life is not a fairy tale

 hello stampers!

I'm thrilled to be the guest designer this month at the snarky sisterhood, having been chosen as queen for January with this card. Such an honour! This month's challenge is #260 G is for Green. For some reason I couldn't get the idea of a frog out of my head so I used the only frog die I have and made a monochromatic green card.

I used a combination of about 6000 greens for all the stencilling and stamping ;)  The lilies were die cut from green ink smooshed card. The frog (prince) was stencilled, stamped and ink blended to give him a mottled look. Sentiment from Tim Holtz was ink blended and edged.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Hope you'll join us with a green creation!

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #554 sketch

 hello stampers!

Suzy has designed a great sketch for the latest challenge at CAS colours and sketches. The design lends itself perfectly to CAS cards. The sketch can be flipped or made into a landscape card if you prefer. I decided to take it up a notch and made a shaker card!

I began by die cutting a circle in the front panel, then I die cut the happy birthday circle and adhered it over the top. The card base was stamped in the circle area, some acetate adhered to the card panel, some tiny hearts put in and then the card panel was adhered with foam tape to make the shaker. The smaller circle was adhered with little die cut presents and a couple of the tiny hearts then popped up on foam tape.

Such fun making a shaker card - I should do it more often. And these weighty fimo hearts shake really well :)

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

• dies: Gummiapan happy birthday circle, presents, Hero Arts infinity circles
• stamps: Gummiapan make a wish, bring on the cake
• inks: tumbled glass distress oxide

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #553 colours

hello stampers!

Suzy is hosting this month and she's got the latest challenge ready at CAS Colours & Sketches. This time it's a colours challenge and she has put together such happy colours.

The background was stencilled lightly, then stamped with the tiniest 'special delivery' stamp in the same colour. The mailbox, envelopes and hearts were die cut and ink blended.The sentiment was stamped and die cut into a circle.

I'm also joining in with a new to me challenge Inspire.Create.Challenge where they have a clean & simple challenge this fortnight - what luck!

Thanks so much for stopping by - we'd love to see your card in our gallery.

   

• dies: Hero Arts infinity circles, Gummiapan mailbox, envelopes, hearts
• stamps: Gummiapan special delivery, MFT hand stamped
• stencil: Darkroom Door brick wall
• inks: evergreen bough, candied apple, picked raspberry, pumice stone distress oxide inks

CAS Colours & Sketches challenge #552 sketch

 hello crafters!

I'm happy to present our sketch challenge at CAS colours and sketches for January. The design reminded me of the beach so I went with a seaside theme. You can flip the design if you prefer, but I kept it a landscape orientation.

I used several colours of ink smooshing to create the water, then stencilled the waves ever so gently with white ink. The corner was torn to create the sea froth and it was adhered to a kraft card panel. The little shells and sea animals were die cut from ink smooshed card, some were given a little more ink blended colour. The sentiment was simply stamped with Versafine and clear heat embossed - amazing how dark it becomes on the kraft card.

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

• dies: Gummiapan sea shells, crab, starfish
• stamps: Paper Rose tiny forest (sentiment)
• stencil: Scrapmatts ST9074
• inks: salty ocean, salvaged patina, peacock feathers, barn door, squeezed lemonade, abandoned coral, vintage photo, blueprint sketch distress oxides, Hero Arts unicorn

warm wishes

 hello stampers!

I'm joining in today with a couple of challenges. The talented team at freshlymadesketches have a simple sketch which suits my CAS taste, justusgirls has a terrific mood board where I took inspiration from the berry branch and the little house, and the prompt at inkspirational is 'snow'. 

The background was a lovely panel of ink smooshed card in my stash that I thought was perfect for a wintry sky. I die cut the circles into a front panel of white card. The trees and berry branch were die cut and edged with white gelly roll pen for snow. The little houses were die cut from card stamped several times with a couple of colours. The sentiment was stamped in the same brown and die cut.

I thought the little scene was so sweet with just glimpses through the circle cutouts! Thanks so much for stopping by!

      

• dies: Sizzix arctic bear (houses), Gummiapan trees, berry branch, sentiment, Hero Arts infinity circles
• stamps: Darkroom Door woodgrain texture stamp, MFT Cool Day (sentiment)
• inks: rustic wilderness, salty ocean, wild honey, vintage photo, ground espresso