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

STAMPlorations March Challenge

First off I apologise for not visiting your blogs and commenting this week but I am poorly. However as soon as I am up and about again I will come and say hi. I have a number of scheduled posts over the next week so I will not disappear from blogland and I am sure it will only be a few more days before I am stalking you all again!!

Its time for our March challenge at STAMPlorations. As Spring is nearly here, this month we want to see Spring themed projects that use stamps.

My card today is a little different for me as I have used both ribbon and patterned paper!

I have used the Vignette-ecletic florals set just fussy cutting one flower and popping it up on foam pads to add some dimension. Our DT have all made gorgeous Spring projects for you to be inspired by, take a peek here.

This month the winner will receive 2 clear stamps sets of their choice from the Vignette, Subway Art or Patchwork frenzy sets-visit out shop here to see all these fabulous stamps. The winner will also be invited to be our Guest Designer for next month.

Plus if you enter all 3 of our challenges this month you will be in the run to win this prize from our sister shop All About Scrapping-6 rolls of 10m Washi tape.

Time to get Stamping Spring!!

My Very First Shaker Card!!

Happy Friday Eve,

Today we are introducing the last 4 Design Team members at Time Out Challenges so please do pop over to our blog and say hello. Next week our first challenge will go live....what will it be??? I would love to tell you but then you know what I would have to do to you!!

I have been so excited to share with you my very first shaker card. I have been wanting to try making one of these for a while and last week I saw this card by Betty at the Fusion Card Challenge and it inspired me to turn thoughts into action!! I used the sketch at Fusion to try this out. I used the colour scheme at Crazy For Challenges-radiant orchid.

I used glitter card stock to go with the sparkly theme. I have rounded a few edges just because I didn't like square look. I liked the effect this made however still wasn't happy with the totally square centre. Then I saw this feather stamp on my craft table that I had fussy cut out a while ago and thought it might cut off the squareness (is that a word?) and viola, it seemed to work.

The sentiment and feather stamps are from STAMPlorations.

I am so glad I tried this as I love how it turned out and it is sitting on my mantle piece and every time I pass it I have to give it a shake. I giggle and feel all proud I actually made it myself!! I know...how sad is that!!

Have a fun day and remember to visit Time Out to meet the rest of the team and then........take TIME OUT to craft!

       

Addicted to Stamps and More #85

Today at Addicted to Stamps and More we have a very special photo challenge celebrating International Women's Day on the 8th March. Here is the photo we have to inspire you:

 

Remember you can use anything from the photo that inspires you to create. It might be the colours, the silhouette, the date or something related to International Women's Day. I wanted to make a card that reflected how amazing and strong women are when they unite together and came up with this:

I had been playing around with ideas for sentiments to mix up to get the words I wanted. When I saw this card from Bev my ideas just came together and I knew I had to CASE Bev's card with my own twist!  I have used a mix of stamp sets to come up with this. I would like to point out that for this card I used faux sequins! How cool is that. These are from a the 'A Gift For You' set from Uniko Studios-these are I am sure will get a lot more use.

So Ladies....don't you agree, we are pretty amazing together!!

This week is also very special as we have Darnell as our Guest Designer. I am sure many of you know Darnell but if you don't please go and visit her blog here. I think she is a fabulous designer plus her posts are always such fun to read, you really shouldn't miss out on the fun!

We are very lucky to have StampArt Designs sponsoring us again this week. Yo could win 5 of their digis!!

And before I leave you to go and Stamp, I would like to direct you to our blog here so you can check out what the DT have made to inspire you.

Enjoy x

STAMPlorations Sketch #7

The day has come for me to officially announce that I have joined the super talented Design Team at STAMPlorations. Today is my first project for this team and the challenge is our bi weekly sketch.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Karen. Karen is a very talented and fun crafter. Take a look at her blog here and I am sure you will be inspired!!

And here is our fabulous sketch:

And here is my card using this sketch:

 

I flipped the sketch and used the digi paper from our sister shop All About Scrapping-Love and Lipstick Tricks. And the sentiment stamp is from the STAMPlorations set Patchwork Frenzy-graphic squares.

The sketch challenges are sponsored by our sister shop, All About Scrapping. The winner gets to pick 3 DIGITAL products from the shop-full details see main blog.The winner will also be invited to be a Guest Designer in next month's sketch challenge.

A TWIST IN OUR CHALLENGES

Participate in all 3 challenges we host this month and you'll be in the running to win this prize courtesy of, All About Scrapping

The DT have all made some inspiring projects so take a look here and then get stamping!!

Have fun x

Addicted to CAS #33

This week at Addicted to CAS the very talented Harriet is our host and she had chosen this cue word:

We are sponsored by Stamp Art Designs. The winner will receive 5 digis of their choice form this fabulous store.

And we are very happy to have Karen as our Guest Designer this week. Karen's cards are always amazing and we are so pleased she is so supportive of our challenge.

I don't have any baby images and was a little stuck but then saw the 'paint' challenge at CASology. I decided to use some stamps that remind me of the marks left behind from paint tins-pretty pink paint in this case. Mum and Dad must have just painted their new baby girl's bedroom!!

All the stamps are from Fresh Squeezed Stamps and I have just added my mix of enamel dots, sequins and gems...my new obsession!!

I will also enter this into the Baby Challenge at Fairy tale Challenge blog

Our DT have some adorable creations to inspire you so please do visit our blog here and then get stamping!

Inkspirational #51

Can you believe we are now in March?? And as it is Saturday that means it is time for another challenge at Inkspirational. This week we have this colour challenge for you:

You can use all of these colours or just 2 and any shade is acceptable. You care free to add black and realistic colours for skin, hair and fur.

For my card I cased this card by Shery. I loved her use of neon purple. I have made a more CAS version using masking and some scoring:

All stamps are from Stamplorations.

This week we are very happy to have Cathy joining us as our Guest Designer. Cathy is a very skilled crafter and I urge you to pop over to her blog here and take a look!

And don't forget to check out the fab creations the DT have made to inspire you this week at Inkspirational

I am entering this into the 'Floral' challenge at The Card Concept, my style being CAS