Inkspirational #90

Hello All,

We have our Designer's choice challenge at Inkspirational. For this challenge my very dear friend both in blog land and IRL, Nonni, has chosen the challenge:

One Layer Cards

I love making one layer cards and here is what I made:

Nonni celebrated her Birthday last week and this is the card I sent her. She loves blue so I went one layer and blue for her! I hope she liked it.

We are excited that our Guest Designer this week is the inspiring Ellie, check out her blog here and I am sure you will come away ready to craft with us!

Our DT have all created some fabulous cards to inspire you. Check them out here and then get creating-enjoy!

I would also like to enter this into the 'Summer' challenge at Uniko and the 'Blue' challenge at Addicted to CAS

   

Time Out Reminder

Hello All,

Have you joined in the fun at Time Out Challenges?

Here is a card to remind you that you still have almost a week to play along:

This card was inspired by our inspiration photo:

I hope you can see I went with stripes and the concept of 'celebrating'. What inspires you when you look at the photo?

I am looking forward to seeing what you create.

Anni  is joining us again this week as our Guest Designer. Take some TIME OUT and visit our blog here to see some ideas.

I will also enter this card into the CAS challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More

Enjoy

Artsy London!

A very happy Friday my friends,

Freshly Made Sketches are celebrating their 200th sketch this week. Naturally I wanted to join in the fun. If you need a little more to tempt you, check out all the sponsors they have here.

I find sketch challenges hard however this week was a very CAS sketch and as soon as I saw it I had an idea. 

Here is my card, inspired by an arty picture of London I saw here.

To make this card I masked of the bottom part of my card with normal masking tape. I then used my 'Windsor and Newton' Water colour paint set directly onto the 'Bon Voyage' Clearly Besotted Stamp. I stamped this onto the water colour card, then removed the mask and held card upright so some of the paint dropped down-this is my attempt to be artsy!

This was a lot of fun to make and I really like how it turned out. 

It is actually being given to a crafty friend today who I am hoping will also like it.

I will enter this into:

Freshly Made Sketches-happy 200

AAA cards -maskerade

Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge-masking

      

Time Out Challenge #38

A very Happy Friday Eve to you all,

This week at Time Out Challenges we have our 'Home Sweet Home' challenge based on a photo to inspire you.

Here is our photo:



I love this photo and found it hard to get past the blue stripes but there is so much more here to inspire you-glasses, anchors, pops of red, wood grain, rope and I am sure you can pick out a lot more.

I went with the blue stripes and pops of red. I made this card for my hubby:

I also got the idea of the colour blocks from this card by Nonni. I loved her use of the strong blocks of colour and I am happy to say that this card arrived for me a few days after it inspired me to make my card today!

Our Guest Designer for this challenge is Anni. Anni is a very talented and inspiring crafter, take some time out to visit her blog here

Our DT have made some amazing cards based on this photo-take a look here and then kick back and take some TIME OUT to craft and join in the fun x

Celebrate today!

Hello All,

I am sorry for not visiting so many of you this week but I have not been feeling so well. However today I was browsing blogland and saw a few challenges that inspired me to craft-the best way to recover!

First my card using a sentiment from Stamplorations and a sparkle stamp from Visable Images

This card was inspired by Anita's card (see below) at Muse Card Club. I was taken by the turquoise/gold combo and the big black sentiment. I had actually die cut a gold glitter leaf for this but then saw the CAS sketch at Sovushka Slavia (see below) and changed direction!

I will also enter this into the 'Celebration' challenge at Less is More

      

Inkspirational #89

Hello there,

Time for our word prompt challenge at Inkspirational. Our word this week in:

I thought about this for a while and was going to go with ice cubes in cocktails or something similar as we are in the middle of Summer in Britain. However this sketch back in July at CAS(E) this sketch got me thinking in a different direction and here is what I created:

In Britain snow tends to melt very quickly!

All stamps are from Uniko.

Our Guest Designer this week is Susanne. I am sure many of you will know her blog Keep in Touch!. Take some time to pop over to her blog, she is super creative and we are so pleased she is joining us for this challenge.

As always our DT have come up with a variety of takes on our prompt word-have a look here and then join in the fun x

Time Out Reminder

Have you played along with our 'Inspired by Words' challenge at Time Out Challenges?

Our words are:

'Friendship is Golden'

You can use any word or the whole phrase as I have here:

I have gold embossed the sentiment and used a mix of stamps to create the background.

Cornelia is our Guest Designer for this challenge-check out her inspiring blog here

Then take some TIME OUT and enjoy the fun x