrow.

C&S Kraft Animals

The title should cover the challenges I'm entering with this.

I hope you aren't getting bored with these animal cards but they are lovely stamps to work with. Of course they're Jayne Netley Mayhew again. I've coloured them with Promarkers in various shades of brown and warm greys, layered up the two in the front for dimension and kept it C&S using Kraft card for the matt and circle frame with the Shapabilities buckle. I think the BP is from DCWV All Dressed Up collection.

Challenges

Alphabet Challenge - C for Clean and Simple

Cute Card Thursday - Use Kraft card

I Love Promarkers - Animals

If the Shoe Fits - C&S

Sarah Hurley - use a frame ( hope this counts )

Buttercup Thanks

So much for the lovely sunny start to Saturday it must have been some of the windiest weather for months. Fun when we were trying to put an awning up which was new and trying to follow instructions that were probably translated from Chinese! What about a picture says a thousand words? Well at least we kept the people watching entertained for a couple of hours. LOL 
Yippee 2 wins in one weekend how lucky am I.  Spent ages then going back to see if I'd won any others since I realised I hadn't been checking all of my entries.

I'm not so sure of this buttercup image as I don't find it bold enough to stand out but I'd alredy coloured it with Twinkling H2O's so thought I'd make a Thank You card which is always useful. I found the image a bit flat so I added extra flowers which were this time coloured with Promarkers to give a more vibrant yellow. 

Materials

Jayne Netley Mayhew stamp

My Mind's Eye - Summer papers

Cuttlebug Swiss dots - on Coredinations and distressed

Nestability scalloped circle - Glimmer mist spritzed

Spellbinders pendants - Lotus

Flowers - cut/punched edged in lime ink

Marianne die - swirl

Challenges

Papertake Pretties PWC 154 - flowers

Papertake Weekly - something floral

Black and White Badger

Morning Chicks. It's a lovely sunny morning here in the SW of England and I believe we're in for a good weekend which is great as we're going away in our camper to Woodlands adventure park. Robin is taking a friend so he'll be happy and I can do some stamping and colouring - sheer bliss.

I'm on a roll - another badger card today.

I love this card - black and white always looks so effective. Having said that it took me ages to get the BP right, most combinations just looked too dark. The badger is embossed, so simple as yesterday no colouring here. This ought to be for a 1,2,3 challenge if I'd found one.

Materials

Badger stamp - Jayne Netley Mayhew

Nestabilities die - labels 1

Shapabilities - Fleur de lis

Sizzix - decorative corner

Cuttlebug - swiss dots

Papermania backing paper

Challenges

Lexi's Creations - spots and stripes

A Spoonful of Sugar - AG

Cards for Men - for someone special

Scrapbook sisters -  B+W
The Shabby Tea Room - Monochromatic

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Happy Crafting  Hugs Teresa x

Animal cards to sell

Well here's that hidden card for you to see. It's another Jayne Netley Mayhew stamp which is so simple I'm almost embarrassed to post it. Simple because it's just embossed with black - that's it, no colouring at all. but oh so appealing. I had planned to make it into a man's card but I just loved it with these colours and if I tweaked it a bit could fulfill two challenge sketches in one.
You'll be seeing more animal cards over the next couple of weeks as I regularly sell them at a dog grooming parlour and have been asked if I'd take them to a charity sale in a couple of weeks - profits going to an animal rescue centre and the CPL. I couldn't say no as Sarah lets me sell them there and doesn't take anything for doing it ( she's happy with a contribution to the animal charity she supports). 
My MIL also sells them at her Age Concern coffee mornings so again no selling by me.

I've never done any direct selling and I'm quite nervous.

Materials

Jayne Netley Mayhew - badger

DCWV papers - All dressed up

LOTV sentiment stamp

Martha Stewert butterfly punch

Sakura metallics pens

Challenges

Sweet sketch Wednesday 102-43

Saturday sketch - 155

 One stitch at a time - anything goes

Whoopsi Daisy - Lets punch it out

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It's all nuts!

I love these Jayne Netley Mayhew stamps and this cheeky squirrel is no exception. I followed a Papertake Weekly sketch only to find out it's already past the deadline. I know it's one of those weeks when I'm getting all my days muddled up.LOL

For this I followed this great sketch on Sketch Saturday 

Materials

Jayne Netley Mayhew stamp - from Joanna Sheen  coloured with Inktense water-colour pencils

NitWit backing papers free with a magazine

Nestabilities circles dies

Swirl - cut with Silhouette and de-bossed ( it was meant to be gold mirri card but looked better this way)

Cuttlebug embossing folder

Coredinations torn strip

Buttons - Papermania

Challenges 

Sketch Saturday - sketch 153

Moving Along With the Times - anything goes

Cards For Men - circles

Papertake Weekly  - anything goes

Bunny Zoes Craft - One for the Boys

One Crazy Stamper - Men

Alphabet Challenge - an animal you'd find at the zoo ( OK technically

not a zoo animal but I bet you'd find one or two at any zoo)

Here Comes The Boys - anything goes 

Stamps R Us - Masculine

Wags and Whiskers - use dies or punches

Little Miss Muffet - dies and punches

             Delightful Challenge - distressing ( distress inks used on outer circle )

Scrappy Frog - anything goes

A Spoonful of Sugar - White + one other colour

The Crazy Challenge - Male cards

One Stitch at a Time - Emboss it

Make a Splash

I havn't had much free time today to craft but already had this cute otter coloured up ready to go.

This morning our local craft shop Just Tracy's had a free demo day to launch their own stamp range. Tracy was demonstrating Promarkers and her ability to blend was very impressive. I'll have to put some of her techniques into use. She blended with as many as 5 colours/ shades to give the finished colour.

These stamps from Joanna Sheen - Jayne Netley Mayhew Otter stamps are brilliant for those difficult mens cards. I've followed the sketch from Cards for Men - I just love someone else coming up with the idea! I've also used dotty papers so I can enter I love Promarkers Challenge.

Materials

Jayne Netley Mayhew Otter stamp

K&Co papers Hopscotch

Promarkers

Gems from stash

Martha Stewart punch

Challenges

Cards for Men - sketch

I love Promarkers - dotty

One Stitch at a Time - Something for the boys

Card for a son-in-law

My Mother-in-Law is fantastic at selling my cards at her Age Concern coffee mornings and brings me home orders for cards. Now, if I can then enter some of these into Challenges then that's great. On this occasion the lady requested African animals since she'd seen a similar one I'd made.
For this card I followed the sketch on Papertakes challenge which required just 3 of anything!
One elephant has been coloured with Promarkers but the layered one is actually coloured with Inktense pencils because I stamped it with Versafine instead of Momento. I suppose it would have been easier to stamp it again but it was an excuse to dust off my pencils which had got buried under various other bits and pieces.

Materials - DCWV papers, Joanna Sheen's Jane Netley Meyhew's elephant stamp, Promarkers, Derwent Inktense pencils, nesties, and buttons from stash.

Challenges -I love Promarkers 57 ( mens card )
                  Paper Pretties PWC 145 ( masculine card )
                  Ooh-la-la-creations 75 ( it's a man thing )
                  Papertake  ( 3 of anything )