Be True to You...

I am Host at Just Us Girls for Colour Week and chose

Mustard Turquoise and Black.

Welcome to March and our New Guest Designer

Michele Ferguson.

I was having a play with shaving cream and stencils 

a while back and these colours work perfectly together

You all know I love making backgrounds.

Here is a close up of the layered flower.

Flower, Stencil, Sentiment and background stamping 

are from AALL&Create.

Flower head has been cut three times as you can see

from the close up.

Added thread to the background - 

something Tracy Evans the designer of the

stamp I used does regularly.

Placed a black pearl to centre of the flower.

Backed by black frame overlapping the white card base.

Finished with a simple sentiment.

Head on over and see what our Guest Michele

and The Team created using the colours I chose

and hope you get a chance to add yours to the Gallery.

You could be chosen Chic of the Week

and go on to be our Guest in May.

Thanks for visiting

 

A Trio of Butterflies...

Hello and Welcome to my post for our 

New Anything Goes Challenge 

at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

For my project and inspiration 

I had a fun but somewhat messy time

(as you do with Mixed Media)

creating three very different  ATC's.

You know me as always I start off taking photos

and get carried away creating and forget along the way.

I started here with torn tissue paper pasted onto my

three ATC's (which disappeared in the end)

then added texture with a favourite stencil

from AALL&Create.

As I had butterflies out for another challenge

I decided to use up a few more here.

After the texture paste dried I added 

Lindy's Magical's in different colours

for each ATC and let it run in various directions.

Collected elements to add to the backgrounds

with inked lace, sisel, cotton thread and a piece of coloured bark.

Coloured the butterfly with the same Magical's

to match the bark

and added a bead to the centre.

Added glossy accents to the butterfly wings.

and added a gem to the centre here.

Finished with some inking on the edges

a little coloured backing and sentiment

from Tim's Small Talk.

Hope you will pop over and see

what was created for you from

our Guest Designers and the Talented Team.

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We have the most amazing talented

Fiona Whitehead joining our Team

I'm Excited! Welcome Fiona.

Hope you can join in with this month's AG Challenge

using Multiple Mediums.

Sending this over to Try it on Tuesday for their

current challenge - Let's Get Messy Challenge

certainly did that!

Thanks for visiting. Enjoy reading your kind comments.

I Love 'Thistles'

It's Saturday and that means

Challenge Day at Just Us Girls 

It's CAS Week and our Host Nancy chose

Colouring.

As it is CAS Week I wanted to use my 

favourite 'wee' stamp I bought years ago when I was

holidaying in Bonnie Scotland. It only needs

minimal colouring - bonus for me.

I got out my 'long forgotten' little pots of colour

activating with a water brush using

LuminArte Mallard Green, 

ColourArte English Lavender

and Colour Blast Apple of My Eye

(have you got them hiding in a drawer too)

for my thistle, leaves and background -

Nuvo Solar Flare for my flower.

Added some lavender flower soft to my thistle head.

Cut it out and framed. Attached to popped

backing that was scored at the bottom.

Wish I had a crimper as it would have been more noticeable.

Couldn't decide on a sentiment so left it blank for now.

Finished by adhering to card base.

Head over and see how our Guest Karen

and the Team created their CAS coloured cards.

Love to see yours in our Gallery.

We bid farewell to our Talented Guest Karen

and Thank You for sharing great inspiration

with us this month. We loved having you.

Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You

We are looking for Dots and or Stripes for

our New Challenge over at Sisterhood of Crafters

As you can see I went with SU Designer Paper that has both.

It is long retired but loved that pack.

I have made a card similar to this before mainly because

the paper does all the work.

A simple card using a few Spellbinder dies.

The flower is from Tim's Wildflowers

Sentiment - Crafts4You.

Head over and see how my Sistah's chose

to inspire you with their creations.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Till next time - 

A 'Pink' Reminder for Christmas Craft Creations

Today's post is for a Reminder that you still have time

to play with our February Theme 'Pink' at  

Christmas Craft Creations

While I still had a few things on my desk when I made my 

Launch Card Here it was only fitting I make a 'Reminder'

The Merry die was die cut four times for depth.

 Christmas sentiment and die are both from Hero Arts.

SU Snow Bursts snowflakes inked in

 Tip Top Taupe (both retired) and Tim's Saltwater Taffy.

Adhered to kraft base.

Head over and check out all the fabulous makes

already loaded. There is still time to enter your pink card over in

Our Gallery

Hope to see yours there.

You are So Kind

Here is my second card for the Lime Green and Cyan Challenge

at Color Hues

It is still a fairly CAS card layout wise.

I got out my retired SU Four Feathers set

inking with the same colours as my previous one - 

VersaFine Clair Warm Breeze and Verdant

and die cut.

SU Baja Breeze sponged in the background.

Added a stamped strip from

SU Fresh Vintage, a MFT die and ribbon.

Cut a circle to rest my feathers on, added twine

and simple sentiment.

Inked the edges adding a white frame

 before adhering to kraft card base.

Thanks so much for visiting

It's a Quick CAS Artsy Card

Just having a bit of fun with this

quick cas artsy card trying out the

current colours at Color Hues 

of Lime Green and Cyan

Cool eh!

As the heading states - this was a

quickie but I do have something else in the making so

  Stay tuned!

For this one though the background arty stamping is from

STAMPlorations and inked with VersaFine Clair

Warm Breeze,Verdant and Versacolor Lime.

The beautiful stamp is a

very old one from Kaisercraft Chapter One.

Sentiment is also from STAMPlorations.

I finished with adhering to retired SU card stock. 

That's it for now. Thanks for visiting

Thinking of You.

Today's post is for a couple of challenges

using my new dies from Tim's Artsy Stems.

Nice to be back in my play station after a

long overdue family get together from far and wide.

and a close up of the shimmer on the flower.

 Tic Tac Toe Challenge

TTTC #197

I went with top left down

CAS - Stencil - Flowers

Stencil is from AALL&Create #37 Cracked Walls 1

Flowers - Tim's Artsy Flowers

Inkspirational Challenge

Challenge #283 Use Stencils

Using the option of splatters with the stencil.

Stencil is inked with Tim's Distress Inks

Flower coloured with Brusho's and Lindy's Magical's.

Added a simple sentiment and adhered to white card base.

Till Next Time - Cherrio

A Red Red Rose!

Which picture caught your eye on this Mood Board

our Host Vicki at Just Us Girls chose for this weeks Challenge?

Scroll down for the big picture!

The roses got mine and I went deep into 

my stamp stash and found a very old one

from I don't know where but -  the rose is stunning

and the wording Belle Jardin is French for Beautiful Garden.

Here's a closer look!

Heat embossed then coloured the rose and leaves with 

Nuvo Shimmer Powders in Catherine Wheel and Green Parade

spreading the colours behind the rose image.

After looking at it I decided that what went over the edges

would make a perfect background,

adding a small black frame and

on to white card base. Needing something else

I slipped a small piece of inked paper to the side.

Head over to Our Blog and check out what

our Guest Karen and the Team picked out

from the Mood Board. You will be delighted as always.

Hope to see you in our Gallery this week.

Leave a little 'Sparkle'

It's Saturday and that's Just Us Girls Challenge Day

I had a fun and messy afternoon after seeing a 

'new to me' technique on YouTube.

It's Hot Glue Embossing and thought it would be 

something different for our Word Week

hosted by Carol Mc choosing 'Sparkle'

and a closer look at the 'sparkle'

It does look just like a big mess that went wrong but - 

I made quite a few. Some turned out,

others hmm! Just had to pick which one I liked

and go from there.

This was soooooooooo hard to photograph

to show the 'sparkle' (I tried)

I think the sparkly embossing powder 

may have been a little too fine.

Background is smooched Magical's.

Dribbled hot glue and thought I would try and add foil

 which worked out nicely then I smothered it with

very fine sparkly embossing powder.

Added a small frame behind it with the same paper

as my metallic base only a lighter weight.

After much searching I finally found a sentiment

that fitted the challenge perfectly - 

Tim's Small Talk.

 Decided to show another since I had several

sitting on my desk.

This is a little different - not sparkly as such

It was heat embossed in copper and added

Stampendous embossing enamel which highlighted

the sheen from the Magical's background.

Distressed the edges, added a sentiment,

framed in metallic paper and finished with

the bright card base.

What a fabulous challenge. Hope to see

 lots of sparkle in all forms in the Gallery.

Thanks for visiting

Love U

 Welcome to our February Challenges at

The Sisterhood of Crafters

Valentine's Day will be in vogue so we have

HEARTS! as our Theme for this one.

Had lots of fun mixing things up here

moving away from the traditional  'heart' type card.

Added heart and love die cuts, dp's,

u die from an old CB  set, cheesecloth.

Background has a patterned cover plate

which is a little hard to see, attached to white card base.

Head over to  Our Blog as

my Sistahs have gone all out creating

an amazing variety of Heart Themed cards

you really are going to love!

Our Gallery will be a flutter of  'hearts'

and I look forward to checking them all out.

Will yours be there?

Thanks for taking time out to visit.

In the 'Pink' at Christmas Craft Creations

It's time for our New Challenge at Christmas Craft Creations

and this month we are going pink.

I love using kraft paper as it goes so nicely with pink.

I saw this card over on Pinterest quite a long time ago

 took my inspiration from that.

Used Spellbinders dies for my snowflake,

inked background in Versafine from retired SU Snow Burst, 

sentiment backed with pink strips, misted with perfect pearls

 and sequins to complete.

Pop over and see what my Team Mates created using pink

and come join in by adding yours to our Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for visiting

A Pretty Pink 'Hello'

February already! That means a 

New Guest Designer at Just Us Girls

We have Karen Walker sharing her talents

with us all month. Welcome!

Hosting this weeks Colour Challenge is Lisa E  

choosing a popular one Kraft - Pink - White

Went fairly simple here using several dies, 

punched flowers with liquid pearl centres

pretty ribbon, simple sentiment, embossed background

on to kraft card base.

Head over and check what our Guest Karen and 

Talented Designers created with these soft colours.

I am sure there will be plenty of pretties in our Gallery this week.

Thanks for taking time to visit.

Vintage Paris!

 We at Creative Artiste Mixed Media

are back for a New Year of Mixed Media Fun.

I had a lot of fun creating my project for this month.

Quite a few of the embellishment I used here are

from a Challenge Win some time ago. Thanks Tracey for

your generousity.

I started with inking the patterned paper, corrugated cardboard

 and the pretty floral flourish with Magical's

Adding embellishments -

lace pearls and washi tape.

 floral spray from my stash, the classy French Lady,

Paris washy tape, gems, a few tiny pearls, leaf flourishes,

 coloured cheesecloth finishing with 

some AA waxes and gel pen touch ups.

Head over and see what my Talented Team Mates

created while on our hiatus. 

Hope you can join in with your Mixed Media

to our Gallery. 

Use Your Stuff are looking for Mixed Media

for their latest Challenge so this is heading over

to add to their Gallery.

Mixed Media Lovers are looking for Washi Tape.

 I have it hiding at the bottom but you can see it clearer in a photo above 

and the Paris word is Washi Tape.

PS Update! We have Happy New Year News

Our talented teamie Tracey is back created with us.

Thanks so much for visiting