Life is a BEACH!

Hi there and Welcome to today's post for the 

CAS Watercolour Challenge to feature Birds

at The CAS Watercolour Blog

I was looking for something a little different

for my second card for this challenge and remembered 

I had a couple of flamingo sets.

I started by inking a craft mat with

Tim's Spun Sugar spritzing with water 

and smooching, then the brighter colours of

Evergreen Bough and peacock Feathers.

Stamped the palm tree and sentiment also in the

Evergreen Bough. 

The palm trees always have coconuts 

so added a few with Gold Liquid Pearls

and a few fell on the ground.

My 'Fashion Conscious'  Flamingo is from

 Inkadankdo's Flamingo fun 

inked with Altenew Red Cosmos colours, 

 heat embossed in white, fussy cut and popped.

Added a touch of colour to match the coconuts

with a scallop die from MFT.

My Mix is Water Colouring, Embossing, 

Stamping and Die Cutting.

Hope you like my Fun Flamingo

and to my overseas friends I hope

your weather warms up and you can 

get to paddle your feet at the Beach soon.

Thanks for dropping in

We are 'Focusing on Sentiments' for April at STAMPlorations.

Time is just flying by and now April is here!

Hi and Welcome to today's post.

It is all about Focusing on Sentiments over at

STAMPlorations

Checkout all the details Here

I thought the STAMPlorations Large Hellinium 

was 'Simply Gorgeous' so used that as part of my card.

To start with the background I inked white card stock

all over with Tim's Peacock Feathers

sprayed it with water then placed my

ARTplorations Ethnic Organic One on top

lifting that to take a bit of colour away

then placing it back to add

Tim's Mermaid Lagoon for a bright effect.

It was slightly damp when I heat embossed the

Large Hellinium (sorry it is out of stock)

with Lawn Fawn White Embossing Powder

and some stuck to the stenciling which

I was kinda happy with the effect.

I then added the heat embossed 'simply' sentiment

STAMPlorations Bold Sentiments Gorgeous

cut out my 

CUTplorations Gorgeous Die

and heat embossed it also to blend in.

Finished with corner rounding

attaching it to my white card base.

That's it for my part

BUT

there is so much more to see over at

Our Blog

Off course there are prizes to win so 

don't forget to leave a comment here

for your chance to be a winner...

and why not create something

with your sentiment as your focal point

and add it to the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls

It's our Photo Week and what a Beauty

Maria as Host chose for us.

What caught your eye?

There are so many elements here but 

the bicycle is what I saw first

then the pretty flowers.

I love this Cherry Lynn Vintage Bicycle

which was cut from brown card stock - 

the same as the base.

My embossed Brick Wall is from Kaisercraft 

and inked with TH Frayed Burlap.

To go with the flowers I cut a Memory Box

Woodland Branch  and added a 

multitude of coloured flowers with Nuvo Drop centres

and a few leaves from Marianne Designs.

For the Gina K sentiment I cut a MFT circle

and heat embossed in white then

cut a smaller one for the back wheel.

Don't forget to pop over To Our Blog

to see what caught the eye of our

January Guest Cathy and the Team

and come join us this week.

Hope to see you in the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in. 

Love reading your thoughts.

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.

Spread Your Wings and Fly

It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls and Hosting is

Vicki choosing -

I'm afraid I didn't have a teapot in my collection so

went away from that and choosing the teapot colours

as my background. I found 2 matching coloured scrapbook papers

and cut them out with  a Spellbinder Square die

corner rounding 2 sides of each square.

These were popped onto white card stock that has been

cut with a stitched die.

Now the fun part - my butterfly

I got out various coloured distress inks similar to the

photographed butterfly and smooched them onto

card stock then cut the butterfly from a Kaisercraft die.

This was then heat embossed with clear powder

giving my butterfly a lovely shine.

The sentiment is from Gina K and

finished off with a few pearls.

Thanks for dropping in on my blog today
and hope you will check out what
our March Guest Nance and the Team created
Here and come join us.
You could be chosen as Chic of the Week
and then in the running for our
Guest Designer in May.
Thank you Nance for treating us to
seeing what a talented designer you are.