ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - #495

I've just come back from a fabulous week's holiday in Greece where we celebrated my niece's wedding.  It was so magical and here's the card I made for them.  The stencil is from Creative Expressions by Sue Wilson.  I cut it out of pearl white paper to give it extra shimmer.  The little love birds were part of some ribbon I had in my stash.  I kept the card simple and let the beautiful rose stencil shine.

I'm adding this into the following:

Krafty Chicks - CAS 

Creative Inspiration - AG 

Tic Tac Toe - Love - Free - Square - Stencil for Free 

Time out - The Heart 

A cut Above - Die cut 

Neglected Stuff - Mine was the die cut - I had tried many times to get it to cut with no luck but finally it worked when I needed it to 

Creations In Pink

THE HOLLY AND IVY #187

I'm back from a fabulous holiday in Greece where we celebrated my niece's wedding.  What a fabulous time and I must admit I'm having a hard time getting back into crafting.  What better way than to create a Christmas card in June - especially as the weather has turned again here in Wales and it's cold and wet.  

Once again I've turned to the lovely stamps by Tracy Evans Boutique Designs - I just love this mistletoe stamp and as my daughter adores penguins this will be tucked away for her until Christmas.  

In order to get the penguins to look at each other one was stamped onto some acetate and then stamped onto the cardstock to reverse the image.

I'm adding this into the following

Christmas Kickstart - Christmas Critters 

GirlzCreativeChallenge - Baubles - the penguins in the bauble 

Peace on Earth - AG 

We love stamping - nature 

The Outlawz Challenge Festive Friday - Christmas 

CREATIVE ARTISTE MIXED MEDIA

Something a little different from me this month for Creative Artiste Mixed Media as I've created a set of three tags in varying sizes.  I  had great fun putting this together. 

I recently had a birthday and a gift of some new stamps which I couldn't wait to play with.  The gorgeous butterflies on this tag are by Sara Naumann for Paper Artsy and this one is ESN62.  All the butterflies used on all the tags are from this set.

The backgrounds were made from a gell press session playing around with some Tim Holtz paints.  

The extra stamping comes from Alison Bombers set Pressed Grasses EAB40 which was also a new set to me.  

I added some pastes and ideaology pieces from Tim Holtz to complete the tags.

I'm adding this into the following:

I spy - at least 1 butterfly 

Dragonfly Dreams - Butterflies 

We love 2 create - AG 

WE love Stamping - Nature 

Triple B - butterflies 

Tag Along - AG 

THE MALE ROOM - FUN FOLDS

This month we want to see your fun folds for your male cards at the Male Room.  I decided as a male card I wanted to do quite a simple fun fold and found this great simple idea from Gina K Designs. 

I used an old stencil from Visible Image and added three different colours of blue Distress Oxide Inks for the image -  Chipped Sapphire, Faded Jeans and Broken China.  I added the steam punk heart in the middle.  I cut out the sentiment with a die cut and kept it simple.

You can see the inside of the card which I think is a great design and one I think I will be trying many times. 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE #494

Welcome back to another Any Occasion challenge at ATSM.  It's been a while since I've created one of these style of cards where you mask off the middle and stamp around the edges.  

I used a variety of stamps from Tracy Evan's Boutique Designs and some extra foliage from Alison Bomber.  I used some new Posca pencils to colour in. Oops - I don't mean Posca pencils sorry - I meant Prismacolor pencils.  I do like the vibrant colours they give.  I used to Versafine ink colours in similar colours of pink and green to create the sentiment. 

HOLLY & IVY CHALLENGE #186

Welcome back to another challenge here at The Holly & Ivy and as usual it's Anything Goes.

This card took a while for me for it to come together - I knew I wanted to use the robin from Indigoblu but I couldn't find something for him to sit on.  I finally found my old set of stamps from Tim Holtz called Winter Watercolor which had some gorgeous foliage and this card was born.

The background had previously been created on one of my gel press play times with Peacock Feathers making an appearance so I decided to use it for htis card.  I stamped a mixture of all the foliage from the Tim Holtz Set for the background.  The bird was stamped and cut out with a stitched die and then extra foliage added.  I added touches of red with a Prismacolour Pencil  and used these too to colour the bird.

I added some touches of white to the foliage and added extra musical background stamps.  A simple greeting from Tim Holtz for the sentiment and some doodling around the edges and a touch of Spectrum Noir sparkle pen finished off the card.  I love how it turned out in the end. 

I'm adding this into the following :

Simon Says Stamp Wed - Fur Feathers 

Colouring with Pencils 

Peace on Earth

Lets craft and create - AG 

Polkadoodle - AG 

Outlawz Festive Friday - Christmas 

Krafty Chicks - Christmas 

INSPIRATION STATION - #74

Welcome back to another challenge at Inspiration Station and I'm looking forward to seeing what you create from our image.  

I used one of Tim Holtz Stamps from the set Ringmaster Blueprint which I thought was perfect for the image.  I added a pointer arrow and adhered it to the number 18 and decided this was going to be an 18th Birthday Card.  Not sure when I will need it but you never know.

GUEST DESIGNER - HEARTS QUEST FOR SHAPED CARDS AND TAGS

I was lucky to win the Best of Shaped Tags for this new blog and delighted to be offered a Guest Designer spot for Hearts Quest for Shaped Cards and Tags (HQRSCAT) run by Becca Sadler.  The challenge is Anything Goes.

I dug out some shaped tag die cuts I've had for years and forgot about so this was a great excuse to use a different shape.  I've created two tags from the set - a large one and a smaller one just to add a bit more interest.

The large one uses the cat from Anita Jeram's set Thank You.  I used one of the stick on stencils from Lavinia stamps to create the arch for her to sit in and various stamps from Lavinia for the outside.  For the little tag I also used the same floral stamps and a tiny cat stamp from Lavinia.  The word hugs is from an old Clearly Besotted set.  I added a brad - remember those lol - and some twine.

PEARLY SPARKLES - MASCULINE CAS

Welcome back to another challenge at Pearly Sparkles where our challenge is a Masculine CAS card.  CAS stands for Clean and Simple. 

This is a card I made for my son in law who has just started beekeeping on their small holding.  This was a perfect card for him.  The imagery came from Bipasha BK for Aallandcreate.  I kept it simple with an embossed image in brown embossing powder of the bees and then extra stamping in the background.  Of course I had to use Tim Holtz Wild Honey Distress Oxide together with some Dried Marigold.