Wishing You Happiness

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls and our Host is Nancy

choosing Dark Pink Pink & Blue.

I'm afraid my photograph hasn't shown the true colours

of my stenciled flower. The darker pink looks quite red here

but in fact is a really nice pink. 

I made this a fairly cas card by stenciling the

ARTplorations Rose Duet  in Altenew Frosty Pink & Coral Berry

I then sponged Sparkle Medium over the flowers 

for a little shimmer.

The border dies are from 

CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Rectangle Nesting Dies

and the top one is popped to show a frame.

I splattered some blue acrylic paint to add a bit of interest

after I had stamped my sentiment from

STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2

I inked it with SU Brilliant Blue but was a little dark so

inked it again with Hero Arts White Pigment Ink to lighten it.

This card was not my idea. I saw This One

 from Wei Wei Wang and cased it. 

Don't forget to pop over to our blog Here

and see what our Guest Aileen Ryan

and the Team created. Hope you come join us this week.

You could be our Chic of the Week 

and then be in the running for Guest Designer in September.

Thanks for stopping by.

You are 'SPECIAL'

Hello Crafty Ones. Where did January & February go?

I blinked and March was before my eyes.

That means the New CAS Challenge over at STAMPlorations

is up and this month the Optional Colour is Sky Blue.

Details - Here

I got out my favourite metallic paints and

inked up  STAMPlorations Large French Marigold

with shades of blue, green and yellow 

after heat embossing in white.

I then added some splatters with yellow acrylic paint.

Once that was dry I added my sentiment  

from Pocket Blooms

Finished this with 3 tiny blue hearts

and attaching to a blue background on white card stock.

This card came about after seeing this one made by

Karen Dunbrook Here. 

Don't forget there are prizes to be won - 
$10 Gift Certificate for the Winner and
$5 Gift Certificate to the Top Picks.
Players can link up to 3 CAS cards
Enter a CAS card with or without the optional twist
Non STAMPlorations products are okay too.
And there is a 20% to use for some
awesome products from STAMPlorations
by just using code STAMPGIRLINA.
How good is that?
Now that you have come to the end of my post
I hope you can join in this months challenge.
 You could be a Lucky Winner!
and start your own collection of great products.
Adding my card to the

Here
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Thanks so much for dropping by today
Love reading your comments

Time Out Challenge #77

Hello Crafty Friends. What do you see in this photo below?

There is so much there that my mind boggles!

It's for the current challenge over at Time Out

All the Details are Here.

 I took my inspiration from the colours and flowers.

Since

were sponsoring I though I would use 

some of their fabulous products here.

My background was one I had sitting on my desk

and thought it matched the colours closely to the photo.

I then stenciled the ARTplorations Happy Flowers

with Pearl White Acrylic Paint

adding a bit of grunge to the background with

STAMPlorations Scribby Splattery Grunge

the  A Happy is from Vignette Chevron & Arrows

Hello - CUTplorations Hello Die

My little bird is from Kaisercraft.

This was cut with stitched dies and 

attached to pearl paper to blend with the flowers.
This is heading over for the

Here

Thanks for stopping by today.

I do love reading your kind comments.

Till next time - Cherrio from

My first posting as Guest Designer at Shopping our Stash

I was so excited and thrilled to be invited to be

Guest Designer for February over at  Shopping our Stash

Their challenge this week is Winter Blues BUT

don't make a Winter card. Pop over to the SOS link above
to get all the details.

This wasn't too hard for me as I am

sweltering through a heat waive

and anything cooling is fine by me.

 

 

I went with a clean and simple style getting out my

neglected gelatos in navy and swiping across watercolour paper

then adding layers of white acrylic paint.

I attached 2 cut out bull rushes from Craft Emotions

  framed and popped it.

The sentiment is from STAMPlorations Noteworthy.

Isn't is a great sentiment and one we should live by?

To finish it off I added more splats of white acrylic paint.

If you haven't been over to The SOS Blog be sure to head that way

and see what the Design Team have created for you.

Such a fun challenge. Hope to see you there.

 

Thanks for coming by today.