One in a Million!

Today's post is for AAA Colourful Challenge

and is my second make

and The Sisterhood of Crafters

Circle stamps are inked with Tim's Distress inks

Floral stampings - AALL&Create using Versafine Claire inks

Added splatters, die cut and framed in yellow

on to coloured card base.

Sentiment is also AALL&Create.

This card is also heading off to The Sisterhood of Crafters

for their Stripes and/or dots challenge

Thanks for visiting

Simply 'Merry Christmas'

It's the last challenge of the year at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters

and my last card as I am stepping down

as a Designer. I have so enjoyed being part of the

fabulous friendly Sistah's and I know they will

continue to impress you with their craft skills

and encourage you to add yours to their Gallery in the New Year.

Our challenge is simply CHRISTMAS!

so go all out , have fun and

add yours to our Gallery. I know it will be full of

amazing Christmas creations.

I found the pretty paper I used on my die cut trees

in my stash - had it for years!

Embossed background is an old CB Christmas one.

Added some gold cord, bow and pearls.

Sentiment is from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Card stock/base are metallic gold.

Thanks so much Darlene and  Sistah's

for the wonderful time I had as part of the Team.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Sweater Weather at the Sisterhood

 It's 'Sweater Weather' in the North

and that is our Theme at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

I went in a different direction with this card

as I  don't have any 'real sweater' stamps in my stash.

 Tim's Holiday Knits stencil came to the rescue.

I added colour and texture with

Cosmic Shimmer Golden Olive Metallic Gilding Polish

My Paper Smooches Merry Christmas Die

was cut several times for depth and adhered to vellum.

Framed and adhered to white base.

The Sistah's have created fabulous sweater cards

for your inspiration and I am sure you will

want to add yours to the Gallery.

See you there!

A Fall/Harvest Theme at the Sisterhood of Crafters

It's time for out New Challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters

with the Theme Fall/Harvest.

My card is fairly CAS, die cutting three

rectangles, inking with distress colours

and adding some grunge stamping to the edges.

My leaf is one I picked up with a bunch of others

walking back from the mailbox.

(I have a loooong driveway)

I popped the leaf, added some splatters,

simple sentiment and framed.

Finished by adhering to white card base.

Check out how the Sistah's chose to

create their Fall/Harvest cards and join in

with yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

A 'THISTLE' for Me!

We're getting 'Inky' at The Sisterhood of Crafters

for our New Challenge.

How FUN is that! So many ways to go with.

I do love getting all inky and creating but this time

while I was looking for a 'messy' background

I found this beauty made with alcohol inks 

and knew what die I would use.

Easy peasy when you have the backing -

just had to add a black die cut thistle

and perfect word sentiment from AALL&Create.

Unfortunately the gold hasn't shown up in the photo.

Added a black frame and attached to 

matching card base. 

My Sistah's have been busy getting inky

so head over to Our Blog and check them out.

Hope you get time to join in.

Thanks for visiting

Thankful Always.

 Our New Challenge over at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters is Live

and we are looking for PUMPKINS!

I got out my favourite 

STAMPlorations Pumpkin Stamp/Die set

Oh So Grateful. 

Stencil is ARTplorations Barley

Sentiment STAMPlorations - Grateful Flutters

Coloured withTim's Oxide Inks and Lindy's Magical's.

I lay the popped pumpkin onto a bed of sisal.

Adhered to brown card base.

My Sistah's have had fun creating with our

'Pumpkin' Theme and I am sure you will too.

Hope you add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

The 'Shape of Things'

Our New Challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters

is all about shapes of all sorts

I found this Layered Circle Technique recently

on YouTube Here

and decided to try it out with some DP's in my stash.

So easy to make and so 'fun'.

Circle die cuts are from MFT and the

small circles - Ringlets from Memory Box

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations

and finished with adhering to white card base.

Just before that I decided to add it on an angle

just to be a little different.

Pop over and see what my Sistahs created

with this fun theme.

Love to check yours out in our Gallery.

 

We're in Collaboration with ALTENEW at the Sisterhood of Crafters

We have something exciting happening over at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

We have been invited to be part of 

Altenew's September Inspiration Challenge.

Check it out At Altenew Here

We have our usual Challenge and Theme is Die Cuts with

Anything Goes and is

In Collaboration with ALTENEW

Here is my creation for our Sisterhood Challenge

For our Die Cuts Challenge

I have gone CAS with my DP background from Paper Rose.

Dies are Tim's Wildflowers/Mixed Media Die

and my wee bow from Waffle Flower

cut in black (bow shadowed in yellow)

Sentiment is Woodware Going to Seed

adhered to black card base.

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Now to showcase my make as part of the

Altenew Collaboration

I saw this fabulous card over on Pinterest Here

 The background and the variegated colours used

are just my style so this is a case of Sharon White's card.

Also perfect as the stamp/die set used are from 

Altenew-  Beautiful Day Found Here

I heat embossed my florals with 

Lindy's Prairie Wildflowers Magical Set.

The background is a little hard to see and is 

Seth Apter's stamp SBS-020 inked

with heavy gesso onto white card stock and

 lightly sponged with Tim's Frayed Burlap.

Sentiment is from the Beautiful Day Set

 heat embossed in Gold onto vellum.

Added a pearl to the popped die cut flower,

some scattered coloured pearls and splatters.

Adhered to gold card base.

 There will be a $50 gift certificate PRIZE offered by Altenew to our winner 

so be sure to enter our Die Cuts/Anything Goes Challenge

for a chance to win that fabulous gift cetificate and

be sure to use Altenew Products.

If you don't have any there are Free Colouring Pages

 you can download to play along Here

You will want to add it to the Altenew 

Altenew Inspiration Challenge as there are

$30 Gift Certificates to be won by Four Entries

with the chance to be a Future Guest  Designer.

Altenew Winners will be announced on October 10th.

Our Challenge closes Sunday 24th.

You can't lose with so much going for you with 

Altenew and the Sisterhood of Crafters

prizes to be won. 

A Silhouette Sunset

Time is just flying by and we have a New Challenge at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters and it is

MAKE A SCENE!

It has been a little while since I got out my 

Lindy's Magical's and thought the vibrance

of the colours would suit this challenge.

I added the colours by swiping with a paint brush

and a bit of dabbling with a sponge.

My tree is an OLDIE from Repeat Impressions

inked with Versafine Clair Pinecone

and heat embossed clear.

It has a lovely soft purple tinge to it .

Sentiment is also an old stamp from SU

 inked and embossed.

Die cut and framed in brown.

Attached to cream card base.

Pop over and see what my Sistah's created

and hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Keeping it Simple!

We are looking to Keep it Simple for our New Challenge at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

I love when a CAS card comes together quickly.

Sometimes they just don't but this one did.

My two step stamp is Rubbernecker Poppies 719

inked with Memento London Fog and

VersaFine Clair Nocturne.

Light stamping in the background is

Darkroom Door French Script.

Sentiment is from Woodware Going to Seed.

Die cut frame and inserted grey card stock

and adhered to black card base.

My Sistahs have made such lovely 'simple' cards

for your inspiration. Check them out and

join in by adding yours to the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

A Burst of Tropical Colours

 We are going Tropical for the New Challenge at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

What to me is more tropical than the

beautiful hibiscus flowers!

I added bursts of tropical colours for the background

touching up the floral hibiscus spray with extra colour

from STAMPlorations and popped an extra one on top.

Die cut the frame, added a pearl and sentiment.

Backed with coloured card stock onto white frame.

My Sistahs have created fabulous tropical bliss so

head over and check them out.

We would love to see your tropical creation 

in our Gallery so come on over.

Thanks for visiting

What's Growing in your Garden?

What's growing in your garden?

The Design Team at  The Sisterhood of Crafters

are looking for beautiful blooms

or maybe the garden tools that you need to produce them.

There aren't many here at the moment as Winter arrived

but I am sure our Aussie Annie's garden will be 'blooming'

Cut out some woodgrain DP for my fence

with some inked shrubs in the background.

Added greenery and coloured flowers from my stash. 

I thought the sentinent fitted the theme nicely.

Finished with some coloured/plain framing.

Check out what is in my Sisitah's gardens.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for taking time to visit and comment.

Sea Shells by the Sea Shore

Over at The Sisterhood of Crafters 

it's time to go to The Beach!

What do you love about the sun sand and surf?

I always like to get my feet wet but 

love going for a long walk and collect shells.

Added a splash of colour and some

cheesecloth to the background of my 

coloured sea shells from AALL&Create.

Finished with a simple sentiment

and some splashes.

Head over and 'sea' (pun intended)

what inspired my Sistahs with their

Beachy cards and come join in

with yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Two Hearts Beat as One.

Over at The Sisterhood of Crafters we are looking for

Weddings!

Unfortunately it was difficult to get a

decent photo. 

The card stock is a cream metallic.

Embossing folder is an old SU one.

Wedding couple are from an un inbranded die.

Finished of with red pearls and sentiment

from Kaisercraft. 

My Sistahs have created beautiful wedding photos

for your inspiration so pop over and check them out.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

Till next time - 

Wild and Free...

It's time for our New Challenge over at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters and it is

all about BIRDS! Just the birds...

Lightly stenciled the background.

Cut my big bird die from ARTplorations,

 inked her up with Tim's distress inks,

 a little Lindy's shimmer,

heat embossing Kaisercraft script

with SU silver.

Perched on the MB Woodland branch

and inked sisel for the nest.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations.

Attached to brown card base.

My Sistah's have an amazing array

of beautiful birds to share with you

so pop over and check them out and

add yours to the Gallery.

We would love to see them.

Thanks for visiting

Butterfly Flutter!

Time for our New Challenge at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters with one that is so popular

BUTTERFLIES!

and don't we all have an abundance of these beautiful creatures.

I decided not to stamp any of them but to pull out

some (just some) of my already die cuts - 

mostly from SU and a few Spellbinder ones.

Neutral colours were chosen for the card base

and background so I could pick

all sorts of pretty colours.

My big Happy die is from Heidi Swapp

die cut twice and birthday from Pink & Maine.

Head over and see how my Sistahs 

chose to show off our Butterfly Theme.

I am sure you will want to join in

and add to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Raindrops are Falling...

 

April Showers are falling over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters but for me

they are BIG raindrops from a big shower!

There are times when a challenge really stumps you

and Mo and Jo flee to the hills.

Well that is what happened to me with this one,

lots of procrastinating and finally -

decided showers are raindrops right?

so off  I went to gather my supplies.

Background is Lindy's Magical's,

raindrops are from Carabelle.

Floral image is AALL&Create #752 Elegant Stems

stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne and heat embossed clear.

Cut out a flower head in two parts, popped and coloured with

Tim's Kitsch Flamingo and

 Nuvo Catherine Wheel Shimmer Powder.

Sentiment is AALL&Create #754 Power of the Word.

Head over and see how the rain fell on my Sistah's creations

and come join in with yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Colour Me a Rainbow

What's our Theme this time round at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

We are looking for Rainbow/Rainbow Colours.

For my rainbow background I used Tim's Distress inks

with the Scratchy Stencil from Kaisercraft.

Lavinia stamping with Versafine Clair Nocturne

leaving one lighter and heat embossed clear.

Sentiment is from AALL&Create Power of the Word

Framed in black onto white card base.

Check out what my Sistahs created for your inspiration

and we would love to see yours in our Gallery. 

Thanks for visiting

Going Green!

Welcome to my post for Sisterhood Of Crafters

We are looking a little Green - could it be

some people are thinking 

The Luck of the Irish!

I usually do but went in a different direction.

Once again I found a lovely background in my bits box

and a little Mixed Media was created with

stamping and stenciling the background

then inking up this lovely tree

and sentiment from STAMPlorations -  Wild and Free

Distressed the edges and inked in black,

adhering to green card base.

Head over to The Sisterhood and check out how my

Talented Mates chose to use GREEN on their projects.

Hope to see yours there.

#Update Sending this card over to

Try it on Tuesday as they are also looking GREEN 

Here

Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You

We are looking for Dots and or Stripes for

our New Challenge over at Sisterhood of Crafters

As you can see I went with SU Designer Paper that has both.

It is long retired but loved that pack.

I have made a card similar to this before mainly because

the paper does all the work.

A simple card using a few Spellbinder dies.

The flower is from Tim's Wildflowers

Sentiment - Crafts4You.

Head over and see how my Sistah's chose

to inspire you with their creations.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Till next time -