With Love!

Sue is Hosting this week at Just Us Girls 

and is looking for Hearts!

You can never send too much Love can you?

I hadn't intended my heart to be so "redish' but 

the Lindy's Bougainvillea Fuchsia

 has a mix of red/pink and purple.

I die cut an old Cuttlebug heart, flowers

and heart heads from the mix.

There is also a white cut out heart in the background

and scored behind that for extra interest.

Die cut a few extra heart stems in white

and a flourish from Fancy That.

Sentiment from STAMPlorations,

a few splatters and tiny pearls to finish.

Head over and see how our Guest Jules

and the Team used their 'Hearts' - 

 perfect for those that create cards for

Valentine's Day coming up -

so come join in with yours to our Gallery.

We would love to see you there.

Sending this over to the  Romantic Challenge #229

at Time Out Blogspot

and Tic Tac Toe Challenge for

Challenge #192

Going with Middle Row Down

Hearts - Free - Shades of Red

Thanks for visiting.

Be True to You!

It's our first challenge for the New Year at

The Sisterhood of Crafters and

we are starting off with

  Something New!

With so many new craft items either bought

or gifted the fun of choosing could be hard.

My Something New is 

The stamp I used here bought 

late last year after seeing a card

made by our Sistah Annie.

It's Timeless Tulips from Dark Room Door.

Background is inked up with

Tim's Ox inks, stenciling (new) and stamping from

AALL&Create.

Fussy cut the tulips inked, heat embossed

and slightly popped.

Framed and adhered to white card base.

Showing off the whole stamp here - 

first time inking with Versafine Clair Nocturne 

and heat embossed onto a background

from my bits box. 

Added some splatters and a simple sentiment.

Framed and onto black card base.

Head over and see what my sistahs created.

We would love to see your

'Something New' in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

Christmas Snippets

It's our first Challenge for 2023 at Christmas Craft Creations 

and one I am sure we all have lots of after 

our Christmas card making for last year.

'Snippets'

Here's mine!

All dp used here are leftover bits (snippets).

Die cut five trees, adhered to white cardstock,

framed in red and corner rounded as is the 

one background piece. Both adhered to

white and red card base.

Merry die/sentiment is from Her Arts

and finished with a red bird.

After our recent DT call out we have 

New Talented Designers joining the fun.

Head over to Our Blog and check out

how creative the Team were with their snippets

and don't forget to leave some kind 

welcoming comments for our Newbies.

Looking to see lots of lovely creations.

Will yours be there?

Thanks for popping in

It's Gold! oh and Pink!

 I just HAD TO make another card for the

Pink and Gold Challenge over at 

Color Hues Colour Challenge - this time

using 'real gold paper' and of course pink.

I got out two dies - Memory Box Loveland Corner 

cutting twice (pink and gold)

and CUTplorations Clustered Hearts a few (quite a few) more

as I was going to use them on another card but

didn't work out as planned so scattered a few spares for interest.

The Love Die was a gift.

This was all adhered to gold metallic paper

and on to metallic gold card base.

The Design Team and Newbies 

Jules Stef and Marcia so inspired us

with their amazing cards didn't they?

Thanks for visiting.

'Inspire'

 Welcome back to a New Year of Challenges at

Just Us Girls

We start our Challenges off with Color Week

chosen by our Host Lisa K

AND we have a few a few changes coming during the month too.

***

 Lisa has made it so easy for us with such lovely shades of blues.

To get back into the swing of things I went with

a favourite of mine - a colourful background of blues

with Lindy's Afternoon Delight Denim and

Tim's Denim Delight on Canson Cold Press WC paper

(which is a very creamy coloured paper)

 with his Wildflowers coloured in the same colours.

Added some navy cotton, a simple sentiment

and a blue pearl to the white flower.

Scored the card base to frame the popped florals.

We welcome our January Guest - Jules Pedd

and the Team back again for 2023.

Head over and see how the colours inspired us all.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Wishing You Happiness!

The Talented Designers at Color Hues are back

and have a fabulous colour combination

 chosen by Nancy to inspire us.

Color Hues #55 Light Pink and Gold

As you can see my card hasn't the

traditional gold colour BUT  is

Lindy's Grab a Guy Gold.

My pinks are Tim's gorgeous Saltwater Taffy

and Distress Worn Lipstick EP for my

 STAMPlorations Fond Expressions 2 sentiment.

Dies were a gift.

Added some gold thread for interest and

gold flicks from a posca pen.

I couldn't help but add some stenciling

from AALL& Create also.

Inked the edges and adhered to white card base.

Love the fabulous colours Nancy.

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

Christmas Wishes

 Sistah Diane chose the Theme to use

 Traditional Christmas Colours of  RED & GREEN

for our last Challenge of the Year at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

A simple layout here using the chosen colours

with stitched die cuts, sentiment,

Kaisercraft Berry Vine full of red berries

and finished with twine. 

We will be back on the 11th January to 

start all over again to create and inspire you.

Look forward to you joining us again in the New Year.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

and a Safe and Healthy New Year.

Merry! Merry! Merry!

The Theme for our December Challenge at

Christmas Craft Creations is Gnomes.

I only had one lonely gnome stamp but

lucky for me our local craft store had a

special on them recently (and with dies yay)

in plenty of time to create for our last challenge of the year.

I knew the paper I wanted to use here.

It's Boofle with lots of tartan and other gorgeous pages.

My bff brought it back from England

many years ago and use it sparingly.

I inked my gnome with Versafine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed clear.

Inked again on one of the dp's

and fussy cut his hat, boots and mittens.

His beard is layered lightly with Liquid Pearls.

Added a touch of shimmer with a gel pen

and gloss.

Popped him onto a MFT die cut, added

three Merry dies and a heart to finish.

Head over and see what my Team Mates created.

Look forward to seeing your gnomes in our Gallery.

Thanks for your encouraging and kind comment

throughout the year.

Merry Christmas and as the Scots say

A Guid New Year Tae Yin An Awe

See you in 2023. 

PS So looking forward to watching the

Edinburgh Military Tattoo once more.

Merry Christmas!

 The December Stencil Challenge over at 

Happy Little Stampers is live.

You may wonder where the stencil is on my card.

The background is Tim's Speckles and I sprayed

Lindy's Black Orchid Silver through the stencil

on w/c paper and let it dry.

A close up!

I did the same with iridescent medium

and added extras with splatters.

The trees are coloured with the same background colours.

Sentiment is Hero Arts.

Finished with a few punched stars.

That's it for the year.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas

and a Safe Happy New Year.

It's a White Christmas

It's our last challenge of the year at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

and I had a lot of fun creating a 

Very Snowy Christmas Hanger.

 I bought the hanger last year - just didn't get to work on it.

I knew when I saw it, it was perfect for Mixed Media.

Let the fun begin! Gessoed with black and white.

Painted the outer circle with 

AA metallic rusty red and dark forest.

adding crackle paste to the inside circle

Lots of  'messy stuff'' going on here

adding crackle paste, glitter, art stones.

touched up back trees in green,

AA waxes, acrylic paint for snow capped trees and houses.

It needed a backing so cut out a circle

and smooched with Tim's ox inks and some

irridescent medium for shimmer.

and that finished off my

Christmas Wall Hanger.

Head over to our Blog to see what my

Talented Team Mates had fun creating.

Hope you get some 'you' time to create

a little mixed media something for us.

This is our last challenge for the year.

We take a break in January but

we will be back with more Mixed Media

for your pleasure in February.

Thank you for your kind comments throughout the year.

Wishing you all a Merry Christmas

and a Safe Happy and Healthy New Year. 

I'm Guest Designer at Color Hues

 I am excited and honoured to be

the Guest Designer

 at Color Hues Challenge

for Challenge #54

Here is what I made

I started with my background inking the

Altenew Peony Bouquet flower several times

with Memento Paris Dusk onto cream card stock.

I then inked and layered up the peony flower and 

Altenew Beautiful Day leaves in the same ink.

The last layer of the flower is heat embossed with

sparkly candy blue embossing powder as is the small leaves.

Here is a close up you can see a little of the sparkle

Added some navy blue thread to the back

while putting my floral spray together.

Sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers and

cut from MFT circle die.

Framed in blue and attached to cream card base.

Isn't it just such a lovely combo?

You will want to head over to Color Hues Home

to see what  the Talented Design Team 

created for your inspiration 

and we all look forward to seeing yours in the Gallery.

You have till the 28th December.

See you there.

Thank you so much Color Hues for the pleasure of being

your Guest Designer for December.

A Merry 'Deer'

 

It's Photo Week at Just Us Girls 

and full of wonderful Christmas Inspiration.

This is our last challenge for the year

as we take December off to

unwind, get ready for festivities,

relax and share time with family and friends.

Here's a closer look!

What took your eye?

For me it was that photo above the cosy fireplace.

I got out my trusty CUTplorations Deer die

inking it up with a concoction of colours

adding gloss gel medium to seal.

The die cut behind the deer was cut from the start of the colours

and backed by four embossed Christmas strips,

adhered to kraft card base, finished by

adding a small Merry die cut.

A Big Thank You for all the lovely encouraging comments

throughout the year and to all our Talented Guest Designers.

See you in the New Year.

Have a Merry Christmas and Safe Healthy New Year.

It's Merry and Bright!

Choosing our Theme this time round at

The Sisterhood of Crafters is

Darlene choosing - Anything Christmas or Winter

Perfect with Christmas not too far away!

It's always good to have a few CAS cards made

and that is the way I went here.

Using a Christmas embossing folder

for the background, torn bits of dp,

die cut snow flakes, diamond dust, vellum,

heat embossed sentiment, white card base.

Check out what the Sistahs created

and come join us with yours in our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for visiting