Miracles Happen

Hello and Welcome to my

  Reminder Post for our January Challenge over at

STAMPlorations

I started here with kraft card stock and

painted some strips with Gesso.

After that was dry I added colours randomly from

Freaky Franken Lime Magical's and 

Nuvo Shimmer Powders in Solar Flare.

Added Distress Grit Paste to the

ARTploratons Barley Stencil 

and random stamping with the

ARTplorations Lupinus Stencil

Both stencils are designed by talented Sanna Lippert.

I then heat embossed and coloured my

  STAMPlorations Bloomful Flower and popped

Sentiment was also heat embossed. 

Finished with some coloured cotton, coloured cheesecloth, 

backing it with white card stock and on to orange base.

You still have time to join our gallery for this month's challenge.

Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in and don't forget to check out

all the other Designer's Makes.

We are having a break for February so you will

see me back on 1st March for our new Stencil Challenge.

I'm 'Addicted' Again

Hello and Welcome to my post for today.

It's for the first Challenge of the Year over at

Addicted to Stamps and More 
and I am so happy to tell you

I am back Designing with the Girls again and

even more special is my great friend Aussie Annie

has joined me so now we can have fun here together.

Our Challenge this time round is

Your entry MUST contain the use of anything 

that can make a mark - 

Stampin' Write, Copics, Promarkers, Painting, Chalks, 

Watercolours, Sponges, Stencils, Masks etc etc

I made a similar watercolour card Here a few weeks ago 
and while I had my Lindy's Powders out I created this card also.

I only used Magnolia Magenta Gold for my 'mark'

smooching and using the cut piece from a

peek a boo die and embossing with 

We R Memory Keepers Geometric Embossing Folder

and popped.

 White background was also embossed

I cut out my dies in white and 

added a few centre bits from the colourful leftovers

including the Crafts4U sentiment.

A tiny Waffle flower bow and a few pearls

completed my card and attached to white base.

Hop on over and see what the rest of the Team created.

Hope you get a chance to join us this week.

Sending this card over  to the
CAS Watercolour Challenge

at CAS Watercolour Blog
and using the same sentiment die
for my second card at The Sisterhood of Crafters
for their  Thinking of You Challenge

Thanks for dropping in.

What's 'Trending' at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to Trend Week at

Just Us Girls. Hosting this Challenge is Maria

and wants to see Dimension.

I think I covered that here - 

I started my background with Tim's THS102 layering stencil
with Rusty Patina Paste then added some strips of
scrap Designer Paper. Cut out a MFT stitched frame
and added leaves from Carta Bella Spring Greenery.
Topped it with a pretty Kaisercraft flower.
Added some tiny punched flowers with Nuvo stone drops
in the centre. Finished with my Crafts4U sentiment.

Pop over and see how our Guests Mary and
joining us for the rest of the month also is Hannelie Bester
with the Team showing how dimensional they were.
Join us and you could be our Chic of the Week
and be our Guest in March.

Sending this card over to The Sisterhood of Crafters
for their  Current Challenge - Thinking of You

Thanks for popping in

You're Special

Hello there! Welcome to my Blog.

How often do you make a card for a specific challenge,

leave it overnight then finish it off the next day

 and then find out it is suitable for another?

Doesn't happen to me very often but this card did just that.

It's for the Cool Colours Challenge

at the CAS Watercolour Blog

and the CAS Stencil Challenge using a

New or Never Before Used Stencil

This card was started specifically for the WC Challenge

but after looking at how plain the front was I thought it

needed a little something - hence the random stenciling

(I know it's only an itsy bitsy bit)

with white texture paste. It's

Tim Holtz - THS102 Layering Stencil

and purchased just before Christmas after I saw

a girlfriend use it - and had to have.

This was when I decided to add it to the Stencil Challenge above.

Thistle image is from Lavinia Stamps, heat embossed in black

 and coloured with Lindy's Magical's in 

Witch's Potion Purple and Cathedral Pines Green.

I cut out the front with MFT Peek a Boo square die

 and went my merry way and popped it to my Thistle 

forgetting that I hadn't added 

my STAMPlorations sentiment - bummer. 

That meant I needed to die cut it

just in case my stamping didn't turn out.

Adhered it to white card base.

I will keep this card and give it to my sister

for her birthday in a few months time.

I'll be back before the end of the month to 

play again and with more stenciling lol.

Happy 1st Birthday to CAS Stencil Challenge

Where did that 12 months go?

Congratulations Loll and everyone involved 

over the past year. You have done an amazing job

and  I am sure we will see you around for

so many more encouraging us to

put our stencils to good use. 

Thanks Bunches!

 Till next time - Cherrio from

Life is a BEACH

Hello and Welcome. 

The first challenge for the year at CAS Mix Up Challenge

is up and running and what a fun one it is.

Have you tried this technique before?

There are Links to help you get inspired. 

Check it all out Here

Here's what I came up with -


It's certainly beach weather here in Australia as we are

experiencing scorching hot days and when I saw the

Inkadinkado Flamingo Fun stamp set I thought it perfect - 

just had to work out how to do a Partial Die Cut.

I went with this one from Jennifer McGuire.
 First off  I coloured the heat embossed flamingo using

 Nuvo Catherine Wheel with a water pen,

the hat and bag with Tim's Oxide Salty Ocean

and the hat trim and flowers with

Finnabair Fresh Orange Metallique Paint.

This was partially die cut with Spellbinders Hexagon Die

moving it along to cut the other side.

That didn't look right so I hand cut

the left side of the flamingo.

Heat embossed the sentiment from the same set.

I thought the flamingo needed some sand to stand on so

added Sandstone Brusho's to Distress Grit Paste

and carried it over to the background.

This was smooched with the salty ocean oxide ink

as is the side of the flamingo.

Again I thought there was something missing

so added some stitching from one of the

Lawn Fawn Stitched borders.

It's a little hard to see but the partial die cut flamingo is popped.

My Mix is - Partial Die Cutting, Stamping,
Watercolour smooching, Texture.

Till next time! Cherrio from 

It's Lemonade Weather in Oz

The heading really says it all for me! 

Welcome to my post for the day.

What an amazing Mood Board below

to Celebrate 4 years of DD Challenges

Congratulations Dianne and Darlene and not forgetting

the Talented Designers for showing off their Works of Art!

I was super excited when I saw it - so tropical
 and then the stamp/die set for the Winner.

Perfect for me to ink up that very stamp

 I bought months ago at my Annual Craft Show.
Shame I didn't see the die that goes with it.

It never got used for the challenge 

so time to get it inky here. 

Of course we all have those 'out of vogue' punches

 that lay sleeping in our drawers - another great time

 to get them out of hibernation for this challenge.
I used a Martha Stewart punch on mine.
I think she was Queen Punch way back as we all
'had to have them'

It's a pretty simply card focusing on
that Lawn Fawn stamp set. Of course I went
with the bottom left for the colours!
Card base is from yellow Bazzill card stock.
Embossed the white card stock, inking up those
baby lemons at the bottom.
Adhered a scrap piece of colourful dp.
I used SB circle dies on top with the inked glass of lemonade.
My 'straw' was cut from a paper clip.
Fussy cut and popped the jug. Added some
glossy accents for 'fizz'.
Attached tiny pearls to the MS punch.
STAMPlorations sentiment I thought perfect!

Hope you like my summery card.
Thanks for dropping by.

We're BACK at Just Us Girls

Welcome to 2020 and our first challenge of the year at
Just Us Girls
We've also got some Exciting News -
In case you missed it
The Amazingly Talented Cecile Ribon
is joining the Jugheads and we are so thrilled
that she will share her talents for us 'every week'
How good is that!
A Huge Welcome to the Team Cecile.
Also a big Welcome to one of two Guests
we have this month - Mary Deatherage
Our other Guest will join us next week.

Angie is Hosting and my Team Mates are
in the midst of Winter and maybe snowflakes abound
while I swelter in the Aussie Summer.

I made my snowy card as part of my much smaller Christmas card makes
 and I do love using snowflakes -
the colours are mostly in the blue/white and so cooling.
It was an easy card to make.
Snowflakes are heat embossed and by SU.
The background is smooched with
Lindy's Magical Shaker in Afternoon Delight Denim
and has this lovely shimmer to it.
Sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers.
I corner rounded and inked the edges and attached
to white card base.

Pop over and see what our January Guest  Mary Deatherage
and the Team have created this week and come join us for
our first challenge of the year.
You could be chosen as our Chic of the Week
and in the running for a Guest Spot in March.
Hope to see you in the Gallery.
Thanks for dropping in

It's 'Beautiful'

Happy New Year to you All!

I thought you might like to see a photo of 

New Year's Eve Fireworks I found on a Google Search

overlooking a few iconic landmarks in Australia - 

The Sydney Harbour Bridge and The Opera House.

Spectacular every year!

***

Welcome to a new round of Challenges for 2020

over at STAMPlorations

Have you checked them out yet?

My post is for the

Check out all the Details Here

I decided to go bold and bright for my background here

 using Lindy's Shaker Powders in

Cuckoo Clock Cardinal and Oom Pah Pah Pink.

I then added White Crackle Paste to the

ARTplorations Weaving Stencil

around the edges then some soft coloured

stenciling from

ARTplorations Fairy-Tale-Forest

I  randomly inked the pretty flowers from

STAMPlorations Beautiful-You

with black Archival Ink.

My sentiment is from  Happy-Everything.

I distressed and inked the edges and

attached to white card base.

Pop over and see lots more inspiration

from the team and come join us this month.

Don't forget there is that 20% discount

you can use to build us your supplies by adding

STAMPGIRLINA to your order.

Thanks for popping in today

It's a New Year at Happy Little Stampers

Happy New Year! and Welcome.

Hope you had a lovely Christmas and

didn't celebrate too hard bringing in the New Year.

It's our first Challenge of 2020 at Happy Little Stanpers

and of course it starts off with our Watercolour Challenge.

With the New Year we have New Designers joining us

and they are Carole, Swapna and Anna. 

A Big Welcome to the Happy Family.

Our Watercolour Challenges are always Anything Goes

but we do have an Option and this month we are looking for

Watercolour Creations using Die Cuts.

We all have an abundance of those, so should be

an easy task for you to join us!

I started by smooching my watercolour background with

 Lindy's Magical Shakers in Magnolia Magenta Gold

 adding some texture pasted stenciled dots.

I then inked another piece of watercolour paper,

this time with Lindy's Afternoon Delight Denim

and cut out various die cuts - some coloured and

a few in white. While I had a bit of colour left over

I smooched my SB tag on one corner and added 

the sentiment from Happy Little Stampers.

Added some splatters for effect then

placed my die cuts and popped die cut sentiment.

Finished with adhering to blue card base.

Have you been over and checked out what my 

Team Mates created? Hope you were inspired by 

what you saw so you can add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in on me.