Up, Up And Away

 Welcome to a new challenge at Shopping Our Stash for this fortnight the theme is Balloon(s) hot air or party your choice. I went with Birthday Balloons.

Digging deep for this card  a Stamping Bella cling mount stamp from the Uptown Girl collection I have had for a long time, I coloured her up and fussy cut her out (not sure why I need to stress myself), but she needed to by flying high with her helium balloons. Background is smooshed distress inks on watercolour paper. The balloon girl is popped up. The base is a plum shade from Stampin'up and I can't remember it's full name, one of the last few loose pieces I have.

As if fussy cutting wasn't stressful enough I made an easel card note pad. I like making fun fold cards and I find them easier and quicker to make up. 

I am adding this to:

Seize the Birthday ~~ Anything Birthday

Addicted to Stamps and More ~~ #473 Birthdays

Thanks for stopping by today and check out what the rest of the design team have made for the challenge then did in your stash for some hot air or party balloons and enter our challenge.

Summer!!

 It's officially Summer and it's HOT in SWO and for me Summer means relaxing at the lake and at Shopping Our Stash it means challenge #526 ~~ Summer so create a project with a summer theme, travelling, the beach, gardening, BBQ ...... I chose beach and lemonade.

I have ventured a little further with my crafting, I decided to colour and do a partial fussy cut and off the frame die cutting. The hard part was getting the caps off the markers because of the left hand refusing to work properly.  Love my House Mouse stamps and use them any chance I get, it's one that is several years old and the paper an even the cardstock is ancient.

Closer look at the die cut, it's a nbus a couple of years in my stash and finally it got to work. 

Finished the inside with a generic sentiment so I can use it for a just because or Birthday card. 

I would like to add this to.

NBUS challenge ~~ Challenge #64

House Mouse and Friends Monday Challenge ~~ Anything Goes

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L is for Lindsey

Two years have passed since Lindsey lost her battle with Clear Cell Ovarian Cancer she is still in the thoughts of her many friends and fellow crafters. Lindsey was just a text away if I had a crafting block .  So for this challenge it was difficult to just pick one thing so I picked a few, one trying to use my color burst, then I'm not good at CAS but gave it a go, next a cat and a snarky one. I hope I have made her smile.

I still have not figured out why my laptop won't work with my camera, I can eject the card but it won't open my photos to import my pictures. 

I cut the oh s#&t out of metallic poster board, popped it up on the sad attempt with color  burst powders, then coloured the snarky cat gray [Duncan approves so Lindsey would say), fussy cut and popped him up on the  computer generated sentiment.

Close up of the cat and sentiment.

Due to my hand surgery I missed my "middle" grandson's birthday so this is his card.

I will add this to 

Seize the Birthday    anything goes.

The Male Room ~~ Animals

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Rudolph Days for June

 I have fought for 3 hours to get my photo program on the laptop to accept the sdhc card to no avail so to get this in for June it's a quick post and who knows what the photo will look like as I've never used my tablet for photos or my blog.

Still using an image I had previously coloured but fussy cut it out, I made a mini slimline card. This was a quick and easy one even though when I packed for my first weekend at the cottage I forgot my tonic  cutter but wonder of wonders I managed straight cuts with the old fiskers cutter. 

I am adding this to

Rudolph days for June. 

unfortunately I was 8 minutes late and the link was closed

I was also planning Christmas Kickstart challenge too but it was also closed, I think today was a total bust. 

Happy Canada Day!!

Thanks for looking today.