Beer Cheers

I'm always in need of male birthday cards, so I made a quick one-layer card using Tim Holtz blueprint stamps to fit with a couple of challenges.  The first one is Colour Throwdown - black, brown and white:

and The Male Room - Anything Goes with an optional twist of beverages:

The sort-of-New-Year's-Resolution is getting off to a gathering steam!

Pink Rose

My sort-of-New-Year's-resolution is to enter more challenges.  Last year I hardly got round to entering any, compared to previous years.  So I'm making a start with this one layer card, which is totally inspired by Erum Tasneem's faux dimension card on her guest appearance on Jennifer Mcguire's blog on 8 January.

I'm not getting off to a very good start, because one of the challenges I made this card for have already closed!  So I'd better get on with it.  I'm entering this into:-

The Flower Challenge - Pink & Grey

Loll's new challenge CAS Stencil - Sponging

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions

and The Card Concept - Pink Party

ETA:  The flower stamp is Inked Rose from Altenew.

Craft Stamper Take It, Make It

Craft Stamper's Take It, Make It challenge is underway, and you can play along with any stamped creation.

I've used a large flower stamp from Marianne Designs, and a couple of stencils on smooshed card.  The happy birthday sentiment is from my set Baa Baa.

We have a fab prize for one randomly selected winner:

And the winner chosen by the design team will get their entry published in the magazine, have a profile in the mag and the blog, and a guest design opportunity in a future challenge.  What's not to like?

Pop on over to the Take It, Make It challenge and play along for your chance to win.

STAMPlorations Inspiration #199

It's Inspiration Tuesday over at STAMPlorations, and today we're having an anything goes kind of theme, using whichever stamps take your fancy.

I'm short of a few girly cards, so I reached for one of my favourite images, the frilly dress from Party Dresses, and a sentiment from City Girl.

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and don't forget to leave a comment for your chance to win a $10 gift certificate to the store.

Seize The Birthday - Confetti

Hello, and welcome to the first Seize The Birthday of 2019!  Our topping for this challenge is Confetti, quite appropriate for early January!

I used a Zinski mini cake stamp from Paper Artsy, a sentiment from Altenew and confetti shapes from Winnie & Walter.  The background is a print from an ARTplorations stencil.

We are welcoming a new member to the team, Cathy Roffey, and our surprise party guest is Julie Beech.  Pop on over to the Seize The Birthday blog to see what they and the rest of the Design Team have made, and play along with us.  If confetti's not your thing, you can still play along with our anything goes birthday theme.

Craft Stamper Take It, Make It

Hello, and welcome to the last Craft Stamper Take It, Make It of the year!  We've got a fabulous Altenew prize bundle for one randomly chosen participant:

If your entry is chosen by the Design Team, it'll be published in the magazine, and you'll get a profile post on the blog and a guest design spot in a future Take It, Make It challenge.

Pop on over to the blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team, and play along with us.  Don't forget to use real stamps (rubber/polymer) in your project, and only one project in your post.  Full guidelines can be found on the blog.

STAMPlorations Inspiration #197

Helloooo!  It's our last Tuesday Inspiration post of the year at STAMPlorations.  I'm still trying to use up my huge stash of patterned papers, and the Christmas Reindeer stamps and dies were ideal for this particular paper.  It just so happened that I had the diecut reindeer in my stash ready to go, so it was a really quick cardmaking session.

I chopped up the paper to fit my card, added the Christmas Reindeer CUTplorations diecut shapes, a diecut Let It Snow sentiment, a red gem and brown gem for the noses.  I did consider giving Rudolph's mum a red nose too, to make it hereditary, but who am I to change history?

On another piece of patterned paper I added a larger reindeer diecut, a red nose and the Christmas Blessings sentiment.

This piece of background paper is the right half of the paper used on the first card.  Before you ask, the paper was by Craftwork Cards and I think is discontinued.  All it needed was a tiny reindeer to complement that giant robin on the top sign ;)

Pop on over to the STAMPlorations blog for some more fabulous inspiration from the team.  You can get get 20% off any stamps, stencils and dies in the store (except new release and retiring) when you use my code STAMPGIRLSHIRLEY.

Things are about to hot up for me - we'll be together as a family at Christmas for the first time in 13 years - lots of preparation to do, so I'll probably be blogging even less than I have been lately until the New Year, so I'll say Happy Christmas to you now, just in case ;)