'Miss You'

Bobby is Hosting our Photo Week at Just Us Girls

and chosen this gorgeous photo below. 



I am not a pumpkin kind of person so chose

an old sunflower stamp for my Inspiration.

 

I have been lucky enough to be in a plane

above a massive paddock filled with these beautiful flowers.

What an awesome site!

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I thought it fitting to go with Kraft card stock

and continue with earthy tones.

Products I used here are -

SU - Woodgrain background stamp

Sunflower stamp - Print Blocks Australia

Black embossing powder

Water colour pencils

Sizzix banner

Corner rounder

Pearls

Paper Smooches Sentiment

Burlap/Jute string

Tim Holtz Vintage Photo

Memento Peanut Brittle

SU Garden Green

White Uniball pen for centre of flower.

Don't forget to pop over Here

to see how our Guest Kathy

and the Team were inspired.

Join us and you could be our

Chic of the Week and go on to be

Guest Designer in November.

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Thinking PINK!

While I was playing around with pink colours for

the September CAS colour challenge over at

STAMPlorations Blog I couldn't stop.

 

 

I wanted to try a few items I hadn't used before

so this card came together easily.

 Again I mainly focused on the Twist as my main colour.

 

 

Details can be found Here
 

I used basic white card stock. For my image

inside the frame ( by Die-Namics)

 I water coloured with TH distress inks in

Abandoned Coral/Victorian Velvet

and Spun Sugar

 Topping this with a stencil from TCW

with White Texture Paste. 

The stitched edge is from Nina's Things

The floral flourish  from Marianne Designs.

Sentiment is Inspired by Stamping

Finished with a gem on the flower

after popping the frame.

Thanks for dropping in
Love to read your comments - makes for a 'Happy Day'

 

 



It's 'Autumn' over the Pond

It's Autumn over the pond but really it is

Spring on my side.

 

 

Over at Crafty Cardmakers Mary is Hosting

and has chosen 'Autumn' for the theme for

our latest challenge.

That can be autumn colours, or autumn themes such as harvest or falling leaves etc.

 

I saw a card over at Pinterest I wanted to case

  You can see it Here.

I knew I had similar leaf stamps and this was

a great challenge to showcase my make.

 

Here are the products I used -

Coloured card stock

Background stamps - SU & Prima

Leaves/flowers/sentiment are by Gina K Designs

Other - SU

Inks - Tim Holtz Distress Inks

Memento and Stampin' Up.

Cotton & button.

 

Pop over to our blog and see what inspired the Team.

 I am entering this card over at The Paper Players
Details Here
 

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

 

 



Time to Colour at Just Us Girls

It's that time of the month for our Colour challenge at

Just Us Girls and Hosting this is Nancy choosing

these lively colours below.

 

 

I love inking up my stencils and thought

I would do just that to add colour to blend

in with my brightly inked flower.

Using basic card stock I inked up a

TCW and Tim Holtz stencil with TH Festive Berries

adding a banner from Sizzix embossed with CB Swizz Dots.

My tag is by Kaisercraft inked with a sentiment from Gina K.

I attached leaves also from Kaisercraft.

 and my flower by SU Creative Elements

embossing it with clear powder to give it a lovely shine

finishing  with Liquid Pearls a Pearl centre and ribbon.

Thought I would add a few rhinestones to match up

with the silver thread on the tied cotton.

 

Don't forget to pop over and see all the brightly coloured

creations by our September Guest Kathy and the Team.

Hope we inspired you and I hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Dream Big

 

The CAS card challenge over at the

STAMPlorations Blog for September

is Anything Goes with the optional 

colour twist of Pink.

 

Sometimes it is nice to sit down and create

a clean and simple card and that is exactly what

I have done here. 

I love creating dimension by adding foam squares

and have done that with my 2 layers.

These are the products I have used here.

White card stock

Background stamped with TH Vintage Photo

from Darkroom Door - Woodgrain

The pink rose is from Penny Black

heat embossed with TH Worn Lipstick.

It has a gritty feeling to it with just a touch of

brown mixed in with the pink.

I used a stitched die from Nina's Things

and finished with a few pearls.

 

Details can be found Here
 

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your comments.

Till next time - Cherrio from



It's all about 'YOU'

 

Doesn't every crafter have little containers

full of all sorts of coloured sequins?

Off course you do - that's why Lisa

as our Hostess at Just Us Girls

thought it was time to use some of them

and chose SEQUINS for our Trend Week.

 

 

There are so many ways to use those little critters -
 perfect for a shaker card but not me this time.

 I could see me dropping them all over the floor.

I decided to go soft and subtle

 



I was given some unusual pieces of coloured paper

 which look like they were recycled and are

quite thin and didn't know how it would cut

so I tried it out using a Sizzix leaf die

and they turned out nicely.

 I then decided I needed  a touch of colour 

 behind my background so used another sheet there.

This  was stencilled with Sparkle Medium

and while wet I added some fine glitter.

My butterfly was cut from a Cheery Lynn die and

also added glitter and a pearl.

My sentiment is a new one - recently purchased

from a Win I had and is from Pink & Maine.

I must say they ink up beautifully.

To finish off my card I needed those

Sequins as part of the challenge and

also added some rhinestones.

 

Hope you check out Our Blog

for more blingy creations and then

get out your sequins carefully and

join us for this super challenge.

You could be our Chic of the Week and

be in the running as Our Guest in November.

I am going to enter this card in the CAS Challenge
over at STAMPloration - Details Here

 

Thanks for dropping in

 

 

Thinking of You.

 

The new Challenge over at

Crafty Cardmakers is being hosted by Marlene

and she has chosen LAYERS!

and want to see Lots of LAYERS

 

 

I think I have achieved that !

I found these sheets of die cuts in my stash

from Reddy Creative Cards (German Co)

and all I had to do was detach and layer them up

 using foam squares. Easy eh!

After completing that I attached them to a piece

of mauve paper cut from a Spellbinders die.

The card stock was stamped randomly

with a hydrangea stamp from

SU to match my focal point.

Just needed to add a sentiment from GKD which was inked

and cut out of vellum.

Hope you can pop over and check out

what the other Designers have layered

and would love to see yours Here

 

Thanks for dropping in so till next time

Cherrio from