Home is where the Key Fits

Welcome to a new month of challenges over at

Just Us Girls

Our Host for our Word Week is Bobby

Choosing Houses.
We have a new Guest too - Christine Perez

Welcome Christine.

The stamp from AALL&CREATE
and die from Moving Madness Creations
 is from a recent visit to my craft shop and bought
with this challenge in mind.
I went clean and simple here multi stamping
my background houses with Memento London Fog.
The main two houses and lamp were heat embossed in black
and cut from a SB Circle die.
I then cut the backing from Uniquely Creative
Cross Stitch Nesting Arches.
I simply highlighted the lamp with a Gelly Roll pen
The Home key die was cut with orange card stock
and added texture with crackle glaze.
Both were popped on to the background.
Added orange card as a backing then attached to
black card base.
Finished with three tiny gold stars.

Pop over and see how Christine and the Design Team
chose to showcase their Houses and come join in
our Gallery. You could be our Chic of the Week
and be chosen as our Guest in June.
Thanks for popping in.
Comment are always appreciated.

Dream Time for Creative Artiste Mixed Media.

Hello and Welcome to  today's post for our 

April Challenge over at the

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Blog 

where Anything Mixed Media Goes

as long as we use multi mediums. 

My play time has been limited lately with

family celebrations and hubby's cataract surgery

so please excuse the lack of detail on how

my canvas was created. I was just playing around when I made

the background but came in handy for this months project.

I will do my best to mention the products I used.

Here's a few close ups

I was planning to try something new for this month's creation

but was not to be - so hopefully next time!

Products used - 

Gesso, Art Alchemy Metallic Paints, Nuvo Shimmer Powders,

Stencil from ScrapFX, 

Dream Catcher from Which Craft Do You Do,

SU Butterflies, Prima Marketing Art Stones

and flower (just a perfect match)

 from my stash with a brad in the centre.

Will have a more detailed description with next month's project for 

Thanks for dropping in. 

Spring Time at 'STAMPlorations'

Hello and Welcome.

Did you happen to see the news yesterday over at

STAMPlorations where we are having a

12 day Spring Fling Giveaway?

If not you can check the main blog above or
 all of today's details HERE
There are different prizes each day so don't forget to
leave a comment here as well as my Team Mates creations
and of course OUR BLOG for your chance of winning!

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I am participating in this fabulous event and here is

my first card -

My background was made with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Abandoned Coral, Salty Ocean,

Peeled Paint and Fossilized Amber.

I then cut my flowers from

STAMPlorations Trendy Spring Blooms

to match the background

with CUTplorations Trendy Spring Blooms Dies

in a lighter shade for contrast.

Also cut out small flowers from the same die set

in various colours. Added pearls to the centres of the flowers.

The sentiment is from

STAMPlorations Happy Everything

While I had the Happy Everything stamp set out I made
another card with one of my favourite stamps - the
STAMPlorations Large French Marigold

It was heat embossed clear then coloured with
 Pumpkin Fiesta, Hog's Wart Orange Magical's
and Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder.
The background was smooched with
Nuvo Solar Flare and Green Parade
The bottom half was inked with Tim's Oxide's in
Fossalized Amber, Peeled Paint and Salty Ocean.
I then stenciled on top with white texture paste
using ARTplorations Fairy Tale Forest
Sentiment was heat embossed with Lindy's Pumpkin Fiesta
from the above stamp set.
Finished with some gold thread behind the popped marigold
with tiny beads in the centre.

Here is a close up of the shimmer on the flower.

But wait! There's More...
Here is a link for you to get 25% of the Spring Fling section
and if you use STAMPGIRLINA you can get up to 45%
on your goodies!
Hope I have covered all the essentials here.
Look forward to reading your kind comments.
I'll be back next week with some more Spring Sensations.

See you then.

Celebrate Big for CUTplorations

Hello and Welcome to today's post for our

CUTplorations Challenge for April

Here is my take on the Mood Board below.

I decided to concentrate on the bold bright colours here

with some Alcohol Inks on Yuppo paper.

After I was happy with the result I cut it

in three parts and attached it to my white card base.

It's a pretty simple card finishing with

three layers of my 

CUTplorations Celebrate Big Die

with the third one heat embossed with

glitter embossing powder. 

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created,

come play and add yours to our Gallery.

There is always awesome prizes to be won 

AND

if you used my code STAMPGIRLINA

you get 20% off your purchase. 

Thanks for dropping in

Till next time Cherrio from

What if Nothing Ever Changed?

Today is April Fool's Day but I'm not fooling you

'cause it really is the first of many Challenges each Month

 over at Happy Little Stampers 

It is of course our Watercolour Challenge.

 Here is what we are looking for this month

if you choose to do our Optional Twist.

 My play time was very limited in March 

so I rummaged through my 'Bits Box'

to find something watercoloured brightly

and found the piece I used above.

It has a mixture of my favourite products - 

Brusho's, Magicals, Nuvo Shimmer Powders

and thrown on was some Art Alchemy Metallic Paints

and good old Inka Gold.

I added some script from Kaisercraft

then carefully tore it in 3 then adhered to

my white card base.

I went looking for a nice butterfly stamp

and found this one - an oldie but goodie from Gina K.

This was heat embossed and then coloured 

with some of the above products and fussy cut.

Added a few drops of Nuvo Crystal Drops.

Before popping it I cut out a few small MB ringlet dies.

Finished with my STAMPlorations sentiment.  

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

and come join us this month in our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for dropping in

UPDATE! We have a New Designer joining the Team
and it's the most amazingly talented colouring Artist -
 Gwendolyn Goh
A lot of you will have already seen her talents in Blogland
and I feel so lucky to again be working with her here.
A HUGE Welcome to the Team Gwendolyn.