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.

A Beautiful Sanna Stencil Reminder

Here's a quick Reminder of the Blog Hop introducing

Stencils from

If you haven't been over to see all the awesome 

designs by the Team using Sanna's stencils 

you can check them out Here

You can even see a video showcasing her stencils

and how they came about Here

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I have used 2 ARTploration stencils here.

For the background it was ARTplorations A Bloom & 3 Buds

randomly stamped with Spiced MarmaladeOxide Ink.

The floral feature is Sanna's 

ARTplorations Flowers 1 Stencil from Sanna Lippert Designs

This was inked up with a number of Tim's Oxide Inks

then I added Ranger Transparent Gloss Texture Paste

and while wet 'drowned' it with glitter - and you all know

where a lot of that goes where it's not supposed to eh!

This was cut from CUTplorations CurlyLabelsTags Nesting Dies

My 'beautiful' is CUTplorations Beautiful Word Die

which was covered with Nuvo Crystal Glaze

The back floral was cut with 

CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

I popped the flowers for dimension.

This was all attached to white card stock.

Here are the STAMPlorations products used

Hope you have time to pop over and check out

Sanna's fabulous stencils and again 

the Designers showcasing them.

There are of course prizes to be won!

3 Lucky Crafters will win some spending money

and their choice of 3 Sanna Lippert Designs Stencils.

Thanks for dropping in today.

I'm a Happy Little Christmas Stamper!

Hello there my Crafty Friends

I have some really exciting news for you - 

I have been invited to be on the 

Design Team for Happy Little Stampers.

 I am on the Christmas Team

so you will see Christmas coming monthly from me.

Thanks Kylie for the opportunity to be part of your Amazing Team.

The Christmas Challenge for July at
Happy Little Stampers is

Here is my first card - with lots of die cuts!

I am also excited about this card because I got to

play with new 'stuff'' from my recent Crafty time away.

First of all I HAD to (being a Scot) have the Scottie Dog - 

I have wanted him for ages and when I saw him

 he just jumped right out at me.

He is from Cottage Cutz

Next my Christmas sentiment die is a newbie from Paper Roses.

I love it as it is nice and small - will get lots of use!

Okay - now on to the rest - 

The hills were cut out with stitched dies.

I should have used some glitter paper but I forgot and

sprinkled glitter all over my glued paper cuts then I had to

wait till it dried - you know how it is waiting for paint to dry

well I landed up leaving it overnight.

The trees are also die cut and inked with 

Hero Arts White Pigment Ink

to try and give them a snowy look.

Unfortunately the ink soaked in a bit.

Added some snowflakes which are stamped from

a stamp from the SU Avant Garden on to my blue paper

and because the ink stayed wet for some time 

sprinkled some glitter to them and the trees

(a little hard to see here)

As you can see the hills have been popped.

I hope you will pop over to The Happy Little Stampers Blog

and check out what the Christmas Design Team created

and come join in the fun.

It's never tooooooo early to make those Christmas Cards. 

You know it always comes around all too quickly.

And

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon 

to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Love reading your comments.

Till next time it's Cherrio from

It's Challenge #5 at Season's Greetings

We are already up to Challenge #5 at Season's Greetings

and it is Team Kangaroo's turn to post.

Using the colours above as a guide

I used Tim Holtz Peacock Feathers

and Victorian Velvet for my background smooching.

I simply inked up my mat sprayed lightly with water

and blended with acetate till I got my result.

I then got out my stencil from STAMPlorations

 ARTplorations Dots All Over using Acrylic Paint

and sprinkling glitter while still wet.

This was cut with a stitched die and attached to 

my card base of white.

The Merry die cut is from Memory Box

and the Christmas is unknown.

Hope you can join us for this fun colour challenge

and check out what my Team Mates have created.

Thanks for dropping by today.