Mini bouquet ...

Sunday evening ... so soon!

A quick post with a not so quick card ... for some reason this took me ages to make ... I knew what I wanted to do I just seemed unable to do it!

I used:
Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Mini Bouquet
Versafine Onyx Black ink
Inktense Blocks to water colour the flowers
Lil'inker Stitched Tag die
Brads
Paper string

I'm entering this challenge:

I need to say a big thank you to the AAA Cards design team ... they selected one of my cards to feature in their top four! How exciting is that ... this is the card they liked:

Enjoy!

Born to Roam ...

Since the start of 2017 I have been trying my hand at different styles of creating ... basically I admire the mixed media artists that I see in the blogging world and I would love to master the technique.  I figured that I need to just try it ... by practising hopefully I get better at it.  I intend sharing my efforts as a record of my (hopeful!) progress.  This is the second tag I've shared - you can see my first one here.

This tag is very different and is more "grungy" ...

I used:
Design Paper - cut up for the travel themed words
STAMPlorations - Born To Run Stamp set
Distress Inks - Vintage Photo and Black Soot
Tim Holtz Chevron stencil
Reeves Modelling Paste

I'm going to enter the tag into the monthly mixed media challenge at STAMPlorations

Enjoy!

Yellow for Spring ...

As Spring is just around the corner it seemed appropriate to create a card with Spring colours.

I began by creating some washi tape using tissue paper, distress inks, stamps and double sided tape.  I stamped an heat embossed the daffodil before water colouring using distress inks.  I trimmed the image and using fun foam adhered it on top of the washi tape before stamping the sentiment.  I used the sketch from this week's challenge at "Less is More" as my inspiration (details below).

I used:

Distress Inks - Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin and Twisted Citron
STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Elements, Mixed Media Grunge,  Boxed Blooms and Bold Sentiments, The Birds and the Blooms.
WOW White Embossing Powder

I'm entering the following challenges:

Enjoy!

Blue giraffe ...

It is amazing how quickly the weeks seem to pass ... especially, it seems, when you are on a design team!!  So here I am hopefully to inspire you to join in with the new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  This week we have a photograph to inspire you:

Take inspiration from any aspect - the colours, the chevrons, new baby, the clouds, the mobile - the choice is all yours.  I went with the new baby theme and the colours.

I stamped the giraffe with grey ink and then heat embossed with clear embossing powder.  I water coloured the giraffe using distress ink.  I added some narrow washi tape to the edges to reflect the chevron in the photo.  I used a stitched rectangle die to cut out the giraffe before adhering it to a panel using fun foam to add some dimension.

I used:

Hunkdory, For the Love of Stamps - Another Year Taller

Versafine Smokey Gray Ink

Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass

WOW Clear Embossing Powder

Lawn Fawn - Lawn Cuts Stitched Rectangles

Enjoy!

Pretty blue ...

A quick post this evening to share a card. There are times when I just need to switch off and being creative gives me that time ... an opportunity to distract my thoughts ...

This is the first outing for my new stamp set from Happy Little Stampers ... I was the January winner over at "Less is More" sponsored by the lovely Kylie at Happy Little Stampers. This flower is one of the stamps (Especially for You) that I was "forced" to buy!!

I'm entering the following challenges:

"Less is More" #316


Happy Little Stampers February CAS Challenge


Enjoy!

Return of the Gerbera ...

Good afternoon! The days are getting longer but my holiday is fast disappearing ... it's back to work on Monday ... so I need to get as much done as possible over the weekend.  

I'm trying to create some mixed media pieces but I am struggling - I have four tags in the making at the moment but I don't know what to do next.  So if you get stuck what do you do? Me?  I return to my comfort zone ... I created a CAS card for this week's challenge at "Less is More".  I blame my choice of stamp on Bev at UNIKO - she is celebrating UNIKO's 5th birthday this week and has been showcasing some of her favourite makes, Of course the Gerbera stamp set featured and if you regularly visitor to my blog you will know how much I love this set.

I heat embossed the gerbera before water colouring with distress inks.  I used the matching die to create a mask so that I could stamp the dictionary definitions around the image.  I adhered some orange card to the card base before popping the image up using fun foam. The theme at "Less is More" is the alphabet - I hope it is OK that my alphabet is all jumbled up into works!!

I used:
UNIKO - Pure Florals: Gerbera
Kaisercraft - Dictionary meanings
Distress Inks - Carved pumpkin, Mustard Seed and Twisted Citron
WOW Bright White embossing powder.

I'm entering the following challenge and link up:

Time to get back to my mixed media attempts.

Enjoy!

Black and White ... her's!

Back again with another card for the challenge at "Less is More" ... as the theme is opposites it seemed appropriate to create one for him and one for her!!

Nothing inspiring ... one piece of card, one stamp, black ink, clear embossing powder ... sounds just like the recipe for my earlier card!

I used:
UNIKO Originally Organic Clear Stamp set
Versafine onyx black ink
WOW Clear embossing powder

The challenge details:

Enjoy!