A Post at Last (part b)

Hello there again,

Okay so here are a few more recent projects to catch up on.... and they seem to be all animal related which is a pure coincidence!!

I Had to have these dies from Paper Smooches.... love that they look like the animal has taken a selfie :) Lol.  Lots of dies in the set so I had a play and ended up with this character.... I reckon he's a husky type breed with bright blue eyes like that ;)

Next up is this cute little doggy kennel I made using the Lawn Fawn Milk Carton. By adding a cardboard roof it not only makes it more of a kennel shape but holds the carton closed too. Of course I couldn't find anything doggy related to go inside for the photos but have since found some mini Scottie dog shaped shortbread biscuits in Sainsbury's that would have been perfect .. *sigh* ;)

A couple more photos but there are others on my Seven Hills blog post (link below)... oh and the doggies around the outside are from a Wplus9 stamp set by the way....

I can't help thinking that Snoopy should be lying up on that kennel roof!!

Finally, to bring us up to date is this card which just makes me smile...

Seriously, that bear's expression was made to go with a phrase like that!! I'm just glad pants aren't trousers here in the UK or I'd have to think again!! I also got round to trying out the technique of using a stencil as a guide to making the dotty backdrop, so subtle and I love it :)

Here are the Links to the Seven Hills blog posts for these projects with more details and links to the products used..
Raise the Woof - click here
Kennel Milk Carton - click here
Smarty Pants - click here

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

A Post at Last!!

Well can't you tell the summer hols are here!! Yep the weather has turned wet and my blog feels more abandoned than it usually does 😞

I thought I'd do a round up post with a few recent projects in .... in fact I will have to do a part B and possibly C as I have a bit of a back catalogue!!

First up is a quick and simple guys card made using a Hero Arts stencil, I used a white dye ink sponged through the stencil and I love how its turned a shade of light blue on the navy card... the Winnie and Walter sentiment is a great font match too 😊

I don't really need to say this but next is a birthday card for our little (not so little anymore) girlie....

Whilst I love flowers, I have to say they rarely feature on my cards!! When they do I prefer the stylised or simple layered design like these Wplus9 stamps. I saw a card using these florals that had a layer stamped in black and it looked so striking ... I had to try it too. The sentiment is from a great set by Newtons Nook... I've been looking for a "relatives" set for a while and this has a good mixture of words and fonts 😊

My last project in this post is a gift card I made for our daughter.. this is a gift that grows though 😉

This card contradicts my earlier words because the flowers are more realistic... they took a while to do which is probably why I prefer simple shaped florals!! I've used the no line water-colouring technique with a Concord & 9th stamp set to make Californian poppies for the front panel.... we have loads growing in our gravel driveway and this year we collected some seed to spread in other areas of the garden. I thought I'd give some seed to our daughter who has recently moved out and has her own garden now, so I made, and filled, a small seed packet to go on the inside of the card....

....which brings me nicely back to the beginning of my blog post because now the summer has turned to wet and warm they'd probably germinate quite quickly if planted!!

Thanks for stopping by, I'll pop by with part B soon 😉

Jenny x

I'll Be Brief!

That's the name of the stamp set but yes, this is a short blog post too 😏

It's time for a new challenge over at Seven Hills Crafts blog and this month is a sketch..

This one had me pondering for a while until I came across the new set from Lil'inkers called I'll Be Brief, I rotated the sketch and those bars became washing lines 😉

It doesn't look a particularly sunny day to dry the washing though does it??!!

Does the sketch inspire you to play along too?... I hope so, we'd love to see you in the gallery :)

Hop over to the blog here for all the challenge details and link up gallery 😊

 I've used red, white and blue so it fits with this weeks challenge over at Less is More too which is the colours of your countries flag so I'll pop it in over there 😄

Thanks for stopping by :)

Jenny x

Supplies used:

(I'll Be Brief) Lil'inkers

(Cloud Stencil) MFT

(A Birdie Told Me) Lawn Fawn