Fancy Chick!

Hi! Here's a card I made for my lovely friend, who keeps chickens! It's a digistamp, printed out and smooshed into inks, then layered onto the card. I added silvery white detail with a white gel pen, then a clear star gel pen over the top.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS:

Watercooler Challenges:

Seize the Birthday:

Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:
Le Petite Market: Farm2
Distress Oxide: Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber
Gelly Roll - Clear Star, White

Colourful Daisies

Hi! Here are a couple more cards made with my new daisies stamp set. Seriously, inking, spritzing and stamping is my new favourite way of colouring, especially as I'm pretty bad at colouring with markers! I really love this watercolour technique! I added Nuvo Drops to the flower centres in the first card, to give a bit of dimension, and the colours are inspired by the current Color Throwdown challenge - they are so pretty! I like the softness of the second card, from the chalky-look of the Distress Oxides. The colours are inspired by my friend Debbie, as she often uses these two colours together in her cards, and they look stunning! :)

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Addicted to Stamps:

Simon Says Stamp: 'Anything Goes'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Mix It Up: 'Anything Goes + optional twist of Clean and Simple'

Seize The Birthday: 'Anything Goes'

Watercooler Wednesday: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:
Stamps By Me: Amazing Daisy set
Adirondack ink pad: Aqua
Distress Ink pads: Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade
Distress Oxide Ink pads: Twisted Citron, Spiced Marmalade, Picked Raspberry
Nuvo Crystal Drops: Gloss - White
Crystal Parade gems: Clear

Dropped in a Puddle of Glimmer Mist!?

Hi! Still smooshing Distress Oxides around, and generally making a mess, I made this card using colours inspired by the challenge at Sunday Stamps. I didn't have a teal colour in my collection of Oxides (oooh, do I need to go shopping?) so I used normal Distress ink with Candied Apple Distress Oxide, and they worked really well together. I love this smooshing technique! When it was dry, I fixed it behind a die cut frame, and added a die cut dandelion with a gem for the centre. I stamped the sentiment at the bottom of the card, and then decided to add 'a little' Glimmer Mist. Unfortunately, I got a bit carried away and ended up drenching the whole thing. It has a lovely shimmer now, but the sentiment has blurred a little, and I'm not sure if the overall effect is 'nice and shimmery' or 'dropped in a puddle'. But anyway, here's the card:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Sunday Stamps:

Sweet Stampin': 'Sparkle and Shine'
Seize the Birthday:

Watercooler Wednesday:

Ingredients:
Distress Oxide Ink: Candied Apple
Distress Ink: Peacock Feathers
Spellbinders 'Make a Wish' die
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Crystal Parade gem: Clear
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (a bucket load of it...)

More Daisies

Hi! Here's another card, made with my new stamp set. I coloured with inks, inspired by the gorgeous colours in the Color Throwdown challenge.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

CASology:

Seize the Birthday: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Leonie Pujol stamp set: 'Everlasting Love'

Adirondack Inks: Meadow, Purple Twilight, Sunshine Yellow
Artistry Inks: Fall Fiesta

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

Birthday Chick

Hi! Here's a birthday card I made for a lovely friend who keeps chickens. This chick image is the closest I have to a chicken, so I hope she'll like it. The image is a digistamp, and I added the sentiment. I coloured using inks and a water brush, then added gems to the flowers.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps: 'Make Your Mark'
The Heart Desires:

Moving Along with the Times: 'Ring o' Roses'
Seize the Birthday: 'Anything Birthday, Optional Felt Topping'
My Time To Craft: 'Feathers'
Dragonfly Dreams: 'Hearts and Flowers'


Ingredients:
From The Heart Digi: 'Flower Chick'
Adirondack Ink: Cranberry, Butterscotch, Meadow, Aqua, Terracotta
Crystal Parade gems: Topaz

A New Stamp Set Just Arrived...

Hi! I got a parcel yesterday, with my new stamp set in it! So here's a card I made with it. I'm not very good at colouring so I need to practice a bit to get the most out of this stamp. I used inks and a water brush, and added a couple of gems.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Watercooler Wednesday:

Deep Ocean Challenge: 'Anything New'
Seize the Birthday: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Concord & 9th 'Hello Lovely' stamp set
Sentiment from Woodware 'Meadow Flowers'
Stampin' Up! ink pad: Rose Red
Brushos: Turquoise, Yellow ochre
Crystal Parade topaz gems

Bestest Mate

Hi! I've made another card with the tree stencil and Lavinia fairy stamp. This one is for my closest friend, for her birthday. One night after work, when we had had a few beers, we drunkenly told each other that we were bestest mates, so I thought I'd put that on the card, too :)

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

ColourQ:

Simon Says Stamp: "Best Friends"

Always Playing With paper:

Seize The Birthday: "Clean & Simple"

Creative Inspirations: "Anything Goes"

Combining Colour Challenges...

Hi! I'm always a bit worried about how strict colour challenges are, as I often struggle to match the colours exactly. This time, my almost nearly matching colours seem to work for more than one colour challenge! Anyway, here's my card, using my new Kaisercraft stamp:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Pals Paper Arts:


The Paper Players:


Hand Stamped Sentiments:


Inkspirational Challenges: "Orange / Green"

Seize The Birthday: "Anything Goes"

More Sprays

Hi! Here's another card I made with clear embossing a stamped image and then going crazy with glimmer sprays & water sprays! I'm quite pleased with how the colours have blended on this one:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Less is More: "Sprays / Mists"

CAS on Sunday: "Splash - make a card with water on it"

Seize the Birthday: "The Weather" (I think it looks like it's heavy rain in my card...)

Another One For ColourQ

Hi! ColourQ has a colour challenge at the moment, with these colours:

Here's the card I made for it:

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday: "Anything that Flies"

Simply Create Too: "Anything Goes"