Thank You!

Hi! Here's a card I put together today. I actually made the flowery background a few years ago, but wasn't sure what to do with it, so it's been kicking around in the unfinished projects pile! The background was made with Crafty Notions colour sprays, gilding flakes and stamped flowers. I covered the flowers with some sort of glaze, but I can't remember what I used now. Then I glued the glass pebbles to the flower centres. The background was a much larger piece, but I liked how this section of it looked through the frame so I cut it down to fit, then added the sentiment.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: 'It's a Stitch Up'
Tuesday Throwdown: 'So Very Thankful'
Fusion:

CAS-ual Fridays:

Cupcake Inspirations:

Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Thanks'
Mix It Up: 'Anything Goes with Optional Stencilling'


Ingredients:
Flower stamp from Crafty Notions
Crafty Notions Colour Sprays
Gilding Flakes
Glass Pebbles
Some sort of glaze
Sentiment from Stampin' Up! set: Easy Events

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

Brushos Butterfly

Hi! I've had a bit of an embossing frenzy today, and I've also been playing with Brushos, so my desk needs a good clean, and my hands are very colourful! I bought a butterfly stamp at the NEC in March, but hadn't got around to using it until today.

I was inspired by the image at Fusion and the colours at AAA Cards, although I'm not sure if the butterfly stands out enough. I should've used a larger sentiment too, as it looks a little bit lost in all the colour!

I stamped with Versamark and embossed with Shabby White embossing enamel, which bubbles up, and has lovely fine gold glitter in it. Then I taped the paper down, spritzed it a few times, and went crazy with the Brushos. I used a brush to spread some of the purple around on the butterfly wings, but left the rest of the colour to go where it wanted.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Fusion:

AAA Cards:

Simon Says Stamp: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Inkylicious Stamp: 'Big Butterfly 1'
Brushos: Rose Red, Yellow Ochre, Cobalt Blue, Violet,

Versamark

Stampendous Shabby White Embossing Enamel

Mother's Day Flowers

Hi! Here are a couple of Mother's Day cards I made, using punched flowers with Nuvo Drops for the centres.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Just Us Girls:

Tuesday Throwdown: "Add Dimension"


Ingredients:
Vase digi from Vectorstock
Artistry Ink pads: Moon Crator, Cotton Candy, Indian Jamun
Nuvo Crystal Drops: Violet Galaxy

I'm entering this one in the Fusion challenge:

Ingredients:
Vase digi from Vectorstock
Artistry Ink pads: Moon Crator, Fall Fiesta
Adirondack ink pads: Butterscotch
Nuvo Crystal Drops: Dandelion Yellow

Ombre

Hi! Here's a card inspired by the Less Is More challenge 'Ombre' and the sketch for the Fusion challenge.

I masked the central panel and coloured the borders with ink dusters. I then added the flower stamps, coloured the lower ones with a deeper blue, and used a water brush with no ink to remove some colour from the flowers at the top. I used Nuvo drops for the centres of the flowers.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Less Is More: 'Ombre'
Fusion:

CAS On Sunday: 'Black and white, with one color of your choice'


Ingredients:
Flower stamps from Crafty Notions
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Adirondack ink pads: Aqua, Denim
Nuvo Crystal Drops 'Morning Dew'

Blossoms & Blue Skies

Hi! Here's a card I made with lots of blue! I didn't colour the blossoms at all, but added little spots of pollen with a Clear Star gelly roll pen. I'm not sure the sparkle shows very well in the photos, though.

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

The Card Concept: "Spring Flowers" (CAS style)

Fusion: "Sweet Orange Blossoms"

Crafty Sentiments: "Birthday"

New Stamps!

Hi! I got a few new stamps at the NEC Hobbycrafts fair in November, but haven't had chance to use them yet, as they weren't Christmassy. There are a couple of 'new' challenges at the moment, so I thought I'd break out one of the NEC purchases :)

I've made the same card twice, with different colours:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Fusion:

Pals Paper Arts:

City Crafter: "Butterfly, my butterfly"

Shopping Our Stash: "Something New"

The Sisterhood of Crafters: "Something Old, Something New" - New Woodware 'Grasses' stamp, old inks & butterfly stamp

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

MFT Card Challenges:

Crafting When We Can: "Something New"

Crafty Calendar: "Something New!

Inky Chicks: "Anything Goes"

Watercolour Butterfly

Hi! Here's another flowery butterfly, this time inspired by the gorgeous image in the current Fusion Card Challenge. Instead of a blue butterfly on the flowers, I added the flowers to the butterfly:

This is the Fusion challenge inspirational photo - I LOVE the bright, summery colours!


I'm also entering the card into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday: "Summer"

Sweet Stampin’: "Red Hot Summer"

Urrrg, man Cards are So Difficult

I've been trying to make Fathers Day cards, and I find it so difficult - really hard to resist the urge to add flowers, ribbons, glitter and gems to bling them up!

Inspired by a couple of challenges, I've made a couple of 'man' cards using a Stampin' Up stamp:

This first one was inspired by the following challenges:
Less Is More: 'Sunset'

The Friday Mashup: 'Let's Ombre'

Virginia's View; 'Ombre / Monochromatic'

And here's another card using the same stamp:

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

Fusion: 'Blue Skies & Smooth Sailing'

My Time To Craft: 'Male'

I'm quite pleased with how these have turned out, but I still want to add some gems... and one or two flowers would be ok, surely... everyone likes flowers....

Happy Anniversary

Hi! Just been trying out my new heart stamp, and playing around with a sketch, and with colours from a couple of challenges. Here's what I've come up with, the same card with two different colour schemes:

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

ColourQ

Creative Inspirations: 'Anything Goes' with optional sketch

I wasn't sure about using these colours for an anniversary card at first, but I like the freshness of the yellow. Colour challenges are great because you try things you would not normally think of :)

I'm entering this into the following challenges:

Fusion

Papertake: 'With a Heart'

The pink elephant; 'Anything Goes'