Moments Like This …….

Hello. I have a card to share made for a very special couple who have recently become engaged:

I recently received the new Spellbinders ‘Birthday Celebrations’ bundle and used the balloon dies and the ‘Party Spots’ embossing folder to create this card.

I used some glitter card – I think from Stampin Up – for the balloons, tails, and strings, and once these were stuck together – glitter just does not want to stick down does it? – I placed them on the bubbled/spotted background panel as you see.

The Pinkfresh Studio foiled sentiment was perfect for this I thought, and covered the strings of the balloons.

Lots and lots of glitter and shine…..

I hope to give this card to the happy couple this coming week, but as neither of them follow my blog (!!) I thought I would be OK to post here.

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Paper Minutes Challenge – bubbles

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – anything goes

Papercraft Challenge – add glitter

Creatalicious Challenge – anything goes – option lots of bling/glitter

Cards Galore Challenge – anything goes

Breathe……

Hello. The Alphabet Challenge has reached the letter ‘E’ and Billie A has chosen the theme of embossing – wet or dry. Here is my card:

I chose another of my ink smooshed backgrounds in pinks and oranges as a background to the butterfly stamp.

I heat embossed the image in gold embossing powder, and also embossed the sentiment from the same stamp set. I also added some little sequins for some additional interest.

I hope you can come and join us with your embossing creations – wet or dry embossing – so many options. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams – butterflies and/or flowers

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – It’s up in the air

Arty Divas – anything goes

2 Crafty Critter Crazies – anything goes with a critter

Sending You High Koality Hugs

Hello once again. Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge has started a new CAS themed challenge. This time we want to see ‘HUGS’. Here is my card:

This cute hugging pair of koala’s is a stamp from Heffy Doodle. I coloured them with Copics – first having a little internet search for the colouring of koala’s – grey’s and brown’s – so I coloured each differently – warm grey and cool grey, with some white gel pen for interest.

The sentiment if from the same stamp set.

The background circle is a Concord & 9th stamp and using a lighter green, then a stitched circle die.

I hope you can come and join us with your CAS ‘HUGS’ themed cards. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Promarker Challenge – markers and three or more layers

Colour Crazy Challenge – anything goes colouring – week 21

Crafty Animals – anything goes with an animal

Paper-pieced Leaves

Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge. Billie A has chosen the theme of ‘two or more patterned papers‘. Here is my card:

I began by die cutting the Simon Says Stamp ‘Vine Background‘ three times in white, and then once with four different patterned papers.

I laid the first white die cut down, then placed a different piece from the patterned paper die cuts in the leaves, and then added the next two white layers on top – just in case I had some glue where I didn’t want it on the edges.

I then chose a pre-made sentiment – I think from Pinkfresh Studies but not exactly sure – and then dotted around some gems in the more open spaces.

I hope you can come and join us with your patterned paper creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Addicted To Stamps and More – die cuts and/or stencils

Creative Fingers – anything goes

Love To Craft – anything goes

Snowman Christmas

A new ‘anything goes Christmas’ challenge has started at The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge. Here is my card:

I chose to use yet another background created during an online class, layered onto a matching panel.

The snowman is a Tim Holtz die, and die cut using one white textured shiny card, and with part of the layers ink blended with some teal ink – to tone the white down a little and to add more dimension. All three layers of the scarf I die cut with one colour, and the hat was two black card pieces.

I hope you can come and join us and increase your stash ready for the end of the year. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Peace On Earth Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Christmas Craft Creations – Christmas and two colours (purple and teal)

Addicted To Stamps and More – die cuts and/or stencils

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

The Sky’s The Limit

Hello. I have a card to share which took a lot of die cutting and layering – but I am pleased it turned out so bright and cheerful:

The card base is 5×7 inches so I could get all the elements on comfortably.

The white panel was die cut with the three cloud dies from Heffy Doodle, and placed onto a Distress Oxide panel (Saltwater Taffy) with foam tape, creating some gaps between each cloud bank.

The balloon was die cut – watching the Heffy Doodle video to see what goes where – and the little rabbit from Time For Tea designs added. I had to cut round his arm a little as I wanted it hanging over the edge of the basket.

I added the sentiment, then some sequins from my stash which seemed to go with the colours I had used on the balloon.

I shall be entering the following challenge:

TTCRD – anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – layer it up

Crafty Catz Weekly Challenge – anything goes – option to use some pink

Crafty Calendar Challenge – anything goes

Cards Galore Challenge – anything goes

Cut It Up Challenge – out in the country – include a die cut

Die Cutting Twofer

Hello there. It’s my time to host at The Alphabet Challenge. Having reached the letter ‘D’, I chose the theme of ‘die cuts‘. Any occasion, any creation -as long as there are die cuts involved – then you’re good to go.

I die cut sooooo many of these little layering dies from Spellbinders – I had so many left over that I created two cards:

This die set from Spellbinders ‘Color Block Mini Petals‘ only has two dies to it – a very small set. However, I think it certainly packs a punch. There is a background petal shaped die, then the other die cuts out the layers. I decided to go with a fairly simple colour scheme – but as you can see I placed each of the four colours in different order on each petal.

It’s time consuming, it’s fiddly – but I actually quite enjoyed it. I sometimes get my ‘fiddly’ head on – though rarely! – and I knew I had to just be patient, go with it, and see what happened.

I used Concord & 9th card stock – three greens and a yellow – and I knew the card stock would die cut perfectly so it was just a case of using my little Heffy Doodle mini die cutting machine over and over and over again…….

Putting the layout together also took a bit of time – which petal and which colour-way to go where. Again, time consuming….

I chose a matching green for the sentiments and heat embossed them with clear embossing powder, and even found some Concord & 9th gems in the same colours to ‘sprinkle’ down. I can’t remember ordering them – but ‘found’ them so used them.

I hope you can come and join us with your ‘die cuts’ creations – I look forward to seeing all your creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Pearly Sparkles – layer it up

Dies R Us – anything goes with a brand they sell – include a die

Crafting Happiness – anything goes

Die Cut Divas – anything goes with die cuts or embossing folder

Lil Patch Of Crafty Friends – anything goes

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – layer it up

Sip Sip Hooray

Hello once again. Cardz 4 Galz has started a new challenge – and we have 3 new DT members – I’m so excited to seeing more creations on our themes. Dawn has chosen the theme for this challenge – ‘Sentiment as the focal point‘. Here is my card:

Once again I used one of ink smooshed backgrounds but in a bright and colourful palette, as a background to this old sentiment die panel from MFT stamps.

I layered them by using the stitched rectangle dies, and opted not to put the ‘innards’ back into the words. You can still see what it says, and I think the ‘innards’ would cover more of the colourful panel than I wanted.

I hope you can come and join us in this challenge – I look forward to seeing all your sentiments in our gallery. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Seize The Birthday – birthday with real or faux stitching

Creative Fingers Challenge – anything goes

Craft Rocket Challenge – birthday

AAA Birthday – birthday and ‘Let’s Party’

Love To Craft Challenge – anything goes

Beelieve In Yourself

Hello. Popping in to share a card using a new stamp set from Claire Manning Creative for the current challenge at Festive Friday. When I saw Claire demonstrate this on her YouTube channel – I just had to have it:

This is a layering stamp set called ‘Buzzing‘, and I thought it would go perfectly with one of previously made Distress Ink smooshed backgrounds – and I like how it turned out – all that rich yellow and that stark black….

The body of the bee is stamped in Versafine Black Onyx to get that deep and dark black, and then the wings were stamped. Usually, you stamp the yellow, then the black – but as I had yellow on the background panel – I didn’t need to do that.

And as we all could do with some encouraging words every now and again – then this sentiment from Clearly Besotted fitted the bill nicely – from one of their bee stamp sets.

I may have to play with this the way Claire did on her YouTube video – using a spray of water on the layers to give a water-colour effect – watch this space!

using Bee, yellow, black

Yeti and Penguin Christmas

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge has started a new ‘anything goes Christmas’ challenge. Here is my card:

All of these elements were created during an online event with Jenn Shurkus – I just didn’t put the cards together during the class – or since. I have an envelope full of the coloured images, so I decided to use some of them to create this card.

The background panel is stamped with snowflakes and onto that I adhered some vellum. I felt this would enable the images to stand out a little more.

As the images were already coloured and die cut, I played with the layout and used either glue or 3D foam to stick them down.

I hope you can come and join us with you Christmas creations. xx

I shall be entering the following challenges:

Krafty Chicks – Christmas

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas

Addicted To Stamps – any occasion

Christmas Blog Challenge – Christmas and three colours (purple, teal, orange)

Merry Little Christmas Challenge – anything goes Christmas