Be Strong!

Happy and a chilled Sunday to you all,

Yesterday I got some new stamps from Fresh Squeezed Stamps and was so excited to get playing! But Saturday hubby and I have a ritual of a chilled morning in our local cafe. So after we had our fill of caffeine and gossip we both came back to a respective hobbies.....me getting inky with my new stamps while he produced his music on the other side of our creative space (our spare bedroom!!).

My card today was inspired firstly by the picture below at For Your Inspiration. I had lots of ideas for this but the grey stones kept popping into my head and the strength of the lighthouse against the environmental elements, so this is what I went with. Then I saw the sketch below at CAS(E) this Sketch, loved it and wanted to create something for it. And what to you know, my new stamps provided the final piece of inspiration I needed to combine these challenges. I am also going to enter this into the CAS challenge at Sweet Stampin'

And here is what I came up with:

             

Enjoy your Sunday my friends x

Inkspirational #19

Happy Saturday fellow stampers,

Its a new challenge at Inkspirational and this week we have a photo to inspire you:

When I saw this I immediately wanted to stamp balloons but after playing around for quite a few days with this idea I had to walk away and forget about this as it really wasn't working for me! I hoped that another idea would pop into my head. And after a few days I was looking outside watching a plane fly into the sunset and I knew what I wanted to do.........use the colours of the balloon to represent the sunset and instead of balloons in the sky I would have birds (I thought this was more romantic than a plane!).

And here is what I came up with:

I used distress ink to make my sunset after masking off the area. I have scored the top and the bottom although you can't see this too well in the photo.

I do love photo challenges as it interests me where your inspirations takes you. I started off with balloons then ended up using the colours and the flying aspect of the photo. I am looking forward to seeing what this photo inspires you to make and would love to hear how you got there.

Pop over to our blog here and see what fab projects our DT were inspired to make.

And then get stamping and remember this month our winner will get all these goodies from Tammy of Creatively Me

I am also entering this into the 'Anything that Flies' challenges at Make My Monday and the 'birds' challenge at Crazy Amigo Challenges

Have fun x

CAS-Colour and Sketches.

Happy Friday Eve and I hope you are all ready for a our sketch challenge at CAS-Colour and Sketches. This week we have this great CAS sketch for you:

I have flipped the sketch and changed the shape and used 3 little sentiments for the circles. My very own CAS version and a card for my Dad's Birthday. He is a golf addict so these stamps from paper smooches are perfect for him.

I used kraft as Dad has mentioned a few times that he likes the cards I make using this. I added a few buttons that came from my Mum's box of old buttons. The dark green card has been scored for extra texture.

Out DT have some great cards to inspire you so pop over to our blog here and leave then some love!

I am looking forward to seeing what cards you are inspired to make-happy stamping and inking x

Addicted to Stamps and More!

I am very excited as today is my very first DT post for one of my favourite challenge sites Addicted to Stamps and More. I have played along with this challenge for a while and was so pleased when my application for DT was chosen-thank you Kylie.

Today the challenge is to make a 'Clean and Simple' card. I do love CAS cards so this was a perfect week to begin my time at Addicted to Stamps and More

And here is my card:

I know Christmas in May!! But I do like to be prepared and now I have hubby's card all done and S.W.A.L.K! This is the name of the kiss stamp I have heat embossed in silver. I added a few score lines and a simple but apt sentiment!

This week you have the chance to win 2 sheets of digis from our fab sponsors Whoopsi Daisy. Pop over to their store here and take a look at what could be yours!
Our DT have some great CAS projects to inspire you, so take a peek here and then getting stamping.

I am also entering this into the foloowing challenges:
Tic-tac-toe challenge at Cas-ual Fridays as I have used Kraft, embossing and bling.
Lets get sentimental at Crafty Hazelnut Christmas challenge

Have fun x

Stamps used-S.W.A.L.K-Stampers Best
                   -Merry-Kiss-Mas-CAS-ual Fridays Stamps
                   -Anything goes May-Crafty Hazelnut Christmas May Challenge

Inkspirational #18

I am here with my 'end of week encouragement' card for challenge #18 at Inkspirational. If you haven't played along yet, you still have a few more days. We have this colour combo for you this week:

You know I love purple and mixed with green is a combo that sits well with me but then add peach and I am a bit stumped! But I did find some peach paper in my stash and used this as backing and now I think it really is a funky colour combo. Sometimes it is good when these challenges push you out of your comfort zone!

I went for a small square card and used the SU delicate doilies set. These have been heat embossed with purple ink and clear embossing powder. I have popped one up for a bit of dimension. I decided not to add a sentiment and just stamp off the right hand corners with a peach ink doily.

I have ended up with a card that I really like and know exactly who this is for!

Tammy of Creatively Me is sponsoring us this month and offering a our monthly winner all these fabulous goodies:

Our DT have some great projects to share with you so take a peek here and then get inky!

CAS-Colour and Sketches

We have a gorgeous colour combo for you this week at CAS-colour and Sketches and to me I knew I had to make a guy card with these colours:

I do love the orange and blue together. And here is my guy card using these colours (or as near as I could get)

I have stamped these paper smooches ties and then coloured them with promakers. In this photo the blue promaker appears really light however IRL it is more navy!

I think this is a perfect CAS card for a guy and as I have a few male Birthdays coming up this seemed a perfect excuse to get some cards made ready.

Take a look at the wonderful cards our DT have made here then get stamping x

As I have used all Paper Smooches stamps I will be entering this into the 'Anything goes' challenge at Paper Smooches Sparks.

Muse #15

Happy Wednesday my friends,

This week the super talented Jen created this fabulous card to inspire us at the Muse Club. My card is quite different from Jen's but it was the butterfly that first struck me then her explanation of how she likes to use black as it is a great contrast colour. This is where I started and I did try a few different butterfly die cuts but in the end I just used ink and stamps! This is for my Mum's Birthday. Mum has been saying for a while she wished I would make some more long, thin cards so I decided to make one just for her!

I hope she will like it, it doesn't have the bows she loves but does has some gems and is the shape she loves!

I will also enter this into the following challenges:

Cas-ual Fridays-Birthday bash
ABC Challenges-Mothers Day

Here is Jen's card:



Enjoy your day x