love

 hello stampers!

I find myself with some spare time today so thought I'd craft and enter a couple of challenges. This one is for justusgirls colour challenge and I used the sketch from freshlymadesketches this week.

I began by ink blending pumice stone and tumbled glass distress oxide inks. Then I partially embossed SU woodland embossing folder over the blue half. I used Alexandra Renke dies (new to me and so awesome!) for the film strips, honeybee stamps die for the sentiment, memory box mini intricate butterflies die for the tiny butterflies and Tim Holtz brushstroke butterflies for the larger one. The large butterfly was also clear heat embossed on the purple details. Finished it off with a few dew drop gems.

Since this is my first time using the Alexandra Renke dies I'm also linking this to Darnell's fabulous NBUS blog. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!

just for you

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in with this week at just us girls where the challenge #681 is to make a CAS card with a silhouette. 

The background was watercolored using wilted violet distress oxide ink - all the lovely pinks come out of the purple colour! The leaves and flowers were stamped using Lavinia stamps foliage stamps with chipped sapphire and squeezed lemonade distress oxides with a little unicorn white ink. The moon was shaded with lost shadow distress oxide. The fairy from paper rose was die cut and adhered with foam squares. The sentiment from Honeybee stamps was inked with wilted violet distress oxide, and the panel was finished off with chipped sapphire and black soot inking around the edge, and a few dew drops.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

CC&S challenge #512 double

hello lovely stampers!

This month has a double challenge at CAS Colours and sketches and this time Patricia has proposed a beautiful combo of colours with a simple sketch.

For the sketch part, I placed the offset panel over the card base and gently swiped some ink at the edges to give the effect of the tilted panel.

A circle stencil was placed over the card front, then the ocean waves were stencilled through it. A separate circle stencil was used for the sun. The sailboat was die cut from orange card and mounted on tiny foam squares. Sentiment was stamped in the same colour as the ocean waves.

We'd love to see your creation in our gallery! Don't forget to check out our guest designer, Lesley's blog too. Thanks so much for stopping by!

• dies: gummiapan sailboat
• inks: peacock feathers, mustard seed distress oxide
• stencil: MFT circles, darkroom door small circle, scrapmatts ST9074 
• stamps: Altenew sentiment strips

CC&S challenge #511 sketch

hello lovely stampers!

It's time for the sketch challenge at CAS Colours and sketches and Cécile has proposed a very versatile sketch on a square card.

I wanted to use up some die cuts that never made it onto previous makes - my little box is overflowing! Ended up using lots!

Some leaves were die cut from ink smooshed card, some from white and watercolored, and some from ink blended card. The flowers were all die cut from ink smooshed card in different colours. The vase was die cut from white and lightly stencilled, the sentiment was die cut from ink blended card and mounted on die cut vellum. The leaves and vase were adhered, the flowers were popped up on foam squares. Sentiment was adhered with the vellum.

Thanks so much for spending some time with me today. Make sure to check out the other design team cards, and our guest designer, Lesley!  We hope to see your card in our gallery!

• dies: gummiapan flowers, hearty twigs, witch hazel, paper rose little vases, hugs, altenew leaf mix die set, MFT fab foliage
• inks: mowed lawn, twisted citron, carved pumpkin, squeezed lemonade, picked raspberry, tumbled glass, bundled sage distress oxides
• stencil: paper rose mark maker 1

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