Orange flowers

I made the background by brayering some Persimmon and Follised Amber distress oxides onto a gelli plate, splashing with a little bit of water. The flowers were stamped, coloured with alcohol markers and die-cut.

I've bought a few different flower stamps and dies in the last few weeks and this is one from Clearly Besotted,

Thank you for looking!

Joining in at (total of 6):

The Flower Challenge - Use your latest stamp or die

Rainbow Card Challenge - Orange Opulence

Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes Birthday

Watercooler Wednesday - Feminine Anything Goes

Craft Stamper - Take Ir Make It  Challenge

Uniko - Anything Goes

 

 

Love birds

I die-cut the letters from DP and mounted them on black foam, the little birds are stamped, coloured and die-cut.  Not the usual "love" colours but I felt like doing something different.

Linking up to a few challenges (total of 6):

Just Us Girls - Love

The Card Concept - Love Is in the Air (clean and layered style)

Craft Stamper Take It Make It - Anything Goes

Love to Scrap - Anything Goes
STAMPlorations - Love/Spring theme
Creative With Stamps - Love

  

 

CAS Stencil February Challenge (DT)

Today is the start of the February CAS Stencil Challenge.  This month we are using powdered inks (Brushos, Infusions etc) with our stencils and there are some useful videos on the challenge blog.

To make my DT card, I created a background with a stencil and Brushos.  I laid the stencil on top of a piece of mixed media paper, sprinkled on different colours of Brushos and sprayed with water. It's important not to spray too much water as it can make the inks run too much. Lift the stencil and blot with kitchen tissue if needed.  The flower and leaves are heat-embossed, water-coloured with Brushos and fussy-cut (all stamps and stencil by STAMPlorations).

Thank you for visiting my blog and I look forward to seeing your creations!

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Also linking up at:

Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes
STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge - Anything Goes (must use a stencil)
STAMPlorations Never-Ending AG Challenge
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes

  

  

Hello dearest friend

I've die-cut the layers out of mixed media paper and water-coloured them. First time using these dies and I'm quite pleased with the results.

Linking up at (total of 6):

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge - Friends

Altenew Inspiration January Challenge

Time Out - Inspired by Words

Uniko - Anything Goes
Watercooler Wednesday - Anything Goes

  

AECP Stencil Techniques

It's a while since I made any cards for the Altenew Educator Certification Program as Christmas and other things came in between.

Here is my latest make for the Stencil Techniques module. I sponged red ink through my stencil and then over the top with shimmer paste and mounted it behind the heart cut out. Also I used the same stencil to dry emboss the card matte.

Also linking up at: (total of 3):-
Addicted to Stamps and More - Photo inspiration
Rainbow Card Challenge - Red Romance
Uniko - Anything Goes with optional twist of Love) 

CAS Stencil Card Challenge - Reminder

A reminder that there is still time to play along at the CAS Stencil Card Challenge and my DT card.

I used a Uniko stencil and distress inks to make the tag, die-cut "happy" inked and popped up on foam, and the  Uniko "birthday" stamp is heat embossed in white on black.

Great to see all the beautiful entries at CAS Stencil!

Challenges (5):

Addicted to Stamps and More - Clean and Simple

Cards 4 Galz - Dimension Elements

Seize The Birthday - Anything Goes
STAMPlorations CAS Challenge - Anything Goes
Uniko - Anything Goes      

  
 

Pink and grey

The flowers were stamped in black and water-coloured.

Thanks for visiting my blog and for your lovely comments!

Joining in at:

The Card Concept - Pink Party (Clean and Layered, inspired by the pink flowers)

The Flower Challenge - Pink and grey

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge - Anything Goes
Time Out Challenges - Inspired by Words
Craft Stamper Take It Make It - Anything Goes with stamps

  
  

Happy Little Stampers January ATC Challenge

Hi everyone, I'm delighted to be part of the Happy Little Stampers design team for the ATC Challenge.  ATCs are fairly new for me and I'm looking forward to making more. Here are my vintage ones for the January challenge. 

I cut three ATC size mixed media paper pieces and put on a thin coating of white gesso. The backgrounds were made by painting on Infusions powder pigments mixed with water and light stamping of text in brown archival ink. I also used the brown archival to stamp the images and water-coloured them with the Infusions.

Looking forward to seeing your vintage ATCs and thank you for visiting my blog!

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Here are the challenge rules for creating ATCs

CARDS -

• measure 2.5 x 3.5 inches (64 X 89 mm)

• be traded for other cards - not sold

• be flat enough to fit into a plastic trading card sleeve

COINS -

• measure 2.5 inches in diameter using heavy cardstock

• be traded for other coins - not sold

• be flat enough to fit into a plastic trading card sleeve

Have an amazing birthday

I've been playing with some new STAMPlorations goodies and here is one of the cards I made.

The background was masked off, yellow ink sponged on and the coffee bean stencil sponged in orange over the top. The mug was heat embossed in black and water-coloured.

I will add my card at the new CAS Stencil Card Challenge, where the technique is sponging.

Also playing at (total of 5) :-

Less Is More - Water (I used water-colouring)

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

STAMPlorations CAS Challenge - Anything CAS Goes

Watercooler Wednesday - All About Occasions