Tree Fairy

I've been playing with the magic mushrooms again LOL, never been one much for fairies but I do like these Lavinia ones. This is a much bigger card ( 8x8) than I usually make but Tree Fairy is quite a large girl for a fairy !  Background Oak House Studio Inks, all the stamps are Lavinia with the exception of the small toadstools which are Inkylicious .  The dragon flies are stencilled with Imagination Sparkle Medium.  I'd like to enter this into My Time To Craft Challenges which is Fairies

Butterfly border

Made this card the other day and forgot to blog it, the stamp is from Honeydoo crafts, coloured with Karisma pencils.I would like to enter this into Addicted To Clean and Simple Challenge

Addicted to Clean And Simple  - Code word Butterfly

Father's Day

The challenge this week at Cardz4guyz is Father's Day. The first thing you may notice is that my card doesn't actually say Father's day. My Dad died a long time ago and I haven't made a Father's Day card since.  I did try but it seemed nothing I did was right. It would have been his birthday last Saturday which means this weekend has been a time of remembering and memories. He is up amongst the stars now which is the meaning of my card.

Butterflies

This is another card made with the inky papers I made with my new Colour Chemistry Inks, must try some of the other colours next.  The stamp is a Woodware one and the sentiment is a freebie Hot Off The Press. The butterflies were already fluttering around from a previous project.  Butterfly Spot challenge is for Butterflies and S is for sequins, I've never really thought about using sequins on cards before but believe me I have a box full, talk about being a hoarder, I've had them since my daughter did shows with her ballet school and I had to make her costumes, she is over 50 now !  Oh the nightmare of sewing them on, we were not allowed to glue them on, one year she was a Pearly King,can you believe how many pearly sequins I used .

Butterfly  Challenge S is for sequins and butterflies

The Craft Barn - Butterflies

away with the fairies

I have had a friend here for the day supposedly to do some crafting, did a lot of talking and not too much crafting of my part, seem stuck in a rut at the moment, however after she had gone home I decided to have a quick play with some Colour Chemistry Inks I just got from Oak House Studios, love the colours, they are a not as brightly coloured as Dylusions and make a nice gentle background for stamping on.  I got these Inkylicious stamps back in March at the Harrogate Show and have not really used them, this was a very quick card but I'm happy with how it turned out.

I'd like to enter this into Penny Black and More challenge which is Wings

Old Crock

 

 

The challenge this week at Cardz4guyz is TEXTURE , hope you will join us in this challenge, your entry must be suitable for a male  ( any age)

For my card I have embossed the old car with black embossing powder. I'm a little disappointed that the background of my card doesn't show up very well, I have used white embossing paste through a distressed diamond stencil and then coloured the whole back ground with distress inks, the middle panel is done with an embossing folder and I finished off with some garden twine.

Die Cuts

 

 

 

June Challenge at Stamping Sensations is Die Cuts/ punches, we still need to see some stamping as well.

 

Our Sponsors this month are Tonic Studios

 

and there is a fabulous prize of these dies

 

Here are my DT cards for this month

 

 

 

Dylusion sprays for the background, feather stamped and embossed in white and then die cut
(Clearly Besotted stamp and die)

 

Hobby Art Daisies and spellbinders die

A Gaggle Of Geese

I was going to use my crazy bird stamps for this weeks challenge at cardz4guyz but found I had been pipped to the post, no problem I'll use my Wetland stamps, oh dear, they have been used too, thought I had better get a wiggle on and make a card quick before I get beaten to it once again. My gaggle of geese are a Hobby Arts stamp that was given to me for my birthday and it is its first outing, I have seen it used as a Christmas stamp but thought it is also fine for ant other time of year too.

Poodle Love

Wooh! on a roll tonight, a quick cas card. I don't know where these stamps came from, have a vague recollection of winning them a long time ago, the packet was unopened, they are by Blade Rubber, don't know if that company still exists?  The with love stamp is from a freebie set from a magazine, it's rather nice, think it will get used quite a lot.

Simply Less Is More  - 2  or 4 legs

My Time To Craft - domestic animals

Addicted to CAS - animal

Style

More brusho background, background stamped with Justrite Paris Boutique stamp,  Tim Holtz Runway girl and Mariane Eiffel tower die, sentiment from Butterfly kisses. I had started making another card with a brick wall background but it wouldn't come together how I wanted, will go back to it later and have another go.

I've had a nice day with a friend, playing with Paperartsy fresco paints and brayers, not produced much of note by enjoyed ourselves. I really need a good white inkpad preferably die ink but haven't been able to find one. I did have a StayzOn but it never really worked ,used the whole bottle of re inker and it still wouldn't work, went in the bin.

Back to my card , I would like to enter in at Fashionable Stamping Challenge - People

Snowy Sheep

 

 

This month at Sparkles Christmas Challenge we are sponsored by Di's Digi Downloads with a chance to win a $10 voucher

 and by

 

with this lovely stamp

 

 

 

This is my DT card for this challenge

 

 

For my card I've used a new Hobby Arts stamp I bought at Port Sunlight earlier this month, it took me quite a while to get the sheep looking realistically "winter grubby" looking and then I went and just about obliterated them with chunky white frantage, even so I was quite happy with the result.The DP was a piece of freebie from an old magazine and the greeting stamp is from Inkylicious.

May Blossom

Two posts in one day!  After clearing up my inky mess from this afternoon thought I'd go for something a bit simpler. Ruby's Rainbow challenge is for May Blossom and butterflies, I'm always happy to add a butterfly to anything I make. May blossom is white but we have just had some lovely blossom on our crab apple tree and this stamp reminds me of it.  Its a Stampin Up and I've forgotten what the set is called. The butterflies are Elusive image stamped on scraps left over from my last card.The green panel is embossed with butterflies using a free folder I got from a magazine, don't think I'll be using it much as it cut through the card in a couple of places, luckily a bit of double sided tape rescued it.

Ruby's Rainbow - May blossom and butterflies

Messy Play

Had a nice messy play this afternoon, started off with a piece of brusho card and used some old Elusive Image stamps  (seem to be on a using old stamps theme at the moment) Coloured the poppy heads with brusho, stamped the butterflies on another piece of brusho card and cut them out.  Decided I needed a bit of background card and thats when it gets hard ! can never get the same results twice with Brushos, ended up with a stencil and new distress inks to blend it in. Entering it a couple of challenges

Fantasy Stampers - wings and things

Craft For The Craic - wings

An old favourite

Sneaking in at last minute for Fashionable Stamping challenge to use an old favourite stamp, I find it hard to choose any one stamp and I've kept procrastinating about it, however last night I came across a little stamp set from Innovative stamp creations and remembered how I loved it. The butterfly and flower in the set was my "go to stamps" for a long time and I do love the girl's face too.  The rest of the card is just made up of various scraps of paper from my scrap box. I did overstamp one piece  with the flower from the set but I've almost covered it up.

Fashionable Stamping - Use an old favourite stamp

also entering it into

Allsorts challenge - vintage

Boys Toys

This weeks challenge at cardz4guyz is for prominent use of gingham/plaid/checks.  I had planned on making a totally different card to this to when I got round to making it the piece of black and white gingham paper I wanted to use was nowhere to be found. Although the checkpaper on here looks black it is actually a dark brown.  I have had the sentiment stamp for years and I've also had the old car stamp for quite along time too, its nice to get old favourites out sometimes. Hope you will join in our challenge