HLS Watercolour Challenge - March

 

Hello everyone, thanks for your visit. Today a new challenge begins at Happy Little Stampers

 (HLS) Watercolour Challenge, Anything Goes with watercolours. Please check the blog for details and to see the wonderful inspiration by the design team. 

My card has a black card mat, a lightly coloured green background. Cosmos Flowers stamp by Woodware Stamps. The flowers were stamped and heat embossed with fine detail white powder.  Then coloured using Zig Colour watercolour pens. The sentiment is from my stash. An organza ribbon added.  Fine line around the edge of the card. Please stay safe and enjoy your crafting. 

X is for X-tra Folds

 

Hello again, I hope all is well for you and yours. Thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new two weekly challenge at Alphabet Challenges.   We have for X - Debbie has chosen X-tra Folds.  Please visit the blog for details and to see the inspiration of the design team.  This is my first Double Z card, which was interesting to make, I will be making more in the future. It is interesting to try new ideas or even to refresh your skills, this is why I enjoy challenges so much, I do like to be challenged, I find it inspiring. For my card,I followed instructions for the double Z card on You Tube, lots can also be found on Pinterest.  I used papers and images from a paper kit by The Paper Tree - Forest Tales. Stay safe.

Christmas Flowers

 

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today at My TIme To Craft Christmas (MTTCC) our new challenge is a pretty idea -# 4  Christmas Flowers. Please check the blog for details and to see my fellow DT buddies inspiration.  The background papers are from my Christmas stash. The Decoupage stamp of the Christmas Rose with the sentiment is by Imagination Crafts. I have had this for years. I love decoupaging with stamps and I have several different stamps in the Decoupage range.  The decoupage panel consists of 4 layers, I could have had at least 5 but must keep in mind postage etc. The berries in red have a layer of Glossy Accents. The remainder of the panel is coloured with Promarkers.  I look forward to visiting your blogs to see your Christmas Flowers entries. Stay safe and keep crafting, 

Mother's Day (UK) or For a Special Lady

 Hello everyone, I hope you are staying safe and well, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge at Card 4 Galz- I have chosen #141 Mother's Day (UK March 14th) or For a Special Lady.  Please visit the blog for further details and to see the inspiration created by the design team.My card is For a Special Lady - a small card measuring 6 x 4 in. I die cut an oval in the centre and die cut a piece of black card. Stamped the greeting  and heat embossed with white detail powder on the black oval. This I glued below the aperture on the white card. I stamped and heat embossed two flower heads from a stamp set  by Pink Frog Crafts - Chrysanthemums. (No pun intended on the mums).  I watercoloured with Distress Oxide Spiced Marmalade, using a Red Zig Colour pen for the contrast. After being fussy cut I added them to the two opposite ends of the card. Thanks again, take care. 

Thinking of You for Guyz

 

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge at Cardz 4 Guyz.  #265 Thinking of You.  Please pop over to the blog for details and to see the inspiration created by the design team.  For my card I have kept it simple.  I used a dark blue card for the background mat.  The stamp of a tree by the waterside with the small rowing boat is by Inkylicious, I do like their stamps and their business, very prompt with deliveries. I am not advertising them, only praising them.  Back to my card. I coloured around the tree with Distress Inks blended with finger daubers. The tree and boat were painted with Zig Colour waterbrush pens. The sentiment was with a stamp set in a magazine.  Stay safe and well.

A Tag at MTTC

 

Hello, welcome to my blog, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge at My Time to Craft  our challenge for the next two weeks is 'A Tag' Why don't you check the blog for details and see my fellow DT buddies inspiration.  I coloured my tag blending Distress Inks onto the tag. Using Sepia Archival Ink I stamped the grasses stamp from Chocolate Baroque -Eastern Grasses. The small dragonflies are punches on sparkly paper. The flower was also made using a set of flower punches. I love the additional wording, so apt at this time in our lives. I hope you are all well and please stay safe. 

Emergency Services

 

Hello again, today we see a new challenge at Make My Monday, Dawn has chosen for #142 Emergency Services, we are looking forward to your creations. please pop over to the blog to see the details and for you to see the creations made to inspire you by the design team. Thanks to the team for this.

I have made two cards, one of the police and the other of firefighters. They are both decoupaged. All images on the image panel are from a CD-Rom 'The Best of La Pashe' 2012 - yes, an old CD but I have always liked these two images, they are great fun. The background card is from a paper pad - Basic Vintage - from The Works.  All matted onto black cardstock.  Stay safe and keep crafting.

On The Farm

 

Hello everyone, thanks for your visit. Today we begin another challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges we have for #137 On The Farm. Please pop over to the main blog for details and to see the inpiration created by the design team. 

For my card, I created a farmyard scene using Hobby Art stamps -Farmhouse Scene-It set, the sheep and pigs are from a lucky dip box at a Stamps Addict stand at a Craft Event a few years ago. I used Zig Colour watercolour pens, a few Distress Inks. I feel I have to have a lot more practice with these pens, which were a present for my birthday. I love them, and I will get better.  Take care, stay safe. 

W is for Woodland Flora or Fauna

 

Hello thanks for your visit. ~Today we begin a new challenge at Alphabet Challenges. Meg has chosen        W is for Woodland Flora or Fauna. Please check out the blog for details and to see the wonderful inspiration from the DT. My card 6" sq has been deorated with papers and the main image from a kit I purchased from Create and Craft TV - Makers being Creative Crafting World, the kit is called                     Whisper of Autumn. The papers and images are beautiful, they  will make lots of beautiful cards. Something different for my batch making for the local charity shop for when they re-open after lockdown.  You can't see it clearly but I added Glossy Accents on the berries which stand out off camera. Thanks for taking the time to look, stay safe, stay well and currently stay warm. 

Christmas Wreaths

 

Hello, welcome to my blog, today begins a new challenge at MTTCC (My Time To Craft Christmas) - for the challenge Granmargaret has chosen #3 Christmas Wreaths. Please visit the blog for details and to see the wonderful display of Christmas Wreaths from the design team. 

I made a 6" card with silver/grey lightly sparkly card. Using gold, silver and ivory card I cut three rings,  placed over each other to form a wreath. An XCut star punch for the snowflakes, Sprigs in grey and white , dies from The Works.  Jewels added to the snowflakes.  Sentiment from my stash.  I have decided looking at this photo, I need to randomely add three very small AB gemstones to the card.   Take care and enjoy your crafting. 

Pink and Brown

 

Hello everyone, I hope you are safe and well and if in the UK, I expect you are staying indoors, not just for the lockdown but to keep warm. We have had lots of short lasting snow flurries which over the day have amounted to probably over 6" deep.  This is the most snow I can remember here for maybe over 10 years or more. Good time to be crafting, I think, so let me get on. Today we start a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz. Helen has chosen for us #140 Pink and Brown. Please check the blog for details and to see the DT's inspiration. 

On my white 6" sq card I added a mat of dark brown card, the background paper is a light pink sheet of Gorguss background papers, as is the brown and pink horizontal strip of paper. A light pink circle die and a brown oval die are the background layers for the white oval die with the Gorguss stamp - Forget-me-Not. I coloured the stamp with Zig Colour watercolour pens. Added flowers made from flower dies. The sentiment is from LOTV. Pink shiny pearls added. Enjoy your crafting, stay safe and warm. xx

CAS

 

Hello everyone, how are you? Thanks for your visit. Well here we are in lockdown and now we have snow and lots of it.  Please be careful out there. Todfay at Cardz 4 Guyz we have challenge # 264 CAS. Please pop to the blog for more details and to see how the DT have created inspiration for you.  We look forward to your entries. 

For my 6" sq. card, I have matted it with black card to give a bold background for the CAS white card providing the main image. I water brushed two colours for the background with Distress Inks. Dried this before stamping the crane from a magazine set of stamps - By the Water - Creative Stamping #86.

The crane was coloured with Zig Colour waterbrushes. The sentiment is also from my stash. 

Love

 

Hello, welcome to my blog, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge at My Time to Craft  our challenge for the next two weeks is ''Love''. Why don't you check the blog for details and see my fellow DT buddies inspiration.  My 6" sq. white card, covered with a piece of crd from a 12"sq pad from The Works. The heart stamp and all of the other stamps are by Leonie Pugol. Sets Make a Wish and Everlasting Love. Fussy cut added to the design. Coloured with Zig colour pens, or stamped onto paper or heat embossed. Enjoy. Stay safe. 

Shaped Card -Not Square or Rectangle.

 

Hello, my second challenge card today.  Make My Monday begins today for the next two weeks,  Meg has chosen for the challenge #141 Shaped Card - Not a Square or a Rectangle. Please check the blog for details and to see the wonderful inspiration from the talented design team.

For my card, as soon as I saw this card in a magazine, I just had to have a go at making it.  It is fiddly and time consuming but I enjoyed the process and am happy with the result, my thanks to the original designer of the card in Creative Stamping # 92. All the stamps were with the magazine. A collection of all sorts of sports, which will suit lots of the male members in our family. I splodged the colours on an A4 sheet which was cut to provide the circle and the lower folded section. Watch out for these stamps for I know I wil be making cards with them, as long as I can find a reason or a challenge to suit. 

Take care, stay safe and enjoy your crafting, it does help with the long hours in the day. 

Snowman/men

 

Hello, I hope all is well with you, thanks for your visit.  This is the first of two of my challenges today, so please look above and below this one, it has been a busy few days for these challenges. Starting today we have our monthly challenge Sparkles Christmas Challenges, Angela has chosen #121 Snowman/men. Please check the blog for details and inspiration from the design team.

For my card, I have a layer of Dreamees Happy Chistmas paper and a strip of snowflake paper from their wonderful CD. Simply Christmas.  A circle die for my image, from Hobby Art - Snowy Wishes. The stamp has been coloured with Promarkers and DI Tumbled Glass for the background.  Of course there is glitter - Diamond Frost - for the snow.  Enjoy your crafting, it is keeping me calm, most of the time. Ha Ha.