Fairies

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today at Sparkles Monthly Challenges

our new challenge chosen by Tracey begins  -a popular one, no doubt.

Challenge #106  -- Fairies

The Design Team have again produced  wonderful inspiration,

please do go over to check it out and see their cards.

For my card, I have used a 7" white scallop edge card.

Matted with black, then white card. 

the nmain card was white, I used various Distress Inks 

to create the background.  The outer darker colour is 

Seedless Preserves.

The two large flowers are Dotty Daisies by Woodware Stamps.

The remainder are by Lavinia Stamps, including the Fairies. 

I have added glitter here and there, of course!

Witha  Sakura white gel pen I added some highlights.

Fairytale/Fantasy

Hello again, we have something very pretty for you in the

 next challenge at Cardz 4 Galz.

Helen has chosen for the challenge

Fairytale or Fantasy

The Design Team have had great fun with this, please pop over

to see their inspirational cards.

I love playing with my Distress Inks, I blended some of the 

new bright colours for my background,

Abandonded Coral, Twisted Citron and Mermaid Lagoon.

I am still needing to get a few more before my collection is complete. 

I then splattered on water and patted it off, to create the bleached areas.

Stamps used are from Chloe Stamps the Dandelion.

The foilage and toadstools are frm Lavinia stamps.

The Fairies are by Sheena Douglass,  - Hidden Fairies.

The sentiment from Lily of the Valley stamps.

Crystal Stickles to the Dandelion heads. 

Quick and Simple

Hi, thanks for popping by, hope you enjoy your visit.

Today begins a two week challenge at 

Alphabet Challenges

For the letter Q - we have Quick and Simple

For my card I made a 6" x 4" white card.

Patted 3 Distress inks onto a rectangle acrylic block.

Sprayed with water,  stamped the colours onto the page.

Allowed to partly dry, then used a heat tool to completely dry.

Stamped Lavinia toadstool houses with Versafine ink, 

directly into the coloured area.

Stamped Lavinia fairy at the top. 

Drew around the rectangle twice with a Micron Pen. 

Created - Just a Note. 

Total time spent once all materials were gathered together.

11 minutes.- that's quick for me and this is simple, give it a try

if you haven't used this technique before. 

Fairies

Hi, thanks for visiting my blog. Your very welcome.

Today we are starting a new challenge at Make My Monday

Our challenge for you is Fairies ......

Why don't you pop to the blog to check out the DTs creations.

So many different and wonderful fairies to see.

For my card, I used my Inkylicious brushes and pastel inks

to create the background. The fairies and all stamps below are

from Lavinia Stamps.  

The ivy stamp at the top is by Sheena Douglass.

Lightly brushed with DI Evergreen Bough and outlined with a 

White Sakura pen. Glitter is added around the fairies but 

you may not be able to see it. 

I'm sure you will enjoy this challenge, wishing you lots of fun.

Monochrome

Hello, welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Today begins the new challenge for the next two weeks at 

Fantasy Stampers

We are challenging you to create

 A MONOCHROME project.

This week blue is my favourite colour, yes I do change my mind regularly

on this subject. I firstly blended with Distress Inks -

Tumbled Glass, then Broken China then finally Chipped Sapphire.

The moon was created with a Fiskars circle punch used as a mask.

All of the stamps are from Lavinia Stamps.

If there are fairies about then of course there is the obligatory glitter

sadly this doesn't show up on the photo. 

Have fun with your monochrome project. 

Get Well Soon

Hi everyone, welcome to my blog, I hope you enjoy your visit.

Today is the launch of the new challenge at My Time To Craft,  we

are asking you to think of the poorly folk in your life for you to send them a

GET WELL SOON card. 

Please check out the gallery by the Design Team for inspiration.

For my card I kept it in the CAS style.

Three swipes with a wide paintbrush with 3 mica coloured paints.

A Wayside flowers stamp from Stamps Away.

Greeting from Hobby Art and the fairy from Lavinia stamps. 

3 gemstones. 

A Sketch

Hi everyone, for the next month at Sparkles Monthly we have a sketch for you

 which you will find below.

How I created my card. 

White 6" card made from an A 4 sheet of white card

Blue card and paper from LOTV - Promises paper pad.

Doiley brushed with Distress ink Dusty Concord.

Ribbon, sentiment and card candi from my stash.

Topper matted onto black card. - Scene created using Lavinia stamps,

Distress inks, water splashes and Crystal Glamour Dust.

Please pop over to the challenge blog to see the DTs ideas which are as 

always, amazing and so different, hoping to inspire you to join us.

Amy's Sketch

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Fantasy

This week at My Time To Craft (MTTC) our challenge is Fantasy - Yes, we want to see fairies, or dragons, or elves or mermaids, anything you consider to be from the world of Fantasy. Please pop over to see what the Design Team have made for you. I have made a card using Lavinia stamps. I first created the background with Peeled Paint, Stormy Sky and Dusty Concord, splatted a few water drops then dried it with a heat gun. I added a little amount of glitter to highlight some areas. I'm looking forward to visiting your areas of Fantasy ( bet you smiled there) during the next week. Have fun. 

Silhouettes

For the next two weeks at CD Sunday Challenges we would like to see Silhouettes. Amongst my ever growing CD collection, I found I don't have any with Silhouettes, I thought this also may be the case of others, but remembering the rules of the challenge blog, as long as something is used from a CD it doesn't have to be all of the project. The background sheet was printed from a Debbie Moore - Lizzy Lu CD - there are some wonderful sheets there for lots of uses other than those planned for the CD. 

I then cdreated a scene with silhouette stamps, all from Lavinia stamps. I'm not sure the source of the sentiment, I was given a few of these in a swap. I look forward to visiting you over the next few weeks. Have fun and hopefully stay well. 

Use your Freebies or Prizes

For the next two weeks at Ruby's Rainbow, you have an opportunity to show us your prizes or freebies, for this is the next challenge. It doesn't have to be stamps, it can be dies, papers, anything you can use to create a project, but we need to know how you won it or it's origin as a freebie. A great challenge, something different.  I have used for the background of my project a sheet of designer paper from a Debbie Moore CD - Lizzy Lu. Every stamp I have used was on a Freebie sheet of Lavinia stamps with a magazine. I have added some Crystal glitter in various places and of course on the wings, I hope this will show when highlighted. Have fun everyone. 

Silhouettes

For the next two weeks at Fantasy Stampers, we are looking to see your projects to fit our challenge of
Silhouettes - the Design Team have made a varied selection which all fit the challenge. Please pop over and check it out. You must use some form of actual stamps, sorry digis are not allowed. I apologise for the poor quality of the photo, taken late at night, poor light. I am going to a craft event tomorrow, but promise will re-new  this as soon as I can.

White and turquoise card stock.

Distress Inks - Peacock Feathers, Bundled Sage and Crushed Olive

All stamps are from Lavinia stamps except

the Greeting Stamp from LOTV. 

Have fun everyone I will be popping around to visit you, I would be grateful for a nice cup of coffee.

#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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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. 

Book Cover - Garden Spells at MMM

Book Cover

For our challenge this week Mynette has chosen a book cover - Garden Spells ,  to inspire us. Please pop over for the photo and more details at Make My Monday to help you with this challenge. For my card I thought a mixture of similar colours to the book cover on black would look good with WOW! powders. 

I used Versamark with the lower stamp from Little Clair and sprinkled different pastel colours onto the ink. Heat embossed the area. I then repeated this with a hanging flower stamp from Lavinia. I stamped two butterflies again embossed with Wow powders. My final greeting was embossed with white Stampendous extra fine detail powder. It's a shame the picture doesn't completely show the amount of bling on the card. Have fun when creating your challenge,I did, I felt like an alchemist working with Merlin. LOL   

Another CAS Card #4

The theme this week at Addicted to Stamps & More is CAS #4 (Clean and Simple). We are greatly enjoying visiting your blogs and look forward to viewing your creations.  My card this week is from a set  of notelets, I made for a friend, she has them now so I can start showing them on my blog. This is a favourite of mine, I love the Lavinia stamps bridge and the toadstools along with the flying fairy (or imp).  I coloured the main image using Promarkers , added a small amount of colour to the fairy with a touch of  crystal Glamour Dust. 

Less Is More - Houses

(2nd. Post today)

It's been a while since I had the time to enter into the wonderful CAS blog Less Is More. Congratulations to Mandi and many good luck wishes on your new venture of entering into the retail world. Welcome to Chrissie's new helper, Jen, I am sure you will have great fun working alongside Chrissie during Mandi's sabbatical.  This week the theme is Houses - and it is One Layer Week, I actually prefer the one layer week, a case of stamp it and colour it. The houses and toadstools on each end are from Lavinia Stamps and the fairy is from Sheena Douglass Hidden Fairies set. The greeting is from a Hobby Art Greeting set.  All coloured with Promarkers with the obligatory glitter for fairyland.

Midsummer Night's Dream

At Make My Monday for the next week we are entering into a dream world, our topic is A Midsummer Night's Dream, so you can make your project either of dreams, fairies or anything you believe fits in the topic  which is continuing Jacqueline's theme for the month of 'June and it's associated events'. I love to use this stamp which is from Bravura, she isn't really a typical fairy, more risqué than a pretty fairy. I first stamped the fairy, then masked her. I created the background with various DI from Ranger, a few sprays from Cosmic Shimmers, adding even more glitter here and there. I was pleased to achieve the mystical background I was aiming for. A few trees across the horizon. In the foreground a mixture of stamps were used. The last thing I did was to remove the mask and colour in the fairy with Promarkers, and even more glitter. A wonderful response last week, for a popular topic, it would be terrific to see as many fairies or dreamers this next week. Thanks to those who take the time to visit my blog and of course for any comments which are always appreciated. 

Another Moonlight Card

I have already submitted one card to the Moonlight challenge at Craft a Scene but I thought of another card I wanted to play with so here it is, my second entry. I love Lavinia Stamps, I don't have many but am trying to slowly build up my collection. I think you can make some wonderful scenic cards with them. I started by blending TH Distress Inks, Dusty Concorde, top and sides, Worn Lipstick more in the central area and Broken china at the lower end. The toadstools, bridge and all of above are from Lavinia, the foliage at the front is a mixture of various stamp makers, Elusive Images and Paperartsy. The moon has glitter on one side and the pixies are collecting moon dust to sprinkle around before the full light of day. thanks for looking and for your comments, which are always appreciated.

C - Celebrate at Alphabet Challenge

Doesn't time fly, here we are already with the letter C at Alphabet Challenge. For the next two weeks we are asking you to join us to C - Celebrate St. Patrick's Day or to make a Good Luck project, which must have the words Good Luck on the project. Remember it can be any paper crafting project, not just a card. .
For my card, I decided on a Good Luck  in your New Home card. The houses are stamps from Lavinia. The trees and birds are from Inkylicious.  Please pop over to the blog for the design team have made a wide variety of wonderful cards to inspire you. I look forward to visiting you over the next two weeks.

Happy Birthday

The Cheerful Stamp Pad this week would like a Happy Birthday card, so this is my entry.  From one sheet of A4 card I managed to make 4 cards. I used 3 shades of TH Distress Inks, spritzed the whole page with water, then covered it in  patches with Sea Salt. If you want more instructions please go here to my Tutorial Blog. This is how the "blotchy" effect is created.  thanks for any comments, which are always appreciated.