I'm Guest Designer at CAS Watercolour Card Challenge

I am excited to be joining the Talented Designers over at

CAS Watercolour Blog as their Guest Designer for November.

Thank You Bonnie & Loll for the Honour.

As it is so close to Christmas this is just perfect timing

to add to your CAS Christmas Stash by joining in the current 

You can find the Details Here

I created my framed background using
Distress/Distress Oxide Inks in
Seedless Preserves/Peacock Feathers & Broken China.
I then cut them from MFT Stitched Die
and popped for dimension.
My Merry Die is from Memory Box.
Christmas Sentiment is Hero Arts
To finish I added a few punched silver stars
and tiny sequins in pink and silver.

Don't forget to pop over and see what
 The Talented Design Team have created.
You have until the 24th of this month to play.
Hope you get time to join us.
I love looking at the variety of colours and styles created
for this special time of the year.
Will I see yours there?

Thanks so much for dropping in.

'Love' Always

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls and hosting is Vicki

choosing these colours

They 'scream' Halloween to me but I chose a different path
as I am not a Halloween sort of person.

I think this flower from SU Bloom with Hope

makes for a lovely card. I remembered I had some

Twinkling H2 O's in my stash so I decided to

heat emboss the flower and go from there.

I fussy cut that out and then went on to 

create the background.

This was achieved using SU Timeless Textures

with TH Black Soot & Mowed Lawn.

The green leaves are from Marianne Designs

and a MS punch.

I finished my flower with some Diamond Dust

in the centre.

and cut my sentiment from STAMPlorations Pocket Blooms

with a MFT Stitched die.

Pop over to Our Blog to see what our

October Guest Karola

and the Team created using these fabulous colours.

You are never disappointed!

Hope to see you there. 

Thanks for dropping by

I Scream You Scream...

It's the middle of the month and that means

A Reminder for the October CUTplorations Challenge

at STAMPlorations

I decided to go with Happy and chose

 STAMPlorations Sweet Cravings

and CUTplorations Matching Die for my focal point.

You know the old saying - 

I scream - you scream - we all scream for ice cream

A perfect Birthday Card. 

There are lots of yummies here - 

I decided to add a bit of interest with so many

party stamps and cut my card stock on an angle.

My ice cream cone was heat embossed with

Zing Brown Sugar then of course I had to add

toppings - Nuvo Drops in 

Violet Galaxy/Wisteria Purple/Pumpkin & Blue Lagoon

and you have to have sprinkles!

I let that dry and continued on adding

some stenciling from ARTplorations Square Dance

stamping from STAMPlorations Balloons & Banners

STAMPlorations Groovy Shoes

STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments

STAMPlorations Party Time

with CTMH Thistle, Memento Lulu Lavender

TH Carved Pumpkin 

and die cut CUTplorations Happy Die

So you see - so many fabulous party stamps/stencils/dies.

Hope you enjoyed licking your lips and drooling over

that yummy ice cream. It's certainly ice cream weather here in Oz.

Thanks for dropping in and hope you will go check out what

my Team Mates created Here and come join us.

You still have plenty of  time.

Till next time Cherrio from

A Simple Silhouette

Hello there my blogger friends - 

Today I have a simple card experimenting

with some oxide inks (I need the practice)

and came up with

for the September CAS Watercolour Challenge

and for their

here CAS Watercolour

I am still having fun playing with some of my new

Lavinia Stamps and there are a few more to come.

My watercolour background has been smooched

several times. I then heat embossed my Lavinia Thistle

in white adding Nuvo Crystal Glaze to the centre.

For interest I stamped around it with a small script stamp

with Hero Arts Unicorn Pigment Ink.

This was cut from a Spellbinder Die

and again with the 2 larger ones and popped.

Sentiment is from

CUTplorations Love Word Die

and also has the crystal glaze.

PS I chose the LOVE die just because

I Love Thistles oh! and there is Purple...

#Updated -  Also popping this over to
City Crafter Challenge Blog for their
Challenge #378 Pick One.

I could play with more of these gorgeous colours!
I'm thinking I may just do that.

Thanks for dropping by today.

Love reading your comment. Till next time

Cherrio from

We're Distressed at Just Us Girls

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls

and Sue is our Host choosing a Most Popular Trend
using Inks as a background.

As I write this post I haven't yet had the experience of
trying the TH Oxide Inks but will remedy that
before this post goes live Yay!
So I am still playing (and lovin' them)
with Tim's Distress Inks for this challenge.

I did have another card in progress but time is
running out and needed to schedule this post
before heading off to spend time with family.
***
As a lot of you will know I love playing with backgrounds
so this challenge was such fun. I could have made so many more.
I started my base with a metallic card stock.
The background was made with
TH Distress Inks in Wilted Violet and Mermaid Lagoon
then I got out some Pearl EX Powder  and
smeared it with a paint brush which has given it
a lovely shimmer. I keep forgetting I have them.
Added my featured flower from
ARTplorations Rose Duet stenciled with
Pearl White Acrylic Paint. while that was wet
I sprinkled with Elizabeth Craft Cool Diamonds.
My sentiment is from
STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies 2
Finished with some gems.


I will add this card to the following Challenges at
STAMPloratons for their

Details - Here and

Details - Here

You need to pop over to our Blog and check out
what our May Guest Kathie Durgan and the
Team have made for your inspiration. I know there will be
lots of beautiful distressing for you to envy.
Hope you are so inspired that you will join us this week
as I know we all love Tim's Distress Inks.

Thanks for dropping in