Happy Birthday

 

 



Cardz4guyz is now two years old so to join in our challenge this week we hope you will make a Birthday Card for a Guy in your life.  I've gone bright and cheerful this week with some stripy paper from my 12 x 12 mountain of scrapbook papers ! no idea what make it is.  The image is from a Kevin Walsh paper pad , its great for making quick cards and my husband , who is not overly impressed by my stamped creations loves these !  I think it might be rather noisy down that country lane with trains, cars and tractors !

Oh Dear

Well today I decided I had to do something about the huge stack of magazines on the floor at the side of the sofa, anytime anyone went near there was a landslide all over the floor, have I sorted it out ? have I wallop !  There are now several piles all over the floor and I have spent most of the afternoon browsing through the magazines. Amongst the magazines are a lot of Making Card magazines that I get tempted into buying because they often have lovely papers in them, do I use them ? of course I don't !  Looking through the Christmas ones I rediscovered the cute sheep that were the main reason I bought the magazine in the first place so I did make a little card with one of them and a piece of paper from the same mag.  Its my first Christmas card on 2016 .

 

Alphabet challenge  - windows

Crimbo Crackers - anything goes

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas  Challenge - Anything goes.

 

Now I'm off to make the dinner and just shutting the door on the mess

 

 

CAS

complete change from my last inky cards, I've made a CAS card which is most unusual for me as I'm far too messy to keep all the white space clean .  For the panel I sponged Twisted Citron, Cracked Pistachio and Peacock feathers distress inks, I also sponged a spare piece of card for the sentiment. Used some of my old markers to colour the Inkylicious stamp and stamped it on the panel, stamped the sentiment with memento Lilac Posies.  The two punched butterflies also coloured with a marker pen, I thought I had picked up the pen I used for the flowers but obviously not,howver I felt they made a bit of a contrast.  finished by sponging the edges of a piece of cardstock to match the colours of the panel.  I'd like to enter this in these challenges

Time Out Challenges - Birthday with optional twist of sponging

Stamplorations - C.A.S

Brusho paints

Watched a video on Facebook of white embossing with brusho paints and decided to have a play. Mine are nowhere near as striking as the ones in the video but it was quite fun playing, getting messy again. After a couple of failures I did realise you need to use the darker colours to get a good effect and the ones on the video had much more defined areas of colour but its a fun technique and another chance to use my new stamps.

I'd like to enter these challenges

Rubys rainbow  - show us something new,  stamp and technique new to me

Simon Says Stamp    - something new - new stamp and the technique is new to me

Through the craftroom door - Anything goes
 

Anything but square

This week at Cardz4guyz  Sharon  has chosen the theme of anything but square, I'm out of my comfort zone with shaped cards but I remembered I had a set of Tonic dies that were included with a set of Hexagon dies I bought on Ebay and I have never used them , cut a base card ,an extra white one, black layer and then another white layer.  Background with ink dusters and distress inks. The Stamps are Inkylicious Serengeti 1, first time I've used them and of course there are Inkylicious birds too, great for filling in those spaces.  This might have looked better on here if I had taken a photo instead of scanning but I do have a problem uploading photos onto my contrary desktop computer.

Xanthine

It's as well there was an explanation of the word Xanthine on Butterflyspot Challenge or I would not have had a clue what it meant.  I've inked up my piece of card with Dandelion and Canteloupe Memento inks and there is some subtle stamping on there too but its so subtle it doesn't show on here !  Inked up the CTMH Papergarden stamp with Morocco and Bamboo shoot Memento inks, Memory box die cut layered butterfly coloured with the same yellow inks, the wording is Stampin Up.

I would like to enter my card in these challenges

Butterfly Spot Challenge       X is for Xanthine

Allsorts Challenge                 What's New  -papergarden Flower stamp

Fantasy Stampers                   Happy Birthday

Neutrals

I haven't entered a card on Simply Less Is More for ages but I had been playing about with a new stamp and had an idea it would make a very simple card stamped in one colour.  My hardest task was finding neutral colours and I have slipped a bit of blue in, the other colours are memento Grey Flannel and Toffee crunch, both stamped off first to tone them down, the flower is stamped with Toffee Crunch too. The layer is actually a very pale grey although it does look blue on here.

Simply Less Is More  - Neutrals

Anything goes

This week at Stamping Sensations the challenge is  Anything goes with a stamp and a die.
We are sponsored by  TONIC who have provided this lovely prize of Nuvo crystals and glitters, I'd lovre to win this but sadly the design team are not allowed to enter . 

For my card I have used Stampendous Peony Spray Stamp, Die Sire butterfly swirl embossing folder and Penny Black Sentiment stamp ( All lovely new stash , early Christmas gift from a good friend !)
There are some fabulous cards from the design team members so do go and have a look

New Year, new stash !

Happy New Year To Everyone !

Fresh start, fresh stash, new toys to play with, what's not to like.

I have been very spoilt and have lovely new stamps, embossing folders and dies , didn't know where to start !  My Sister always asks me for a wish list but she didn't this year so I was really wondering what she had sent me.  I just love these Watercolour wings stamps and dies from Stampin Up,  I had seen them in the catalogue and dismissed them but once I played with the layering stamps I am besotted with them, last night I just sat and stamped lots of colour variations using Memento and archival inks. Today when I got time to make a card I already had the colour combo's ready worked out.Fot this one I used New Sprout, Viridian and bamboo leaves.  The sentiment is from Technique Tuesday Choose Happiness set ( also a gift from my Sister) the butterfly embossing folder was a gift from a friend. I'm buzzing with ideas which is great as I've been struggling with my mojo of late, I need to go cook dinner but I just want to play ha ha ha ha !

Vintage Tag

 

 

This month at Sparkles Christmas the challenge has been chosen by Babs who has asked for a Vintage Tag.

 

We are sponsored this month by Crafty Sentiments Designs

 

 

 

For my tag I have used papers and images from Graphic 45 Christmas papers.

White Christmas

Can hardly believe I haven't blogged for over two weeks, apart from making a couple of DT cards for scheduled posts haven't had time for any crafting.  Very hard to get a decent picture of my card as its almost white on white, click on it for a better view,  it does have a lot of glitter which doesn't show up on here. My favourite stamp of this year, Inkylicious Winter Lodge, certainly had my moneys worth out of this little stamp. First layer embossed with die sire snowflake EF, second layer is glittered with some very ancient Judikins Iridescent embossing powder, very sparkly and pretty. Very lightly inked the main panel with DI ( used my new foam ink blenders, not too sure about them !) and the lovely Sizzix die cut trees.    I'd just like to wish everyone who visits my blog a Very, Very Happy Christmas  and hope you all get lots of lovely crafting goodies from Santa , I'm sure you've all been very good girls LOL.

Tradional Christmas colours

 

This week at Cardz4guyz it is my turn to choose the challenge and I'm asking for Traditional

Christmas colours.

I've gone with red/green and gold for my card. I've used an old Penny Black brush strokes stamp, coloured the stamp with some old Tombow marker pens and spritzed with water before stamping.

I've had these pens for ever and they are still going strong ,long after my copics and promarkers are all drying up.  The red panel is embossed with an embossing folder that was free with a magazine as was the Dashing through the snow stamp.  I wish I could remember where I got the twine as I could do with some more, I like it on mens cards where it would not be appropriate to use ribbon.

Hope you will join us in our challenge, just remember your card must be masculine design for any age group.

Joyful Tidings

This month at Stamping Sensations we are sponsored by Crafty Ribbons and there is a fabulous prize of ribbons and embellishment to be won.  Our Challenge is Anything Goes With A Stamp and Ribbon so lots of scope there !  As we are a stamping challenge we must see stamping as a focal point.

 

I have really struggled with getting a photo of my card, I normally scan my cards, quick and easy, but I didn't want to squash the bow.  It took me longer to tie the bow than make the rest of the card, I really struggle to get a decent one and I'm disappointed at how it looks on here, the ribbon is a gorgeous green satin and nowhere near as dark as it appears here .Background is an old Hero Arts Christmas script and the sentiment is Stampers Anonymous.

Peace On Earth

For My card this month I have used Sizzix Holiday Joy Stamps and Dies. Background is homemade spray made with metallic acrylic paints ( lovely shimmer in real life!) torn paper mask, memory box star which is actually shiny gold and the frantage blizzard .

 

This month at Christmas Sparkles the challenge is Die Cuts

We are sponsored this month by

Di's Digis who are offering a $10 voucher

 

and Crafty Individuals who are offering this lovely stamp

 

 

 

 

 

CAS Christmas

Challenge 99 at Cardz4guyz is for CAS Christmas. Not often I do CAS but I am increasingly finding myself drawn to it.  For my card I have used a snowflake embossing folder and my all time favourite snowman !  He makes me smile just looking at him. I have to confess it is not my stamp but he has lived at my house for years now and I was quite devastated when his owner decided to take him home, however she has very kindly brought him back and left him in my care again.  I hope you will join us in our challenge this week