Fusion

I hope you are all having a good weekend.

I have a card today for Fusion's last challenge of the year. As many of you know I love to play along with Fusion but this challenge I found a challenge! I loved the photo and really wanted to go with the gingham however creativity escaped me. After thinking of ideas for over a week I decided just to forget about gingham and re-look at the photo. This turned out to be a good idea as I immediately came up with this idea and combined it with my favourite sketch out at the moment from STAMPlorations

I went with the pine cones!

The cones are from Clearly Besotted Stamps and the sentiment from Uniko

Just simple stamping plus a touch of white pen, Wink of Stella and sequins for a little touch of interest. I was pleased how it turned out and especially pleased that I got to play along in the last challenge this year at Fusion.

I will also enter this into:

Crazy for CAS-something old (my CBS are over a year old)

Crazy for Challenges-Winter Themed Birthday card-this is for a Birthday in Jan

     

Addicted to Stamps and More #115

We have a very seasonal photo this week at Addicted to Stamps and More to inspire you:

I just loved the Autumnal feel to this photo and created this:

I have heat embossed a leaf stamp in vanilla white and then water coloured the leaf using a mix of oranges and yellows. As I like to do with water colours, I just went with the flow adding extra colours and water until I liked the look.

This week we are very pleased that Stamp Art Designs are again our sponsors.They have some fabulous digis, check out their store here.

Our DT have all made wonderful projects to inspire you and you can check them out here

Now it is your time to get inky. I am looking forward to seeing what this photo inspires you to make.

I will enter this into:

Crazy 4 Challenges -include a leaf

Just Us Girls-gotta love that photo, all the leaves and pop of orange..just like my card!

Inkspirational #58

Happy Saturday my friends and it is time for our new challenge at Inkspirational.

This week I got to choose the challenge and as you know I am a CAS lover so that is what I am challenging you all to create: 

A Clean and Simple project.

Here is what I came up with:

I had a lot of fun making this as I got to play along with some goodies that I received for my Birthday from my lovely blogging friends Virginia and Kim. This was my first go at stamping on canvas and I love how it looks. I frayed the edges and cut it into a ribbon shape. And it was also my first use of Snap stickers. Such fun playing around with the colours and patterns until I was happy with the results. 

AND please note.....no enamel dots, gems or sequins!!!

This week we are so lucky that Sue is joining us as our GDT. I have for a long time admired Sue's elegant style and you urge you check out her blog Sue's Card Craft. You can see what she and the rest of the team have created this week here.

I am going to enter this card into:

Curtain Call- Something Simple

Crazy 4 Challenges-Man made

Simon Says Stamps Wed challenge-Father's Day

CAS-ual Fridays Challenge-Guy card with ribbon

              

And to finish off with I have a photo to share of 3 of Inkspirational DT meeting in London IRL. 

From the left-Nonni from Finland, me and then Marina. Both Marina and myself are Londoners. 

If you didn't already know Nonni stayed with me for a week and we had a ball!!

My Very First Shaker Card!!

Happy Friday Eve,

Today we are introducing the last 4 Design Team members at Time Out Challenges so please do pop over to our blog and say hello. Next week our first challenge will go live....what will it be??? I would love to tell you but then you know what I would have to do to you!!

I have been so excited to share with you my very first shaker card. I have been wanting to try making one of these for a while and last week I saw this card by Betty at the Fusion Card Challenge and it inspired me to turn thoughts into action!! I used the sketch at Fusion to try this out. I used the colour scheme at Crazy For Challenges-radiant orchid.

I used glitter card stock to go with the sparkly theme. I have rounded a few edges just because I didn't like square look. I liked the effect this made however still wasn't happy with the totally square centre. Then I saw this feather stamp on my craft table that I had fussy cut out a while ago and thought it might cut off the squareness (is that a word?) and viola, it seemed to work.

The sentiment and feather stamps are from STAMPlorations.

I am so glad I tried this as I love how it turned out and it is sitting on my mantle piece and every time I pass it I have to give it a shake. I giggle and feel all proud I actually made it myself!! I know...how sad is that!!

Have a fun day and remember to visit Time Out to meet the rest of the team and then........take TIME OUT to craft!