You 'ROCK'

 I'm Rockin' it for our latest challenge over at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters 

and we are looking for Something Musical.

Because Hubby is an avid guitar player/collector

that was my obvious choice.

Here's a close up!

Background is with Tim's Oxide Inks,

a little bit of  crackled stenciling, a few black splatters 

and some music notes.

Die cut a circle to place the guitar on

using the same inks as the background,

adding glossy gel medium, touches of inking, nuvo drops

and glued to a white one for shadowing then popped.

Added appropriate sentiment and onto black paper,

finishing with white card base.

The Sistah's have made amazing musical makes

so pop over and check them out then 

come join us by adding yours to our Gallery.

Till next time - 

 

 

 

Jingle All the Way

It's time for another Anything Goes Challenge over at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

and I made an easy card for posting purposes.

A simple heat embossed sentiment on

metallic card stock using Ranger Red Cinnabar,

die cut, heat embossed the backgrond to match

and attached to metallic card base.

Head over and see more Christmas makes

from the Team and add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in - 

Hello Sweet Friend

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

with such lovely colour tones for us to work with.

Here's a closer look!

Once again I made this card quite a long time ago

just for the fun of using new dies.

Worked out perfectly for this weeks challenge.

Thanks Vicki!

I love kraft card stock and aqua blend together nicely.

I used metallic card stock for all the dies.

Added an extra die cut head to the big flower,

a thin frame, a few pearls and a

tiny sentiment to finish.

I loved how quick and easy this card came together.

Don't forget to check out how our Guest Rachel

and the Team were inspired by that lovely photo.

It's just 'that little bit different'

Hope you are inspired and join in

by adding to our Gallery.

Till next time - 

A Twofer for Just Us Girls

 

It's Trend Week at Just Us Girls and Hosting is Elizabeth

and choosing the Mini Slimline Trend Challenge was 

the very talented former Jugs Designer Angie -

Queen of the Slimline Creations.

I landed up making two very different cards

The first card is my favourite background in pastel colours,

heat embossing the In Bloom Plumerias from STAMPlorations

with Nuvo Gold Enchantment EP.

Sentiment is STAMPlorations Fond Expression 2

attached to a strip of yellow onto pretty pink card base.

Second card has me using some of my newish dies again

in red and black backed with embossed dp

framed in red and attached to grey card base.

Added a bit of red cotton and grey die cut sentiment.

They were so fun to make. Now it is your turn to 

make a mini slimline card and add to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there after you have been inspired by 

our November Guest Rachel and the Teams make.

Thanks for dropping in

A Remembrance Day Thank You

 It's time for our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sistah Birgit has chosen the theme

Give Thanks

Tomorrow is Remembrance Day here in Australia.

The day is dedicated to Australians who died as a result of war.

My card for this challenge is

In Remembrance and to Give Thanks

here's a close up of the poppies

I love inking up the Rubbernecker stamps as 

you can get a nice artsy look.

I used their Watercolour Poppies using a

water brush with Lindy's Cuckoo Clock Cardinal

and Cathedral Pines, Brusho's Brilliant Red and

Nuvo Solar Flare Shimmer Powder. 

Added a touch of Perfect Pearls in Forever Red.

Uniball white pen touched up in the centres

and flicked some splatters.

The poppies were heat embossed with Ranger Black.

A little bit of scoring and SU Lotus Blossom sentiment 

heat embossed. 

Attached to a black background onto white card base.

Pop over and see what my Sistahs made.

Love to see your Give Thanks cards in our Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in

A Fun Fold Card for Someone Special

It's time for our New Challenge at 

Christmas Craft Creations 

and this month we are looking for

I love making Christmas cards with my

Spellbinders Poinsettia Dies and for our 

Fun Fold Challenge this is what I chose -

and found an old Cottage Craft one I thought

would be a nice backing piece.

Going for a simple twisted easel card

as they lay flat and easy for posting.

I wanted something different to stand out for my big leaves

and gilding flakes came to mind.

There is a lot going on with this card 

mainly with lots and lots of die cutting from 

Spellbinders and Cottage Craft for the Poinsettias.

Tim's Holiday Greens and a few Kaisercraft leaves.

Blue card stock has been stenciled with transparent texture paste.

Iridescent paper for the dies, Iridescent Medium on poinsetia.

Nuvo Sparkle Dust in red, Zing Metallic Silver EP,

Spellbinder Label, Inspired by Stamping Sentiment,

Liquid Pearls dusted with Sparkle Dust.

I think that's it.

Whew that was mammoth!

Pop over and see what fun fold the rest of the Team created.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

Cherrio for now

Celebrate the Season

 'tis getting really close to Christmas isn't it and

How are you doing with creating your Christmas Cards?

Lucky for me I have been able to build up my supplies this year.

My card today is for the New Challenge over at 

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

The beautiful Christmas Poinsettia stamp from

STAMPlorations came out to play on this card.

I chose to go with cool blue-ish tones,

heat embossed in navy

and colouring with Lindy's Magicals,

some iridescent medium and perfect pearls for shimmer.

Fussy cut and popped on to weathergrain paper

and navy card base.

Added liquid pearls and some fine glitter

to the centre of the flower while still wet.

Finished with a few gems.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created

and hope to see you in our Gallery.

Thanks for coming by.

The WORD is MERRY!

'tis getting close to Christmas and 

Hosting this weeks Word Challenge at

 Just Us Girls is Nancy

choosing an oh so perfect! one for us.

It's our first Challenge for November and we

Welcome our November Guest Rachel Davis.

Christmas and Tartan are a go too for me

(of course) and this was the perfect way to show it off.

I attached the paper to gold paper then

cut out a smaller frame, attached 

a bit of Tim's Greenery, some bells and ball,

gold thread and the CUTplorations Merry Christmas die

 in the same gold paper.

A nice simple card in very traditional colours - 

but so so hard to get a crisp photo with that gold shine.

After umteen attempts this looked the best. 

Pop over and see what our 

November Guest Rachel Davis

and the Team created and add your

Merry card to our Gallery.

Thanks for coming by. 

Love reading your comments.

You're only 50 Once!

 Hello and welcome to todays post for 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge

and it's a pretty special one. 

My son in law turns 50 soon

so I went all out and made him an 8x10 canvas.

As you can see he is a car buff; likes to

restore old cars and this one in particular has had 

so much work done on it, tinkering to no end

and it is a credit to him the time (A LOT) he has spent

getting it to where it is today.

The need for speed has taken him to try drag racing

and has been quite successful doing so.

Anyway enough of that - 

there is so much going on here so I will

fill you in as best I can with products used and

some photos along the long road.

Started my canvas with gesso and stenciled.

Adding some grid chipboard to the sides and

lots of texture and colours with 

Distress Grit Paste, Sand Paste,

Lindy's Magical's and Brusho's.

Adding dry wall tape, postage tags, 

metal embellishments from my stash,

chipboard numbers.

Working out what to use

and went with this

If you look closely you can see a dymo cut 1965

(the year the Ford was made)

Car photo here is just on photo paper as a guide.

Have added Art Alchemy, Cosmic Shimmer 

and Imagination Crafts Startlight to various items

including the chipboard 50. Tim's Quotations

I thought suitable for the project. I added

acetate to the front of the photo after I smudged

one and scratched another. Adhered with

appropriate brads and embellishments.

Here's another photo of my finished canvas 

a little bit lighter in colour!

A time consuming creations but so fun to see it

come together so well. Hoping he likes it!

It's on it's way for the Birthday Boys 50th

on our Remembrance Day - November 11th.

Hope you enjoy looking at all the bits and bobs

I added here. Love reading your comments.

Don't foget to drop in to Our Blog

to see what my Talented Team Mates created

for your pleasure this month and 

Please come join in and have a bit of fun

creating what you love doing best.

This is heading over to More Mixed Media Challenge 

for Anything Goes with Optional Black

Got that covered with the black car!

Mixed Media Lovers

for Challenge #7 

We Love 2 Create for Challenge #11

Love to Scrap Challenge - #151

Thanks and till next time - Cherrio

'Celebrate' for Bizzy Becs Blog

 Hello and Welcome to my post for today.

I am excited to be joined the Designers over at

Bizzy Becs Store Blogspot. which is Australian Based.

There is  a Monthly Anything Goes Challenge

and a Prize for our Winner kindly donated by the Store.

Here is my first card

Those that know me are aware that I love

making smoochy backgrounds.

For this card I used Tim's Oxide Inks in

Speckled Egg and 

Kitsch Flamingo (Out of Stock)

but can be pre ordered at Bizzy Becs Store

(love these newish colours)

I then used Tim's Wildflower Stencil as a

background with white crackle paste.

 Wildflower Stamps and Dies were added

using the same colours as above including Peacock Feathers.

These are always popular and you can email Bec

to see if she can get them for you.

Touched some of them up with Lindy's Spray and

Nuvo Shimmer Powder.

A close up showing the crackle and

colours from the inks/sprays.

Sentiment is from Dark Room Door Birthday Sentiments

This is a super set and so versatile.

There are several others that are available to

pre order also. Check it out.

Finished by attaching to coloured card stock.

head over and see what the other Talented Designers created

this month and we would love to see yours

in our Gallery Here

Thanks for droppin in - 

Love reading your kind comments.

Challenge Time at STAMPlorations

 Time is flying by so quickly - 

it's November already and that means

New Challenges over at STAMPlorations

Here's my make for the Stencil Challenge

My stenciled background is from

ARTplorations Hex All Over Square Stencil

inked with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Ground Espresso, Fossilized Amber,

Faded Jeans and Rustic Wilderness.

Added some water and perfect pearl splatters.

My featured stencil is 

ARTplorations Slimline Bamboo Stencil 

covered with texture paste, adding 

Golden Olive Metallic Gilding Polish when dry.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Helenium Large

die cut from CUTplorations Tags #1. 

Added gold thread and a brad, popped

on to coloured card base. 

Here are the products I used - 

Head on over and see what the rest of the

STAMPlorations Team created and

come join in this month's fun challenges.

Of course you know there are prizes to be won.

Check out the few simple rules to qualify Here

and go for it.

Thanks for dropping in.

'Relax' for Wild Card Week at JUGS

Bobby is Hosting this week at Just Us Girls

and it is our Wild Card Challenge.

It's that time of year that you see

 the most beautiful leaves change colours -

just not where I live though. Spring has sprung

and we are getting 'new life'.

I decided  I would use some orange retired SU Designer Paper

to go with the leaves in the photo covering fully

 to my white card base.

The white backing for my die cut leaves

was split on an angle letting them peak out

in all directions. I love orange and black together

and think my arrangement blends in nicely.

Finished with some black pearls and sentiment.

Which road will you take when you 

add your card to our Gallery? 

Autumn tones or something completely different like mine.

Don't forget to check out what our Guest Nora

and the Team created for your pleasure.

On a sad note we bid farewell to Angie

as this is her last post as part of the Team - 

but we know we will still see her 

amazing talent on Blogland.

Thank You so much Angie for all the inspiration

and encouragement you have given us.

We were blessed to have you on our Team. 

Also a big Thank You to Nora for being a

fabulous Guest with us this month.

We loved having you and sharing your

talent with us. 

It's a Beautiful Day

Welcome to todays post for The Sisterhood of Crafters 

and our Latest Challenge. 

Sistah Debbie has chosen the theme - Wreath

I must admit it took me an age to come up with something

as I didn't want to have the common circle one.

I used Thinlits 664377 Geo Frame and added

lots of coloured leaves around the die cut frame.

I then finished it off with SU Botanical Blooms

die cut flowers coloured with Lindy's Magical's.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations 

 cut from MFT circle die.

Added pearls to the flower centres to finish.

Attached to white card base.

Pop over and see what my Sistah's created

and we would love to see your Wreath cards

in our Gallery Here.

Thanks for droppin in and leaving a comment.