Little Bats!

Hi! Here's a card I made for Halloween. I created the background by smooshing with Distress Oxides, then spritzing with Glimmer Mist. I punched a circle of double-sided adhesive for the moon, stuck it to the card and smothered it with gilding flakes. I absolutely love the look of gilding flakes, but I don't use them very often because they are so messy and seem to get everywhere! But I thought they worked really well for a Halloween moon. I die cut my bats out of black cardstock, and then used a bit more double-sided adhesive on a scrap of card, covered it with more gilding flakes, then cut a couple of pieces down to fit behind the bats, to give them bright shiny eyes.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

{PIN}spirational: (Inspired by the Halloween theme)

Come and Get It: 'Halloween'
Fusion: (Inspired by the gorgeous orange on blue colours in the photo)

Mix It Up: 'Anything Goes + optional twist of Watercoloring'


Ingredients:
Distress Oxide Inks: Broken China, Faded Jeans

Bat cutting die

IndigoBlu Gilding Flakes: Lancashire Rose

Cat & Dragon

Hi! Here's a card I made with a mix of Lavinia digi stamps and clear stamps. The trees and toadstools are digis, so I layered the images, making the trees further back a lighter grey, and printed it out. I masked the moon to create the sky with ink dusters, colouring the moon in afterwards, and I used torn paper to mask the hills. Then I stamped the cat and the dragon. I had to go a bit heavy with the shadow under the cat, because I'd accidentally placed him on top of a toadstool, and you could see the dribbly fronds just underneath him - made him look like he had a leaky bottom. Nobody wants that! So hopefully I've hidden that enough with the very dark shadow under him!

 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Lavinia: 'All Hallow's Eve'
Just Us Girls: 'Light'
Come And Get It: 'Too Cute To Spook'
Crafty Calendar: 'Halloween'
City Crafter: 'What a Fun-ghi'
Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Make Your Own Background'
Creative Inspirations: 'Anything Goes'



Ingredients:
Lavinia stamps: Witches cat, Dragon
Lavinia Digistamps: Tree half (right), Tree half (left), Ink Caps

Adirondack Inks: Purple Twilight, Denim, Cranberry, Butterscotch, Meadow

Scribbly Flowers

Hi! Here's a card inspired by this week's Less Is More challenge. I stamped the flowers and sentiment, then stamped another small flower on a scrap of card, to layer about the small flower on the card. I really don't like fussy cutting, but I like the extra dimension it has given. I coloured with inks and a water brush, inspired by the colours at the Paper Play challenge, although I had to mix a couple of the colours as I didn't quite have anything that matched. I added some Nuvo Drops to the flower centres to make them stand out a little bit more, and used a Wink of Stella brush to add some shimmer to the flowers, although it hasn't shown up very well on the photos!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Less Is More:

Paper Play:

Come And Get It: 'Anything Goes'
Rubber Dance:

Ingredients:
Rubber Dance Stamp Set: 'Textured Flowers'
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Adirondack Inks: Cranberry, Purple Twilight
Artistry Inks: Rosy Cheeks, Hay Stack, Old Parchment
Nuvo Drops: Ebony Black
Wink of Stella: Clear

Flowers & Beads

Hi, here's a card I made, inspired by this week's Muse challenge. I stamped the image in the corner of the cardstock, and coloured with inks. I accentuated the black dots on the image with Nuvo Drops. I added the green card diagonally over the image, and cut the card down to the original square. I added a strip of mirror board, and threaded some beads to add over the top. I stamped the sentiment onto another piece of green card, and cut it down to a strip, to add below the strip of beads.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

Color Throwdown:

Less Is More: 'Use a Real Object' - beads
Come And Get It: 'Two or More Different Embellishments' - beads and Nuvo Drops


Ingredients:
Concord & 9th 'Hello Lovely' stamp set
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Artistry Ink pads: Amazon Trail, Pampas
Adirondack Ink: Cranberry, Butterscotch
Nuvo Crystal Drops: Ebony Black
Assorted beads

Patterned Flower

Hi! Here's a card I made, inspired by the colours from the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. The flower is from my new stamp set, which I can't put down, I love it so much! I stamped and embossed in clear, on watercolour paper, then added colour with inks and a water brush. I tried to add some pink at the bottom of the card, to suggest tiny flowers, but over the green it just went muddy :-s But I love the flower, and the bright pink :)

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Watercooler Wednesday: 'Feminine Anything Goes'

Come and Get It: 'Birthday Wishes'

Making Memories: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Rubber Dance Stamp Set: 'Textured Flowers'
Sentiment from Woodware 'Jane's Script'

Versamark

Wow! Clear Gloss Super Fine embossing powder

Distress Ink pads: picked Raspberry

Adirondack Ink pad: Meadow

Stampin' Up ink pad: Pool Party

Grungey Flowers

Hi! Here's a card I made using some more stamps from my new stamp set, which I'm a bit obsessed with now. It's a bit splodgier than I intended - think I went overboard with the Brushos (as always) - but I still like it. The embossing powder is white with lots of fine gold glitter, but I'm not sure it shows up that well in the photos.

The colours are inspired by the current Color Throwdown challenge.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Come And Get It: 'Make It Square'

Pink Gem Challenge: 'Embossing'

Seize The Birthday: Anything Goes'

Ingredients:
Rubber Dance Stamp Set: 'Textured Flowers'
Brushos: Violet, Yellow Ochre, Emerald Green

Versamark

Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel

Uniuniunicorns... I loooove them

Hi! Here are a couple of cards I made with another Bugaboo image. I fell in love with this unicorn image! I coloured with inks, added some Glamour Dust, and used Nuvo Drops for the flower centres.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: 'Use Purple'

Less Is More: 'Spring Walk'

Cupcake Inspirations:

Pearly Sparkles: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:

Bugaboo image: 'Bugunibeyou'
Artistry Ink pads: Old Parchment, Aged Stucco, Pampas, Indian Jamun, Blue Chase, Dark garnet
Glamour Dust

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Crafting When We Can: 'One for the Girls'
Come And Get It: 'It's a Girl Thing'


Ingredients:

Bugaboo image: 'Bugunibeyou'
Artistry Ink pads: Old Parchment, Aged Stucco, Pampas, Fall Fiesta, Dark garnet

Adirondack Ink: Cranberry
Glamour Dust

Nuvo Drops: Dandelion Yellow

You Have My Heart

Hi! Here's a card I made with a digistamp I fell in love with a few days ago. This is the first card I have made with it. I coloured with inks and a water brush, and then added punched flowers, coloured with inks and decorated with Nuvo Drops.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch:

Moving Along with the Times: "Handmade or Die cut Flowers"

Time Out:

Your Next Stamp:

Come and Get It: "Anything Goes"


Ingredients:
Crooked Little Studio: 'You Have My Heart'
Artistry Ink pads: Rosy Cheeks, Burnt Umber
Adirondack ink pads: Butterscotch, Aqua, Meadow
Nuvo Crystal Drops: Dandelion Yellow

Valentine

Hi! Here's another Valentine's card I made, using heart punches borrowed from my lovely friend Linda, and a flower border punch. I layered up the coloured card and ribbon for the background, and added a silver charm.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Cute Card Thursday: 'Be My Valentine'
Simply Create Too: 'Love'
Come And Get It: 'Valentine's Cards'
Crafty Calendar: 'Love is in the Air'
House of Cards: 'Love Theme'

Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Hearts'

Seeing Double

Hi! My cards often come in twos, sometimes threes. I'm not sure if it counts as cheating, as far as challenges are concerned, as the cards are the same design, different colours, but I often find it difficult to choose my colours, so making a couple of variations is a good way to get around the problem. It also helps me to build up my card stash faster!

So here's another tulip card (I love this new stamp!), this time using red and yellow inks, and I held back on the bling this time, just adding one gem to the butterfly.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Moving Along with the Times: 'Something in the Air'
Crafting When We can: 'Anything Goes'
Come And Get It: 'Something New' - new stamp!


Ingredients:
Woodware stamp set 'Tulip Doodle'
Sentiment from Woodware stamp set 'Daisy Panel'
Adirondack ink pads: Willow, Meadow, Cranberry, Butterscotch
White Hybrid 1.0mm Pigment Gel pen
Crystal Parade topaz gem

Working on my Wintery Skies

Hi! Here's another card using my cat digi from Vectorstock. I've added more colours into the sky, to get that wintery sunset look. I added glamour dust to the branches and snow drifts, for some sparkle.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

My Time To Craft: 'Christmas Animals'

Come and Get It: 'Christmas'