Inkspirational #91

Time for a new challenge at Inkspirational.

It is our colour challenge and this time we are going with 'Orange and Green' You can use any shade of orange (eg peach, tangerine, coral) with any shade of green . You may also use black, white or cream and realistic colours for skin, fur and hair.

Here is my card:

If you follow my blog you will know I struggle with colouring however I bought some new flower stamps so that I could try to practice a little more. This is a NBUS Penny Black stamp. It is relaxing colouring but I can't say I am ever too pleased with the end result. When I got to posting my card I relaised I had forgotten to add green so that meant a very quick fix by adding a few gems. The sentiment is from STAMPlorations-another NBUS!

Our Guest Designer this week is Chriss-check out her amazing blog here. Then pop over to Inkspirational and see what our DT have got to inspire you x

I will enter this into Darnell's NBUS challenge as both the image and sentiment stamps have not been used before.

 I will also enter into colouring challenge at HLS CAS challenge

     

Time Out Reminder #39

Have you joined our latest challenge at Time Out Challenges?

We are asking you to take some 'Time Out and Make your Mark'. All this means is to use some kind of marker on your card.
This week I went with water colours.

 I heat embossed this Birthday Butterfly stamp from Happy little Stampers and then used my water colours to paint it. This was a lot of fun to create. I hope you will join in our challenge.

We are sponsored by Uniko. The winner of our challenge will get a £15 gift voucher.

Check out here what our DT have made to inspire you this week.

Have fun x

 I will enter this into the challenge at Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge-colouring

The Card Concept #39

Hello All

I am excited that I am now on the Design Team at The Card Concept after covering for a few challenges just before their Summer break. The DT are amazing designers and a fun group.This challenge covers all styles of card making-you can check out these styles here.

Each week we have a photo to inspire you and each designer will tell you how the photo inspired them.

It will be no surprise to you that I am one of the 'Clean and Simple' designers.

Here is my first card:

This one layer card was inspired by the flowers and colours in the photo.

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Kim. We are delighted she has joined us and her style is 'Clean and Layered'. I urge you to browse around her blog here. You will come away inspired.

Check out our main blog here where you will see all the fabulous cards from the DT plus all the details of how to play along

Enjoy x

Congratulations Shery!

Hi All,

Today at Time Out Challenges we are celebrating the fact that our very own Design Team member Shery last week became a first time Mum.

Congratulations Shery.

Here is my card to celebrate your good news:

When I sat down to make this card I was in the mood to make a graphic card and looked for a sketch that would inspire me. I found this one at Happy Little Stampers

Pretty graphic right? Well once I looked through my stamps for something I wanted to use, I went a completely different direction. However I followed the sketch and really liked the end result.

My colour scheme comes from the latest inspiration photo at Just Add Ink. Here I liked the mix of pink, purple and orange. As you know I like pink and purple but thought mixing this with orange was quite a cool idea. Here is their photo:

Our DT have some fabulous cards to celebrate with Shery-take a look here

Peace on Earth

Hello my friends,

I haven't had much time this weekend to craft but I just had a little browse around blog land and saw a few challenges that inspired me to make this card:

First off the 'green and gold' challenge at Less is More immediately made me think of Christmas. This led me to look up this week's Muse: Christmas Visions challenge. Kimberly is the Muse this week and her gold embossed card gave me the idea for my card. I went with a wreath instead of tress but did hunt out a sentiment that was the same. I felt the sentiment needed a little extra so added a gold embossed holly.

It was hard to keep it all gold and green but that was the challenge at Less is More so challenged I was!

I will also enter this into the 'Holly' challenge at Happy Little Stamper Christmas Challenge

I will also enter into the 'spectacular embossing' challenge at AAA cards

        

Fusion-exciting News and Back to School

Hello All,

I am very excited to let you know that I am now on the Design team at Fusion Card Challenge. Many of you may know that this has been for a long time one of my favourite challenges and I am honoured to be joining a very talented Design Team.

This is a fortnightly challenge where you have a photo and a sketch and you can choose to use either one of these or both.

Here is what we have for you:

I went with the photo mainly but my layout was inspired by the sketch. I used the chevrons and colours from the photo to create this card:

These stamps are all from Uniko.

Here is how to play:

PROCEDURES:

1. Play with just the sketch challenge.

2. Play with just the inspiration photo challenge.

3. Or you can create FUSION by combining BOTH challenges into one card.

4. Use the challenge graphic and link back to Fusion in your post.

Don't forget to check out the DT cards here-you will see why I said they are so talented!

Looking forward to seeing what you create x

I will enter this into the 'Geometric Patterns' challenge at Virginia's View Challenge

Time Out Challenges #39

Another Friday Eve is here and what better way to start the 'almost' weekend by crafting.

At Time Out Challenges is our theme week and the theme is:

'Take some TIME OUT to Make your Mark'

This is a new theme for us and basically means you can use any kind of marker on your project-pencils, chalks, copics, water colours etc.

I have used all Uniko Stamps for my card today and used promarkers to colour the flower.

I based my lay out on the sketch at Sovushka Slavia. This is another card for my hubby as it is our 10th Wedding Anniversary next week. I have made a few now but this one he will have to get as 10 years will not be around again!

Our Guest Designer this week is Marika and I have to say I think this was the best challenge for her to be our GD as her expertise on colouring is outstanding. If you don't already know her, check out her blog Me and Minime Crafting

We are very pleased that this week we are sponsored by Uniko-check out our blog here to see what you could win!

Also this is the first challenge of our new DT members Joyce and Jill and they have made some amazing inspiration cards for you-I urge you to go over and show them some love! Plus don't forget the rest of out lovely team.

Looking forward to seeing what you create x

I will enter this into the following challenges:

Uniko-Summer-I have used the photo as inspiration-using hearts and the pink and adding flowers in.

Sovushka Slavia-CAS sketch

One Layer Simplicity Challenge-what's your number

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge-colouring