Floral Fun!

Hi All

Haven't been too crafty this week even though I had ideas in my head. But finally I got around to making a card I had been thinking about for the sketch at CAS-ual Fridays Sketch Challenge

I knew I wanted to use the Pretty Posies stamp set and dies from CAS-ual Fridays but also wanted to use my favourite flower stamp at the moment Full on Floral. I couldn't think of how to use this background stamp yet still keep the card CAS.....however DT member Michelle's card here gave me an idea-thanks Michelle .I stamped the floral background in versa marker onto maroon coloured card. I then heat embossed it using maroon embossing powder. I love how this looked, still keeping the card CAS but with a lovely textured and shiny background.

Next I heat embossed the flowers and leaves with the same embossing powder-I used scrap water colour card I had left over from the piece of water coloured for the Calling All Sistahs Challenge. Die cut and arranged.

I am quite happy how this turned out.

Have a fun day x

I will enter this into:

CAS-ual Fridays Sketch Challenge

Addicted to CAS-CAS-ual Friday-Full on Floral

The Flower Challenge-CAS-ual Friday Full on Floral-celebrating their 1st Birthday-congrats!

         

Time Out Challenges #94

Hi There,

Ready to take some TIME OUT and join in our photo challenge at Time Out Challenges?

Here is what I created:

Here is our photo:

I wasn't sure where to go with this challenge and kept zooming in so I could check out the details. Finally inspiration struck when I focused in on the little white shell on the bottom left hand corner-have a close look and you will see what looked like to me, a flower with 5 petals. So hunted through my stash and found this Concord and 9th die. I used this with the colours in the photo adding the sentiment from our fabulous sponsor STAMPlorations. The tags come from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Janet. I was thrilled when she agreed to join us and you will see why if you check out her blog here

Our Design Team and Janet have all made superb cards to inspire you-check them out here.

Then take some crafty time to yourself and get inky x

I will enter this into:

color Throwdown-orange, kraft and black

CASology-odd-I have used a flower with an odd number of petals-thanks Michele for pointing this out!

     

Inkspirational #145

Hi There,

A new challenge starts at Inkspirational today and this time it is my turn to choose the challenge. I went with one of my favourite cards to make and that is:

One Layer Cards:

Here is mine:

Couldn't get more CAS than this! Actually this was made for my husband for our 12th Wedding Anniversary. We have a little competition going, where we try to get the most CAS card we can for our celebrations. It is easy for me but I have to say for my Birthday he got the most CAS card I have ever seen-shop bought! So this time, I made mine super CAS. And yes it was more CAS than his...hehe!

All these stamps are from Uniko.

Check out how the rest of the DT did with my challenge here-you will be impressed!

Have fun and join in x

So Happy To Know You

Hi There,

I got some goodies from Verve and wanted to have a play.

Yesterday I water coloured a panel and today got to work making a card based on the sketch at Viva La Verve. It took me a while to CAS this sketch down but I think I have done it!

I have used the Bloom Brighter Verve Set and the CAS-ual Fridays Fri-Dies Tag.

Enjoy the rest of your day.

I will enter this into:

Viva La Verve Sketch

Less Is More-Water colour

Happy Little Stampers Water colour using gold option-my enamel dot is from their store

Darnell's NBUS Challenge-my stamp set is brand new and never been used before!

         

Happy Little Stampers CAS October Challenge

Hi All

Time for a new challenge 'Clean and Simple' challenge at Happy Little Stampers.

This time we want to see:

One layer cards

I love making one layer cards and here we go:

The photo doesn't really do the card justice. It is really pretty as I used the lovely 'sweet sixteen' ink from Catherine Pooler (a pressie from my cousin Lynn). I love the look of it IRL and have added a few pearls around the snowflake but after many attempts of photographing it, this was the best I could do!

The sentiment is from Happy Little Stampers and the snowflake from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps.

I got this idea when I saw this card by Nonni-I like the way she had placed the sentiment in the middle of the doily and that this would work well with a large snowflake=thanks Nonni for the inspiration.

The winner of this challenge will get a $20 gift voucher to use in our store.

Check out the amazing creations from the DT here and then get inky

Time Out #93

Hi All

We have a new challenge at Time Out and this is a special challenge are we are here is help raise awareness of Breast Cancer. Breast Cancer Awareness month starts in a few days and we want to remind you of how important it is to do a monthly check-it takes 5 mins-not sure how, check this link here

Onto our challenge:

Breast Cancer Awareness and/or Friendship Challenge with the optional twist of using pink

winner gets $25 gift voucher for CAS-ual Fridays and we have a special prize package for those who use pink (chosen randomly)

I went for the optional twist, using all CAS-ual Friday Products and sent the card to a very dear friend:

Here I have used the following from our fabulous sponsor CAS-ual Friday Stamps:

Full on Floral stamp-heat embossed in white and water coloured with pink water colour paint, trying to create an ombre look to match the photo at Calling All Sistahs, by slowy using less and less pink paint and drawing it down with more water

Pretty Posies stamps-flower and leaf heat embossed in white onto vellum and die cut Sentiment from the set also.

Pretty Posie Fri-Dies-to die cut flower and leaf

Tag Buddies Fri-Dies-to cut tag dies.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Yulia. Her blog is a delight to visit. Check it out here, it is full of creative projects. We are so pleased she has joined us for this very special challenge.

Our DT and Yulia have some great inspiration for you-check it out here.

Then take some time out and join in the fun-you have until 12th Oct 5pm BST to play x

I will enter this into:

Calling All Sistahs Encouragement Challenge-this time I didn't go with the colours but the ombre background in the photo-using wet on wet water colouring to give this effect and the florals for the cloud look-see info of this above in card description.

Sassy Shaker!

Hi All

Yes, you do see a shaker card!

I wanted to enter the 'shaker card' challenge at CAS-ual Fridays but an useless at these plus I wanted to make it CAS! After a hunt around on utube, I followed this video by Justine to help me-thank you Justine

This was really fun to make and for the first time in making shaker cards, no sequins are escaping!

 I have used the following froducts from CAS-ual Fridays

Tag Bundle Fri-Dies

Frankly 'isms Stamps

This card is going to a very dear friend...this sentiment describes her perfectly!

I will enter this into:

CAS-ual Fridays Friday Challenge-shaker cards

Darnell's NBUS challenge-these Frankly 'isms stamps have never been used before.

Addicted to Stamps and More-Anything Goes