It's Blooming PURPLE!

It's Saturday and you know that means - 

New Challenge at Just Us Girls

I'm Hosting our Photo Challenge and 

loved this one below on Pinterest.

Why? It's purple -  my favourite colour,

and my birthday coming up.

But my card is for my BFF's Birthday

which is just a few days before mine.

Oh and it is Spring here so there will be

some beautiful flowers blooming soon.

 

A few things to mention about my card - 

the majority of the dies used here

are from my early birthday package -

 she knows me well - couldn't wait so got them early

and have used quite a few of them already just not all of them!

The pretty paper was from her a few years ago

and blends in perfectly - Bazzill card stock.

The three gems on the flowers were also in my package.

Of course you knew the flowers were coloured with

 Lindy's Magical's!

The background dp is from my stash, stenciled lightly.

It looked rather dull so added 

Tim's Distress Glaze for a bit of sheen.

The tub is from STAMPlorations Fluttery Stamp/Die set

I cut across the top to tuck in my flowers.

Added some Art Alchemy Waxes for added colour

and finished with crochet cotton bow.

There are such beautiful cards over on Our Blog

from the Talented Loll - our September Guest

and the Amazing Girls who - like me share their creativity

with you weekly. Check them out AND

hope you join in this weeks challenge with yours.

You could be my Chic of the Week!

As it is the last Saturday in September we bid farewell

to our Super Talented Guest Loll.

It's been such a pleasure to have her share her

works of art with us this month.

Thanks for dropping in and leaving your kind comments.

Love Planted a Rose

 Welcome to today's post for

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sistah Darlene has chosen Stencils as our Theme

and it is a favourite of mine.

I had so many ideas running through my head

but in the end went quite CAS.

My background is from my bits box

with the shaving cream technique.

I stenciled the ARTplorations Rose Duet with

texture paste and let dry. I then applied a

 pearl white acrylic paint mixed with iridescent medium

to give it that extra sheen, matching the

grey background.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations About a Rose.

Attached to SU great card stock.

Pop over and see some fabulous stenciling 

from my Sistah's and I am sure you will 

want to play and add yours to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

CASE-ing Chrissie

 Hi there - popping in with a reminder for our

Sketch Challenge at Christmas Craft Creations

I was browsing Pinterest recently and came across a card our

Guest Designer Chrissie had made Here and realized

it's perfect for her sketch challenge so here is my 'cased' card.

Thanks Chrissie for the inspiration.

I was going to used the same colours as Chrissie

 but found a lovely piece in my bits box that was a left over

using Lindy's Magical's so carefully cut out the trees

and the stitched hills.

I added snowflakes to my background,

green cotton and sentiment

then popped onto white card base.

There you have my quick cased card.

Hope you have had time to play - if not

you still have time to add to our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post for Just Us Girls

It's our Photo Week and Hosting is Nancy choosing

lovely bright colours of red orange and yellow.

 

I thought I would get out my neglected 

SU Four Feathers stamp/die set for this one - 

making for an easy card with a sentiment

that really applies to these tuff times.

I used another one of my new AALL&CREATE stencils

for the background, inking with Tim's Squeezed Lemonade

then his speckles stencil with transparent matte texture paste

(a little hard to see)

The feathers are then inked with

Festive Berries, Crackling Campfire,

 Fossilized Amber and Squeezed Lemonade,

 die cut and popped. 

Added some more speckles and glossy accents either side,

a sprinkling of diamond dust to the middle feather,

a red bow and sentiment from

STAMPlorations Feathery.

Adhered to red card stock and white card base.

Pop over and see how our Talented Guest Loll 

and my also Talented Teamies chose to 

showcase these oh so bright colours then

get cracking and add yours to our Gallery.

You could be our Chic of the Week and

in the running to be our Guest in November.

Thanks for dropping in and leaving a comment.

Christmas Wishes for The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

It's always Anything Goes and here is 

my make for our Latest Challenge.

I had a lot of fun with this card going a bit grungy. 

Used Tim's Speckles Stencil,

 designer papers from Echo Park

and stars from Hero Arts.

Around the edges is Lawn Fawn Stitched Borders.

Sentiment is unknown.

Adhered to coloured card base.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

and come join in Our Gallery

Thanks for dropping in

A Christmas Shaker Deer

 It's Saturday and time for my post for

Just Us Girls and for her first post 

Elizabeth has chosen

 Shakers for our Trend Week.

We all have cards that we tend to only do

on rare occasions and shaker cards are one of mine

but a challenge is good to get your creative juices

working in a different direction.

Thanks Elizabeth for doing just that.

I do love the ARTplorations Deer Die and 

thought he would be a good character here.

I adhered some tartan paper to my white card base.

Added acetate behind the white card front

and tan paper for the deer,

then laid out my STAMPlorations Shaker Blends

with other bits that seem to have disappeared

 adding mounting tape to seal. After adhering that 

I found I didn't have enough sequins but

luckily I managed to pull the bottom apart and

add more. Off course I had to add splatters,

 a few more sequins and finish with an eye

for my deer and sentiment from

Happy Little Stampers Christmas Joy.

Pop over and see how our September Guest Loll

and the Team had fun with and hopefully

you get to add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

A Simply 'Cute' Taffy Teddy

 Time for our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

and choosing our Theme is

Sistah Aussie aNNie with a little twist to

Clean and Simple - it's Cute and Simple

so we need to see lots of 'cuties' on our simple cards.

I did have to look deep into my stamps and found

this tiny Taffy Teddy stamp that was a freebie a long long time ago.

Nice and simple with just a bit of blendng 

with watercolour pencils -  something I haven't used in ages.

Rummaged through to find some coloured and designer papers

to add as a background. 

The grey background has been embossed

with my good old Cuttlebug Swiss Dots and sanded.

Added some stamping/sentiment from the set

and I am done.

Pop over and see what 'cuties' my Sistah's created

and come have some fun with this super themed challenge.

Look forward to seeing you in the Gallery.

Till next time - 

'tis the Season

 It's time for our New Challenge over at

Christmas Craft Creations

We have a different theme each month

and it's a Sketch this time.

Here is my make.

and here is a close up of the trees and sparkly snow.

I have been playing with one of my favourite

 Screamin' Banshee Black  Magical's Powder

lately and knew it would be just right for

a bleak but snowy Christmas Creation.

Blended nicely with Lindy's Black Orchid Silver Spray

I created my background using acetate.

Added snow with distress grit paste for texture

and sparkle from Stampendous Crystal Snow.

 Tim's Great Outdoors stamp set is a festive favourite of mine 

and have used that for the background trees and stars.

Die cut the front trees from the same colours

as the background and popped for dimension.

Finished with my sentiment.

Die cut the frame, attached to black card stock and

onto white base. 

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

and come have some fun with us and

add yours to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

 

It's a Milestone 600th Challenge at Just Us Girls

What a Milestone we have reached at Just Us Girls

I am sooooooo lucky to be part of this amazing team.

It's our 600th Challenge! How Awesome!

To celebrate this milestone we have  a Giveaway

Thanks to our Awesome Angie.

You will have to go over to Our Blog to see what it is.

Vicki is Hosting and what a perfect chose for our Word Week - 

but wait! there's more. We have a new Guest Designer

and I am so happy and excited to have

Loll Thompson from Stamping with Loll

join us this month. 

Now I am sure everyone knows how talented she is

and will be sharing her talents with us all September. Yay!

A Very Big WarmWelcome Loll. 

Now on to my card - 

I did have a few ideas on this but in the end

I went with Designer Paper I have had for years.

I used one page and cut our the six squares

and backed them with coloured paper to blend.

Added some variegated cotton,

 tiny bee and butterfly from SU Collage Curios,

pearls and sentiment from Altenew Engraved Flowers.

I then adhered to another sheet of designer paper

and on to coloured card stock.

I photographed it in front of a sheet from the same pad.

Loll has made a gorgeous card for her first post

as our Guest Designer and so too my

oh so Talented Team Mates.

Pop over and see for yourself and 

join us in Celebration by adding your card

to our Gallery. You could be a prize winner

and/or our Guest Designer in November.

Thanks for coming by

A Mixed Up Recycle Make

 Hello and Welcome to my Mixed Media Make for

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Here is the front and back view of my

recycled cardboard creation and

as you can see -  from a beer carton.

There's not a lot to explain here just

having a fun play time with lots of 

different products used and adding

as I went along - not knowing how it would 

look finished.

I have used gesso as a white wash on the corrugated cardboard.

Distress grit paste always adds some nice texture.

Some grungy stamping, stenciling and

a bit of bark hiding behind my popped

smaller cardboard. There is also cheesecloth

and lots of glitter. Art Alchemy Stamps, Paints and

Waxes were added for colour.

Die cut flower is from Cherry Lynne. 

Finished with a simple sentiment.

I meant to add some blue wire to hang this piece

and forgot before photographing so will  do that.

Pop over and see what my Creative Team Mates

had fun with and hope you get a chance to add yours

to our Gallery this month.

Thanks for dropping in.

Thinking of You.

Hello and Welcome to my Saturday Post.

Lisa is our Host this week at Just Us Girls

for our Photo Week. 

Here's a close up!

What caught your eye here?

I saw all the lovely bright colours.

My background and die cuts are from

Lindy's Screamin Banshee Black

as I knew the various colours would show up nicely.

I then die cut Tim's Mixed Media Thinlits

adding a little stenciling to include

 yellow there and with my ribbon.

Die cut sentiment is from Crafts4You.

Finished by attaching to white card base

with a snippet of coloured paper on the side -

  something I picked up from teamie Cecile. 

As it is the last week of July 

it is the last post from our Guest Claire

so pop over and see what caught her eye

then on to the Team's Creations.

Always amazing makes!

PS Thank you so much for sharing

your talents with us this month Claire.

The Circus Comes to Town for a Birthday Celebration

What a fun challenge Vicki chose this time round for us at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters

Certainly one for the kiddies!

As I had nothing Circus-y in my stash I 

went delving into blogland for something appropriate.

What is a Circus with a Clown?

I chose this fun pre coloured clown as he seemd to be saying

Happy Birthday so that is the path I took.

I inked up the number stencil

to go with the birthday theme

and adhered to a coloured back.

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Pink & Maine

and cut from Spellbinder circle dies

tucked behind the numbered stencil.

Attached to bright coloured card stock.

There's some fabulous Circus Themed cards over at

Our Blog from my Talented Sistahs so

go check them out and add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for stopping by.

A Merry Make for Christmas Craft Creations

It's Reminder time at Christmas Craft Creations

and as a bonus I have another card for your pleasure.

I saw a card I really liked over on Pinterest Here

and have cased it.

I inked my background using acetate with 

Tim's Oxide Inks in Abandonded Coral and 

Salvaged Patina onto watercolour paper.

Added the Lawn Fawn white heat embossed leaves

from STAMPlorations Feathery.

Die cut my vellum tag from CUTplorations Tags 1.

The Merry Die from Hero Arts Merry Stamp & Cut

was cut three times for dimension and 

heat embossed with Zing Metallic Silver

and adhered to the vellum tag.

Inked the Christmas word underneath.

Added STAMPlorations Shaker Blend sequins

and tied my tag with variegated cotton from my stash.

Finished with corner rounding and 

attaching to white card base.

Pop over and see how my Talented Team Mates

chose to show off their Non Traditional Coloured cards

and come join in our Gallery. 

Hope to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your kind comments.

Another Merry Christmas card for The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

 It's that time again for a New Challenge over at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

and we have reached a Milestone #100 Challenges!

I had forgotten I had a lovely big snowflake die

from Cuttlebug and knew it would make a nice

CAS Christmas card. I die cut my topping

from some Christmas DP and again underneath

in blue to add a touch of colour.

This is when I rummaged through my embossing powders

as I knew I had one with a hint of blue and gold.

It's Wow Antlantic Seaspray -  perfect!

I die cut my snowflake twice and heat embossed

with the above powder. 

Just had to finish it off with a sentiment from

STAMPlorations inked and heat embossed clear,

 a big gem centred in the snowflake

and a few tiny heat embossed stars.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates

have in store for your pleasure.

Hope you are inspired to create

a Christmas card for our 100th Challenge.

Thanks for dropping in

Someone need a HUG!

Time for our new Challenge over at Just Us Girls 

and it is our Colour Week.

Carol is Hosting and chose such lovely colours for us.

I was so excited when I saw that my local online craft store

had added AALL&CREATE stencils and stamps

so a couple just fell into my cart as they do

and thought it only right I should ink one up straight away.

Another CAS card with simple stenciling and

die cuts. The pink flowers were cut twice 

and the heads cut again  for dimension.

A simple sentiment die cut and popped finished my card.

I have used crazed metallic paper for

texture and a nice shimmer.

Pop over and see how our Guest Claire

and the Jugheads chose to showcase

these soft colours.

Come join us with yours in our Gallery and

you could be our Chic of the Week and

a future Guest.

Thanks for dropping in

It's CASimply Black and White

It's Saturday and Trend Week at Just Us Girls Challenge 

Vicki is Hosting and chose BLACK and WHITE.

This called for a really CAS card.

 

I heat embossed the STAMPlorations Blossom Sprays 1

in black and added Nuvo Glitter Gloss to the flowers

die cut it the white frame and again in black with the bigger one.

Finished with my sentiment from 

STAMPlorations Bloom Sketches.

Easy Peasy eh!

It was near impossible to photograph

trying to get the shimmer to show up but 

you will all know just how nice it is IRL.

Pop over and see what our Guest Claire

and my Talented Teamies made

with this Simple Trend.

Thanks for dropping in - 

Happy Birthday Wishes

 It's time for our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters and it's

Leaf it to Chance

(use leaves on your project)

I think I have that covered!

It was a little difficult to get a good photo 

as the card stock I used is a lovely metallic paper

with a pattern. I bought it a few years ago from our

local Office Supplier.

The leaves are from SU Botanical Blooms

and Sizzix Thinlits 664377 including the flowers.

Sentiment die cut using SU Avant Garden.

Pop over and see what my Sistah's created

and join us this time round in our 

'Leaf it to Chance' Gallery

and we will pop in to see how

you chose to 'leaf' your creation.

Thanks for dropping in

Till next time - Cherrio from

A Pretty Poinsettia for Christmas Craft Creations

 I have some exciting news for you today.

I have joined the Talented Team at

Christmas Craft Creations.

We have a monthly themed Christmas Challenge and

I was so excited when I saw what the August Theme was as I

love making Non Traditional Coloured Christmas Cards and

a favourite of mine  is kraft as you can add any colour choice.

I decided to use some patterned metallic card stock -

it's not a white white because of the sheen.

I got out my favourite Spellbinders Poinsettia dies

and cut several for layering.

Background dies are from Tim's Mini Holiday Greens

and Memory Box Quinn Flourish.

The texture plate is embossed instead of die cut.

Added Lawn Fawn Hemp Cord behind the flourish.

Of course you have to have some snowy

pearl white splatters which break the plain background.

Sentiment die is from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Finished with some pearl coloured gems

to the flower centres.

Pop over and see how my Team Mates

chose to use Non Traditional Colours on their

Christmas creations.

Why not join in with yours.

It's good to get those Christmas cards in the ready!

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your kind comments too.