Father's Day kitty

Hmmm, not sure about this one!  It looks fabulously sparkly in real life as I added half a tonne of glitter to his balloon, but I think it needs something, I'll have to have a wee think and maybe add some die cut stars or see what else I can find.
Image from Penny Black, coloured with pencils.

• Sketch from Ribbon Carousel #RCC57
• Fab'n Funky #125 - Father's Day
• Top Tip Tuesday #78 - sparkles galore
• Cards 4 Men #12 - Father's Day
• The Crafty Pad #174 - let's hear it for the boys
• Colour combo from Annabelle Stamps #ac075
• Penny Black at Allsorts June challenge - favorite things ... my corner punch, paper smooches alphabet stamps and clear gloss/glitter are mine!

CPS Anniversary Day 2

CPS have a 5th Anniversary challenge on at the minute with a new sketch challenge every day for 15 days, and I'm aimin to play along! No promises though, my mojo usually starts poorly on a Monday and gets steadily worse through the week, until I start again renewed and refreshed at the weekend!
This one uses a wee Penny Black stamp and some gorgeous DP from my SIL.

• Sketch from CPS Anniversary Day 2
• Totally Gorjuss #116 - Keep It Simple Silly
• Simon Says ... anything goes
• Stamp Scrap and Doodle - anything goes

Baby Butterflies!

Did I mention how far behind I am in my cardmaking?!  I'm still trying to get the cards made that I give as 'pressies' at Christmas, never mind finish my Chrissy cards!  Eek!

This one uses an oldie Penny Black stamp which I haven't used for aaaaages, and the sentiment is actually a silver peel off though it looks black here!

• Sketch from Penny Black Saturday Challenge #181 
• Sweet Stampin - things with wings
• Totally Papercrafts #96 - anything but Christmas
• Papertake Weekly - anything goes

Flowery Doggy card

What do you think?  Too many colours and patterns?  I'm not sure yet!
Stamp is an oldie from Penny Black and Echo Park DPs.
Popped my purple panel up on dimensionals and then the doggy popped up again.

• Sketch from Penny Black Saturday Challenge #166
• A Spoon Full of Sugar #162 - Happy Birthday
• Penny Black at Allsorts (August) - free and easy

Xmas Card #02

ETA: Top 3 at ABC Xmas!

I saw a wee card in blogland a while back with snowy hills and a black sky, but can't remember where ... so if it was you, thanks for the inspiration!  There's a few Christmas challenges about this week, so thought I'd get cracking on my second Christmas card of the year!

Card Details: Penny Black sheep - ppeed up on dimensionals and loads of stickles added to his wee Santa hat.  Also added some stickles to the red gems.  Cuttlebug embossing folder.

• Penny Black Saturday Challenge #159 - Christmas in July
• Repeat Impressions DCC76 - Christmas in July
• ABC Xmas - N is for No Nonsense
• Tuesday throwdown #56 - Christmas in July

Lucky Ducky

Ohhh wouldn't you love to be sitting on a huge stack of pressies like this lucky duck!  I usually pop this Penny Black stamp up in staggered layers, but just kept this one nice and simple.  Coloured with promarkers, some stickles, clear gloss and smooch illuminate, couple of punched flowers and butterflies, and die cut swirls to finish.  Nice and simple and quick!

• Paper Sundaes #69 - Happy Birthday
• Penny Black Saturday #151 - Clean and Simple
• Sketch from Midnight Madness #103
• Splitcoaststampers CAS119 - Use the word 'gift' as your inspiration

Hurrah for comfy slippers!

I had a huge clear out of my crafty stuff and got it all nicely arranged ... though it will probably be as bad as ever this time next week!  I've been looking for this Penny Black stamp for weeks (I think she loves her comfy slippers almost as much as I love mine!) and rediscovered these pretty flowers and loads of other stash too! 

Colour combo from SPCC 87 - pacific blue, pumpkin pie, pale pink

Sketch from Sketch'n Stash #55
Alphabet challenge - P = Paper Piecing
Crazy 4 Challenges C4C75 - use dies (I used the Whimsy ticket die)

Mojo Hedgehog

(Click HERE for my Sweet Stampin GDT post - Try something new)

Heres a wee quickie card - coloured with copic markers and central panel popped up on dimensionals.

(Stamp from Penny Black)

• Sketch from Mojo Monday challenge #172. 
• Colour combo from iCopic lover #11 - red, brown and cream
• CES Challenge #18 - all creatures great and small
• Marks Finest Papers #37 - embossing
• Paper Sundaes #51 - circles

Super CAS doggy card

Sigh, here we are, the last day of my Christmas hols, back to the grindstone tomorrow.  Oh well, at least its a nice short week. 
Oh and some awful news today from my local craft shop ... THE PAPER MILL IS CLOSING! Felt so sorry for the girls who've worked in the shop for years. I always used them for all my basic white and coloured card stock and wee bits and bobs, so now I'm a bit stuck.  If you're a Northern Irish / UK crafter I'd love to know where you get your card from!

Not much to say about my wee card .... they don't come much more clean and simple than this!  No idea where the DP is from, I've been trying to use these scraps up.  Stamp - Penny Black

• Sketch from Clean and Simple FTL121
• Kaboodle Doodles #48 - anything goes
• Cupcake Craft #123 - mainly white card