Frogtastic

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A change away from Christmas for this one!  Love colouring this little guy!

Little Reindeer

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More Christmas cards!  I found a little reindeer die that I've had for about 14 years.  So I thought I would make some quick little cards.  I've got a bag of little scraps to use, including some vellum so I just had a play around.  All the backgrounds are Sahara Sand from Stampin' Up!  I think it's possibly one of my favourite colours.

A Sprinkle and a Spritz

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Second post for today.  I've been staying with the poinsettias for these cards - just a slightly different look with the torn music paper.

Also a before pic!

Checked Poinsettia

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When doing a (very small) tidy up I found this Tattered Poinsettia die from Tim Holtz so I used the Distress Oxide Sprays, Distress Spray Stains and Paperartsy infusions to make the flowers from watercolour paper. Then I added some chunky white embossing powder and ages silver embossing enamel.  The background stamp and greeting are Stampin' Up!

And slightly more muted colours...

Hope you like them! Have a lovely day!

Oh Christmas Tree

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Welcome to a wet and miserable day here in Scotland.  On a positive note, it's not that cold!

I've been playing with the watercolours today. Inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.

A Little Birdie.. Chickie!

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A second post for today!  Loved colouring this little guy!

Festive Friends

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Another Monday and the weeks are still flying it! November is a mega busy month for us so I'm always relieved as it nears then end.. then I can start thinking about Christmas!

I've not made too many cards this year so I'm trying to play catch up now!

I was playing with the Festive Friends set from My Favorite Things.

Made some background papers with Tim Holtz Distress Oxides and some Stampendous chunky white embossing enamel.

Holiday Penguins

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Another week!  Hope you've had a good weekend!

I should be busy today - I wrote a to-do list! But I got distracted by some quick colouring in!

I'm going to enter this card in the Anything Goes Challenges at Lil Patch of Crafty Friends and Crafty Friends.

Have a lovely day!

Best Days

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Oh I love a colour challenge! And there's a great one over at CAS Colours & Sketches which take three SU! colours and makes you think out of the box!

I've chosen to use Stampin' Up! Beautiful Friendship with the colours;

So here it is!

Gnomes #2

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I hope you're having a productive week!

I've been playing with the gnomes again! I am loving keeping the simple colour scheme!

I'm going to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin Christmas

Crafting By Designs

Crafty Sentiments Designs

Have a lovely day!

Winter Flora

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I've taken my inspiration for this card from the new Less Is More challenge #407 One Layer Card and Winter Flora.

I've used the Memories of Home set from Stampin' Up! and coloured using Tim Holtz distress crayons.

Gnomes

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Well, there's been no improvement in the weather today.  A great excuse to stay cozy and craft!

I bought this set last year and I absolutely love it!  It's from Reverse Confetti.  It die cuts so beautifully.

I went with a different colour theme for this one as I had a little piece of red and white polka dot paper lying on my desk. It was either use it or bin in.. so I used it!

Have a lovely day!

Celebrate

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A cold and wet Sunday afternoon here - in fact there is only one word to describe it - dreich.

Dreich - Wet, dull, gloomy, dismal, dreary or any combination of these. Scottish weather at its most miserable. The “ch” is pronounced as in Scots loch.

I think that sums it up pretty well!

On a positive note though, the house is toasty warm and the Sunday roast is smelling gorgeous!

Some crafty time for me today - although I have been doing some tidying out too. The evidence is one bin bag full of craft stuff that I'll never use!

One card made today so far.  I've been playing with the New Wonders set from Stampin' Up!  I love the images in this set but wasn't sure how well they would colour as they are partially shaded already.  I'm pleased though!  I used Copics to colour this one!

Little trees

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Not much crafty time today - been out and about!

So I've used what little time I've had to make some Christmas card toppers.  Playing around with watercolours including Tim Holtz distress oxides and some Stampin' Up! Pigment Sprinkles.

Wishing You The Best

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Another quick little make from me. This time using Stampin' Up! Inspiring Iris and some Hero Arts inks.

Hope you like it!

Christmas Wishes

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I love these papers from Stampin' Up! Wrapped In Plaid.  It's the best set of tartan papers I think I've seen!  And perfect for Scottish Christmas wishes!

Congratulations

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I'm using the Stampin' Up! Everything Is Rosy papers for this card.  I love the designs and the colour combos.

I've not made a card with lots of patterned paper for a while so it was good to have a change!

Have a lovely day!

A Holiday Hello

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I've taken my inspiration for this card from challenge #152 at AAA Cards.  This challenge is a card with "Maxi White Space".  So here we go!

Time to Celebrate

Hello, and happy Monday!

It's cold today!  I was out first thing and it was -2.  Nice and fresh and a beautiful clear blue sky!

And also a perfect day for some crafty time! It's lovely and warm in the craft room, music on and time to have a look through some things I've not used for ages (actually, I was hoping to find a particular stamp set but I realise that might be harder than it should be so I'm setting my expectations low and keeping an open mind!!)

Here's my starter for today though..

Have a lovely day!

Froggie love

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An extra hour in bed this morning was very welcome after being out at a party last night.  Finding it hard to get my mojo into gear today so just a quick make from me today!

Festive Friends

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I thought I better start thinking about Christmas cards! So I treated myself to some new stamps and dies from My Favorite Things.

Great fun colouring this little reindeer!   Kept this card quite simple but when I get some more free crafty time I plan to play some more!

Have a lovely day!

Kitty

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It's kitty cat time here! Although one of our cats is in the bad books after playing with a poor wee sparrow which I had to rescue, take out of the house and give it it's freedom.  Hoping that the cat doesn't find it again!  Poor thing was terrified!

Anyway, I hope you like the colours! Bright and cheerful!

Sticking with the paint brush!

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I love to use watercolours to colour stamped images.  The more you can influence the end result the better the individuality I think!  I do have some ready made toppers in my craft stash but for some reason I always find them harder to craft with.  Perhaps in my mind I don't see "assembly" of ready made items in the same way as I see "messing about from scratch"!  LOL!  Everyone finds their own way in crafting and that's what's so great about it!
I do wish I was truly "artistic" but I think that would only be achieved with lots of time and patience (if ever!) and certainly not with a full time job, busy family life and lots of socialising!
So for the moment, I just "tinker".. and today's "tinkering" involves some freehand water colouring.  Some little floral notelets.  These are actually great fun to make!  I've got so many different types of water colours I just used them randomly.

I'm looking forward to more time to practice!

Hope you like these beginner attempts!

Have a lovely day!