Candy Cane Heart

stamp: Spellbinder House-Mouse 'Mistletoe Kiss RSC-017',

others: cloud stencil, Faber Castell watercolour pencils, small frame dies, Titi soft pastel

This is my version of tropical Christmas...enjoying candy cane under the bright blue sky..lol!

After I coloured the image, I used cloud stencil and soft pastel to carefully coloured the background. Titi soft pastel colour is quite vivid, love it.  The mistletoe look mid-way hanging, so I added a die-cut frame to ground the image.

Challenges:

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge

Stamping Sensations - December (anything Goes)

We Love Stamping - December (Winter or anything Goes)

Inspiration Station December 2024 - (inspired by the Christmas festive season  and the candy cane)

Christmas Kickstart Challenge #93 

 

Kitty Birthday Bouquet

stamp: LOTV

others: I Am Roses flowers (R22 Curly Rose Aqua S10-15 Achillea Cottage White, R8-12 Open Rose Red, zR2-2 Mini Open Rose Soft pink, R1-503 Pale Yellow & Brown Open Rose, R4-15 White Arabian Jasmine), Spellbinder Beaded Oval die, Faber Castell watercolour pencils, Martha Stewart Punch Around The Page - Loop, TH distress ink

The kitty cat with bouquet of flowers image was from LOTV, coloured with watercolour pencils and die-cut using Spellbinder Beaded Oval die. Sponged the die-cut with Tim Holtz distress ink.  Sentiment was stamped and then using Martha Stewart corner punch to create the loop corner.

Challenges:

1. I Am Roses Challenge November
2. Show Us Your Pussycat Challenge #107
3. Stamping Sensations - December (anything Goes)
4. We Love Stamping - December (Winter or anything Goes)

 

Poinsettia Gift Tag

I coloured the white cardstock background using snowflake stencil and distress ink. Then die-cut with the frame die. I used left-over black cardstock from making mini album, to die-cut the unique frame. Poinsettia flowers, leaves and the quote frame were also die-cut from various snippets. Done this Christmas gift tag at the very last minute..,.before my kid brought it to the church for the gift-exchange party.

Challenges:

1.  Snippets Playground Challenge #495
2. Inspiration Station December 2024 - (inspired by the Christmas festive season)

 

LO -The Perfect Day

Use entirely MME The Sweetest Thing Collection from the Honey range for this layout

paper - Honey 'Perfect' , butterfly chipboard, sentiment yellow sticker, enamel dot, flower doily title, others: scallop circle die, pink and white vellum, polka dots embossing folder, corner punch

I have been hoarding MME collection of papers for more than a decade. Just manage to make few layouts because I have no confidence to tear those papers apart and ended with less than satisfying layout. I love the their designs, the colour combo is simply stunning. Sad that they no longer produce scrapbook collection.

This layout is based on Rochelle's sketch and adopting Stacy's tic-tac-toe challenge

Challenges:

1. Rochelle Spear November Sketch Challenge
2. Scrap With Stacy - November Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge (mine are chipboard, photos, sticker)
3. Challenge YOUrself #131 - Use a grid pattern

 

Bright Christmas

 

stamp: House Mouse 'Merry & Bright' RSC-015

Others: leaves embossing folder, Copic, frame die, poinsettia die, SSS ink pad

I was the lucky winner for this cutie mouse stamp which was sponsored by Lorraine aka Lols last December. She is one talented lady, always churning out inspiring and beautiful cards. In the prize pack, I received her stunning mini handmade Christmas card. Of course I love and treasure it very much. I like keeping these handmade cards, admiring their craftwork as  each crafter has different design style. 

mini Christmas card by Lorraine (Thank you so much!)

I coloured this image with Copic. Next, I die-cut a frame out of the green cardstock, after that, embossed it with the leafy embossing folder. Adhered the green panel onto the image and added die-cut poinsettia flower as embellishment.

Challenges:

House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - HMFMC#428 ATG/Winter

We Love Stamping - Christmas/ATG

Stamping Sensations - Make It Magical/ATG

Dreaming of a White Christmas

 

stamp: House Mouse SSCM5009 Holiday Happy

others: snowflakes stencil, TH DI Broke China, SSS Doll Pink ink pad, Copic

stamped image on snippet of white cardstock

Wow, been neglecting this blog for the past 5 months. Finally, get some time to resume crafting. I stamped the image on a snippet of white cardstock (I have a plenty), coloured with Copic and fussy cut it out with scissors. Using snowflakes stencil and distress ink pad, I inked the background using brush. Easy peasy, and I love the outcome.

Challenges:

1. House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - HMFMC#428 ATG/Winter
2. Snippets Playground Challenge#493
3. Jingle Bells - Christmas Feast
4. We Love Stamping - Christmas/ATG
5. Stamping Sensations - Make It Magical/ATG

Birthday Card

 

stamp: House Mouse Design 'SSCM5007 Birthday Splash', AALl&Create #559 "Feathered Friends", MME Lost & Found 3 "Oliver"

others: watercolour, Copic, sentiment dies

Created the background using splash of red watercolour on watercolour paper. After dried, inked various stamps here and there. Image coloured with Copic, fussy cut out. Die-cut the birthday sentiment from snippet of black cardstock (leftover from making mini album. 

Challenges:

1. House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - #418 Anything Goes with Option of Make Your Own Background

Tilda

Magnolia Tilda coloured with colour pencil, fussy cut out with scissors. Die-cut red cardstock with oval shape die. I use snippet various patterned papers, punch out with small square punch and adhered them onto the front of card.

Challenges

1. Snippet Playground Challenge #483 - anything with snippet

 

Peeking under party hat

stamp: House-Mouse Design "POPHM54 Spring" -Party Peeking,

birthday text embossing folder, I Am Roses flower (R5-2 Indian Jasmine, ZR2-2 mini open roses soft pink, R4-15 white Arabian jasmine ), Spellbinder Oval dies, Copic

Image was coloured with Copic, die-cut using Spellbinder Classic Oval die. Embossed the front white panel with birthday text embossing folder, then added various flowers from I Am Roses.

Challenges:

1. I Am Roses June Challenge
2. House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge -HMFMC #417 ATG or Here Comes Summer!
3. Inspiration Station June 2024 #62 (inspired by the party hat and the birthday theme)

 

Bright Christmas

 

stamp: Penny Black 'The Wonder', olive leaves embossing folder, Copic

Colour the Penny Black image with copic and fussy cut out. Took a snippet of light pink cardstock (I have stack of these leftover rectangular cardstock from making mini album) and die-cut the floral circle shape to matt the image. Sentiment was computer generated.

Challenges:

1. ABC Christmas Challenge - 2024 June "L for lantern" or "M for music"
2. Snippets Playground - Challenge #482
3. Crafty Calendar Challenge - For a child
4. Penny Black Saturday Challenge - June anything goes

Birgitta Birthday

Image: CC Designs Birgitta Tulip,

flowers: I Am Roses (R22-Aqua Curly Rose, S10m-15 White Achillea Cottage, R8-12 small Red Open Rose, R5-2 Soft Pink Indian Jasmine, R2-517 small Pink Rose),

floral embossing folder, leaves dies, Faber Castell watercolour pencils, doily

This Birgitta stamp was one of prize won in cardmaking challenges.  Love the cute girl. I pre-coloured the white doily with watercolour and let it air-dry overnight. I had stacks of these in various colour. As the image is a sitting girl, I need something to ground her to a seated-like scene, therefore I place her on a doily matted with a round die-cut cream cardstock.

 

Challenges:

1. I Am Roses - May Challenge
2. We Love Stamping - June Challenge Fabulous Flowers or AG
3. Stamping Sensations - June Challenge 

Watercolour background card

stamp: House-Mouse Designs POPHM54 Spring, Mijelo watercolour, 

Colouring the background with watercolour and then stamped various small stamps  onto it. Image was coloured with Copic and fussy cut out. Matted on black cardstock cut with postage-like style scissors.

Challenges

1. House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - #416 anything goes or Option theme- A Fancy Fold Card

 

 

A little birdie told me

stamp: Pink Petticoat (SCP#83 magazine freebie)  green polkadot paper, sakura punch, tiny daisy flower punch, watercolour, snippet of red paper, label die

Today I took out a very old magazine freebie stamp from Pink Petticoat, inked and coloured and die-cut with a label die. Next, I used snippet of leftover watercolour paper to punch out the leaves and sakura flower. The leaves were coloured with watercolour and then shaped with a long nose pliers for some dimensional effect. Same goes with the sakura flower.

Challenges:

1. Snippets Playground - Challenge #481 
2. We Love Stamping - June Challenge Fabulous Flowers or AG
3. Stamping Sensations - June Challenge 

 

Just Perfect

 House-Mouse Designs 'Ballerina Baby', Copic, net stamp, star stamp, watercolour, deckle scissors

Lately, saw postage dies being used in some creative papercrafting, so I jumped into the bandwagon..with diy postage die-cut using deckle scissors.

The background was coloured with watercolour, inked some of the stamps here and there and adhered the cut-out coloured image onto it. Sentiment was stamped on snippet of white cardstock, cut out and inked the edges with a black marker.

Challenges

1. House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - #416 anything goes or Option theme- A Fancy Fold Card
2. Stamping Sensations - June Challenge 
3. We Love Stamping - June Challenge Fabulous Flowers or AG

LO - Cactus

paper: Bazzil, MME Stella Rose, SEI Moonrise

stamp: MME Lost&Found 3 "Ruby" stamps

ink pad: SSS "Orange Peel" inkpad, Stampin' Up! "Lost Lagoon"  , TH Distress Ink "Tea Dye"

others : photo corner punch, scallop border punch. stitch alpha dies

This layout is made based on Rochelle's sketch for the May challenge.

I fussy cut out the bottom portion of the SEI patterned paper to incorporate the leaves onto my layout. 

Stamped the doily pattern on white cardstock and cut out with scissors. 

I inked the edges of the patterned paper with TH distress ink, punch out four corners of a 4x6 inches black cardstock for photo mat. Title was die-cut using alpha dies. 

Challenges:

1. Challenge YOUrself -Challenge #125 fussy cutting
2. Rochelle Spears Sketch Challenge - May
3. Scrap With Stacy - May Tic-tac-toe (I chose stamping, 1 photo, polka dots)

 

Birthday Card #3

 

stamp: freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft 2012 designed by Adam Prescott, sentiment from Rosie's Studio, 

others: soft pastel, Copic

This cutie stamp was a magazine freebie which I coloured with Copic and fussy cut it out with scissors. Simply coloured the background of the front card using teal colour soft pastel.

Challenges:

1. AAA Cards Challenge - #265 anything goes Birthday

Birthday Card #2

 

stamp: freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft 2009 designed by Adam Prescott, sentiment from Pop Artz, 

others: soft pastel, Copic,

Another stamp from Cardmaking & Papercraft magazine freebie. I coloured the image with Copic and fussy cut it out with scissors. Coloured background with purple soft pastel.

Challenges:

1. AAA Cards Challenge - #265 anything goes Birthday

Birthday Card #1

stamp: freebie from Cardmaking & Papercraft 2009 designed by Adam Prescott, sentiment from Rosie's Studio, 

others: soft pastel, Copic, negative of label die-cut  used as mask

Image was from a magazine freebie which I hardly use because the stamp is quite tiny. I coloured with Copic and fussy cut it out with scissors. Using negative of label die-cut, I masked the front panel and created the cloud background with cloud stencil and soft pastel.

Challenges:

1. AAA Cards Challenge - #265 anything goes Birthday

 

So many books

 

Coloured the image with colour pencil and Copic, fussy cut out with scissors. Stamp classic text sentiment background stamp onto white cardstock. Adhere the image and added a snippet of washi tape to ground the girl sitting image.

Challenges:

1. Allsorts Challenge Week #780 - spots and stripes
2. Snippets Playground - Challenge #480

By the way, pop by Allsorts next week for their special 15th birthday celebration challenge with wonderful prizes for the lucky participants.

Christmas Blessings

 

stamp: House-Mouse Design 'Holiday Happy SSCM5009'

others: soft pastel, diy stencil, computer generated sentiment, watercolour pencils

Another card with background colouring inspired by Francine's  colouring tutorial. I used different combination of colours for a change. Image was coloured with watercolour pencils , fussy cut out and pop-up a bit with foam tape.

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW

DIY Stencil for background colouring

stamp: House-Mouse Design 'Holiday Happy SSCM5009'

others: soft pastel, diy stencil, computer generated sentiment, watercolour pencils

Inspired by Francine's background colouring tutorial, I used deckle scissors to cut out the inner part of square art card and used it as stencil with soft pastel to colour the background of front panel square card. Love her idea of making own stencil! Image was coloured with watercolour pencils and fussy cut out. 

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW

With love at Christmas

stamp: House-Mouse Design 'Candy Claus', sentiment from Humphrey's Corner 

others: border punch, watercolour pencils, cloud stencil

Use watercolour pencils to colour the image, while the background was created using soft pastel and cloud stencil.  Punch out floral border from white cardstock as added interest.

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW
2. Stamping Sensation May Challenge
3. We Love Stamping - Vintage or anything goes

 

Scent of flower

stamp: House Mouse Designs mini clear stamp 'POPHM54 Spring flowers: I Am Roses (S10-601 Achillea Cottage, S10M-15 Achillea Cottage White, R5-2 Indian Jasmine Soft Pink), 

Others: Scallop Square dies, Memory Box label die, Martha Stewart Frond punch, Copic

Coloured the image with Copic and die-cut with a rectangle die.  Matted on a purple cardstock die-cut with scallop square. Use soft pastel to colour the white cardstock front.  Added some flowers from I Am Roses and finished it off with sentiment die-cut from Memory Box label die.

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW
2. Word Art Wednesday - Week#645-646 Anything goes
3. I Am Roses - April Challenge
4. Stamping Sensation May Challenge
5. We Love Stamping - Vintage or anything goes

 

Warm cocoa drink

 

stamp: House-Mouse Design 'Warm Drink HMCV35', 

others: Prismacolor pencil, Olive leaves embossing folder, Martha Stewart Scandinavian Snowflake punch, poinsettia dies

Image was coloured with Prismacolor pencil, burnished with baby oil using Q-tip. Pink cardstock front panel was embossed with an olive leave embossing folder and embellished it with die-cut snowflake and poinsettia flower.

Challenges:

1. Caffeinated Christmas Challenge #29   #caffeinatedchristmascardchallenge  #cccc29 
2. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW
3. Word Art Wednesday - Week#645-646 Anything goes
4. Christmas Craft Creation - April Challenge Non-Traditional Colour
5. Stamping Sensation May Challenge
6. We Love Stamping - Vintage or anything goes

Birthday Candles

 

stamp: Birthday Wishes RSC-024, Frantic Stamper Stitched Rounded Rectangles die, Cuttlebug Swiss Dot embossing folder

Die-cut the image with a rounded rectangle die and coloured with watercolour pencils. The brown cardstock panel was embossed with Swiss Dot embossing folder.

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW
2. Word Art Wednesday - Week#645-646 Anything goes

Wonderful Day

 

stamp: Spellbinder 'Breezy Day' RSC-026, Crafts-Too die, Frantic Stamper Stitched Rounded Rectangles die, basket weave embossing folder

Die-cut the image with a label die and coloured with watercolour pencils. Embossed the yellow cardstock with basket weave embossing folder for some texture effect. 

Challenges:

1. HMFMC #414 Anything goes + Option of ADD YELLOW
2. Word Art Wednesday - Week#645-646 Anything goes

Hello Snowdrop

stamp: Clearly Besotted-Snowdrops, bricks stencil, oval die, Tim Holtz distress ink (Dusty Concord, Mustard Seed)

Image was stamped onto snippet of watercolour paper, die-cut with the flower die and colour with watercolour. The background of the white card was made using bricks stencil with distress ink.

Challenges:

1. Snippets Playground #479 - anything with snippet
2. Word Art Wednesday - Week#645-646 Anything goes

 

LO - Somebunny Loves You

 Using Kate Hadfield Designs free template 'Curvalicious' and, the pattern papers and elements from NitWit Egg-Stra Special kit. Entering this layout for Challenge YOUrself#124 What's Your Favourite Animal?

Girl with camera

First, I die-cut a scallop circle shape pink cardstock and then embossed it with chain-heart embossing folder. The stamped image was coloured with Copic using my favourite colour-combo, pink. I fussy cut out the image with scissors.

Challenges:

1. Allsorts Week#777 - balloon or anything goes

 

Love plus kisses

 

stamp: Penny Black 'Stuck On You', 

others: Scallop circle die, chain heart embossing folder, Copic

Long time didn't play with Penny Black Stamp. Always love this cutie, it is such easy to colour  especially using Copic marker.

Challenges:

1. Allsorts Week#777 - balloon or anything goes

Giraffe Party

 

Clear stamp giraffe, hexagon stencil, distress ink, Mijello Gold watercolour

Created the background using stencil and distress ink. Stamped the giraffe and tiny balloon, coloured with Mijello water colour and then fussy cut it.

Challenges:

1. Allsorts Week#777 - balloon or anything goes

LO-Make a wish

My layout based on Rochelle's sketch challenge. Items used include chipboard tag, chipboard birthday and balloon . 

Challenges:

1. Rochelle's Spear Sketch Challenge April 2024
2. Scrap With Stacy April Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge (I used chipboard, 3 photos and tag)