Time Out reminder #26

Happy Friday Eve!

At TIME OUT Challenges we are still celebrating our 1st Birthday!
We are so excited to have made it to our first Birthday and thank you all for supporting our challenge.

I decided we all needed to 'Strike A Pose' in celebration and made this for us all!

I have used the stamp set Strike a Pose from Uniko to make this, embossing the sentiment.

Our Birthday challenge is to be inspired by this photo-I have again gone with the photography theme.

There is so much to inspire you here-colours, white space, tree branches and so much more!

What would a Birthday be without presents! And we are very lucky that are DT members Beverley (owner of Uniko) and Shery (owner of STAMPlorations) are both sponsoring us for this challenge.

The winner of the challenge will get a gift voucher from STAMPlorations and Uniko plus we will do a random draw and the winner of this will get a Celebration/Birthday stencil pack from STAMPlorations.

Lots of presents to be won so we sure hope you join in and celebrate with us. 

We all need some TIME OUT to craft and now is your time!

I will enter this into the embossing challenge at Virginia's View Challenge

And the 'Tropical' challenge at CASology-you would want a camera if you were on a Tropical Island!

Addicted to Stamps and More #121 and Fusion Inspired.

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More it is the 'Anything Goes' challenge. So you can let your creativity go where it wants to and just enjoy creating.

Here is what I created:

This card was inspired by the photo at Fusion-see below. I loved the colour of the cake and the embossed pattern on each layer. I used the colour as my card base and embossed my pattern in gold instead of white but represented this white with a ribbon.

. I love how this turned out and think I will be using gold embossing on turquoise again. I think it makes for a stylish card-hence the sentiment.

This week we are being sponsored by Stitchy Bear Stamps. Their digital stamps are fab and you could win 3 of these.

Our DT have all created delightful projects to inspire you. Check them out here and then get stamping and enjoy!

I will also enter this into Virginia's View Challenge-metallic, and CAS on Sunday-use ribbon or twine

  

Inkspirational #69

Time for our Word Prompt challenge at Inkspirational. This week we have:

And here is my take:

I actually got the idea for this from the decor at my Brother's Company's 25th Anniversary. My niece and sister in law designed the decor and it was amazing. I felt like I was at the Oscars! I came away full of ideas for cards and this is one. The room was surrounded by black cloth with sparkling lights just like my embossed corner of the card. I have embossed the die cut thank you with orange powder and fussy cut around it to so that it showed more on the card.

I have another card to share soon also inspired by the decor at this party.

Our Guest Designer this week is Rocky. Her blog here is a 'must see', you will be inspired!

Check out what Rocky has made for us this week plus the gems are DT have created here

Have fun getting all shiny! 

I will enter this into Virginia's view challenge-metallic

You're Unique

Hello my crafting friends,

I am popping in with the second card I made on World Card Making day. 

I really liked the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch  but no ideas came to mind until I saw the colour scheme at The Card Concept-my card is clean and graphic. I had a ping moment and this is what I created:

This was very quick to make but I have to say it makes me smile but would be great for so many special people.

I will also enter this into Virginia's View Challenge-CAS

       

Festive Friday Fun!

A very happy Friday to all,

My card today is for the photo challenge at Festive Friday. First my card then I have to tell you the little story behind its invention!!

I have been wanting to make a card for this challenge since I saw the photo last week but no ideas came to mind. I couldn't seem to get the wood grain out of my head but then today the reminder post came up and I had a ping moment....or so I thought. I knew exactly what I wanted to do. However I started making my card then thought...I think I have made this before and yes I had here admittedly using a lighter green ink. So what to do??? I stared at the card and thought how can I change this so I can enter it as I still loved the design and thought it was so right for the photo. Another ping moment came....add dimension. So I stamped the garland again on scrap card and fussy cut it out just adding one gem. I added these garlands just above and below the ones stamped on the main card using foam pads. And changed the sentiment. 

I thought this was a little lesson for myself-how to refresh a design you love using different design elements. And I think I like this design better!

I have to say I am slightly concerned that my memory is so bad I thought I had had a brand new idea!!

I will also enter this into:

  Virginia's View Challenge CAS (sorry Virginia I have a few more entries for this over the coming week!!)

Marina's Festive 48-Any Xmas card Goes

All my stamps are from Uniko Studios

Have a Festive Friday x

More Rainbows and Butteflies!

Happy Tuesday all,

I finally have started crafting again after my hols! I have a card today to share that I loved making as I tried out something new to me and also got to play with my watercolours again! I was inspired to make this card when I saw the inspiration card at the new challenge The Cutting Edge. And it was actually this card by DT member Lisa that got me creating my card:

I meant to water colour rainbow colours but when I started I decided to just go with the flow and let the painting take me where it wanted me to go. I do love that about water colouring. And adding a few splashes is a lot of fun. When it was dry, I used a 'Happy' die sentiment to cut through my colours. Then.....this is the part I haven't tried before....I cut out lots of happy sentiments and glued them together to give some dimension. I so wanted to add gems or enamel dots but as I am entering this into a few die cut challenges I went with the butterfly.

I love the way this turned out and after finishing it I realised I had made another 'mixed media' card but CAS-who would have known!! (my texture is the base card as it is the egg shell card, although hard to see in the photo)

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

The Cutting Edge Challenge-inspiration card using die cuts of some kind

AAA cards-water colour CAS cards

Virginia's view Challenge-die cuts

The Mixed Media Challenge-touch of nature
Moxie Fab Wonderful Words dies Challenge

             

Addicted to Stamps and More #87

Its 'Make your Mark' time at Addicted to Stamps and More. This challenge is to use some kind of marker on our project. 

This week we have Anni as our Guest Designer-please do welcome her and visit her blog here to be inspired! 

STAMPlorations are sponsoring us again this week and I have used the leaf stamp from the this stamp set. You could win the clear stamp set Its All About You.

Here is what I came up with using water colour paints:

I was inspired by Virginia's card on this post that I saw at Virginia's View Challenge this month. This leaf has been die cut from a piece of watercolour paper that I had experimented with a while ago and decided it was a disaster but had left it in my stash. Then I saw Virginia die cut a butterfly and had a 'ping' moment! I had previously heat embossed a wood grain stamp using clear embossing powder then painted over this with water colour paint. I wasn't happy with the result so discarded it! However when I die cut my leaf out of this I loved the effect of the wood grain. My die cut leaf is from Clearly Besotted Stamps

The sketch at Fusion inspired my lay out.

Now it is your turn to play along but first don't forget to visit our blog and see what the DT have come up with this week to inspire you!

I will enter this into Virginia's View Challenge and Fusion

        

Watercolouring Take 2!

Yesterday I shared with you my first 'real' go at watercolouring inspired by Virginia's new challenge and Shery's video tutorial. As I was on a watercolour kick I decided to challenge myself just a bit more.....make it one layer so I could enter 'Just Add Water' the One Layer Simplicity Challenge. I followed the sketch at Crazy For CAS-this sketch did stump me a bit until I started the watercolouring and suddenly an idea of how to interpret it popped into my head.

I have coloured in the sentiment with watercolour pencils and added some gems and enamel dots..sorry I just can't resist doing this at the moment. I am sure I will soon kick this habit but for the moment at least I combined it with a something different for me...watercolouring (I think I must think I am an artist now, but can you just about make out they are roses??)

I will also enter this into the One Layer Challenge with Spring Flowers at Less is More

Have a fun day xx

My First Real Watercolouring!

At the beginning of this week I saw Virginia's View Challenge and it inspired me to have a go at watercolouring. I have tried this a bit in the past but had been meaning to try it out more but all that mess just plain put me off! However on the same day I saw Virginia's new challenge I saw Shery's video here teaching us how to watercolour your own roses. Yes, no stamps, you actually do some REAL painting!! I had a go and came up with this:

It is my first go and later in the week I have another one to share with you. It was fun feeling like a 'real' painter!

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Virginia's View-watercolouring

CAS on Sunday-colour me bright

Lexi's creations-Mother's Day

Enjoy your day x