It's Cold Outside

It's our first challenge of 2026 over at Try it on Tuesday and this time - very apt for us living in the UK -  It's Cold Outside.

I've made a Wintery card that will no doubt come in handy next Christmas.  I've used my favourite Tim Holtz Snowman a a Nellie Snellen stamp called Nesting box with birds. along with some small fir trees that came free with a magazine a long time ago.

The rest of the Design Team have some great inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main challenge page, where you will find all the challenge detail.

We had a few inches of snowfall on Saturday morning before we left home for the twins 5th birthday party in Durham,   Durham had no snow and we had more falling late afternoon when we got home, so  Sunday morning the phone call came - can we play in your snow.  I should have taken a couple of photos, they had so much fun and apart from a demolished snowman I have 'snow Angels' all over the garden.

Can you believe the twins are 5 today!  Time really does fly.

Avril xx 

I Spy Something Beginning with B

Happy New Year!

It's our first challenge of 2026 at Stamping Sensations and we're playing  I Spy - Something beginning with B  or you can always follow the Anything Goes option if you prefer, and there's a stamp and stencil prize from Visible Image for one lucky random winner.

For my card I chose Bloom and Blue and used one of my favourite stamps from Visible Image called Total Chaos.  I stamped it onto white linen card and used a stitched rectangle die to cut the panel, offsetting the flower.  I also stamped the flower head again and coloured it with pencils and then used some old  Sparkling H2O paints, which gave it a lovely pearlised finish.  The panel didn't quite stand out as I had expected, so I cut a border, which was coloured in the same way as the flower head.

The rest of the DT have some great 'B' inspiration for you, so please pop over to the main challenge page where you will also find all the challenge details.

Avril x