Artsy London!

A very happy Friday my friends,

Freshly Made Sketches are celebrating their 200th sketch this week. Naturally I wanted to join in the fun. If you need a little more to tempt you, check out all the sponsors they have here.

I find sketch challenges hard however this week was a very CAS sketch and as soon as I saw it I had an idea. 

Here is my card, inspired by an arty picture of London I saw here.

To make this card I masked of the bottom part of my card with normal masking tape. I then used my 'Windsor and Newton' Water colour paint set directly onto the 'Bon Voyage' Clearly Besotted Stamp. I stamped this onto the water colour card, then removed the mask and held card upright so some of the paint dropped down-this is my attempt to be artsy!

This was a lot of fun to make and I really like how it turned out. 

It is actually being given to a crafty friend today who I am hoping will also like it.

I will enter this into:

Freshly Made Sketches-happy 200

AAA cards -maskerade

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge-masking

      

Butterfly Birthday.

A very happy weekend to you all,

Mr. Postie today delivered to me some new stamps designed by my very dear friend Kylie. For those of you that didn't know, Kylie has started her own line of Happy Little Stamps, check out the stamps here.

I was very excited to get stamping as soon as they arrived today and here is what I came up with:

I have been wanting to colour using my copics in the last few days. This is unusual for me and I am really am a 'stamp and go' crafter and have very few stamps that are good for colouring. However this stamp from Kylie's new set was perfect for a touch of colouring.

I used the colours from this week's challenge at CAS-Colour and Sketches. I will also enter this into the CAS masking challenge at Happy Little Stampers

    

Hello Again Fusion!

How is your week going?

I am here with my card for Fusion and shock, horror, this week I have be inspired by the photo and the sketch! I do love grey and yellow so knew these would be pert my card:

I got the idea of white embossing a text stamp on to yellow card. This, then sat on my craft desk for a few days while I decided what to do it! I eventually created my card by using some of this embossed card to die cut butterflies and followed the sketch. I really like the look of the white embossing on yellow and IRL it looks more lemon but this seemed quite hard to capture when photographed.

I am going to enter this into the 'embossing' challenge at Just Us Girls and the 'die cuts/punches' challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge

        

Happy Birthday Less is More!

Happy Friday!

I have been wanting to join in the Less is More 4th Birthday challenge all week. I wanted to celebrate their Birthday and I also love the combo of pink and grey. Last night I finally got to craft. I tried something new to me-embossing an image on vellum and then using copics to colour it.

I stamped the image and sentiment in grey ink directly onto the card and then added my embossed and coloured image onto this. A few baby pink enamel dots added 'just because'.

All images and sentiments are from Uniko

I am so pleased I got to play along!

I will also enter this into Seize the Birthday-no heart twist for me!

Happy Little Stampers-feb CAS and embossing

Uniko Release Day and Blog Hop

At last we are here with our Blog Hop!

I have chosen my 2 favourite cards to share with you today using our new stamps at Uniko Studio.

First off I have used I have used 'Beautiful blooms to create this:

The sentiment is from the Uniko Studio 'All occasions 1' set.

My second card uses our new 'Simply said Birthday set'

Here is the order of our blog hop:

Uniko Studio-Bev

Amber
Deborah

Gillian

N@ Ali

Nicki

Sarah 

Sandie-you are here.

Simply comment along the hop to be in the chance of winning the ENTIRE release (If you win & have already purchased the release a full refund will be given. You have until midnight Wednesday 18th February to comment & the winner will be announced on the blog & Facebook on Thursday 19th February.

Don't forget to check the Uniko Studio blog over the next few days to see if you are a Mystery Prize Winner!

All the new products are available here on the website & AS IT'S OUR BIRTHDAY RELEASE if you order today & spend £15 or more it is FREE Worldwide Shipping. Simply use the code FREESHIPPING during checkout if your order qualifies. If you forget & you qualify I will refund your postage. 

The release is also available at The Paperlanein Northallerton and a selection of products are again available at The Stamp Attic

Happy Hopping x

I will enter these cards into:

CAS-ual Fridays-water colour

Happy Little Stampers-CAS and embossing
CAS on Sunday-flowers
STAMPlorations-CASEsplorations-new challenge where you can CASE one of the DT projects-I am CASEing Deepti here for my second card-watercolour and sentiment (think I may be more like this-am on a roll with this kind of card!)

Addicted to Stamps and More #131

Hello my friends,

We have our Anything Goes Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. So you can let your creativity go wild!

I needed a Wedding card and have gone with the colours of the Bridesmaid's dresses:

The dresses are this exact green. I thought some silver embossing looked good with this colour. These 3 little hearts are all from this Uniko set. I finished off with giving the card some texture using the linen impression plate. I am pleased how this turned out as I found this colour quite a challenge for a Wedding card.

This  week are being sponsored by Sweet Pea Designs who have some amazing digis and they are offering 4 to our winner.

Once more our D.T have made some fabulous cards to inspire you. Check them out here

I will enter this into the CAS and embossing challenge at Happy Little Stampers

And Fusion-inspired by the metallic hearts in photo.

And Addicted to CAS-hugs and Kisses

AAA cards-love

STAMPlorations Feb Challenge-stamps and hearts

Just Us Girls-love

CASology-love

Then get stamping and enjoy!

       

Uniko Studio 'Classic Numbers'

I am back with our 'Classic Number' set from Uniko Studio.

When I was making the cards for this release I really was in the mood to water colour and emboss! I hope by the end of this release you are not fed up with seeing my attempts at this!

This card is for my nephews 18th:

Check out the set here and this is also where you will see all the places where you can add comments to win random prizes.

See you tomorrow for our next set!

I will enter this into:

CAS-ual Fridays-CAS and watercolouring

Happy Little Stampers-CAS and embossing

Uniko Studio Balloon Bash

It is day 1 of our new release at Uniko Studio and today to have our new set called 'Balloon Bash'

I decided to emboss my balloons and sentiment to create this card:

Here is the set

You can see it clearer by visiting the blog here

Plus don't forget there are random prizes to be won by leaving comments

on the Uniko Studio Blog, liking the Uniko Studio Facebook page, following on Twitter and Pinterest

I will enter this into the CAS embossing challenge at Happy Little Stampers

Come back tomorrow to check out our 2nd stamp set x