Celebrate the Season for CAS Christmas

Hello and Welcome

The new challenge over at

CAS Christmas Challenge is a beauty

and sure to be a big hit with a 

favourite Christmas Flower - Poinsettia

to take pride of place for this month.

Check it out Here
Over at Little Red Wagon their Challenge is
Christmas in July so this card will be in both Galleries.

This was the easiest and quickest Christmas card

I have ever made so it's going to be mass produced

for later in the year to help me out 'cause

I am so far behind and I know I will 

need them in a hurry.

Here is how I made it.

That beautiful poinsettia is the

STAMPlorations Large Christmas Flower

I saw Shery - the Owner make a card with this flower

and she stamped the back of the stamp then turned it around

and stamped the correct side off centre a bit and that is

what I have done here. Doesn't it look fabulous!

I used Memento Sweet Plum on the background and

Eldenberry on the main image.

Added some WOS Gold/Green

to the centre berries and Nuvo Glitter Gloss

on the front flowers.

Added my sentiment from

STAMPlorations Framed Celebrate the Season

Cut this from a stitched die and attached to

SU Rich Razzleberry card stock.

I refrained from added gems or glossy accents

on those berries and think I did the right thing.

# AAA Cards are also celebrating

Christmas in July Here so joining in

their Gallery also.

# Update - and how could I not add this card to the

Monochrome Magic Challenge  over at

Monochrome Magic with the 

Twist of Purple!

and The Flower Challenge has

Monochrome as well. Yay!

I do love 'Purple'

Thanks for dropping in.

Love reading your Comments.

They're So Sweet

Hello and Welcome to my
Saturday Post for Just Us Girls
It's our Word Week and Hosting is Carol
choosing a scrumptious word
CITRUS

It's a New Month and our Guest for July is
the Talented Julia Aston from
https://createwithjulia.blogspot.com/
A big Welcome Julia - so happy to enjoy your talents
with us this month.

It certainly isn't icy pole weather here
but more like winter fruits of oranges and mandarins.
Don't have any stamps like that so icy poles it is!

I cut them with the CUTplorations Sweet Cravings die
 from white card stock then
and filled the empty space with some squiggles from
STAMPlorations  Balloons & Banners in matching colours
and inking the edges.
I then had fun with the background with Tim's Oxide Inks.
I added some glossy accents and Nuvo Drops to the icy poles
and bows from Waffle Flower.
My Sweet Sentiment is from CUTplorations also.
Finished by attaching to matching orange card stock.

Thanks for dropping in
Love reading your comments.
Don't forget to pop over to Our Blog
to see Julia and the Team's
Citrus Creations.
Come join us in the Gallery.
You could be our next Chic of the Week
by doing so.

A 'Wild One'

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Crafting with Dragonflies

I'm Guesting this time round for our New Challenge

and we are looking for Animals.

I went 'WILD' here inking up this Lion

from the Happy Little Stampers 'Born to be Wild'

stamp set. 

I started the background using 

Tim's Oxide Inks in Fossilized Amber

and Spiced Marmalade onto photo paper

smooching and drying as I went along.

I sealed that with Tim's Distress Glaze

which bring the colours back to life.

I then cut a peek a boo frame from MFT
and a stitched die

from watercolour paper and smooched

the same colours as above only in Distress this time.

Add a few splatters of Black Soot.

This was then popped onto black card stock.

Sentiment is from the same stamp set.

Pop over and see what the Dragonfly Designers

created HERE and hope you get time to

join in the Gallery.

I am going to pop this over to the

Happy Little Stampers Gallery

for the Watercolour Challenge

Anything Goes with an

Optional Twist of Birthday
and the CAS Challenge with Animal
as the Optional Twist.
Got both covered here.

And something a little different for
The Paper Players
Celebration Theme. It's their 400th Challenge

celebrating  with a Lion's Birthday Message.

Thanks for stopping by.

Birthday Celebrations for Someone 'Special'

Hello and Welcome to a Very Special Post.

Over the last month we have had

5th Birthday Celebrations with Designer's from

STAMPlorations showcasing

a few of their favourite cards with a few new ones

thrown in - Well it just happens that our

Amazingly Beautiful Generous and Caring Leader

Shery Russ 

is having a Birthday of her own and to

celebrate her day we have a

Surprise Birthday Post in her honour.

Pop over HERE  to check out all the

beautiful Birthday Projects created just for her.

Here is mine.

Wishing Shery the Happiest of Birthday's

and so privileged to be part of her Craft Family.

For my card I chose Shery's

 In Bloom Precious Plumerias

Before I heat embossed it in white I made my background

from Lindy's Magicals in Sweet Violet Purple Teal

(Shery's favourite colour is purple)

and Lucky Shamrock Green with a bit of smooching

and drying as I added colour.

I had some left on a brush so added  tiny splatters.

I then cut several 

CUTplorations Celebrate Words to finish

and added several pearls.

This was then taped to a white background and on to

pearlized card stock.

Here are the products used above.

#UPDATE I see The Paper Players are celebrating their

400th CHALLENGE!

What a fabulous milestone.

Congratulations!

Adding my card to the Gallery!

Thanks for the Reminder.

Thanks for checking out this post.

Love reading your comments.

Cherish - Dream - Live

Hello and Welcome to my Post for today.

It's for the July CAS Mix Up Challenge

and this month's Mix is to

Colour Your Die Cuts, Stamping and

Your Choice.

My Choice was to colour my leaf die cuts

using Magicals in 3 slightly different colours,

PearlEx Powder and Artisan Powder

Stamping my Sentiment from Kaisercraft

and scoring using my score buddy.

Sentiment and card stock are from SU in

Calypso Coral and Groovy Guava.

That's it for today but I'll be playing with this challenge

again before the end of the month. I missed last month

as time slipped by me too quickly. 

Thanks for dropping in.

See you again real soon....

A Magical 'Happy Birthday'

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Happy Little Stampers

It's a New Month and a New Challenge for our

I have been having so much fun with new products lately

and my Birthday Card is doing just that.

I recently purchased a couple of  Lindy's Magical Packs

and just like Brusho's - they are addictive.

The beautiful stamp I used is hot out of my mail box

and from STAMPlorations In Bloom - Precious Plumerials

simply heat embossed in white

then the Magic Began.

I spritzed water on my craft mat and added 

Hydrangea Blue

smooching and drying as I went along.

Added more colour selectively on some of the flowers.

I then did the same only lightly with

 Lucky Shamrock Green

and coloured the leaves the same.

Here's a close up of the shimmer.

My Birthday Stamp is from Happy Little Stampers

inked with Memento Teal Zeal.

This was cut with a stitched die and adhered to

white card base.

Finished with a few gems.

Don't forget - 

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop!
Check out all the details HERE

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS

 AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER,
YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Pop over and see how my Team Mates

are celebrating with Watercolour

(and our optional Birthday Twist) this month.  

Will I see yours in our Gallery?

An Easy Peasy Anything Goes Card for JUGS

Hello and Welcome to today's post.

Vicki is Hosting this weeks Challenge over at

Just Us Girls

and chose Anything Goes for Wild Card Week

'cause there are 5 Saturday's this month.

Yes it is everyone's favourite and bound to have

zillions of fabulous creations to cast our eyes on.

Here is mine! CA soooo Simple.

I love playing with stencils and this is 

one I purchased recently.
It's a Mixed Media one from Studio Light.
I started with white texture paste and left it overnight
to dry then placed the stencil over the image
and sponged Blue Craft Wax from Imagination.
I love the pearescent look hence the same colour
chosen for my card base and cut out sentiment
from Crafts4You.

This is the last week with our Talented Guest Hennelie
and we were honoured to share her talents with you all.
Please pop over To Our Blog
and see hers and the Teams choice of
Anything Goes.
Hope to see you in our Gallery this week.

The Beautiful Ulysses Butterfly

Hello and Welcome. Today's card is for the current 

Double D Challenge where we are to 

pick out a Butterfly from this Gorgeous Mood Board.

Details are Here

Now who doesn't have a collection of these beautiful creatures?

I know as soon as I saw this I was going to use my

Australian Nature #1 by Inspired by Stamping set.

You see the butterfly I used is the

Ulysses Swallowtail and is truly a site to see.

I have often seen them fly through my daughter's back yard

in Tropical North Queensland.

I went cas here as I wanted the feature to be

THAT beautiful butterfly.

I used Linen card stock as my base and

attached some Kaisercraft DP.

I then lightly stamped the orchids on top.

Once more I am using a new die I got

a few weeks back from Uniquely Creative - 

Crosshatch Texture

I heat embossed my butterfly with Ranger Copper Powder

then went on to colour her using a variety of mediums

including - Rustic Brown Metallique Paint,

Imagination Crafts Wax in Black and Blue,

PearEx Powder #681 (blue/green)

even a touch of Magicals. All in all

I have a lovely shimmery butterfly.

This was fussy cut and popped.

The sentiment is from the same set and

using the same embossing powder and

cut from a MFT stitched die and slightly popped.

Thanks for dropping in today

and leaving your comments.

'Hooting' For You.

Hello And Welcome to today's post

which is for Just Us Girls Photo Challenge.

Our Host is  Maria choosing this

cutiest of images below.

I decided to go with that cute owl and a few of the colours.
I was at a craft show last week end and picked up this owl die.
from Couture Creations.
Also trying out other new goodies is the background
which is made with Magicals in Screamin' Banshee Black.
I so love the outcome with the shimmery blue -
perfect night time scene. And so my card was born.
I cut out a backdrop showing a big moon for my owl sitting on a
nesting die from Uniquely Creative showing then
added some punched stars from a metallic paper.
My owl was cut from black card stock and again
in white and orange for the eyes and nose.
After that was attached I then added branches from
Tim's Holiday Greens and an old MS punch.
Finished that with a button threaded with cotton
and new sentiment die from Impression Obsession.
Added a frame in the same metallic paper as the stars
and adhered to black card base.

Hope you will pop over to Our Blog
to see what our Guest Hannelie and the Team
created for your pleasure.
Hope to see you in our Gallery.

I am popping this cute owl card over to
The Card Concept for their cute owl image also.

Thanks for dropping by today.

I Made My Mark with ...

It's Make Your Mark over at

Addicted to Stamps and More

What is Make Your Mark?
Creations using
 pencils, pens, paints, markers, textas, chalks... 
anything that represents making your mark.

Here is how I made my 'Mark'
I have an addiction with backgrounds
and what better time to make one with this challenge.
I got out Tim's Oxide Inks using 
Spiced Marmalade and Peeled Paint on
watercolour paper smooching and drying as I went along
till I liked the result. Happy here!
I then got out an old wooden SU stamp - 
Inspired by Nature and heat embossed it with
Wow Metallic Platinum.
Cut this out with a stitched die and
added my mounted CUTploration sentiment
to finish smooching in the same colours.

Thanks for dropping in.
Love reading your comments.
Don't forget to pop over and see my
Team Mates 'Mark' and
come join us this week
Hope to see you in the Gallery.

We're Celebrating our 5th Birthday at STAMPlorations

Hello and A Big Welcome to a
Very Special Post.
I am indeed so lucky and privileged to be part of the
STAMPlorations Family as we Celebrate our 5th Birthday
with so many Give Away's and Prizes.
You will see ALL THE DETAILS
 HERE

Here are a few of my favourite cards
I made as 'A Guest' and now a 'Designer' for
STAMPlorations

This was one of the first cards I made for their CAS Challenge
Details are HERE.


Celebrating with the Things with Wings Blog Hop
Details are HERE.


 and A Few More with Details HERE.
from the Typografia Stamps


Can you tell I LOVE Butterflies?
 Check the Details Here

And here are my  new designs -

I love playing with Brusho's and that is what I have used

as my background.

My floral image is from  ARTplorations A Bloom and Three Buds

using Texture Paste and Yellow Acrylic Paint.

Sentiment is CUTplorations Just Because Phrase Die

and attached to coloured card stock.

I just love the new Bloomtanged Cover Plates
and this is what I used above.
It's  CUTplorations Bloomtangled #1 Cover Plate
I cut this out of white card stock after
smooching my background several times with
Lindy's Magicals and PearEx Powder.
The sentiment and die cut are from
Bloom Happy Coordinating Dies and
STAMPlorations Bloom Happy

and heavily coated with the same powders.
These were heat embossed in white.
Card base is Pearised Card Stock in matching colour.



Now that I have shown you a few of my favourites
I'd love to invite you to CASE any one of the above cards
and link up to our Birthday Celebrations HERE.
For a chance to win a $25 gift certificate
leave a comment Here and HERE
For a chance to win up to $25 worth of STAMPlorations goodies
create and link up your Wish List HERE

There really is so much information over on 
OUR BLOG so be sure to check it ALL out.

Want a 20% discount as well? Just use my code
STAMPGIRLINA and you are good to go.

I hope I haven't forgotten anything!
Thanks soooooooooooo much for dropping in
to check out my longish post.

I'm Hosting at Just Us Girls for?

Hello and Welcome.

It's Saturday's JUGS Day and it is my turn to 

Be Your Host for our Colour Week and I chose

just 2 colours - Red & Black and you have

the choice to pick a Third.

What colour will you choose?

I picked GOLD! 

I was going to do Christmas but that didn't eventuate.

I started my card by making the background
from Rose Red Brusho's and Aztec Gold PearlEx Powders
with lots of smooching and drying in between
 till I was happy with the coverage.
I then heat embossed my hibiscus flower from 49andMarket
with Stamp It Gold powder.
Added a touch of black to the centre of the flower.
This was then cut with a stitched die and
adhered to a black mat and on to metallic gold card stock.
Finished with gold pearls and die cutting my
Happy Birthday Sentiment which was heat embossed with
Ranger Black mixed with Stamp It Gold.

Pop over to Our Blog and check what our
June Guest Hannelie and the Team have created
and what third colour choice they made.
Hope you can join us this week. If so you could be our
Chic of the Week and be in the running for being
invited to be our Guest in August.

Thanks for dropping in.
Love reading your comments and will be so glad
WHEN Blogger get's notifications fixed.

I'm Simple - eee using New Goodies

Hello and Welcome. I am back from my trip north and

now trying to get back to normal. 

It didn't help that my Annual Craft Show 

was soon after so things aren't quite there yet.

 Off course there were new products purchased that 

I had needed to have a play with and luckily I found a

CAS Challenge to do just that. 

The lovely floral image is from Rubbernecker

and heat embossed with Ranger Red Cinnabar.

I love the look of the gold speckles among it.

Sentiment is from Dark Room Door and heat embossed

with Stamp It Gold.

Added some metallique paint splatters 

then finished by cutting with a

stitched die and adding a gold banner.

This was popped on to white card base.

(BTW My new products are the stamp embossing powder

metallique paint and sentiment stamp.)

Sending this over to

CAS on Sunday for their

Challenge #134 - Embossing.

Thanks for dropping in today.