Santa is Coming to Town!

Hello All

Today I have a one layer Christmas card for you that was inspired by the sketch this week at CAS(E) this sketch. I had an idea for this sketch and was looking for the dies I wanted to use but came across a Casual Fridays stamp I haven't used for a while and the sentiment just looked perfect for this sketch. See what you think:

All the star stamps are from different Uniko sets

I will also enter this into the challenge at One Layer Christmas Card

Here is the sketch:

Time Out Reminder.

Hi All,

Have you joined our 'CAS' challenge with a twist at Time Out Challenges yet?

We are being sponsored for this challenge by CAS-ual Fridays and if you use our twist of 'Black and White with a splash of one colour' you could win a $20 gift voucher for their store-chosen by random!

This week I went with the twist and red is my splash of colour:

I have used the 'tech talk' stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays.

Susanne is our Guest Designer for this challenge and you can see what she and the team have created to inspire you to join us here.

You have until Wednesday 1st April to join in.

You know you deserve some TIME OUT to craft and I hope you take that precious time with us and join in the fun!

I will enter this into the colour challenges at Just Us Girls-black, white plus one other colour and the 'bake naked CAS design' at AAA cards

   

Time Out #27

I am very excited this week as our challenge at TIME OUT Challenges is:

CLEAN AND SIMPLE!!

We also have an optional twist of:

Black and White with a splash of colour...remember optional, if you want you can use any colour!

If you do twist with us we will be doing a random draw for a $20 gift voucher from our fabulous sponsor CAS-ual Friday Stamps

Here is my card using the CAS-ual Friday Stamp set  'wait for it'

I have heat embossed the 'awesome' on vellum and then linen embossed the white card. When I made this card I thought I was going with the twist but for some reason I forgot the splash of colour!! However I do love the result of the Black and white so kept with it! I made this card for my blogging friend Kim who is celebration her Birthday today (hope you have got it Kim!)

Our DT have all made some fab CAS cards-take a look here and then take some TIME OUT to join in, twist if you want to be in for a chance of some new CAS-ual Friday stamps

Enjoy!

I will enter this into the 'use enamel dots' challenge at House of Cards-I have used mine here to hold down the vellum!

And the 'Bare Naked' challenge at AAA cards

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!)

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

Addicted to Stamps and More #113

It is our 'Holiday' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. You can choose any holiday you want. I have gone for Christmas. I like to use non-traditional colours and this card if no exception!

This card was inspired the combo of 2 photo challenges. First off I adore the pink car colour in the photo at Fusion this week. I actually had it in mind to make a Christmas card with a cityscape and car all based around this pink colour card I have used in this card but then I saw the photo at Festive Friday this week. This photo took me in a different direction as I liked the use of the soft pink and white-this is where my white embossing and DSP came from. So the combo of photos really did take me in a completely different direction than I had intended but that is inspiration for you! (I still want to make the pink car Xmas card car!)

At Addicted to Stamps and More we are being sponsored by Eureka Stamps and our team have some fabulous Holiday cards for you here

Have fun!

       

Happy Birthday Kylie!

Goodness,we have another Birthday in the house today!!

Today I am here to say a very Happy Birthday to my friend Kylie. Many of you know Kylie in the crafting world and will know her as the owner of Addicted to CAS and Addicted to Stamps and More. I met Kylie in the blogging world and was lucky enough to join her Design Teams. We became close in the virtual world and then met this Easter IRL when Kylie stayed with me for a week. We had a ball and now have a friendship I believe will be life long.

She is one special lady and we could not let this day go by without have a Surprise linky Birthday Party for Kylie!! You can all join in by going to Loll's blog and linking up your card there.

Here is my card I made for my very dear friend:

I tired something new to me-stamping and clear embossing the rainbow of butterflies then water colouring them in all the colours of the rainbow. I tried to be creative by just going with the flow around the edge plus adding in a few splatters. I was not so sure about it but I thought Kylie would appreciate my attempt to step outside my comfort zone!!

Well Happy Birthday Hon and who would know you had finally reached 21!!

And don't forget to join the party and link up your card here with our hostess Loll-the link is open for 2 weeks so plenty of time to party on!!

I an entering this into the new challenge The Nixed Media Card Challenge Blog. This is a surprise to me as I thought I would never be able to enter this challenge as my cards are usually not suitable. But I read the definition of a mixed media card on the blog as was very happy to see that this card met the criteria...and I have to say I feel quite proud of myself for achieving this!! The theme for this challenge is 'nature'

I will also enter this into the 'Things with Wing' challenge at Crafty Creations and the 'Follow your Rainbow' at Paper Pretties

It is all about you!

Hello my friends,

I hope your week has started well. I am just popping in quickly to share a card that I made for CAS(E) this Sketch. I actually made it a few days ago but wasn't sure I really liked it. I had decided not to share it but then after looking at it again today I thought I would post it as we can't always love every card we make and someone out there might like it!

I am afraid the photo isn't so good with that nasty shadow but I have been spending all weekend getting used to a new laptop and photo editing software. This photo is a result of my learning process!

It was Heather's take on the sketch here that inspired me to play along. I masked off an area and did some distress ink sponging and then stamped these flowers and went for neon blue as I wanted a really bright contrast to the soft pinks and blue in the sponged area.

And remember.....some part of today has to be about you!

I will enter this into the following challenges:
Amuse Challenges -sponging
Dream Valley Challenges-Mothering Sunday

Time Out Challenge #1

I am very excited because today is our first challenge at Time Out Challenges. I have been planning this challenge with my very dear friend Nonni for quite a few months now. We have now established a fabulous Design Team and are ready with the first challenge in our rota which we call:

Inspired by Words

This is a bit like the code and cue word challenges but we use a bunch of words rather than just one. We will use proverbs, quotes and popular sayings to inspire you. We are starting off with a very popular saying for our first challenge and it is:

Dancing in the Rain

All you need to do is create a paper crafting project that is inspired by this saying. For example you could focus on any of these words on their own. Here are just a few ideas that come to me whilst writing this-raindrops, umbrellas, dance steps, water splashes and I could go on! Just let us know what it is that has inspired you.

Or you could do as I have....and use the whole saying to inspire you, just see where this saying takes your creativity!

All these stamps are from Inkylicious and I loved the sentiment. I stamped and fussy cut the purple umbrella and added glossy accents to it to represent the rain-quite hard to see this in the photo but IRL does look really glossy!

This week as it is our first challenge we have 2 sponsors. Make the Day Special , who are offering our winner a £10 gift voucher and Avocado Arts who are offering our winner one product from their fabulous store.

Time to see what a new DT have created to inspire you, check it out here.

Then take some TIME OUT and join in the fun.

I will enter this into the following challenges

 CAS-ual Fridays-shades of gray

Crazy 4 Challenges-be sentimental

The Sisterhood of Crafters-sentimental journey

Have a CAS-ual Friday!

We made it to Friday!

I was a little shocked when I started to write this post as I realised it was my third card in a row that mainly used colouring! You will know that colouring is not my favourite card making technique but I do keep trying and this week I had a lot of fun playing with my copics.

When I was making my bubble bath card yesterday I came across the gardening stamp I used for today's card. This year another one my my resolutions is to grow more vegetables and flowers on my terrace and this card is to represent this but with a focus on the word 'Friend'. That is my word for the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays. This year will be a special year as card blogging friends will become friends IRL! Kylie who I met through our wonderful community is coming to stay with me in London, all the way from Australia! We going to meet up with a number of other crafty friends, none of us have met IRL! Plus my blogging friend Nonni and I are talking of meeting up either here or in Finland! So 2014 the word is 'Friends'!

Isn't the crafting community such a wonderful place to meet new friends and build relationships across the world??
I am also entering this into the 'CAS' challenge at Copic Marker Europe

Have a fun day xx

It takes 2 to Tango!

Happy New Year to all my blogging friends!

The first few days of this year started with a very slow creative mojo. Perhaps too much Holiday Cheer! And then this morning I saw the CAS-ual Friday 'In a word' challenge and my mojo sobered up! This challenge is to create a card that around a word that sums up what you hope for in 2014. I immediately thought of the New Year's resolution that my husband and I made together. We are going to take up learning to dance. I really want to learn how to Jive but am game to try any kind of dance. And here is my card to represent this:

I challenged myself to make this one layer as I wanted to enter this new look One Layer Simplicity Challenge. The challenge this week is to re-stock the shelves. I need cards like this one that I make and  leave blank inside. I can then use them for a variety of occasions. The dancing silhouette is heat embossed and I added the twine, well really, just because I thought it looked like it should be there, after I had played with different ideas!

The dancing stamp is from Stamplorations and I am very excited that today I my application to their DT was successful! They have a cool 'Stamps and Feathers' challenge going on this month.....take a peak here.

I hope that your New Year has started well and I wish you all health and happiness in 2014 xx

And back to the my norm!

After yesterdays embossing, distressing and bows, my CAS loving heart is back!

I saw a couple of challenges and a card design came to mind very quickly and the actual card was made even quicker! This card took me less than 6 mins to make and I love it. It makes my CAS loving heart sing!

I saw the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch and loved it and I am sure I will be making a few more cards using this. Then I saw the combined 'New Year' celebrations challenges at CAS-ual Fridays and 10 minute Craft Dash and I knew these stamps from Stamplorations would work perfectly. So a very quick bit of stamping and some texture from my linen embossing plate and done! I just love it when a card comes together like this and especially when it works out how I wanted it to and I love it!

Happy stamping x