Wishing You the Best Year for 2023

Happy New year to everyone and I hope 2023 turns out to be a good one for you, I have a big family wedding and 2 holidays to look forward to!

I've started off the New Year playing with these celestial scene stamps from Creative Stamping Magazine

I've also been making some starry background papers using Brusho powers

I hope you are all feeling crafty for the new year with plenty of time to spend creating new cards!

Sporty Cards

 

Always useful to have few sport themed cards ready, like this tennis one above

The jogger card has a background made from exploding blue brushos (which I made ages ago)

and an urban basketball card with a cute wooden ball

A couple more cards made with my Brushos backgrounds - this one using a freebie stamp from a magazine from several years ago.

This cute one uses some old stickers from my stash. The lockdown has certainly given me the chance to use up some bits and pieces that have been gathering dust for quite a while!

Playing with Brushos & Cosmic Shimmers

Plenty of time at the moment to play with and use some of that stuff that sits at the back of the cupboard! So today, I got out those little pots of Brushos and some Cosmic Shimmer mists to get messy with.

I made over a dozen different background sheets, using up some old stamp album pages that have been kicking around for ages.

And started making a few cards for the charity pile

This one uses for the pink card mat, an old pocket file that I rescued when lots were bring thrown away at work.

And this black mat was recycled from the inside of a box of chocolates!

Inking up old stamps ....

I've had these stamps for several years and haven't used them for ages, so it was about time they had an outing!  The background was made back in April when I experimenting with Brushos.

These stamps I think were from the Jan 2018 issue of Crafts Beautiful mag - and had never been used before. Unfortunately there are lots more stamps in my craft room that have not been inked either, so I must make more of an effort with my stash!

Some more Brushos Cards!

Still playing with the different brushos colours and making a variety of different backing papers.

Plus using different dies with them - ashamed to say the wave and dolphin die had only been used once before!

And who wouldn't want a birthday card with a green dog on it!

Experimenting with Brushos

I bought another couple of pots of Brushos yesterday when I went shopping at Keep on Crafting - in yellow and brown shades

I hadn't played with Brushos for ages( emm..possibly July last year), so checked out a couple of demos on you tube before making these cards

Great fun and a little bit messy too!