Me on Monday

It's Monday and not just any old Monday but a magical Monday that occurs on the first of the month.  I don't know why but I just love it when a Monday is on the 1st - it just fits how I like order in all things!!

The weekend was a lazy one, Mr P was working nights so I was able to have quite a bit of craft time.

Some scrapbooking got done

 Played with new stencils and Cosmic Shimmer sparkle medium and Distress Paint

And did a load of stamping ready for colouring and painting

So it is back to the normal routine for a Monday - lots of laundry to be dealt with

 The monthly Avon order to be unpacked

but to cheer up the dull Monday routine there is one piece of exciting news, today Rinda's Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt begins.  I am looking forward to spending the next three months hunting down the things on her list - own up, anyone around here own a turtle that I can come and take a photograph of!!!!

If you would like to share about your weekend and Monday, then pop over to see Sian at From High in the Sky and give her a wave!!

Adventures with Brushos - the blue/orange ones

Unintentionally this week turned into a Brusho themed week on the blog so I might as well finish up the week with more cards made with Brushos.

I wanted to get away from the butterflies and make some more masculine ones so used this lovely lighthouse stamp from Kanban.  The sentiments are by Personal Impressions.

But then the overwhelming urge to use butterflies overtook me again.  I made this card for the Fiskarettes UK Facebook May challenge which was to use the colours ice grey, slate grey, light blue and orange.  The die cut and stamped butterflies are all from Stampin' Up, the sentiment is by Hero Arts.

I was left with two small pieces - enough to make two mini cards and when I turned them over I thought the patterns/colours on the back were more interesting.  The butterfly is a Hero Arts stamp and the sentiment is by Penny Black.

I am now kind of addicted to making backgrounds with Brushos so expect to see them used on plenty more cards in the future, especially as there is a techniques article on using them in this month's Craft Stamper which is giving me lots more ideas on how to use them

Adventures with Brusho - the Beat The Christmas Rush ones

After having such good fun playing with Brushos on our crafty weekend away in March, I bought my own so that I could play further at home.  I decided to turn my first batch of backgrounds into Christmas cards.  Warning this post is photo heavy!!

Freebie Hot off the Press Deer and Snowflake stamps with a Penny Black sentiment.  Bling from Majorcrafts.

Kanban Decorations stamp with Penny Black sentiment and bling from Majorcrafts.

A big thank you to Sue for being the creator/organiser of Beat the Christmas Rush.  Sue has now handed over the reins to me to run, so I do hope that you will still all join in.  It is very simple, just make a few Christmas cards each month so that come December you will have a lovely pile of handmade cards ready to use.  I've added a linky below so please add your cards there and each month I will pick a favourite to feature the following month.

An InLinkz Link-up

Adventures with Brushos - the purple/blue ones

As promised here are the cards that I made with the purple/blue background sheets -

 Kaisercraft image stamp and Penny Black sentiment

 Penny Black butterflies and fluttering sentiment and Stampin' Up birthday sentiment

 Kaisercraft butterflies and Stampin Up sentiments

 Kaisercraft sentiment and gemstones from Majorcrafts

Adventures with Brushos - the green/yellow ones

Following on from yesterday's post, here are the cards that I made with the green/yellow background sheets.

Penny Black sentiment and Kaisercraft image -

Stampin' Up sentiment and Penny Black butterfly stamp -

Kaisercraft image and Stampin' Up sentiment -

Tomorrow I will share the purple/blue ones

Adventures with Brushos - the pink cards

Whilst away at Meadow Barn and with the help of Sy I made lots of different Brusho backgrounds.  I have now chopped them up and made a large pile of cards with them.

These are the ones with the pink/orange card

Kaisercraft stamp and Stampin' Up sentiment

 Penny Black butterfly stamp and Stampin' Up sentiment

Penny Black stamp 'Wistful' and sentiment from T for transparent set 'Heartfelt Thanks'

All the bling used is from Majorcrafts.  I will be back soon with the purple and green/yellow cards

At The Pannenkoekenhuis

I am still completing challenges that were set in various Facebook groups for National Scrapbooking Day.  In the Sketchy Scrappers group I combined two challenges, the first one was to use this colour chart for inspiration

And I combined that challenge with this sketch -

As soon as I saw the colour chart I knew which papers would be perfect for the challenge - Basic Grey Euphoria.

I used stamps from the Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (Stampin Up) to make the ink/mist splatters on the background paper.  The title was cut with Sizzlet die 'Naturally Serif' from pink funky foam.

The butterflies were die cut with a Stampin Up Sizzlet die and some smaller Cheery Lynn dies.  I did have to tweak the sketch slightly as I used two photos of similar size.