OLW - cats and dogs

Morning everyone ,

I nearly titled this raining cats and dogs as my little dance worked yesterday and the garden had a drink , woo hoo :)

The cats and dogs actually refers to this weeks OLW , see details here and play along to .... it'll get your grey matter working .

Being an animal lover I have a good choice of dog stamps , not so many cats tho , but I decided to go with this little fella

He's from an Inkadinkado set along with the sentiment and the frame is from a Waltzing Mouse . I drew the eyes in so he was looking at the sentiment and he does kinda look like he's had a bad day .

I will be back at some point with a cat card too when I find the stamps .... probably up a tree somewhere ,  LOL

Thanks for looking , I really appreciate your visit X

Three of a kind @ OLW

It's coffee break time so I thought I'd post my cards for OLW this week over at Jennifer's blog here.

This is this weeks requirements -

"The challenge is to make three one-layer cards.  Yes, three.  Make three cards all using the same image stamp but vary the occasion by changing the sentiment and/or ink colour and/or card stock colour.  You must use the same image stamp on each card."

I have to say deciding on a stamp was hard , knowing you had to vary the design and occasion on a One Layer Card .
These are my cards

The stamp is from Birds Galore by Inkadinkado and it's shape didn't leave me much choice for positioning on the card so I decided to change the way I used it instead . The first image is stamped on a sponged background , the second is embossed with silver powder and the third is chalked after stamping with Versa mark .

This challenge took some thinking about but I'm finally pleased with the result after several attempts :)

Thanks for looking X

A Birthday Card

First I'd like to say thank you for all the lovely encouraging comments from fellow bloggers, I'm going to have a nosey round all the blogs later.

My Mum's birthday is coming up so at the weekend I made this card.

As you can see I'm getting into this inking round the edge business thanks to a Mr T Holtz and his luuuurvley ink pads and blending tool. The stamps are new from Inkadinkado and will hopefully be good for scrapbook pages too.

I decided to take the camera out today on the daily dog walk and my daughter Hannah came along too to be the photographer as I felt I needed to try and get a decent photo for my profile (I usually prefer to be behind the camera). I'm quite pleased they turned out well and 'voila' a profile photo was created :)