Wishing you Happiness...

 Color Hues has once again picked a 

lovely colour combination for us to create with

Turquoise and Mustard.

I die cut my sprigs from w/c paper

inked with Tim's Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina

lightly misted with Perfect Pearls

Heart dies cut from same dp as the background strip.

Stamped script in SU Hello Honey 

as is my STAMPlorations sentiment..

Popped my tied spray and finished with

sequins and pearls onto Hello Honey card stock.

Heading over to add this to their

 Challenge #52 Turquoise/Mustard Challenge

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A Single Flower For You.

It's Stencil Time over at

Happy Little Stampers 

Anything Goes as long as you use a STENCIL!

Using a stencil on a card can be so easy

as this was. It's from AALL&Create

stencilled with paste on kraft.

Flower is one of Tim's wildflower dies

coloured with Lindy's Magicals. 

Centre of the flower filled with crackle paste,

 sentiment is Impression Obsession.

cut from same piece as the flower.

Head over and see what my other Teamies created

and add yours to the Gallery.

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Be Strong!

Over at CAS Colours & Sketches 

the oh so creative Cecile is Hosting 

their November Challenges and picked

a favourite SU colour of mine - Rich Razzleberry

as one of the three colours we are required to use.

It would have been the first SU stamp that I bought.

Challenge #494 Colours

I used a few SU stamps/dies inks and paper here

Botanical Blooms Die / Timeless Textures stamps

Mossy Meadow / Rich Razzleberry/ Baja Breeze 

Memento Pistachio inks and Rich Raz paper.

Added a splashing of Lindy's Bougainvillea Fuchsia

to the layered flower (couldn't help myself)

white cotton for interest

Background stamping here and there

with above colours/stamp.

Pearl centred in flower.

Sentiment is AALL&Create heat embossed in white.

Adhered to Rich Razz card stock.

Adding to Challenge #494 Colours

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What's the Word at Just Us Girls?

It's Saturday and our New Challenge over at 

Just Us Girls has Bobby hosting Word Week.

As it is a new month - 

We welcome our  Guest Designer for November

and that is Karren Johnson at

https://karrenj.blogspot.com/

 

After spending far tooooo long trying to get my card

to look like the colour it actually is I have just

let it be knowing how hard purple is to photograph.

A pretty CAS card with a few die cut flowers behind my fence.

The arched die cut has patterned vellum behind the

purple front. Finished with a hello die and a tiny butterfly.

Adhered to the same purple card base. 

Head over to Our Gallery and check out

the great inspiration in store for you from

Karren and the Team.

 Why not come join us for this weeks challenge.

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A Fabulous Day

The New Challenge over at Bizzy Becs Blog

is live and I have created a simple card as Guest Designer.

It's Anything Goes which makes it easy

to go with whatever comes to mind.

I totally love Tim's Wildflower Dies and have used

Wildflower Stems #1

coloured with Lindy's Magical's

My go to sentiment stamp is

Dark Room Door Happy Birthday

So versatile with so many great words to choose from.

I arranged the flowers on a die cut frame

and popped it in front of a smooched background.

and on to white card base. 

The blue flower has diamond dust in the middle but

not showing up here. 

Head over and see what the Team created

Love to see you add something to our Gallery.

There's a Mystery Stamp to be won by doing so.

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Challenge Time at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

It's Challenge Time at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

I got a voucher from my bff for my birthday and

some of the products I used here are from that. 

I am so lucky that there is a store here in Oz

that sell AALL&Create products as I

soooooooooo love their products.

This is my take on a YouTube presentation from

the Talented Tracy Evans HERE

and I looooooooove her work.

Started by brayering the background and flower colours.

Then added some stamping - Splattered Numbers #350

Stamped and fussy cut flowers and inked pot

Elegant Numbers #752 and Containers #401

Added some texture using sand paste over

stencil #6 and washi tape #1 and #9.

Attached black stamped flower and 

popped the fussy cut flower heads and bowl

Of course I had to add white splatters,

some AA Fire Wall Wax and a few Liquid Pearls

to the centre of the flower,

completing with sentiment #40

corner rounding and attached to black base.

This was such fun and looking to more

makes from inspiration from Tracy and

her fabulous stamps.

My team mates have again made amazing 

Mixed Media Makes for this months challenge.

Head over and see for yourself.

They never disappoint do they?

Thanks for visiting and hope you enjoyed my project.

UPDATE! Popping this over to

Mixed Media Lovers Challenge #19 Letters

Till next month - Cherrio from 

An Allsorts Celebration and a Tic Tac Toe

 Loving a rainy day as it gave me a chance to

get messy and create a card for a couple of challenges.

Gardening can wait till tomorrow's sunny day.

I started  my background stencilling with

AALL&Create Mock-Croc #58

using texture paste, brusho's and 

Lindy's Magicals Spray.

Unfortunately the texture got a bit squashed

when I cut my circle.

Penned a couple of circles behind it for effect.

Flower is inked with the same colours.

Added tiny seeds 

 a Happy Birthday sentiment.

Flicked a few splatters

Attached to white card base. 

Allsorts Challenge are celebrating

a milestone 700th Challenge

How fantabulous is that!

and The Paper Players have a

Tic Tac Toe Challenge

I chose the middle row down

Die cuts, texture, birthday.

This card is heading over to the above challenges.

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Tags for Christmas!

Christmas is a comin' and with that in mind 

Carol Mc our Host for Wild Card Week at

Just Us Girls chose Holiday Gift Tags 

to get us moving.

I'll keep this as short as I can - 

Tag 1 - CUTplorations Tags

SU Rich Razzleberry paper/ink,

SB snowflake dies, washi tape, seam binding

sentiment dies and stamping.

Tag 2 -  Sizzix Frames, Tim's Holiday Greens

C/B Embossing, Marianne Dies

Bazzill cs, punch, sentiment

Nuvo drops and shimmer.

Tag 3 - shaving cream background,

die cut tree, snow hills and sentiment,

piercing, nuvo drops, punched stars, glitter,

ribbon, silver cord.

It's our Guest Designer Lynne's last challenge with us.

Loved having you share your talents with us this month.

Thanks so much.

Don't forget to head over and see the

abundance and variety of tags made by Lynne

 and Team for your pleasure.

We look forward to seeing our Gallery full

of inspiration and beautiful Christmas Tags.

Thanks for visiting.

Especially for You

For our New Challenge over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters 

Vickie has chosen - Fall Colours.

We don't experience the

pleasure of seeing the trees

show off their magical colour changes 

where I live but I love to indulge by 

creating something in those bold beautiful colours.

I was going to use gilding flakes but then

I looked at the gorgeous colours I could play with

using my Lindy's Magical's.

Leaves are from old Cuttlebug dies,

unknown die for small leaves

and I inked away to get those fall colours.

(photo doesn't show the shimmer)

Adhered to Memory Box branch die.

Background has some texture pasted stenciling.

Finished with sentiment and twine bow.

Head over and see the beautiful colourful cards

from the Sistahs and add yours to our Gallery.

Sending this off to Allsorts Challenge for their

Colours of Autumn Challenge

and

Use Your Stuff  - #469 Diecuts

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Good Friends!

 It's Saturday and Challenge Day at

Just Us Girls.

Our Creative Cecile is Hosting and chose a

simply divine photo for our Inspiration.

I love to see what people take from a photo - 

we all see different things that catch the eye.

I went with the colour, tall stems but hearts and 

 similar wording in the sentiment.

One has a die cut and bow,

 the other stencilled with a punched heart.

I wasn't sure which one I liked and found

them hard to photograph.

The sentiment is small and I now see

I should have used different paper. 

This is  one of those challenges the outcome

I am not completely happy with.

Head over and be impressed with

what caught the eye of our Guest Lynne

 and Talented Team Mates.

Till next time -

A 'Blooming' Birthday

Another gloomy overcast day has given me 

a rest day from gardening and a day just to play 

in a few of my favourite challenges.

I got out one of my favourite stamps to ink up - 

Rubbernecker W/C Poppies #719

 with Versafine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed clear.

Coloured with Tim's Oxide inks and a 

touch of Lindy's Magicals and Perfect Pearls for shimmer.

Flicked a few 'splats'.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

Die cut is Scrap Dragons.

Background coloured the same as the poppy,

 cut with SB square die.

Adhered to the back and

attached to cream linen card base. 

This is heading over to - 

 Color Hues has a great colour combination - 

Orange and Green

The Flower Challenge are celebrating

Use a Sentiment & 6th Birthday

and Seize the Birthday

Challenge#249 

(without the topping)

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

You Rock!

It's Saturday and Lisa K is our Host for

Colour Week at Just Us Girls

I seem to be in an orange zone lately.

I guess it started with the change of season colours

with so much brown and orange for fall/autumn.

I went in a different direction 

inking lots of circles in the above colours

from several stamp sets.

Finished with a sentiment.

Head over and see what's in store 

in our Gallery - Here

from our Guest Lynne

and my Talented Team Mates and

our Guest Lynne 

and why not join us!

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Let the Good Times Roll

Challenge Time at The Sisterhood of Crafters .

It was my turn to pick a Theme and 

 I chose - One for the Guys!

You can interpret it any way you choose - 

Birthday (obviously) Graduation

Retirement/ New Job  A Sporting Achievement

Lots of choices. 

Items used are

Kraft card stock, alfoil, embossing folder,

Die cuts from Marianne Designs,

DP, brads and punch,

Sentiments from STAMPlorations.

Head over to our Gallery and check out

more male cards from the Sistahs

and come join in by adding yours

to the Gallery. We would love to see you.

Thanks for visiting

It's a White Christmas!

Hello and welcome to today's post for 

Christmas Craft Creations

Our Theme this month is White on White

There is something magical about an all white card

especially a Christmas one.

I got out my favourite Spellbinder Poinsettia dies

and for some snowy shimmer added

Lindy's  Milky Way White Magicals to my flower and

the foliage dies behind it.

I dry embossed a sentiment strip to the background

(a freeby from a magazine)

Did you see the little birdie sitting on the branch?

Shame it couldn't be a red one.

Adhered to white card base.

Head over and see more white magic from

my Talented Team Mates.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery..

Thanks for stopping by and commenting.

Thinking of You

What do you do with a little leftover snippet 

that's too nice to throw out and want to use somewhere!

Thanks to the lovely Sarn from

Snippets Playground leaving me a 

kind comment on one of my cards I found

a New Challenge that uses 'snippets' YAY!

I went CAS here inking a Kaisercraft stamp 

for my background on cream card stock.

Added some gold splatters and popped my

Cuttlebug leaf coloured with Lindy's Magical's

 dry embossed for texture.

Finished with a bit of twine, corner rounding and sentiment

from Happy Little Stampers onto

rusty card base.

Sending this over to Use Your Stuff

for their Autumn or Fall Challenge

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It's Creative Chaos!

 October is Halloween Month and DT Carol from

Color Hues Challenge has chosen

the perfect ones!

for Challenge #50

I do love these colours together

(well there is my favourite colour purple there)

so I had to play and purple is so hard to photograph!

Since I have been having fun with the

Visible Image Creative Chaos recently

(you will see that card in a few weeks)

and still on my desk - it got inked up again.

I smooched Tim's distress inks for the background

adding some stenciling from AALL&Create,

inked my flowers with VersaFine Clair Nocturne

and heat embossed. Cut the second head

and inked in same colours as the background.

Cut and coloured the vase (also AALL&Create)

Popped both flower head and vase.

Sentiment was inked and heat embossed.

Adhered to black card base to finish.

This is heading over to

Dare 2 B Artzy

October Challenge - Favourite Colour

It's PURPLE!

Hope you like it and leave a comment.

Thanks for stopping by