Birthday Mischief!

Good morning Bloggers, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well during this awful time, 
Our challenge  here at Allsorts could help you if your in isolation to pass time and help take your mind off it all for a little while. 
This week is our lovely Lynn's turn to host and she would like to see 'Add A Bow'

To make my card I used one of my old faithful stamps a House Mouse stamp, I started with a piece of Kraft card as I wanted to try something new, and the idea came from blogging buddy Sally, thank you Sally!  After watching Lesley from Chocolate Baroque demo water coloured pencils my daughter bought me some.  Sally mentioned that they were good on Kraft card especially with little furry critters.  I enjoyed using them and will be using them a lot more, this is my first attempt using them and I think it's not too bad.


Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here is our lovely sponsor:-

Crafty Ribbons


This is for the following challenges:-
1. Colour Crazy Challenges -  week 16 - Anything Goes
2. House Mouse & Friends Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Recipe:-
Stamps - Sentimentally Yours sentiments, House Mouse HMCP89 - Birthday Mischief, 
Colouring Mediums - Faber Castell Aqua Pencils, 
Embellishments -  Ribbon, White Gel Pen, 

Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Fly Away!

Good morning friends, I hope you are all staying well and safe in these unpredictable times, another three weeks of lockdown to go, and going by social media lots of crafters seem to be finding it hard to craft or to find some mojo. I too have found a lot of days hard to create something.  I was going to learn to crochet by watching Youtube videos, as it's something I have always wanted to do but haven't yet found the mojo to do that either.

Anyway here's some new challenges, hopefully these can take your mind of things for a bit.
Here's  mid way challenges for for Stamping Sensations and Penny black & More @ Allsorts challenges, if you didn't get the chance to join in last month's challenges these could be the ones for you.

At Stamping Sensations this month the theme is 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' I started by stamping some butterflies from a new stamp set I bought for myself for my birthday, I coloured them with Spectrum Noirs and stamped a sentiment which is from another set of stamps I bought myself for my Birthday.  I thought I would get some inspiration from them as lockdown had started the day before my Birthday, and I felt deflated and need to keep busy for my mental health.  The background is created with Distress Oxides.

We have sponsorship this Month from

'be Creative!'  with a £25 voucher

And of course, the Design Team have created some stunners to inspire you. Please do pay them a visit to their individual blogs - it means a lot to know you appreciate their efforts.

This is for the following challenges:-
1. As You Like It Challenge - Favourite Animal (Butterflies as they are so beautiful)
2. Cute Card Thursday - #630 - Wings
3. 2 Crafty Critter Crazies - #37 - Anything Goes
4. Crafty Calendar Challenge - #April - Add a Butterfly

And now onto my second challenge creation for Penny black & More @ Allsorts, where the theme is 'Anything Goes' so how easy is that.  For my creation I used a Transparent set of Penny Black stamps, I chose this cute cat with balloons and coloured with Spectrum Noirs then coated the balloons with  Glossy Accents.  I stamped the sentiment, then using a handmade cloud stencil inked in a background of clouds.

We have prizes from Penny Black and Swedish House Crafts. 

Are you wanting some inspiration, pop on over to the challenge blog and then you can see all the wonderful creations from the rest of the talented team.

This is for the following challenges:-
1. Aud Sentiments - #249 - Birthday Sentiment


Recipe:-
Stamps - Penny Black - 30-012 - Bubbly, Chocolate Baroque - Butterfly Perfumery, Chocolate Baroque - Butterfly Mind,  Sentimentally Yours sentiments, 
Colouring Mediums - Distress Oxides, Spectrum Noirs, Colorbox ink, 
Embellishments -  Glossy Accents

Thank you for popping by my blog.
Stay Safe and well
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Simply Flowers

Good morning Bloggers, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well during this awful time, 
Our challenge  here at Allsorts could help you if your in isolation to pass time and help take your mind off it all for a little while. 
This week is our lovely Ellie's turn to host and she would like to see 'Flowers and /or Showers'

To make my card I used magazine freebies, I started by creating a background with Distress Oxides, I then used an embossing folder for my base. Then repeated the embossing folder on to a separate piece of card, coloured the flowers then fussy cut them out, then added them over the top of the flowers on the base card. added a sentiment and that was it.


Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here is the prize on offer:-
These lovely layering stamps



Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Team Effort With Rainbows

Good morning friends, I hope you are all staying well and safe in these unpredictable times, Bobby has just broke up for the Easter Holiday so a break from home schooling for a couple of weeks, thankfully, I can help him with some of his work but keeping a track of what he's done as it's all on line is hard. Anyway here's some new challenges, hopefully these can take your mind of things for a bit.
Here's  new challenges for a new month for Stamping Sensations and Penny black & More @ Allsorts challenges, if you didn't get the chance to join in last month's challenges these could be the ones for you.

At Stamping Sensations this month the theme is 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' This was fun, I used a brayer with my oxides to create the background in rainbow colours.  I then stamped the Lavinia Dandelions, and from a magazine freebie stamp set I used a dandelion Cypsela stamp to do them floating around, (got the proper name from google), the sentiment is from Lavinia and works well with the dandelions. Finally I  doodled a border around the edge.  My daughter did ask what have you used round the edge, I said I doodled it with a fine liner pen, she said how on earth did you cope doing that and not doing it straight, what does that say about me.  I've truly turned a corner with crafting, getting inky, squiggly lines and not using embellishments.  For anyone who knows me well everything has to be clean lines, symmetrical and pretty, that's pretty much how I am in life.

We have sponsorship this Month from

'be Creative!'  with a £25 voucher

This is for the following challenge:-
1. Crafty Gals Corner - #205 - Use Flowers

And of course, the Design Team have created some stunners to inspire you. Please do pay them a visit to their individual blogs - it means a lot to know you appreciate their efforts.

And now onto my second challenge creation for Penny black & More @ Allsorts, where the theme is 'Anything Goes' so how easy is that.  For my creation I used a favourite stamp of mine PB Team Effort, just love this image, the background piece was done using distress inks and a Lavinia stamp.  And to add some sparkle I added some Moon Dust, then went with some more doodled borders.


We have prizes from Penny Black and Swedish House Crafts. 

Are you wanting some inspiration, pop on over to the challenge blog and then you can see all the wonderful creations from the rest of the talented team.

This is for the following challenges:-
1. Cute Card Thursday - #628 - Anything Goes
2. Simon Says Stamp Wednesday - Happy Birthday

Recipe:-
Stamps - Penny Black - 3980K - Team Effort, Lavinia - LAV589 - Mystic Swirl, 
Colouring Mediums - Distress Oxides, Spectrum Noirs, Distress inks, 
Tools - Brayer, Fine Liner Pen,
Embellishments - Lavinia moon dust, Gelly Roll pen, Glamour Dust, 

Thank you for popping by my blog.
Stay Safe and well
Happy crafting
Tracy x

Hitching A Ride

Good morning Bloggers, I hope everyone is keeping safe and well during this awful time, 
Our challenge  here at Allsorts could help you if your in isolation to pass time and help take your mind off it all for a little while.

This week is our lovely Kath's turn to host and she would like to see 'Old or/and New'
My something old is the DL card, I have these in my stash but very rarely use them and my new is the Lavinia Snail stamps, which I bought with my Birthday money, and is something I never thought I would like or buy, but I love them.  I started with a background made using a Gel plate and brusho's. then did a moon/sun using a mask.  all the stamps to make the scene are Lavinia.


Don't forget to head over to Allsorts for all the details of this challenge, and to check out all the fabulous inspiration from my very talented team mates.

Here is the prize on offer:-


This is for the following challenge:-
1. 2 Craft Crazy critters - #37 - Anything Goes

Recipe:-
Stamps - Lavinia - LAV605 Samuel, LAV607 Snail Set, LAV613 Twisted Vine Set, LAV589 Mystic Swirl, LAV387 Meadow Grass, LAV197 Field Grass, LAV563 Meadow Mushrooms, LAV561 Mini Meadow Mushrooms, 
Colouring Mediums - Colorbox, Brusho's, Versafine Clair
Tools - Inkylicious moon/sun mask,  White gel pen, Gelly roll pen,
Embellishments - Lavinia moon dust, 


Thanks for popping by my blog.
Happy crafting
Tracy x