Inky Splats & Christmas Trees

Hiya! Here's a card I made with my new splat stamp, which I LOVE! It's a great way of creating a quick inky background by splodging some distress oxides on it, spritzing and then stamping. When it was dry, I stamped the trees and coloured them with inks and gel pens.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp: 'Let's Sparkle'
Sisterhood of Crafters: 'Trees!'
My Time to Craft: 'Christmas Scene'
HLS Watercolour Challenge:

Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with Optional Winter'
Sparkles Monthly: 'It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas'
Uniko Challenge:

Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Inkylicious Splatter Circle XL
Distress Oxide Inks: Faded Jeans, Dusty Concord, Vintage Photo
Gelly Roll pens: Clear Star, Bronze

Mother's Day Silhouette Cards

Hi! Here are a couple of Mother's day cards I made. I masked the circle, then stamped the image and inked the backgrounds. I added extra colour to the seeds, and then went a bit crazy with gems!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Less Is More: - 3 colours

Mix It Up: 'Anything Goes + optional twist of Inked Background'
Creative Inspirations: 'Spring Greens'
Addicted to CAS: 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps:

Pearly Sparkles: 'Make it Girlie'
Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes'
My Time to Craft: 'Mother's Day or For a Female'


Ingredients:
Woodware: 'Grasses'
Adirondack Inks: Meadow, Butterscotch, Cranberry
Artistry Inks: Midnight Blue
Crystal Parade gems

Cuddle Monster

Hiya! Here are some more valentines cards I made - I tried to do something a bit different from the usual hearts and flowers, and went for … monsters!

I smooshed inks onto acetate and then squished the monster image into the ink. When dry, I cut it out and layered it onto the card. Then I added sparkly horns with a gelly roll pen, and coloured the eyes and fangs with a white gelly roll pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Stamp Ink Paper:

Moving Along with the Times: 'Add a Sentiment'

I'm entering this one in the Pink Gem challenge: 'Anything Goes'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Creative Inspirations: 'With Love'
Corrosive Challenges: 'Anything Goes'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

My Time to Craft: 'Men Only'
Mix It Up: 'Anything Goes'


Ingredients:
Lili of the Valley - Jolly Unicorns
Artistry Inks: Indian Jamun, Cotton Candy
Distress Ink: Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers
Distress Oxide: Antique Linen, Peeled Paint, Lucky Clover, Peacock Feathers
Adirondack Inks: Sail Boat Blue, Hazelnut, Denim, Cranberry, Butterscotch
Wink of Stella - Clear
Gelly Roll - Clear Star, White

Painted Harvest

Hi! I've been drooling over the Stampin' Up! Painted Harvest set for a while, and my lovely mate Debbie found it on eBay for me... would've been rude not to buy it! Here are a couple of cards I made with it. I masked the panel and then stamped the flowers. On the purple one, I added some leaves, and used an ink duster to colour some of the background green. On the blue one, I added mica powder to the flower centres and to the inked blue card border, but it's hard to see the shimmer in the photos.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Shopping Our Stash: 'Birthday'
Creative Inspirations: 'Something New' (stamp set)
MAWTT: 'CAS'
My Time To Craft: 'Something New' (stamp set)
Addicted to Stamps: 'Anything Goes'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Addicted To CAS: 'Ombre'

AAA Cards: 

Stamping Sensations: 'Cold and Frosty Colours'

Pink Gem Challenge: 'Cool in Blue'

Tuesday Throwdown: 'Anything Goes'

Ingredients:

Stamps from Stampin' Up! 'Summer Silhouettes' set

'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Artistry Ink pads: Indian Jamun, Lavender Dash, Pampas, Midnight Blue, Blue Chase

Sweet Poppy Mica Powder: Silver Pearl

Found Some More Rejects!

Hiya! After getting a bit over-excited with my new JOFY stamp set working so well with some discarded experiments with Oxides, I dug around for some more disasters. I found a larger piece of card with a failed Oxides experiment. It was one of my first attempts, when I'd only got 2 blues and 2 browns (when Oxides were new and out of stock everywhere, and these were the only colours I'd managed to snaffle at the NEC Hobbycrafts show back in March), and although you can get great results with just those colours, I just hadn't. I'd maybe used too much water, not enough ink, the card was too big... but it was just too dull to use as a background. However, I managed to stamp my new JOFY trees 3 times onto the card, and I love the result! I used the glitter gel pen again, and some Nuvo drops, silver on two of the cards, and gold on the other.

OK, I know they all look pretty much the same, but they are unique little snowflakes to me, so I'm going to bore you with all three of them. You've been warned. You can just look at the first one if you like ;)

I'm entering this one in the Simply Create Too challenge: 'CAS'

I'm entering this one in the Creatalicious challenge: 'Anything Goes with Optional Blue & Silver'

I'm entering this one in the My Time To Craft challenge: 'Paper Piecing'


Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Vintage Photo, Walnut Stain, Faded Jeans, Broken China

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold, Silver Lining

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star

Cat in a Tree

Hi! Here are a couple of cards using one of my favourite images. This little cat looks so peaceful and content! :)   I used colours inspired by a couple of challenges, using inks and ink dusters.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Your Next Stamp:

My Time to Craft: 'Halloween or Cats'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

Always Fun: 'Monochrome'


Ingredients:
Image from Vectorstock

Adirondack ink pads: Purple Twilight, Currant
Stampin' Up! ink pad: Old Olive
Artistry ink pads: Dark Garnet, Fall Fiesta, Hay Stack

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

A bit late, but...

Hiya! Here are 3 Mother's Day cards. At least I'm all set for next year...

I made this first one using a digi stamp from Lizzie Love. I coloured with inks and a water brush, drew the flower stems and stamped the leaves. I 3D-ed one of the flowers to give a bit of dimension, punched tiny flowers for the centres and added a gem.

 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Unicorn Challenge: 'Petal Power'

My Time To Craft: 'No Designer papers'

Crafty Creations: 'Anything Goes'

I made this next one by clear embossing the flowers, and colouring with Brushos and inks. I went a bit crazy with some Glimmer Mist over the top of it, so it is quite shiny and hard to take a photo of! I added gems to the centres of the flowers.

 

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Little Tangles: 'Watercolour'
Crafty Calendar: 'April Showers or Spring'
Addicted to Stamps: 'Make Your Mark'



I make this last one with a stamp from Lavinia, stamping in oranges and yellows and with gold embossing. I used ink dusters to colour the background.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Dragonfly Dreams: 'Anything Goes'
Crafts Galore: 'Anything Goes'
Corrosive Challenges: 'Anything Goes'