A Merry Christmas Wish.

 Carol M is our Host at Just Us Girls

for Colour Week choosing traditional

Christmas colours of  RED GREEN GOLD

I went in a traditional way with my Red Poinsettia but

you don't have to make a Christmas card 

just use the colours.

My poinsettia flower is Spellbinders

coloured with Lindy's Cuckoo Clock Cardinal,

Cathedral Pines Green and Perfect Pearls Forever Red,

adding a gold pearl to the centre.

Background foliage - Tim's Holiday Greens

in red, green and gold.

Added ribbon to white background

and onto gold paper.

This was popped onto white card base

with gold heat embossed sentiment.

Head over to the Gallery to see

the beautiful coloured cards

our Guest Karren and my 

oh so talented Team mates created.

I am sure you will want to add yours.

If you are our 'Chic of the Week'

you could be chosen to be our Guest in the New Year.

oops! I forgot to add this card over at Color Hues for their

Challenge #53 Scarlet & Green

Thanks to seeing the lovely card from Lisa E

it is now in the Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Live Each Moment!

 Hi and Welcome to today's post.

I have been having a great time inking up

some new stamps from the fabulous talented Tracy Evans.

The card below is my take on her presentation 

on YouTube Here

After seeing this a few of the stamps were purchased

from a Birthday Gift Certificate thanks to my bff.

I found the perfect challenge to add my card at

All Sorts Challenge for their

Week 72 AG add Number/Numbers

(got that covered)

Check out Tracy's presentation for all the details.

Stamps used are AALL&CREATE #752 Elegant Stems

stamped and fussy cut

#754 Power of the Word #757 Tickets

#350 Splattered Numbers inked with

Tim's Oxide inks - Abandoned Coral

Picked Raspberry, Kitsch Flamingo.

Added White Cotton, Splatters, Die cut bird

onto black background and white card base.

Thanks for visiting

It's a One of a Kind!

We are 'Trending' this week at Just Us Girls

Lisa K is Hosting and picked a fabulous one.

How often do we go the extra mile to

make a matching envelope to go with our card?

This is what Lisa is asking for - how cool!

It was one of those days once I started on my card

I just kept playing and so happy with the end result.

Of course it helped with my favourite 

Visible Image Creative Chaos Stamp set.

Stencils, stamping and washi tape - AALL&Create

The flower was stamped on the background and second one

on w/c paper, fussy cut the head then

there are lots of Lindy's Magical colours added

then popped.

Distressed the edges and adhered to

SU card base which is very hard to see.

Inked my envelope with stamps from the VI set

on one corner so I can still add a postal address.

Head over and see what our Guest Karren

and my talented team mates created.

Love to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Happy Birthday for The Sisterhood of Crafters

Sistah Lia has chosen the Theme for our

 latest challenge at The Sisterhood of Crafters

which is A Card with as Aperture

These are always fun to make and just a little different.

I chose colours that blend nicely together.

Embossed the front and heat embossed my

 SU Bloom with Hope flower, coloured with

w/c pencils and a touch of Magical's for shine.

Sentiment is from the same stamp set.

Added a bow and some greeen foliage to finish.

Head over and check out the Sistah's creations.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

'tis the Season

It's time for our New Challenge over at

Christmas Craft Creations

Theme for this month is Washi Tape.

I had fun here tearing off bit of

colourful 'washi tape' to sit behind my

popped little decorated Christmas Tree.

Punched a star for the top.

Behind all that bling are

splatters of blue and gold.

Sentiment is from Tim's Great Outdoors.

Inked the edges and adhered to

bright card base.

Head over and see what my Team Mates created.

We would love to see you add yours

to out Gallery this month.

Thanks for visiting

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

Thanks for visiting

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.

Thanks for visiting

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

Thanks for visiting

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.

Thanks for visiting

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.

Thanks for visiting

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.

Thanks for visitng

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

Thanks for visiting.

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.