#187 Sketch - Harvest Time

 Try Stamping On a Tuesday is a sketch challenge blog, with a twist of adding a theme for you to be even  more challenged. Time to stretch, to allow your creativity and imagination to  take a journey.
Below you will find the sketch to work within the title for the next two weeks is HARVEST TIME.
I had fun with this card, yes it does take me out of my comfort box, but isn't that what challenges are for? I found some plaid and patterned paper in my stash. The Autumn sentiment is from a Sheena Douglass Autumn Leaves stamp set. The Leaves are from a freebie stamp with a magazine. The scarecrow and pumpkins are from a recent purchase, thrilled with the reduced price at  a craft event. I coloured the background with Distrss Inks and drew in the birds, my one claim to being an artist, I can draw birds. LOL I look forward to popping around to see your completed creation. Have fun.

No Balls Allowed (Sport)

Hi again, it was my choice for this week's challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz and I chose No Balls Allowed (sport). We do tend when making cards for males to firstly think along the lines of ball sports, but this challenge gives us the opportunity to think of lots more other sports. I have used a stamp of a racing speed boat, which was from Tandastamps, an old past favourite stamp supplier, sadly no longer in business. I coloured using Promarkers, a Sakura pen and a Quickie glue pen and Crystal glitter to the waves. The background papers are from a Generations Paper and Card Stacker pad. The greeting from Hobby Art with card candi to embellish. I look forward to visiting you to see your creations. 

Here Come The Girls

For the challenge for the next two weeks at Fantasy Stampers, Jan would like to see Girls, the title being ' Here Come The Girls' . Please pop over to check out the details and of course the amazing inspiration from the Design Team.  I love this stamp from Indigo Blu which was a freebie with a magazine recently in the UK. I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest, this being my creation. For the background, I blended Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire and Tea Dye. The girl was stamped with Crafter's Pigment Ink - Royal Blue. I used Chipped Sapphire to stamp the foilage and dragonflies. I drew with a Quickie Glue pen onto the hair and embellishments, left it to dry, then added gold foil by rubbing with my bone folder, but found my  thumb nail did the better job. Added a blue ribbon. This card is intended for an on-line  Sapphire swap. I hope you enjoy the challenge and have a happy healthy two weeks ahead.

White on White -Christmas Card

Hello again, this week at My Time To Craft we are challenging you to make a Christmas card, which must be White on White, your image can be coloured, but please check out the blog to see the requirements and the inspirational projects from the Design Team. I was inspired myself from a similar card I saw on Pinterest, this being my own design. The card is 6 x 4 inches, the banner is silver mirri card, matted with a strip of embossed card, I used an embossing folder called Christmas Vines. I heat embossed onto vellum with Versamark and Stampendous detail White powder, using a beautiful new set of flowers from Honey Doo Designs, the branch of leaves from Chloe Stamps. Have fun and be happy. 

Q -is for Quadruple

Here we are at the letter Q at Alphabet Challenges , Avril has chosen for us Quadruple, she would like to see on your project 4 of anything you wish. The design team have been having fun with this one, please be sure to pop over to check out their inspirational projects. For an on-line swap group, I am needing a project which has butterflies so I decided to combine the two challenges. The notebook is one of those sold in a bundle of 5, so I have 4 spare books lying around. Covering the front cover I have managed to use a number of quadruples :-

 4 Distress Inks - Worn Lipstick, Tattered Rose, Aged Mahogany and Festive Berries. 

4 Stamps - Script, Circles, leaves and Just a Note

4 gemstones x twice

4 roses and of course 4 butterflies.

Of course if you decide to choose for your Quads only 4 jewels, this would be acceptable, why don't you pop over and check out the rules. Have fun and be happy.  

Water

Hi, for this week at Cardz 4 Guyz, the theme is Water. There are some amazing inspiring projects over on the blog, from the Design Team and the Guest Designers, which show there are so many ways you can add water to your project. I love my underwater stamps from Sheena Douglass, so this was another way I could put them into action. I was inspired by a card on Pinterest from the Sheena Douglass team, this is my version of the card. I used both the Hidden Stars and Underwater Angels stamp sets. Salty Ocean, Broken China, Faded Jeans and Chipped Sapphire Distress Inks were used.
Kraft card and Stampendous Fine Detail White embossing powder for the embellishments. I look forward to visiting everyone of you who enter the challenge. I hope you have a happy week.

Birthday Card for a Male

Hello again, welcome back. For the next two weeks at CD Sunday Challenges we would like to see a Birthday Card for a Male. At one time thee was so little to choose from other than mostly sport type cards for men. Thank goodness there is now a much bigger variety available. My OH, and I suspect he is not alone, enjoys a good glass or red wine, along with a divine cheese board with all trimmings. I found this wonderful image on a Joanna Sheene produced CD - the artist being Janet Kruskamp.I decoupaged the chef with all of his balanced goods.  There is such a wide variety available on this CD. Please do pop and check out the inspiration provided by the Design Team and remember you must use something if not everything from a CD. Have fun, I again look forward to visiting your blog.