Tuesday Trio - Sponged For The Guys cards...

Gulp... I blinked... and the week just went!

 So apologies for the radio silence... 

A nice little share for you today using scraps from the For The Guys kit... along with the birds from Sailing Home

 I love it when you can re-purpose something and make something simple... but great...

Graces Garden Get Well Card with Heart...

I have been needing rather too many of these types of card recently... but Graces Garden does the job so well...

And at least I have been able to play around with different colours combinations as I have gone along....

Loving this combo of Grapefruit Grove, Calypso Coral, Pool Party and Pretty Peacock and Granny Apple Green.... quite serene... and inspired by a tea towel!

Grace's Garden #6 - Simply a Fence...

The eagle eyed amongst you will have spotted this card in my group shot yesterday...

Simple die cut fence...  doubled up at either side... Overstamped using Winter Woods silver birch image a few times!) or the (sadly) retired Woodgrain background stamp if you still have that...

With the main flower image "faux-reversed"... check out the respective positioning of the yellow and tall blue flowers... I'll be back to explain on Wednesday!

And don't forget for those of you in the UK... I'm offering a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail.  12 card kits and instructions - 2 each of 6 designs... the 5 shown below and this one... Free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 (or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

Last qualifying orders by 2nd March please. And I have just realised that I currently have 3 Classes in the Mail on offer! Grace's Garden , Painted Poppies and Sending Flowers... Click here for the details on all 3... 

Just click here to go and order your Grace's Garden bundle with shipment direct to you- and don't forget to add your Sale A Bration freebie! And add my current Host Code DUCCVEGD... for the free class kit... which will be sent out under separate cover...

Alternatively  - for those of you that can collect and that have financial arrangements already set up with The Craft Spa... I am placing an order on 3rd March... and can add yours onto that! 

Grace's Garden #5 - Wedding Wishes Trio

This was one of my favourite Grace's Garden designs... which I thought I had shared... but it appears not when I checked! Good job I realised!

Three versions shared today... as the first ones with Mr & Mrs on the gate and heart proved a tad "frustrating" for many in class!

And I have already made a 4th version... using my Bricks & Mortar embossing folder... but that will have to wait until I set up for another photo session!

And don't forget for those of you in the UK... I' m offering a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail.  12 card kits and instructions - 2 each of 6 designs... the 5 shown below and this one... Free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 (or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

Last qualifying orders by 2nd March please. 

And I have just realised that I currently have 3 Classes in the Mail on offer! Grace's Garden , Painted Poppies and Sending Flowers... Click here for the details on all 3... 

Just click here to go and order your Grace's Garden bundle with shipment direct to you- and don't forget to add your Sale A Bration freebie! And add my current Host Code DUCCVEGD... for the free class kit... which will be sent out under separate cover...

Alternatively  - for those of you that can collect and that have financial arrangements already set up with The Craft Spa... I am placing an order on 3rd March... and can add yours onto that! 

Main greetings from Peaceful Moments...

Which is a greeting set I love... as it covers so many occasions... and it co-ordinates so well with the Grace's Garden greetings too...

Stencilled bricks care of Pattern Party Masks... and wouldn't the clouds have looked nice in the sky sponging too!

Grace's Garden Fence for Easter... #4

Another of my simple Grace's Garden range of cards... 

Flowers stamped in Smoky Slate this time for the no-line water-colouring technique...

Greetings from Welcome Easter...

And for those of you in the UK... don't forget... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming soon... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 (or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

Just click here to go and order your Grace's Garden bundle with shipment direct to you- and don't forget to add your Sale A Bration freebie! And add my current Host Code DUCCVEGD... for the free class kit... which will be sent out under separate cover...

For your Information
Inks used - Balmy Blue, Old Olive, Smoky Slate (or Gray Granite!)
Stampin Blends used - Dark Old Olive, Dark Daffodil Delight, Light Night of Navy, Dark Balmy Blue, Light Lovely Lipstick, Light Rich Razzleberry & Dark Highland Heather

Grace's Garden & Winter Woods #3

Another simple little sponged garden scene care of Grace's Garden and Winter Woods...

With a lovely rose arch taking centre stage... and another lovely Greeting from Peaceful Moments...

And sorry about yesterday's late post... I forgot to press publish! Until I remembered at about 11.30 am... Oops!

And don't forget.. for those of you in the UK... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 (or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

Grace's Garden #2 meets Winter Woods

Simple sponged Grace's Garden scene through an aperture... bringing in the trees from Winter Woods and a greeting from Peaceful Moments...

Which is a greeting set I love... as it covers so many occasions... and it co-ordinates so well with the Grace's Garden greetings too...

Also spot the stamped wood grain on the arch... more than one way to achieve this...

Winter Woods silver birch trio image...

Birch background stamp..

Or retired Woodgrain background stamp..

And don't forget.. for those of you in the UK... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45 ( or alternative products to a value of £45+ if you already have Grace's Garden)... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too... 

And delighted to report that I have finally finished the annual accounts and tax return! So very lastminute.com this year...  And now I can get back to concentrating on crafting! Happy dance...

Grace's Garden #1

Loving my Grace's Garden... can I count the ways!!!?

Well about 6 so far... and lots more on my list to make!

Short and sweet today...

But - for those of you in the UK... a Grace's Garden Class in the Mail is coming... More details to follow ... but free with a purchase of the Grace's Garden bundle for £45... and oh you get to select a free Sale A Bration product too...

And apologies as my series of Team Training Swaps has had to come to a temporary halt... The ways of the technical world have stopped my photos transferring over... and the Tax Return still isn't finished so sorting photos will have to wait for a few more hours... but luckily I had these photos all ready to go...

By The Bay... I am a Rock...

Hope you are singing away to the "I am a Rock" song by Simon & Garfunkel by now!!! I certainly am...

So I mentioned yesterday that I did not see the sea shell in the small image in the By The Bay stamp set (Yours for Free with a £45 order during the Sale A Bration promotion!)

So the only thing I could think of was a rock aka an island!! Hence this card with an extended sea scape off to the right... I just hand drew the horizon extension using the thin end of the Basic Grey marker pen... Birds added care of High Tide...

Oh...and this time I used a Rectangle Stitched die cut Thick Whisper White rectangle I had lying around... so AquaPainter watercolouring was not an option... so I sponged all my background colour instead... and used the Blender Pen to take ink off ink pad lids for the detail parts...

I have now (unfortunately!) seen another use for the image... but I daren't share as it is one of those "you will never get it out of your head" .... a definite spoiler!

Ordering today... do remember the Host Code to help support The Craft Spa... and earn yourself a gift at the same time...

And just click on the pictures below for catalogues and/or more information...

Santa's Workshop Mr & Mrs card #2...

Probably can't get much simpler than this!

Remake of this Mr & Mrs Santa card I made earlier... just replacing stamped and coloured Signs of Santa images with ones die-cut straight from the Santa's Workshop papers using the Santas Signpost dies... simples! And SO quick!

Main greeting from Merry Christmas To All... and North Pole in the Signs of Santa set...

PS Don't forget to come back tomorrow for the Autumn Winter Catalogue Carryover List, the Year End Close Out Sale... and to order your Stamparatus bag!

Skater Snowman on Saturday!

 I just couldn't resist... got to love a happy skater boy snowman card...

Care of Spirited Snowmen, Winter Woods & Rooted in Nature mainly... with a touch of white embossed Lovely as A Tree trees and Hearts Come Home to finish off...

5 amazing stamp sets to create the greatest of scenes!! And not just for Christmas... well, apart from the Spirited Snowmen and some of Hearts Come Home... and I think that the last 3 of these sets might just be in the Extravaganza come tomorrow!

Rest of the card details as per this card shared earlier here...

And talking of the Extravaganza... 

Don't forget 10% off lots of card, paper and embellishments today... and click here to see my "free postage" offer for online orders if you are in the UK...

Spirited Snowmen in the Snow...

Just sharing the slightly tweaked version of Joanne's card made by my ladies in classes this week...

As the colours had to change based on what I already had out...

And I used the lovely sentiment from the Spirited Snowmen set...

The "snow banks" are just hand torn pieces of Thin Whisper White sponged along the edge with Pool Party ink... and then Tombow and Dazzling Diamonds Stampin Glitter added to finish... with more glitter being added to the trees too...

And you can actually get away with less white card for those hand torn snowbanks... but I cut the panel the same size as the panel for stamping and sponging the night sky for 2 reasons...
(1) gave my ladies another bank if needed in an emergency (though only one lady re-did a bank as she wasn't happy with one)
(2) easier to prep that way!

SU! Products used
Stamps - Spirited Snowmen, Lovely as a Tree, Hearts Come Home
Card - Night of Navy (A6 Card Blank), (Thin) Whisper White (14. 2 x 9.9cm x 2)
Inks - Night of Navy, Pool Party, Memento Black
Stampin Blends - Light Black, Dark Smoky Slate, Night of Navy combo, Real Red combo, Shaded Spruce combo, Light Pool Party
Other - Stampin Glitter, Stampin Sponges, 3/4" Circle Punch (to punch moon mask)