DAISY DELIGHT - TIME OUT CHALLENGE #83

The Daisy Delight suite is such a fun set of stamps and I nearly over-looked it.  The punch is so easy to use and the punched flower is so versatile.

The challenge over at Time Out this week is to CASE the  card by Hannelie


 

I used Daisy Delight, Tangerine Tango and the new Berry Burst for my colour combination.  I cut out a circle with the Stitched Framelits and inked up the colours.  I first used the swirl framelit from the Seasonal Layers Framelits to add extra detail to the circle.  The daisies were simply punched out of Whisper White and stamped with Daisy Delight and Tangerine Tango.  The added dots and the sentiment were also stamped in Daisy Delight.

I love the way this card turned out - it looks such a fun card.  You can't go wrong with daisies really. They always remind me of Meg Ryan in You've Got Mail - love that film.

COLOURFUL SEASONS - SUO CHALLENGES - WATERCOLOURING

This new set Colourful Seasons has a wealth of possibilties for all sorts of cards and I haven't even started yet on the snowflakes or the leaves.  This time however, instead of the chairs, I'm concentrating on the gorgeous flowers that you get along with the thinlets.

It also lends itself to lots of watercolouring possibilties.  The challenge over at SUO Challenges this week is just that - a watercolouring challenge.

I used some of our Watercolour paper for my card - it stands up to the moisture it gets from the Aqua Painter and has just such a lovely texture.

 I used the new In-Colours for my card - Powder Pink, Berry Burst and Fresh Fig with a touch of Lemon and Lime Twist - well I had to get it in there somehow.

 To start off your watercolouring - make sure you wet your paper first - this allows the ink to blend and merge together.  I say this because I forgot to do this.  It still works out ok but not quite as blended as it would have been  had I wet the paper first.  Do as I say not as I do as the old saying goes lol!  You can leave your paper to dry or use a heat tool to speed it up a bit if you are as impatient as me.

Our ink pads are great for watercolouring - before you open the pad squeeze it gently and when you open it you will have a little pool of ink - this becomes your container for your ink palette.

Once your background is dry you can then ink on however you choose.  I stamped the stem but cut out the flowers from the thinlets.  The sentiment was stamped in Fresh Fig.  The little dots of blossom are actually from Daisy Delight, another new set.

The paper was then added to Basic Black cardstock which shows off all the colours wonderfully.  A sprinkling of Glitter Embossed dots makes the card sparkle, as does the Wink of Stella on the flowers.

Here's the same technique using different colours - the new Lemon and Lime Twist, Tranquil Tide and a touch of Daffodil Delight and the leaves from the same set.

I hope you have a go at watercolouring - leave me a message if you do and I'll pop along and have a look.

HAPPY CRAFTING

 

POOTLER'S BIRTHDAY BLOG - PRETTY KITTY

 




May is my birthday month so I get to join in with the Pootle's Birthday blog hop run by Sam Hammond Donald who is my upline.

I've chosen to use Pretty Kitty again for my card but this time it is a magic card.  I first saw this done a while ago by Dawn Griffith whose projects I love.

 I showed the card to hubby who said "where's the magic?"  I had to actually point out to him that in card no 1 above the picture is in black and white - when you pull it out it is in colour. There's the Magic.

 

Pretty Kitty is such a great set - really lovely to colour in. If you don't have your copy yet click on the image below to be taken to my store.

 I hope you have a go at making one - do pop back and let me know if you do.




 

DAISY DELIGHT - CAS COLOURS AND SKETCHES

I always like to challenge myself to do the Clean and Simple challenges - because so often I like to puts lots of things on a card.

The challenge #222 over at CAS colours and Sketches this week is a sketch


 

 How Clean and Simple is this sketch - was I up to the challenge? Let me know if  you think I was.  

I decided to go with the new Daisy Delight set because I think the images on this are so simple but effective.

I masked off my Whisper White card stock three ways - the left hand was inked with our new Powder Pink ink - the right hand side was inked over with Calypso Coral.  The daisy was simply inked with Pear Pizazz for the stem - Pink Powder for the first stamp for the daisy and the new Fresh Fig for the stamping detail.  The sentime, inked in Fresh Fig is also from this set.

Then I had to walk away.  Gulp - no ribbon, no embellishments, no glitter - I kept it Clean and Simple with lots of white space just as asked.

I love its simplicity - it allows the Daisy to take centre stage.

 BUT.... then I looked at it and just had to fiddle - it was crying out for some DSP and what better than the Daisy Delight Designer Series Paper - oh and then it needed some bling so I had to include a few of the lovely new Glitter dots!! I won't include this in the challenge as I don't think it has enough white space but I love the fact that you can give the basic card a make-over!

 



 

COLOURFUL SEASONS - MASKING TECHNIQUE - GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT #GDP086

Another Sneak Peek of the new set Colourful Seasons.  Such a wonderful versatile set and so far I've only used the chairs. It has a wealth of other possibilities.

The Challenge over at Global Design Project this week is a sketch challenge.



 

 One of my favourite of the In-colours has to be Lemon Lime twist - and I'm not even a lime sort of girl - but against the black it looks stunning.  I've used Black base cardstock here then a layer of Lemon Lime twist cardstock. 

 I've been getting the inks out again and inked up my Whisper White using Soft Sky, Pacific Point a touch of the new Powder Pink for the sky.  The grass was done using Lemon Lime Twist.  The chair comes from the matching Seasonal Layers Thinlets for this set which comes as a Suite.

I cut out the chair and used it as the mask for the image, gently inking over the top.  I added a few of the lovely Glitter Enamel dots which are so pretty when you see them in real life.

I have done a You Tube tutorial for you if you would like to have a go.

 
 As usual all products can be purchased direct from my store.

 HAPPY CRAFTING

 

COLOURFUL SEASONS

A little bit of a sneak peek at one of our new sets coming on 1st June.  This set is called Colourful Seasons -it is part of a new Suite and comes with Thinlets.  At first I bought it for the gorgeous Snowflakes but I'm loving the little chairs that come with it and the sentiments are just fab!

 Both examples have been made with some of our new In-Colours too - just gorgeous.

Here's a little YouTube tutorial for you also

 All products can be purchased via my store on 1st June.

 

WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY WWC118 - MEDITERRANEAN MOMENTS

Its another challenge week for Watercooler Wednesday and my second week as part of the Design Team.   This week our challenge is set by Penny and is

 

 This was a rather difficult one for me as I lost my mum in 2010 on 7th May so very timely for this to pop up for me.  I know in the US its Mother's Day in May but we have ours here in the UK in March.

My card for this challenge uses Mediterranean Moments - my idea behind this card was if my mum were still here I would love to be sitting at this table having a drink with her and a chat.  I wanted to use some muted colours for the background and just give a pop of colour for the actual image.

I used the sentiment from Birthday Blooms for the For You and the dots from the same set to give an aged look to the banner.  A touch of Linen Thread just tied round gives added interest and the little addition of pearls as they were my mum's favourites.

 Come and join in with the challenge - I look forward to seeing all your entries.  If you need more inspiration pop along to all the Design Team members - do leave a comment we love to hear from you.

 

DAISY DELIGHT - SNEAK PEEK

One of the huge benefits of being a Stampin' Up! Demonstrator is the chance to get to see the catalogue over a month before anyone else and, in May, to participate in Pre-Order which allows us to choose from some of the new products.

Can you believe I nearly didn't buy this gorgeous bundle called Daisy Delight?  1st June will be your D-Day - Daisy Delight day for getting your hands on this little beauty.

To tempt you somewhat here's a few cards I have done with it so far:

Both cards are also using some of fabulous new In-Colours - I love them all - which I must admit isn't always the case.  But I can't choose a favourite out of them yet!

The background daisy on this card was done using the image left after using the punch to punch out the daisy - I then used it as a stencil and used two of our colours to ink the daisies.  The sentiment is from Jar of Love.  I have cut out three daisies with the punch to make the 3d daisy on the card.  The challenge over at As You See It is Three to Party so I'm adding my card in for their challenge this week.

If you would like to get your hands on these products before June 1st you could always join my team as a Demonstrator - with all the great perks that entails.


 HAPPY CRAFTING


 

NEW CATALOGUE LAUNCH

IF YOU ARE LOCAL TO ME AND ARE FREE ON 10TH JUNE WHY NOT COME ALONG TO MY NEW CATALOGUE LAUNCH PARTY

 I'd love to see you and share Stampin' Up! with you.


 

BEST BIRDS - INKSPIRATIONAL CHALLENGE

Oh dear its looking like a Best Birds week again!  It's not intentional, honest!

The challenge over at Inkspirational this week is yet another think outside the box challenge.  Just look at this gorgeous photo of this shop window - I would love to go in there and have a mooch around.  This is our inspiration for this week's challenge.




My card really doesn't do this lovely window justice - and I'm not completely happy with it - it didn't quite evolve as it did in my head lol!

I used some of the now retiring SU DSP in Serene Scenery for the circles and cut them out with the Stitched Framelits. I spotted the duck egg blue in the picture and so used Soft Sky cardstock and ink for my card. I've used the Bird out of the Birds and Blooms Framelits to represent all those lovely feathers in the window.  It was inked in Soft Sky and Early Espresso.  A touch of a Basic Pearl is his eye.

I then spotted all those lovely bottles and things in the window so I headed for my Bookcase Builder set and had a play with some of those images.

The Sentiment came from Thankful Thoughts.  The background stars came from the retiring Botanical Blooms.  I try not to use too many sets but I just needed to in this instance.

 

PRETTY KITTY - CAS COLOURS AND SKETCHES #221

Another one of my favourite sets is Pretty Kitty - I just really enjoy colouring the images in, even though they are not huge they are very satisfying to colour.

The challenge over at CAS colours and sketches #221 today is a colour challenge

 

 I have difficulty doing the CAS so I do challenge myself to join in and see if I can restrain myself from adding too much and leaving a lot of white space.

 So I've kept a lot of white space at the top.  I've used Stitched Framelits to layer the kitty image and used the Melon Mambo as the background pop of colour and also in the sentiment.  The flowers are coloured with the remaining colours.  The kitty I have left white but have used Wink of Stella over it to make it shine.  Some Wild Wasabi Enamel shapes finish off the card and then I had to walk away lol!

 

STAMPIN' UP BEST BIRDS

The challenge over at Less is More is a colour challenge.  Now yellow is not my go-to colour very often so this was indeed a challenge for me.





Yellow Bird, the song, was a family favourite when I was growing up and it was one of the songs I was always requested to sing so my first choice for this challenge had to be Best Birds.  I did a colour wash of an old SU grey colour called Going Gray as my base and then stamped the crackle stamp from this set. I used the framelits to cut out the branch and the bird.  The Bird was coloured with Daffodil Delight using an SU Blender pen and popped up on dimensionals.  The sentiment is from Thankful Thoughts.

This will be one of the cards going out to my customer's this month to say thank you for shopping with me.

Happy Crafting

 

GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT 085 - BEAUTIFUL YOU MEETS MEDITERRANEAN MOMENTS.

It's a colour challenge over at Global Design Project this week with one of our very own Pootlers Anna Krol as Guest Designer. 




 Two of these colours are my favourites - Watermelon Wonder and Mint Macaron and I will be sorry to see them go so it was lovely to be able to use them in our challenge this week.

I took inspiration from my card from a card I received from a RAK group I am part of. My thanks to Jenny Reed for her inspiration.  

 I stamped the girl image first in Watermelon Wonder and then masked her off.  I then used the stamp from Mediterranean Moments and stamped it in Mint Macaron.  I used the Stitched Framlet dies to make the frame  to fram her image.  I coloured in her umbrella with Delightful Dijon (I'm going to miss this colour - it reminds me of the old More Mustard).  I just ran my blender pen over her dress just to pick up some of the Watermelon Wonder colour.  A touch of Wink of Stella on the umbrella and the sentiment stamped in Watermelon Wonder finishes off this card.

HAPPY CRAFTING

 

BIRTHDAY BLOG GIVE AWAY

Today, 5th May is my birthday so I'm going to do a 

 BIRTHDAY GIVE AWAY

 One lucky person who leaves a comment on here or on my Facebook page

FACEBOOK PAGE

will win the Delicate Details Stamp set.

 GOOD LUCK



 

WATERCOOLER WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE 117

Did you notice my new badge?

I am super excited to have been offered a place on the Design Team of the fabulous Watercooler Wednesday challenge blog.  I have played along with their challenges on and off over the last few years and I was honoured when Heidi asked me to join them for an initial few months.  It is amazing to see all the work that goes on behind the scenes for a challenge blog - who knew?

So for my first challenge this week on the other side of the fence it was 

Heidi's Feminine Challenge - Anything Goes

 I grabbed my Birthday Blooms - I'm so happy this set is staying for another year in the catalogue.  I used our Watercolour Pencils to colour in the rose with a touch of Wink of Stella on the stamens in the middle.

I wrapped some of the Copper Metallic Thread - tricky stuff to use as it is so fine but it helps if you add a bit of glue to the back of your cardstock before wrapping it.

I've used the Bitty Butterfly Punch which sadly is not staying but mine is going nowhere - I love these butterfly punches and I will still use them.

The card was layered onto some Old Olive Cardstock onto some Whisper White which has been embossed with an embossing folder.

 

 I hope we have inspired you to join in with the challenge.  Check out all the other Watercooler Artists to see what they have in store for you this week.

HAPPY CRAFTING

 
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