Inspiration Journey today!

Yesterday I wanted to play along with the Christmas Muse card this week. This week there the card was by the very talented Kimberley. The card was not my normal style but I was in the mood for water colouring so decided to give it a go. I was mainly inspired by the water colour effect and the foliage in the left hand bottom square (see below). I came up with this:

I embossed the leaves and sentiment (from Happy Little stampers Mixed Christmas sentiments) and then water coloured. To be honest I am not happy with this card but I wanted to share with you how this card led me to the card below-which I really like and it makes me happy. This is what happened-I was looking at my water coloured card thinking I am not happy with this and then decided-why not just stamp this following the same design and adding some holly and a few gems. I did this and created this card, which I do like. So thank you Kimberley for inspiring me to make 2 Christmas cards!

I will enter both of these into Muse Christmas Visions and 52 Christmas Card Throwdown-green and red challenge.

I will enter the second into One Layer Christmas Card

       

More Butterflies!

There are quite a few challenges at the moment that are inspiring me to craft. I doubt I will get time to play along with them all. Today is a card I made that was inspired by combining 3 challenges.

I have again used my new Birthday Butterfly stamp from Happy Little Stampers. This time I embossed it on vellum-inspired by the 'Vellum' challenge at Just Us Girls. I then stamped it onto cork and fussy cut it out. I decided to do this after seeing the inspiration photo at Just Add Ink (see below)-I liked the earthy colours and textures in the photo. The lay out is from this week's CAS(E) this Sketch-I had forgotten I had this sweet embossing line. I will be using it more often as I think it is great for CAS designs.

Enjoy your day x

     

Butterfly Birthday.

A very happy weekend to you all,

Mr. Postie today delivered to me some new stamps designed by my very dear friend Kylie. For those of you that didn't know, Kylie has started her own line of Happy Little Stamps, check out the stamps here.

I was very excited to get stamping as soon as they arrived today and here is what I came up with:

I have been wanting to colour using my copics in the last few days. This is unusual for me and I am really am a 'stamp and go' crafter and have very few stamps that are good for colouring. However this stamp from Kylie's new set was perfect for a touch of colouring.

I used the colours from this week's challenge at CAS-Colour and Sketches. I will also enter this into the CAS masking challenge at Happy Little Stampers

    

Muse Card Club

Hello my crafty friends,

Today I am sharing my card for the Muse Card Club.

This week the card by Joan immediately made me think of making a Christmas card. Here is what I came up with:

I loved the crisp look of her card and the little bow. I stamped the bow on some scrap, coloured it and added WOS. I then fussy cut it out and added it to my card using a foam pad to give dimension.

All these stamps are from Winnie and Walter.

Another Christmas card done!

Time Out Challenges #37

Time to take some Time Out and craft at Time Out Challenges

This week is our 'Inspired by Words' challenge and we have these words for you:

'Friendship is Golden'

You can use any of these words or use the whole phrase as I have done here:

This card is very similar to one I made earlier in the year. The look here is more dramatic. Here I have used different colours, added more stars and used embossing. By changing a few things to one of your fav designs can make all the difference.

I used delicata gold ink for my background and black embossed the sentiment-one of my favs.

For this challenge we are joined by the inspiring and creative Cornelia. Her blog Stempel Spass is the most wonderful projects. Pop over there and take a browse, you will love it!

Also our team have yet again come up with a fabulous variety of ways to interpret this phrase. Check them out here and then get inky and join in the fun x

I will also enter this into the 'Anything Goes Challenge' at Addicted to Stamps and More

CASology Guest Designer

Hello All,

I am very excited that today I am the Guest Designer at CASology. I was honoured to be asked and then slightly worried that I would not have an idea of what to create when I got the cue word. Here it is:




I was lucky in that I immediately thought what was 'precious' to me and what popped into my head was 'Family'. Using the sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch and this NBUS visable image stamp I made this card.

How will you interpret this word?

Pop over here and see what the DT have created and then join in the fun-can't wait to see what you come up with.

Inkspirational #88

Time for a new challenge at Inkspirational. It is our photo inspiration challenge. Here is my card:

This was inspired by this photo:

How dreamy is the photo and how much do we all want to be there?

I used some of the new skills I learnt in the water colouring class at Craftsy. Deepti is the tutor for this class and I am learning a lot but a lot more to go!

Our Guest Designer this week is the very creative and inspiring Lucille, check out her blog here.

Once more our DT have created some inspiring projects for you-take a look here and then join in the fun x