It's Chris's Cool Colour Challenge!

It's our Colour Week at Just Us Girls
and Hostess for this one is Chris
choosing the colours Pink Navy & Grey .

I was so undecided as to what I was going to make here
and then remembered a great grungy stamp I received
recently called - Celebrate Artsy from STAMPlorations
so decided I would stamp  one of the images with
2 of the required colours. Die cut it from a
Spellbinders die and framed it.
I seem to be in a stencil mode lately so I went
that way again for my background.
The stencils I used here are from
The Crafter's Workshop
Tim Holtz - Speckles
Dutch Doobadoo
Added a strip of  pink ribbon a button
and some cotton which I inked a little in navy.
This was popped after adding my sentiment
from Bloom Happy (love this little set)
and finishing with a few scattered gems.
A pretty simple card - and a little different.
Don't forget to pop over to Our Blog
to see what our Guest Shawna
and my team Mates have made.
They always 'impress'

Thanks for dropping in
Till next time - Cherrio from



A Mid Month 'Reminder' for CAS Anything Goes at STAMPlorations

It's that time of the month when we send out a 'REMINDER'

just in case you got side tracked and forgot to play at the

CAS Anything Goes Challenge over at STAMPlorations

Details are Here

 

 

I started my card using water colour paper and heat embossing
my flowers in white. Added some Distress Inks - Abandoned Coral

Mowed Lawn and Squeezed Lemonade from Tim Holtz

 to my craft sheet and started blending the beautiful blooms

from STAMPloration Floral Bliss

I touched up the background lightly with a bit of

stencilling from ARTplorations Retro Circles

My sentiment is STAMPlorations by Noteworthy

inked with Memento London Fog 

I just love that set. The font is fabulous don't you think?

Added some sponging around the flowers to finish

and popped.

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I have been playing around with stencils and mixed media lately

and thought I would add this one to show you the

result I got from stencilling some Bluestone Sparkle Medium

through my ARTplorations Nestles Circles.

To add to this -

I then layered the word Happy from

CUTplorations  Happy Word Die in

grey aqua and silver.

Finished with a Birthday stamp cut from a

stitched Die from MFT and a few gems.

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Why the Reminder? There is even more reason to play -

You can link up to 3 CAS cards.

 Can enter a CAS card with or without the optional color twist.

Non-STAMPlorations products are OK

Beginning with this challenge, one winner (voted by the design team) will receive a $10 gift certificate to the store, while the two top picks will each receive a $5 gift certificate. If there are at least 50 entries, we'll also draw a random winner and she gets to choose her prize -- a 3x5 stamp set OR 2 standard size stencils OR 1 CUTplorations word/phrase die. 

and don't forget the 20% discount code on the side bar.

What a great way to start or build up your STAMPloration collection.

Love to see you at the

 

 

Thanks for dropping by. I appreciate you taking time out

to leave me your comment.

 

'HELLO' again

I got my Lawn Fawn 'Hello' die out again to create a cas card

  at AAA Cards. It's for their Hello Challenge

How easy is that? I simply got out some water colour paper

and went for an ombre type background using

Tim Holtz Distress Inks in

Mermaid Lagoon/Cracked Pistachio

Evergreen Bough & Peacock Feather and just smooched

them till I got my background. Added some Iridescent Medium

to give a shimmer effect.

The dies I used are from Kaisercraft  -in white

and an unbranded one - in silver.

This was cut from a stitched die and popped.

Added my 'HELLO' sentiment which I cut twice

giving it a lift and added some gems to finish.

 

Thanks for dropping in today.

Love reading your thoughts.

 

 



'Bling' in on.

I'm joining in over at Shopping our Stash
for their weekly challenge.

The current one is Stickle Me Elmo 

I found this site thanks to my friend Chris. (Thank you)

All we have to do is use some kind of glitter/sparkle on our project.

How easy is that?
Don't we all love to add some sparkle here & there?

 

Well I may have gone 'overboard' with the shimmer but

what the heck! I like what the Wink of Stella

and Iridescent Medium brought out.

 

Also over at The Mod Squad  Barbara & Donna are Hosting

their Bling Challenge. I think I past on both counts.

Taking photos was challenging trying to get

the shimmer to show up.  

 

 

I inked up my craft sheet with

Tim Holtz Squeezed Lemonade Abandoned Coral

and Mermaid Lagoon spritzed and then

using an acetate sheet inking my background randomly

till I was happy with the coverage.

I then sprayed that with Iridescent Medium

I cut my butterflies from a Spellbinder die -

the bottom with plain paper and the top

inked the same way as my background.

I completely covered the butterfly with

clear Wink of Stella.

The Hello (Lawn Fawn) was cut twice.

the back one was inked also with

Wink of Stella in gold and the front - clear

which is not showing in the photographs.

Added a few gems to finish.

 

Thanks for dropping in today. Love reading your comments.

 

 

 

 



 



It's not so Perfectly Created

I found a new blog while surfin' the net called

Perfectly Created Chaos

and their current challenge is to add texture to our card.

As some of you know I have recently been delving into a bit

of mixed media and playing around

with stencils and paints. It really is fun.

 

Here is my 'little bit of chaos'

and a closer look at the texture

 

I started my chaotic page with

my base of white card stock then

went to play with

ARTlorations Retro Circles stencil

with Green acrylic paint/Inka gold and a touch of

purple colour paste using my fingers to lift it

for dimension. There were bare bits so inked up

a baby wipe and sponged part of the background

with the leftovers.

Cut the A from an old Cuttlebug die

The Happy cut several times is CUTplorations Happy Word Die

and the Hello STAMPlorations  Celebrate Artsy

 popped with dimensions and

I rounded one of the corners.

 

Dropping this over to the

Here

 

Thanks for dropping in today.

I appreciate your wonderful comments.