Funky Flowers

Hi! Here are a couple of Mother's Day cards I made, using my new Lili of the Valley flowers! I love these images :)

I coloured the flowers with inks. For the first card, I layered up the middle panel to add a bit of dimension, and added a little gem. For the second card, I added white dots with a white gelly roll pen, and some glitter with a Clear Star gelly roll pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Addicted to Stamps:

The Flower Challenge:

Pink Gem Challenge: Anything Goes

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CASology:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: 'In the Red'
Unicorn Challenge: 'Spring'
Sweet Stampin': 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Lili of the Valley: 'Blooming Lovely'
Artistry Inks: sweet toffee, cotton candy, midnight blue, indian jamun, moon crater
Adirondack inks: butterscotch, terra cotta, cranberry, meadow
Sakura gelly roll pens: white, clear star

IndigoBlu Heart

Hi! Here are three valentines cards, made with one of my favourite IndigoBlu stamps. The image is quite detailed, so I've kept the colours simple, and just added a bit of sparkle with a gelly roll pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams: 'Include a Heart'
Watercooler Wednesday: 'Feminine Anything Goes'
Creatilicious: 'Anything Goes with optional Love/Hearts'
Simply Create Too: 'Anything Goes with optional twist: use hearts'

 I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Unicorn Challenge: Include a Heart'
Double D: 'Hearts'

AAA Cards:

Uniko:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: 'Add some red'
Time Out:

The Card Concept:

Ingredients:
IndigoBlu: 'Love Is'
Promarkers
Gelly Roll - Clear Star

First card in ages... Sparkly Unicorn!

Hiya. Here's a card I made for a friend's birthday. I masked the unicorn, then used ink dusters to colour the background. I coloured the unicorn with a gold Wink of Stella pen and a Clear Star gelly roll pen. I used Lavinia stamps to add the flowers, and added Nuvo drops for the flower centres. I added the gelly roll pen to the word 'Magical', to give it some extra sparkle.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Unicorn Challenge: 'Things with Wings'
Sisterhood of Crafters: 'Make it sparkle'
Crafty Calendar: 'Make it Flowery'
Just Us Girls: 'Pastels'

Your Next Stamp: 'let’s see smiles'
Stamping Sensations: 'Fabulously Feminine'
Mix it Up: 'Anything Goes + Sentiment As Main Focus'
Creative Inspirations: 'Anything Goes'
Pink Gem: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Lili of the Valley - Jolly Unicorns
Flower stamps from Lavinia
Adirondack inks: Purple Twilight, Eggplant, Cranberry, Butterscotch, Denim
Wink of Stella - Gold
Gelly Roll - Clear Star
Nuvo Crystal Drops - Violet Galaxy

Pink Painted Harvest Flowers

Hi! Here's another card I made with my new SU set. I love these flowers! I wanted to try them in pink, inspired by the current Card Concept challenge, but then I saw the Cupcake Inspirations challenge, and decided to try using those colours - I would never have thought about putting them together before, but I love how the card has turned out! I used Stickles for a bit of sparkle in the centre of the flowers.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Cupcake Inspirations:

The Card Concept: (CAS, inspired by the pink flowers)

Unicorn Challenge: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Stamps from Stampin' Up! 'Summer Silhouettes' set
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Distress Oxide Ink pads: Picked Raspberry, Antique Linen, Black Soot
Stickles: Star Dust

Reject Oxide Trees

Hi! I got a new JOFY stamp a few days ago, and as I'm rubbish at colouring I was looking around for other options. I found some of my reject Distress Oxide experiments which were too murky or just not right for what I'd originally had in mind for them. I stamped the image onto the card, and again on one of the oxide rejects, then cut out the trees and pots from the rejects and paper pieced them onto the card. I used a glitter gel pen to colour the star and some of the details on the trees and pots, and then added Nuvo Drops to brighten the rejects up and add a bit of dimension. On the darker rejects, I used a white Uni Posca pen to brighten up the trees in places, and add some contrast. Here are my reject trees (I was going to call them Cock Up Trees, but it put me in mind of dogs marking their territory, and went for Reject Trees instead...):

I'm entering this one in the Curtain Call challenge, for the Cider colours:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

House of Cards:

HLS CAS:

I'm entering this one in the Moving Along with the Times challenge: 'Trees'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps:

Unicorn Challenge: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Wilted Violet, Walnut Stain, Black Soot, Peeled Paint, Fossilized Amber, Spiced Marmalade

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star

Uni Posca pens: White, Gold

Stencilled Flower

Hi! Here's a card inspired by this week's Muse card. I used a stencil which can be used to create a detailed flower, and also to create the outline around the flower. I created the detailed flower first, using pink and orange distress oxides, and then filled in the background with a paler pink distress ink. I stamped the sentiment with the orange distress ink, then added gold Nuvo Drops to the flower centre and dotted the 'i's in the sentiment.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

Less Is More:

Inkspirational: 

Unicorn Challenge: 'Perfectly Pink for Breast Cancer Awareness'
Tuesday Throwdown: 'Stencilling'



Ingredients:
Stencil Girl Products: Deconstructed Chrysanthemum Mask and Stencil
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'

Distress ink: Picked Raspberry
Distress Oxide ink: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade
Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold