Surprise stamps!

Recently I bought a bag of random stamps from Creative Images. I was ordering a little cat, which I saw Birgit use and which I thought was just fab. I just couldn't resist a grab bag at the same time. It's a real risk but sometimes there are some really great finds,

I have used a couple of them in this week's cards.

The strawberries on this card were from the bag. There was a strange creature sniffing at them... I think it was a large mouse or something, but I wasn't too keen on him so I cut him off! I'm not sure if I have the orientation of the stamp exactly correct but it fitted neatly into the Spellbinder oval this way!

It's my first card for the HEXAGONS challenge at "Less is More", needless to say the hexagons are made up in the chicken wire strip behind the image panel. That is a border stamp from Clearly Besotted.

I made a card a little like this one a few weeks ago. It employs several sources of hexagons.. paper from Pink Petticoat, an embossing folder from Stampin' Up and stamps and dies from Clearly Besotted. The little bee is also from Clearly Besotted. I just love these stamps.

Here's another stamp from the grab bag, a bee with knobbly knees!

Same chicken wire background stamp and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

We have been out to eat three times this week, it's really not good for my waistline! I can feel the slimming club calling ever louder!

Not a great day for cricket

Today we are going to a Members' lunch at Hampshire Cricket Club with a groups of friends. It should be fun although the weather is not exactly what I would call 'cricket weather'...ie clear skies and warm sunshine. My fleece will probably be in evidence and probably a scarf or two and by the look of things at the moment umbrellas may also be the order of the day!

Any how here is a card for the first challenge at Clearly Besotted with the wonderful option of Anything Goes!

These are truly wonderful stamps and work well with just about all ink types. I wish Stephanie continued success and always need to buy more with each new release. By the look of her website many others think the same thing as she has difficulty in keeping up with demand. Good for her and good for us too!

A Day for Daisies Recycle

A Day for Daisies has a challenge to use one of their images plus some food packaging on a card creation.

Here I used one of their fab mushroom images together with part of a Tesco's Mushroom bag.

Here you can see a complete bag before I got at it!

There is a recipe on the side which I thought I might try for mushrooms stuffed with herbs and cheese!

The image was coloured with Promarkers and the sentiment was computer generated.

This afternoon we're going to a service to celebrate 50 years since a friend of ours became a priest. This is the card I made for him!

I'm sorry the pic is not too good... one of these days I'll find the formula for a decent picture!

Need for Speed

One layer time again at "Less is More". It's not so scary for lots of people it seems these days.

 The theme this time is Need for Speed!

When this aircraft first came on the scene it must have seemed incredibly exciting and extremely fast. These days it's merely nostalgic!

The images are from Stampin' Up and the sentiment from Clearly Besotted.

This one is all from Clearly Besotted. The stamps are such high quality and seem equally at home with all different types of ink. I love them.

This one is coloured with Promarkers.

We have a choir concert this evening...almost a repeat of the programme we did in Italy with a couple of additional works. The folks who didn't make it on the tour will probably have a bittersweet feeling about this concert.