Orange flowers ...

Back again for my second post of the day ...

Less colours than my earlier post!!

I used:

CUTplorations - Uppercase Alphabet die, Lowercase Alphabet die, Trendy Spring Bloom dies

I'm entering the following challenges:

STAMPlorations May Theme and Sketch




STAMPlorations
 

Happy Little Stampers


Enjoy!

Rainbow spots ...

Good evening ... I hope you are having a lovely weekend ... I've spent the day crafting and plan to spend tomorrow crafting too!

My first card of the day involved quite a lot of stamping ...

It is One Layer week at "Less is More" with the theme of spots/stripes ... as you can see I went for stripes made of spots!!

I used:
Distress Inks - Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed, Twisted Citron, Salty Ocean, Blueprint Sketch, Wilted Violet.
Simon Says Stamp - Lots of Dots
Lawn Fawn - Milos ABC

I'm entering the following challenges:

"Less is More" #328


AAA Cards #89


I'm always delighted when one of my cards is selected by a design team as a winner ... imagine my surprise when the same card was chosen as a top pick in two challenges!! Thank you to the team over at Inkspirational I'm honoured to be selected as one of your winners with this card:

Enjoy!

Yellow Lily ...

... sounds like the start of a tongue twister ... red lorry, yellow lorry, red lorry, yellow lorry ... 

I find sometimes it is just impossible to resist trying out a new stamp set ... this is always the case when Bev, at UNIKO, comes up with a brilliant floral set!  If you are a frequent visitor to my blog you will know of my obsession with her Gerbera set ... I now have a new set to obsess over ... Lily.  This arrived yesterday ... so I just had to ink it!  This is my first go:

The photographs are not the best but the stamp set is!  I finished the card when I return from my print making evening class so had to take the photograph using artificial light and it just does not do it justice.  I'll try and pop back tomorrow with a daylight photograph.

I first stamped the image using hickory smoke distress ink and then heat embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I water coloured the image using two shades of yellow zig markers.  I die cut the image using stitched square dies before adhering them to the card base using different thicknesses of foam tape to add dimension.

I am entering the following challenges:

"Less is More" #327


AAA Cards #89


Enjoy!

Yellow and Grey ...

Wednesday already ... where do the days disappear to?  Today, I'm up bright and early to try and catch up with all the things I need to do ... I always seem to have lots to do and not enough time to fit it all in.

My first task is to share a card with you ... this is in response to the colour challenge at "Less is More" to use Grey and Yellow ... 

I'm sorry about the quality of the photographs ... the card does look better in real life (I would say that, wouldn't I!).  It is a simple card with a small amount of stamping and a die cut sentiment.

I used:
Simon Says Stamp - Perfect Shapes
Distress INks - Hickory Smoke, Squeezed Lemonade and Mustard Seed
Kaisercraft - Dictionary Meanings
CUTplorations (STAMPlorations) - Awesome die

I'm entering the following challenges:
"Less is More" #327


STAMPlorations


Thank you to the wonderful design team at The Male Room Challenge for choosing one of my cards for an "Honourable Mention" - I really appreciate the compliment.  Thank you - this is the card they liked:

Enjoy!

Happy Hexagons ...

It's Friday morning and I should be at work but instead I'm sat waiting for the boiler engineer to turn up!!  In fact this will be the third visit by the engineer  and I know that when he leaves we will still be waiting for him to come back again ... all the parts have not arrived!! It is so frustrating when things breakdown ... I have insurance to cover the cost but it does not cover the time off work waiting for engineers to turn up ... or the frustration!

Rather than continuing my moaning I'm going to share a card with you:

I created a panel of patterned card using distress inks and a background stamp and then die cut the hexagons.  The hexagons have been adhered using foam adhesive to add dimension.  The sentiment was die cut from a scrap of card that had been coloured with brushos.

I used:
Distress Inks - Candied Apple, Carved Pumpkin, Mustard Seed.
Versafine Onyx Black
STAMPlorations - Distressed Damask Background

I'm entering the following challenge:

AAA Cards #89


Enjoy!

Black and Gold Wedding ...

As the weeks whizz by it is time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have a photograph to inspire you.

What catches your eye and imagination?  For me it was the balloons, black and gold and finally I thought it was all set for a wedding celebration - so I incorporated all of these elements into my card:

It is difficult to see the gold but trust me it is there!!  The sentiment is heat embossed with gold embossing powder and the balloon strings are metallic gold thread.  It's a bit of an unusual colour combination for a wedding card but it is beginning to grow on me.

I hope you will pop over to the challenge and take a look at the design teams beautiful cards - why not get your supplies out and join in with the challenge.

Enjoy!

CAS Mix Up Guest Design Spot ...

Good evening and how exciting is this ... I'm guest designer over at the CAS Mix Up for the May challenge - this is just one of the joys for being the March monthly winner!  I'm hoping to delight and inspire you all to join in with the challenge ... and the theme this month is:

This is my card:

I began by die cutting a small panel which I then stamped and heat embossed these beautiful rananculus flowers (one of the stamps sets I was able to buy with my winners voucher from Simon Says Stamp).  I loosely water coloured the flowers.  I splattered the background before stitching the panel to the card, added a sentiment and considered the card finished.

I used:
Simon Says Stamp - Sketch Rananculus
Distress Inks - Mustard seed, Dried Marigold, Carved Pumpkin, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn
UNIKO - Simply Said
WOW White Embossing Powder

It is a great challenge as it encourages the use of different mixed media techniques in a CAS kind of way.  Each month the designers create some fantastic cards to inspire us to join in ... why not pop along this month and have a look, even better why not enter!

Enjoy!