The Alphabet Challenge has started another challenge. Having reached the letter ‘B’, Debbie has chosen the theme of ‘BLOOMS’. Here is my card:
I chose another stamp set from Clearly Besotted, it must be an older one as it also has the matching die – something they don’t do any more. I love the vase full of the Spring daffodils and tulips.
Once stamped, coloured with Copics, and die cut, I added some white gel pen for some detail.
The ‘hello’ sentiment was die cut several times and layered for dimension.
The background strip was an off-cut from a previously used piece of patterned paper.
I look forward to seeing lots of colourful blooms on our gallery. xx
We have started a new challenge at ABC Christmas Challenge. H is for ‘Ho Ho Ho’ and I is for ‘Inky‘. As long as they are Christmas/Festive related – then you’re good. Here is my card:
I attached the patterned paper onto a white card base. The words are from an MFT die, die cut out of white glitter card, and layered several times with plain white card to create some dimension.
Santa was stamped coloured with Copics, die cut with the matching die, and some white gel pen added.
I wanted him to overlap the letters, so he has been raised with 3D foam squares.
I hope you can come and join us with your Christmas/Festive makes – following the themes – and increase the stash ready for the end of the year. I look forward to seeing your creations. xx
The Alphabet Challenge has started at the beginning of the alphabet, and this time Meg has chosen the theme of ‘A for Animal Antics‘. Here is my card:
I used the Lawn Fawn circle stitching dies to create circular frame in the patterned paper. Into this I adhered another circle – going for bright and fun colours.
I then stamped, coloured and die cut all the images – playing around with placement for quiet a while, then settled on what you see here.
Once these were stick down, I added the grass and flowers, layering and snipping as needed.
The sentiment was and adhered in a crooked manner to add a little more whimsy.
I’ve already sent this to my sister-in-law who is going through some stuff at the moment – hopefully it will brighten her day a little.
I hope you can come and join us with your ‘Animal Antics‘ creations – I look forward to seeing you in our gallery. xx
I fancied doing some Copic colouring today and created this card:
I started by stamping this oldie but goodie stamp from Clearly Besotted. I then chose some Copics to create different coloured tulips, and die cut with the matching die. Clearly Besotted don’t do matching dies any more, and my Scan-n-cut comes into play with the newer stamp sets.
The patterned paper was a freebie with their current and new release – yep, I ordered it all!! – and I thought was a perfect background layer for these flowers.
I wanted a vase for the flowers, so turned to the Honey Bee die set I have, and used vellum……which doesn’t really show up very much, so I outlined it in white.
To get the ribbon on the bunch of flowers to come out of the top of the vase, I had to snip a little – but I think it works.
I then used my Xyron for the vellum – a handy tip from Daniel West on one of his classes – then stuck this down, and added 3D foam under the bouquet itself.
The dots are from a previous Crop and Create event from Doodlebug, and the sentiment is from the same Clearly Besotted stamp set.
Hello again. Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge has started another challenge. This time the theme is ‘Tropical‘. Here is my CAS Tropical card:
For this card I used an older stamp, stencil and die set from Catherine Pooler. I first used an oval stencil on a white card base, then placed a piece of masking paper across the bottom to create the straight line, then added the leaves stencil on top of all that.
I used two colours of Distress Ink to create an ombre look.
Whilst this was drying, I stamped the images, coloured them with Copics, then used the matching dies.
Before sticking them all down, I stamped the sentiment – I remember this time to do this before I had virtually finished the card!
I played around with placement of the images until I came up with what I liked – some snipping of the leaves so I could put them under the branch a little more.
I hope you can come and join us with your CAS cards following the theme. xx
Hello there. Here is a card I created using a new stamp, stencil, and die set from Pinkfresh Studio:
I first stamped the image using Gina K Amalgam ink, then used the matching stencil to colour with green and orange. The matching die cuts all of the images – and separates them – in one pass, so I set them aside and worked on the background.
On a separate panel I stamped the image again, but didn’t use the stencil or die, and coloured the images in a Copic light brown – no shading, only one colour.
I then stamped the sentiment and heat embossed in brass onto vellum, then die cut using a circle die.
The brown floral panel was adhered to a card base, then the vellum circle was glued down – but only using dots of glue behind the letters – then edges were left unglued to enable me to place some of the floral die cuts around, underneath, and on top of the vellum. I snipped some of the images between the leaves to make this easier on some of the images.
I still have more than half of the floral images from the die cut left over to make another card – maybe two.
The Alphabet Challenge has reached the end of the alphabet again. For the letter ‘Z‘, Caz has chosen the theme of ‘Zig-Zags‘. Here is my card:
The pink background is an Altenew stencil and pink Distress Ink, then framed by the Hero Arts infinity frame. The floral image is from Altenew, and lightly coloured with warm grey and cool grey Copics. Once the floral images were coloured, I then die cut them with the matching dies, snipped a little, and arranged as you see. The sentiment is from the same stamp set.
The Design Team has a wide variety of inspiration using the ‘Zig-Zag’ theme, which I hope you will have a look at, and also hope you will join us.
Despite spending 8 hours crafting yesterday at the Taylored Expressions virtual event, I have spent a little time in my craft room today. I wanted to make something for the current challenge at Color Throwdown, where the colours are pink, grey, and lime green. Here is my card:
I die cut the Avery Elle ‘Diagonal Stripes’ die and adhered it to the card base. The Neat and Tangled ‘Flora Frames’ was stamped and die cut, then coloured with Copics – simple colouring, no shading, nothing -fancy, then stuck down onto the panel.
The word was die cut three times from grey card stock then layered together.
The grey enamel dots are from Time For Tea Designs.
I’m glad this came together quite quickly after the lengthy crafting yesterday. xx
Helen is hosting the new challenge at The Alphabet Challenge. Having reached the letter ‘Y’ we want to see ‘Your Favourite Colour Combination’. Here is my card:
I didn’t really think I had an absolute colour combination, but looking back through my cards, I do seem to trend towards more green, blue, and red – and for this card I also used a spot of yellow.
Onto a white card base I used my oval mask created myself using some mylar. I then took the Lawn Fawn cloud stencil and some blue Distress Ink and worked my way down the oval. I then stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set in the top right corner.
The image is from Clearly Besotted, stamped, coloured with Copics, and cut using my Scan-n-cut – always a little nerve-wracking when the colouring has already been done……!
The Design Team has come up with lots of very colourful creations, I hope you can come and join us using your favourite colour combination.
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