Time Out #91

Hi There

Time for a new challenge at Time Out Challenges. It is our CASE challenge. This time we are honoured to be CASEing the very talented Bev-the owner and designer of Uniko. I know most of you know Bev and her amazing stamps and dies but if not check them out here.

Uniko are sponsoring this challenge with the winner getting a gift voucher to spend in their store-thanks Bev for your support.

Here is my CASE of Bev's card:

And Bev's card:

I went CAS and one layer here. Instead of a multi coloured base used teal coloured card, embossing the gerbera flower stamp from Uniko. A few little extra gold touches and done!

This card was sent to Nonni who celebrated being 21 again last week!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very creative Lucie G. Her card are stunning and I urge you to pop over and have a browse now-you will be inspired.

Now it is your turn to take some TIME OUT and create but before you do, check out how Bev's card has inspired Lucie and the DT at Time Out

Enjoy!

I will enter this into:
CAS on Friday-One Layer
Watercooler Wednesday-Anything Goes

      

Inkspirational #142

Hi All,

We have a fun challenge for you over at Inkspirational-it is our Designer's choice challenge and my very dear friend Nonni has chosen the theme of:

Oldie but Goodie

This means use any of your old stamps. Perhaps one from when you first started stamping.

I found one of my very first stamp sets and made this:

The shoe stamps came along with a handbag and earrings. I can't remember where they are from.

As it was Nonni's challenge and her favourite colour is blue, I went with navy card and embossed the shoes and sentiment in gold.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is the very talented Shirley. Her blog is full of inspiring projects. Take a look here and feast your eyes!

Our DT have all been dusting off their old stamps and creating. Take a look here and then have a hunt for those old stamps that need some love and join in with us.

Enjoy!

A Little Note!

Hi All,

Popping in with a card that is a little different for me but was a lot of fun to make. I made it for a friend who is not so well and needs to know I am thinking of her.

All these stamps and dies are from CAS-ual Fridays. I got the background stamp and tag dies yesterday and waited to see what the challenge at CAS-ual Fridays was today. It is Kraft and White and as soon as I saw it I thought it would be perfect to try out this background stamp.

I followed the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch, just moving the position of the sentiment. 

The background, flower and sentiment are all heat embossed in white using vellum for the flower and sentiment. I finished it off with wooden and white dots.

I love that background stamp and on kraft I think it looks fab.

Have a fun day x

I will enter this into:

CAS-ual Fridays Colour Challenge-Kraft and White

Calling All Sistahs Challenge-going with the sand in the photo

CAS(E) this Sketch

The Lift Challenge-use vellum, flowers and watermark ink

      

Good Friends!

Happy Day to all,

I woke at a very silly hour this morning but the good thing about this was I was looking through some new stamps I hadn't used and had a light bulb moment and made this card for a few challenges:

I have used the Sunbeams stamp set from CAS-ual Fridays-I actually wanted to enter it into the 'Friendship' challenge there but am a day late!

I just stamped the sunbeams and then die cut a stitched die, popped this up on foam tape so it looks like the sun is rising! 

I used black and orange for the Fusion Challenge.

And took the sunshine inspiration from the beach scene at Calling All Sistahs-an encouragement card for my friend to remind her how she brings sunshine into my life.

I will also enter it into the 'friends' challenge at Addicted to CAS

       

Time To Relax!

Hi All

It's the weekend and that means it is time to relax as my card for today instructs!

These stamps are all from Verve.

I masked off a square area and then water coloured my sunshine background adding a few splatters for interest. Then a touch of stamping and done!

I would love to be chilling there now!!

Have a relaxing day.

I will enter this into:

Less is More-perfect holiday

AAA Cards-masking

     

Time Out Challenge #90

Hi There,

We have a new Theme Challenge starting today and the Theme is:

Autumn with the optional twist of Speed Stamping

We are defining speed stamping as making your card in 10 mins or less. This excludes the time you need to plan the design and get all your products ready to make the card.

So get all your cardstock, dies, inks etc ready before you start the clock!

This speed stamping is optional and purely just for fun. We would love you to tell us how long it took you to make your card. We have a prize for all those who choose to speed stamp but this will not be for the fastest just chosen randomly from those who just have a go!

Here is my card

Once I had my stamps (from Altenew) and Inks ready, this took me 8mins and 26 seconds to make. It would have taken about half this time but after finishing stamping it I decided it needed more texture. So very quickly I got out my linen embossing plate and dry embossed it! Good job I always have these tools near by and emboss like this so much, I can do it in my sleep. However I had aimed for 5 mins but because I wanted texture, I didn't make this target!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Elaine and her stunning blog Craft-E-Place is a must to visit. Her designs are always so creative and we are honoured she is joining us for this challenge.

This challenge is sponsored by Happy Little Stampers

All the DT have made super cards for this challenge-some have been speed stamping, some not-you choose!

I will enter this into:

City Crafter-you don't bring me flowers

Altenew August Challenge-using the colours from the photo

Addicted to CAS-one layer

       

That Prickly Age!

Hi All

Today my card is for a friend who is about to hit that 'prickly' age of 50!

I thought a little sparkle and shine might ease her into this new decade.

I got the idea of the 'prickly' age from Sherrie's card at CASology and followed the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

Here I played with more goodies from my Birthday pack from Jill and had a lot of fun adding dimension and shine and sparkle (Thank you Jill)

I will also enter this into:

Just Us Girls-add some shine-lots here!