And to get in the watery mood this morning we took our boats to our local lake for a 2+ hour paddle! Brilliant way to start the weekend, the lake was almost deserted and the surface was like a mill pond, just beautiful.
So back at home I rifled through the stamps and came up with a new one I got the other month but hadn’t inked yet, called In A Nutshell, and decided that I’d follow in this little meeces paw steps and take it easy for the rest of the day. It’s been too hot for me since July kicked in, in the low nineties most of the time and absolutely no rain at all. My craft room is up stairs and usually gets too hot but I dragged a big fan upstairs which has helped keep me cool, but has wrecked havoc with my desk, lol, most of which is now all over the floor!
Anyway, I persevered and made a card. Naturally I stamped the image on to WATER colour paper and then WATER coloured the image too with Memento inks! I followed the sketch at Sketch and Stash for the LO, and I worked in a number of punches as Fuzzy Wuzzy want to see punches on your work for this month. I also raided the scrap box and used up a bunch of those tiny bits of paper that are usually no good for anything but you keep them anyway!
All the papers are DCWV, from the Summer Dreams and Flower Shower matstacks, I have a habit of keeping all the loose bits of “good” paper in with the stack they came out of, but I went through them all and put all the snippets in the scrap box for future use. The card blank was free from a UK craft magazine and I cut it down a bit to make more of a square. About the only embellishment are the few gems in the flower centres and at the corners. I also popped the main image up on foam dots too.
Card Recipe:
- Card: Freebie blank ~ The Paper Company
- DP: DCWV Summer Dreams & Flower Shower scraps
- Stamp: House Mouse “In A Nutshell”
- Inks: Memories Black Dye ~ Memento Summer Sky, Night Sky, Sahara Sand, Gingerbread, Lilac Posies, & Cottage Ivy
- Embellies: Flower gems unknown ~ Silver gems from Michaels ~ Tsukineko Black Pen
- Tools: Cuttlebug ~ Scalloped Square Nestie ~ 2″ Marvy Uchida Square Punch ~ EKSuccess Flower Punches ~ McGill Frond Punch
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Challenges:
House Mouse & Friends ~ Make A Splash
Fuzzy Wuzzy ~ Get Punchy
Sketch & Stash ~ Current sketch and new stamp
Jules Crafty Snippet Challenge ~ Use up your scraps
Crafty Calendar Challenge ~ Under The Sea or a Water theme
Bernie Thomas said:
Great card. Love that image. Great use of scraps, love the color combo.
We are enjoying a cold front here in the PNW. Hope some of it’ll head your way and give you some relief. Of course I live in the high mountain desert so we expect it to heat up again in a few days. I’m enjoying it while it lasts.
Blessings Bernie
Sue from Oregon said:
Yes, you went above and beyond the call of the water challenge LOL! Great job and it was well worth your efforts. Glad you go to cool off afterwards! Thanks for inking up your new meece stamp and joining in the fun! Hope to see you for #100 next time! ♥ Sue K
Stamping 4 Pleasure said:
Hi Brenda, Wishing you a cool(er) Sunday! Fab card, love all the punched elements and brilliant use of scraps! Such a cutie image too!
Hugs, Sandra x
Jennyff said:
It looks glorious out on the water and I like the way you continued the theme with your card. I’d love to be too hot at the moment, still in socks and jumpers, a typical Scottish summer.
Jules said:
Hi Brenda
A brilliant card using up those snippets!!!
Love the gorgeous little flowers.
Great photograph too. It looks like you might have had to work a little harder than that “laid back” mouse though!!!
Thank you for keeping me company again in the battle to clear the craft space of snippets.
Love Jules xx
Kat said:
Love this card. Great layout and colours, really good use of your scraps. Love that cute image and you’ve coloured it beautifully. Thanks for joining us at HM&F this time.
Kat x
christine said:
Hi Brenda love the idea of boating it looks wonderful..lucky you.. great take on the “Water” chall.. lovely cute image clever to use the water effect fab matting & layering great patchwork effect..
thanks for sharing at HM & Friends Monday chall..nice to see you..
smiles Christine xx
Jenny M said:
Lovely card Brenda, love the patchwork background for such a sweet image 🙂
Jenny x
faye said:
I love that your card mimics the photo (I wish it was me!). This is a really pretty little number. Thank you so much for playing with my sketch at Sketch n Stash this time. x
Rica said:
What an amazing, wonderful way to get in the mood for our water challenge, looks idyllic !!
Your card is adorable, and the image you chose perfect, what a fantastic colour and paper combination.
So glad you could join us in the House Mouse & Friends challenge,
love
Heather xx
Sue Drees said:
Amazing shot, love the quiet lake and the water lillies, bravo to the camerman!
Beautiful card, he sure looks relaxed floating along. Great coloring and love the design and papers you chose.
Hugs
Sue
Gill McCall said:
What a sweet card – love the colours – thanks for joining us at HM&F this week.
Gill GDT for HM&F for July
america said:
Great DP combo, fun colors and fab image for our “Make A Splash” theme. Thanks so much for joining at House-Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge! :)!! Hope to see you again next time too!
lovethosecupcakes said:
Where’s your giant flower sunshade?
Natascha said:
Great card. Thank you so much for joining us over at House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge. Good luck!
Hugs, Natascha
Jenni said:
Love the patchwork effect backing and the sweet little image, great card. Thanks so much for joining in with the challenge at Crafty Calendar this month.
Jenni x
Bev said:
Gorgeous card. I love the image and the colours are fab. Thanks for joining us at Crafty Calendar this month.
Bev x