Funky Flowers

Hi! Here are a couple of Mother's Day cards I made, using my new Lili of the Valley flowers! I love these images :)

I coloured the flowers with inks. For the first card, I layered up the middle panel to add a bit of dimension, and added a little gem. For the second card, I added white dots with a white gelly roll pen, and some glitter with a Clear Star gelly roll pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Addicted to Stamps:

The Flower Challenge:

Pink Gem Challenge: Anything Goes

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CASology:

The Sisterhood of Crafters: 'In the Red'
Unicorn Challenge: 'Spring'
Sweet Stampin': 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Lili of the Valley: 'Blooming Lovely'
Artistry Inks: sweet toffee, cotton candy, midnight blue, indian jamun, moon crater
Adirondack inks: butterscotch, terra cotta, cranberry, meadow
Sakura gelly roll pens: white, clear star

New Paper Artsy Stamp!

Hiya! Here's a card I made, inspired by a couple of challenges, and using my new little stamp from Paper Artsy :)  I coloured the image with inks and a water brush, then added gems and a couple of butterflies.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

Cards In Envy: 'Love You So Much!'

CASology:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Creative Inspirations: 'Love is in the Air and / or Colour Scheme!'


Ingredients:
Paper Artsy EM28
Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Bundled Sage
Artistry Ink: Cotton Candy
Anita's gems

Trying out new dies!

Hiya! Here's a card I made using a couple of dies I bought last month, but hadn't had chance to use. I cut a stitched square and then used the hearts border across the top. I made a background with Distress Oxides and Glimmer Mist, cut a small strip for a border, cut the sentiment, and used the rest behind the die cut hearts. I used red, pink and orange, but I might make another with deep, rich reds instead. I glued the border and sentiment on, and added some of the little hearts from the die cut.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

HLS Die Cuts:

Stamp Ink Paper:

Shopping Our Stash: 'He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not'

CASology:

Ingredients:
Elizabeth Craft Designs 'Stitched Squares'
Hearts Trail Cutting Die
Lawn Fawn 'I love You Border'
Distress Oxides: Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Candied Apple
Glimmer Mist: Iridescent Gold

Simple Christmas Card

Hiya! Here's a quick card I made using die cuts. I've kept it simple and glitter-free for a change! Just a little reindeer in the snow. It's a small card, just 10cm square, so I might use him as a large tag.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Cards in Envy: 'It's Only Paper'
CASology:

Sparkles Monthly: 'White Christmas'


Ingredients:
Echo park Christmas Reindeer die set

Winter Scene die

CAS Christmas Card

Hi! Here's a card I made using a new stamp I bought. I love the cute little reindeer faces! I coloured with inks and a water brush, and used a Gelly Roll glitter pen for some sparkle, although it doesn't show up very well in the photos.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CASology:

Stamping Sensations: 'One Layer Christmas Cards'
HLS Christmas:

Ingredients:
Penny Black stamp set: Joy to the World
Distress Ink: Fired Brick
Adirondack Ink: Meadow, Espresso, Sail Boat Blue

Stampin' Up! Ink: Tip Top Taupe

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star
Promarker: Almond

More Daisies

Hi! Here's another card, made with my new stamp set. I coloured with inks, inspired by the gorgeous colours in the Color Throwdown challenge.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

CASology:

Seize the Birthday: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Leonie Pujol stamp set: 'Everlasting Love'

Adirondack Inks: Meadow, Purple Twilight, Sunshine Yellow
Artistry Inks: Fall Fiesta

Cats Cats Cats

Hiya! Here's a birthday card I made with my new Indigo Blu stamp, 'Kibble Kits', inspired by the CAS-ual Fridays challenge. I stamped on Kraft card and embossed in white. The cat stamp is a rectangle, so I cut it down to a square, and with the spare section I cut out some cats to add to the bottom of the card. It's a card for a cat-mad man, so hopefully he will like it. I have resisted the urge to add any bling or sparkle!

I am entering this in the following challenges:

CAS-ual Fridays: 'Kraft & White'
CASology: 'Square'
Addicted to Stamps: 'Mark Your Mark'
My Time to Craft: 'Krafty'
Rubber Dance: 'Embossing'


Ingredients:
Indigo Blu Stamp: 'Kibble Kits'
Sentiment from Woodware: 'Daisy Panel'

Papermania embossing powder: Seafoam White

Just a note

Hi! I recently bought a set of flower images from Bugaboo, and have made some little 7.5cm square note cards with them. They're coloured with inks and a water brush, and I added a few gems. For the calla lily card, I used a Wink of Stella brush on the snail's shell.

I'm entering this one in the challenge: Watercooler Wednesday: 'Clean & Simple Spring'

The colours in this one were inspired by this week's Color Throwdown challenge:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:
Shopping Our Stash: 'The Beautiful Rose'
CASology: 'Grow'

I'm entering this one in the challenge: Sweet Stampin': 'I Wish I Could Fly'

I'm entering this one in the challenge: Creative Inspirations: 'One for the Girls'

I'm entering this one in the challenge: Less Is More: 'Stripe' - I hope the stripy vase is enough stripe!


Ingredients:
Bugaboo images: 'Mini Set - Flowers'
Artistry Ink pads: Old Parchment, Sweet Toffee, Indian Jamun, Midnight Blue

Adirondack Inks: Cranberry, Butterscotch, Meadow

Distress Inks: Fired Brick, Bundled Sage
Wink of Stella pen: Clear

Crystal Parade gems

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Confession...

I actually made two of each of these cards, but one fell in the cat's water bowl :-s I yanked it out of there as fast as I could, and let it dry, but some of the colours have run. Does it just look like I dropped it in the cat's water, or could I get away with saying I deliberately spritzed it, for a nice blending effect...?!?

Get Well Soon

Hi! As it seems to be well and truly the season of lurgy, here's a Get Well Soon card.

I used a birch trees stencil, masked a circle for the sun, and added the background with ink dusters. I stamped the wild grasses and leaves, then added the punched flower and butterflies.

 

I'm entering this card into the following challenges:

Sunday Stamps:

CASology: 'Forest'
City Crafter: 'Blue Monday'


Ingredients:
Lavinia Stamps: 'Leaf Trail' and 'Field Grass'
Sentiment from Woodware 'Jane's Script'
Memory Box stencil 'Birch Landscape'
Artistry Ink pads: Blue Chase, Sweet Toffee
Stampin' Up! ink pad: Perfect Plum
Crystal Parade clear gems