22 again?

My friend, Janet, had her birthday a couple of weeks ago.  When asked what she wanted for her birthday, she replied "to be 22 again". So I made this:

I used stamps from Mama Elephant "Up and Away", and Lawn Fawn "Quinn's 123s" and "Hello Baby", plus a sentiment from Hambo Stamps. Inside the card I stamped the matching sentiment, which says "Didn't you just have one LAST year?" The patterned paper at the bottom is cut with a Lawn Fawn die from Stitched Hillside Borders, and the paper is Lawn Fawn, too.

Thanks for visiting :)

A new challenge at A Blog Named Hero

The latest challenge at A Blog Named Hero , "Unexpected", had me stumped for a while, until I remembered my Hambo Stamps. They have the funniest sentiment stamps for the front and inside of cards.  They're laugh out loud funny!

Don't forget to play along with this new challenge - there's a voucher from Simon Says Stamp up for grabs for one lucky entrant!

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Coffee Lovers Bloghop!

Let's just get this right out of the way at the very beginning.  I hate coffee. Loathe the stuff.  Give me a tea or a hot chocolate any day!  However, I do love cardmaking, and I love a good blog hop ;)  And there's a coffee lovers blog hop being hosted by Chaitali today!

Being a non-coffee drinker, I don't have any stamps appropriate to this blog hop, so I just drew this mug and added the labels myself.  These labels seem to apply to a lot of coffee drinkers I know :)

Make sure you visit Chaitali's blog HERE to check out all the caffeinated cards! 

Thanks for visiting :)

A bit of fun!

How would you describe a fun card?  How about a row of rainbow dancing elephants and some glitter?!?!?

Hope you're having a great day ;)

Sugar is sweet

I don't think I've posted this card, but it fits this weeks CASology cue card "Sugar", so here it is!!

A new stamp set!!!

I combined a few challenges with this card - firstly, this week's Lawnscaping challenge is an inspiration photo - lots of fun, summery images, and the colours that stood out to me were yellows, blues, greens and pinks.  Secondly, this week's challenge at A Blog Named Hero is to choose a Hero Arts Artist and get inspired - my card layout was inspired by this card by the talented Lisa Spangler.    Thirdly, I thought I'd try Jennifer McGuire's stamping on glitter technique from Stretching your Stamps a second time, but this time, I made the glitter card myself (rather than using ready made glitter cardstock), I used Memento ink rather than StazOn, and I used Copics rather than water based markers. 

PS  Happy mail arrived this morning - this new stamp set from Lawn Fawn that I won for this card from the Lawnscaping challenge!  Woo hoo!! Thank-you Laurel at Lawnscaping and Kelly Marie and Mike at Lawn Fawn!!!  :D

So, of course, I just had to ink it up IMMEDIATELY!!!

A bit of fun

Trying to make use of stuff in my stash - came across this cute hippo:

How much chocolate?

Using up a few felt embellishments I've been hoarding. 

Have a great day :)

Strawberries

When I saw this weeks Just Us Girls challenge, I LOVED the red gingham.  Not so much the hot dog.  When I was 11 years old on my first ever school camp, I ended up in Daylesford Base Hospital with food poisoning after eating a hot dog, and I've never eaten one since.  So I went with the red gingham - and strawberries (much better than a hot dog, IMHO!!!)

Another Birthday???

I've combined two challenges with this card - The Playdate Cafe's colour challenge (black, white and blue) and Clean and Simple's sketch. 

 The inside of the card says "Didn't you just have one LAST year?".  Love the "fractured funnies" stamps from Hambo Stamps :)

I hope you have a lovely day :)

Another Mothers Day card....

I bought theses Hambo stamps last year - and they arrived in the mail the week after Mothers Day!  Grrr!   This year, I completely forgot about them until today - the day AFTER Mothers Day!  D'oh!   Oh, well, my mum just got an extra card today ;)

And inside the card............!!

Will be submitting this to Annabelle Stamps Stitching challenge :)