Sweet Stampin' - Love or Valentines

 Hello from a bright but chilly south-west Scotland.  We've had some horrendous weather recently so it's nice to have seen some sunshine today as I schedule this post.

We have a new challenge starting today at Sweet Stampin' and our theme is either Love or Valentines.

I'm not a Valentines person so I've gone with a broader "love" theme for my DT card.  This gave me the opportunity to use a stamp that hasn't seen the light of day for a long time.  I really want to use my older stamps and dies more this year as it's such a waste to have them sitting in a drawer when I can't bear to part with them.

I coloured this Tilda image with Copics and added some Sakura glitter pen to the hearts.  The image itself was quite small and as I didn't die cut it properly it was off-centre.  Things like that drive me mad, so I cut a frame and was able to centre the image behind it.

I used foam tape to pop this up on top of a scalloped die cut mat and adhered the lot to a light red card base.

I hope you can join in with this fortnight's challenge.  You'll find all the challenge details plus lots of fabulous inspiration over at the Sweet Stampin' blog.

Have a lovely weekend.

xxx

Thank you!

 I'm joining in with Team Wends today over at Sweet Stampin'. We have a new fortnightly challenge and our theme is Thank You.  

I went with a CAS look for my card

I used the Altenew Blossom Wreath stamp and die set to make the floral design, using soft Spring colours of ink. The thanks sentiment comes from a set whose name I have forgotten!

I do hope you can play along with our Thank You challenge.  It's the perfect opportunity for you to share those cards you made after Christmas!  You'll get the full challenge details plus some fabby inspiration here.

Have a great weekend!

xxx

Happy New Year!

 A new year and a new challenge over at Sweet Stampin'.  Our theme is "New" so that could be anything you like: new year/home/baby, new stash, new technique... the choice is yours.

Here's my make

I coloured this Stamping Bella image with Copics.  It comes with the word bubble outline stamp and I was very brave, cutting up my sentiment stamp so that the words would fit. I was able to more or less match some enamel dots with my Hero Arts Cherry cardstock and with just a little sparkle courtesy of some clear Wink of Stella, the card was done.

I've had this stamp set for ages but probably have only used it once, so this is also part of my goal to use what I have more often.  

I hope you can play along with us at Sweet Stampin' this fortnight.  You'll find all the challenge details plus some fab inspiration from the Sweeties here.

Wishing you all a very happy and healthy 2021.  

Thank you so much for stopping by.

xxx