'Wish Big' Rainbow ....

I thought I would try out another design using the rainbow tiles I made yesterday.  I've taken the sketch from the challenge at CAS(E) this Sketch! and combined it with the colour challenge from "Less is More".  I was determined to make sure that I had lots of cards ready for birthdays this year so this one will go into the stock ready for when I'm short of time.

Holographic embossed colour tiles

A single layer black just helps the colours pop!

I used the following:

Cream and black card from my stash.
Clearly Besotted sentiment stamps from the Geometric Set
Clearly Besotted die from the Geometric Set
Stampin Up Inks - Lucky Lemonade, Not Quite Navy
Spectrum Noir Pens
Letraset Promarkers

All I need to do now is enter the card into the challenges at CAS(E) this Sketch! and "Less is More"

Enjoy!

Rainbow ....

Evening! 

Today got off to a great start - the sky was blue and the sun was shining!  It made a great change to the rain that we've been experiencing for days and weeks.  I appreciate that it is winter but the sun was a welcome relief it made it easier to work out when the day ended and the evening began.

I've struggled with my card making today - I thought I would use the "Less is More"  challenge theme as a starting point.  It's a colour challenge this week and the key word is RAINBOW.  I had quite a lot of ideas but I do not have enough different coloured inks to be able to use most of the ideas.  So it was back to the drawing board and a rethink - then inspiration hit me!  My family bought me a set of Spectrum Noir markers so that was the starting point for my design and here it is:

The sentiment panel is set on dimensional foam pads

I embossed the coloured 'tiles' with holographic powder to make the colours pop!

For the sentiment I die cut the letters from a piece of card coloured with markers and then embossed with holographic powder.  I'm going to keep the 'waste' piece of card because I think I will be able to use it to create a quick simple birthday card.  As you can see I took care when lining up the letters - actually it was more luck than judgement!

Enjoy!

Paper Pieced and Pink ....

I've been trying to get ahead with my card making this year - one of my many new year's resolutions was to make cards for every occasion!  We are just coming to the end of the first month of the year and I have enough cards made to cover every occasion until the end of February.  So I feel as if I'm off to a fairly good start!

Today's contribution is a pretty little card for my great niece who reaches the grand old age of 8 next month (going on 35!!).  I've used the sketch for the challenge on the Case this Sketch blog so will be entering the challenge.

The stamp was a free gift from a magazine some time ago and I stamped it onto some patterned paper (also free with a magazine!).  I them paper pieced it onto some card from my stash and layered it with some complimentary card.

Enjoy!

Butterfly Delight......

This week has been amazing! One of my cards has been show-cased over at "Less is More" and I'm so excited about it - you can check out my card here.  It's been a real boost along with all the wonderful comments that are left for me - Thank you all.

Today I've put together a card for the sketch challenge on "Less is More".  The design is clean and the colour palette very limited but I am quite pleased with the finished card.

The butterfly is only attached through the middle with foam pads

I used the following:

Versafine Black Ink
Stampin Up Riding Hood Red Ink
Artemio Butterfly stamps
Selection of small flowers stamps no longer in their original packaging
Ivory card from my stash
Hougie Scoring board to add the lines.

Enjoy!

Giraffe Take Two ...

Back to babies!!  I thought I would have another go at the "Less is More" challenge for a New Baby card.  It's a variation on a theme with the same giraffe stamp but using different colours. I've avoided using pink or blue as I don't actually know anyone having a baby so will be adding these cards to my stock, just in case!!

I'm a little concerned about the placing of the sentiment ....

I used the following:

Hot of the Press stamp - small giraffe
Uniko Background Builders Round in Circles
Stampin Up Inks - Coastal Cabana and Not Quite Navy
Stampin Up card - Coastal Cabana
White card stock
Tattered Lace Alphabet Retro dies

Enjoy!

Flower Garden ...

Today has been a day for new techniques (new to me!) and trying out new products.  I've produced this card for my Mum - it's her birthday this week.  I'm running a bit late making the card as I need to get it in the post tomorrow but I've had real trouble coming up with an idea! I've spent a lot of time looking around all the wonderful crafting blogs and spotting great ideas I think to the point of confusion and indecision!

Anyway here is the card.  I began by heat embossing the image onto Kraft card stock and then colouring it using Derwent Inktense pencils. I love the effect these pencils have on Kraft and providing you do not use too much water to blend the colours the card stock holds up really well. I photographed the image a number of times as I added different colours just in case I ruined it I would be able to start again and repeat it up to the point it all went wrong!!  With advice from my son I have not completely coloured the image.

The early stages:

I took the finished image, cropped and layered it onto some burgundy card stock before placing in on a square kraft card.  Here is the final version:

The challenge at Simon Says Stamp Blog is to use Embossing so I think I am going to enter this card - it will be the first challenge I've entered on this blog.

I used the following:

Versamark
Funstamps White Embossing Powder
Woodware Square Garden Stamp
Derwent Inktense pencils.

Enjoy!

Small giraffe ....

This week has been an exciting one for me in the blog world - I've been lucky enough to have more people visit my blog than any other week!  Thanks for popping by and I hope you will keep checking in to see what I am up to!  I also have new followers - welcome to my blog, I'll be popping by your blogs to check out your worlds.

I've not had a very successful week card making as I've been rather distracted with knitting!  I have three knitted items on the go at the moment - a jumper for my daughter (one sleeve to finish and then stitching together), a waistcoat for myself (this is complete but needs stitching together) and another waistcoat for myself!!  I love knitting just not too keen on the finishing process!

Today I have created one card and made a lot of mess  in doing it!  It is for this week's challenge on "Less is More" - New Baby.

I used the following:

Distress Ink - Rusty Nail
Versafine - Onyx Black
Clearly Besotted Stamps - Geometric Style
Hot of the Press Stamp - Small Giraffe
Tattered Lace - Alphabet Retro dies

If you have time please leave a comment I love to read them.

Enjoy!