CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #529 sketch

 hello crafters!

Here's the first of our monthly sketch challenges at CAS Colours & Sketches, and this lovely challenge was put together by Jeanne. Since Valentine's Day is approaching, maybe this is an opportunity to put some love onto your card. Hope you'll join us in the gallery!

To keep is CAS, I chose to emboss half of the front panel. I thought the little lock and key were so cute, I couldn't resist putting them with the cut out heart. After die cutting them from a stencilled offcut, I rubbed foundry wax on them to make them look metallic. This turned out to be a simple card with no stamping!

The current AAA cards challenge #257 is also CAS with an optional twist of "love is in the air" and the current tictactoe challenge has first column: heart, red, punch or die cut, so I'll post this one in those challenges too!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. We'd love to see your card in the CC&S gallery!

      


• dies: Alexandra Renke slide frame vertical, Hunkydory ornate heart, Gummiapan safety kit, Honeybee buzzwords
• embossing: Fiskars texture plate hearts

tictactoe challenge #218

  hello lovely stampers!

I'm so happy to be guest designer over at tictactoe challenge #218 this week! Once again a terrific board has been proposed with some nice and simple elements - can't wait to see your design in the gallery!

I found the option for 'any colour' interesting and decided to do a monochromatic card using not just any colour but just 1 colour! So I choose middle row across: any colour, free, sentiment.

The background was ink smooshed then stamped, stencilled and the edges blended all using the same ink. The die cuts are all black, white or ink blended. The little birdie was fussy cut and gently watercoloured using the same ink. I find it amazing that you can get so many variations in colour from just 1 ink pad - I think the distress oxides are awesome in this regard. The sentiment was clear heat embossed for shine.

Thanks so much for joining me today. The tttc team have made some awesome cards as inspiration - we'd love to see your creation in the gallery!

• dies: Alexandra Renke word circle, slide frame vertical, edge cutting strips, paper rose arrows
• stamps: darkroom door garden birds, kaisercraft script, honeybee bitty buzzwords, lavinia willow
• inks: evergreen bough distress oxide, versafine clair nocturne, memento tuxedo black
• stencils: lavinia pebble

tictactoe challenge #216

 hello lovely stampers!

I'm thrilled to be guest designer over at tictactoe challenge #216 this week! The team always put up a fun board with terrific inspiration, so come along and join us with a creation of your own!

When I saw the option for 'green and blue' I knew that would be my start as they're my favourite combo of colours. From there I could have gone several ways but decided to veer away from my usual CAS creation  so I went with the first row down: green and blue, layers, and die cut.

The background was ink smooshed in blue then stencilled in green. I wanted to arrange the die cuts to make several layers and gosh it makes such a lovely dimensional card! Most of the die cuts are from panels of ink mopup, some with stencilling, and the sentiment was white heat embossed.

Thanks so much for joining me today. The tttc team have some awesome inspiration - we'd love to see your creation in the gallery!

• dies: Alexandra Renke artist flower, word circle, filmstrips, mini tags heart
• stamps: paper rose tiny forest
• inks: tumbled glass, bundled sage, peeled paint distress oxides, versamark 
• stencils: paper rose mark maker 1, lavinia elegance

happy birthday

 hello crafty stampers!

I'm playing along today with the latest challenge at tictactoe #206. Elizabeth has put together a terrific board and I couldn't resist! I chose the diagonal down: flowers, yellow, gems. I also notice the challenge at the paper players is a tictactoe this week as well! I'm entering their challenge also and choosing bottom diagonal up: sparkle, die cut, embossing.

I began by ink smooshing a card panel with scattered straw distress oxide ink and letting it dry. This formed the lovely yellow background. Several mark stamps were used in both scattered straw distress oxide and also white heat embossed for a bit of shine. Then layers of die cuts were assembled, and the panel was finished with some sparkly dew drop gems.

Thanks so much for stopping by and spending some time with me today!

 

• inks: scattered straw, mustard seed, carved pumpkin distress oxide inks
• dies: gummiapan happy birthday circle, gummiapan flowers, gummiapan hearty twig, paper rose little vases, paper rose flying birds, MFT fab foliage, altenew burlap texture die, hero arts infinity circles
• stamps: MFT take shape, lavinia stamps mini dots

 

happy birthday

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in today with the terrific challenge at tictactoe #tttc201. I chose to use the diagonal: gems, embossing, butterfly.

The trees were embossed using SU woodland embossing folder, then I gently ink blended with mowed lawn and twisted citron distress oxide inks. I made sure to leave a lighter section in the centre to look like sunlight shining into the woodland. Another card panel was embossed using SU subtle embossing folder, cut a little larger than the inked panel and adhered under the inked panel.

The butterfly was die cut using Sizzix brushstroke butterflies with the fancy sections die cut from ink smooshed card scraps, and adhered with foam squares. Three gems were adhered to the butterfly body. The sentiment is from Gummiapan.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

get well soon

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in today with a couple of challenges: the paper players has a CAS theme with 'get well', and the current tictactoe challenge #197. I followed the left column down CAS, stencil, flowers.

I began by die cutting the letters from patterned paper using MFT bitty banner die set, adhered them to a black card panel and fussy cut the sentiment.  I used darkroom door small circle stencil, overlaid craft giraffe circle stencil ST1026 and gently ink blended across the centre of the larger circle. Then the circle shape was stamped with various stamps from paper rose solid flowers and leaves stamp set. I matched the colours in the paper with the ink colours. Tiny hearts, circles, and stars were die cut and adhered, around the adhered sentiment. Lastly the panel was backed with a red panel, then adhered to the card base.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

 

*Edit: Thanks so much to the team at tictactoe challenge for picking my card as the weekly designer's choice! And also to Joanne at the paper players for choosing my card as her fave. I'm thrilled!

 

thanks

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in today with the team at tictactoe challenge. I chose the top row: die cuts, gold, and stencil.  For a change, I veered away from a CAS card. But not only that, I also tried out a technique I hadn't tried before - using embossing paste through a stencil!

As I have no embossing pastes, I mixed up my own using aquadhere glue, baby powder and acrylic paint. I thought it would be clever to use 'rich gold' paint but it actually didn't turn out gold, just brownish. It reminded me of autumn leaves so I thought that's what I'll go with! I used the Hero Arts Fall Leaves stencil. After stencilling the texture paste and letting it dry, I lightly blended some red, orange and yellow distress oxide inks over the stencil again, to add some lovely autumn colours to the leaves. 

The Altenew Fancy Thanks die was die cut from gold card and stacked twice. The hexagons were die cut using Hero Arts Infinity Hexagons. The butterfly from the Sizzix Brushstroke Butterflies set was die cut in white and the details were die cut from gold. The final touch was a few tiny die cut gold hearts.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!