TIme Out #29

Are you ready to take some Time Out and join in our new challenge at Time Out?

We have our 'Inspired by Words' challenge for you this week and our words are:

'You can't make a Rainbow without a little Rain'

You can be inspired by the whole phrase or you could choose just 1 or 2 of these words.

You might want to go with rainbows, so many possibilities there! Or perhaps rain or you could go with 'little'. Let your creativity bloom!!

I went with the whole phrase as I had a stamp with these words on. I then focused on 'rainbow' by water colouring over the embossed sentiment, in the colours of the rainbow.

A few little splatters to finish off the card.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Michele. Her blog Crimson Owl Creations is full of the most creative and inspiring projects and we are so pleased Michele is joining us.

So how will you be inspired by these word? Take a look here at what Michele and our DT created to inspire you.

I will enter this into the 'showers' challenge at Addicted to CAS
And the 'April Showers' challenge at Make My Monday
I will also enter the 'Springtime' challenge at AAA cards

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

Time Out #19

At Time Out Challenges this week we have our theme challenge and this is what we have for you:

Embossing with the optional twist of Sparkle

Any kind of embossing and if you want to twist with us just add some sparkle. And if you do twist you will be in for a chance of winning a stamp set from our fabulous sponsor Avocado Arts-chosen by random.

I decided to twist and came up with this:

Our Guest Designer this week is the very talented Lesley. Take a look at her blog Always Playing with Paper and I guarantee you will be inspired.

Our DT have created come out standing projects for you this week. See them here and then take some TIME OUT and play along with us.

My sentiment is from STAMPlorations and I will be adding this to their Anything Goes Challenge

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

Gold Glitter Ink!

Have you tried gold glitter ink?
I first heard about this on Tracey's blog. I loved the look this ink gave and hunted to down and now have some. It is called Delicata Golden Glitz. It looks like it has been embossed not stamped-thank you Tracey!

Here is my card today using my new ink:

My butterfly stamp is from the Uniko stamp set 'Bright Butterflies' and the sentiment is also from Uniko 'English Country Garden'-I have embossed the sentiment but the butterfly is all ink!!

I was inspired to make this after seeing a few challenges. The sketch came from a new challenge to me Always Playing with Paper-Challenge #19 and the photo at Runway Inspired is where my idea of gold and a strip of vellum came from (check out the gold striped dress).

I will also enter this into the glitter challenge at Make My Monday

And I will take this opportunity to remind you that the challenge at Uniko Studio this month is Anything Goes with an optional sketch and you can use any stamps you like and be in for a chance to win Uniko Stamps.

            

Time Out DT call reminder and Valentines!

Happy Friday Eve,

There is one week left for you to enter out DT call at TIME OUT. So pop over to our blog here to check out the details.

I finally got around to making my hubby a Valentine's card. I have CASology to thank for inspiring me to create this card. This week the code word is 'Bold'. Immediately a few ideas came to mind and yesterday I shared a very bold card with you. Today my 'bold' is more subtle but it is still there! I decided to go with this bold 'together' stamp in neon blue. I think this colour combined with the grey and sweet sentiment is perfect for my hubby.

The stamps are all from Avery Elle and the popped up die is from Simon Says Stamps

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-we love stamps

CASology-bold

Make My Monday-love is in the air

The Male Room-male Valentine

Have a fun day x

I love London!

Hello my friends,

My card today is celebrating the city I love! Good old London Town!

I had one of those rare 'ping' moments when I saw Julie's card at CAS(E) this Sketch. I loved Julie's card and the idea for my card just popped into my head and off I went and created this:

I wish I had made a few more like this for my London Buddies. I had made one similar for my hubby (which I will post another day) but I think this is better-I think I like the layout and the little sentiment at the bottom seems to really suit this sketch.

I want to remind you of Nonni's Christmas challenges that are still going on. One is for stamping and one is for stash. This card could be used for both as the embossed hills of snow are scrap paper with a little bit of ink and glitter on the edge. Pop over to Nonni's blog and you will see the links on the right hand side of the page. You could win stamps sets from Stamplorations (my sentiment here is from a stamplorations set)

I am also going to enter this into the CAS Christmas challenge at Make My Monday

Have a fun day x