Time To Relax!

Hi All

It's the weekend and that means it is time to relax as my card for today instructs!

These stamps are all from Verve.

I masked off a square area and then water coloured my sunshine background adding a few splatters for interest. Then a touch of stamping and done!

I would love to be chilling there now!!

Have a relaxing day.

I will enter this into:

Less is More-perfect holiday

AAA Cards-masking

     

Time Out Challenge #90

Hi There,

We have a new Theme Challenge starting today and the Theme is:

Autumn with the optional twist of Speed Stamping

We are defining speed stamping as making your card in 10 mins or less. This excludes the time you need to plan the design and get all your products ready to make the card.

So get all your cardstock, dies, inks etc ready before you start the clock!

This speed stamping is optional and purely just for fun. We would love you to tell us how long it took you to make your card. We have a prize for all those who choose to speed stamp but this will not be for the fastest just chosen randomly from those who just have a go!

Here is my card

Once I had my stamps (from Altenew) and Inks ready, this took me 8mins and 26 seconds to make. It would have taken about half this time but after finishing stamping it I decided it needed more texture. So very quickly I got out my linen embossing plate and dry embossed it! Good job I always have these tools near by and emboss like this so much, I can do it in my sleep. However I had aimed for 5 mins but because I wanted texture, I didn't make this target!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Elaine and her stunning blog Craft-E-Place is a must to visit. Her designs are always so creative and we are honoured she is joining us for this challenge.

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers

All the DT have made super cards for this challenge-some have been speed stamping, some not-you choose!

I will enter this into:

City Crafter-you don't bring me flowers

Altenew August Challenge-using the colours from the photo

Addicted to CAS-one layer

       

That Prickly Age!

Hi All

Today my card is for a friend who is about to hit that 'prickly' age of 50!

I thought a little sparkle and shine might ease her into this new decade.

I got the idea of the 'prickly' age from Sherrie's card at CASology and followed the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

Here I played with more goodies from my Birthday pack from Jill and had a lot of fun adding dimension and shine and sparkle (Thank you Jill)

I will also enter this into:

Just Us Girls-add some shine-lots here!

          

You are Terrific

Hello there crafting friends,

Just to let you know you are all terrific!

Goodness me, watercolouring, embossing, die cutting...lots of detail for me but I just loved making it! Plus a square card...very unusal for me and you would laugh if you saw me trying to cut the base card for this!!

All these stamps and dies are from CAS-ual Fridays-Pretty Posies. A new to me set but as soon as I saw the latest 'Friendship' challenge at CAS-ual Firdays I knew I had to break into them.

I had a hunt around my left over water colour stash and found some colours that fitted the Encouragement Challenge at CAS-ual Fridays Calling All Sistahs photo. I went for the yellow and green mix that you can see in my water colour card and popped my circle up by using a thick piece of foam pad so it is floating like the balloon. The purple flower is also popped up so this card will have to be given by hand rather than posted!

The flowers and leaf were heat embossed in white and then die cut. The same with the sentiment.

The sun ray background card is from Birthday stash from Lynn (love this Lynn-thank you)

This card took me a long time to make for me but I have to say I am very happy with it and hope the recipient will be too!

I will enter it into:

CAS-ual Fridays Friendship Challenge

Calling All Sistahs Encouragement Challenge

Happy Little Stamper Watercolour Challenge-using the bloom option

           

Inkspirational #141

Hi All

Time for a new challenge at Inkspirational.

It is our word prompt challenge and the word is:

WAVE

I went with a wavy die and created this Summer themed card:

I water coloured some card with sunshine colours then used this as backing to my wavy die cut panels. The sunglasses are dies and I coloured them with copics. The front panels are linen embossed for texture.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Helen. Her blog is full of inspiring projects. Take a look here. I am sure you will love what you see.

Our DT have all made amazing cards-check them out here and then get inky!

I will enter this into:

Fusion-using the sketch
AAA Cards-Summer Fun
Addicted to Stamps and More-CAS challenge
Just Us Girls

      

Rainbow Summer Shoes!

Hi All,

Don't you just love shoes??

Today my card is full of Summer open toes shoes, rainbow colours....what is your favourite pair?

For this card I followed the sketch at Fusion.

My colours are from the 'rainbow' challenge at AAA cards.

I chose all open toe shoes so it would fit in the Summer Challenge at The Ton-all these stamps and sentiment are from The Ton-what a cool stamp set!

I couldn't decide what was my fav set but in the end went for the bottom strappy green shoes...I have lots of coloured shoes but green I do not..time to shop I feel!

I would love to know what is your fav???

This is another card for my niece who hits 19 in a few weeks.

I will also enter this into Muse Anything goes challenge

Have a fun weekend.

         

A Friday Make!

Hi There,

Just popping in with a card I made yesterday for a few challenges:

I had this flower (a gift from Joyce) out on my crafting desk as I wanted to use it for the Curtain Call Challenge as the leaves look more like herbs to me!

Then I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and knew exactly how to use flower! The curved pierced die edge was a pressie from Nonni and I just linen embossed it so I had the lovely textured look I like. I was going to have the card base coloured but after playing around for a bit, I decided the softly textured white card worked much better. 

The sentiment is from Uniko-Flower Power 2

Have a fun Friday

I will enter this into:

Curtain Call-photo

Less is More-pierce your project

CAS(E) this Sketch

Uniko-flowers