Blue poppies

  

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and had a good weekend!

I love making cards with flowers on them and poppies are one of my favourites. 

The stamp was inked with distress ink and spritzed with water before stamping and I moved some of the colour about with a wet brush.

Linking up to Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge - Watercolour, Uniko Studios - Love and Friendship and CAS-ology - NBUS (never before used poppy stamp set).  Also for Less Is More where this week's theme is Friends.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by today. Have a great rest of the week! xx

Pink Roses

Hello everyone, I hope you're having a good weekend.

Just a quick post to show you a card I've made for The Card Concept (Freestyle Collage) (Happy 1st Anniversary), inspired by the flowers and colours. Also linking to Uniko Studios (Love and Friendship) and Happy Little Stampers (Sketch).

To make my card I started by brushing pale blue ink onto the bottom of a piece of card, stamped and heat embossed the roses with clear powder and coloured using distress inks and wet brush, added the diecut leaves and stamped the hearts and sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by today, take care xx

Have a lovely day!

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and the weather isn't being too unkind!

I've made another card for Time Out as the photo inspiration is lovely this week and I wanted to have another go! This time I've taken inspiration from the row of cushions and the flower pattern

The flowers were stamped in black Memento and coloured with Promarkers and then I cut out three squares from the larger image.

The flowers were coloured using the ColourQ selection and am also linking to Darnell's fun NBUS (never before used schtuff) and CAS-ology where the theme is also NBUS, as this is the first trip out for the Blossoming Buds stamp set and

Thank you for visiting my blog and for your lovely comments which I always appreciate and love reading xx

Addicted To Stamps and More #127 - Make Your Mark

Hello dear friends, I hope you're keeping well! Greetings and welcome to new blog follower, Vicki.

I am back from a blog break for the start of the first challenge of 2015 with Addicted to Stamps and More and the theme this week is Make Your Mark: create a project using pens, paints, chalks or colouring pencils.

First some DT news. Sadly a few of our lovely DT members have departed but we have been joined by some fabulous new designers: Dana, Karen and Sarah. Please do visit their blogs to see their beautiful work.

Our generous sponsor for this challenge is CAS-ual Fridays Stamps and our winner will receive a $20 gift certificate to spend at their store, yay!!

I've used the lovely watermark which the very talented Kylie created for me on my DT card photo. To start the new year, I've used a technique which is new to me. To make the bokeh background I brushed water onto some watercolour card and added watercolour paints, punched some different sized circles out of card and used them to sponge through the white dye ink. Then diecut the "hello" diecut in the background and then out of white card and inlaid the two together.

Don't forget to check out the DT inspiration over at the ATSM challenge blog and we hope you will be inspired to join in the fun!

Linking to a few challenges:

Happy Little Stampers Sketch Challenge

Happy Little Stampers CAS Challenge - Watercolour

Time Out - Photo Inspiration (I've used the orange and "hello")

Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by today xx

Addicted to Stamps and More #125 - Photo inspiration

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and having a good week!  It's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and we have lovely festive photo inspiration. 

Our generous sponsor is Stitchy Bear and there's a prize of three digis up to a value of $10 for our winner.

For my DT card, I stamped and diecut the bow, wreath and sentiment and the wreath is decorated with red Card Candi with Glossy Accents, diecut gold stars and pearls.

Please do check out the very talented DT 's creations over at the ATSM challenge blog and we hope you will be inspired to join in!

Thank you so much for stopping by and for your encouraging comments! Have a great rest of the week, take care xxx

Also linking to:

52CCT - Pick a previous challenge (March 2014 Stars)

Addicted to CAS - Dots

Fantasy Stampers - CAS Christmas

All is calm, all is bright

Hi everyone, and greetings to new follower, Sarah. Here's a card I've made using this week's Colour Me choice. Also for Addicted to CAS - DOTS and Fantasy Stampers - CAS Christmas.

How I made it:

1. Brush on ink to make a background and add white dots with a white marker as snowflakes.

2. Diecut the trees and panel.

3. Stamp and colour the deer with a duster brush, add more white dots and diecut bow.

4. Stamp sentiment.

Thanks for looking and have a good weekend! xx

  

Addicted to Stamps and More #123 - Holidays

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and having a good week!

This week's theme at Addicted to Stamps and More is Holidays and our fabulous sponsor is Rick St Dennis. Our Top Addict's prize will be their choice of 3 digis from the store.

For my DT card, I created the background by brushing on inks, the snowflakes are a white marker pen. The tree was stamped and heat embossed with sparkly embossing powder and the little birds were stamped with black Memento and coloured with Promarkers. The fence is a diecut with some glitter glue.

Please do visit the ATSM challenge blog to see the fabulous DT inspiration and we look forward to seeing your creations and visiting your blogs.

Linking to a few challenges:

Inkspirational - Christmas (with optional twist of no red or green)

Time Out - Embossing (with optional twist of sparkle)

Uniko Studios - Anything Goes

Thanks so much for taking time to visit. Take care xx

Merry Christmas snowflake

Hi everyone, I hope you're well. Greetings to my latest follower, Sid and thank you for your interest in my blog.

I've made this card for a few challenges. The diecut snowflakes cut from foiled card were mounted onto a stitched rectangle diecut, with heat embossed sentiment on the vellum strip. A bit tricky to photograph, here's a close-up.

Would like to link up to:

Addicted to CAS (Sketch)

Fusion (photo)

Inkspirational (Shine)

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and for your lovely comments! Have a good day xx

Addicted to Stamps and More #121 - Anything Goes

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good week and are well!

It's time to begin a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week the theme is Anything Goes.

Our fabulous sponsor is Stitchy Bear and our Top Addict will be able to choose a prize of 3 digis up to the value of $10 from their store.

For my DT card, I heat embossed the leaves and sentiment in gold on vanilla card and added the stamped and diecut bow, little house and sentiment banner.

Also linking up to a few challenges:

CAS Colours and Sketches

Inkspirational - Shine

Time Out - Home Sweet Home

Don't forget to check out the fab DT inspiration over at the ATSM blog and we look forward to seeing your creations.

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog! xx

Thinking of you

Hi everyone, I hope you're well. Just a quick post to show you a card I've made for a few challenges.

Using the Colour Me colours, also for Time Out where the theme is "Birds of a Feather Flock Together" and AAA Cards - Watercolour.

Thanks for stopping by today! Have a good week xx