Where does the time go or am I just distracted by other things !!!

 A week behind but never mind...  

I did at least start this card last week with 

Darnell's IDEAS weekly prompt in mind  -

 week 2  - "D" = Dies

With Mothers' Day coming up in early May I have made a card for my mum, so now I'm sure to get in in the post so it will be delivered on time.  The lovely die sets you can get these days make it easy to put a 3D card together.

Next I've a couple of Christmas cards to share

This one is inspired by this months challenge at Christmas Kickstart #109 - Brimming with Style

So this cute stamped silver embossed image suits really well with their furry white trimmed Santa hats,  added a sparkly die cut sentiment to finish. 

Walking in a Vintage Wonderland is the theme at Jingles Belles challenge, 

so I've watercoloured this silver embossed Vintage Feel stocking

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

I've been crocheting some simple baby blankets to donate to our preemie ward at the hospital

Some Birds for Christmas...

Happy Easter to you all...   

I forgot how much I enjoy the peace of watercolouring.... I so enjoyed that today, using my Distress Inks to watercolour this Christmas tree full of birds for the Walking in a Whimsical Wonderland challenge over at Jingles Belles challenge

and this card fits with the Triple B April challenge ... to include birds, butterflies or blooms on your card.

and Week 1 of Darnell's IDEAS prompt is "I" = Ink

Joining with challenge #85 at NBUS ... this die has been patiently waiting to be used and teamed up with some lovely patterned paper  -  you know that pile you've hardly looked at for ages

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog

I do hope you had an enjoyable Easter

Cheers Robyn

Sunflowers...

Sunflowers are a favourite of our daughter and it was her birthday this weekend so of course I made her a Sunflower Birthday card.

Simply inked up my stamp with mini Distress Ink cubes, very lightly spritzed with water and stamped it randomly around my card face. Then to keep it bright and happy - mounted it on yellow card with a green border and finished with a die cut sentiment.

Then as it is the 4th week of Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt - 'S' = Stencils, 

I made another card with a lovely sunflower stencil

AND it is also STENCIL week at

Just Us Girls challenge #816

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Keeping the Sunflower theme... this is a crochet blanket I made for our daughter a couple years ago

Trying to keep my mojo rolling...

 .... sharing a couple of cards I've made today -- too hot outside to garden and I've done some crochet this morning, so some time at my desk

Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt for week 4 of the month is 

"A" = Anything Goes

and over at Jingle Belles: the theme is We THREE Kings... 

and I so enjoy making bauble cards with toilet rolls last year, so to help the mojo here's another....  used my Twinkling H2Os to watercolour and give them a sheen

and I couldn't help but play along again at 

Just Add Ink #781 -- Just Add Wings.

I just love this old wood mounted Santa Rosa Owl Stamp  ...  just stamped with brown ink and watercoloured with Distress Inks

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

and here's a Crochet blanket I recently completed - pattern by Hooked on Sunshine 'Lilliana'

At last my first cards for 2026

 Well I bet you weren't expecting to see me any time soooooon....   well yesterday I made myself stay away from the garden and not pick up a crochet hook but to try and find my love of card making mojo... it's been absent since mid December - I can't believe this...  I could rave on but I'm just happy to be back.  And I had some fun, and went to my old favorite blogs for some inspiration.

Firstly I started easy with this gorgeous 3D embossed image - lightly sponged with a deeper shade of green Distress Ink to highlight the lovely flower images.  Stay simple I think and not cover over those flowers so I just added a small stamped/diecut Thanks.   

And as it's the third week of Darnell's Weekly prompt - 'E' = Embossing - this is perfect.

Next I thought I try this months technique over at 

Group of Cardmakers  --   Faux Cyanotypes

I used purple Distress Ink instead of the blue and a simple no fuss solid stamp featuring tulips for the image and finished with a stamped and silver embossed sentiment.

On a roll ... so I kept going after lunch... and have my first Christmas card for my stash.

Joining in with Christmas Kickstart challenge #108 - Out of the Woods

And a Never Before Used Stash set made it easy to put together this card... for the NBUS challenge #84

Embossed the snowglobe image which handily included the sentiment and the stamped on the little dear scene and watercoloured it with Distress Inks...  mounted it with a red border to highlight the bow around her neck

And lastly because stamping and watercolouring flowers is the favourite part of my cardmaking I dug out this lovely old PSX Waterlily stamp... thankfully it still works.

Stamped in grey ink and watercoloured with Distress Inks and finished with a stamped silver embossed sentiment.

It features a small dragonfly which I glitzed up with some glitter glue... so I joining in also at 

Just Add Ink challenge 781 - Just Add Wings 

Thanks for stopping by my blog....  have a most wonderful day,   Cheers Robyn

I made my Thanks card for a lovely lady who this week gifted me this cat teatowel with a crocheted topper... and it is so cool as one of our cats Henry - is a ginger.

And these are some of the smaller crochet projects I've been making lately ... as coasters or to hang at my windows.

And Very Hungry Caterpillars from the Children's story book

Two cards using the stencil and mica powders technique

Recently celebrated my mum 95th birthday, but our visit also coincided with my brothers 70th, so I made him a fishing card as that's his favorite pastime - he doesn't look to happy with what he found on his hook though.

I used this months technique over at Group of Cardmakers - Stenciling with Mica Powders ...  created the background using different shades of blue Distress Inks, then applying embossing ink and dusting over matching colours of Magical Micas - spritzed lightly with water and heat set... then stamped, coloured and fussy cut my fisherman and die cut at big 70

I love to make floral cards for Christmas and this one is inspired by the gorgeous Poinciana trees flowering over our back fence at the moment and the carpet of red flowers strewn over our lawn and paths.  I used the same technique with a stencil and Magical Micas (a little bit messy today) and white embossed the sentiment of the red card.

I'm joining in with Jo at 

Christmas Kickstart challenge #105 - If it's Christmassy, Link It Up.

Thanks for stopping by my blog...

and have yourselves and families 

a Very Merry Christmas and Wonderful New Year

Cheers Robyn

Guest Designer for Group of Cardmakers.

I'm always up for a challenge and 

Group of Cardmakers have some fabulous techniques to stir up your mojo - this month as their Guest Designer I've been challenged with --

  "Stenciling with Mica Powders".

For my first card I used this large stencil - Tumbling Leaves by Simon Says.

First I blended a range of Distress Inks colours through the stencil, then applied some Embossing Ink and then sprinkled on Magical Micas in matching colours (blue, b=green, yellow) - a fine spritz of water helps set them.  Clean your stencil between applications and it helps to have it in place when your add the pigment powder.  Finished with a stamped sentiment

Wanted to try something a little different with the stencil instead of using it as a background... so I die cut a circle and used this to create a bauble - blending Distress Oxide ink (seedless preserves), then covering the bauble with the die cut circle to add some depth with blue Distress Ink (stormy sky).  Place the negative die cut again over the bauble and used a flourish stencil and then blended the same colour in Distress Ink for my flourish, followed by Embossing Ink and the Pearl Gold Powdered Pigment (Paper Mill) - this doesn't work as well nor with the water spritzing to set it.  Stamped on my bauble hanger (masked off this from an ornament stamp) and gold embossed the sentiment.

I've had loads of fun with some long forgotten products in my stash - thanks to Loll and her GoC team - pop over to the blog and check their cards too.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.... have a wonderful day,

Cheers Robyn