Magical and Mystical

The topic of Magical or Mystical was chosen by me at Fashionable Stamping Challenges, it is for two weeks so plenty of time to find the right stamps, maybe in the back of the cupboard or drawer. It can be anything you wish as long as it can be considered to be Magical or Mystical. I have recently bought the Stampendous Mermaid stamp, so this was my immediate thought. I prepared my background with a sheet of copy paper covered with Starburst Stains, the blue and green ones from the Victorian Bouquet set, available from The Stampman. the sheet was scrunched up when wet into a tight ball, this helps the mica within the stains to hit the peaks and land in the troughs. Once the paper was dry, I then started to decorate, with stamped shells, real small shells form an old shell necklace, pieces of blue, green fibres, a stamped treasure chest from a pirate set from Tandastamps, the anchor from Creative Expressions Coast set and of course the mermaid, which I coloured with Promarkers apart from her lower body, which was coloured in the same way as the background paper. please do pop over to the main blog for the Design team have such a variation on the theme, which I am sure will help to inspire you. Thanks for visiting and for any comments, which I do appreciate. 

Gorgeous Green

I am delighted to say this is my first card as a Design Team member for the lovely CD. Sunday Challenges. I have so much enjoyed entering these challenges I took the plunge and applied for their recent DT call, to my surprise and delight I was one of the two chosen. Thanks to all the team for this wonderful opportunity. The theme for the next week is Gorgeous Green.

I made an easel card, using papers from Debbie Moore, Shabby Chic - Haberdashery CD.in this pretty shade of green, with a few flowers to decorate with button centres. The main image has been mounted in the pyramage style. All the ephemera is from papers from the same CD. I look forward to visiting your creations. 

Fat Page - A Lady

The Do Craft Fat Page Swap which I organise monthly is all about the Ladies this month. The brief is ' A Lady'. This is the fat Page I will entering into the swap. 4 x 4" card, is the size for a Fat Page and I am collecting mine into a book. For this one I first stamped in Black Memento, the La Blanche lady and swirls, from the Rubber Stamp Tapestry the leaves and flowers. Blotted it dry, then stamped my favourite background stamp the crackle effect from Creative Expressions, heat embossed with clear EP. When dry I started to add TH Distress inks in circular motions, working my out with the colours.  Curved the four corners added to a piece of black card. Finally added a few red gem stones. hope my partner will like it for I really enjoyed creating this fat page.

Yummy! Ice Cream

This week at Alphabet Challenge we have the letter I - Roxx decided on  Ice Cream. The weather we enjoyed last week was a great time for eating it, but we are back to the rain again. Never mind you will find the design team have some wonderful cards made showing off splendid designed ice creams. For my card I used two pretty papers from a 6 x 6 block with lots of ice cream colours, I found the ice cream in a children's free download section to colour, after reducing it's size, it became very useful for my card. I used Promarkers to colour, added some glitter glue, to make it look icy, a circle greeting from Lyndsay Mason stamps. Finished it off with a few ice cream coloured card candy. I have so enjoyed visiting your handmade flowers over the last few weeks, there have been some amazing creations. Well done everyone. 

Everything Stops for Tea

This week it is Challenge 15 - Anything Goes/ Father's Day at ATCs and Cards with Attitude.  Please pop over to the main blog to see what the teams have been up to, lots of interesting works of art this week. I chose from our sponsor the lovely digi stamp of the  teapot with a cup and saucer. I coloured them with Promarkers, added a doily on the background, some pretty bunting and I made two delicious cup cakes, with lots of sticky glue and glitter. I greatly enjoyed making this ATC and look forward to once again visiting your blogs. Thanks for your visits to me and for your lovely comments which are always appreciated. 

Call Me Anytime

This week, is Challenge 15 - Anything Goes or Father's Day at Fat Pages with Attitude.  Our sponsor this week is The Cutting Cafe. I chose a selection of clocks and the lovely sentiment, Call me any time. the background paper with the little birds is from Crafty Individuals. I coloured the clocks with Promarkers. I greatly enjoyed making this fat page, which could so easily be made into a card. I look forward to visiting your blogs to see what you have created this week. Thanks if you have visited my blog, and for any comments which are always greatly appreciated.

An Old Button

Use it up Tuesdays is a lovely challenge blog, which I would join in more often if I had more time, don't we all say that at least once a day?  their main principle is, as it says, Use it up, we all have stash lying around forever. Well, this week they are going further and have asked us to use up TWO old  items from our stash. Oh! that could have been painful. I have managed though, my two old items are the beautiful old button from my button box, passed on from my mother,  along with the organza ribbon, from my ribbon box. I have some more recent touches, the Paris stamp and the Fran-tage, both from Stampendous.
I am also entering this card into Make It Mondays - Anything Goes,
Oldie But Goodie Challenges, (see old items above) - Anything Goes
My Craft Spot - Buttons and Bows