Midsummer at Eclectic Ellapu

Good afternoon folks, I've lost track of the days this week so this post should have been up this morning but better late than never. I've got a week off work so I'm totally out of my routine, not that I'm complaining lol. Today's car is for our new challenge  over at Eclectic Ellapu, the pink team have a fabulous Midsummer theme for you. Not that it's anything like midsummer in my little corner of the country, in fact it's more like November than June.

I've made a little scene card using the beautiful Landscape Edges from Chocolate Baroque. I wanted to capture the slightly misty light of a lovely summer morning and so I used distress markers to colour the stamps, lightly misted with water before stamping the images. I added a wee bit more colour with disterss markers to caret the grass and add some definition to the fence. The sentiment is from Words of Inspiration, also from Chocolate Baroque

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Gem of a challenge: Weather

Aud Sentiments: anything goes with a sentiment

Crafting from the Heart: Anything goes

Craft your passion: Anything goes

Crafty Friends: Summertime

Simply Papercraft: Anything goes

Through the Craft Room Door: Anything goes

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Steampunk Fish from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, well it feels like Spring is finally here at last! Blue sky and sunshine always makes me feel so much better. I'm sharing a mixed media project made using Steampunk Funky Fish from Chocolate Baroque. The DT are showcasing some of their old favourite stamps and have lots of inspiration to share so it's well worth a visit to the Chocolate Baroque Blog.  I'm a huge fan of steampunk and had the idea of creating a porthole effect looking out onto the fish swimming in the ocean.

To create my sea for the centre of the port hole I inked my brayer up with turquoise dye in and rolled it over crumpled paper before brayering some white glossy cardstock to give the dappled effect of light shining through water. I stamped the images on white glossy card with versamark and embossed with a sparkly gold embossing powder and coloured with distress markers. I cut the fish out and glued them to the sea and set them aside to dry while I made the background and the porthole.

The background was made using some silver self adhesive tape from a local DIY shop, I've no idea what it's used for but apparently plumbers use it. I had a better use in mind though and set to snipping random shapes to create the 'faux riveted metal' technique. I haven't used this technique for ages as it does take a while but it's great fun! 

Next I peeled off the backing from the silver tape and stuck the shapes at random on some white card until it was covered (except for the area where the porthole was going to be positioned). To create the texture of the rivets you can use various different tools to create different effects, I used a ballpoint pen, an embossing tool, an old credit card and and a prpelling pencil. I created dots and lines along the borders of the pieces of tape. Once I was happy with the texture I coloured the silver tape with alcohol inks using shades of brown, yellow and orange. Next I applied some verdigris embossing powder. I gave some die cut cogs the same treatment and attached them to the background, adding some metal embellishments from my stash.

I made the porthole by die cutting some greyboard and painting with a mixture of gold and copper acylic paints. I added some 'screws' with tiny circles of card and a fastener from my stash.

To finish off I've added some more embellishments coloured with paint and some copper ribbon to hang the project up.

613 Avenue Create: Anything goes, twist beach/nautical

Altered Eclectics: Anything goes

Critters and creatures: always anything goes with a critter/creature

Fab'n'Funky: 3 or more layers

Little Red Wagon: anything but a card

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: home decor

Through the Craft Room Door: anything goes

Thanks for visiting today,

Claire xx

All things Spring at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Hello there, how's your Monday going? I've been running late all day (nothing new there lol) but better late than never here's my post for our new challenge over at Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges where the theme is 'All things Spring'. As always there's a Flonzcraft voucher up for grabs but remember we are a stamping challenge so no digistamps are allowed.

I've made a large tag which looks a bit dark in the pics so you'll have to use your imagination a bit lol. I began by stamping and masking the image, one of my all time favourites from Flonzcraft, you can find here here in the 'Countrylife Pastoral' set. Then I got to work stencilling around the image using texture poaste and a Dutch Doobadoo brick stencil and some leaves and flowers from Indigo Blu.  I added some colour with distress inks and PanPastels and then removed the masking fluid to colour the image using distress markers

I've also added some die cut branches, a little birdie and some paper flowers and berries.

To finish off I added a little birds nest, some seam binding ribbon that I'd coloured with distress ink and some little pearls.

I'm entering this tag in the following challenges:

Artistic Stampers: all things distressed

Come and Get It: Tag you're it

Country View Crafts: Spring

Dragonfly Journeys: Tag you're it

Fantasy Stampers: in the Springtime

Fairy Tale: spring

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

Good morning folks, we've got a gorgeous colour palette to inspire you over at Chocolate Baroque Challenge this month, such lovely colours taken from Judith's stunning card. As always there is a £15 voucher for our lucky winner and the DT will be getting their thinking caps on to choose their top 3 too.

I've used two of the beautiful stamps from Carousel Horses, to create this project. I've used one of the fabulous wooden art blocks, also from Chocolate Baroque which you can find in lots of different sizes here. I began by painting the front and back of the block with white gesso leaving a gap around the edge. Once the gesso was dry I stamped the horses with Black Versafine ink and coloured them with distress markers. 

I applied gold gilding wax lightly around the edges and then piled up lots of bows on the top. I dyed some white seam binding with distress inks to match the challenge colours and layered them up with some glue. To finish off I added some stickles and glamour dust to give the horses a little sparkle.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: R is for ribbon

Colouring in Scrapland: Anything goes

Mixed Media World Challenge: Anything goes with wood

Shopping our Stash: go paperless

Whoopsi Daisy: Hand coloured image

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Chocolate Baroque Challenge 15

Good morning folks, its time for a new challenge at Chocolate Baroque Challenge and this month we've got a gorgeous colour palette for inspiration. I've had fun with Brushos for my DT project and as always my teamies have created some gorgeous projects. Our random winner (chosen from entries using CB stamps) will receive a £15 voucher to spend on goodies from Chocolate Baroque and there are Top 3 honours up for grabs too.

To make this card I stamped the large flower from Sunny Sunflowers onto watercolour card and masked the image off.

I've used Black, Grey and Lemon brusho powders sprinkled onto watercolour card and then misted with water to create my background. I love all the different tones that you get with Brushos, some of the greys have a greenish hue, soooo pretty!

When I removed the mask some of the paint had leaked through but I kind of liked the shadow effect so I didn't worry too much about it.

Next I stamped the bees which are from Rose Tree with black archival ink. I used a little diluted bleach to remove the brusho colour from the bees an then added some colour with distress markers.  I also used my distress markers to colour the sunflower.

I added some glamour dust to the wings using a quickie glue pen.

The sentiment was stamped with versamark and embossed with silver embossing powder (the sentiment is from Words of comfort and Cheer).

To finish off I've added some white dots with a Graph'It shake pen and doodled around the edges.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Aud Sentiments: anything goes plus a sentiment

Corrosive Challenges: Mixed Media

Crafting with an attitude: anything goes

Papertake Weekly: animal magic

Penny Black and more: anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Favourite technique 

(its like trying to pick a favourite child lol but at the minute Brushos are my favourite)

thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Words at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hi there, its time for a new challenge over at Fashionable Stamping challenges and this time around our theme is all about words chosen by my lovely teamie Laura so we want to see you use words as the focal point of your project, don't forget we're a stamping challenge too so no digistamps allowed.
Our lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher to spend at Flonzcraft and the DT will be choosing their Top 3 too!

For my project I've made a little wall hanging using stamps from Indigo Blu. I've recycled some corrugated card, giving it a bit of interest by dry brushing with some white gesso and adding a little gold gilding wax too.

I've framed this fabulous stamp (from Enjoy life) with an mdf frame. Both have a background created with acrylic paint and worn lipstick distress ink. I've stamped the frame with a lovely fabric texture stamp from Sarah's Choice. The flowers and butterfly were Indigo Blu freebies from a magazine stamped with Potting Soil Archival ink and coloured with distress markers.

I've added lace, ribbon, a little bark heart and a polymer clay heart gilded with some flitter glu and gilding flakes. To finish off i've added some raffia spirals.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges;

Creative Corner: anything but a card

Fab'n'Funky: shabby chic

Indigo Blu: Frame it

In the Pink: ribbons and bows

Simon says Stamp: use a stamp

Suzy Bee's Blooming challenge: monochrome

Wonderful Wednesday: anything goes

Well i hope you're having a good weekend. The weather is turning here and its a lot cooler so perfect crafting weather. If you need some inspiration, do pop over to the challenge blog and check out my teamies gorgeous projects.

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Rustic Fragments from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, I hope you're having a good weekend so far. Chocolate Baroque have released some fab new stamps again this month, two sets of fragments, these stamps are always so useful and very versatile. The new Rustic Fragments stamps are fab, they will work beautifully with so many of the other stamps and I needed no excuse at all to ink up one of my old favourites, from Seadragon and Seaside Dreams with the lovely bubbly stamp from Rustic Fragments.

I began by using my distress markers to colour directly to the sea bed stamp from Seaside Dreams, I spritzed the stamp with a mist of water and stamped the image. I used a water brush to pull the colour out and add some shading. I inked in the background using distress inks in shades of blue and green and then stamped the mermaid with black archival ink. I stamped the 'bubbles with Brilliance White ink and once that was dry I used my water brush to life some of the ink from some of the bubbles and also from around the mermaid.

I've distressed all the edges and layerd the little scene up on some kraft card adding some wired pearls, a paper flower and a pretty brad from my stash.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Card mania: metal Embellishments (wire and brad)

Crafts Galore Encore: Anything goes

Sister Act: anything goes

Sugar and Betty: anything goes

Tinker Dream: water

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

New stamps from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, I hope you're having a lovely crafty weekend. My card today features some of this months new stamps from Chocolate Baroque called Floral Mannequin which you can find here.

I've created a background by collage stamping the stamps from Parfum de Paris with Memento Tuxedo Black in on white card, using both first and second generation stamping. I then stamped the stand from the smaller dress form on this set. I stamped the floral mannequin and coloured with distress markers before cutting out and inking around the edges with Black soot Distress ink. I used 3d foam pads to attach the floral mannequin to give it some depth. I used a black fineliner pen to add faux stitching around the card. I popped some little pearls in the corners and added lace, ribbon and a crystal button to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

Corrosive Challenges: hip to be square

Craft your passion: anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: Anything goes

Crafty Cardmakers: make your own background

Get Creative: for the ladies

Glitter 'n'Sparkle: anything goes

Ribbon Girls: ladies or mum

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Outside your comfort zone at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning folks or I should say good afternoon as pesky blogger hasn't published this for me lol. Can you believe its April already? That means its time for a new challenge over at Eclectic Ellapu and the Pink team's theme is 'Outside your comfort zone' this month. The purple team have a fun challenge too, their theme is April Showers/Spring! We're certainly having our share of April showers here, everytime I put my nose outside the door I get drenched lol.

I struggle with male cards and CAS cards so i've really stepped out of my comfort zone with this card. It was very quick and easy to make though. I used a background stamp from Indigo Blu, coloured directly onto the stamp with distress markers and spritzed lightly with water and tipped the stamp to let the colours run a little before I stamped directly onto the card blank. The sentiment is also from Indigo Blu, simply stamped with Black Archival Ink.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge: shaped cards

Aud Sentiments: anything goes with a sentiment

Cardz 4 Guyz: something beginning with S (stamping, spots and sentiment)

Indigo Blu Challenge: Off the edge

Scribble and Scrap: anything goes

Simply Create Too: anything goes

Through the Purple Haze: anything goes

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Natural Eggs from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning, I've got a  a selection of cards for Spring and Easter using some of this months new releases from Chocolate Baroque to share this morning.

For this first card, i've stamped the solid stamp from Natural Eggs using distress inks (Scattered Straw, Broken China and Bundled Sage) and then used the detail stamps with versamark and ivory embossing powder to create my background.

The bird is from Spring Bird Tulip and i've used my current favourite technique of colouring directly on to the stamp with distress markers, spritzing with water and stamping on to water colour card.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Bunny Zoe's Crafts: Spring colours

Card and Scrap: use layers

Dragonfly Dreams: add some embellies

Loves Rubber Stamps: create your own background

Papertake Weekly: a cut above

TimbroScrapMania: ribbon and pearls

My second sample using 'Natural Eggs' was a bit of an experiment. I began by stamping the sold eggs with distress inks (Scattered Straw, Bundled Sage) and then stamping the detail over the top. 

Next I used the solid stamp again and added a layer of versamark ink over each egg before applying 3 layers of clear embossing powder. Once this was cool I used it as a resist to create some shadow behind and underneath the eggs using distress inks and a blending tool. The sentiment is from Baroque Eggs, die cut with a tag die. I've added distress ink around the edges and created some faux stitching with a distress marker.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Artistic Inspirations: anything goes with a twist of Easter

Crafts Galore Encore: anything goes with a stamp or digi

Dream Valley: Easter

Hiding in my Craft room: embossing

Perfectly Rustics: eggs

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Chocolate Baroque Colour Challenge

Good morning folks, today's card is my inspiration project for our colour challenge over at Chocolate Baroque Challenge Blog. As always we have a beautiful colour palette to inspire us and of course there is a fabulous prize up for grabs too so I hope you're going to join in the fun. There is lots of inspiration from the DT with some fabulous freebies too!! 

I've created a distress ink backrgound using Bundled Sage, Evergreen Bough, Stormy Skies and a little Dusty Concord distress inks. I distressed the edges with a craft knife and popped it on a deckle edged card blank.

The focal image is from the A5 stamp set called Fantasy Meadow. I used my distress markers to colour directly on to the stamp, spritzed with water and stamped on to water colour card. I've added a seam binding bow, a paper flower and some little pearls to finish off

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Card Mania: spring

Crafting Musketeers: pearls and ribbon

Crafty Cardmakers: spring

Creatalicious: anything goes

Incy Wincy: Vintage

Natalie and Amy's: flowers

Penny Black and More: blossoms and bows

Stamp and Create: is it Spring yet?

Thanks so much for visiting today

Claire xx

Favourite/Go to stamp at Fashionable Stamping challenges

Hello my lovelies, its challenge time at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and for the next two weeks our theme is 'Use your favourite/go to stamp'. As always our lucky winner will receive a $20 voucher from Flonzcraft so I hope you're going to join in the fun. Don't forget though we're a stamping challenge so make sure you use a rubber or clear stamp as the focus of your entry.

 I had a bit of a struggle with this one as I'm very fickle with stamps and my newest ones are usually my favourite so I decided to use on of my favourite stamps from our lovely sponsor Flonzcraft. The focal image is from one of my all time favourite sets, its called 'Little Lady' and you can find it here, as well as the two little chicks there are some supercute little ladies too! 

I decided to make a little gift box and used some freebie papers to cover a recycled box, distressing the edges with Vintage Photo Distress ink and adding some lace and pearl trim.

I stamped the image on some watercolour card using memento Rich cocoa ink and coloured with distress markers, adding a paper flower and some little feathers.

To finish off I pierced some holes and added some faux stitching to the edges of the image.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Alphabet Challenge: c is for cute and cuddly

Decorate to Celebrate: anything goes

Fab'n'Funky: spring into colour

Fairy Tale: Flower Power

Simply Create Too: Easter or bunnies

Stempelsonnen: anything goes

That's Crafty: wings'n'things

Throwback Thursdays: Easter

Thanks so much for visiting today, hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

Tulips from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, today's card features some of the gorgeous new stamps from Chocolate Baroque called  Spring Bird Tulip one of three beautiful DL stamp sheets full of delicate flowers and some adorable birds too.

I've used the tulips on this card, inking up the stamp with Peeled Paint and Worn Lipstick distress ink and stamping directly on to the card blank. I added some little flourishes and also distressed using the same colours of ink.

I used distress markers directly onto the stamp and misted with water to create the focal image which I die cut with a spellbinders die and again added some distress ink. To finish off I added some lace, ribbon, pearls and a seambinding bow topped with a little button and some twine.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts: flowers and pearls

Artistic Stamper: spring is coming

Card mania: spring

Come and get it: make your own background

Dragonfly Dreams: add some embellishments

Lisa B Designs: spring watercolour

Natalie and Amy's: flowers

Penny's Paper Crafty: ribbons and bows

The Ribbon Girls: going green

Thanks for popping by today

Claire xx

Sketchy doodle landscapes from Chocolate Baroque

Good morning folks, my project today is a little wall hanging made using the beautiful little scenic stamp from Sketchy Doodle Landscape from Chocolate Baroque and stampbord. I've always loved stampbord as it takes ink beautifully and I wanted to experiment with my distress markers.

I began by making a mosaic using a mixture of pieces of stampbord, I attached them to my non stick craft sheet with double sided tape so that they didn't move while I was working.

I used distress markers to colour the rubber stamp and then misted lightly with water before stamping the image onto the stampbord mosaic. Stampbord has a really absorbent surface to it takes the ink really well and worked a treat with my distress markers. I took a paint brush and a little water and blended the ink here and there before distressing with Tumbled Glass and Vintage Photo distress inks. The sentiment is from Artistic Affirmations, I stamped it with potting soil archival ink. Once the piece was dry I glued it to some white card and then ran a versamark inkpad around the edges before embossing with WOW Gold embossing powder.

I mounted the mosaic on some greyboard that I'd applied texture paste through a Crafters Workshop Brick effect stencil. Once that was dry I coloured the bricks with PanPastels in Burnt Sienna and Raw Umber.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Crafting from the heart: anything goes

Crafts Galore Encore: stamp or digi

Get Creative: embossing

Incy Wincy: distressing

Ooh La La: add something green

Through the purple haze: anything goes

Top Tip Tuesday: rubber stamps only

Tuesday throwdown: anything goes

WOW embossing powder: DIY decor

Thanks for visiting today

Claire xx

Spring colours at Vintage Stamping Challenges

Good morningfolks I'm a week late with my DT project for Flonzcraft Vintage Stamping Challenges but you've still got loads of time to play along with our Spring colours challenge as it lasts until the end of the month so don't miss your chance to win a fabby voucher for stamps from Flonzcraft. We are a stamping challenge though so don't forget you need to use rubber/ clear stamps to enter, digi stamps aren't allowed!

I began by making some background with distress ink, Clarity stencils and my gelli plate. I stamped the Flonzcraft Silhouette on the smaller background and then distressed them with a craft knife and tea dye (of course lol) before layering on kraft cardstock.  I stamped some gorgeous images using Crafty Individuals stamps, coloured them with distress markers and cut them out before layering them up over the image and a little frill made from a doily. I've added some ribbon, pearls, a little rose and a sentiment stamped on a scrap of backing paper. The sentiment reads 'Eat cake and be merry' and is from Chocolate Baroque, I thought it would be perfect for this little tea party scene.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: lots of layers

Crafty Calendar: anything goes

Lisa B Designs: Inked background techniques

Moving along with the times: pastel time

Pile it on: use a bow

Penny Black and more: anything goes no digis

Penny's Paper Crafty: favourite fold/technique (distress ink background)

Simon Says Stamp:  all things bright and beautiful

Stempelsonnen: anything goes

Vandicrafts Artistry: antiqued

Well as its Monday morning already I'd better get my skates on and go to work

have a great day and thanks for popping by

Claire xx

Vintage Christmas at Eclectic Ellapu

Good morning folks, well its an exciting day for me  today as I'm making my debut over on Eclectic Ellapu as one of the pink ladies oooh how exciting! Its been a bit of a squeeze fitting in some crafting over the past few weeks but as the pink teams theme is 'Vintage Christmas' and its one of my all time favourite themes I managed to escape to my craft room and have a play :-). We've got lots of new teamies starting today so if you've got a minute do pop over and have peek at their gorgeous artwork!

I've  used some of my favourite Christmas papers, die cuts and sentiments, all from Christmas Post by Craftwork Cards, all distressed with a little vintage photo distress ink. The focal image is a stamp by Crafty Individuals, watercoloured with distress inks. I've added some white cosmic shimmer glue and glamour dust to the focal image and red stickles to the flowers. I've added a couple of red berries and some sparkly red wired bead trim from my stash to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

A crafty mess: anything goes

A Vintage journey: Birds of a feather
Deep Ocean: shabby chic
Milk Coffee: lots of embellishments
Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers: vintage
Treasured Times: anything goes

Well its time for me to scoot off to work, don't you hate these dark mornings. Its dark when I leave work too and I'm starting to feel like a bat lol.
Thanks so much for visiting today,
Claire ss

Winter Wonderland at Fashionable Stamping Challenges

Hello folks, its challenge time at Fashionable Stamping Challenges and for the next two weeks our theme is 'Winter Wonderland', a great excuse for me to create a scenic card and add another card to my Christmas card box. We've got a fab prize of a $20 voucher up for grabs from our generous sponsor Flonzcraft so I hope you're going to ink up those stamps and play along. We definitely need to see that stamping is the focus of your project, no digis allowed!

The stamps I've used are all from Chocolate Baroque (Christmas Creatures). I began by stamping and masking the robin stamp, next I stamped the arch and lastly the little deer and Christmas tree. I coloured the stamping with distress markers, masked the moon and then set to adding a misty snowy sky with distress inks (weathered wood, stormy sky and chipped sapphire) using my SplodgeMat.

I added some white Cosmic shimmer glue to the trees and to create the snowdrifts and sprinkled on some glamour dust, I created the lights on the tree with stickles and lastly added snow with a White Graph'It Shake Pen.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Crafting for all seasons: tis the season

Creative Corner: winter wonderland

Fairy Tale: Christmas with animals

Simon Says Stamp: anything goes

Simply Create too: Snow snow snow

Sweet Stampin: Let it snow

Well after a hectic few weeks things seem to be settling down a bit (I hope I'm not tempting fate saying that lol) so hopefully I'll be able to catch up a bit this week
Thanks for visiting today
Claire xx

Something Masculine at We Do Doobadoo

Good morning my lovelies and a big warm welcome to my new followers, its a real pleasure to 'meet' you. Its Saturday so I'm hoping to have lots of time in my craft room but before I go and play here's my project for our new challenge at We Do Doobadoo and this time around our theme is 'Something Masculine'. As always you don't have to use Dutch Doobadoo products to join in and our lucky winner will receive some gorgeous Doobadoo goodies so I hope you're going to play along with us.

I've altered an MDF clock blank for my DT project. You may notice that it isn't a finished clock, that's because I can't find any clock mechanisms anywhere, I'm sure there is a black hole in my craft room lol. Anyway I began with a coat of Maimeri Gesso, then added lots of texture with Maimeri Light Modelling Paste and some of my favourite Dutch Doobadoo stencils (I used Metal 2 and Barbed Wire). Once that was dry I glued on some of the Kraft Art Stars and Arrows. and then gave the whole thing a coat of black acrylic paint. I used Maimeri Acrylic paints in Deep Gold, Light Gold and Bronze (the bronze is my favourite colour ever, its gorgeous. I also blended in a little green here and there and then once it was dry I dry brushed black here and there too.

For the inside i used a piece of greyboard and primed with Maimeri White Gesso and added some more texture with a Dutch Doobadoo burlap stencil and more Light Modelling Paste. Next I added a coat of Platinim White Maimeri Acrylic, and mixed in some PanPastels. The stamps are all from Chocolate Baroque, stamped with Potting Soil Archival onto tissue, coloured with distress markers and attached to the project with Maimeri Mat Gel medium. The letters were die cuts, again painted with Maimeri acrylics. To finish off I've added some highlights with some Treasure Gold.

I'm entering this project in the following challenges:

Artistic Stamper: Autumn Colours

Aud Sentiments: for the men in our life

Crafty Creations: Vintage

Divas by Design: anything but a card

Rhedd's Creative Spirit: Anything Mixed Media

STAMPlorations: Stamps and markers

The Male Room: Metal

The Mirror Crack'd: anything goes mixed media

Have a lovely crafty day folks, thanks for visiting and hope to see you again soon

Claire xx

DD Barbed Wire

DD Metal 2

Arrows

Stars

Dutch Doobadoo Stencil

Include a 4 Legged Animal at Craft a Scene

Hi i'm back with my second post of the day, this is my DT card for Craft a Scene where if you're really quick you can still enter our 'Include a 4 Legged Animal' challenge.

I've used a gorgeous cottage stamp from Chocolate Baroque, surrounded by trees from Clarity. The deer in the foreground are stamps from Sheena Douglass. I've coloured with Distress Markers and added some WOW 'Sparkling snow' embossing powder to give an icy sparkle here and there.

I masked the moon and inked in the sky using distress inks in Faded Jeans, Stormy Skies and Chipped Sapphire. To finish off I've stamped the sentiment (from Chocolate Baroque) and embossed with WOW Gold EP and added some snow with a White Graph'It shake pen.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges

 Allsorts: Early Christmas makes

Christmas Stamping all year long: anything goes

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra: anything goes

Crafty Sentiments: animals

Fussy and Fancy: pets/animals

Jingle Belles: use gold

Penny's paper crafty: Christmas or children

Thanks so much for visiting today
Claire xx

Include a 4 Legged animal at Craft a Scene

Hi folks, I hope you're having a lovely relaxing Sunday. There's still time to enter our challenge at Craft a Scene where the theme is 'Include a 4 legged animal', I don't have a lot of animal stamps but I recently bought these stamps from Sheena Douglass so these gorgeous reindeer are my 4 legged animals.

I began by stamping and masking the roof stamp and then stamping the background and Santa in his sleigh before masking the moon and Santa. Lots of inking with distress inks and Stormy Sky, Chipped Sapphire and Black Soot with a touch of Victorian Velvet and Wild honey above the roof lines. I removed the masks and added some colour with distress markers and then lots of snow with a White Graph'It Shake Pen.

I layered the scene up on white card and then on another layer of snowy background. The sentiment is from the same stamp set, die cut with a spellbinders die and again inked with distress ink. I've just added some glitter to the snow on the roof tops, a red bow and a little bell to finish off.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

Christmas Cards all year round: sparkle and shine

Crafty Hazelnut's Christmas Extra: anything Christmas

Deep Ocean: Christmas In August

Sparkles Forum Christmas: snowflakes

Stempelsonnen: anything goes

Winter Wonderland: anything goes for Christmas

Thanks for popping by, hope to see you again soon
Claire xx