Holiday in Spain interrupted by UFO’s 🤣

 

Hi there! 

We had a great holiday in Frigiliana, south Spain, interrupted only by these  fascinating clouds! 

Long time no posts, it’s just difficult to get inspired to create cards and has been for a few years. 

Hopefully in the future given time and space it will come together, I miss my lovely creative friends.

Hugs xxx

A simple card at last!

 Hello there, I actually made a card! Woohoo! 

CAS , Tim Holtz sizzix dies and a little Distress ink and done ! 

After all that’s happened in the world it’s been a very long time since I felt up to creating but coming out of the fog is a relief. Hugs to all x

Christmas Kickstart Challenge

Hi There,

It's me putting my head up over the parapet! Long time no post!

Today I am sharing a card or two for the Christmas Kickstart Challenge     
Hope you enjoy these and pop over to check out the beautiful Christmas cards there, join in and grow your Christmas card pile! Win Win ;) : https://christmaskickstartchallenge.blogspot.com/2020/07/christmas-kickstart-challenge-35-snow.html

Stamps from Noolibird and Crafty Individuals , love the Owl and Christmas tree stamps!

I now have the honour of calling myself a Guest Elf!!!!!!

This card is a Penny Black stamps (Holly) and another Noolibird House

And finally an ancient Hero Arts Christmas tree stamp, fluffy Stuff snowflakes water coloured and covered in glitter!

Well thank you for joining me today, I hope you can take a look at the challenge, it's a great way to build up your Christmas cards :D xx

That’s Crafty are on Hochanda 😊

Hi there
Hoping my crafty friends are well, today I am sharing a sneaky pic of  some crafty makes that I did for the shows on Hochanda , Monday at 10 & 2 then on Tuesday at 10 again. The lovely Jo Channon is demonstrating some gorgeous new stamps, masks and stencils. All the great pastes, paints, mediums and sprays will be available

 New stamps on this one, I just love circles 😊

This is a new stencil with the fab T C paints, I love the Antique Gold!

This is TC Texture paste, I used paint to tint it and followed up with painting individual parts! 

Enjoyed making this one it’s part of a triptych very subtle colours ! 😊

Hope you can join us for the shows
Enjoy your Sunday 😊💕😘

Hi there,
Just a quick post, I have made a couple of samples for Craft Stamper!

My first time published! Yippee 🥳

Check it out to see the latest pics 👍😊

You can purchase the magazine Here  http://www.craftstamper.com/

Thank you for joining me 👍😘xxx

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 xxx

AAll and Create flowers!

Saturday 30th November 

Hi, just a quick post, it’s so long since I posted here, hello lovely people 👋🏻👋🏻
My card has AAll and Create stamps and was super easy except cutting the mask!
Hope to be back soon 🤗xx

Unusual Flowers

Hello and welcome to coffee towers, it's de-caff these days but I love it just the same !
Over at Stampotique we are creating Unusual Flowers, here are my contributions

 Two cards, one simple and the other definitely not!!!

I much prefer the CAS card, lets see what you can make for this challenge.
All stamps from Stampotique
Thanks for dropping by, Gay xx 

We're cute again this week

Hello there,
Today I have another Stampotique offering, we are going cute again

Peek a Boo LOL
Newton has a new house and he's pleased to see you!!!! Steps by Gay LOL and the Stampotique Welcome door is open!
I love his cute face, hope you do too. Thank you for joining me,
Gay x

It's cute this week

Hello folks,

I have been creating for Stampotique again this week. Our challenge is anything cute nothing dark !!!

Well there you have it, Kate's Sailboat, that's a cutie in my book! It's a little rough but these cheery boats can weather a storm 😎
I also used Jo Capper-Sandon's Ribbon Curl
Hope you've had a good week so far! Gay xx

Rogues Gallery!

Hi there, anyone here?

I have been missing for nigh on a couple of years , appearing online only on FB. Hopefully I can remember how this all works! 😳

Today I wanted to share my offering for Stampotique, I'm very lucky to have been asked to Guest Design for April! How could I refuse? My favourite stamps after all 😁 

This week the challenge is "Anything goes" definitely a favourite LOL

 Loads of characters here, all stamps by Stampotique

If you can leave a comment I will visit you too, happy to share, join in the challenge if you can, it's "Anything goes" I am so looking forward to seeing your creations, Gay xx

Hi Everyone,
I will be posting here on Wednesday and I  look forward to seeing you hopefully ! Feeling pretty guilty about my absence :(

 In the meantime, have you seen this video of Dolphins? They're my favourites ;)

Gay xx

Stencil it!!!

Hi Folks,
Today we are using stencils at Stampotique, I have made a journal with Eileen Hull's designed die cut

 Front and back

The closure is painted in Pebeo Fantasy Moon and inside is Mokiwea

 And I made a card stencilling the fun enormous balls that these cuties are balancing on, 'it's a party'

 I grafted Jillian's head on to Dance Party Break Up and of course Twinkie just had to join in all the fun. The balls have been glazed and are glistening in the afternoon sunshine.
For the Journal I used two different stencils from Tim Holtz, Flourish and Dot Fade this was over the top of Crafter's Workshop Basics circles and I used texture paste to get the relief. Andy Skinner's technique for rust and stencilled a heart on the back.
Thank you for stopping by, hugs Gay xx 
p.s
It made me giggle, Hubby isn't into cards and gets them stuck under his nose for approval quite frequently, poor chap, anyway I was working on the journal and a little voice from behind me piped up
" You could sell that"
Well, you could have knocked me down with a feather! Praise indeed! Now I'll need to get cracking and batch make, LOL Don't worry I'm not into that either but I was chuffed that he liked it :D Cheers everyone xx

Flowers.....................

Hello, and welcome to my post for Stampotique.
This week is for Flowers, I gave this little sweetie a few for her dress,

and made a few up!

 Come over and join us, any stamps will do and you're in with an opportunity to win a $30 certificate for the store, niiice!

I used
Florrie Doodle Dolly.   
Happy Happy Happy
and
Nether
Then on my last flowery card I used Kate Crane's Spiral on Flowers from Eileen Hull. This month, June we are collaborating with Eileen's fab Die cuts. Over on both Eileen's and Stampotique's Blogs you will see lots of new creations.
Thank you for joining me Hugs Gay xx

New month, new stamps

Hi Folks,
Yes that's right it's time for new stamps at Stampotique
Loads of lovely new stamps this month,
I made a card

The wedding couple 'Patrick and Elizabeth' are from Tracy Scott and the 'Tree Horizon' is by France Papillon!
Karen Hayseldon's Feather is simply scrumptious too!!
All the new releases are up on the site HERE
Thank you for dropping by, Hugs Gay xx

For the Boys!!!

Hello again,
I'm back , this time with something for the men in our lives! The theme this fortnight at Stampotique is all about the chaps. You may or may not know but I'm useless when it comes to creating masculine cards so bear with me

 The next card is more generic really and could be considered a unisex  card,

Thanks for dropping by, great to see you 😁Hugs Gay xx
I used
Distress Oxide inks on both, loved playing with these!
First card;
Arnold
Alpha Background 
stamped onto card and cut out for the wording
Second card;
Towering Gifts

New month, new stamps!!!!!!

Hi Folks, Happy May to you,
Today we have new stamps on the Stampotique website, yippee!! You can find them HERE
I made a card with Tera's Moose!

I just love him and the quote from Carol's new quote cube!
It's a bank holiday in the UK today, we are recovering from a lovely family visit yesterday, we sat around and ate and chatted all day long, good fun, I was totally stuffed!!
Hope you're day is fun whatever you're up to! Thank you for visiting hugs Gay xx

Just one layer..............

Hi my lovely crafty people, today I am sharing a one layer card for Stampotique

I have grafted Tera's little lady on to Moth Fab's body, loads of masking and inking later and she emerged, quite changed 😊
I used
Cupcake Girl
Moth Fab
Alpha Background
Spiral
Mwah and Kiss
Distress inks, many colours.
Thank you for joining me today , Hugs Gay xx

Lindy's colours.........................

Hi Folks,
Today I am sharing a tag that I have made with Lindy's Stamp Gang products and Stampotique stamps.

These are the colours for the challenge! Great combination!
Some sparkly , the Starburst Sprays and some Flat, the pink was Flat Fabio, great name 😁
 Flat Fabio, Raspberry Lemonade,
Starburst, Blue Hawaiian Blue
and Starburst spray, Rusty Lantern Lime

Using my new stamps!

Hello there ,
I'm back again this time to share Stampotique's  new stamps, we are joining  with Lindy's Stamp Gang  this month,
 This month the colours we will be lucky to be working with are these!! That is the challenge

 I made a couple of  cards for the Text Behind Challenge this fortnight

Here is the link to the new stamps at Stampotique
I used
The Tweedles 
Television by Daniel Torrente
Almost a shaker card, my character is raised up but behind acetate, the circles are punched from the colours for this month from Lindy's
Flat Fabio, Raspberry Lemonade,
Starburst, Blue Hawaiian Blue
and Starburst spray, Rusty Lantern Lime

 Stamps by
Karen Hayselden, Cooee and last month's Background Stamp

Thank you for joining me, have a fab week, hugs Gay xx