Simply Less is More - Week 261 - Down Under

G'day folks.

This week's Less is More challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers and the theme is 'Down Under'.  A perfect opportunity to use my Stamping Bella Surfafella stamp.

Here's my card:

For the background I used watercolour pencils after printing my sentiment onto the card.

Surfacfella was stamped and cut out on my Cameo and then coloured with watercolour pencils (I think he looks like he's been in the sun a bit too long).  Instead of matting with card I used a Promarker around the edge - it kind of bleed into the watercolour card but I like the effect.  

Thank you for dropping by.

Sue.x

Here comes summer

Hi folks.  I expect you think I've gone nuts with the title of this post with the miserable weather we're having at the moment. I'm forever the optimist that the sun will come out to stay at some point.

I made this card to go into the secretcrafter challenge which is 'here comes summer', but I'm also going to enter it into a few more challenges who have an anything goes theme:

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/07/week-110-free-and-easy-july.html

http://oldiebutagoodiechallenge.blogspot.com/2011/06/oldie-but-goodie-22.html

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/07/anything-goes.html

I created the sky background using a template cut out on my Silhouette and Adirondack Stonewashed ink.

The waves and palm tree were also cut out on my Silhouette.

The image is Surfabella from Stamping Bella and coloured with Promarkers

The coconuts are Card Candy from Craftwork Cards.

A bit of Kraft paper has been used for the sand.

Those waves look a bit terrifying to me, but I'm sure the fearless Surfafella will love them.

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great weekend.

Sue.x

21st Birthday

You know one of those cards you wish you hadn't started and gone out and bought one instead, this is said card!

Because it's my niece's 21st I wanted to do her something different to my usual square cards.  No problem with the constructions of the base card.  The problems came with the rest of the card, I couldn't make up my mind where to position things, whether to mat the 21 onto a Nesties rectangle and then position it onto the base card or stick it directly on, etc.,etc, etc. It's been a nightmare.  Anyway, hope she likes it, especially as it took soooo long to make.

I've decided to enter this into the following challenges:

http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.com/2011/03/anything-goes.html

http://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2011/02/allsorts-week-92-make-your-own-flowers.html
http://promarkerchallenge.blogspot.com/2011/03/week-89-theme.html

My optional additon of something old to my Papertake card is my Bella image - she is one of the first ones I bought some years ago.

Sue.x

Addy loves her tinis

Hi folks, hope you're having a great weekend.  The weather has been lovely here in the Midlands up until about an hour again and now it's raining.  At least we managed a lovely evening last night, watching the footie and then sitting in the garden at a friends house.

It was my friend Lynne's birthday yesterday so when I saw this Addy stamp from Stamping Bella I just had to have it for her. It fits her to a T.

Here's a little close up of her.

I use Prismas to colour the image in and again opted for the C&S style.  I just layered the image onto a Nestie scalloped square. I just added some card candy from Craftwork cards. Hope you like it. X

Great news today! Jo, our eldest daughter, graduated from Southampton University. It's been a nerve racking few day, waiting for the result, but she did it. She has worked really hard during the four year course, and now, yeah, hopefully she will get a job (well she is nearly 23, it's time I feel). Anyway,well done, Jo, we are very proud of you.

I used a stampingbella stamp and Nestabilities Oval and Oval Scallop die cuts. I used Prisma colour pencils to colour the image. The sentiment was done on the computer (although it could have done with being a bit redder, it's a bit on the pink side I think) and a few embellishments to finish.

Bella and Pink Petticoat

Here are a couple more Bella cards and some I made from Pink Petticoat images.

I love the Bella stamps. They give a great impression and being unmounted don't create a storage problem. I have ordered direct from Canada a couple of times with no problems. Delivery is really fast and with a strong pound they are really good value. Postage is also reasonable.

I usually order the downloads from Pink Petticoat, you get them straight away (I'm too impatient to wait for them to arrive in the post). It's easy to do and I have found it to be good value. Great background papers and images.

This is Cosmobella. The spotty background paper is cut from a do-craft card. I bought the box from QVC. Although I think they're a bit small and flimsy to use as a card they are great.

This is Winobella, the card was made for my friend's 50th. She wanted to quietly ignore this birthday, don't know why she still knows how to party and really is 50 and gorgeous.

This one is Mwhahbella, again used do-craft card for a background. Think she is fab too, ooh have so many favourites.. have a couple more that I haven't tried yet, and still want more.

Now on to Pink Petticoat, again fab images and you can just print them out whenever you want, no need to get out your stamping stuff.

One of my first Pink Petticoat, just a simple layout and I used my computer for the sentiment. Really easy to do and cheaper than buying lots of sentiment stamps. You can download, free, loads of different fonts.

Used more of the background papers for this one and again a computer generated sentiment.

Well, just had to have Henrietta when she came out. I think she is so cute. Big dots papers really suit her I think.

My First Post

Whoa I've managed to create a blog and to do my first post.

Thought I'd have a go as it seems to be the thing that everyone is into. Took a bit of getting into, but think I have got the hang of it.

This is one of my first attempts with Snowbella. I love all the Bella stamps, they're such great stamps to use. The background papers are by Pink Petticoat, which I also love.