Merry Monday #80

Hi everyone, hope you had a good weekend!  This is my guest designer card for the Merry Monday challenge #80 - use music or a Carol inspired theme on your Christmas card.

I heat embossed the shepherds window and verse in black, coloured in the window using distress inks and an aqua brush and added sparkle to the star with a Quickie glue pen and silver leaf.

This card is also for 52 Christmas Card Throwdown October recipe/theme challenge #22 - add bling.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sue xx

Supplies:
Shepherds window and verse stamps - Clarity Stamps
Distress inks - Tim Holtz

ATSM #67 - Make Your Mark

Hi everyone, hope you're having a good week so far. It's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week is Make Your Mark - use pens, pencils, crayons, chalks, powders or paints on your project.

Our generous sponsor is Nicecrane Designs and this week's Top Addict will receive a $20 gift certificate to use at their store.

Here's how I made my DT card.

1. Stamp and heat emboss the seedheads in black.

2, Scribble with distress markers onto a craft sheet, lightly spray with water and place the piece of embossed card face down onto the ink. To get more intense colour, wait until the piece is dry, scribble the markers onto your craft sheet again and pick up some of the ink with Cut N Dry foam and apply to your card.

3, Stamp the little leaves and letters/words in black Archival and highlight here and there with a white gel pen.

The DT have made some gorgeous creations - don't forget to check it out at the ATSM challenge blog and we do hope you can join in the fun!

This card is also for Inkspirational #41 - Anything Goes and Lavinia Stamps challenge #8 - Autumn Colours.

Sue xx

Supplies:

Seedhead and leaf stamps - Lavinia Stamps

Mini alphabet stamps - Hero Arts

Distress markers - Tim Holtz

Sakura gel pen

Christmas Geese

Hi everyone, I had so much fun this morning getting inky so I made another Christmas card.

I began by masking off the moon and created the background using torn paper and colour dusters with TH distress inks. Stamped the leaves and geese with Memento and TH inks and added some glitter glue.

Would like to enter this in a few challenges.

52 Christmas Card Throwndown - Oct Colour Challenge 22: No Red Or Green
Craft A Scene - Fowl Weather
Inkspirational #41 - Anything Goes
Merry Monday #78 - Christmas Bird
Nonni's Card Challenges - Stamp A Happy Christmas

Thanks so much for looking!

Sue x

Supplies:
Leaves and Geese stamps - Lavinia Stamps
Sentiment - Hobby Art
Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans, Barn Door Distress Inks - Tim Holtz
Ocean Depths - Memento Ink
Stickles glitter glue

Snow Bird

Hi everyone, hope your day is going well! I've had fun with stamps and ink this morning and made a Christmas card. 

I began with a white card blank, heat embossed the flourishes in white, stamped some text and snowflakes and inked with TH distress inks. The bird panel was made with a circle die-cut stamped with the snow bird in sepia Archival ink and coloured with distress inks and touches of glitter glue.

This card is for some challenges:

Merry Monday #78 - Christmas Bird

Artful Times #40 - Feeling Distressed

Inkspirational #41 - Anything Goes

Nonni's Card Challenge - Stamp a Happy Christmas

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sue x

Supplies:

Snow Bird stamp - Stampendous

Text stamp - Stampington

Snowflake and sentiment - Paula Pascual

Flourishes stamp - Dawn Bibby Designs

Tumbled Glass, Vintage Photo, Festive Berries and Antique Linen distress inks - Tim Holtz

Stickles glitter glue

Addicted to CAS #24

Hi everybody, this is my DT card for the new challenge at Addicted to CAS. The codeword is TRANSPARENT which was chosen by the very talented Christine who is our hostess for the next two weeks.

Our generous sponsor is Nicecrane Designs and our Top Addict will receive a $20 gift certificate to spend at their online store.

I stamped the window frame twice in sepia Archival, one for the card and one to use as a mask by cutting the middle part out with a craft knife. After brushing on some blue ink for the sky I stamped the branch and pumpkins and coloured them using SU! markers and an aqua brush.

This card is for the following challenges:

CASology week 65: CRISP ("crisp Autumn day")
Crafts 4 Eternity #145: Clean and Simple
The Sisterhood of Crafters: Anything Goes

The DT have made such a fabulous variety of creative projects so please don't forget to check it out at the ATCAS challenge blog.

Thank you so much for looking and have a lovely weekend!

Sue x

Supplies:
Cottage Window set: Stampin' Up!
Sentiment: Lawn Fawn
Distress Ink Barn Door: TH
Various markers: Stampin' Up!

LIM Week 140 and KIS 24

Hi everyone, today I've made a white on white Christmas card. Was a bit stumped as I made one last week here, but here's what I came up with. The greeting (Stamporium) was heat embossed in silver, diecut frame by Sizzix and flower and leaves dies by Marianne. A Craftwork Cards Candi popped in the centre of the flower.

The silver embossing is a little tricky to photograph, here's a close-up.

This card is for the following challenges:

Less Is More - White on White Christmas

Keep it Simple - All is White

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Sue x

ATSM #66 - Anything Goes

Hi everybody, it's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week it's ANYTHING GOES. Thank you to everyone who joined in last week's Photo Inspiration challenge, we had so many fabulous entries!

Our generous sponsor for the month of October is Nicecrane Designs. 

For my DT card, I've taken colour inspiration from Inkspirational. This card is also for CAS-ual Fridays: Chevrons and Sequins and Flutter By Wednesdays: Anything goes (use favourite things - stamps). (The raspberry and turquoise sequins are a little difficult to see in the photo.)

Please do check out the DT inspiration at ATSM challenge blog and we look forward to seeing your fabulous creations.

Thank you for stopping by and enjoy the rest of your week!

Sue xx

Supplies:

Waltzingmouse Stamps - Offbeat Backgrounds and L'il Buddies

Die-Namics circle die

Cart-Us scallop circle die

ColourQ #209 and LIM #139

Hi everyone, my second card for today is inspired by the ColourQ colours and Less Is More sketch. A little bit of sunshine on a rather dark and wet autumn day ...

Thanks for looking! Sue x

Flower and leaf stamps: Simon Says Stamp
Sentiment stamp: Stampin' Up!
Circle die: Die-Namics
Picket fence die: Memory Box

Merry Monday #77 and Nonni's Card Challenge

Hi everyone, I hope you're all well.

Here's something I've made for Merry Monday and Nonni's Card Challenge (Let's Get Inky), a brand new card challenge hosted by the very talented Nonni!

Nonni's challenge is to make a Christmas card using stamping. Why not pop over and check out all the beautiful DT inspiration. Here's the brief:

Let's Get Inky -Stamp A Happy Christmas! 

Let's create Christmas cards with stamping playing the main role! You could use fun techniques like masking and combine background stamps with smaller stamps... Or how about using non-Christmas stamps for Christmas and playing with some embossing powders? Or stamping with watercolors? Or tone on tone stamping maybe? The possibilities are endless... Let's get inky and creative! You can choose any style from CAS to vintage, what ever you like the best... You can use embellishments too -just don't cover up your fabulous stamping completely!

I've chosen to use non-Christmas stamps. The branches and baubles are PTI Heart to Heart #12 which is a flower set I've used here. The string-and-bow stamp is by Hobby Art, sentiment by Paula Pascual. 

Thank you so much for stopping by today.

Sue x

ATSM #65

Hi everyone, it's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have lovely autumnal photo inspiration.

Our generous sponsor is Nicecrane Designs who will be awarding a prize to our Top Addict.

Don't forget to check out all the wonderful creations from the other DT ladies over at the ATSM blog!

Have a good week.

Sue x

Stamps used: Ruby Rose by PTI