Be True to You!

 

 Hello and Welcome to today's post for the Beautiful Blossoms

AG Flowers Optional Colour Mood Board Challenge #11

This is my second card after recently finding this challenge.

The focus is always on flowers/florals.

I love the bright bold colours and this time

went all out as you can see. 

Background is a mix of Tim's Oxide inks - 

Peeled Paint, Blueprink Sketch,

Prize Ribbon, Fossilized Amber

and Spiced Marmalade.

Lindy's Grab a Guy Gold.

Flowers are Tim's Wildflower Stems #1

Added stamping from

AALL&Create One of a Kind/Scripts

and Broken Circles Stencil.

Sentiment is from Power of the Word.

Finished with white splatters and 

attached to white card base.

Till next time - 

Going CAS at Just Us Girls

It's our Last Challenge of the year at

 Just Us Girls and Bobby is Hosting our

CAS Challenge and chose the prompt - 

In a Circle.

I must admit this card was made long ago

when my girlfriend was visiting.

When I saw this challenge come up on our DT blog

I knew I wanted to keep it for this one.

It is using a technique I have wanted to play with

for a long time  and we finally did together.

You will all remember Eileen Godwin with her

masking of colours that we all loved.

I used Tim's Destress inks and the vellum

die cut flower was one my girlfriend bought

that we both used. 

Certainly CAS - finishing with a pearl

in the centre of the flower.

Our Guest Melissa and the Team have created such 

super fun wonderful inspiring cards and we would 

love to see yours in the Gallery for the last time this year.

A big Thank You to Melissa for sharing her talents

with us as our November Guest. 

Thanks for all the lovely comments this year.

I really appreciate them.

Merry Christmas 

See you in January to do it all again.

Something Beautiful!

 I recently came across the Beautiful Blossoms blog 

thanks to Design Team Member Darlene.

It's all about flowers/florals with an optional mood board.

The current challenge has a stunning colourful one with 

Details Here to check out.

and a close up showing the shimmer a little better.

Those that know me are aware of how I love a colour challenge

and this one above with those gorgeous blooms caught my eye.

I recently purchased the lotus leaf die set and

unwrapped it to create this CAS card.

A nice break from Christmas cards.

I used watercolour paper colouring my flower with

Lindy's Cowabunga Copper

Cattail Copper Brown and

Glory of the Sea Gold.

Memory Box Pinpoint Double Frame

popping the centre piece.

Flower was cut twice and offset for interest.

Added a black pearl, small leaf and 

strips on the side for more colour.

Finished with my sentiment inked in

Versafine Clair Nocturne heat embossed clear.

With such lovely mood board colours and

plenty of time left to play I am sure I will be 

back over at the Beautiful Blossoms Challenge again soon

after I add my card above to their Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

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!

Christmas Wishes

Carol Mc is Hosting our Photo/Mood Board Challenge

for Just Us Girls with a bunch of beautiful Christmas choices.

Here's a bigger detailed photo.

You can see what caught my eye - 

the greenery in the middle.

I inked the ARTplorations A2 panels

with Tim's Distress and Oxide inks

and layered them. The greenery is also

 Tim's Mini Holiday Greens coloured with

the above and Lindy's Magicals..

Added some splatters, cotton and beads.

Finishing with a simple Christmas Sentiment.

Head over and see what our Guest Melissa

and Talented Teamies chose from the

fabulous Mood Board and come join in by

adding yours to our Gallery.

 Thanks for dropping in

A Simple 'Thank You'

Today is Remembrance Day here in Australia 

and each year I make a 

Thank You card with poppies.

I was so happy to see our Host Carol M

chose Thanks/Thanksgiving as our Word Challenge at

Just Us Girls

My granddaughter recently gave me a box of tissue paper

and ribbons and that is where the idea for my

 CAS card came from.

My SB die cut flower is scrunched up red tissue paper.

Added a stamen in the middle with a hint of glitter.

Popped lightly onto the textured background 

and again onto card base.

Simple thank you sentiment is 49&Market

inked and heat embossed clear.

There is such a variety of wonderful cards

presented to you on our blog from

Melissa and the Team so head over and check them out

and join in with yours to the Gallery.

PS - When this goes live I will be spending time

in the tropics with family celebrating birthday's

for my son in law and Miss Harper Jane's 1st.

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 Jolly Gnome's Christmas

It's time for our New Challenge at

 Christmas Craft Creations

and we are looking for 

I got out one of my cute Gnome stamps from Poppy Crafts,

 did a 'little' colouring and

fussy cut his hat from scrap DP

I popped him on top of a white SB die

and added a red frame behind it.

Thought a sparkly heart would be a nice touch.

Added a shaped DP piece as backing on white card stock

and adhered to red card base.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Head over and see how the Team used our Hat Theme

on their projects and come join in with yours

in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting