Addicted to Stamps and More #133 - Holiday

Hi everyone, I hope all is well with you!

It's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week's theme is Holiday - create a project for any holiday: could be Christmas, Easter, any national holiday or vacation destination.

Our fabulous sponsor is STAMPlorations and the winner will receive a $10 gift certificate. 

For my DT card I stamped the characters in black Archival onto watercolour card and coloured in with watercolour paints.  I haven't yet been able to find a watercolour card which looks white, this one is slightly creamy.

Don't forget to check out all the wonderful DT inspiration at the ATSM challenge blog and we hope to see you there!

Also linking up to a few challenges: Merry Monday - Stars, Happy Little Stampers sketch challenge and 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog. Have a great rest of the week! xx

Zen tree

Hi everyone, I hope you're having a good weekend!

I've had this rather nice zen tree stamp by Lavinia Stamps for about a year and it hasn't seen ink yet but when I saw the lovely photo inspiration at Inkspirational, I knew I wanted to use it to make a card for the challenge.

Here's how I made my card: cut some paper to use as masks to ink the hills, sky and sun, brush on inks, stamp the tree with black Archival, colour with Promarkers and white gel pen.

Also linking up to Addicted to CAS (Masking) and 613 Avenue Create - Anything Goes.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for your lovely comments. xx

Romantic sunset

Hello everyone, I hope you're having a good week!

This is a card I've made for a few challenges. The theme this week at Less Is More is One Layer Card - Love. Also linking to One Layer Simplicity - You Blend, Addicted to CAS - Mask, House of Cards - Love and Happy Little Stampers February Sketch Challenge.

I cut a heart out of paper to make a mask, used a punched circle mask for the sun, brushed on various distress inks and blended and stamped the images and sentiment.

Thank you for stopping by today! xx

Happy 4th Birthday Less Is More!

Hi everyone, the fabulous CAS challenge Less Is More is celebrating their 4th birthday.  The theme is PINK and GREY and here's my card.

The watercolour background was made by smooshing distress inks onto a craft sheet, misting with water and placing a piece of watercolour card over. The branch is a die cut and the owl was stamped with black Archival, coloured with coloured pencils and fussy cut.

Am also linking up to Happy Little Stampers Sketch challenge and Just Add Ink (photo inspiration).

Thanks for looking xx

Addicted to Stamps and More #131 - Anything Goes

Hello crafting friends, 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 this week it's Anything Goes.

Our fabulous sponsor is Sweet Pea Stamps and our winner will receive a prize of 4 digis from their store!

I wasn't going to make any more "love" cards as I've made a few already, but when I saw Kylie's beautiful card which we are invited to CASE (with a twist) at Time Out, and the colours and roses at The Card Concept (Romantic Roses), it seemed a good opportunity to use my cute little foxes stamp again.

For my "twist" on Kylie's card, I stencilled onto the card blank with texture sparkle medium.  The little tags and flowers are die-cuts, and the foxes were stamped with black Memento and coloured with Promarkers.

Will also be linking up to House of Cards, where the theme is LOVE.

 

There's beautiful inspiration from the our Guest Designer, Janine at Sweet Pea and from the Design Team ladies over at the ATSM challenge blog, so do be sure to wander over and have a look. We hope you're inspired to join in the fun and look forward to seeing your creations and visiting your blogs.

Have a great rest of the week! xx

Rose colours

Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well!  

I've been practising using my watercolour pencils with stamps and wanted to show you this card. The flowers and butterfly were stamped with grey Versafine and coloured with watercolour pencils blended with a wet brush.

Am linking up to a few challenges:

ColourQ

Inkspirational

CAS on Sunday

Thanks for taking the time to stop by today and for your lovely comments. xx

It's a good day to be happy

Hi everyone, just a quick post to show you a card I've made using the ColourQ colours.  Also linking up to Inkspirational - Rose Colours and CAS-ual Fridays - Must love watercolour.

To make the card, I stamped with black Archival, watercoloured with SU markers and an aqua brush and added some stencilling.

Thanks for stopping by today xx

Birthday Wishes

Hi crafting friends, happy Saturday.  I hope you're having a good weekend!

Firstly, I would like to say hello and welcome to my newest blog follower, Brenda! Thank you for your interest in my blog, Brenda.

Do you like colour challenges?  I find it fun and interesting to try and match my stamps and dies for colour challenges to (hopefully) achieve a pleasing combination.  My card today is using the fun colours at Colour Me.

I started by inking with Island Indigo through a diecut oval.  The sentiment banner was diecut and stamped, then the little chicks were stamped straight onto the card, then stamped again on white card, coloured and fussy cut.  The balloon cords were stamped and the balloons are diecut hearts, inked and crystal lacquered. 

Am also linking up to CAS-ology, where the theme is BIRTHDAY, and showCASe your style, where I've taken inspiration from the balloons in the photo.

Thank you for popping in, have a lovely weekend xx

 

Addicted to Stamps and More #129 - CAS

Hi everyone, I hope you're week has been good so far!

It's time to start a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week's theme is ... Clean and Simple.

Our fabulous sponsor is Stamplorations and the winner's prize will be a $10 gift certificate!

My DT card was quite quick and simple to make using a punch and some dies.  The little tags were punched out of card in four different shades of red and the diecut letters and heart attached.  The "you" was diecut twice in red and white and the white laid over the red one.

Don't forget to pop over to the ATSM challenge blog to see the lovely inspiration that the other DT ladies have made and we look forward to seeing your fabulous creations and visiting you blogs.

Also linking up to The Card Concept - Love (Clean and Simple) and Inkspirational - Ombre.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and for your lovely comments xx

Two little owls

Hello crafting friends. Happy Saturday, I hope you're having a nice day!

This is my entry for ColourQ #276, also linking up to Time Out where the theme is Valentine's Day with the optional twist of hearts and Fusion - Two Hearts.

To make my card, I brushed on ink over a cloud template, stamped and coloured the owls and fussy cut them, added diecut branch, sentiment and hearts.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit my blog today. Have a lovely weekend xx