When Stamping becomes a Game!!

Hi there :)

I love when I think of other ways to use my stamps aside of card-making and today I'm happy to share one of those ideas over at the Seven Hills Crafts blog....

I picked up this DIY memory card game from my local Tiger store ( I love this shop so much *wink*) and set about making a matching pairs game using lots of stamps from my ever growing stash :) The box contains 44 sturdy blank cards and they have a lovely papery finish which takes ink and Copic markers well..

I was careful not to do too much fancy colouring and saturate the paper, I then finished them off with a coat of glossy mod-podge to make them more durable and I also found it made the colours more vibrant too!!

My twenty year old Autistic lad still loves to play this game and he's pretty good at it too... a nice sized game to take out with you when waiting and patience is required :)

A few more details and links to the sets I've used can be found on the Seven Hills Crafts blog here.

Thanks for stopping by  :)

Jenny x

Background in the Spotlight

Hi there :)

I'm having a floral moment this week over at Seven Hills Crafts... not my usual 'go to thing' but I love the Bundles of Blooms background stamp from MFT so I thought I'd try the spotlight technique as it's quite a busy pattern for lots of colour...

I used Polychrome pencils and didn't get too fancy with them... the background stamp is like a colouring book page so I thought I could get away with simple colouring ;) After a weekend of building Ikea furniture, colouring was just what I needed!!

As a variation on the spotlight design, I placed the coloured piece behind the front panel..... it meant extra faffing to line it up and trimming to size but I like the result much more :)

Stash Used:

Stamps: ( Bundles of Blooms) MFT

Dies: (Quote Tag dies) Paper Smooches

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Behind the Clouds

Hi there.... I have a card for the CASology challenge..... 

I love the sunshine, who doesn't,..... so I had to play along :)

I love this sentiment, what better way to illustrate it than with a happy cloud 

and Mr sunshine peeking out from behind...

I've used Paper Smooches Fruit People dies to make the sun, 

complete with his arms and sun rays.... I love how he's cuddling the cloud, 

this die set is worth getting just for the arms and legs!! ;)

As always the DT have provided some fab inspiration for us, I bet the 

gallery will look amazing by the end of the week too:)

Stash used:

Dies: (Fruit People, Cloud Dies) Paper Smooches

Stamps: (The Great Outdoors) MFT- discontinued

Hope you have a great day and thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Penguins and Macaroons!

We've had a busy half term week starting with a family wedding which took place at London Zoo... it was great fun and we made a weekend of it, staying in London with close family to celebrate the happy day. We kept forgetting we had our posh gear on walking around the zoo!!.... we wondered why folks were looking or perhaps it's because we were trying to get a family photo with the very obliging penguins at Penguin beach!!?? :)

Anyhow, onto my card for Seven Hills Crafts this week and I tried my hand at water-colour painting on a die cut ....

I made this card for a friend who loves her Cornishware crockery so the mug had to have those bold blue stripes too and it was easier to die cut it from watercolour card and paint them on myself using distress inks. The macaroons are stamped with coloured ink onto the same card so they had a no line effect when I'd finished painting them....

I just happened to flick through a paper pad and found a good match in this pretty pastel check so that helped to finish the card design... mmmm I just want to pick one of those macaroons up right now :)

I'm linking up to the AAA cards challenge which is Watercolour... I rarely get time to play in challenges anymore so it's always a happy coincidence if my card fits a theme and the DT have some great inspirations projects to show you too if you click the link above :)

Stash used:

Stamps: (Bonjour) Avery Elle

Dies: (Hot Cocoa Cups) MFT dienamics

Paper: (Sunny Days Ahead) Echo Park

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Relish the Challenge!!

Hi there :) 

Well it seems another month has slipped by and now we are into June!! 

This also means a new challenge over at Seven Hills Crafts and this 

month we have sketch for you to play with...

 I have kept the sketch pretty much 'as is' and 

dug out some older stamps to ink up...

We would love you to play along with us....

 all the details and the gallery link up can be found here and keep an eye out for our 

weekly challenge inspiration posts over on the Seven Hills Crafts blog.

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Stamps used:
(Think Fast) Paper Smooches
(Let's BBQ) Lawn Fawn