Rainbow colours

Make My Monday challenge is colours of the rainbow, use at least three colours from the rainbow. For my card I have used Red (looks a pit pink on here but it is red/ yellow/blue /violet and green .

First time I have used this Stampendous stamp but I think I will be using it quite a lot.

Make My Monday  - colours of the rainbow

Through The Craftroom door - Anything goes

Snap !

This week at Cardz4guyz , Helen has chosen CAS for the challenge.  I'n not at ease with this genre as I always have to add just one more element !  For this card I have used some Close To My Heart stamps that I haven't  used for a while, if I made this card again I would stamp the camera a bit higher to leave a bit more room for the sentiment but I never, ever plan a card, its just what evolves and mostly it works LOL

The design team have some lovely samples for you over on the challenge site and I hope you will join us this week with a card for a Guy in your life.

Brighter days

I recently got the Stampin Up Beautiful You set and this little card is one of several I have made with it, just a 5x5 card base, stamp the scribble? stamp,stamp the girl over the top, stamp the sentiment,colour the umbrella with a copic pen and done.  Very quick and easy card and could be used for all sorts of occasions> I have several family birthdays this month and should be concentrating on cards for them but just want to play ..........

Entering these challenges

Clean and simple on Sunday - Umbrella

Cards In Envy Challenge - keep it simple - quick cards

Busy Bees

Time for another challenge at Stamping Sensations and this month the theme is Close To Nature. 

For my card I decided to go with flowers and bees, All the stamps except the sentiment are from Stampin Up Touches Of Texture set, I think the sentiment is from Butterfly basics.  

We are a stamping challenge so your entry MUST have stamping as the focal point to be in with a chance of winning this lovely prize

The design team have some lovely cards to show you if you pop over to the challenge page.

afternoon tea

These freebie stamps have been laid about on my table for some time now, not really "my cup of tea" I thought, however yesterday I was twiddling my thumbs not knowing what to do and started to play about with them, the little tea cup die came with the set and that's what I first started playing about with. The background paper is also from some free papers from another magazine. I think it might be the first time I have used the lovely Tim Holtz doily die, must remember to use it more often. i'm entering this into these challenges

Try It OnTuesday -  Time for Tea

Through The Craft Room door - anything goes

Addicted to stamps - Anything goes

I also made this little 3x3 card from bits on my desk, image already stamped and coloured and a piece of wax resist for the background and a scrap of paper lace.  The pile of bits and pieces never seems to go down, probably because every time I make something there always seems to be something left over that gets added to the pile!

Star of night

Here is my DT card for Christmas Sparkles this month, the challenge has been chosen by Babs and she asks us to use Gold/Silver.  I do love to use gold or silver on my Christmas cards but ,oh dear, its a real pain to try and get a decent picture of it.  I decided to use a some matt silver card I had and it has worked pretty well, the star is stamped.embossed with silver and then die cut,the smaller star cut from blue glitter card.I didn't have enough of the glitter card to make a mat so cut strips and used them as a frame. The stamping is all done with blue encore ink and the star swirl is embossed with some very ancient Judikins Iridescent sparkle embossing powder, must be at least 10 years old so I did wonder if it would work but worked just fine.  Hope to see you at our challenge this month.

Monster Hugs

This week at Cardz4guyz, the challenge, chosen by Amy, is Tag it.  I used to make loads of tags but haven't made any for ages so it made a nice change. For my tag I've used a piece of inky card from my pile of  backgrounds, tag is mounted onto another piece which I also used to stamp the  ? well they look like mines ,don't quite know what they are, just on the same Paper Artsy set of monsters. I've had these stamps since last May and this is the first time I've used them, Computer generated the sentiment.  Hope you will join us in this weeks challenge.

Blue snowman

 Just realised late this afternoon that I had better get a move on if I wanted to enter Scrappy Mo's Rudolph Challenge this month, where did February go ?  This card is made mostly with bits and pieces from ONE of my Christmas bits and pieces boxes, this year I really must use up some of this stuff or throw it out ( in my dreams ha ha ha ) Anyhow the LOV snowman was already stamped ,coloured and on a stitched square, the inky blue piece is left over from a master card,the stamped sentiment was also in one of the boxes. The die cut trees and snowflakes were also ready cut in my Christmas die cut box, however I did emboss the  falling snow background piece and use a card blank, so I'd also like to take this to Pixies playground as I hope some of the bits can be classed as snippets ?

Rudolph Day Challenge - Christmas

Pixies playground - snippets

Crafty Hazelnuts Christmas challenge - anything goes / optional recycle

Funky flowers and birds

I didn't get round to posting this card which I made a couple of weeks ago, thought I would enter it into Make My Monday challenge which is birds. The stamps are Hobby Arts, coloured with water colour paints

Butterflies and Bees

I haven't been posting much to my blog recently although I have been busy making cards haven't been able to post them as they are for future DT challenges.  I treated myself to a couple of new Stampin Up sets recently and can't stop playing with them !  This card is made with Touches Of Texture set , apart from the flowers there lots of  accent stamps, love the speckles and the beautiful lace border stamp and the sweet little bee.  I made this card for The Butterfly Spot Challenge which is to use the colour Slate Blue and/or Glossy Accents.  I was going to use glossy accents on the bees wings but settled for wink of stella instead. 

Butterflyspot challenge - Slate Blue

Sea It's Your Birthday

At Cardz4guyz this week the challenge has been chosen by Jane and is "Underwater"  I was going to use my beautiful mermaid stamp but then decided maybe it wasn't masculine enough, so instead I used a Kaisercraft stamp for the seaweed etc, embossed with verdigree EP, a littlestamped seahorse and various sea theme dies, a few sequins for bubbles and a bit of old net stuff.  Pop over and have a look at the lovely samples from the design team and then I hope you will join us in our challenge this week. Just a reminder your card needs to be for a guy.

You're a classic

This week at Cardz4guys, the challenge ,chosen by Julie, is no patterned paper, pop along to the challenge blog and see the lovely samples made by the design team.  For my card I have used an Artistic Outpost stamp from the diesel Punk set, the classic sentiment is Visible image and the birthday greeting is a freebie , must say do get some really nice wording stamps with some of the free sets, The strip down the side is actually silver mirri card put though an embossing folder, can never get a decent picture of silver or gold shiny card. This is the card I made for my husband's birthday last week, think he liked it.  Hope to see you joining in our challenge this week with a card for a guy in your life.  

Just messing

Been feeling that it's maybe time to give up on this crafting lark !  Since Christmas I have really had no inspiration whatsoever and other that making cards for the  design teams I'm on I don't seem to be able to rouse any enthusiasm to do anything.  I have a friend who is always saying she has no inspiration either and THEN she goes and posts on facebook a whole raft of super cards ( You know who you are !!! ) Well she had used a sheet of painted paper she had made at a class so I decided maybe I could take some inspiration from her so I made two A4 sheets of card using brusho paints and then cut them up and made a batch of cards with them, nothing wonderful but at least it got me doing something instead of staring vacantly at my stamps and doing ziltch. So here's a couple of pics of them

It's been awhile since I played with the brushos, think I'm a bit heavy handed with them and maybe should leave some white areas but had fun.

Love

This week at Cardz4guyz our challenge ,chosen by Caz, is "Love You"  Well I'm not much into Valentines etc, my OH would wonder what on earth was happening if I gave him a Valentine card and I've only ever had one from him, which I found out later, my daughter had got it for free and given it to him, so romantic LOL.   I have had this die of the cats for quite a long time and the embossing folder was free with a craft mag last month, the love die is an old freebie die too and the small hearts are a punch I've had for years, Well I'm sure you can all come up with something a lot more romantic than me for the Guy in your life

Animal Magic

This month at Stamping Sensations the challenge is "Animal Magic"  As we have a Grandsons second birthday this week I made this card for him.  I think the stamp is Penny Black, I already had the stamped image in a file, cut out with stitched square. Added Die cut balloons and the stamped parcel is from Crazy dogs stamp set.  Hope to see you on our challenge this month but do remember that the main image of your card must be stamped if you are to be in with a chance of winning this months fabulous prize donated by Tattered Lace