In the office

 I used some more Gummiapan dies for this one…

Love all the tiny details…

I certainly don’t miss the days of commuting to London every day.

I’m lucky to live in a rural area, but it was an hour’s train journey each way back in the day.

Hope you’re having a relaxing Sunday.

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Musical blast …from the past

 Today has a musical theme….some cute dies from Gummiapan, and an Alex Siberia sentiment.

I used a subtle embossing folder to give the white card texture.

I coloured the guitar and cassette player with blend pens.

Can you see the tiny cassette tape?

I have most of my stamp sets on shelves, so I can look for certain details.

This is where I found the music notes!

Hope you’re having a good weekend

Lesley

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Magical Christmas

 Hello, another Christmas card, with the

Stamping Sensations Challenge in mind….

For a cat loving friend…..

Trees Gummiapan, cat die Cheery Lynn Designs,

and an old SU Santa, from Hearts come home.

I simply used a stencil for the background.

Take a look at the wonderful inspiration at

Stamping Sensations.uk

I hope I’ll qualify for the “magical theme” or anything goes 😃

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Christmas wreaths with Santa

 Today I have another couple of  Christmas cards,

both using a wreath die from SU, but completely different.

Love the Gummiapan Santa, sitting on a pine branch,

having a well deserved rest 😃., before he rushes off to join the Allsorts Challenge #804,

where the theme is cute and/or cuddly…..I think Santa is both don’t you?….

If not, there’s the anything goes category.

This one uses poinsettia flowers,SU, and also the SU wreath.

I’m taking this one to the Snippets Playground #492 ….

I remembered to take a picture of my Snippets too…..

die cut from small pieces of cardstock and bagged up.

Lesley

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Me and my Teddy Bear….

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 I have a friend who loves teddy bears, and I bought these dies a while ago, 

so it was time to play…

These are all Gummiapan dies, plus a strip of old paper, resembling wallpaper.

I did highlight them with a blend pen, to emphasise the detail,

not sure if it was better without, but too late to change my mind!

My favourite bits are the floor and train….love the little choo choo 😃

I used lots of little snippets to build all the elements, but forgot to take a photo again 🙄

I think Miss Di will accept my home work though at the

Snippets Playground #490

It’s also the first time using the bears and presents, so I’ll also visit

My NBUS #67

Thoughts are with those suffering horrendous conditions around the world.

Thanks for taking the time to visit, and I really appreciate your comments.

Lesley

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Mini Merry pine trees and me aged 6!

 Hi there, sorry but more Christmas cards again…

I enjoyed die cutting these tiny Gummiapan pine trees from SU In Colour card.

 Coordinating the merry, and a Christmas from black card for contrast,

all sat upon a snowflake border.

Here’s a pic of my snippets

Next up a navy card, using two die cut snowflake borders, and greeting, from white card,

the mini trees cut from old SU white glimmer paper , winked the snowflakes.

And it would seem my creativity started early…..a cousin found this Kentish Times clipping of me at a craft event, when I was 6 years old! I do remember always drawing.

I was encouraged and inspired by artistic family members.

One of my cousins even holds art exhibitions of his paintings, way beyond my own expectations.

 I collected the sweet “cigarette” cards, and often tried to draw the animals and birds. 

I loved doing school projects that I could add illustrations to……happy days!

I have to take this homework over to the

Snippets Playground Challenge #488,

where there’s more fabulous prizes!

Do join the fun if you can, they’re a fabulous friendly group, often getting up to shenanigans in the treehouse, holding skipping sessions, or just playing on the swings.

Take care and see you soon

Lesley

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Snowflake duo

A couple more for the Christmas box…

 I used some of the new In Colours from SU for this first one.

Uniko snowflake stencil and sentiment, Gummiapan snowflake die.

Masked either side of the central panel, added sparkly gems.

Entering Peace on Earth Christmas #71….anything goes

Uniko stencil again, and their sentiment, and old SU snowflake frame,

cut from white glitter paper, added gems.

Inked using blue pink purple, the sentiment being the focal point.

Taking this to the Allsorts Challenge #796…getting sentimental 

Another two for the box 😃

Lesley

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Rudolph Day in August

 Happy Rudolph Day!

Can’t believe another month has swooshed by, but I’ve been busy adding cards to my Christmas stash.

Here’s one using an old SU wreath in old olive, a navy blue circle,

with a Gummiapan Santa hat……..all of which was in my bits box 😃

The hat is cut from glitter paper 😃

Do hop over to Rudolph Days Challenge, 

where there’s lots of inspiration 😃

Lesley

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Rudolph Day for April

 Rudolph Day is here!

25th of the month means it’s time to add some cards to our Christmas stash.

So, here goes using up some more backgrounds I’ve have for a few years, from a batch make 🙄

I layered that lovely tree die over my sparkly pasted trees,

added the truck from Gummiapan, loaded up with the tree and gifts 

I used pens to make it shabby (perhaps too much 😂)

Next up that cool Santa, sat on a wall, cut from yet another pasted background 

(I did make quite a few, so it’s my challenge to use them all 😉)

Santa was cut from card, snipped and layered.

Above I coloured the gifts with pens,

below I just did the “ribbon”

A piece of embossed white for the snowflake background.

This Santa was also cut from card, but I cut his trousers short and coloured his pink legs 😃

I also used up some old tea bag folding card blanks.

You can just about see the teapot.

It’s amazing how you can use up old stuff in a different way.

The bits from the aperture were used for sentiments etc.

Happy Rudolph Day!

Challenges:

Rudolph Day

Peace on Earth

Christmas Kickstart #85

NBUS #61 (truck and tree)

Lesley

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Easter Sunday

 Here’s another card celebrating spring and all it means to us

Same products as yesterday…..plus a Gummiapan box planter, that even has a slit to place the flowers.

Have a peaceful day

Lesley

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Happy Easter

 Happy Easter weekend!

I don’t send Easter cards, but I do love Spring and all the nature bursting with new life and colour.

Don’t we all love Daffodils?

So here’s a birthday card, background an old SU paper,

with some adorable Dies from Gummiapan….

Love the circle sentiment, and the cute daffodils and bow were coloured with SU blend pens.

The pink strip is a snippet of the reversed paper.

Have a great weekend 

Lesley

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Rudolph Day March is on

 I’m trying to get ahead with Christmas cards, and what better inspiration than

Rudolph Days Challenges

This is where we share our makes on 25th of the month,

although you do have until the end of the month to enter.

This month I’m delighted to share as a guest designer 😊

I made some backgrounds (more of that another day!), using glitter embossing paste.

I added some inked stencilling to the “wall” for added depth.

I’ve added some birds, which I thought was appropriate to include, as the Red Admiral set was a kind gift from Maureen who ran this challenge for many years.

Santa (from Gummiapan) is either having a rest, or has lost his Reindeer 🤔 😃

Happy Rudolph Day!

Also sending this in to Peace on Earth challenge, and

NBUS challenge #60….Never before used Santa

Hope you have a lovely day

Lesley

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Snippets Xmas tree

 Hey there, I’m here with my homework for the Snippets Playground challenge #476

where anything goes as long as you use up your snippets.

You may want to make a cup of tea now, or afterwards…….

It took me the equivalent of a whole day to make 🙄😂

Why? I hear you say!……

Well, I die cut  a few trees, and lots of little ornaments, tinsel,  and a few star toppers from glitter paper.

The rug was the easy bit…..I’d forgotten how difficult it is to glue onto glitter card,

plus the ornaments and tinsel are sooooo tiny :-

Here’s some of the snippets used…

I remembered to take pics this time 😃

It then took me some time to find a sentiment I was happy with, except I wanted to add some glitter.

So, die cut a snippet of gold, then gutted it so that I could put the sentiment on top of the gap with some teeny foam pads,  and then would stick together better.

It worked, but really?! Talk about make it hard work 😂

I then took more pics so you can see how glittery it is….hopefully 😊

and just in case you forgot where I started…

So after all that effort, I hope to get an A+ at the Snippets Playground,

and because it’s full of bling I’m just in time to enter the

Jingle bells rock challenge

and the Allsorts Challenge which is clean and simple and / or anything.

Phew I now need to lie down in a darkened room, before I use up all those snippets left over!

Thanks for listening 

Lesley

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P.s. the Gummiapan dies are 🤩 brilliant