Creative Trading Coins

It's that time of the month for our 

New Anything Goes Mixed Media Challenge at

Creative Artiste Mixed Media

I went with something a little different for me - 

I love the concept of Artist Trading Cards

 but went with coins.

They are a whole lot of fun to make..

Here is how they came together

Die cut circles, added strips of washi tape

 coloured with Lindy's Magical's

with random stamping 

Added splatters with my posca pen

Die cut my insects from coloured Lindy's Magical's

but didn't use the beetle

I chose a variety of products for the backgrounds

and Tim's Small Talk sentiments but in black

The bee has gold thread

Dragonfly has dyed cheesecloth

and butterfly has sisal

Head over and check out what fabulous pieces

have been created for your pleasure and hope you

get to have a bit of mixed media time

to add to our Gallery.

 Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You...

Nancy is our Host for CAS Week at

Just Us Girls 

choosing a 'very interesting theme'

I went two ways with the centre of my card.

The first is the MFT oval dies, framed (popped)

 adding a circle to the centre of my Lily from Repeat Impressions,

inked with Versafine Claire Nocturne, heat embossed clear

 and coloured with Brusho's.

Added a simple sentiment, black pearls and 

adhered to Leathergrain card base.

Check out how our Guest Bonnie and the Team

chose to showcase their CAS cards

and come join in with yours.

A 'THISTLE' for Me!

We're getting 'Inky' at The Sisterhood of Crafters

for our New Challenge.

How FUN is that! So many ways to go with.

I do love getting all inky and creating but this time

while I was looking for a 'messy' background

I found this beauty made with alcohol inks 

and knew what die I would use.

Easy peasy when you have the backing -

just had to add a black die cut thistle

and perfect word sentiment from AALL&Create.

Unfortunately the gold hasn't shown up in the photo.

Added a black frame and attached to 

matching card base. 

My Sistah's have been busy getting inky

so head over to Our Blog and check them out.

Hope you get time to join in.

Thanks for visiting

Everything has 'Beauty'

It's our Photo/Mood Board Week at Just Us Girls

and as Host I am continuing on with all the beautiful leaves

that are changing colour everywhere.

You've guessed what I used on my background

haven't you? YES lots and lots and lots of

Magical Colours together with

Ken Oliver Copper Metal, Nuvo Drops and

dribbled liquid pearls here and there.

The leaf is another one from my driveway

that I played around with colour wise.

Added a bunch of sissel to the back of the leaf

hiding some of those scrumptious colours.

It looks white but is cream, the same as

my cream card base.

Again I have used one of Tim's small talk sentiments

to complete.

Oh and I didn't get inky fingers like I did 

on another project earlier and it was

a whole lot of fun messing around with 

the background and leaf.

Of course our talented Guest Bonnie

and my fabulous team mates created

amazing makes for our mood board challenge so -

head over and check them out and

get yours added to our Gallery.

Hope to see you there.

It's Pumpkin Time!

Lisa E is our Host at Just Us Girls

for our Word Week and chose

PUMPKIN!

 

It's that time of the year in the North

so there are sure to be an abundance of

great shapes and sizes of pumpkins in our Gallery this week.

I went with a very easy card inking, embossing and die cutting

my STAMPlorations Oh So Grateful set

with scrap DP touching up with a Nuvo Shimmer pen.

Die cut two circles adding two tags to the side,

DP background, framed and adhered to brown card base.

The CUTplorations Thankful die is cut twice

shadowed in white at the back.

Head over to our Blog and check out

the pumpkin creations from our

Talented Guest Bonnie and 

of course my Talented Team Mates. 

See you there!

Thankful Always.

 Our New Challenge over at 

The Sisterhood of Crafters is Live

and we are looking for PUMPKINS!

I got out my favourite 

STAMPlorations Pumpkin Stamp/Die set

Oh So Grateful. 

Stencil is ARTplorations Barley

Sentiment STAMPlorations - Grateful Flutters

Coloured withTim's Oxide Inks and Lindy's Magical's.

I lay the popped pumpkin onto a bed of sisal.

Adhered to brown card base.

My Sistah's have had fun creating with our

'Pumpkin' Theme and I am sure you will too.

Hope you add yours to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Mono Merry & Bright!

Christmas Time is fast approaching so we really

should have started making those cards for Family and Friends

Have You?

If not how about getting those supplies out for starters

and play along with this month's Monochromatic Challenge at

Christmas Craft Creations

I decided to case a card I did for CCC in March last year Here

It is such an easy one to make. This time I changed the colours

and a few other things as you see below.

I changed the card base to blue, heat embossed my

STAMPlorations Large Flower

with white embossing powder

masking and inking with Tim's Mermaid Lagoon.

Sponged inside the flower to highlight.

Added splattered snow with posca pen,

Shimmer and Liquid Pearls to centre of flower.

Sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers,

Cut corners and adhered to white card base.

Head over to Our Website for more

mono makes by the Team and 

hope to see you in our Gallery.

Adding this to Simon Says Stamping for

their Simon Says Christmas

Thanks for visiting

Celebrating #700 at Just Us Girls

It's a BIGGIE for  Just Us Girls

Celebrating our #700th Challenge! 

How awesome and special is that...

AND there are surprise prizes to be won!

Lisa K (our original member) has the honour of Hosting and chose

such gorgeous colours for us to play with.

AND

A Huge Welcome to the very talented Bonnie Klass

who is our Guest this month

With those lovely colours Tim's Wildflower Dies

screamed out to be used - so easy to create

something pretty with them.

The background was inked with his

 Distress Inks and Nuvo Shimmer Powders

as was the flowers. Other die cut is kraft.

Added stamping and stenciling from

AALL&Create in tan colours.

Kaisercraft Texture die,

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations,

Tiny ribbon from my stash.

Pearls to main flower, posca pen splatters.

Framed and adhered to kraft card base.

You will want to head over and see the

amazing makes from Bonnie and the Team as there are

prizes in store to be won.

To be in the running you need to 

add your card to our Gallery

 and we all love comments

so be sure to do that also here for our

Special #700 Milestone.

See you there

HLS Stencil Challenge...

 It's Stencil Time at Happy Little Stampers

I'm going all out bright this month.

My background is inked with

Tim's Distress inks then

stencilled the die with texture paste.

Added some speckles from Tim also.

Die cuts are Tim's Artsy Flowers

with black thred on top.

Sentiment is SU

Adhered to purple card base.

Check out what the other Stencil Designers made

and we would love to see yours in the Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Doing What I Love!

It's time for our New Anything Mixed Media Goes at

 Creative Artiste Mixed Media

Here is my make for October.

It all began with - a splashing of colours

and some stencilling from AALL& Create

and Tim Holtz

I die cut a bunch of Hexagons and 

one of Tim's Wldflower from

some oriental DP

Did you notice I cut two extra flower heads?

Adding more texture with randomly adding

opaque crackle paste mixed with

Nuvo shimmer powder.

Before it was dry

and after

Added a little bit of interest with some random circles.

and dropped brown Magical's on top and 

behind some of the hexagons to highlight.

On to the flower - attached the two heads

adding texture paste to the centre, roughed up and sprayed

with more Magical's (love the shimmer)

adding leftovers to the left hand corner.

 a twine bow, teeny sentiment

from Tim's Small Talk

and adhered to kraft cardboard base.

That's it from me for this month but be sure to head over

and see what Marvelous Mixed Media Makes

are waiting to be  swooned over by 

our Talented Guest Betta and Design Team.

Hope to see yours there too.

Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You...

My favourite colour challenge - Color Hues latest Challenge is live

and what gorgeous colours for us to play with.

Check out all the inspiration for Challenge #73

from the Talented Guests and Designers.

You will want to play like me for sure.

These colours go together beautifully don't they?

It has been a while since I participated here and 

made time to play - housework can wait.

After seeing Nancy use her gingko dies recently

I thought my completely different ones would

go nicely with these colours.

I inked my SU gingko flowers in Tangarine Tango,

 softer in Calypso Coral. Background

is heat embossed in WOW clear gloss.

Lightly sponged the background

and added die cuts for dimention.

Some have a touch of shimmer.

Finished with die cutting the sentiment

 shorter from the set.

Thanks for visiting

Case-ing our DT Host

It's our Case a DT Challenge at Just Us Girls

and Hosting is Vicki.

While browsing Pinterest some time ago

I came across a card by our very own Vicki Here

made way back in March 2013 so kept it in mind

for this very Challenge.

Here is my 'CASE' of Vicki's very soft pretty card

 with my somewhat brighter one!

How styles have changed eh! But I do like

Vicki's beautiful card so cased it for fun.

I am a little disappointed it didn't turn out as nice

as I had hoped. My starting point was the three flowers.

I wanted to use the few I had left from 

Inspired by Stamping - Now closed.

The Owner Joanne lived in Australia for a time and

I bought a bunch of her fabulous products.

Vicki was lucky enough to be on her Design Team.

After heading off to create it I realized near the end

 they were too big.

I chose to use the coloured card stock to match those flowers

and had to find ribbon the same to make a soft bow.

Then to find colours that would blend with the rich burgandy.

The two I picked seemed to blend in quite nicely.

Thought I had an ef the same as Vicki's only to find it

was a stencil so chose another. The strip on the side

is the same (I think) and an old MS punch.

The die cut frames and sentiment are from IBS.

Added my flowers (not as nice as the IBS ones)

 a few pearls and adhered to the burgandy card stock.

You  will see an amazing array of Anything Goes cards

from the Team then pick one you would like to 'case'

and add to our Gallery mentioning who's card took your fancy.

Hope yours is there!

The 'Shape of Things'

Our New Challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters

is all about shapes of all sorts

I found this Layered Circle Technique recently

on YouTube Here

and decided to try it out with some DP's in my stash.

So easy to make and so 'fun'.

Circle die cuts are from MFT and the

small circles - Ringlets from Memory Box

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations

and finished with adhering to white card base.

Just before that I decided to add it on an angle

just to be a little different.

Pop over and see what my Sistahs created

with this fun theme.

Love to check yours out in our Gallery.