Stencilled Christmas Trees

Hi! Here are a few cards I made earlier. I'm trying to catch up on my Christmas Card makes, so I'm trying to make variations of the same card to speed up the process!

I used my new stencil from Artplorations, and added colour using ink dusters and Adirondack inks. I left them without a sentiment, and layered the white card on white, to keep them CAS.

I'm entering this one in the Hiding in my Craft Room challenge: "Any Holiday"

I'm entering this one in the CAS on Sunday challenge: "Christmas"

I'm entering this one in the The Shabby Tea Room challenge: "O' Christmas Tree"

And I'm entering this last one in the following challenges:

Always Playing With Paper: "Make a NON-Traditional Christmas Card!"

The Crazy Challenge: "Everything Goes"

Creepie Cute Witchling

Hi! I love Halloween. I know some people find trick-or-treaters annoying, but tiny ghosts and monsters turning up at my door, trying to look scary while being extremely polite, are very cute! I don't usually think about Halloween until a couple of days before, when panic sets in, the shops are now empty of scary-looking sweets, and I have to make up a load of treat bags before the hoards arrive!

However, we don't really have much use for Halloween cards in the UK. Even if you're going to a party you wouldn't usually take a card, which is a shame because there are so many gorgeous Halloween stamps and papers out there... I've made a card anyway, because I love this image from Creepie Cute Stamps! I think I might make some smaller versions as tags for the treat bags!

I'm entering this in the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room: "Swirls and Twirls"


Creatalicious: "Halloween"

Hiding In My Craft Room: "Any Holiday"

Autumn Leaves

Hi! I've been watching Charmed and making cards tonight! Here's one of the cards I made, inspired by the sudden Autumn feeling when I left the house this morning!

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday: "Autumn Leaves"

Moving Along with the Times: "Cute Animal"

Simon Says Stamp: "Make It Colourful"

Always Playing With paper:

The Shabby Tea Room:

Art By Miran: Tulipa

Hi! Inspired by a few challenges, I made a couple of cards using an image from Art By Miran. I coloured them with ProMarkers,and added Stickles to the flower centres.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room:


4 Crafty Chicks: "Funky Hair"

The Corrosive Challenge: "Head Shots"

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Inky Chicks: "Hearts"

My Time To Craft: "Flowers"

Just Us Girls:

A bit Daisy Crazy...

Hi! I absolutely love daisies, and have made a few cards with one of my favourite daisy images, from Tiddly Inks:

I'm entering this one in these two challenges:

Just Us Girls: "Autumn"

The Shabby Tea Room: "Peaches & Cream"

I'm entering this one in these three challenges:

ColourQ:


Come & Get It: "Fun in the Sun"

The Friday Mashup: "Square shaped card"

I love the moodiness of this blue one, in contrast to the other two. I'm entering this one in these two challenges:

Sketch Saturday:


Clear It Out: "Theme: Anything Goes   Stash: Anything Goes"

Uh Oh, New Obsession Sets In...

Oh my goodness, I LOVE Brushos! So I'm still making a mess and trying to work out how to use them, but I'm having a lot of fun and might have to go get some more colours...

I made this card with watercolour paper, clear embossing the stamped image first, and letting loose with the Brushos and hoping for the best. I used a snippet of leftover card for the butterfly, once I'd trimmed the image down. I decided not to add gems or glitter - I just love how the colours have blended, so I'd like to leave it as it is.

I'm entering this in the challenges listed below. A couple are CAS, so I hope this is CAS enough... there is some white space on the card, and the image is white...

Allsorts: "Add a Butterfly"

CAS-ual Fridays: "Embossing"

Seize The Birthday: "Embossing"

Less is More: "Snippets"

The Shabby Tea Room: "Summer Picnic"

Yellow & Gold!

Hi! There are a few sunshine-related challenges around at the moment, which makes me think of sitting in the garden surrounded by bright flowers and happy bees! So here's a card inspired by sunshine:

I watercoloured the images with inks, and then added some gold with a Wink of Stella brush pen, and added stickles to the wings of the bees. The shimmery gold from the Wink of Stella isn't that obvious in the photo, but it looks lovely when the light catches it :)

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room: "Sweet as Sunshine"

Top Tip Tuesday: "Summer Fun"

City Crafter: "You are my Sunshine"

Friday MashUp: "Fun in the Sun"

Just Us Girls: "Incorporate Gold"

Butterflies, butterflies, butterflies

Hi! To use up some of the butterflies I'd made for the current Card Concept challenge (got carried away and ended up with loads of them), I made a couple of cards:

I'm entering this one into the following challenges:

The Shabby Tea Room: "Sweet Summer" inspirational photo:

Papertake Weekly : "Ohh So Pretty"

Addicted to Stamps : "Clean & Simple"

I'm entering this second one into the following challenges:

Sisterhood of Crafters : "Bugs"

My time to craft : "All White Except The Image"

Stamp Set I Forgot I Had...

Apart from being ashamed that I have no idea what's in my craft room, it's also lovely to rediscover something forgotten...

I found a stamp set tonight, and decided to use it for the Always Playing With Paper colour challenge, using these colours:

Here is my card. I've used stamps from the Stampin' Up Summer Silhouettes set, and added a bit of sparkle with stickles. The navy hasn't come out as dark as it actually looks, though.

I'm also entering this into these three challenges:

Just Us Girls: 'Summer'

The Shabby Tea Room: 'In My Garden'

Simon Says Stamp: 'For The Love Of Plants'

Steampunk Daisy

Inspired by the Less Is More challenge 'Use Some Metal', I made this card, using tiny watch parts for the centre of the daisy:

I'm also entering it into the following challenges:

Cas-ual Fridays 'Tan, White and one bright color'
4 Crafty Chicks 'Summer'
The paper shelter 'Flower Power'
Shabby Tea Room 'Fun Blooms'