It's the First Twofer Challenge!

Hi there! So glad you dropped in

'cause I am delighted to see the

Fabulous Twofer Card Challenge #1 is Live!

Here!

We all (or should) know the Delightful Darnell

who is challenging us to make 2 different cards 

with the same stamp/die but for 2 different occasions.

I know there are going to be gazillions

of crafters out there to encourage

Darnell and her Fabulously Talented Team

on there New Journey

SO...... let the fun begin.

I was sooooooooooooooo excited

when I saw what the prompt was FEATHERS!

and I had only recently got out my favourite

SU Four Feathers Set for another card.
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On to Card 1
The current and addictive challenge over at
CAS Mix Up is to use cling wrap
and what better way to show off my feathers!
I used Brusho's on glossy photo paper
popped onto stitched die cut card stock.
Sentiment is from Paper Smooches.
Added a few gems and attached cotton
to the feathers.

(Close up)

Card 2
I made as a male card.
The background woodgrain is from
Dark Room Door and stamped with
Tim's Frayed Burlap as is the
front feather. The other two are
in Gathered Twigs.
These were popped in front of
some wrapping paper from some
sweets my sister received from
an overseas friend and is very brittle.
Just knew it would come in handy one day!
Sentiment is from Inspired by Stamping.
Finished with some jute on the feathers.
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So of course these cards are going over to
The Twofer Challenge over Here
Please go over and check out what
the Darnelle Designers have created
and Card 1 for their
CAS Mix Up January Challenge

My Mix is Cling Wrap, Die cutting and Stamping.

Thanks so much for coming by today
Till next time - Cherrio from

A New Technique for ME.

Hi there Crafty Friends. 

When I saw the new challenge over at CAS Mix Up

I knew I had to finally try my hand at their
 January Mix Challenge Cling Wrap. 

I played around with a few different elements

and decided that the Brusho one was the nicest.

I do have a few other bits and will keep them for another time.

My Mix is Cling Wrap, Brusho's, Stamping, Die Cuts, Bling.

This time I used the cling wrap technique on SU Glossy card
spritzed with water then added my

Brusho's in Turquoise, Purple and Prussian Blue.
It does have a nice little shine to it.

I cut my top piece with a wonky stitched die twice

and popped it against the background.

My birthday sentiment is from Stampendous

inked in Tim's Mermaid Lagoon.

Finished with a few sequins and gems.

What a fun technique!

Seize the Birthday have started off their challenges

for the New Year with an Anything Goes Theme

so will pop this one over there and a new to me Challenge Blog
SumMore Fun asked for Something New
The heading says it all - New Technique.

UPDATE! Sending this card over to CAS Watercolour for their
January Challenge - Birthday.
Thanks Bonnie & Loll.

Thanks so much for dropping in today and

Thank You for your Kind Comments.

It's Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge

A Guid New Year tae ane an awe

And mony may we see!

( A wee bit of Scotland coming out here)

Hope you all had a Very Merry Christmas
and now we move on to 2018.

The first Challenge over at Happy Little Stampers is our
Anything Goes Watercolour Challenge
(and I'm part of the New Look Team)
with the Optional Twist to use Sequins.
I'm sure we all have lots of little containers
full of these little treasures.

My watercolour background effect was the result of
spritzing water on to my craft mat after I added
Tim's Oxide Inks in Mermaid Lagoon & Salty Ocean
then spread with an acetate sheet.
The feature of my card is of course the feather
which is a stencil by TCW. I added texture paste
and once dry inked with Mermaid Lagoon.
It needed a little something so I put my stencil
back over the feather and versamarked it
then heat embossed the glitter.
Added some tiny text for interest.
Sentiment is from HLS Thinking of You
which unfortunately is retired.
Finished with HLS Blue Sequins and
a few gems and cut with a stitched die
adhering to metallic card stock.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 
Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!
How good is THAT!

Thanks for dropping in. Please check out Our Blog
to see what the Team have created
and come join us this month.
Hope to see you there.

It's Merry & Bright

It's certainly looking like Christmas now!

We are into our last CUTploration Challenge of the Year

and what better Inspiration Photo than this beauty.

So much to choose from here.

The Silvery Tree got me motivated and 

that is what I went with for my focal point.

I went with traditional Christmas colours

as is on the photo. 

My Christmas Tree is from

 CUTplorations Christmas Icons Christmas Tree 1

which is cut from glitter paper. I have used it again

matting behind my Brusho's background.

Both were cut with 

CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

Adding my Merry and Bright sentiment from

STAMPlorations Christmas Elf

I added a light spray of Iridescent Medium

 to my Brusho Background

popped my tree after adding a tiny star and a few gems.

Do you like what you see here and would like to

purchase some of the fabulous products?

You can get a 20% off just by using my code

STAMPGIRLINA.

Thanks for dropping in today.

Hope to see you over at STAMPlorations this month.

It's a 'Groovy Birthday Wish'

When I saw the  CAS Card Challenge
for February over at STAMPlorations
 I knew what stamp set  I just  'had to have'

It's STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes and perfect for our
Colour Twist which is 'HOT PINK'

 

This is my second month as Guest Designer and I am having
so much fun playing with all their fabulous products.

These are the products I used

I could have done sooooooo much more with this stamp set
but since it is a CAS Challenge I had to hold back this time.
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I have been sweating on the mail man dropping my goodies
from STAMPlorations into my box
and he finally delivered and I couldn't wait to play.
I chose a super bright pink card base
then went on to colour those groovy shoes with
Tom Bow markers in different shades of pink.
I chose to back them with the stencil -
ARTplorations Broken Glass
inked up with Memento Angel Pink.
This was cut with a stitched die.
 

I added Glossy Accents to the brighter pink on the shoes
then Pink Kindy Glitz on the bottom, also spraying
a little pink randomly to block out a bit of white.
This was cut with a Spellbinder die so too for the pink frame.
The sentiment is also from the Groovy Shoes stamp set
inked with SU Melon Mambo.
Added a bit more bling with some pink gemstones.

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Did you know
  There are even more reasons 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

 And 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.

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If you haven't already popped over to

Our CAS Challenge head over there now and

check out all the HOT PINK CREATIONS made by the 'Team'.

 I am sure you will want to play and

with Valentine's Day this month there's no stopping you!

See you there.

 

Thanks for dropping in. I really appreciate

you taking the time to check me out.