Cats and Dogs

The theme at Less is More this week is Cats and Dogs...what fun!

This little chap is from Penny Black, coloured with Copics, with a sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

Another simple card! The cats were a stamp which I bought many moons ago on eBay, it needs to be stuck onto an acrylic block with a Pritt Stick, but works well enough.

The mounting is from Stamping Up and the sentiment from There She Goes clear stamps.
I'm adding this to the ABC challenge of Wedding or Anniversaries

As you may tell from these cards, I'm more of a cat person than a doggy one, this one is mainly die cuts from Memory Box. Sentiment from Paper Smooches.

There's a version of this one without the watermark, (which obliterates the sentiment) on the Less is More blog. I doctored a Paper Smooches sentiment stamp to create this one... details are on the LIM blog.

Here he is again!

This is Magnum, I love this fun cat... not a lot of white space on this one, but a plainish backdrop!
The sentiment is computer generated in Fabulous 50's.
I've been having lots of my trouble with my laptop playing silly kids and going slowly or completely refusing to operate at all. Sadly sorting these kind of problems is not my forte, but I'm just grateful that it has decided to operate again... I don't know if it was because of anything that I did or didn't do, but long may it last!
Have a great weekend.

Bloom

CASology has the challenge with BLOOM on the cue card this week!

This is one of my favourite dies...Poppies from Memory Box, it's such an elegant shape!

Simple embossing (I think from Craft Concepts) and a touch of bling, a length of ribbon and it was done.

It's more by coincidence, but this seems to fit the sketch challenge at Freshly Made Sketches
So I'll enter it for that too!

Thinking of you... with a difference

This morning I was asked to make a card for an elderly lady who has just been diagnosed with motor neurone disease . The person requesting the card didn't want a traditional get well card as it is a degenerative disease and she is not likely to get completely well again, but wanted to convey that she was thinking of her. This was the wording that we came up with between us... I suggested the 'keep your pecker up' bit and my friend suggested the rest. I think it should do the job!

It's a Paper Smooches image coloured with Copics and then glazed.

Mr Mojo has been hiding

Yesterday was a singularly unproductive day, today has gone a little better with a few cards being accomplished!

These fab flowers are for the Border One Layer Wednesday challenge hosted this time by the wonderful  Heather T. Both the flowers and the sentiment are from Stampendous ... maybe that's why they complement each other so well!

It's also for the Dynamic Duo celebratory challenge where any of the previous year's colour combos could be selected. I chose Primrose Petals plus my choice which is the greeny grey of the foliage. 

They have been coloured with Promarkers.

A package of goodies arrived from Paper Smooches this week and this lovely little flamingo was amongst the haul.

The border die which cut the choppy sea, was also part of my purchase.  I believe that the clouds are from a Dienamics die.

I'm submitting this to CAS on Sunday's Pastel Pretties challenge.

The final one for today uses this really cute ellie from SU's Patterned Occasions set. I masked the sentiment which is part of the stamp before inking as I didn't that three times over too. This card gains its inspiration from the Muse challenge where this card was the origin of my idea.

I used a few shades of SU purple ink and a scrap of Pink Petticoat DP from the drawer.

The sentiment is from SU Friendly Phrases.

As you can see I chose the theme of the three elephants in horizontal orientation from this sample card.