Three cards to share this week

 Hi there today... start of a new week and three cards to share with you.

My first is a 'flat' card - stamped directly onto a card and watercoloured with Distress Inks (carefully so it doesn't seep thru to the other side) and then I added some detail with coloured pencils.  --- And joining in the Jingle Bells challenge - Flat Feliz Navidad

And as it's another Bird card - from the 12 days of Christmas set I have and never used till this week - I am joining in with CAS Christmas June challenge - Birds, so glad they're back !!

AND so I'm also joining in the NBUS Challenge #87

My second card is a 'SNOWY' one --  a bit of masking and 'Inking Direct to the Card' to create snow hills ...  stamped on some trees and a little deer - see his gorgeous red bow and added lots of snowflakes with my white paint pen.

And I'm sharing this one with Christmas Kickstart challenge  #111 - Snow Day

Also Group of Cardmaker technique this month - Direct to Paper Inking

And another one over at Double 'D' - Add a Bow

Lastly a Birthday card featuring a Die Cut Butterfly

Quite simple to make - cutting a card front with a couple curves to show off lovely pattern paper positioned underneath - gold embossed the curved edge and the sentiment and finished off with a butterfly die cut from gold card and a few gems

Joining in the challenge at Just Us Girls challenge #826 - Use a Die Week

And it's also Week 2 with Darnells IDEAS prompt - D = Dies/Die cuts

I've had such a good time making card this week and being inspired by all the challenges

Thanks so much for stopping by my clog, have an awesome day

Cheers Robyn

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

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

Christmas Wreaths

Busy with my dies today making wreath cards adding a couple more cards to add to my Christmas stash...

My first was quite easy as I used a holly wreath die and all I needed to do was die cut the berries again in red and the little bow in gold and attach them - glitzed up with some glitter glue and attached to an embossed background, then finished with a die cut sentiment...  the die is from my NBUS stash so I'm joining in the fun at NBUS #77.  

My second card took a bit longer with me die cutting various Christmas foliage and smooching them in green Distress Inks, also some red berries...  then the tricky part trying to arrange them in a circle shape and gluing them down without messing up the plan... then it all looked a bit sparce, so I stamped on a few extra leaves and finished with a gold die cut sentiment and attached the panel to a green card.

With my wreaths I am joining in with Christmas Kickstart challenge #101 - Let's Wreath It Up.  

And also with Darnell's weekly IDEAS prompt - second week 'D' for Dies.

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

Double Embossed Christmas card

A few minutes peace this afternoon and I've put together a Christmas card using this weeks theme from Darnells IDEAS prompt... E = Embossing Folders....  and haven't we all got a stash of them.  This square frame embossed panel is using one of those 'never before used stash' items for the NBUS challenge #74.   I double embossed this gorgeous ornament a friend gifted me - it embosses and die cuts at the same time --- then I gold embossed the raised areas  --- and hung it from some die cut pine sprigs and finished off with a stamped gold embossed sentiment.

It's nice to be adding a card to my Christmas stash too.  Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day,    Cheers Robyn

Unearthing some poor forgotten dies, stamps and inks...

Can't believe I'm back again with a couple more cards.... but as the Twinkling H2Os were still out on my desk I figured why not make another card or two.... so I'm using 

Darnells IDEAS prompt with Dies again 

and joining in the #100 challenge celebrations at

  The Flower Challenge and Adding some Circles

No more simple than to die cut a circle floral arrangement, watercolour with Twinkling H2Os and stamp on a sentiment.

Here's another along the same lines - used stitched circle die for a frame and sentiment

The last card is inspired by the Group of Seven Cardmakers technique this month...

and of course it's another floral card...  I stamped, watercoloured with those inks again, and fussy cut them... then arranged them around an oval using foam tape to create the 'Floating Frame' and finally trimmed away the overlapping pieces - found that was easier than die cutting the oval after the pieces were in place as the die didn't have a nice deep cutting ridge.

I also spied there was a new challenge the ladies at Double 'D' have ....  Neglected Stuff Challenge ...  well that fits right in with my use of Twinkling H2Os, those poor stitched circle dies and all 3 sentiments I used...

The stamps I used for the last card are new to me too - gifted from a friend... so I can joining the NBUS challenge #72, too.

Thanks for stopping by my blog,

have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

Some fun making Christmas cards and another Ombre card

Firstly I finished off my second Ombre card for the Group of Seven Cardmakers prompt for this month

Blended some Distress Inks - Squeezed lemonade, Fossilized amber, Ripe persimmon, Festive berries and decided to use it as is - Die cut in white card with Torn Edge die to create a frame and then attached a die cut flower (never used Kaisercraft Small Succulent) and a die cut 'Hello'.  I'm joining in the fun at NBUS #70 too.

Then just before Christmas we had the girls for a sleepover and of course they like to play with Nanas stuff.   So I showed them how to make cards with the cardboard toilet rolls 

  Here are mine I finished off this week....

With these cards I'm joining in the challenge #94 at Christmas Kickstart - Bring the Baubles.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn