Inkspirational #70

This week at Inkspirational we have a new challenge for you chosen by the fun and creative Kim. Kim is asking us all to create:

 A Christmas card with the optional twist of no red or green

If you twist with is you have chance of winning some prizes chosen by random (check the bottom of my post for details)

As most of you know I love using non traditional colours for Christmas and this time went with blue and pink glitter card to die cut my bauble. The pink glitter card was a pressie from DT member and very dear friend Nonni-straight after opening my goodie bag from Nonni I got the idea for this card-so thank you Nonni for the inspiration. I have stamped  the holiday song as my string and one single bauble then layered up each bauble to give lots of dimension.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Janet. You can check out her inspiring blog here.

Janet and our DT have made some very funky Christmas cards and you can check them out here

Our Prize:

If you use the twist of no red or green you will be entered into a random draw and win:

A Uniko Studios £10 Gift Voucher plus this bag of wonderful crafty goodies....now we know you want to twist with us!

I will enter this into the Glitter challenge at Make My Monday

Inkspirational #62

This week at Inkspirational one of our DT chooses the challenge. And this week it is Nonni's turn. And she is challenging us all to create a project using markers or pencils.

Nonni is an expert in colouring using copics which you will see if you visit her inspiring blog korttikarkuri. I was going to use my water colour pencils but some how ended up embossing this gorgeous butterfly stamp from Uniko Studios. I coloured just some areas with a green sparkle jelly roll marker. I couldn't seem to get a good enough photo to show the sparkle but hope you get the idea.

I have used very minimal colouring but it is there! If you check out our blog here you will see some wonderful projects from our DT.

Our Guest Designer this week is the superbly talented Greta.

I will enter this into the 'Anything Goes' challenge at Uniko Studios and the Summer Theme/colours at the Butterfly Chaalenge-here in London with have lots of storms in Summer but they are followed by the most gorgeous rainbows!

Then get those markers and pencils out and join in the fun!

Addicted to Stamps and More #94

Time for my favourite week at Addicted to Stamps and More. It is our Clean and Simple Challenge.

The card I am sharing with you today was for my Dad's Birthday a few weeks ago. I made this when our lovely team leader Kylie came to stay with me and we got some time to craft.

Our sponsor this week is StampArt Design. Their store is full of some wonderful designs so don't forget to go and check them out here.

This week we are having a DT call. You will find details on our main blog here-do hurry as it is only for this challenge! While you are there check out the designs from the rest of our team. Then get inky!

Addicted to Stamps and More #91

Its time for our Anything Goes Challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. That means you can let your creativity go wild! This week I didn't go really wild but I did make quite a fun card that was inspired by this week's sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch. This is what I came up with:

My mojo has been a little sleepy recently and when I saw this sketch I didn't have any ideas and then suddenly Sunday afternoon an idea just popped into my head. I have no idea where it came from but it came! I got out my 'tech talk' CAS-ual Fridays stamp set and orange embossing powder! 20 mins later I was happy with my card. Not sure when I will use this but perhaps it would make a fun get well card for someone who has been in hospital for a bit of a do over! 

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we are sponsored by A Random Fan and you should check out their store as they have some fab goodies!

And before you leave don't forget to visit our blog and see what our DT have made to inspire you.

I am also going to enter this into the 'Note' challenge at CASology-my card is a techy note!

Here is the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch

Addicted to Stamps and More #90

Its time for our photo challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. And we have this very seasonal photo for you:

I decided not to go down the Easter card route but to focus on these bright colours and patterns. CAS(E) this Sketch provided the inspiration for my lay out. I really wanted to use my 'explosion' stamp from Uniko Studios for this sketch but it took me ages to hunt through my stamps to find other stamps that I thought would compliment it. The ones I have used are actually from vintage Christmas Ornament stamps!

I heat embossed the sentiment from CAS-ual Fridays Stamps. I think this makes for a fun card that would be good for a geeky friend or, come to think of it....my geeky husband!

This week we are lucky to have the very talented Bonnie joining us as our Guest Designer and A Random Fan as our sponsor-check out their fab store here.

Our DT have some super inspiration for you and you can find this on our blog here. Take a look, be inspired and then get stamping!

Here is the sketch that inspired this challenge that I am entering my card into:

Addicted to Stamps and More #83

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we have our Holiday Challenge. It can be a specific Holiday in the year or themed around a holiday such as a beach holiday or a skiing holiday.

This week we have Cathy as our Guest Designer. She has created a fabulous Holiday project for us this week, check it out here and also have a browse through her blog...I am sure you will be inspired.

I have made my first Christmas card this year for this challenge:

I based the layout on the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch and I was inspired to go with the white textured base and the pops of red when I saw the photo this week at Festive Friday. I am enjoying mixing up gems, enamel dots and sequins to give a less uniform look. I like the look but have pretty much run out of gems now so need to get ordering!

This week we are sponsored by SmartArt Designs who are offering our winner 5 free digis.

Don't forget to take visit our blog here to see what the rest of the DT have made to inspire you.

                           

Rainbows and Butterflies!

Happy Monday my crafting friends,

To start the week I have a fun and colourful card to share with you. When I saw the 'rainbow' challenge at Less is More this week I knew I wanted to use the 'butterbows' stamp set from CASual Fridays.  Less is More are celebrating their third Birthday this week!

I have used these stamps before but had centred the rainbow so this time I wanted to use a different design. I made this one layer and am going to enter it into the 'can you repeat' that challenge at One Layer Simplicity Challenge-lots of repeated butterflies in my rainbow and flying away from the sentiment!!

I have made another rainbow card and will be posting this later in the week on Thursday when I remind you that we are still having our DT call at Time Out Challenges. For details of the DT call just click here!

Have a happy stamping week xx

Addicted to CAS #30

Here at Addicted to CAS we were so happy to see so many fabulous entries to our 'die cut' challenge and thank you all for supporting us. This week, the super talented Shana is our hostess and she has chosen the following code word:

What a great code word for this time of year. You can interpret this in so many ways and if you pop over to our blog here you will see how our DT have done exactly this!

At first I went with new home, new baby etc but it just wasn't working for me. Eventually I created this card:

This card is for a friend who has been through a rough time. My card is meant to represent a 'new beginning' for her. The storm has passed and now it is time to see the rainbows and begin again!

All the colours of the rainbow are shown......I still have to look them up! A few gems and a sequin just seemed to finish off the card as I wanted.

And this month we have Nancy joining us as our GDT. You can check out Nancy's wonderful cards here

Deedee digis are our sponsors and you could win 3 of their fabulous digi set.

Have a fun stamping x

Happy Christmas Hubby!

A very happy Sunday my crafting friends,

Today I am sharing the second Christmas card I have made for my Hubby. I have already given him one (yet to be posted) but he seemed to not like it quite as much as I hoped. He appeared to think it wasn't CAS enough-I have trained him well! So I decided to make him another very CAS card to give to him on Christmas day with his pressies.
This card was inspired by the super sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and the photo at Fusion. I loved all the white with the pops of red in this photo and that is was I used when making this. I entered this challenge before but went the other way around-mainly red with pops of white!

The lip stamp is from Fresh Squeezed Stamps, I fussy cut it and used glossy accents to add some shimmer. I am hoping that this will be CAS enough for Hubby!

I will also enter this into the following challenges:

Less is More-a previous challenge-week 9, a touch of red

Crazy for CAS-anything goes

Sweet Stamping Challenge-white and one other colour

Make My Monday-CAS Christmas card

      

Enjoy the rest of your day x

Addicted to Stamps and More #76

Time for our last challenge this year at Addicted to Stamps and More. And this week it is 'Anything Goes'.

Every year I make a calendar for my Mum and Dad and make a different topper for each month. Today I am sharing the topper for June. I wanted to share this one with you as a thank you to our fabulous team leader Kylie. She loves butterflies and when I was making this I kept thinking how much she would love this stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays.

I had a lot of fun stamping up this rainbow of butterflies and actually managed to use all the colours of the rainbow. I do love this topper and think it would also make a great card. 

This week our sponsor is Deedee's Digis. You could win 3 set of digis from their fabulous store.

Before you get inky, don't forget to check out the inspiration from our fabulous team here.

We will be back in January with a 'Make your Mark' challenge. If you are not already a follower now is the time to sign up so you don't miss any of the super challenges we have lined up for you in 2014!

I will also enter this into the 'Calendar' challenge at Crafting When We Can, the 'Christmas, not a card' challenge at Craft Your Passion

Happy Stamping x

You give me Butterflies!

Hello my friends,

I hope you all had a fun weekend and are not too stressed with the Holiday preparations!
Yesterday I had a super lazy day watching T.V, reading the paper, spending way too long browsing Pinterest but I also got to make a sweet card-the idea was already in my head so it didn't take long to make. The hardest thing about creating this card was choosing the colours but Colour Throwdown came to the rescue with that.

I was unsure about this card at first then decided to add one rounded edge and that seemed to transform it-isn't it weird how one little adjustment can change the look of a card!

Hope you get some time to craft this week!

Happy Stamping x

Santa is Coming to Town!

Happy Friday to you all!

I made this card a few days ago for the challenges at Fusion and 52 Christmas Card throwdown and I am finally getting to post it! The photo at Fusion inspired me-red and white it had to be!

The sentiment is heat embossed.

I still have one Christmas card to make and I feel like I have been saying that for days, yet still it is not made!! Will today be the day! Luckily it is for my neighbour so does not need posting.

Have a fun day!

                   

Addicted to CAS

Its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS, our last this year! This week the super talented Karen is our hostess and she has chosen the following code word:

A perfect word for this time of year. 

And this is what I came up with using CAS-ual Friday Stamps:

It is hard to see in the photo but the card is linen embossed. I had a go at taking the photo outside and I am happier with the exposure but the texture seemed hard to capture.

Our team have made some really inspirational projects this week so please take a peek here. 

For this challenge we are being sponsored by Whimsy Stamps-5 digis to be won!

I will also enter this into the following challenges

52 Christmas Card Throwdown-Snowflakes

KIS-snow

Stampin' Royalty-snowflakes

Inky Impressions-snow

Mid Week Magnolias-snow

Happy Stamping and look out for our new challenges in January x

Addicted to Stamps and More #73

Its time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. This week we are 'Addicted to Holidays'. This can be any holiday, it doesn't have to be Christmas but I have gone with Christmas as I need to get creating all my holiday cards. 

I was inspired by this card I saw on Pinterest and loved the design and just changed the colours, used embossing card as my base and made it into a holiday card.

The layout is from the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch-this time I flipped the sketch.

Our team have come up with a really good variety of cards based on the Holiday theme to inspire you. Please don't forget to take a peek here. And this week our winner will get 3 digi sets from DeeDee digis.

I can't wait to see where this theme takes you-have fun x

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Make My Monday-contemporary Christmas

CAS(E) this Sketch

Pile it On Challenge-non traditional Xmas

My Shery Crafts-non traditional Xmas

Let it Snow

Happy Monday my friends,


Today I have a card for you that was inspired by a number of challenges. I had one of those light bulb moments when browsing challenges to get my mojo back in gear. I actually was inspired to make a couple of cards all based on challenges I came across. Today I will share one with you and the other one later in the week.

Here is my first card:

This card was inspired by the following challenges:

CAS(E) this Sketch-I based my layout on this week sketch-actually this is where the inspiration started!

Curtain Call-Casual Christmas-all my stamps are CAS-ual Friday Stamps

CAS on Sunday-Winter theme

Addicted to Stamps-embossing

Festive Friday -snowflakes in the design

CAS-ual Fridays-use 8-I used 8 snowflakes including the one in the sentiment.

        

Isn't it fab when it all comes together! x

Addicted to Stamps and More #70

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we have this gorgeous picture to inspire you

I loved the the colours in this and knew I wanted to use my Christmas stamps from CAS-ual Friday Stamps but decided to make a Birthday card, heat embossing one section with silver sparkle!

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This week Digi Darla Designs are sponsoring us and our winner will get 5 digis of their choice from their fab store.

So what inspires you in this photo?? Don't forget to visit our blog here to see the projects the DT have created this week.

Happy stamping x

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #69

Its time for my favourite challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. Yep, you guessed right.........it is our CAS week. That means we want to see Clean and Simple projects only this week.

Here is mine:

For my layout I used the sketch this week from CAS(E) this Sketch and also the theme of grunge from Just Add Ink. I saw these 2 challenges and had a 'ping' moment. I knew which combo of stamps I wanted to use. I have combined CAS-ual Friday Stamps, Stamplorations Stamps and the stamps from the 'grunge' set at PTI. I had a lot of fun stamping this card and just added a few gems and embossing for subtle texture.

I am also going to enter the 'be inspired' challenge at Keep it Simple-my inspiration coming from the sketch and the idea of a grunge themed Xmas card.

Our DT have some outstanding CAS projects for you. Please take a peek here to be inspired! And this week are have Nicecrane Designs sponsoring us. Our winner will get a $20 gift voucher for their store.

Can't wait to see your CAS creations. Have fun stamping x 

   

Inkspirational #42

We were so happy the last 2 weeks at Inkspirational as we had so many entries. It was a joy visiting your blogs. The standard of entries was so high we are having a tough job choosing our winners!

We hope you join us this fortnight as we have this photo to inspire you:

I loved this photo as soon as I saw it but just couldn't decide what to go with-the wood grain, the colours, leaves, Autumn, home-there is just so much here. Eventually I decided to make a CAS Xmas wreath. No surprise there I guess! I used CAS-ual Fridays stamps, heat embossing the sentiment:

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Now it is your turn............what inspires you when you look at this photo???

Take a look what the rest of our DT have made here to inspire you.

I will also enter this card into the following challenges:

Festive Friday-wreath

My Craft Creations-Anything goes

Artistic Inspirations-Anything Goes

Crimbo Crackers-Pinktober

Aud Sentiments-Christmas Sentiment

You have 2 weeks to join in the fun x

Addicted to CAS Challenge #24

Today our hostess at Addicted to CAS is the super talented Christine. She has chosen as her code word 'Transparent'

This was a challenge for me! However, after blog hopping and visiting Pinterest a few times I eventually came up with this:

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I have used CAS-ual Friday stamps plus a few stickers I found in my stash. I do love how this turned out. I got the idea for the transparent front after seeing this card from Anita. And I loved this card from Lynn and that inspired my design. If you are stuck with a challenge just have a little hunt around blogland and inspiration will soon come (well, not always!)

Our DT have really come up with some great and varied ideas. Take a look here and don't forget to visit their blogs and leave them some love!

And this week Nicecrane Designs are offering our winner a $20 gift voucher to spend in their fabulous store.

I am looking forward to seeing what you create and visiting your blogs.

I am also entering this into the Whimsical Challenge at Festive Friday

Enjoy your day x

Addicted to Stamps and More Challenge #66-Anything Goes!

At Addicted to Stamps and More we are having our popular 'Anything Goes' challenge. Nicecrane Designs are sponsoring us and giving our lucky winner a $20 gift voucher!

I got some new CAS-ual Friday Stamps this week and was itching to use them and when I saw the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch I just new exactly how I wanted to use them. And here we are:

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I wanted to add green gems to the pink sentiment but didn't have enough, then remembered someone in blogland saying that you can just colour white gems-so out came my promarkers and copics until I got the right shade I wanted.

Before you leave please do go and check out the fab projects here that our DT have created to inspire you.

I love this challenge as we get so many fabulous entries and I have a lot of fun visiting your blogs and being inspired.

Here is the sketch I used: