World Card Making Day take 2!

As most of you know yesterday was card making day and I had a fun afternoon making cards. My hubby was working at home so it was the perfect time to craft.

Here is another card I made:

This was inspired by the colour challenge at Winnie and Walter. Heather set us the challenge to use aqua, mint, kraft and yellow. It was quite a tough one for me but I got there in the end. Plus I do love the result. I actually got a ping moment when I saw the latest sketch at Retro Sketches. I haven't played at Retro Sketches for a while so it was fun to get the inspiration this week.

I will also enter the 'CAS' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

Have a good day x

     

I love Purple!

Happy Card Making Day.

Here is a card I just made today:

I guess most of you who follow my blog will already know I am a purple freak. However today I have a very good reason to pull out my neon purple ink as Becca is holding a 'Blog to Stop' domestic violence. Here is why:

You see, purple is the colour of National Domestic Violence Awareness month. 

1 in 3 women will experience domestic violence over the course of their lifetimes. 

Let that sink in - 33% of all the women you meet. 

And women aren't the only people who are affected! Women, men, transgender - gender doesn't matter. Domestic violence is something that exists regardless of gender, socioeconomic status, religion, education level, etc.

As today is 'World Card Making Day'. I really wanted to join in and make a card for this worthy cause.

I was also inspired by a few challenges that I have seen today:

Winnie and Walter Sketch challenge for WCMD-I flipped the sketch.

Less is More-who want to see 'jewel' colours. I have gone for amethyst. My engagement ring is amethyst...I know not a great surprise!

I hope you get time to create today and also to join Becca here and raise awareness of domeatic abuse.

Today is a day for all us 'card making' lovers to get inky-hope you get some time x

edited to add-I forgot Winnie and Walter are asking us to take craftie's today. So hubby just took this of me hiding in the corner of my tiny craft space-you can see it is getting dark now, time for me to stop crafting I think!

   

Inkspirational #84

A very happy weekend to all!

At Inkspirational we have a photo challenge for you. Here is the card:

And here is the photo:

To me this lady looks like she is having a very relaxing day and enjoying what she really wants to do-I went with this idea and picked up the colours of the flowers.

Our Guest Designer is my very dear friend and super talented Kylie. Take a look at her blog here, it is full of the most creative and inspiring projects. We are so pleased that Kylie is joining us this week.

Next stop by Inkspirational to see what our DT have created for you and then get inky and join in the fun.

  I will enter this into the Butterfly challenge at Addicted to CAS (thanks Loll)

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #35

It is my third week at Guest Designing at The Challenge.

This week it is the 'Inspiration' challenge. These are my favourite kind of challenges and this week here is the inspiration:

Be inspired by: The Colours, The Theme, The Objects in the Photo or anything else that inspires you about the photo ABOVE.

I have gone with the yellow flowers and came up with this:

The flower stamp is from Uniko and the sentiments are from Winnie and Walter.

The team have all come up with some amazing inspiration for you-take a look here then get out those inks and join in.

I am going to enter this into the Birthday Celebration at AAA cards-they are 1!!

And the 'Blossom' challenge at One Layer Simplicity Challenge

Enjoy x

Addicted to Stamps and More #143

Hello All

Are you ready to get into the Holiday spirit??

At Addicted to Stamps and More this week it is our 'Holiday' challenge. You can choose any kind of Holiday and I have gone with Christmas. 

I wanted to use these stamps from Winnie and Walter and matched it with this DSP that I have had for years. 

We are sponsored this week by bugaboo stamps. They have some really fun digi stamps and our winner will get 7 of these!

Check out the amazing creations from out DT here. Then it is your turn to get inky!

Retro Celebrations!

Hello Again,

Yesterday I was inspired by the colour challenge at PinkFresh Studio and Winnie Walter challenge (insd)-neon pink,aqua and gold. 

I have had a Winnie and Walter 'celebrate' die, I had cut out of gold glitter card, lying on my craft desk for a few days. I decided this would be perfect for this challenge.

I used the sketch this week at Retro Sketches for my layout-I have typically, for me, made a CAS version of this sketch!

I do like this colour combo and also the design. I can see me using both of these again.

I will enter this into the 'dies' challenge at Happy Little Stampers-CAS

Have a good day x

I will also add this to Winnie and Walter join to win.

          

Less is More!

Hello my crafting friends,

Today I have a card for you inspired by the latest 'Colour' challenge at Less is More. They are asking us to use opposites on the colour wheel. As soon as I saw this I knew I wanted to go with purple and yellow. I love this combo especially when using water colours. Today I wasn't in the mood for water colouring and wanted to just stamp.

Here is what I came up with using Uniko's Balloon bash stamp set and Winnie and Walter's dies

Enjoy the rest of your weekend x

Happy Days with Fusion.

Hi All

I am here my card for Fusion's Happy Days Challenge. The photo this week totally inspired this card-the stripes was the big pull but the other colours and the red flowers I have also used. I challenged myself to make this a one layer card.

The stripes and flowers are both from Uniko and the sentiments are a mix of Stamplorations and Winnie and Walter

Here is the Fusion photo:

Inkspirational #81

This week at Inkspirational we have our 'Word Prompt' challenge and our word is

'Space'

Being a CAS loving gal I immediately thought of the 'white' space needed to make your card 'clean and simple'. I combined this white space with negative space to create this card:

I used this sentiment die cut from Winnie and Walter. I need a bit of practice with securing the card when using negative space but I hope you get the idea!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Sue. Take a look around her Creative Studio and be inspired!

Then pop over to here and see how our team have interpreted this word.

Enjoy!

Lets Party!

Happy Easter!

I am popping in today with a card I made yesterday. It has been water coloured so needed to flatten over night under a pile of boxes.

The idea for this card started with the sketch at Happy Little Stamper. As soon as I saw the sketch I knew I would be playing along. I wasn't sure what colours to use but this is where Colour Q came to the rescue.

I used water colour clear masking fluid so I could follow the sketch but not let the colours run too much. Once the water colour was dry I embossed the sentiment from Winnie and Walter.-I will enter the Join in to win challenge at Winnie and Walter.

Have a good day

       

Love!

Hello Again,

This week at Less is More the challenge is to CASE one of the DT.

I chose to CASE Sarah. I am on  a few DTs with Sarah and for a long time have admired her creativity. 

Here is my CASE:

I decided to go with the silver embossing, hearts and love theme. Sarah's card is square and I can't remember the last time I made a square card so I decided I would give it a go. I have layered up the die cut 'love' using black card. Sarah wanted to see lots of white space so I listened and gave her lots of white space. This die cut is from Winnie and Walter and has never been used before so I am entering this into Darnell's NBUS challenge #4 as well as Less is More.

Here is Sarah's card-a beauty!

I will also enter this into Winnie and Walter-join in to win-March

Addicted to Stamps and More #133

It is Holiday Time at Addicted to Stamps and More.

You can create a project for any holiday.

Today I have gone with Easter.

I adore this 'blessing' sentiment from Winnie and Walter and used this as my main focus. I just added a few flower stamps from the Uniko Background Builder Vine set. I only send a couple of Easter cards but am happy with this one, so one to do!

STAMPorlations  are our sponsors this week. You may know I am a fan of their stamps, check out their store here

Our DT have many cards to inspire you here

Enjoy x

I will enter this into the 'mini' challenge at CASology-I have 3 mini flowers!

Inspired by Many!

Hello my friends,

I have been making cards for my family over the last week and I had just one more to do. I got the idea for this after browsing some challenges. This card is off to my Uncle and Aunt. Very CAS but was inspired by quite a few challenges.

The sentiments are from Winnie and Walter and CAS-ual Fridays

The circles are from STAMPlorations-holiday artsy

I was inspired by the following challenges:

Less is More-black, metallic and one other-mine is the silver/grey ink. I stamped the 'family' in gold delicata ink but decided it wasn't metallic enough so added some gold metallic dots.

Winnie and Walter Birthday bash-mood board-the gold and gold dots

AAA Cards-a touch of gold

Curtain Call-this is where I got the idea to add silver (the silver can in the picture jumped out at me) although I had to go for grey as I don't have any silver ink and didn't feel like embossing. (must find some-any ideas?)

STAMPlorations-January challenge-Stamps and Ink. I will also enter this into their Anything Goes Challenge

Enjoy your day xx