Time Out New Design Team!

Happy Friday Eve,

I am just popping in today to direct you to meet the new Design Team at Time Out Challenges. 

We had a lot of wonderful entries and it was very hard to choose the 4 extra team members we were looking for. Nonni and I finally made our choices this week and if you pop over to Time Out you will get to meet the new designers and I am sure you will agree they are all fabulous.

2 weeks to go before our first challenge....so keep watching this space!!

Addicted to Stamps and More #84

It is time for my favourite challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More, yes, you guessed it...it is our Clean And Simple challenge. We want to see a CAS project. 

This week we are very happy that Cathy is our Guest Designer, please take a look at her blog here, we just love her creations!

And this week I went all London on you again. In my defence I was prompted to be a couple of other challenges-details below.

I saw the London photo below at Inspired By challenges and knew I had to enter. And Laurel had commented that she couldn't wait to see what London buses were like. Then I saw the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch and ping! This sketch gave me the opportunity to create a card to show Laurel what our buses are like....they either don't turn up for ages or they come along in groups of three! I have tried to show this by adding dimension (my road and first bus are die cut and popped up) and stamping off the bus stamp so it looks like they are behind each other. And instead of flowers you see in the sketch, I have Big Ben and a skyscraper!! I love how it turned out and I love the chain of inspiration that led me to it!

I am also going to enter this into the 'London' challenge at Moo-Mania

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we are sponsored by StampArt Designs. You should check out their store-so many goodies!

And don't forget to see what the DT have made to inspire you.

Here is my inspiration this week

                 

Happy Stamping x

WOW!!

I hope you are all having a fun Sunday.

I have a card today that I made for the latest challenge at Fusion. I have been thinking of ideas for this challenge for over a week now and in the end I have gone in a completely different direction that I had planned! This is probably because last week I won a voucher in the Uniko Studio blog hop and my stamps arrived very quickly and obviously I had to have a play!

It is my nephew's Birthday soon and the new Explosion! stamp seemed ideal for a teenage boy. So I have used the sketch at Fusion to come up with this:

This was a really fun card to make!

Enjoy the rest of your day x

Round and Round!

Happy Friday to all,

Yesterday I was going round and round with my crafting! I got out all my circle stamps after seeing this card by Jen at Less is More. I had fun mixing and matching my circle stamps all from different companies. I made a card for my Husband's Uncle who is celebrating his Birthday this week. I just stamped, masked a bit and added some enamel dots and gems and came up with this:

I have used this week's colour combo at Color Throwdown-perfect for a guy card.

As I have repeated several of these stamps I am entering this into the 'can you repeat this' challenge at One-Layer Simplicity Challenge. As this card was inspired by Jen on the DT at Less is More I am going to enter it into the 'masculine' challenge they have this week.

Edited to add-I am also going to enter this into Cardz 4 Guyz-this week the challenge is CAS 

The circle stamps I have used are from STAMPlorations, Craft Meow (closed now!) and Fresh Squeezed Stamps

If you want a chance to win some new release stamps from STAMPlorations check out this post and leave a comment before the 2nd March and you could win the new 'MOM' set.

Have a fun weekend x

Lets Dance!

Happy Wednesday my friends. 

My card for today is for my MIL's partner who loves to ballroom dance. They have lessons a few times a week and will often spend Saturday nights at a dance. It is his Birthday soon and I have been a bit stuck on creating a card for him as I remember him telling me that cards for men always seem to have boats, fishing or planes on them and he didn't like them.

Luckily a few challenges came to my rescue. CASology's code word this week is 'Jump' and this directed my thoughts to dancing-there is a lot of jumping needed to get into those holds..think Dirty Dancing!! The 'Masculine' challenges at CAS on Sunday and Less is More focused my thoughts to make it CAS (as if I needed a prompt to do this!!). So I had an idea and now just needed to choose my stamps (Papertrey Ink) and a layout-this is where the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch helped me out.

It is hard to see from the photo but the sentiment is popped up on foam pads. I hope a dance themed cards will meet his approval!!

Edited to add-I am entering this into a new challenge I just came across-Cardz 4 Guyz and this week the challenge is CAS!

Before I go I wanted to remind you that there is still time to enter our DT call at Time Out Challenges. You have until midnight GMT tomorrow to enter!

Have a fun day and if you get chance to take some TIME OUT to craft why not enter our DT call at Time Out

                 

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.

                           

Addicted to CAS #32

It is time for our next challenge at Addicted to CAS. This week our host is the very creative Deepti and she has chosen this code word:

At first I wanted to use my coffee cup images but couldn't seem to get out of my head this card that I made last month. As much as I tried to think of a different design I just seemed to want to re-create the same card. I decided to change track and looked through some really old wooden stamps that I was given when I first started crafting and found one I thought was quite amusing and created a very CAS card using this stamp coloured with my copics...now I said it was super CAS, even for me!

This is me after a night of too much wine and in need of my coffee!!

I thought it would make a good get well card and might cheer up a poorly person so added this sentiment from Fresh Squeezed Stamps. My poorly person here is grounded using a stitching stamp from the Patchwork Frenzy set at STAMPlorations

This week at Addicted to CAS we are being sponsored by Bugaboo Stamps, you can check out their store here.

Our DT this week have made some fab coffee themed projects to inspire you and you can see these here

Now, go and pour some coffee and get crafting! x