Time Out Reminder.

I am popping in this morning to remind you that you still have time to join in our photo 'Home Sweet Home' challenge at TIME OUT.

Here is the photo we have to inspire you:

This time I decided just pick up on the pinks and greens in the picture but have gone for slightly different shades plus I loved fellow DT member Bev's idea of using the curtain as inspiration. I picked up on the curtain hoops. I got the idea of the hoops as soon as I saw the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch. 

I was also inspired when I was looking for ideas at the Iron Craft Challenge. This time I went for the collage of stamps. I liked the sentiment set from Winnie and Walter where you can mix and match sentiments. And the logo at the top also caught my eye. I have used a sentiment builder set here from STAMPlorations.

You still have until next Wed to play along at TIME OUT Challenges. Check out our blog and see some more cards to inspire you plus see if you were a winner in our last challenge!

Time to take some TIME OUT and join in the fun!

               

Addicted to Stamps and More #97

Its time for our 'Make your Mark' challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. That means you need to use some kind of marker, pencil, paint etc on your project. This week I stepped outside the box and had a go at some 'real painting'...well I say 'real'!!

I decided I wanted to have a go at drawing my own flowers and then water colouring them. Now I really can't draw but this one afternoon for some bizarre reason I wanted to leave the stamps aside and have a go!

I looked to utube for inspiration and came across this video and just went right ahead and gave it a go!

These flowers were hand drawn first in pencil then I used water colour paints to create the background. I then used a mixture of paints and water colour pencils to colour the flowers. This was my first attempt and I really kinda like it. I am going to try this again when I learn to draw something else!! The sentiment is from Stamplorations

We are sponsored this week by Eureka Stamps. Check out their fab store here.

And don't forget to visit our main blog and see all the awesome projects our team have come up with.

I am going to enter this into the Iron Craft Challenge-inspiration 1-trends. My card is inspired by the water colour paints photo.

Party Time!

Happy Sunday to all,

I am popping in to share a card that was inspired by a few challenges. First my card:

I used the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch for my lay out. The challenge photo this week at Fusion inspired my red polka dots and the striped circles was inspired by the challenge photo at Just Us Girls. And finally as my two clock hands are die cuts I will enter this into the challenge at Less is More.

I thought this card looked quite masculine and we all know it is handy to have a few 'guy' cards in our stash!

I am very excited as tomorrow my crafting buddy and friend Nonni is flying over from Finland to stay with me in London for the week. We have never met IRL so it is all very exciting. We have a bit of shopping, theatre and I am sure some crafting all lined up. I am sure we will have a few photos to share with you later in the week.

Enjoy the rest of your day x

       

Addicted to CAS #39

Its time for a new challenge at Addicted to CAS and this week we the very creative and talented Vicki is a host. It is very apt that Vicki is our host as it was her Birthday this week and I am dedicating this card to you Vicki-Happy belated Birthday! She has chosen the following code word for us:

When I saw this word a while ago I thought of using felt, copper sheeting or wood grain embossed card and was sure I would have plenty of ideas so didn't think too hard on it. A few days before the challenge I was stuck! I couldn't think how to use all my ideas so had to think in a different direction. First I will show you my card then if you want to you can read how I came about creating it.

I decided to show you my favourite way of adding texture to a CAS card and that is using my linen embossing plate. I love the texture this gives and many of you know this is probably my most used crafting tool! I added some cork just for a touch more texture. All subtle ways you can add texture to your project.

 I got the idea of this from a few challenges. Firstly the colours come from the latest challenge at Uniko Studios and here I have chosen a Uniko stamp set that my blogging friend and owner of Uniko, Bev, gave me as a pressie for my Birthday. I am for the first time entering the The Iron Craft Challenge that I found through Virginia's blog-this is for the Inspiration 2-memories. When I saw this collage it reminded me of when Kylie came to visit me and we crafted together-the photo of the 2 girls laughing reminded so much of our time together.

And finally the Flower challenge at Casology helped to focus my idea.

This week at Addicted to CAS we are sponsored by Scribbles Designs-check out their store here. And we are lucky enough to have the lovely Darnell as our Guest Designer. See her and the other Design Teams' fabulous projects here.

If you have made it to the end of this blog...Congratulations! But I have one more announcement before I leave you alone!! Over at Stamplorations we are having a little party for Vicki's Birthday-why not join us!!

Inkspirational #57

Happy Saturday my crafting friends.

We had some fabulous entries for our last challenge at Inkspirational. It is going to be tough choosing our favs!

This week we have a code word to inspire you to create and that word is 

BLOOM

What a great word for this time of year and I decided to go with the obvious flower theme and used some Uniko Stamps to create this CAS card with my fav combo of enamel dots, sequins and gems. I finished this off by using my linen impression plate-I so love the texture this gives to CAS cards.

This week our Guest Designer is the very talented Julia who has made a couple of outstanding cards inspired by our code word. Plus our newly expanded DT have some awesome inspiration for you to check out-take a peak here and then get your get inky and have some fun.

I will enter this into the following challenges:

CASology -flower

House of Cards-using 3 of colours and a CAS card

Oops I am here at TIME OUT again!

I promise you I have not started on the cocktails yet!

I was trying to edit yesterday's post for Time Out Challenges and by mistake deleted it! If there is anyone out there who knows how to recover deleted posts please do let me know!

I won't go into major details as most of you may have already read yesterday's post!

We have our Home Sweet Home photo challenge this week and here is the photo

I was inspired by the purple and teal colours and made this shaker card for my Mum:

Our Guest Designer this week is Christine. You can see how she and the DT were inspired by this photo here

Now it is your time to take TIME OUT and join in and mine to rest my brain so I don't delete anymore posts!

Have a fun weekend  x

Addicted to Stamps and More #96

At Addicted to Stamps and More we are starting our 'Anything Goes' Challenge. This week we are sponsored by Rick St Dennis Digital Stamps-check out their great store!

I decided to use a couple of challenges to inspire my card this week. I got the idea for the lay out from the sketch this week at CAS(E) this Sketch and the colours from the latest challenge at Clearly Besotted Stamps.

And here is what I came up with:

I apologise for the poor photo but the light was not good when I took this and it was the only time I had free.

Our team have lots to inspire you this week. Take a look here to see what they have made for you this week. Then get stamping my friends x