All things grow with love

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a nice weekend.

Just a quick post to show you a card I've made today.  The background was sponged with distress inks, leaves and flowers were stamped and die-cut bird house and branch added.

Linking up to a few challenges:

CAS-ology - Tropical

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge: Sponging

Time Out - Photo inspiration

Make My Monday - Building, Town or City

(it's a very small building!)

Thanks so much for stopping by today, have a great rest of your weekend! xx

Summer flip-flops

Hello crafting friends, I hope you're doing well and having a good week. 

I've made this card looking forward to Summer in a few months - using masks, a stencil and brushed on distress inks, added die-cut flip-flops and stamped sentiment.

Linking up to a few challenges::

Addicted to CAS - Distress

Less Is More - This makes me happy

Make My Monday - Girly birthday
Showcase Your Style - Birthday

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

Welcome little one!

Hello everyone, I hope you had a good weekend!

I've made this card for a few challenges. The birds, leaves and bunny were stamped with black Memento and coloured with Promarkers with some stencilling at the top.

Addicted to CAS - Stencil

CAS Colours and Sketches - Colours

Just Add Ink - Baby

Make My Monday - Children or Babies

Thanks for stopping by today and for your encouraging comments. Have a great day! xx

A little garden ...

"A little garden in which to walk,

and immensity in which to dream"

Hi everyone, this is my second card today, inspired by the Colour Me challenge. Calypso Coral is one of my favourite SU! colours.

The background was made by brushing colour on, the diecuts are Memory Box Madison Window, branch and bird, and leaves and sentiment stamped.

Also linking up to House of Cards - Punches or a die or both, and a second entry for Make My Monday - Diecuts and/or punches.

Thanks for stopping by and have a lovely weekend xx

Addicted to Stamps and More #115 - Photo Inspiration

Hello everyone, I hope you're having a good week . It's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have a beautiful seasonal photo as our inspiration. 

Our generous sponsor is StampArt Design who will be awarding a prize of 5 digis from their store to this week's winner.

For my DT card, I brushed distress inks onto the background and spattered with water, cut a hexagon aperture and some diecut leaves which I coloured with various distress inks and stamped the sentiment.

I'm sure you will agree, there's so much inspiration to take from this week's photo and we look forward to seeing your fabulous creations. Don't forget to pop over to the ATSM challenge blog to see inspiration from the DT.

Also linking up to:

Craft-Room Challenges - Seasonal Colours

Just Us Girls - Photo

Make My Monday - Diecuts and/or Punches
Time Out - Use stamping

Thanks for looking in today! xx

Addicted to Stamps and More #111 - Anything Goes with optional twist

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and having a good week. A very warm welcome to new members, Bernadette and Doreen. Thank you for your interest in my blog!

It's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week it's Anything Goes.  We also have an optional twist for you to create a project using the theme Get Well/Thinking of You for the lovely Marie who was one of the original design team at ATSM and currently a member of the Addicted to CAS DT.  Hi Marie, sending happy thoughts that things are turning to the better for you.

Our generous sponsor is Stamp Art Design, and there is a prize of 5 free digis up for grabs to our Top Addict.

I wanted to use bright and cheery colours on my DT card and here it is. The butterflies and background were stamped and watercoloured with distress inks.

Don't forget to check out all the fab DT inspiration at the ATSM challenge blog and we look forward to seeing what you make and visiting your blogs! Have a great rest of the week. xx

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Would like to link my card to a few challenges:

Butterfly Challenge - Butterfly with a Sentiment

Make My Monday - Indian Summer (create a project with bright colours)

Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes

Time Out #6 and Make My Monday

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and having a good week. I've had fun today with distress inks, duster brushes and stamps and would like to link my card to a couple of challenges. 

Inspiration is from Time Out, where the theme is "Home Sweet Home" + photo inspiration. Also fits with the theme at Make My Monday - Nature.

Thanks for taking the time to pop in!  Take care xxx

Supplies

Flowers, toadstools and leaves stamps - Lavinia Stamps

Sentiment stamp - WPlus9

Distress inks - Tim Holtz

ATSM #90 - Photo Inspiration

Greetings, crafting friends, it's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have fabulous photo inspiration!

Our generous sponsor is A Random Fan and we're so delighted to have as our Guest Designer the very talented Bonnie.

For my DT card, I stamped the daffodils (3 times) and butterfly with grey Archival ink and painted the whole thing with water brush and DIs.

Don't forget to check out all the beautiful inspiration from the DT at the ATSM challenge blog and we hope you will join in the fun!

Would like to link my card to the following challenges:

Creative Card Crew - #59 Spring

Make My Monday - Easter Card or Creation

Supplies:

Spring Baskets stamp set - Waltzingmouse

Mustard Seed, Wild Honey, Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint DIs - Tim Holtz

ATSM #82 - Make Your Mark

Hi everyone, I hope you're well and keeping dry! A big hello and welcome to new members Kristie and Charissa. 

It's time for the start of a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week it's "Mark Your Mark" - use markers, paints, pens chalks and pencils on your project.

We are very pleased to have the very creative Dawn as our Guest Designer again this week, and our Top Addict will receive a prize from our generous sponsor, StampArt Design.

For my DT card, I created the grass with torn strips of vellum, scribbled a marker on my non-stick craft sheet and picked up the colour with a duster brush (the cloud masks are diecuts) to make the sky, stamped and fussy cut the two little sheep by inking with a marker pen.

Would like to link my card to a few challenges. I've used the colours from CAS Colours and Sketches and the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch

 

At Make My Monday, the theme is "Love Is In The Air" and at Addicted to CAS - Love.

There's lots of lovely DT inspiration at the ATSM challenge blog, please do nip over and we hope you can join in the fun!

Supplies

Sheep and sentiment stamps - Lil' Buddies by Waltzingmouse

Circle die - Die-Namics

Cloud die - Memory Box

Chocolate Chip and Bashful Blue SU! markers

Green vellum

CASology week 63, CFC115 and Make My Monday

Hello everyone, I hope you are all well.

For my card today, I started by creating the background using duster brush and TH distress inks. The trees, birds and leaf were stamped with brown Archival, colour was added to the leaf with TH inks and water brush, and the trees were given leaves with a little stencil brush.

This is for three challenges:

CASology: Autumn
CAS-ual Fridays: Fall colours and a leaf
Make My Monday: Flowers or trees

Thanks for stopping by today!

Sue xx

Trees stamp: Art Impressions
Word stamp: Inkylicious
Birds stamp: Hobby Art
Leaf stamp: Judikins