Happy Birthday!

 It's time for our New Challenge at

Cut It Up with the Theme -

Add a Sentiment.

The background sure is a fun technique.

A little messy but the result is always spectacular.

Find a deep edged stencil and add bright powders to the

debossed side Spray lightly with water and carefully close

  making sure your card front is faced down 

to get the detail, close gently and run through your machine.

Showing the detail.

I used Lindy's Magicals -

Cowabunga Copper, Bratwurst Brown and

Nuvo Golden Sparkler.

The big Happy Birthday die was cut with

gold paper and a tiny shadow behind in white.

Adhered to white card base.

Pop over and see what my Design Team Mates created

and hope to see your SENTIMENT  card in our Gallery.

Sending this card to

 Inkspiration Challenge #347 Mood Board

  the August Word Power Challenge

Mine is Happy Birthday.

Addicted to Stamps & More

Challenge #498 Birthday

Sunday Stamps #366 Summer Petals

with the three colours on the right.

and Krafty Chicks #780 Birthday

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Another Birthday Card.

There's nothing better than spending a bit of time

in my 'playstation' on a cold drizzly day.

Here's what evolved!

There are a few challenges I will send this off to.

This is my second card for Addicted to Stamps and More

for their Birthday Challenge

and The Flower Challenge  has a CAS Challenge

A favourite stamp I like to use for a CAS card is

Rubbernecker Watercolor Poppies #719.

This time round I went in a different direction.

Instead of heat embossing the outline  and then

water colouring I inked the solid image with

Tim's Oxide Spiced Marmalade and added a

shake of Lindy's Cuckoo Clock Cardinal

lightly misting the stamp and placing it

onto Canson Cold Pressed W/C paper

leaving it for a minute to penetrate.

I then stamped the outline with

Versafine Clair Tulip Red.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

heat embossed in black.

Die cut and adhered to coloured card stock.

Finishing by attaching to card base.

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Celebrating a Birthday at Addicted to Stamps and More

The current challenge over at 

Addicted to Stamps and More is

Birthdays

I have a few female birthdays I need to post cards off to

and flowers never go astray do they?

Got out my Doodled Flowers Stamp Set from

Happy Little Stampers, heat embossing with

Nuvo Gold Enchantment.

Coloured with Nuvo Blue Blitz Shimmer Powder.

Die cut a leaf flourish and coloured with

Nuvo Green Parade.

Fussy cut the flowers and attached to background

embossed with Darice Henna.

Happy Die is from Heidi Swapp,

birthday stamp from above set.

Added some Nuvo Blue Lagoon Dew Drops

to the main flower.

Attached to coloured card base.

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A 'CAS' Thinking of You card

Today's post is for
Addicted to Stamps and More
and our new Challenge is

Once more I have inked up a fairly new stamp of mine -
Woodware Going to Seed.
I saw This Card over on Pinterest and decided to Case It.
I cut out a Spellbinder die to use as a mask and inked
inside with Versafine Clair Cheerful and Summertime.
Stamped over it with my Seed Stamp with the Fallen Leaves
(those ink pads ink up so well)
and inking the edges. Added some score lines
and Nuvo Shimmer to the bigger images.
Sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers.
Attached to white card base.
Pretty CAS but colourful.

Hope you pop over and see what the Team have created
and come join in our Challenge this week.
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What lies 'Under the Sea'

We have the most beautiful photo at

Addicted to Stamps and More for this weeks Challenge.

I couldn't go past the sea shell covered in pearls.

As you can see that is where my inspiration came from.

Lots of smooching for my background,

stamping some fish netting, adding grit texture paste,

ink splatting, fussing cutting my coloured sea shells

 and popping them. Added lots of glitter, pearls

and gems. Finished with an appropriate sentiment.

Pop over and see how the Team were inspired

and come add yours to the Gallery.

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It's the 'Holiday Theme' at Addicted to Stamps and More

Hello and Welcome to my post for

Addicted to Stamps and More

As you can see it is our Holiday Challenge.
This is my first Christmas Card for the year!

I have used one of my favourite stencils from ARTplorations
My background is a bit of smooching and after I
heat embossed my deer I covered him in gold
then carefully inked in a darker blue.
Sentiment and die are from Hero Arts.
Backed with gold paper on to blue card base.
Pop over and see what the rest of the Team created
and hope you will add a holiday card to our Gallery.
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Anything Goes at Addicted to Stamps and More

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

 Addicted to Stamps and More

It's everyone's favourite and I chose something simple.

Inked up some grungy stamps from STAMPlorations,

punched out some tiny flowers, die cut my butterfly

and added some sparkle dust to the centre.

Finished with scattered gems.

This was popped onto white card base

Now it is your turn.

Pop over and see what my team mates created

and join in our Gallery.

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It's 'Black Magic'

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Addicted to Stamps and More

This will be my last posting as a Designer here

as new doors have opened for me and 

it's in a different direction.

I will still be card making - just not as many

as I normally do. 

Sorry for the poor quality of this photo.
You know how hard it is with metallic paper.

This card was made quite some time ago

and never got around to blogging it -

so here is my attempt at the

Black Ice Technique.

I had this sticky backed metallic paper

and decided to try it out.

You can find the processHere.

While heat embossing it I noticed

that the edges were curling so 

I continued with it and liked the result.

Adhered it to grey card stock.

My rose stamp is from Penny Black called Temptation.

I bunched up my black ribbon 

adding a Starform Sticker to finish.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created for our

Challenge.

Look forward to seeing you in our Gallery.

Thanks so much for your lovely encouraging comments.

Also a BIG THANK YOU to Kylie for giving me the 

opportunity to be part of this Team.

Till next time Cherrio from

It's a Holiday card for?

It's a Holiday Themed Challenge over at

Addicted to Stamps and More 

and I chose a very unusual one for my card.

It's for St Patrick's Day on Saturday 17th.

Not the traditional Four Leaf Clover

or Pot of Gold card. 

I found the stamp I used among my friends stash 

had horse shoes and for me that brings Good Luck

 BUT

they have to be the right way up and they were - 

can't have that luck fall out!

so my card was born. 

Now to start from the back - this was sprayed with

green magicals (sorry don't know the colour)

and framed in white.

I then smooched my background for the stamp

from the same bottle then heat embossed in black.

This was cut from a Spellbinder die and popped.

Finished with some green gemstones.

Couldn't find a place for a sentiment so

decided to add an Irish Blessing from Google on the inside.

That's my post for today but don't forget to

pop over and see what Holiday Themed cards

my Team Mates have made for your inspiration.

I am sure you will find a holiday that could

celebrate by making something for this challenge.

Hope so!

Till next time Cherrio from

Just 'Hello'

It's everyone's Favourite Anything Goes Challenge at
Addicted to Stamps and More
Here's my take.

and a close up of the shiny dragonfly

I went CAS here and if you look closely at the
ornate dragonfly from Fancy That you will see
I have cut it out from  a scrap piece of glossy paper
which was inked up with Brusho's and cling wrapped.
I chose where to cut it as I wanted to show of the
wings and tail in different bright colours.
My background has a very light smooching.
Popped up my frame which was cut from
MFT Peek a Boo die. Added the dragonfly
and finished with a sentiment from
STAMPlorations Feathers 2.



Pop over and see what my Team Mates
have created and come join us.
Hope to see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in.
Love reading your kind comments.

It's simply a 'Deer'

Hey there Crafty Ones - today post is for

the new Challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More

and I couldn't be happier when I saw the beautiful mood board

for our Photo Inspiration Challenge.

You will know what caught my eye as

you will have seen me using this gorgeous deer from 

ARTplorations Christmas Reindeer Stencil 

a few times now and what got me excited also was

the amazing ribbon I used which came all the way from Scotland

with my Christmas card - how perfect.

This was a simple card to make using black card stock and 

gold paper to frame my deer.

 I simply smotheredthe black card with Versamark  

and heat embossed in gold.

Added some Inka Gold splatters,

that beautiful ribbon and some 

Starform strips down either side.

My Merry Christmas sentiment was also

heat embossed and from Gina K Designs.

Yay! my first Christmas card for 2018.

I love looking to see what others pick out

for Photo Inspiration Challenges and

the Team have created a gorgeous variety

for you to oooh and aaah over so

go check them all out Here

and come join us. 

Love to see you in our Gallery!

Thanks for dropping in.