Watercolour Painted Harvest

Hi! Here's another card made with the Painted Harvest set - I'm obsessed. I didn't really have a plan when I started this one. I cut a panel of watercolour paper, and wanted to see how the stamps looked when using really wet ink and letting it bleed. I spritzed some red Brushos with water, plonked my stamps in, and stamped on the watercolour paper. It looked pretty, but lost too much detail, so I dried the paper, and tried inking up the stamp, then spritzing that with water before stamping. That held more detail, and looked really pretty. You can see those flowers behind the clearer ones. I dried the paper again, then stamped without spritzing, to just get a normal image. I love the watercolour background behind the clear flowers!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Stamp Ink Paper:

4 Crafty Chicks: 'Anything Goes with twist of Watercolour Background'


Ingredients:
Stamps from Stampin' Up! 'Summer Silhouettes' set
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Artistry Ink pad: Rosy Cheek
Distress Ink pad: Picked Raspberry
Adirondack Ink pad: Wild Plum
Stampin' Up! Ink pad: Rose Red
Brushos: Rose Red

Wild

Hi! Here's a card I made using a jungle image from Vectorstock. I coloured the image with watercolour pencils and blended with a water brush. I added white dots with a Uni Posca pen, and some raised white dots with Nuvo Drops.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

City Crafter: 'Jungle Animals'
Inky Chicks: 'Animals'
Sisterhood of Crafters: 'I see Spots'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Polka Dots'
Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Image from Vectorstck
Faber-Castell Watercolour Pencils
Uni Posca pen: White
Nuvo Drops: Gloss - white

Autumn Flowers

Hi! Here's a card I made by die cutting some backgrounds I made with Distress Oxides. I love the Autumnal colours! I'm still getting the hang of die cutting, and I'm not sure if I've overdone it a bit, but it looked too plain with just the two large flowers. So I added some smaller leaves and small flowers, to try to create a bit of undergrowth. I usually add gems to the centre of flowers, but I went with pearls, as their softer look worked better with the colours.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Deep Ocean: 'Colours of Autumn'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Fall'
Moving Along with the Times: 'Autumn'
Pearly Sparkles: 'Anything Goes'
HLS Die Cuts:

Sparkles Monthly: 'Autumn Colours'


Ingredients:
Distress Oxide Inks: Candied Apple, Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber
Crafts Too 'Happy Birthday' die
Varies flower and leaves dies and punches
Eleganza Craft Stickers: Pearls

Winter Is Coming...

Hiya! Here's a card inspired by this week's Muse card. I stamped the tree on the cardstock, and twice on a scrap piece of card. I cut out the two extra trees and layered them with 3D squares. I added baubles with Nuvo Drops.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

Simon Says Stamp: 'Clean and Simple'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Geometric'



Ingredients:
Adirondack Ink: Meadow
Stamps: Stampin' Up! 'Festival of Trees'

Nuvo Drops: White, Pale Gold, Volet Galaxy

Anniversary Card

Hiya. Here's an anniversary card, made using the 'Love Is' stamp from Indigo Blu. I stamped and embossed the heart, then coloured with inks and ink dusters, an orangey centre deepening to red towards the edge, although I made the centre too dark. It hasn't got as much contrast to the outer colour as I intended! I spritzed with water to give it a bit of a mottled effect.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Rubber Dance: 'Embossing'
Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'
Sisterhood of Crafters: 'Anything Goes'
Watercooler Wednesday: 'Anything Goes'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Indigo Blu Stamp: 'Love Is'

Adirondack inks: Cranberry, Butterscotch

WOW! embossing powder: Platinum

Blue Skies & Blossoms

Hi! Here are a couple of cards I made today, inspired by this week's Muse challenge.

I stamped the image onto the reverse side of some hammered card, so there'd be a little bit of texture. I cut the image down to a square, and backed with white card and then navy card. It looked too dark placed straight onto navy. I added the sentiment, backed with navy card, and used a butterfly punch on some leftover stamped image. I added Nuvo Drops to the flower centres.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

4 Crafty Chicks: 'Butterflies'
Tuesday Throwdown:

I used a smooth card for this one, which gave a deeper blue and a crisper image. I used a smaller sentiment, to show off more of the image. I like the deeper blue, but I think I prefer the first card.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Deep Ocean Challenge: 'Spring'
Simon Says Stamp: 'Showers and/or Flowers'

Allsorts: 'Something Beginning With B' - 'Blue' and 'Blossom'

Ingredients:

Penny Black stamp: 'Glory of Modesty'
Artistry Ink pad: Blue Chase

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold

Woodland Scene

Hi! Here's a card I made using one of my favourite colour combs - blues and browns. I created the background with ink dusters over the stencil, and then stamped the leaves and mushrooms in brown, and a few flowers in blue. I punched a butterfly (that doesn't sound right at all!), coloured it blue with ink dusters, and stamped with the leaf stamp. I added gems to the butterfly and flowers, and used wood-effect packing paper as a frame.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: 'Happy Birthday'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Stencils'
Unicorn Challenge: 'Butterflies and/or Hearts'
Pink Gem Challenge: 'Favourite Colour Combo'
Simon Says: 'Anything Goes'
Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:
Lavinia Stamps: 'Creeping Vine', 'Small Mushrooms' and flower from 'Leaf Trail'
Sentiment from HOTP 'Flower Frenzy' set
Memory Box stencil 'Birch Landscape'
Artistry Ink pads: Rich Mocha
Adirondack ink: Butterscotch, Aqua
Crystal Parade topaz gems

Birthday Blooms

Hi! Here's another card I made, inspired again by the CC&S sketch, and also by the colours at YNS. I masked the card except for the wavy section, and then stamped the image. I added some background colour with ink dusters, then water coloured the flowers and leaves. I added some Nuvo Drops for a bit of texture, and also because I'm a bit obsessed with Nuvo Drops at the moment.

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Your Next Stamp:

Sisterhood of Crafters: 'Simply Made'
4 Crafty Chicks: 'Waterclour'
Tuesday Throwdown: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Concord & 9th 'Hello Lovely' stamp set
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Artistry Ink pads: Amazon Trail, Cotton candy
Adirondack Ink: Cranberry
Stampin' Up! Ink: Tip Top Taupe
Nuvo Crystal Drops: White

Scrap Papers

Hi! Here are a couple of cards inspired by the 'Scrap Papers' challenge at 4 Crafty Chicks. I used a Woodware stamp I bought at the NEC Hobbycrafts show in November but hadn't got round to using before. I stamped the flowers and grass section onto scraps of patterned paper and pieced them onto the white cardstock. I added some gems for a bit of shine.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Sweet Stampin': 'Something New' - New stamp!
My Time To Craft: 'Something New' - New stamp!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

4 Crafty Chicks: 'Scrap Papers'

Stampin' Royalty:

Just Us Girls: 'New' - New stamp!

Ingredients:
Woodware stamp 'Daisy Panel'
Patterned paper scraps

Glittery Wings

Hi! Here's a card I made for a friend's little 5 year old daughter. She loves fairies and glitter, so hopefully it went down well!

I used a digi from All Dressed Up, coloured with Promarkers, and then absolutely smothered the wings in Glamour Dust! I used my new Nuvo glitter drops on the flower centres and on the curls on Evie's name. I'm still getting the hang on using the drops, but I love them! I had a few attempts at taking a photo that shows how raised up and shiny they are... Thanks very much, Debbie, for introducing me to Nuvo :)

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Crafts Galore Encore: "Use a Digi or Stamp"

Moving Along with the Times: "Clean & Simple"

4 Crafty Chicks: "Let's Get Sentimental"

Deep Ocean Challenge: "Things With Wings"

City Crafter: "It's all about YOU"

Crafty Sentiments: "Anything Goes"

Using Black Cardstock

Hi! I've made a couple of cards inspired by the current Happy Little Stampers CASE challenge. I find it quite difficult to make cards using black cardstock. For both of these cards I stamped and embossed with Stampendous Shabby White - I love the glitter in it! I coloured over the embossing powder with promarkers on the first card, to add a little bit of colour. I used gems and liquid pearls on the second one.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers

Simon Says Stamp: "Emboss It"

Addicted to CAS: "Midnight"

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Happy Little Stampers

Deep Ocean Challenge: "Flowers Everywhere"

4 Crafty Chicks: "Black & White"

Unicorn Challenge: "Spotty Dotty"