INSPIRATION STATION - #76

Welcome back to another Inspiration Station - I hope you are inspired by our lovely picture above - please let us know when you enter what inspired you.  I chose the Unicorn and the fact that it was a birthday cake.  My little granddaughter was 6 in June and she is just at that stage where she loves pink and unicorns. 

All my stamps were from Lavinia stamps.  As my little girl loves all things pretty I added the little ribbon and the gem - not something I would normally add to my cards.

I'm adding this into the following:

Simon Says Stamp Monday - Happy Birthday 

Allsorts - AG Animal 

Heart's Quest - Fantasy

Send a smile 4 kids - birthday card 

Critter Crazy - AG 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - #498 BIRTHDAYS

Welcome back to another Birthday challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I've chosen to have another play with Tracy Evans Boutique Designs new release stamps.  

This one is TE45 and I've allowed that lovely dog rose stamp to take centre stage - well stage right but you get my drift!  I added some of the leaf stems to surround it.  I used the Prismacolor pencils to colour in the flowers.  The background was made with a gel press on one of my gel press inking days!  

ADDICTED TO STAMPS AND MORE - BIRTHDAYS #488

Welcome back to another challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More and this time we are back on Birthdays.

March is a very  busy month in our household with no less than four birthdays for my daughter, son, son in law, and husband just sneaks in on 1st April but still four major birthdays in a two week period!  

This was the card I did for my daughter this year - I love using these stencils by Lavinia Stamps and creating a little scene inside.  All inks are Tim Holtz.  I did add a few drops of Nuovo along the edge of the bottle too. 

I'm adding this into the following - 

Addicted to CAS - stencil - not sure if this is CAS enough though 

Allsorts - Feminine 

Heart's Quest - Fantasy

Polkadoodle - AG 

Creative Moments - for a special lady - this was for my daughter 

Creative Knockouts - Birthday Wishes 

ADDICTED TO STAMPS - BIRTHDAY #478

Welcome back to another Birthdays challenge here at Addicted to Stamps and More.  I've used a lovely stamp by Tim Holtz on my card.  The background was made with a colour wash of various Tim Holtz Distress Inks to give a summery feel.  Not that we had a summer but I must still have been hoping for one when creating this card!

I added a script stamp to the background then added white embossing powder to make it pop. I stamped the stamp and cut out a further butterfly to add on top to give further interest and dimension.  

DARING CARDMAKERS - MAKE IT SHAKE

The challenge this week at Daring Cardmakers is to make it shake.  This is my final week of the month as Guest Designer and it's been great fun.

I'm not a great fan of shaker cards as I find them so tricky but did fancy doing a wobbly card. The background was made on a gel press with some background stamping.  I used a TH stencil for the pattern behind the cat.

I've used one of Tim Holtz snarky cats and double stamped him adding a wobbler just simply made of paper.  I added some googly eyes for extra wobble. I also added some glossy accents to the balloon and his tie.

I'm adding this into the following:

Allsorts - AG 

Alphabet Challenge - M is for masculine 

Crafty Catz - AG plus stencil 

Creative Friday - Animals 

KraftyChicks - AG 

Simon Says Stamp - AG Wednesday 

Make My Monday - own background 

INSPIRATION STATION

Welcome back to another challenge from Inspiration Station.  How will our image inspire you this month?  June is a very busy birthday month in our household so I could readily relate to this image.  

I chose to use one of Anita Jeram's lovely stamps and just had to include the one with the lovely balloon. I water coloured the image with some Tim Holtz Distress water color pencils and then used a stitched die cut to cut it out.  I layered it onto some old Stampin Up DSP.

Make my Monday - B is for Balloon and B is for bunny 

Outlawz - Happy Birthday 

Addicted to CAS - balloons 

 Crafty Calendar - for a child 

INSPIRED BY......

Joining in with the Inspired By Inspired By challenge today and their image.

I've used an old stamp by Tracy Evans called In the Bucket and used various marker pens to colour it in including some Tim Holtz Distress markers.  I've kept it clean and simple and not thrown a load of my usual mixed media style at it - that was very tricky for me! 

I'm also adding this into the following

 Krafty Chicks - Clean and Simple 

 Craft Rockets - Flowers 

HAND STAMPED SENTIMENTS IC432

Welcome back to another challenge at Hand Stamped Sentiments #IC432.  We have a gorgeous board for your inspiration.  

I started by masking off my card stock which I then filled in with Distress Oxide in Victorian Velvet - one of my most favourite colours of this range.  I then took an old rose stencil and went over it again with the same ink.

The stamp is from Tim Holtz Flower Shop CMS401 and I stamped it in Versafine Clair Chianti and Shady Lane.  I added some background stamping with an Tracy Evans stamp in the same Chianti ink.  I added some drops of the Victorian Velvet around the outside and added some water droplet embellishments and a stamped sentiment. 

STAMPIN UP ONLY CHALLENGE - SU260 - BIRTHDAYS

A great challenge today from SU Only Challenge which gives you free rein for Birthdays.

I pulled out Floral Essence for my bold and bright card - using just two of the flower stamps and some Melon Mambo - in full colour and stamped off for the two colours.  A touch of Chocolate Chip for the inside and Pear Pizazz for the leaves.  This was layered onto Pear Pizazz card stock and then Melon Mambo.  The banner is an old SU die cut. 

There is a touch of Wink of Stella on some of the bigger flowers and a few pearls to finish off the card. #

 

STAMPIN UP ONLY CHALLENGE - ANIMALS #SUOC253

Our challenge for you at Stampin Up Only challenge is animals. I definitely had to use the gorgeous Special Someone set.  As you may know I am not an SU demo even though I run a FB group for Stampin Up and I don't always have a lot of current sets - so I was delighted that this set stayed in the new catalogue.

I started off with using the Basket Weave embossing folder which I think is retired.  I sponged the edges with crumb cake and used crumb cake for the base.  I then used some Very Vanilla for my little scene with the animals.  I used the SU clouds stencil and some Soft Sky ink and the birds are from SU Wetlands as is the little bits of grass at the bottom.  

Keep using your old retired sets - give them some love and don't get overwhelmed with always buying new!  You can mix and match them all.  I added some little pearls to the inside of the flowers the animals are holding.  I used Botanical Prints for the flowers behind the panel and cut them out with the matching framelit.  A touch of linen thread on the banner for the birthday finishes off the card.



            

STAMPIN UP ONLY CHALLENGE - #SUOC248

Our challenge this week at Stampin Up Only is birthdays. It's my birthday at the beginning of May and I was really hoping that the lock down in the UK would be lifted by then so I could see the family, especially my little grand daughter - but sadly it looks like it will just be hubby and I.  I hope you are all coping and staying safe where ever you are - thank goodness for crafting I say!

I think I'm still in embossing mode from last week as I grabbed the SU Embossing paste and the pretty medallion mask.  I haven't used this yet so it needed a pasting!  

I don't have a great many colours of re-inkers and a lot I have are for retired SU coloured inks I have had for many years.  I grabbed these three - Rose Red, Island Indigo, Elegant Eggplant just using a tiny amount of ink for each.  As the paste is so decorative and shiny I decided it just needed a simple greeting so I used a retired framelit and added Happy Birthday from That's the Tag in white embossing powder.