I was inspired by the lovely image over at Inspired By Challenge on this wet and cold Friday here in the UK. I love blankets and am actually snuggled under one as I type. What annoys me the most about the menopause is the hot flushes and the fact that I can't curl up under blankets for long before I have to throw them off again - anyone else suffering like me? lol! Maybe you're not at that stage yet ....but it will come!
So for my card I used an old set by Clearly Besotted called Warm Solutions which also came with matching framelits. I started out with some SU Soft Suede card stock and used a TCW stencil called Mini Honeycomb for the background - simply inking the same ink onto the card stock. I inked and cut out my three mugs and stacked them as in the picture. I used some SU Really Rust - a very old ink but one of my favourites and also some Soft Suede. I also added some Tri Spectrum Sparkles in Smoked Quartz to the circles on the middle mug to give it a bit of sparkle. I added the sentiment in Adirondack Espresso ink, sponged the edges and roughed them up a bit and added it to the matching card stock base.
My card won the challenge - how lovely.
Aha - I said I love Reindeer christmas cards. Here's a little one all in his own snow globe from Clearly Besotted. I was inspired by the sketch over at Sunday Stamps #SSC216 for my card.
I used the reindeer paper from a Christmas pad from Craft Sensations for my background. I stamped the image from Clearly Besotted and coloured him in with SU pencils and added a bright red Rhinestone for his nose - guess which reindeer he is then lol! I added a touch of SU bronze thread behind the circle. I also added some retired Washi Tapes as my stripes and gold embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set which is called Shake It Up.
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My card today uses these cute mice from Clearly Besotted called Feeling Fruity. I decided to pair them with the challenge over at Fab Friday which is a colour challenge - and here come the groans - I used a pun on words with the colours too - did you spot it?
I masked off the little mice and stamped the ones with the melon three times - I coloured them in with Melon Mambo ink and a blender pen with a touch of Basic Grey for their faces. The little orange one is holding a piece of Pumpkin Pie - honest! I used a stitched framelit to cut it out and mount it on black and then on Pumpkin Pie card stock. I added a few sequins and stamped the sentiment in Melon Mambo.
Yay- my little mice won
