Barbecue Time!

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Well, it's not really barbecue time in the UK!  It was a friend's birthday this month and a group of us clubbed together to buy him a new barbecue, so this is the card I made for him.

I used dies from the following sets:

Sue Wilson - Ornate Pierced Rectangles 

Sue Wilson - Stitched Lattice Frames

Sue Wilson - King of the Grill

Memory Box - Stitched Ovals.  

The flames were die cut in yellow and I coloured the edges using an orange ink pad applied with an Ink Duster.

I am joining in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Week 456 ~ I spy something beginning with 'B' (Barbecue)

City Crafter Challenge Blog Week 401 ~ Die Cuts

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Anything Goes

Country View February Challenge ~ Anything But Cute

Addicted to Stamps and More! Challenge #281 ~ Anything Goes

Football Fan

Welcome to my new follower, Gloria of 'Gloria's craft room'.  I hope you can stop by my blog again soon.

A quick CAS card today CASEing the layout of the card I made on THIS post.  I made this card for a football fan in the team colours.

I used blue pearlised card and embossed the left hand side with a Crafts Too 'Football' embossing folder.  The football was die cut using black card, attached to a circle of white card and popped up on foam pads.  I attached a thin strip of white card to divide the embossed side and the plain side.

I am joining in the following challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Week 456 ~ I spy something beginning with 'B' (Ball)
HLS February Anything Goes with Dies Challenge
City Crafter Challenge Blog - Week 401 ~ Die Cuts
Less is More Challenge #365 - 7th Birthday ~ Dry Embossing

Alcohol Ink Backgrounds

It's ages since I played with my alcohol inks, but I wanted to make a background for the last ATC for Janis's challenge and I thought an alcohol ink background would be perfect.  My other three ATCs for the challenge are in my previous post.

The last theme is 'Chocolate' and I had the perfect Woodward stamp in the set 'Take It Easy' for the challenge.  With the temperatures plummeting this week in the UK, I might indulge a mug or two of the real thing!  I stamped the image with Memento 'Tuxedo Black' and coloured it with Promarkers, before die cutting it with a stitched die from The Works.  I used a three shades of brown alcohol inks on glossy card. 

I am joining in the following challenges with my ATC:

HLS February ATC Challenge ~ Hearts

While I had the inks out, I made a few more backgrounds, including this one made with red and green inks for a Christmas card.  The frame was made with two Sue Wilson 'Double Pierced Rectangle' dies.  The gold mirror card die cut is Sue Wilson's  'Christmas Tree Greetings'.

I am joining in the following challenge with my card:

Rudolph Days February Challenge

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge ~ Make Your Own Background

ATCs

Janis has a month long Giveaway Challenge on her blog, 'Her Peaceful Garden', to make ATCs.  There is a new theme each week, you can find out more HERE.  Well I'm an ATC virgin, I've made cards, scrapbook pages and mini albums but never made anything as teeny weeny as a 2½" x 3½" ATC.  So, having put off making one for the last three weeks of the challenge, always planning to make one 'tomorrow',  I finally decided to make three today to catch up.

Week 1 the theme was 'All Those Cats!'.

The cats are a Frantic Stamper 'Love Cats' die cut, using some red 'waste' hearts from a die cut I used on a previous project.  The embossing folder I used was Creative Expression 'Heart Lattice'.

I am joining in the following challenges with this ATC:

HLS February ATC Challenge ~ Hearts

Week 2, the theme was 'And The Chickens'.

Well, this caused me the biggest problem.  I searched through all my stamps and patterned paper and couldn't find anything resembling a chicken or a hen.  I thought I didn't have a suitable die, but then I remembered an old thick Sizzix die I bought when I had the old style red Sizzix die cutting machine. The dies then were such a simple shapes, but at least it looks like a chicken!  I also used the  Die-Namics 'Fresh Cut Grass' and Memory Box 'Puffy Clouds' dies.

The theme for Week 3 was 'Adorable Teapot Collection'

For this ATC, I used the teapot from Trimcraft 'Tea Party' set of dies and cut the same from patterned paper.  I inlaid the leaves, heart and dots and used the die again for the leaves in the corners.  The flowers are punched.  

I am joining in the following challenges with this ATC:
Craftyhazelnut's Patterned Paper February 2018 challenge

So that's my first three ATCs done, I'm looking forward to finding out what the final theme is tomorrow.