#59 Addicted To CAS

Here we are at # 59 at Addicted To Stamps and More, for our CAS  week. This card is probably the Cleanest and Simplest I have ever made. I was given this stamp some time ago from a friend, this is only the second time I have used it. I coloured it with Promarkers, being sure not to add too much. Sometimes we need very little on a card because we need the sentiment to be the most important element. I look forward to visiting you over the next week to see your CAS projects. 

Kindly being sponsored by Nicecrane Designs this week. 

#58 Addicted to Colour

For our colour challenge this week at Addicted to Stamps and More we find an interestingly different combo. Remember you don't have to use the actual named colours,  any make and names as long as they are the same colours, grey, yellow and black. Remember to have fun when making your project We are so lucky to be once again sponsored by Nicecrane Designs, pop over to the challenge blog to find out more.

Recipe for my card

White, Grey and Black Card stock

X-Cut Lace trim punch

Small Poppy stamp from Joanna Sheen

Promarkers

Black Micron pen

Yellow ribbon from stash

Make Your Mark # 57

Challenge # 57 at Addicted to Stamps and More is Make Your Mark. What does that mean, well it means, anything you use which will make it's mark on your project. Water colours, alcohol pens, inks, paints, you get the idea.  For my project, I chose a favourite stamp, which I was lucky to purchase at a bargain price. You will all know now how much I love a bargain, it's a good excuse to buy isn't it? I used Promarkers to add the colour to the flowers.

Recipe

White and orange card stock

Background DP from aa hideaway pack

Penny Black stamp - Garden Poem

Greeting stamp, ribbon from my stash.

I look forward to visiting you to see what you have created this week, for our Make Your Mark Challenge.

#54 Addicted to CAS

Here we again at ATSM for our # 54 challenge which is Addicted to CAS - please be sure to check out our rules and guidelines on our blog, so many folk have totally differing ideas on what CAS is, so the best thing to do is actually check our rules for our challenges. For my CAS card this time round, I decided on  stamp I haven't used in a long while, it belongs to a Debbie Moore Butterflies and Dragonflies set, I do like the impressions that rubber stamps give. Even the tiny additional butterfly is from the same set. I coloured he background with old paper then used a few pale blue Promarkers to colour, used a Quickie Glue pen and added some crystal  Glamour Dust glitter to a little shine. I die cut a patterned round shape or a mat. the lovely sentiment is from HobbyArt Ltd. I do love visiting you and look forward to seeing your CAS projects.

#53 Addicted to Colour - ATSM

 This week at Addicted to Stamps and More is time for us again to be challenged with this colour palette
You don't need to use the specific colours below, I used the nearest I could find to suit from various sources.

For my card I used papers from my stash, used several dies for the embellishments along with a pretty rose.  The stamp is from Kanban,  sadly no longer in business, I do miss them. I used Promarkers to colour the stamped image. I do hope you will be either tempted or inspired to enter the challenge, pop over to the blog

the Design Team have again produced some wonderful inspiration for you. Have fun, I did. 

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Make Your Mark Zentangles

At Addicted to Stamps and More (ATSM) this week our Make Your Mark Challenge # 52. Recently my husband has been in hospital for 5 weeks,a  long, lonely and worrying time. During this time a friend suggested I tangled, I knew about tangling but hadn't really given it a try beyond simple applications. However, I decided to give it a go, it certainly becomes a stress - releasing thought processing way to pass time. I used a Woodware stamp of a rose, which has lots of open spaces. With the help of many Zentangle patterns available on the internet, you only need to Google Zentangles you will be swamped with web sites, of course those in the USA have a huge community and following of this form of art.  I used a Micron Pen ( a fine pointed marker pen) to create the patterns. if you enlarge the picture you will see it in more detail.  I look forward to visiting you to see how you have Made Your mark over the next week. Have fun.

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#46 Anything Goes @ ATS and More

Hello to my visitors, once again at Addicted to Stamps and More it is time for #46 which is Anything Goes.

My card this week has been designed both as a Design card for ATSM and to be entered into Pastel Colours over at  Lavinia's monthly challenge. I adore the stamps from Lavinia, I am trying to slowly build up my collection. The bridge on the card is one my latest purchases, it is a strong favourite of mine. I don't have Pan Pastels, but by using very light colours of DI,   I hope I have achieved the Pastel look. Every stamp on the card is from Lavinia. Please pop over to the ATSM blog where you will find the few rules, plus a wonderful array of Anything Goes from Kylie and the wonderful Design Team. Thank you for visiting and I hope you will be popping back again. Thanks for any comments, which are always a joy to read. 

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Photo Inspiration at ATSM

For this week at Addicted to Stamps and More, we offer you a photo to inspire you. The interesting part of a photo inspiration is the possibilities of ways to be inspired are many.  The background, the colours, the design, and of course many more. My first thought was of it being in a wooden cabin. A window with a view. This time for a change I searched through a CD I have called 100 Window Images, which provided the image on the card. The wood background is from Debbie Moore Shabby Chic In the Garden CD. I added a strip of punched out card, using a Martha Stewart punch. Please pop over to the main blog to see how the Design Team were truly inspired. I look forward to visiting you, many thanks to those who have popped onto my blog to see me recently, every visit is so much appreciated.

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Pink Cloissone

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Hi to all my visitors and followers. This week for my design card at Addicted to Stamps and More we are once again challenging you to a CAS project. Remember CAS is Clean and Simple. A lot of white or the main colour of your card should remain clean. I have recently for my class spent a session demonstrating and making cards with the Faux Cloissone (pronounced Klaw-zone) designs. The above card is an example. 

I used a Sheena Douglass branch to stamp directly onto the card which I heat embossed. The leaves and flowers from the same set of stamps were stamped onto spare white card. Coloured with H2O paints, when dried I adhered them to the branch. Once the adhesion was dry, I applied Glossy Accents to give the final enamel look. Stamped in the upper right corner is a stamped greeting from Hobbyart. I look forward to visiting you to see how you have created your CAS card this week. Take care everyone and have some fun.

# 43 Addicted to Colour

This is our 43rd challenge already, doesn't time go quickly? Here we are at Addicted to Stamps and More

and it is our week to challenge you with Colour, see the three colours above, you need to use all 3, of course not the exact named colours but as near as possible.  We the Design team, are also challenged, for we don't know what surprises our wonderful leader Kylie is going to put forward. I found this one difficult, I'll be honest for I am more a dirty, grungy creator, I don't often use such light bright colours, maybe I should  jump out of my comfort box more often, what do you think? Please pop over to the main blog for the DT have created some super samples for you.

I started by rubbing onto a piece of white card, with Faded Jeans (Blue), Worn Lipstick (Pink) and Wild Honey (Orange) I blended them all together, hence in some areas it looks green, combo of the blue and orange blended together. I heat embossed the dragonfly directly onto the card and separately onto card. I used H20's to colour the dragonfly. the stamped sentiment is from Indigo Blu, the dragonfly from Sheena Douglass and the small background flower from La Blanche stamps. Hope you like it, will be popping around to visit you, have fun with your creation, remember anything goes in the required colours.

#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.

We are again very pleased to welcome our sponsor for this week 

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. 

Anything Goes at ATS&M

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For the next week we at Addicted to Stamps and More are challenging you to create something, anything which fits in the category of ANYTHING GOES - we are expecting to see lots of different forms of creations.   I had the greatest fun and the most nervous time combined when decorating this box. Let me explain. Firstly it was the first time I have tackled this form of creative work using this technique. Secondly the finished product wasn't for me, so mistakes weren't really acceptable, whilst a learning curve it had to be right. I belong to a recently formed Yahoo group called Stampers UK, we organise various forms of swaps, which of course must include stamping and/or stamping techniques. Recently we had a Secret Object swap, we each had to add what colour/s we would like and what form of theme we would prefer for whatever our object was. We were then each allocated a partner. My partner wanted either Steampunk or Victorian in blue and yellow. She almost got her full wish but I went with peach instead of yellow. For a few weeks I have been popping onto You Tube to check out how you cover an object with stamped on tissue paper, then I received in the post from the organiser of the swap, a round tin. I gasped, I wasn't expecting anything other than a flat object, but I went back to You Tube and set to. I painted the box with blue acrylic, then got stamping onto white tissue paper. It is very much like decopatch, only with a one layer of tissue paper instead of papers. I made some flowers  and butterflies for the lid. Added  a dash  of Stampendous embossing powder and glitter flakes. Then I added some glue and gilding flakes. My swap partner, I am pleased to say loves her box. I have managed to get some similar boxes from a local craft shop, and next on my agenda is, I am going to teach my card class how to do this. Well, ladies, it's your turn now to make

ANYTHING for our ANYTHING GOES challenge. Have fun during your creative times.

#40 - Photo Inspiration & DT Call

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 This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we are challenging you to create a project using the above photo to inspire you. Please pop over to our blog where you will find some wonderful creations from the DT.
The card below is one I have made. I am truly no artist but with these stamps from Hobby Art you can at least pretend you are a water colour painter.

I used most of the stamps from Coastal Wildlife and a few from Coastal Scene-it. I mainly used Distress Inks as a water colour paint, the chair is a stamp by Mary Hughes. I am looking forward to checking in on your creations to see how you have interpreted the photo, remember all we need is an interpretation, but most of all have fun and enjoy what your doing.

 DT CALL                            DT CALL                     DT CALL

Just before I go, I wanted to let you know there is a special announcement on the
Addicted to Stamps and More challenge blog, Kylie is sending out a DT Call.  If you are interested please visit the blog for more information on how to apply. Good luck if you decide to give it a go. 

ATS&More #39 CAS

Addicted to Stamps and More this week we are challenging you to our 39th challenge which is CAS

(Clean and Simple).  This week we will be sponsored by Heather Ellis, please check our main blog for more details. For my CAS this week, I have returned to an old but faithful technique. I choose an acrylic block the nearest size of my stamp, which is from Indigo Blu. I put several patted applications of Frayed Burlap onto the block, then sprayed with water. I tapped off the excess with a tissue. Then stamped directly onto my card. This is then dried with my heat tool. I then added the stamp to the block, added Vintage Photo and Frayed burlap to the stamp and stamped directly onto the prepared panel. Stamped Happy Birthday. added a few gems. I think this would make a nice quick and easy card for a guy. I look forward to again visiting your blogs. Happy crafting everyone. 

Addicted to Colour #38

For this week #38 at Addicted to Stamps and More it is the turn for Addicted to Colour - which are 

I don't normally use such light colours but if I can, you can. It is amazing how well they worked together. I added my two stamped strips to a cream card for I felt the white background was too bright behind the images.I have used Lavinia Stamps, to create a touch of fairyland, though I was kindly informed by a friend these are not fairies they are pixies, one must be PC. I used Worn Lipstick, Frayed Burlap and Peacock Feathers from the TH range of Distress Inks to create the colours. Have fun everyone, I'll be soon popping onto your blog to view your creations. 

#37 Make Your Mark

A slight change in our challenges are starting this week, at Addicted to Stamps and More, instead of splitting them into groups with numbers we will be continuing in numerical order from this week onward. Hence we seem to have jumped forward to #37 which is Make Your Mark - where you must use some form of marker pen, paints etc, more details on the main blog.

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My project all started with a can of Shaving Foam, or in the US Shaving Cream. There are many videos on You tube which show this technique. A dish with a layer of shaving foam, a few drops of colourant, I used two TH Distress Ink Re-Inkers for this card. Stir gently with a stick or handle of paintbrush. Gently lay on your card, remove the shaving foam and there you are Shaving Foam Marble technique, which can be used for a host of backgrounds. Once you start you can't finish, I have ended up with quite a number of marbled sheets, so watch out, it will be popping up over the next few weeks or so. When dried, I stamped twice with a Penny Black stamp - Garden Poems, then I coloured them with Promarkers. Go on have some fun and get messy, I did and had a fab time. Have fun with your project.

Sketch # 6 at ATS and More

How do these weeks go so fast? Time already for our challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. This week your challenge is a Sketch # 6. It will actually be our last Sketch challenge for Kylie our wonderful leader in Oz, is having a re-vamp of our challenges, which I'm sure you will read about on the blog.  This is the sketch for you to follow. 

My background sheets are from a pretty paper pack which was free with a magazine. I particularly wanted to make a card with blue flowers. I stamped the branch directly onto the pretty paper. The flowers were stamped onto spare card and coloured with Promarkers, I did add a dot of Crystal Clear Glamour Dust to the centre of the flowers. 

Stamps - Branch and flowers - Sheena Douglass Always Floral set.

Greeting stamp - Sheena Douglass - Only Words Through the Rain set. 

CAS at ATSM

Here we are round to our CAS (Clean and Simple) week. A long time ago I bought several sets of La Blanche flowers, they were the first La Blanche stamps I had bought. I must add I have bought many since. They are so different to both rubber and clear stamps, yet they give such a clear defined image. I believe they are made of foam with a silicone coating. They were once very reasonably priced but I have found as they have become more popular, of course, the prices have gone up. I have used a very small stamp, actually my most favourite flower stamp of all, I used several Distress inks to stamp directly, using post it note masks.  I decided not to add any further colour, other than the greeting stamped in a similar colour rather than using black. I hope you have fun  making your CAS card, where really Anything Goes - for there is no theme attached to it. 

Addicted to Stamps # 6

Addicted to Stamps and More are for this week challenging you to be Addicted to STAMPS # 6. Please do pop over to the blog for more inspiration from the amazing design team and for more information. For my DT project I used a technique called - Caught In Crystal - it's an old stamping technique but with a modern twist, as seen on this You Tube video presented by Sheena Douglass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaAi_cxKMH0   I stamped onto heat resistant acetate with Black Stazon using Indigo Blu stamps, I also used H2Os . The floor polish worked a treat, the results close up are very satisfying. I do encourage you to try this technique I'm sure you'll have fun. 

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Vintage at ATSM

Addicted to Stamps and More   for this week the Theme Challenge is Vintage. a chance to bring out all the old vintage type papers, stamps, flowers, buttons, lace, pearls whatever you wish to add to your project.  For my card I started with the corset, from a Creative Expressions set - Vintage Lingerie. Then I wanted to add some lace, buttons, a ribbon until I thought I should stop adding. I think Vintage looks so romantic, so I hope you have as much fun as I did, making your project. I look forward to again visiting you. 

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