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

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #515 colours

hello crafty stampers!

It's time for the colours challenge at CAS Colours and sketches and Jeanne has put together 3 gorgeous colours.

Some white heat embossed stars surround the city shape. The city was die cut from washi tape covered card - I love this washi tape with the little crosses, it almost sparkles! The city was also die cut from inked card in the other 2 colours. The little envelope has a coordinating flap, but is just a tiny rectangle, trimmed and adhered with a tiny foam square. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and we hope to see your card in our gallery! Don't forget to check out the team's cards for inspiration, as well as our guestie, Tristan!

• dies: Kaisercraft city, MFT skinny strips
• inks: abandoned coral distress oxide, soft sea foam
• stamps: MFT bitty holiday wishes, Lavinia mini stars

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #514 sketch

 hello lovely stampers!

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

The background was a leftover from some ink mopup with some wet stencilling over the top. This was ink blended around the edge and layered with black card behind. The butterfly stamp was clear heat embossed for shine. Shout out to Chris Stokes @chrissieannie who has used these mini butterflies on her cards and I thought they were so gorgeous I had to get the die! 

The sentiment was also clear heat embossed, edged in ink then popped up on foam squares. 

It's quite hard to take a photo of the black embossing, but it's quite shiny irl. Thanks so much for spending some time with me today. With such a versatile sketch, we'd love to see your card in our gallery! Big thanks to Lesley for being our fabulous guestie - don't forget to check out her card too! 

**I'm also entering this into a new to me challenge, alphabet challenge where the prompt is F is for Flying!

• dies: hero arts infinity squares, memory box mini intricate butterflies, MFT skinny strips
• inks: chipped sapphire, wilted violet, salvaged patina distress oxide inks, versafine clair nocturne
• stamps: honeybee stamps bitty buzzwords, Tim Holtz happy everything blueprints
• stencil: aallandcreate lotza squares

CC&S challenge #513 - colours

hello stampers!

It's time for this month's colours challenge at CAS Colours and sketches and Shannon has proposed 3 colours that I wouldn't have thought of putting together but actually play really nicely with each other.

I began by ink blending lightly over the centre of the card panel, then stamped dots with the same ink. A square was die cut, then embossed with lines, then adhered over a die cut leaf. The presents and arrows were die cut and adhered. The sentiment was stamped, die cut then adhered over another die cut tag.

Thanks so much for stopping by today and we hope to see your card in our gallery! Don't forget to check out our guest designer, Lesley's blog too!

• dies: gummiapan presents, paper rose arrows, altenew leaf mix, MFT skinny strips, hero arts infinity squares
• inks: su blushing bride, memento tuxedo black
• stamps: gummiapan happy birthday, lavinia stamps mini dots
• embossing: fiskars texture plate lines

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!