Addicted to Stamps and More #95

It time time for our photo challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this week we have this photo for you:

Lots here to inspire you to create! I went with the flowers and branches but instead of pink went with the colours from this week's photo at Fusion Card Challenge. And followed the sketch at CAS on Sunday-see below-using the sentiment as part of the sketch. And here is what I came up with using Uniko Stamps

I think the yellow and black make for a dramatic combo but decided to stamp the sentiment in orange and I wanted an extra colour plus there was already enough black on the card.

This week we are sponsored by Stitchy Bear Digis and you could win 3 digis from their fabulous store.

Don't forget to take a look at the inspiration from our DT HERE

I will enter this into the Fusion card challenge-using the photo.

And the sketch challenge at CAS on Sunday

 And the One Layer Simplicity Challenge-fabulous flowers

Have a fun day x

STAMPlorations May Challenge

A very happy Friday my crafting friends.

It is time for our new monthly challenge at STAMPlorations and this month we are going with 'Stamps and Flowers'

What a great theme for this time of year. Your project can be any style as long as you use some kind of stamping and we some flowers!

Here is my card for this month using STAMPlorartons eclectic florals and our soon to be released sentiment builders 

This card was actually inspired by a card I got in the post from Anita at My Paper Craft World-see her card below. I loved Anita's design and she very kindly agreed I could CASE it for my DT card this month-thank you Anita x

This month our Guest Designer is the very talented Sue and to see what she has created for us check out our blog here. This is also where you will see what all the DT have made to inspire you to play along.

Need a little more motivation? How about some prizes?

The winner will get to choose 2 clear stamps set from our shop here and will be asked to be our Guest Designer for a future monthly challenge. 

If you take part in all 3 challenges at STAMPlorations in May you will be entered into the random draw for this prize:

Cloud9 Design Epoxy Accent Stickers, K&Co. Blue Awning Die-Cut Cardstock Tags, Elle's Studio Day to Day Tabs,Bella Blvd Crochet Flowers, The Card Co. Funky Lipstick Paper Flowers, and Heidi Grace Printed Flowers.

I will enter this into the 'photo' challenge at Pinspirational Challenges-I loved the colours of the flowers in the gorgeous little basket

 I will also enter this into the 'three thirds' challenge at CAS-ual Fridays as I have used 3 flowers, 3 enamel dots.

Plus One Layer Simplicity Challenge is having a 'Fabulous Flowers' month, so this card is entering there!

 Here is Anita's card: that inspired me.

Have fun playing along with us, you have all month to stamp!

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

Floral Friday.

Hello fellow crafters,

I decided to play along again this week with the One Layer Wednesday challenge. This week it is one stamp, one ink and one sentiment. I really liked the stunning simplicity of Heather's card and decided to case it. I went for different colours and a different stamp but used the same masking technique she did.

(hover over the picture and click on on the pin to save to pinterest)

Here I have used Mocha brown ink and a Hero Arts stamp.

I am also going to enter this into the 'Floral Fantasy' challenge at CAS on Sunday

Enjoy your Friday x

Tech Talk!

Today I have been playing with a new stamp set that my cousin Lynn gave me as a pressie when she recently came to visit me here in London. Lynn is one of the fab DT Girl Fridays for Cas-ual Friday Stamps and this tech talk stamp set from Cas-ual Fridays is one Lynn knew I wanted. What a lovely surprise for me!!

So today I have had fun playing with this to make this card:

I had been wanting to make a card for the challenge this week at OLW, to be inspired by pinterest-like we really need another excuse to spend hours on pinterest!! And yesterday I was browsing for some inspiration to make a 'new home' card and came across this picture:

This got me thinking about my new stamp set and then today I saw the colours of this weeks Cas-ual Fridays challenge-orange, aqua and green-and decided to use my orange and blue heat embossing powders for this CAS one layer card. I went with a 'oops I'm sorry' card as I expect we all need these at some point. And as hubby is a techy I thought I would keep this in my stash for him!!

I made a second version of this card with a smiley face from a Fresh Squeezed Stamp set. I think I like the first one best....what about you??

I am also going to enter this into the 'new stamps' challenge at Alphabet Challenges

Do come back tomorrow to see my next card using the tech talk set and enjoy the rest of your Friday x