Just for You!

Today's post is for the Cut It Up Challenge

 It is the popular  Anything Goes

and of course we need to add a DIE CUT on our projects.

How easy is that! Got that covered here.

I die cut my flowers and inked them with

Tim's Oxide Inks and Lindy's Magical's,

as I did with the Impression Obsession sentiment

which was die cut three times for depth.

Embossed my background with Kaisercraft Leaves

then adhered a slim Sizzix frame from Lisa Jones

and attached the flowers. and sentiment.

Finished by attaching to textured coloured card base.

A nice way to spend a hot Sunday afternoon

and my last card for 2023 and look forward to seeing

 what the New Year has in store.

Thanks for dropping by -

Best Wishes Blooms

The Beautiful Blossoms Floral Challenge

is live with their Optional Colour Mood Board

for our inspiration.

Like a lot of us I chose the red and green colours.

An easy card to make -

I got the background die cut for my birthday a while back

and thought it would be a nice backdrop for my flowers

from STAMPlorations Floral Bliss.

Heat embossed white and coloured them in two 

pink/red tones from Lindy's Magicals.

The backing is coloured with the same colours.

Die cut the greenery and popped the flowers

 with prills added to the centres.

Finished with a simple sentiment and attached to 

white card base. 

Thanks for dropping in -

Love reading your kind comments.

A Pretty Pink Happy Birthday.

Hello and Welcome to today's post.

Christmas cards are done and dusted and are all on their way so - 

time for playing with my favourite retired 

SU Botanical Blooms Set

Made for Color Hues for their current challenge

Color Hues #77 with the beautiful soft

pink/silver combo

and the

The Paper Funday Challenge

are celebrating their

60th Challenge with a

5th Birthday Bash.

Don't you love milestone challenges!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Paper Funday.

I am also sending this over to their regular one

Challenge #60 Anything Goes

but without their optional twist of Snowman/or Birds

I'm afraid a snowman would melt in seconds here at the moment

with near #40c phew!

I die cut the front with white card stock

using a peek a boo die from MFT

then lightly inked Tim's stone stencil

with Hickory Smoke.

Die cut a SB square larger than the front

with pink card stock for the base.

Die cut leaves are heat embossed in

SU Silver and flowers coloured with

Lindy's Alpine Ice Rose and Oom Pah Pah Pink.

Added scattered gems to the leaves and

one to the main flower.

Sentiment inside is STAMPlorations Carved Flowers

which fitted perfectly behind the cut opening.

Certainly a hard card to photograph.

Thanks Nancy for choosing such a gorgeous color hue

for us this month.

Thanks also for taking time out to comment.

Simply 'Merry Christmas'

It's the last challenge of the year at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters

and my last card as I am stepping down

as a Designer. I have so enjoyed being part of the

fabulous friendly Sistah's and I know they will

continue to impress you with their craft skills

and encourage you to add yours to their Gallery in the New Year.

Our challenge is simply CHRISTMAS!

so go all out , have fun and

add yours to our Gallery. I know it will be full of

amazing Christmas creations.

I found the pretty paper I used on my die cut trees

in my stash - had it for years!

Embossed background is an old CB Christmas one.

Added some gold cord, bow and pearls.

Sentiment is from Elizabeth Craft Designs.

Card stock/base are metallic gold.

Thanks so much Darlene and  Sistah's

for the wonderful time I had as part of the Team.

Merry Christmas to you all.

Silver Decorations for Christmas

It's sooooooooooo close to Christmas

and I am sure you haven't finished your cards yet have you?

 Christmas Craft Creations have their last challenge for the year

so a great chance to quickly finish them up by entering our

Christmas Decorations Theme

I went with an old CB embossing folder for my background

then added a MFT oval die that I had

adhered my silver Christmas Decorations to.

Die cut the Merry Christmas sentiment.

Framed in silver onto white card base.

A really CAS card that would be so easy

to do multiples of.

Hop over and check out what has been added to

Our Blog by the Talented Design Team.

Hope to see yours there.

Thanks for visiting throughout the year

with your kind comments.

May you have a

Merry Christmas 

with Family and Friends and I will be back

in the New Year to do it all over again.

Sparkle this Christmas!

It's time for the Anything Goes Stencil Challenge at

Happy Little Stampers 

I had a load of fun making this card. Started with

Lindy's magical's for my background

then stencilled ARTplorations Christmas Tree 

with coloured texture paste.

While that was wet I added lots of

Stampendous Twinkle Glitter.

It looks a little blurry in the photo I think because it is so thick.

Finished with heat embossing my sentiment from

Happy Little Stampers Let it Snow.

Adhered to white card base and my

sparkly Christmas card was complete.

Hope you get a chance to play with

our challenges over at

Happy Little Stampers 

as there will be an indefinate break.

A HUGE Thank You to Kylie for 

how she has cared for and looked after

the numerous Challenges she managed -

not to mention all her Designers. 

We are forever thankful for the

privilege of being part of her 'Family'.

Have a Merry Christmas.

Celebrating our #100th at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

We are celebrating our #100th Challenge at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

with this challenge a little different to our usual Anything Goes.

Christmas is just a few weeks away

 and have added the option of 

Anything Goes Mixed Media with a

Christmas Theme.

Our Talented Guest Betta

and the Team have gone with

a special Mixed Media Christmas make.

After coming home from a little holiday

I was full of ideas but Mo and Jo were overwhelmed

hence it took me a few days to narrow down what I wanted to create.

As it turned out what I started with is nothing like

what I had in mind and in the end it just wasn't me

so I started all over again and again!

When you want to do something special you 

overthink it and try too hard. 

In the end and running out of time I am

finally happy with my Christmas Creation.

Here is some progress photos

I wasn't happy with this background and it

did go in the bin only to come out the next day.

(Things weren't going to planat this stage)

adding kraft paper with splatters and rolled to top part

then added rolled paper from an old book.

Inked the edges with AA Rusty Brown Wax.

Then deciding what elements to add.

Art stones, crystal snow and cheescloth.

Tim's Holiday Greens, Deer with more snow,

Die cut envelope and note

Joy die is Kaisercraft inked and covered in Nuvo

Hollywood Red Sparkle Dust and adhered to

thick cardboard. Somewhere along the way

I lost the itty bitty i.

Finished with some sequins, gems and chipboard pieces I left natural.

Design Team Member Fiona has kindly donated 

this prize for one lucky Winner!

Be sure to add your Mixed Media to Our Blog for a chance to be chosen the Winner.

Looking forward to seeing all the lovely projects.

Hope yours will be there. 

PS - As we do each year we take January off to freshen up

our creativeness and get over Christmas/New Year festivities 😊

Thank you for all your kind comments during the year.

See you in Febraury!

Have a Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.

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