LIfe Under the Sea.

Bobby is our Host at Just Us Girls

for our Photo/Mood Board Challenge.

 

Here's a larger view!

I wasn't sure which way to go with this Mood Board

Travel or the Gorgeous Colours.

You probably guessed the colours won out

and went under the sea with that

adorable sea horse from AALL&Create.

The background was a big splash of colours

from Lindy's Magical's

Heat embossed the seahorse,

added bubbles (hard to see)

and sentiment from the same stamp set.

Corner rounded and attached to navy card base.

Check out what inspired our Guest Claire and

the Team from the Moodboard.

We would love to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Forever & Always

Wedding Bells are ringing for our challenge at

Just Us Girls 

I went really CAS with my card using 

some lovely metallic cream crazed paper

and older Spellbinder dies.

Added ribbon from my stash,

(very deep burgandy)

sentiment from Kaisercraft and pearls.

Head over and check out the Gallery

for wedding creations from our Guest Claire

and the Talents of the Design Team.

Thanks for visiting

One of a Kind!

Our New Challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters

is a favourite of all crafters - FLOWERS!

The Thistle is my favourite flower and I do love

a nice thistle stamp like the one I have used above.

It's from AALL&Create - One of a Kind.

I wanted to keep it CAS and not colour the flower

but make a background to highlight it

using Lindy's Magical's and some stamping.

Finished with some posca splatters and doodling.

My team mates have created beautiful floral cards

for your inspiration so head over and check them out

and add yours to our gallery.

Thanks for visiting.

 

It's a 'No Stamping' Challenge at Christmas Craft Creations

It's time for our New Challenge over at

Christmas Craft Creations

This was a simple card to make.

My background is the fun shaving cream technique.

Stencilled my ARTplorations tree and sentiment with 

Cosmic Shimmer Metallic Gilding Polish.

You may remember I used this stencil a few months back.

It's a favourite of mine and use it every year.

Attached to black card base and it's conplete.

Head over and see what the rest of the

Design Team created for your inspiration

and join in by adding it to our Gallery.

Reminder: 

 Please remember to include a link back to our blog

 along with our challenge graphic.

 If you're entering from Instagram, 

you can use the hashtag #ChristmasCraftCreations.

Thanks for visiting

 

Happy Little Stampers Stencil Challenge

It's the Stencil Team's turn to inspire you to

enter our Anything Goes Challenge at

Happy Little Stampers

The mini silhouettes I used here are from Woodware.

One is stamped off first for the lighter effect

and the main flower darker.

with soft stencilling in the background.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations.

A very quick card made with my girlfriend

who has been visiting with her hubby while

caravaning around parts of  Australia.

Hope you get a chance to have some play time

like I have had and add to the Gallery.

Thanks for visiting.

Welcome Harper Jane.

Nancy is our Host for this weeks 

Colour Challenge at Just Us Girls

and chose the perfect colours for a Baby Card.

It just so happened I needed one for my new

Great Granddaughter - Harper Jane.

Also the New Month brings a New Guest Designer

A Big welcome to Claire Apostoloff.

The giraffe is from Sizzix BabyDie/Stamp set.

Papers are Bazzill card stock

Embossing folders - from stash.

Sentiment - computer generated,

Button and yarn from my stash,

Ribbon - SU, tiny heart punch.

As it happens I am heading north for Mother's Day

to my elder daughter

and will meet Harper and get and give lots of cuddles

catching up with other family too.

Now head over and see how our 

New Guest Designer Claire

and the Team chose to use those lovely soft colours.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Imagination is ART!

Our New Anything Goes Challenge at 

Creative Artiste Mixed Media is Live!

I still have my girlfriend visiting and we had a day

of getting messy! We had a great time and

introduced her to the gel press to name just one.

And so our Mixed Media makes began.

We decided to create something similar

Here is hers.

As you can see they are pretty similar.

A few close ups from mine!

As I said earlier we had a play with the gel press

and my background is from that.

Added stenciling, stamping, cheesecloth,

art stones and some waxing.

Just a quick post again. So much happening atm.

Our visitors will be moving on to more travels soon

as I then head north to spend Mother's Day with

one of my daughters, grandchildren and their

young toddlers. So looking forward to seeing

our great granddaughter for the first time. 

Head over and see amazing Mixed Media

from the rest of the Team and hope you

get time to create for our Gallery this month.

Thanks for visitng

Guest Designer at Try It On Tuesday

I was thrilled to be invited to be a 

Guest Designer at  Try It On Tuesday

after being chosen as a Top 5 at a recent challenge.

How awesome that their New Challenge is to

Use a Stencil.

Those that know me are well aware of how I

love using my stencils is all different ways.

For my Guest card I used a fabulous stencil from

Scrapmats - ST9088.

I started by adding texture paste to my heavy card base.

Once dry I got out my Lindy's Magical's

and let the colours run through the cracks

to achieve the gorgeous colours.

My dragonfly is from ARTplorations, die cutting

the main image from leftovers on my glass mat.

Cut one again only using the wings and body

for added dimension.

She was popped on top of cheesecloth

and finishing with a vellum sentiment

from STAMPlorations. 

Adhered to matching bright card stock.

Have you been over to check how the

talented TIOT Design Team chose to stencil?

Hope so and  inspired you to create yours 

and add to the Gallery.

Thanks for dropping by for a visit and commenting.

Something New for You at Just Us Girls

We have a New Challenge for you when there are

Five Saturday's in the Month.

Vicki is Hosting and your challenge is

Choose a card made for this challenge

by one of the Design Team and 

case her card.

This is going to be fun to see which card 

you choose from the Team.

I swiped the background with distress inks to cover

and scored to create a wall but is a little hard to see.

Added Tim's wildflowers. Inked the centres and

adding a touch of perfect pearls, a bow and

sentiment from his small talk.

Adhered to white card base.

Head over Here to see what our Guest Joanne

and the rest of my Talented Team Mates created.

Looking forward to checking out cased cards

in the Gallery. Will yours be there?

A Big Thank You to Joanne for being ou

Fabulous Guest this month.

Thanks for visiting

Butterfly Flutter!

Time for our New Challenge at

 The Sisterhood of Crafters with one that is so popular

BUTTERFLIES!

and don't we all have an abundance of these beautiful creatures.

I decided not to stamp any of them but to pull out

some (just some) of my already die cuts - 

mostly from SU and a few Spellbinder ones.

Neutral colours were chosen for the card base

and background so I could pick

all sorts of pretty colours.

My big Happy die is from Heidi Swapp

die cut twice and birthday from Pink & Maine.

Head over and see how my Sistahs 

chose to show off our Butterfly Theme.

I am sure you will want to join in

and add to our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Dream - Create - Inspire

 Over at Try It On Tuesday their current challenge is

Rainbow Colours

I love going all bright with these colours as you see below.

I have used Brusho's for the background and 

stamps from AALL&Create and my favourite

Visible Image - Creative Chaos inked, heat embossed

and the head of the flower cut and coloured.

Added a few pretty butterflies and 

inked up sentiments to complete.

Attached to bright card base.

Thanks for dropping in and commenting.

Simply So 'Cool'

Our New Challenge at  Just Us Girls 

is our CAS Week and Hosting is Carol M

 

I'm in the naughty  corner because it wasn't  till I

uploaded my card I realised it was our CAS Challenge

and hope there is enough white space.

My background  and icypoles were inked with

oxides on photo paper and buffed to bring out the bright colours.

The icypoles are from STAMPlorations.

Sentiments are from various sets.

Added a circle around the so and finished with

lots of splatters and attached to white card base.

Head over to see what our Guest Joanne

and my Talented Team Mates  created and 

I look forward to seeing your choice of

food or beverage in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

A Potted Birthday Bloom

 Our Host Nancy has found a 

fabulous Mood Board for us to take inspiration from

this week at Just Us Girls

As soon as I saw that pot full of blooms

I knew where I was heading.

Here's a closer view.

My background is stencilled with texture paste

and after drying added Lindy's Magical's

letting it run through and onto the raised cracks.

Added an inked up Kaisercraft texture die.

Fussy cut my pot from AALL&Create and SU bloom coloured

with distress inks and a touch of perfect pearls.

This was popped onto the itty bits from the

background die. Thought it made a perfect

resting place for the potted flower.

Finished with a simple sentiment

and raised onto SU card base. 

Pop over and see amazing makes of all kinds

from our Guest Joanne and our Talented Designers.

There is so much to feast your eyes over that Mood Board.

We would love to see what caught yours

to add to the Gallery. See you there!

Sending this card over to

Daring Cardmakers

Bloom and Grow Challenge

and

Just Add Ink

looking for #648 Choose Two

mine are - Wall and Garden.

Thanks for visiting

Raindrops are Falling...

 

April Showers are falling over at

The Sisterhood of Crafters but for me

they are BIG raindrops from a big shower!

There are times when a challenge really stumps you

and Mo and Jo flee to the hills.

Well that is what happened to me with this one,

lots of procrastinating and finally -

decided showers are raindrops right?

so off  I went to gather my supplies.

Background is Lindy's Magical's,

raindrops are from Carabelle.

Floral image is AALL&Create #752 Elegant Stems

stamped in Versafine Clair Nocturne and heat embossed clear.

Cut out a flower head in two parts, popped and coloured with

Tim's Kitsch Flamingo and

 Nuvo Catherine Wheel Shimmer Powder.

Sentiment is AALL&Create #754 Power of the Word.

Head over and see how the rain fell on my Sistah's creations

and come join in with yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Santa's Elfs at Work!

We are looking for a bit of Humour this month 

for our Christmas cards at Christmas Craft Creations

 

I had a load of fun making this card.

The stamp set is from STAMPlorations

Whoever made the elfs legins didn't knit them

very well as all the colours are mixmatched.

(that was fun)

in red green and silver.

The boots have a touch of glitter.

Added various fun sentiments and

sequins and gems to finish.

Hope you find time to add your

humour card to our Gallery this month

when you see what the Design Team created.

Thanks for the visit.

You are my 'Sunshine'

Carol Mc is Hosting 

Word Week at Just Us Girls and chose

'SUNSHINE'

My background rays are embossed and coloured 

in a variety of distress inks and shimmer powders.

Cut out the cool sunglasses in gold and black.

CUTplorations sentiment die cut several time

for depth. Backed with orange card stock

and on to white base.

There is plenty of sunshine 

from our Guest Joanne and The Team to swoon over

 so head over, check them out and

come join in the sunshine with yours in the Gallery.

See you there.

Thanks for visiting

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge

 

Our new challenge over at Creative Artiste Mixed Media is live.

I have made a simple tag this time as I have long time friends

visiting from the other side of Australia and have been

showing my girlfriend all sorts of crafty ideas.

Sorry there are no progress photos this time.

The background we made together using the

 shaving cream technuique

then stenciling (AALL&Create)

Die cut the flowers and leaves from Tim's Wildflowers

coloured with Magical's

adding a punched sentiment and coloured seam bunding tie.

Head over and see what is in store for you

from the Talented Design Team and

come join us with your Mixed Media this month.

Thanks for visiting.

Thinking of You

It's time for our new Stencil Challenge over at

Happy Little Stampers

I did my usual smooched background

adding stenciling with texture paste

and a shadowed flower to the side.

Finished off with a layered sentiment

tiny bow and pearl

and attaching to white card base.

Head over and see what my 

Stencil Team mates created and

come join in with yours to our Gallery.

Love to see you there.