Reef Travellers - from Beccy's Place

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How is your week going? We went parent visiting yesterday and they all seem to be in fine form and the care for them all seems to be working. On these trips we get coffee in a nice little coffee shop a trip to the Art of Craft Shop and a nice meal with my husband's brothers and wives. 

This is a sad post for me. This is the last time I will be posting as one of Beccy's Blog Contributors for Beccy's Place. I have decided to step down from the Design Team. I am finding I have less time to craft and this is only going to get worse. When our grandchild arrives we will be doing child care two days a week. Beccy has been very understanding and she is a dream to work with. The images come in plenty of time before the deadline for the makes. Beccy is always so kind about what you have made. 

The last image set I have worked with is called Reef Travellers. I made three very similar cards. 

I have a Nautical paper pad that came from The Works. The papers worked so well with this images. I added some die cuts to this card. 

This is a proper DL card. All the sentiments I used came from the set. The images were coloured with Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. 

With this card I used up strips of the nautical papers. This design works with Washi Tape too. 

This is the Reef Travellers digital image set and it is available HERE.

Here are all three cards together. 

What have I decided about blogging? I am certainly going to be cutting back for a while. I really am not making so much. We might start buying cards this year. I won't say I won't blog ever again just not so much. 

Happy Crafting

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Tractor Pull Digital Image Set from Beccy's Place

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How are you all doing. We have just come home from our cruise. The Iona is a fabulous ship. I think we have to have another cruise on her to get to know her better. I have come back slightly damaged, more of that later. 

I am one of the blog contributors for Beccy's Place. This month the fantastic Tractor Pull Digital Image set has been released. Here are my makes with the images. 

This is a very versatile set. Here is a birthday card. 

Now a Christmas card. Both of these cards used  Pre-coloured images. For the Christmas card I used the Stencils Sentiments dies from the John Next Door Range. 

Here I used just one element and a sentiment from the set. The balloons were coloured by me with my Faber Castell Polychromo colouring pencils. 

Here is the Tractor Pull set which is available HERE. 

Here are the cards together. I think this set has lots of potential. 

Happy Crafting 

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Nuts 'N' Bolts from Beccy's Place

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Let's start with an apology. I am sorry I haven't been posting much. I have been crafting but they are all projects for the future. Life has thrown a bit of a curve ball as well. My parents now need two live in carers. We had to source a bed for the second one. So with that and invigilating life is just a bit hectic. 

Here is a post about the fabulous new digital image set from Beccy's Place called Nuts 'N' Bolts. 

This is my first card. I did colour the image with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. I had to add some John Next Door Cogs. 

For the second card I added two of the robots and again I coloured them with my Faber Castell

Polychromo Colouring pencils. The back was made with another John Next Door die this one from the Stencil Alphabet set. 

This is the Nuts 'N' Bolts image set which is available HERE. 

Here are the two cards together. This is such a fun image set to use. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas with Beccy's Place and Mr Snowflake

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How has your weekend been. We had a meal with our friends on Saturday evening. Sunday was a quiet day we just had to pick up my friend's artwork from an Art Show. This meant that they were able to visit relatives on the Isle of Wight. My lovely Mother-in-law is back in hospital for more blood transfusions. It is such a worrying time for us all. We were able to visit last Thursday. 

This is Encore Week at Beccy's Place. I was given the older Mr Snowflake digital Stamp set to use.

Here are the cards that I made. 

For this slimline card I used the pre-coloured snowman. The sentiment was foiled with my Kaleido. 

For this card I use the wreath and one to the sentiments. The wreath was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils and then fussy cut. The paper were from my stash and I used the John Next Door Snowflake Corners again. 

This is the Mr Snowflake Digital Stamp Set and it is available HERE. 

I had great fun making these cards. I love how it is so easy to flip and resize digital images. The colouring is very relaxing too. 

Don't forget it is the last day of Beccy's Christmas Challenge too. 

Happy Crafting

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Christmas Cheers from Beccy's Place

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How has your weekend been? Today we have been to visit my in-laws. My lovely Mother-in-law is really very poorly. She is still very with it and a pleasure to visit. We always do a test before we go. After this we won't be able to visit for a while. 

Beccy from Beccy's Place has done it again she had produced some gorgeous Christmas images. Who doesn't love those speciality Christmas drinks you can get at this time of year. Here are the cards that I made with the Christmas Cheers  Digital image set. 

I fancied colouring in blues and mauves and I found some papers that matched. The snowflake corners are from the John Next Door Range. 

More traditional greens and reds this time. The papers I had in my stash and those snowflake corners are there again.  

This time I made a collage on the computer of all the pre-coloured images and some of the sentiments. Those snowflake corners are there again. I might just be obsessed. 

This is the Christmas Cheers Digital Image set which is available HERE. You get line art that you can colour too. 

Here are all three cards together. I will think carefully about who to send these cards to. It will have to be someone who is into their hot drinks as much as we are. 

Don't forget Beccy's Christmas Challenge which runs for the whole of November right here on her blog. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

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Sunflowers with Beccy's Place

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How has the weekend been so far? We are seeing our daughter and son-in-law on Monday. We are looking after the dog while they have a look for beds.

This week is Encore Week at Beccy Place this time Carla and I used the Thinking of You Digital image set. The cards we have made are on Beccy's Blog today. 

Here is the card I made. 

I  had the paper left over from another project. It was perfect to go with the images. 

The sunflowers were coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo Pencils. I used nested Oval dies from Presscut to cut the image and the sentiment. 

This is the Thinking of You Digital Image set and it is available HERE. 

The gold square was left over from another project. I think it adds a nice touch. 

Have a good week. 

Happy Crafting

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Cute Owl with a Snippets Background

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How is your week going? Here is a little card to cheer you up. We are all booked for our Covid vaccine. We got the letter on yesterday and we booked later in the day when some more appointments had become available. The next one is booked as well. I do hope all this helps. 

I have been enjoying colouring. It does seem to help with my stress levels. When I have to deal with things to do with my parent's  care a session of colouring really helps calm me down. I had my snippets out for another project. I hunted through to find papers that would go with this cute owl. 

This cute little owl is from the You're A Hoot digital stamp set from Beccy's Place it is available HERE  This image set is on sale, it is a good price and it won't be around for long. The branch and the butterfly were drawn by me. I wanted him to have something to look at and to sit on. The whole thing was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. The frame was made with a Spellbinders die. I cut it twice once in black and once in gold. This helped the frame to stand out from the background. 

I will pop a sentiment onto this card when I know who it will be sent to. I have been asked to have a stall at a Hampshire Open Studios event in the summer. I had better get making somethings to put on the stall. 

I would like to enter the following challenges:

Challenge 491 at Penny's Paper-Crafty Challenge Blog

The March Challenge at Beccy's Place Challenges

The March Challenge at Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper Challenge

Challenge starting Tuesday 2nd March at the Through the Craft Room Door (TTCRD) Challenge blog. 

The March Challenge at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge blog

Happy Crafting

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The Three Tenors digital stamp set from Beccy's Place

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I hope you have had a good week. Well we have our route map now for our way out of lockdown. On a personal note we are still waiting for our vaccinations. I am sure they won't be far away. Hopefully we will have some nice weather this weekend for walks. 

As you know I am one of the Blog Contributors for Beccy's Place. This is Encore week where we get to work with a set of older images. This time it is the turn of The Three Tenors digital Stamp set. I made two projects with these images. I could have made more they are delightful. 

I made a calendar. My hubby helped me with the cards for the calendar that fit inside the pocket. 

This is The Three Tenors digital stamp set it is available HERE. 

As you can see I used the precoloured image. I made a wall on the computer. With my pencils I made the top of the wall for the cats to stand on. 

At the top I placed a banner for the year. I used number dies from the John Next Door range. 

Here is the other card. I thought this kitty was just so cute. The backing paper was in my stash. It is just one sheet of paper. 

These images were lots of fun to work with. 

Have a good weekend. 

Happy Crafting

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A Little Something Digital Stamps - By Beccy's Place

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How is your week going? How do you feel about the announcement on Monday about the gradual lifting of restrictions? We are still waiting for our first vaccination. I have a feeling that it will come sooner than we think. 

I am one of Beccy's Place the Blog contributors. This means that I get lovely images to work with ahead of their release. This month the pretty image set A Little Something was released in digital and clear stamps. 

I decided to make a decorated box and a set of matching cards that would make a nice gift for someone, 

This image was coloured with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils. There is colour chart above the lid of the box. I made the background for the image on the computer. I used a scoring board to make the box. I have gifted this set of cards to a friend. 

This is the A Little Something Digital Stamp set and it it available HERE. 

The images were so pretty I had to make more cards. This is a thank you card. 

This is a slightly larger thank you card. 

Here are all the makes together. This was such a lovely set of use. I am sure I will be using them again. 

Happy Crafting

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Good Friends for Beccy's Place

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How are we all doing? I am hearing of more and more friends being vaccinated. This can only be a good thing. 

I am so lucky to be one of the Contributors for Beccy's Place the Blog and you can see my card HERE today. 

The patterned paper for this card came from a paper pad from the Works. 

This is the Good Friends image and it is available HERE. 

The sentiment comes with the image set too. 

I coloured the image with Faber Castell Polychromo Coloured Pencils. There is a colour chart in the image above. 

This is a fun card. 

Enjoy the rest of the week. 

Happy Crafting 

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Snowmen for Beccy's Place

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I do hope that you had as good a Christmas as you could with the current restrictions. We unfortunately had to self-isolate which meant that the meagre plans we had were curtailed even more. It has meant that we cannot go out for walks. We are so glad that we have a garden. I cooked a nice meal which we enjoyed together and we had a WhatsApp video chat with the family. On Boxing Day we started an online Murder Mystery which is lots of fun. We are allowed out on Wednesday. The NHS app has a count down. 

This is my last post of the year for Beccy's Place I am lucky enough to be one of her blog contributors. I was given the Snowman Encore digital stamp set to work with. 

I made my own backing paper with some of the snowflakes from the set. I used a gel pen to add extra dots. 

Beccy's Blog is a great place to visit there is lots of inspiration, competitions and there are free images as well. Click on the logo and you will be taken there. 

This is the Snowman Digital stamp set. There are a lot of images here. The image set is available HERE. 

Here are some of the snowmen. They were coloured with my Polychromo pencils. I used a sentiment from the set too. 

Here is a second card I made. This little snowman is so cute. I used my Polychromo pencils again. 

Here are the cards together. They have all been sent now. I did have a few cards left over this year. I also did much better with the sizes only one needed a large letter stamp. 

Have a Happy New Year

Happy Crafting

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