I'm Guest Designer at Sketch Saturday for September

 

I have been invited by my Super Talented Crafty Friend

Kathy Stacy to be her Guest Designer 

at Sketch Saturday for September.

What an Honour! Thank You Kathy.

You can find their blog HERE

And here is our Sketch.

The sponsor for this challenge is Niki Rowland

who just happens to be the

Blog Owner and she has generously offered the

 random winner a Surprise Pack!

Now don't we all love SURPRISES?

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Here is my first posting,

I made 2 cards as I wasn't sure I was completely happy with the first one.

 

I thought the paper the image and the sentiment

all married together nicely.

Here are the products I used

White/coloured card stock

DP from Kaisercraft Pack Your Bags Collection

Eifel Tower is from Kaisercraft inked with

Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa and sponged with

Memento Summer Sky

Sentiment is from Gina K Design

Spellbinders Ovals

Distressed Edges



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and then I thought I would make a girly one

 

 

I used basic pink/apricot and cream card stock

DP is First Edition Desert Blooms

Cuttlebug Floral Fancy Embossing Folder

Green Vellum cut with Spellbinders Ovals

Kaisercraft leaf Die

MFT Heirloom Rose cut from same DP

Sentiment is from

Inspired by Stamping and heat embossed with

Tim Holtz Worn Lipstick

Finished with a scattering of rhinestones.

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Hope you will now pop over to the

Sketch Saturday Blog

to see what the Design Team created

and hope to see yours there.

 

Thanks for dropping in

Till next week

Cherrio from

 

 

An Apple a Day they say ....

This week at Just Us Girls

Lisa as Hostess has challenged us with our

Word Challenge and chose Apple.

 

 

Now it just so happens I don't have a single apple stamp

in my stash so I thought I would Google and find an image.

 

 

My colouring skills are very limited so lucky for me there

wasn't too much to do.

I have used the following items

Brown & White card stock

Water Colour pencils by Faber Castelle for my image

 and added glossy accents for shine

Spellbinder Hexagon Dies

Kaiesercraft Hexagon stamp sponged with

Memento Love Letter and

Stampin' Up Close to Cocoa inks

Sponged edges in Memento Love Letter

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs

Popped a button on the side to finish.

Now pop on over Here to

see what our September Guest Melissa Dawn Lane

from https://honeybeelane.wordpress.com/

and the DT have made.

We would love to see your take on our Apple Challenge.

Thanks for stopping by

 

 

It's time to play at 'The House'

It's the beginning of a new month and that means

NEW CHALLENGES

at my favourite blog The House that Stamps Built

Here is the first for the month and is a

 

Details Here

 

 

 

It took me an age to find a Repeat Impressions stamp

to use on my card but my Mojo wasn't with me so I

decided to just use the beautiful sentiment and

add some scrap DP.

I did just that but in the end the bottom was too bare so

I found the perfect little stamp to finish it off.

 

The sentiment is from Repeat Impressions

Beautiful Days cut from

Spellbinders Labels 20

The flowers are the Flowering Vine.

I popped the strips of DP to a yellow backing

with white card stock as my base.

The flowers were inked with Stampin' Up

Yo Yo Yellow.

Ribbon from my stash

Tiny Pearls finished it off.

 

When I was making this card I wasn't happy how it was

turning out but since it is finished I am much happier

especially as I think the flowering vine finished

my card off nicely. I hope you think so too.

 

I have another card in mind for this challenge

so check back soon to see what I  came up with.

 

Thanks for dropping in

 

 

 

 

 

 



A Floral Birthday

 

It is a rainy dreary day here so I thought it a great chance

to pop back into my play station and create another card for

 their No Patterned Paper Challenge

You can find their blog Here

 

 

I started with brown yellow and white card stock.

The white I had already cut the corners

so I have 2 postings in a row with rounded edges.

I stamped the frame which is from

Gina K Designs in Close to Cocoa - SU

My flowers are also from Stampin' Up

The large one is Flower Shop. A dear friend

sent me a bunch of them as I didn't have that set.

The smaller ones are Petite Petals

inked in Close to Cocoa and

Tim Holtz Antique Linen.

Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping

Added a Kaisercraft leaf die

Kaisercraft Pearls

Liquid Pearls and a Dew Drop

Tucked in a few sprigs from a Martha Stewart die

Finished with ribbon from my stash.

 

That's it for now so till next time

Cherrio from

 

 

 

 

 

 



A Happy Hello!

While I was browsing Blog Land I came across

a great new site to me.

Crafty Card Makers

The current challenge there is to make a card

without patterned paper.

You can find all the details Here

 

 

Now this was right up my alley as I love to play

with stencils so went into my play station

and created this simple and colourful card.

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I used a coloured card base that matched my

speckles and feathers.

Here are the products I used -

Stampin' Up Four Feathers Die/Stamp Set popped

Tim Holtz Speckles/Splatters Stencils

Tim Holtz Distress Inks -

Peacock Feathers/Abandoned Coral/Frayed Burlap

A bow in Jute

Kaisercraft Pearls

Inspired by Stamping - Big Hello Stamp.

 

I really liked how the distress ink made

the sentiment look splotchy as it blended in

with the stencilling.

 

So there it is - a great way to relax after a hard

morning in my garden weeding.

 

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

 



It's Time to Shake at Try Stampin' on Tuesday

It isn't often enough we try our hands at a

SHAKER CARD

and that is exactly what we are asking you to do

this time round at

Try Stampin' on Tuesday

 



Here is the sketch thanks to Sarah.

 

Shaker cards are always fun to make - just a little

time consuming sometimes and with luck

you don't get your shaker bits everywhere

while doing so.

 

Here is what I came up with to use on mine -

White/Red/Pink card stock.

I stencilled the background with

Memory Box - Texture Waive in

Memento Love Letter &

Stampin' Up Melon Mambo

Darkroom Door Stars Background Stamp

Spellbinders Circles/Lacey Circles

Large/Small Star Punch

Star Sequins

The 'Happy' is die cut from

Impression Obsession

Unfortunately I forgot to write down the

name of the Birthday Wishes sentiment

and went looking but

 no doubt I will find it another time.

Finished with a few red gemstones.

 

Thanks for dropping by.

 

 

 



Choices Choices - The Current Challenge at Sketch Saturday

 

I popped over to Sketch Saturday Here

to see what their new challenge was

and what a lovely surprise.

As it is the 5th Saturday we get to pick

which Sketch we would like to play with.

 

Now it wasn't easy to pick so I scrolled through all of them

and decided on the one below.
#281

 

Why? Well I get to ink up one of my favourite stamps

from Stampin' Up - Fifth Avenue Floral.

 

 I started off with the basic white card stock

then matted with the 2 colours from the flower.

I scored the right side then added

a strip of mulberry paper.

The flower was heat embossed in white

and I cut 3 after inking them with

 Stampin' Up Rich Razzleberry and

Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers.

Behind the flower is matted with an

embossed piece of paper using

Spellbinders Circles and

Lacey Circles at the back in white.

Sentiment is from Gina K Designs.

Finished my card with several

scattered rhinestones.

 

I would also like to link this card up with the

current challenge over at Robynsfetish

for their SQUARE CARD.

and

Cupake Inspirations

for their Challenge #325 - LAYERS

 

Thanks for stopping by.