Inkspirational #96

A very Happy Saturday,

I am here with a card for our photo challenge at Inkspirational.

Here is my card:

And our photo:

I was inspired by the chocolate reindeer and stamped my reindeer on tags. Fussy cutting one tag out and popping it up on foam pads for dimension.

Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Asha. Asha was one of the first people I met in blog land and we became friends very quickly and have remained friends over the years. Please take a hop over to her blog Sunny Summer Crafts and you will be amazed at what you see. Her cards are an inspiration.

Don't forget to pop over to Inkspirational and see what my teamies have made to inspire you to join in x

I will enter this into:

Merry Monday-Use a Reindeer 

Uniko-Chriistmas-with option of CAS

Season's Greetings!

Yep still going at the Christmas cards!

I saw today that Uniko had a new Christmas challenge out with the option of CAS. I felt like a bit of crafting this afternoon so pulled out a few Uniko sets and got stamping to create this card:

I actually used 3 Uniko sets to create this CAS card! I have super enlarged the photo as the normal size didn't seem to show up all the little extra bits I had added. I find these background builder cards hard to make and am never quite sure what to add so did keep it quite simple and just ended up my colouring in the leaves with a glittery green gelly roll pen.

I had fun making it and a nice one layer which will be good for posting aboard.

I will also enter this into:

Addicted to Stamps and More-anything goes

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Christmas

Have a fun Friday x

Time Out Reminder

Happy Friday Eve,

I am here to remind you that you still have time to play in the latest challenge at Time Out Challenges.

It is our CASE challenge and we are CASEing the very talented Karen.

Here is my card inspired by Karen's (see below)

Here is Karen's card:

I went with the same lay out again this week but flipped the card around following the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and rounded the edge. I also went for brighter colours. The stamps are from wplus 9 and Happy Little Stampers.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the inspiring Jen. You can see what she and the DT have created to inspire you to take some TIME OUT to play with us here

Have fun!

I will add this to:

CAS(E) this Sketch

Happy Little Stampers-Anything Goes

Addicted to CAS-Hero-perfect card to send to your hero!

The Card Concept #44

Hello All

Do you need some more Christmas cards? We are here to help at The Card Concept. This week we have this warm and inviting Christmas scene to inspire you to create:



I was inspired by the homely feel of this scene and especially the fireplace with the hanging Xmas stockings. It is only my husband and I at home but we still hang stockings up on our fireplace.

At The Card Concept you can create a project in any style you want or combine styles. These styles are explained here

My style is Clean and Simple.



I have used STAMPlorations stamps here and actually did some colouring!.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Julee. Julee is the owner of Verve stamps and her style is shabby/chic.

Check out what Julee and our fabulous DT have created here and then get inky!

Enjoy x

I will enter this into:

CASology-pretty-a pretty Christmas mantelpiece. 

Fusion-Warm Welcome

A very Warm Welcome again today,

We have a new challenge for you at Fusion.

For this challenge you can be inspired by the photo or the sketch or combine the 2.

I went with the photo and created this card:

I was inspired by the bold 'welcome' and the colours. I used the 'Thinking of You' Happy Little Stampers set for the script and the butterfly and the sentiment is from Winnie and Walter. I do love the way this card came out. You know when you think of an idea and it all comes together just the way you imagine it...doesn't it make your heart happy??

Our DT have all made cards using the photo, the sketch or have fused the 2 and wow they are inspiring. Take a look here and then get inky!

I will enter this into:

Happy Little Stampers-Anything Goes

Time Out Challenge #44

It is that time of the week again....time for a new challenge at Time Out.

It is our CASE challenge. This means we share a card from another designer with you and ask you have a look at this card and take inspiration from it to create your own version. It can be any thing that inspires you. Perhaps the colours, the lay out the images.....let your creativity bloom!

This week our designer is the very talented Karen. I am sure many of you will know her from her blog Snippets. Her cards are always fabulous. Here is the card she has given us to CASE:




How amazing is this!!

I went with the lay out, green and using the sentiment across the panel and came up with this one layer card:

The text stamp is from Happy Little Stampers and the sentiment from Visible Images

Our Guest Designer is Jen. Her blog I Create is full of inspiring projects. Take a browse and you will come back full of ideas.

You can see what Jen and our DT have created to inspire you here.

Time to kick back and get creating!

I will enter this into:

Happy Little Stampers-Anything Goes

Silver and Gold.

A very Happy Monday,

Don't you just love a touch of silver and gold?

Here is my card using only these 2 metallics:

I got the idea for this card when I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch

The text stamp from Happy Little Stampers is stamped in delicata gold ink. The butterfly stamp, also from Happy Little Stampers, is embossed in silver on vellum. And to finish off I just added a few gold and silver enamel dots.

I will enter this into the following challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch

Happy Little Stamper CAS Challenge-Gilding

Addicted to Stamps and More-CAS

CAS-ual Fridays-CAS-precious metals

Happy Little Stampers-Anything Goes