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!

happy birthday

 hello stampers and happy February!

I wanted to join in with the team at just us girls as it's been a while. They have a CAS challenge this week with the theme 'birthday' - perfect! The paper players also has a sketch theme this week so I used that to lay out my card.

I've had some new little seaside dies from Gummiapan for a little while so thought I'd try them out! I ink smooshed a couple of panels of card with different colours of distress oxide inks, then die cut the seahorses from one, the crab from another and the shells and sentiment from a third. The net was die cut from white card then adhered to a circle die cut from the last inked card panel. The crab and seahorses were adhered with foam squares. Sentiment was stacked 3 times. Love those seahorses' curly tails! 

Many thanks to Chrissie Stokes for the inspiration for this card! Since this was the first time using these dies, I'm also linking up my card to Darnell's fabulous blog, NBUS! Thanks so much for stopping by!

  

CC&S challenge #503 double

hello lovely stampers!

It's time for the double challenge at CAS Colours and sketches and this time Patricia has proposed a beautiful combo of colours with a simple sketch.

I chose to do a child's birthday card and couldn't resist this cutie elephant die. And of course what self respecting elephant doesn't have a birdie on top! 

The elephant was die cut from barely banana card then clear heat embossed for shine, stacked 3 times and adhered leaving the ear free so it can sit out a bit. The birdie was die cut from inked card. The sentiment was easily stamped in multiples using my Misti.

We'd love to see your creation in our gallery! Thanks so much for stopping by!

• dies: gummiapan elephant, paper rose bird houses
• inks: spun sugar, festive berries, seedless preserves distress oxides
• stamps: gummiapan happy birthday

white on white

 hello crafters!

I love the idea of white on white which is what the talented team at aaacards have for their challenge this week. Happy to be able to join in!

I wanted to create dimension and texture on the card since there is no colour. The Gummiapan twigs were die cut and arranged in the vase which was embossed using the SU subtle embossing folder and mounted on foam squares. The little tag with the heart was tied on with bakers twine. The whole panel was framed with an embossed line using Fiskars texture plate, then the panel was adhered to the card base using foam squares.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

home

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in with the paper players this week where they have a CAS challenge - my favourite! The challenge is to use a bird on your card.

I made a smooshed ink panel with several distress oxide colours and die cut a rectangle from it. A slightly bigger rectangle was die cut from white card, then embossed with the SU subtle embossing folder. The birdhouse from Paper Rose was die cut from an ink blended panel and adhered. The Gummiapan birds were die cut from the inked panel, stacked twice and adhered with teeny tiny foam squares. Sentiment from Gummiapan was stamped and clear heat embossed.

Thanks so much for stopping by!