Life is a Beach at Art and Soul Studio Challenge

Time for my latest project  as Ambassador for

Art and Soul Studio over at their Blog.

It's a very Tropical Mood Board for December 

as we are in our Summer Season in Oz

 and it depicts just that! 

The heading says it all. 

I started by adding Gesso to my 5"x 7" canvas

then crumpled up tissue paper for texture.

and DecoArt White Crackle Paint,

 adding colour

with Art /Alchemy Emerald Green/Mermaid Sparkle

and Glitter Gold Colour Craft Lustre Powder

Now to add my sea shells

Nice variety to choose from here.

Cut the mesh bag and thought it only right that

I would use a portion to help add more texture

and painted part of it with

Art Alchemy Gold Rush with a baby wipe.

Now to add those sea shells and some Calcined Bauxite

Then some painting,waxing -

pearls, mica flakes, beads and prills.

and a few close ups

finishing with the required sentiment word (Life)

from Inkadankado

I know December is a busy month and it would be

fabulous if you can join our   Art and Soul December Challenge.

 There are $50 Gift Certificates on offer & we have a stunning mood board every month

There's so much beautiful inspiration from my Talented Team Mates.

 All the details about the December Challenge can be found Here

Items purchased from Art and Soul Studio - 

Art Alchemy Paints

Nuvo Mouse

Derivan Matisse Calcined Bauxite

Josonja's Texture Paste

Liquitex Gesso

Derivan Matisse Mica Flakes

Hope you enjoyed checking out my project.

Thank You for coming by today.

Till next time - Cherrio from

A CAS Reminder for CUTplorations

Christmas is just about here and I have a

really quick easy card to share just in case you

haven't entered our CUTplorations December Challenge
Check out what my Team Mates from our other Challenges
have made Here.

I used the following on my card - 

CUTplorations Merry-and-Bright-Phrase-Die

(just the Merry) cut with gold paper

STAMPloraions Christmas-Flower-Large

heat embossed in gold

Christmas-Elf sentiment also heat embossed.

Attached to red card stock and on to

gold card base.

Finished with some gems to the centre of the poinsettia.

Thanks for popping in.

Hope you get time to join us for our last

CUTploration Challenge for the year.

I'll be back with the Girls in January

for more fun. 

PS - you are going to love our Inspiration Photo.

Simply 'Merry Christmas'

Christmas is just around the corner and I was still in need

of more Christmas cards so...

I got out my old Tim Holtz Holiday Knit stencil

to use as a background for my CAS card.

It's the last Challenge of the Year at

Addicted to Stamps and More

and it's our

This is where you use pencils,markers,watercolours,brushes, inks

anything that Makes a Mark. You get the drift!

I used White Texture Paste on my stencil background

  and some Arctic White Lustre Powder (Thanks Kylie)

on white card stock shadowed by red 

on my Merry Christmas Die from

CUTplorations and attached to vellum.

Hope you get time to play with us this week

and I see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in and a 

Big Thank You for all your kind comments

you made on my posts for Addicted to Stamps and More. 

I'll be back in the New Year with 

more inspiration for your pleasure.

A 'Sweet' Sundae

I have a bit of time up my sleeve as I wait for my granddaughter

to arrive tomorrow to continue her nursing studies. 

She is driving down from Cairns and is half way here.

I have just a few house chores in the morning 

and am excited to have her rest up here for a day.

She will continue on to stay at my sister's 

(a 4 hour drive) for a wee while but will be back

to spend Christmas here.

Now on to a card I made this afternoon for the

CAS Mix Up Challenge. Details Here.

I wanted to try out a new stamp for the

emboss resist technique and this wee stamp

from Carabelle Coup de Glace

was just perfect.

I used a mix of products for my resist - 

Tim's Distress Festive Berries and

Distress Oxide Picked Raspberry.

Also Brusho's in Brilliant Red/Leaf Green,

a touch of Petal Pink Liquid Pearls for the ice cream

and of course you have to have sprinkles (from Martha Stewart)

on top and falling beside the parfait glass.

Did a wet wash with H2O's around the stamp

which by the way is heat embossed in white.

My sentiment is from my stash and unknown.

I cut my sweets from a postage stamp die

popped on to the next size up and again

adhered to the bigger one and on to

basic white card base.

My mix is Emboss Resist, Stamping, Glitter,

Water colouring and Die Cutting.

Thanks for dropping in

It's a Christmas 'Deer'

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Happy Little Stampers

It's time for our Anything Goes with Dies Challenge

and as it is December - a Christmas card is called for.

I went CAS here choosing Kraft card stock.

I painted a white background with texture paste

then added some big grungy snowflakes

from STAMPlorations Art Marks

 with smaller snowflakes with the rubber end 

of a pencil and a few tiny splats using

Hero Arts White Pigment Ink.

Added some coloured snowflakes from SU

in Memento Teal Zeal.

My deer is from Crafts4U cut from

brown card stock and then

heat embossed clear.

Sentiment is from

  Happy-Little-Stampers-Christmas-Joy-Clear-Stamps

inked in Marvy Timeless Sepia also clear heat embossed.

This was all cut from a stitched die and attached

to Kraft card stock.

Pop over and see how my Team Mates

used their dies and come join us for our last

Die Challenge for the Year.

Kylie is kindly giving the Winner a $20 Coupon to spend at the Shop  HERE.

AND

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Signing off here for Happy Little Stampers
Anything Goes with Dies  by wishing you all a

Merry Christmas and a Safe Happy Healthy New Year

and a Big Thank You for your encouraging comments.

It's a 'Onefer' for 2 CAS Challenges

It's nice to put Christmas card making aside 

and play with a few of my favourite challenges at

CAS Mix Up December Challenge and

CAS Watercolour Challenge

I started my emboss resist with SU Bliss
heat embossed in silver. My background resist is
from Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder
mixed with water. I then added some texture with a
hexagon stencil with white crackle paste.
I heat embossed my STAMPlorations
Trendy Butterfly 2 then added colour from
Lindy's Tiffany Lou Blue Spray
Colour Blast Deep Water Shimmer
and a touch of the Nuvo Shimmer Powder.
Added a sprinkle of WOW Midas Touch
Embossing Glitter to the middle of the butterfly

and here's a close up -

fussy cut and slightly popped
to my stitched background.
Attached to white card base.
My Thanks a Million stamp
(for the CAS Watercolour Challenge)
is from STAMPlorations Fluttery
heat embossed in Silver.
My Mix for the CAS Mix Up Challenge is
Emboss Resist, Stamping, Texture, Heat Embossing.

Thanks for dropping in

Love reading your comments!

A Christmas Themed CUTploration Challenge

December is here and Christmas is just

a few weeks away. Just in case you are running late

with your Christmas cards the CUTplorations Gals

have added their makes Here to inspire you to

finish them off with this photo below.

Here is my take.

The first thing I noticed was the poinsettia's 

and have made a card using that flower but

as I had a new Christmas stamp I had not inked

I went with that for this post. 

You will see the other one a little later.

I knew when I decided to use Kraft card stock I wanted

texture on my Large Christmas Candles

Here's a close up so you can get a

good look at how it turned out 

After heat embossing them with Lawn Fawn

White Embossing Powder I coloured them with

Tim's Distress Inks in Mowed Lawn/Crushed Olive

Carved Pumpkin and Festive Berries.

The texture I used on my candles was

DecoArt White Crackle Paste.

(Love the result I got)

The lit candle and berries were painted with

Fresh Orange Metallic Paint from

Finnabair Art Alchemy

The sentiments are from  Homespun Christmas.

Of course I had to add falling snow which was

splattered using white paint.

This was then cut with the

Crazy-Double-Running-Stitch-Rectangle-Nesting-Dies

to finish my card.

Would love to see your creation over at

STAMPlorations and you could be

a Lucky Winner by following these Rules.

• Create a project inspired by the inspiration photo for the current month. You can create any type of project -- card, ATC, altered project, mixed media, art journal page, scrapbook page, etc. -- but make sure you use die cuts (any brand) and at least one STAMPlorations product. (A STAMPlorations product can be a stamp, stencil, thin metal die, or even a page from our coloring book. If you don't own a STAMPlorations product, you can still join by using the free digital stamp we are offering here.)
• You must display the challenge graphic in your post (if linking from your blog) and link back to the challenge post post (not just the main blog) in order to be eligible to win (and receive the corresponding prize).

Thanks so much for dropping in

Your comments are so encouraging.

Season's Greetings for Happy Little Stampers

Hello and Welcome to today's post for

Happy Little Stampers and it's our

Watercolour Challenge

Our Optional Twist is a favourite of mine.

I just love using STENCILS!

I had this background and stencil done quite some time ago

and wasn't sure how to finish it off.

I decided to break down the background slightly by

inking up the same Lindy's Magical's in Screamin' Banshee Black

and adding a frame.

My Christmas tree is from ARTplorations

made by mixing texture paste, silver and blue paint.

While wet sprinkled it heavily with glitter

giving it quite a bit of depth.

My Season's Greetings is  from CUTplorations.

After I had glued it down I realized it was 

too hard to see so got out my white Uniball pen

and went around the edges. 

Unfortunately it is still hard to see in the photograph

but is clearer IRL.

This was all attached to white card base.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates

have produced. We would love to see you

in our Gallery this month.

Don'r 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!

Thanks for dropping in today.

It's a Critteroliday Challenge

I had a wee bit of time up my sleeve and saw the

 challenge over at The Mod Squad

to Use a Critter 

Hello and Welcome.

I am just finishing off the last of my Christmas creations

and thought this card would be just perfect.

It was a really simple and quick card to make especially 

for this busy time of year.

My critter is from

  CUTplorations Two-Reindeer-Thin-Metal-Dies

and my sentiment 

CUTplorations Merry-and-Bright-Phrase-Die

I mixed some Art Alchemy metallique paint in

Rustic Brown with some clear crackle medium

for my stag head and let dry.

 I had some leftover paint on my mat

and decided to use it up on the sentiment

and smashing onto watercolour card for a background.

I cut that with a stitched die then adhered the sentiment

and popped up my stag head. Added a pearl

for his eye. Card base is basic white.

That's all for now

till next time - Thanks for popping in