F is for Fantasy at Alphabet Challenge

Hi to all my visitors, this week at Alphabet Challenge Pat has chosen for the letter F - Fantasy. Now this of course can fit into many forms of fantasy, but please be careful where you allow your fantasies to roam. The above fantasy came about because I had bought a collection of fabulous girl stamps from Debbie Moore, they have been designed I believe by Kerry Jo. I love this female pirate, I coloured her with Promarkers. The background pirate paper was purchased especially for a LO Scrapbook page for a grandson's pirate birthday party, this is a small piece left over, I always keep my scraps and do try to use them. (Don't we all say that)? I embossed the background, it looks like snake skin, it has been rubbed with Vintage Photo DI. I'm really looking forward to visiting you to see your Fantasy cards. 

Little Boy Blue

Over at Here Come the Boys the current challenge is Little Boy Blue in Monochrome. 

At Sunday Sketch and Stamp the current sketch was perfect for my Monochrome card.
At I Love Promarkers their current challenge is A Square Card with Something Round on it. 

The papers are all from my stash. The main image is a LOTV stamp of the boy with his guitar accompanied by his singing dog. Coloured with Promarkers. Thanks for the challenges to both groups. 

#42 Make Your Mark

It's Challenge #42 - at Addicted to Stamps and More   and this week it is time to MAKE YOUR MARK, by using any form of medium, inks, Promarkers, Aquamarkers, any other alcohol pens or markers. Have fun.

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For my card I was inspired when looking on Sheena Douglas's webs site, I had recently bought some flower stamps and my mojo went off on one of it's little holidays. One glance and that was it, I was off running. I coloured the background using Distress Inks blended together, Peeled Paint, Broken China and Mustard Seed. I then stamped second generation the words from the set, though the ideas is only for them to be very light. I then gold embossed my most favourite swirl stamp in my collection it is from La Blanche, I'm sure you will have spotted it frequently on my work. I then completed the card by adding some of Sheena Douglas's  butterflies, painted with blue H20's with Glossy Accents on them. A yellow ribbon to complete. Now let us see how you will Make Your Mark during the next week. 

I would like at this stage to welcome my latest followers, I am always glad to see new faces looking down on my work, your comments are always so heart warming and help to keep the mojo in motion. 

Folded Card at MMM

Hi, this week for something really different we at Make My  Monday are challenging you to 

Make A Card with More Than One Fold. Some time ago these Shutter cards were very popular, so I thought I would re-visit an older technique. If your interested here is a You Tube video to watch. Once the card was made I measured  white pieces of card to fit each section. I then chose my colours of Versa-colour ink pads. The stamps I used were a number of various Peg Stamps I have in my stash. I love these small stamps they are so universal, I don't think I use them enough. The centre For You sentiment is an adorable small stamp I was lucky to find for 50p. I'm looking forward to seeing a variety of folded cards over the next week, have fun everyone. 

Majesty at CD Sunday Challenges

This week at CD Sunday Challenges it is again my turn to choose the topic, I have decided upon Majesty, which according to the dictionary means stateliness or grandeur. I started with an 8 inch shaped card, I added Flitter glue, (Indigo Blu) around the edges then sprinkled with gorgeous gold flakes, so the entire border is gold flakes. Inside I already had the pink background from a previous printed card, though I have forgotten from which CD it came from, sorry to the producer. I backed the main image onto gold mirri card to add more splendour. The actual image is from a CD I purchased a good many years ago from E Bay, it is called Africana from Maria G Designs. Ribbon added, jewels, a flower and two stick pins to complete the embellishments. I again will be visiting your blogs over the next week, have fun ladies and gentlemen. 

Code Word is Flower

For the next two weeks at Addicted to CAS (Clean and Simple) the Code Word was my choice.
I chose FLOWER, everyone loves flowers, so we are expecting to see a beautiful array of flowers over the next two weeks.

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I like to experiment, make a mess and play with my craft stash, this card is the result of a play session. Speaking to newbies rather than those experienced crafters, many times when you know what you want to achieve but it just doesn't happen, please don't despair. The card above was the fourth attempt for me.

I added water to my two chosen colours of H2Os though any mica pigment medium would work as well. 

I added the paints directly onto the stamp, from La Blanche, sprayed water onto it, to give a watercolour effect. I then stamped it directly onto the card, this is the second generation stamping. (I stamped it twice). first on copy paper them onto the card. Please do have a go sometime, enjoy playing. We are all looking forward to seeing your CAS Flower projects. 

W is for ....@ The Craft Barn

It's that time again at The Craft Barn and they have given us the letter W with a twist, they also want to see circles on the journal page. To meet the circles part, I had to drink a glass of wine, oh! the tortures we put ourselves through for our art. LOL The circles on my page have been created with the aid of the bottom of a wine glass, yes the stains are wine stains, not paint. I stamped the grape vines around the page, coloured them with my DI Forest Green and Peeled Paint for the leaves and Dusty Concord with a white pencil for highlights for the grapes.The grapes, wine bottle and glass with the single glass are all stamps from Sheena Douglas from the Provence set. The quotation is from Robert Louie Stevenson.

I am still playing catch up - here is my version for the letter C which was the challenge for Week 2 way back in January. I am determined to catch up to everyone by creating the current one along with another. 

For my letter C I decided on CLOISSONE  prounounced as Klawz zone, definition means enamel work within wire work. Hopefully you will spot my peel off letters claiming it to be FAUX for this method is used in crafting. I first coloured my page with water coloured form of Peeled Paint. I then stamped with Versamark, and gold embossed the branches and leaves, followed on in the same way adding the flowers. I have painted each element with H20 mica paints, finished with Glossy Accents to give the enamel effect. Added a large metal C coloured with a Promarker pen. All stamps are again from Sheena Douglas.  Thanks to The Craft Barn I am really enjoying these challenges but wish they were weekly and not two weekly.