Case-ing Loll Thompson

Do you find yourself liking a particular style of card on Pinterest?

And a lot of the time it is the same person!

Well this happened to me while browsing

for inspiration for the latest
Everyone's Favourite Challenge at

Addicted to Stamps and More 
Anything Goes!

I find myself admiring the beautiful cards by

Loll Thompson from Stamping with Loll

and I recently was gifted the die I have used on my card

to case her Daisy Birthday Card

I have already made a card with this die

but wanted to use it in the more traditional

yellowish colours.

It's a simple card really. My background was made
with Yellow & Orange Brusho's. I wet my craft mat
and added the brusho powders then placing my card stock
on top. I did this a number of time also thumping
to get extra colour drying as I went along.
I did add some PearEx in Aztec Gold
and has made it shimmer beautifully - you can just see it here.

 Added a popped stitched frame.
 My leaves are from Kaisercraft  in gold vellum.
The beautiful daisy was cut multiple times and layered.
Centre is filled with lemon flower soft.
This was then adhered to the background.
Sentiment is gold embossed and from
STAMPlorations Bloom Happy
Finished with yellow pearls.

Hope you will pop over and see what my Team Mates
have created and come join us. Love to see you there.

It 'Really Is' starting to look like Christmas

It's nearly 'That Time of the Year"

Only a few weeks till the most important Gentleman 

of the Year flies all over the world to the delight of

all the boys & girls!

Have you finished your Christmas Cards?

Better get crackin' if you haven't.

Over at Happy Little Stampers 

we give you one last chance to  
add to the few you are short of.

This month our Optional Twist for our 

Anything Goes December Christmas Challenge

is to use a Stencil. Right up my alley!

I was soooooooooooo happy with 

how this card turned out.
 I recently purchase some ArtDeco Crackle Paste 

and was anxious to try it out.

I inked my background with Tim's

Oxide inks with a touch of PearEx Powder.

I then got my ARTplorations Christmas Reindeer

(you would have seen it used Here )
 adding the crackle paste and while wet
 some Elizabeth Craft Design Cool Diamonds glitter
 then waited till it dried - Love the result!
This was backed with some snowflakes from SU.
My papers are Metallic to match as my card base
and Galaxy behind my deer.
Sentiment is unknown.

And you know that -

Our winner for this challenge will receive

 a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! 

Check out all the details HERE

Thanks for dropping in. 

Don't forget to pop over and see what my Team Mates

created and come join in the fun for our last 

Christmas Challenge of the Year.

In saying that I would like to wish you all

A Very Merry Christmas.

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.

I'm Guest Designer at CAS Mix Up

I seem to be on a roll lately Guest Designing for

2 Favourite Challenges of mine.

Last month was CAS Watercolour and this month

CAS Mix Up

Thanks once more to Bonnie & Loll for inviting me.

It was nice to move away from Christmas cards this time

for my first card as Guest Designer.

Here is the Mix for this month.

A nice easy one!

My Mix on the above card is

*Stamping *Stencilling

*Die Cutting *Heat Embossing

*Smooching & Splash Watercolouring

I started my card by cutting a piece of 

white card stock with a stitched die

then added a pearl white acrylic painted waive.

My Spellbinder hexagons were made from

Lemon & Orange Brusho's with a touch of

PearEx Aztec Gold. It didn't seem to set

properly so topped it with glossy

transparent gel medium.

My butterfly from STAMPlorations Trendy Butterflies

 is in the same Brusho colours

and heat embossed in black and fussy cut.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations Trendy Feathers 2

Added some pearls to finish then attached to

my white card base.

Pop over and see what the Talented Designers created

and hope you find time to play this month.

Thanks for dropping in today.

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

***

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.

It's Mix It Up Challenge Time

It's December and time for the last challenge for the year at

Mix It Up Challenge Blog

It's always Anything Goes and the

Optional Twist this time is Fancy Fold

I somehow lost Mo & Jo again and it

took me an age to find them. I was beginning to give up

but gave the Twist a go without them.

This was my second attempt -

I think you call this a fancy flap card.
Products I used here are
SU card stock
Designer Paper
Spellbinder/MFT Circle Dies
CB Embossing Folder
Image/Sentiment - STAMPlorations.
Tim's Festive Berries Distress Ink
Liquid Pearls
Velcro to fasten.

This one was close to going in the bin. I couldn't get
it to sit right and then added another fold.

Ingredients -
Basic card stock
DP/Inside sentiment - Inspired by Stamping
Embossing Folder
Nuvo Mousse
Rose/Outside Sentiment - STAMPlorations
Water colour paints
White Embossing Powder
Diamond Dust.

I found the tutorials for these cards on Pinterest
but did not save them for reference. Sorry!
I'm sure you have all seen them in your travels.

Hope you will pop over to Our Blog to see
some really amazing fancy folds from the Team
and you get time to come play with us this month.

This will be my last posting as a Mix It Up Designer.
I have enjoyed my time creating with their variety of Challenges.
Thanks to Leslie and Team Mates. It's been a fun run.

Thanks for dropping in

Stencil Hopping at STAMPlorations

Hello to all my Craft Lovin' Friends. Today's posting is for

the Stencil Blog Hop over at STAMPlorations.

We have in store for you Fabulous New Stencils

designed by our very own Sanna Lippert 

and you are going to love them

after you see what the Team created.

Here's Mine

I had a load of fun with this card especially

using the STAMPlorations Big Monsters set

as I thought the new stencil - 

ARTplorations Evolution Stencil by Sanna Lippert Designs

was a perfect background. I had one made with

clear texture paste but didn't show up enough so

went with white. This was cut out with

CUTplorations Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting Dies

I cut out a tag from CUTplorations Tags 1 Nesting Dies

and inked with the ARTplorations Plaid Maker Stencil 

in Fossilized Amber Oxide Ink.

I stamped my monster onto red card stock and 

fussy cut him I then stamped bits in yellow

for his hair teeth and shoes. Added a few dots of yellow 

Liquid Pearls and of course those google eyes

popping him. Finishing with Monster Wishes

and some cotton.

Here I started off with a background stencil

from ARTplorations Bold Flowers lightly inked

then cut out a circle from acetate to use as a

stencil for the bold bright colours using Tim's Oxide Inks.

My big stencil is one of the new ones

from Sanna Lippert Designs - Flowers 1

I inked it with Nuvo Mousse in

Burnished Copper adding Nuvo Copper Penny

to a few centres and added a bit of texture 

while wet with a pin.

I cut this out from CUTplorations Curly LabelsTags Nesting Dies

fussy cutting a second one as backing.

My sentiment is  CUTplorations Awesome Word Die

cut twice. 

Check out all the Important Details 

Here





Thanks so much for dropping in.
don't forget to pop over To Our Blog
and check out all the Sensational Stencil Creations
from The Team - and join in The HOP
and Comment for a chance to win!
And of course there is a 20% Discount Code
for you to purchase for a Bargain!
My code is STAMPGIRLINA.

Taking Time Out To Say

I'm taking Time Out to play in the current Challenge at

Time Out which is Inspired by Words.

STAMPlorations are sponsors so my card

was made with their products.

I have made a fairly clean and simple card

focusing on the Sentiment and backing it with

Brusho's in Purple/Violet & Turquoise.

I thought it needed a little something so

inked up  my NBUS STAMPlorations Blossom Sprays 1

with Memento Eldenberry in the corner.
Sentiment is

STAMPlorations Typografia Full of Thanksgiving

also inked as above.

I added some beads to the flower, corner rounded

and attached to coloured card stock to finish.

I will pop this over to their

Never Ending Anything Goes Challenge

Here

Thanks for dropping in

Love reading your comments.

Till next time - Cherrio from