A simple 'Happy Hello'

Hello Crafty Friends

I saw this super challenge over at 

Less is More - it's their Challenge #316 Alphabet

and thought I would give it a whirl especially as

were sponsoring.

Off course I got out some of the products

I have in my stash and inked up a little something!

As the blog states  cas this was right up my alley here.

I have used basic card stock in black & white.

For my background I inked up stamps from

STAMPlorations Scribbly Splattery Grunge

VIGNETTE Chevron & Arrows (sentiment)

VIGNETTE Celebrate Artsy and

my Hello die CUTplorations Word Die

(cut 4 times for dimension)

Inks used were - SU Tangarine Tango

Tim Holtz Distress Inks -

Crushed Olive/Mowed Lawn/Tea Die

Squeezed Lemonade/Black Soot

Adding this Here and
I would also like to pop this card over to
The Paper Players for their
PP#332 Challenge


 Thanks for dropping in today. 



'PARTY TIME' at Shopping our Stash

How much fun are you going to have playing with
the current challenge over at Shopping our Stash 

It's all about Mardi Gras and a Party Theme.
Pop over to the Link above for all the Details.

 I am certainly enjoying my stint as February's Guest.
 

 

Lucky for me I had this stamp set that had lots of party type images

that came with the Fiskers stamp thingy with the

orange sponge ends - you know what I mean!
I didn't think I would ever use it - wrong!

 I started inking up various images with SU Calypso Coral and

Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers/Black Soot.

For the background  I got out my Dutch Doobadoo Pop Art Stencil

 and inked up randomly with more TH inks - Mowed Lawn/Crushed Olive
Memento Peanut Brittle and some dots from SU
This was cut from a stitched die.
Added glossy accents to the bubbles - and above and below. The glass was then touched up with WOS and finished by adhering to brightly coloured card stock.
 

 

I am sure you will want to check out what the
Design Team created and be inspired to come play.
Hope to see you there. Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

I'ts all about 'Wood' at Addicted to CAS

Here I am again for the Current Challenge at Addicted to CAS
The code word is 'Wood' Details are Here

 

 

This card was so easy to make

. I inked up my Dark Room Door Woodgrain Textured Stamp

onto White cs with Marvy Timeless Sepia.

My flower is from Inspired by Stamping - Elegant Flowers

 heat embossed with Zing Opaque Finish and

 filled in with Seedless Preserves Distress Ink.

This was fussy cut and popped.

Finished with my sentiment also from IBS

and a little spritzing and corner rounding.

 

 

 

Thanks so much for dropping in.

I love reading your kind comments.

 



Thinking of You

Hello my Crafty Friends.

Today I would like to show you a card I have made for the

Current Challenge over at Addicted to CAS

 

 

This time round the code word is 'WOOD'.

Details Here

 

I simply inked my SU Woodgrain stamp onto

Kraft card stock with Vintage Photo Distress Ink.

I then cut out a SB white square and scallop square in brown.

My branch is by Memory Box.

Inked up a flower from SU Morning Meadow

with Peacock Feathers and WOS for a little sheen.

The sentiment is from GKD.

Finished with a few pearls to match my flower.

And there you have it for this time round.

I really enjoyed this challenge so you will

see another card I made soon.

 

 

Thanks so much for dropping in.

Till next time - Cherrio from

 

Thinking of 'Spring'

When I saw the beautiful Inspiration Palette over at

The House that Stamps Built I knew I had to play
and over at Dies R Us Challenge for their
Think Spring Challenge. Details Here

 

 

 

I did try and make a card with an envelope but

you know where that landed up. Just didn't work out right!

Starting off with that beautiful stamp from

Repeat Impressions - Vase of Tulips

(one of my favourites)

I heat embossed it with Zing Blush

and painted the flowers in the colours

on the palette. These are metallic paints I

picked up at an office supply store and they have

given me a new love of colouring in -

so easy to use I just use a water brush.

I was really happy how the vase tuned out motely

and in two colours.

This was cut from SB Romantic Rectangles

and popped onto white cs cut with a stitched die

stencilled with TCW Mini Hex Flowers

in Memento Angel Pink.

Sentiment is from 49ANDMarket heat embossed

and cut from vellum with SB Fancy Labels.

Added a couple of tiny pearls to finish.

#Also going to pop this over to
Hiding in my Craftroom for their
Challenge #189 Embossing

 

Thanks for dropping in today.
Love reading your comments.



It's our 'Colour Week' at Just Us Girls

Judy is our Host for this week's Colour Challenge at Just Us Girls
This is a favourite of mine and also the great colours chosen.

I love kraft card stock as a base and red and black
always makes a great combination.
I topped my card base with matching cs with a stitched die
 heat embossing it with VersaMark ink
stamped with SU Beyond Basics
and a tiny flower from STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes.
My main flower is cut from a Marianne Die with DP from Bella.
Centre pearl is a brad - yes a brad - those little things we
all have a stack off and now out of vogue.
I backed that with ribbon making sure I had some black.
I then added some little punched out flowers adding
tiny pearls to the centre and
  randomly adding more pearls.
My sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.


Be inspired by checking out Our Blog
to see what our February Guest Michele Greenwood
and the 'Team' created.
Hope to see you there. You could be chosen as our
Chic of the Week and go on the be our
Guest in April.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Just a 'Little Reminder'

It's that time of the month when we send out a
'Little Reminder' about the current CAS Challenge over at
STAMPlorations - just in case you got sidetracked
like we all do from time to time so
better get to it and get your entry in!

 

There are lots of bits & bobs inked up here and it
really is just a cas card.
Here are the products I used -
White Card Stock
Stitched Die
MFT Peek a boo Stitched Die (insert popped)
STAMPlorations VIGNETTE-Chevron-and-Arrows
Scribbly Splattery Grunge
Groove Shoes
ARTplorations  Dots All Over
Memento Angel Pink
Versacolor Pink 33
SU Melon Mambo
Tim Holtz Festive Berries
Pearls
Pink dots from the rubber end of a pencil
Tiny Heart Punch



Our CAS Card Challenge is pretty simple:
it's straightforward anything CAS goes
with the optional color twist.
 Create a clean and simple card with or without the colour
we've picked to include.
For February, our optional color is hot pink.
 (You can use other colours.)



I will be linking my card up in the above Challenge Here
Don't forget the 20% Discount Code on the side bar
when ordering your goodies from Our Site

Don't forget to pop over and see what the rest of the
Talented Team created as their 'reminder'

Hope to see you there.



It's the "Last Day' for our 'LOVE' TAGplorations Blog Hop

 

I hope you have enjoyed all the fabulous 'Tag'

projects the Team over at STAMPlorations have

been so busy creating for you.

I know I have enjoyed the challenge of
getting out of my comfort zone

making tags - something I don't make very often.

This is our last day -

 

 

So for something different I have made a few cards with tags!

I won't go into too much detail as to

how/what  I used on my cards but will

detail all the items from the STAMPlorations Blog

 

 

There is so much going on in this card - stencilling  

stamping die cutting to name the main ones.

From STAMPlorations I used -

STAMPlorations Floral Bliss  Vignette Chevron and Arrows

and Groovy Shoes

ARTplorations Zen Hearts and ARTplorations Rows of Hearts

CUTplorations XOXO Word Die Cut and

 ARTplorations Word Die Cut

Spellbinder dies, ribbon, cotton and pearls.

 

 

and the same goes with this one but not as much  

I inked STAMPlorations ARTplorations Rows of Hearts

with my Versamark ink pad on kraft cs.

Tag and background was then made up from

STAMPlorations Vignette Celebrate Artsy

STAMPlorations Scribble Splattery Grunge and

STAMPlorations Floral Bliss heat embossed in white

and cut from Spellbinder die and popped.

Sponging around edges of the tag and floral images.

Behind my tag is the SB Heart Circle die

which was also inked with the Grunge stamp.

Sentiment was cut from a MFT Stitched die

and from STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2 

Finished with own ribbon and a tiny pink heart.

 

Hope you have been busy creating and commenting

as there are LOADS of great prizes to win.

Pop over To Our Main Blog for all the details and

don't forget you can use my discount code STAMPGIRLINA

to get 20% off your goodies in our STAMPlorations Store.

How good is that?

 

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my blog

and I am sure you have also been hopping all over

to see how creative the 'Team' have been.

 

By the way our Love TAGplorations wouldn't be

the success it is if it wasn't for our most generous

Leader - Shery Russ so

Thank You from the bottom of my Heart.

 

 

 

 

 

 



Happy Ever After at Shopping our Stash

It's time again for a new challenge over at Shopping our Stash

and this week we are looking for a Romantic Project

BUT without a Heart.

I was given the bride/groom die cut from a friend

(Thanks Cheryl) and what better time to use it.

I decided to go with 2 different types of metallic card stock here.

One has a pattern on it with a slight greeny tinge

and the other more pronounced. Tricky to photograph.

Using a retired SU embossing folder as my background

I then cut out one frame from MFT and the other Spellbinders.

Adhered the bride & groom image and added my sentiment

which is from Gina K Designs and finishing with pearls

the same colour as my paper.

 

Thanks for dropping in -

Be sure to go over and check what the

Talented Team at Shopping our Stash

have made for your inspiration

and hope to see your creation there.

 

 



Delight in a 'Cup of Tea'

Sponsoring this weeks challenge over at Cupcake Inspirations 

is STAMPlorations and a bunch of their Designers

have been supporting this challenge as Guests.

I was one of those and now I decided to

add another card to the gallery.

 

 

I recently purchased the Poppy Die called Teacup Stack

and thought this a perfect opportunity to try it out.

I cut it in the red white and black carefully

trying to keep as many pieces together so I could

pick what I wanted where. I then cut another piece out

of jac paper to stick my main piece to the card stock.

 

 

I took my inspiration this time from

those tiny hearts on top of that yummy looking icing.

Just looking at them made me hunger for something sweet.

***

My card base is black topped with red then

I got out my ARTplorations Rows of Hearts

and stencilled through it with red acrylic paint

add some random grunge from

STAMPplorations Scribbly Splattery Grunge

then added my sentiment from

STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2

I thought the sentiment went nicely

with a cup of tea. I do enjoy mine

first thing in the morning (and out of a teapot)

Finished with corner rounding on side.

 

STAMPloraton products used above.

 

#EDIT I am going to pop this over to

Give a Crafter a Cookie for their

Cookie Challenge #62

Again I went with the hearts and tiny dots

which I added to the top cup.

 

Thanks so much for popping in today.

Love reading your comments so don't be shy!

 



It's a 'FIRST'

Welcome to the 'Very First' Season's Greetings

Anything Goes Christmas Challenge.

 

This is a 'LONG POST'

 

I got caught out badly last year with my Christmas card making

so decided to 'try' and remedy that by starting them earlier.

Well it so happens that there was a 'Design Team Call'

for a new Christmas Challenge and I thought

what a great opportunity it would be to apply.

I was fortunate in being chosen as one of the 'Designers'

There are 2 Teams named  in true Aussie Style

as it is based in my home state of Queensland Australia

Team Kangaroo - I am on this one

and

Team Koala joining in Challenge #2 in two weeks time.

So here goes -

Check it all out HERE

 

Here is the card I made for your Inspiration

 

I started off with my base of kraft card stock
and then went on to add some layers.
The white background has been cut with a
stitched die and as I didn't have a big
'LOVE' stamp with Christmas on it
I made a computer generated one.
Added some scoring and a few pearls.
For my focal image I got out my
 Spellbinders Poinsettia die cutting several
with white card stock. While they were still in the die
I inked them with Clear Wink of Stella.
 I then made my backing with white and gold paper.
Added some Christmas Ribbons from my stash
and leaves from Tim Holtz Mini Holiday Greens.
Finished with another pearl on my flower.

You can see the shimmer from the wos
 ***
Hope you will pop over to our Blog 

 and check out what my Team Mates (Aussie Saying)
have made. Love to see you join in and kick start
those Christmas cards early.
 

Thanks for popping in today.

 

 



Celebrating at CAS on Sunday

 

The girls at Clean and Simple on Sunday are going blue!

Is it because of the cold weather? No it is their Colour Challenge.

Details are Here

Aren't they divine?

 

I don't think I have ever seen a blue poppy but

I love this Rubbernecker watercolour poppy stamp.

It is a 2 step stamp so I inked up the outline

on water colour paper with Memento Teal Zeal

then for the second part with SU Baja Breeze slightly to the side.

I then touched it up with some metallic paints.

The centre of the flowers were dotted with a white uniball pen.

My Celebrate is from the CUTplorations die

first in navy peaking out the back and then blue.

Added a bit of spritzing and finishing with matting

to match the above colours.

Thanks for popping in to see what I have ben up to.

Love to read your comments.

PS This card was so hard to photograph trying

to show all the colours required.

***

I'll be back early tomorrow with a brand new

card for a brand new Blog I am designing for.

See you then.

 

 

 

 

 



All you need is a 'CUPCAKE'

STAMPlorations  are sponsoring
Cupcake Inspirations Challenge #394
and I have made this card as part of the
 STAMPlorations Guest Designers
You can find all the details from the Link above.

 

 

 

 

I started off with the basic card stock of red & white.

The cupcake image/sentiment are digi images

 from our very own Shery Russ. Thanks Shery.

My cupcakes were inked up with a

black and red sparkley gelly roll pens.

This was then matted with red card stock and

attached to my background which was cut from

a Spellbinder Scalloped Die. I then got out my

ARTplorations Dots all Over stencil

and inked with red distress ink but was too plain

so  used texture paste in white - then it looked

lost so that is when I inked it with TH Festive Berries

straight from the ink pad and got this great mottled effect.

This was popped and attached to a piece of cs.

I then embossed with some really old

cuttlebug embossing (remember those little strips?)

It needed something to break the white.

I finished with the sentiment, some cotton and a tiny heart.

 

This shows a better view of the shine from the pens.

It does look pink but I think that is because of the

shimmer from the pens.

Thanks so much for dropping in. There are so many more

Guests participating this week so pop over and see

what they have created

with the Talented Designers from

Cupcake Inspirations.