hello crafters!
The new sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches was designed by Suzy, and she has asked for a frame as part of the design. I ended up flipping the design vertically and horizontally.
hello stampers!
I'm joining in today with the latest timeout challenge where the theme is 'seeing stars'. When I think of stars, I often think of christmas and who doesn't need more christmas cards?
I wanted the stars to take centre stage, so on a navy blue card panel, I embossed a grouping of stars with white embossing paste, just selecting the ones I wanted from the star stencil. Once dry, the trees were die cut and adhered. The christmas tree was cut several times to get the background colour, the decoration colour and then the snowy outline. Some tiny circles and the star were punched from gold card and adhered as ornaments on the tree. The sentiment was stamped and die cut then the tree and sentiment were adhered with foam squares.
Thanks so much for stopping by today!
hello crafters!
The new colours challenge at CAS colours and sketches is ready and these gorgeous spring colours were put together by Suzy.
hello stampers!
I'm joining in today with the team at inkspirational where the challenge asks for us to use a stencil, with an optional twist of using paste. I'll also post it to the justusgirls challenge where they also are challenging us to use a stencil! I wanted to use a new to me die so chose a tree trunk stencil which would coordinate.
The background was ink smooshed with distress oxide inks, let dry then the paste applied through the stencil. I used home made embossing paste which is white, but interestingly, it draws up the colour from the ink underneath making the paste a more subtle shade of the background - perfect! The paste gives so much dimension and interest.
The leaves were die cut from a separate ink smooshed panel, as well as the lizard. I used an offcut from the main panel for the sentiment background. The sentiment was stamped and heat embossed in white.
Love this little lizard! Thanks so much for stopping by.
hello stampers!
I was feeling a bit snarky today (you understand!) so duly turned to the sisterhood as I knew they would appreciate it. Their challenge for this month is: D is for die cuts. Right up my alley!
The background was watercoloured then the same colour was ink smooshed onto a separate panel, with the icebergs die cut from that. The igloo was die cut and then again from black to use the negative piece. Mr bear was die cut 3 times and stacked to give him the focus. Fiskars texture plates were used for the embossing. Sentiment from Tim Holtz.
Thanks for stopping by - I appreciate it!
