Sea Shells

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today we begin a new challenge

at Cardz 4 Galz - #126 Sea Shells

Please check out the wonderful creations by the 

design team and for the few rules we have over on the blog.

For my card I have a pale blue mat for my shells page.

I stamped the shell stamps with Versamark, then heat

embossed with white detail powder. When cold, I 

blended DI - Weathered Wood, Milled Lavender and 

Scattered Straw using the resist technique. 

I added a strip of blue card to sit the greetings band. 

The stamps are by Sheena Douglass - Underwater Angels.

Stay well and stay safe. 

White and Blue

Hello, thanks for your visit.

A new challenge starts today at Cardz 4 Galz.

Debbie has chosen #113 White and Blue

Why don't you pop over to the blog to see the

details and the inspiration from the DT?

I made a C6 card- Background papers for the panels 

are from a paper pad  from The Range-Pure Frozen.

The small panel is a stamped, heat embossed 

with white detail EP. The stamp from Stamps Away-

Wayside Grasses. Resist technique - panel coloured

with Chipped Sapphire DI. Greetings stamp,

butterfly stamp and pearls from stash. 

Lots of Flowers

Good morning, I hope you are well, thanks for your visit.

Today we begin a new challenge at Make My Monday.

Silvi has chosen #98 Lots of Flowers (more than 3)

Please visit the blog, to see the few rules, not to miss

the fabulous inspiration from the design team.

I made a 5 x 7 card, using the resist technique which 

has been one of my favourite techniques since I learnt it.

I used a selection of stamps from my stash, and 3 Distress Inks.

Picked Raspberry, Fossilised Amber and Abonded Coral.

The greeting stamp, by Altenew, has been heat embossed with gold EP.

A few crystal gems randomly added.

I am so looking forward to seeing lots of flowers over 

the next two weeks. 

Sea Shells

Hi everyone, I'm a little late with this card but here it is.

Today we have a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges.

Silvi has chosen Sea Shells.

Please don't miss the inspiration from the Design Team.

My card is a 7" sq. scallop edge card. 

I used one of my Top 5 stamping techniques - Resist Technique.

On a piece of plain white stamping card, made a template 

to divide my card, leaving a plain panel for the sentiment.

I stamped with Versamark 4 shell stamps from Sheena Douglass

A Little Bit Scenic - Underwater Angels.

Sprinkled with white detail powder and heat embossed. 

I sponged overt the shells with Distress Inks - 

Weathered Wood, Mustard Seeds and Picked Raspberry.

Removed the template and stamped the greeting by Do Crafts.

Embossing Heat or Dry

Hello again, thanks for your visit. Today begins a super

challenge at Make My Monday. 

Silvi has chosen for us, Embossing, we can either use embossing

folders or use embossing powders and heat tools. 

The design team have some amazing ideas, please take a look.

One of my most favourite techniques with stamps is the 

Resist Technique. I dusted my card with anti-static powder.

Stamped the image from Woodware stamps - Time After Time

with Versafine ink pad, added clear EP.  Heated with heat tool.

Once cooled I then blended 3 TH Distress Inks.

Squeezed Lemonade, Peacock Feathers and Fossilized Amber,

don't you just love the names of the Distress Inks?

Added faux stitching around the card.  Have fun. 

Name Your Powder

Hello everyone, thanks for your visit.

Today we are starting a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz.

Donna has chosen - Name Your Powder -

We need to see you have used Embossing Powder.

The Design Team have enjoyed getting out their heat tools

please pop over to see their amazing inspirational creations. 

A plain white card, pink background card. White card embossed

using an embossing folder.

A strip of black card, a strip of white card with white heat embossed

flowers, stamp used is a La Blanche flower head. 

I used Stampendous White Detailed powder, which created a 

resist background. I blended Distress Inks Picked Raspberry and 

Worn Lipstick. The greeting is a stamp by Crafter's Companions. 

K is for Kindness

Hi everyone, thanks for your visit. Today we are starting a new

two weekly challenge over at Alphabet Challenges. 

Please pop over to see the Design Team's inspiration for you.

The challenge is K is for KINDNESS.

I have made a Thinking of you card,  there is always Get Well, 

Sorry your poorly, Thank you, many ways to express Kindness.

I have again blended TH Distress Inks to create the background.

Shaded Lilac, Fossilized Amber and Cracked Pistachio, don't they

all have wonderful imaginiative names?

I had firstly heat embossed the stamp - Garden Poems from Penny Black.

using a detailed white Embossing powder, I then blended the inks.

This of course, is known as the  Resist Technique. 

The sentiment is from Crafter's Companion. 

No Patterned Paper

Hello,  it is the start of a new challenge at Cardz 4 Galz.

For the next two weeks we would like to see your creations with

NO PATTERNED PAPER

The Design Team have come up with some interesting and varied cards.

Please pop over to see their creations. 

I always love making backgrounds, especially with TH Distress Inks.

The background has been blended with Tumbled Glass, Squeezed Lemonade

and Spiced Marmalade. 

The floral stamp is Flying Stars - an old wooden favourite from Penny Black.

Heat embossed with white detail Embossing Powder. 

Technique is known as Resist Stamping.

Greeting from Crafter's Companion, ribbon and card candi added. 

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Challenge # 13 Something New

Hello, to my visitors, thanks for popping by.

Today being Thursday is time for the challenge at 

Cardz 4 Galz

It being a new year, some new beginnings, our challenge is for us to see

Something New

Pop over to the blog for more information and to see the inspiration from the DT.

The challenge will be for two weeks, starting today we are changing from a weekly to a 

two weekly blog, plenty of time for you to get creating. 

I watched a wonderful video on Facebook on how to carry out the above technique,

I realise I am not as perfect as the demonstrator was (thank you) but boy did I have fun. 

It was great to get messy again, I haven't had a messy ink day for a while.

I used from Peerless Designs a Dahlia Mask to create the white embossed flower.

I then used my NEW  Brusho powders to create this NEW (for me) technique.

The greeting stamp is from Sheena Douglass, as below.

Here is another result from my play day.

The mask is from Imagination Crafts. 

A Vintage Christmas Tag

Happy New Year to all of my visitors.

Today being the first of the month,  it is time for the all year round Christmas challenge blog

Sparkles Christmas Challenges

to share their new challenge, which has been chosen by Babs. 

A Vintage Christmas Tag

I do hope you pop over for a peep at the DT's inspirational work.

For my tag, the main focal point is Santa from an Inkadinkado stamp

I have had for ever and ever., and I still love it.

I stamped the snowflakes with Versamark, added white EP from Stampendous

I then stamped Santa, placing a mask over his face.

I blended Distress inks Iced Spruce and Chipped Sapphire.

I coloured Santa's face with Promarkers and his glasses with a Sakura Gelly Roll black pen.

I stamped the greeting onto vellum, added some crystal gems and a ribbon to the tag.

Looking forward to your visit to the challenge blog and for any comments. 

Autumn Leaves

Hi, everyone, here in the north of the UK, every day there are 

changes in the weather as the autumn season is progressing. For the next  two weeks

aat Ruby's Rainbow, the challenge is 

Autumn Leaves 

I chose the theme because at present, the leaves are so beautiful,

full of so many hues and shades.  Please pop over to the blog 

to check out the creations from the DT.

For my card.

I created the strip of leaves by using the Resist Technique, one of

my favourite ways of playing with Distress Inks.

Stamps used are from Fancy Foliage by Sheena Douglass

Have fun, I am so looking forward to visitng you.

Fall/Autumn Colours

For the next month at Sparkles Forum Challenges - the challenge is Fall or Autumn colours, these are my kind of colours, I love them all. I usually throw as much on a card as I can get away with, especially colour, but for this challenge I went with the Less is More attitidue. I used a Kraft card, gold mirri card to add some brightness against the resist technique panel. Leaves stamped with Versamrk, clear embossing powder, allowed to cool, then I added various Distress Inks to colour the panel. When dry, I buffed up the leaves. The additional leaves were created by first colouring some card with various autumnal colours, then I stamped with a freebie stamp from Craft Stamper magazine, adding 3 to side of the card. The sentiment is from Kaisercraft. Happy stamping everyone.

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Distress It! at Fantasy Stampers

A new challenge starts today at Fantasy Stampers - Distress It!. I love the technique of distressing, you can either be soft and gentle, or shabby chic or go real crazy, get down dirty. I think this card is between the latter two. I'm so sorry for the black areas on the picture, it is actually gold embossing and even after several attempts with the photography the gold still looks black, unlike in real life where it is bright shiny gold.
Plain cream card  plus two pieces of the same card. Main card, I used a Harlequin stamp with Worn Lipstick DI, 2nd generation random stamping. Mat card was embossed in an embossing folder - brushed with Brushed Corduroy DI The edges of the mat card were scraped with the inside of a pair of old scissors, then the brushed Corduroy was rubbed on the edges.  Ribbon and bow, rose and hat pins added top the mat card. The main image was torn, brushed with Brushed Corduroy around the edges.  French Rose stamp from Inkylicious stamped with Versamark Heat embossed using white detail powder. Worn Lipstick  DI rubbed all over the card - Resist Technique I sprinkled Gold EP and sprinkled pink and white Frantage EP - heat embossed Curled up the edges, added to the card.  I hope you like it and forgive the lack of photography for this particular card. Please pop over to Fantasy Stampers to see the wonderful inspiration for the Design Team, we would love for you to enter this challenge, if your stressed then go for it, get down and get DISTRESSED!

CAS at Addicted to Stamps & More

This week at Addicted to Stamps and More we are challenging you to make a Clean and Simple project. I greatly enjoy covering a white space with coloured inks, and yet I can also feel equally creative by leaving a lot of white space, which I'm told for many is the difficult part. One of my favourite stamping techniques is the Resist Technique, which I used on a piece of card, then adhered to the main card. I then embossed two lines to help the coloured card to stand out. I have a tutorial for this technique on my Tutorial blog  here. I stamped the butterfly first with a blue DI then with a yellow one, to give it a reverse colour from the panel. I have two friends who are currently poorly so am off to make another card. I greatly enjoyed visiting and commenting on the Halloween cards last week, lots of ghoulish fun, I am sure your CAS creations will be wonderful, I love to see  and learn from others creations. 

Butterfly stamp - Freebie with Craft Stamper magazine.

Sentiment from Hobby Art

GC136 Glorious Greens

Gingersnaps Creations 136 is Glorious Greens. I have been having fun again getting inky and in a good old mess. I started with a  piece of white A4 card, which I then blended with a mixture of TH distress inks, including a small area I only coloured with Peeled Paint and Shabby Shutters, both shades of green.  I sprayed water all over the full card and sprinkled salt over all of the card. I allowed it to dry, then became impatient and resorted to the heat gun. When dry brushed off all of the salt. I used Memento Cottage Ivy to stamp the Elusive images collage stamp. I re-stamped the butterfly, spritzed it with some Cosmic Shimmer green mica. Added some Diamante glitter and a few crystal gems.  I attached the second butterfly onto the original with some silicone type glue. I also added some glitter to part of the harlequin area to give more light. The completed topper was added to a card with a resist technique leaf background on Crushed Olive. I would not normally make a card with just the one colour but I am pleased with this result. I do hope you like it too. Thanks for visiting and of course for any comments you may leave, for which I am very thankful.
I am also entering this into the January challenge at Sir Stampalot for Monochromatic

Resist Technique on Tag Week

This week over on Try It On Tuesday, it is the turn for us to make a TAG. The additional requirement we would like to see is a Resisit Technique. I first stamped on the tag with a music stamp, though I admit it doesn't show too well, maybe not suitable as a resist. I heat embossed then covered the tag with TH Broken China, then edged it with TH Chipped Sapphire. I stamped each of the additional elements direct to paper with the Chipped Sapphire, then cut each one out and glued to the tag, I again edged each with the dark blue. I completed the tag, adding a gold die cut, two buttons to the top and bottom and some blue shaded fibre and garden twine. Stamps used are from the Papermania Urban collection.
This week is a tinge of saddness, for this is my last entry to Try it On Tuesdays, as a Design Team member, I have spent a month or two short of two years, have greatly enjoyed the experience, I have learnt many new crafting techniques and wish everyone  continued success.
Other challenge blogs I am entering this into are:-
Make It Monday Anything Goes
Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamping Anything new
Anything Goes at Anything Goes
Gingersnap Creations GC133-use a Set or Line of Stamps

New theme for MMM-Autumn

I am hoping you ladies do enjoy the next month's theme of AUTUMN at Make My Monday.  This is my choice, not unexpected, but it is one of my favourite seasons, though the first few days have been an amazing Indian summer. Each week the theme will remain Autumn with a different subject to challenge you. The first topic is RESIST TECHNIQUE, now there are so many ways you can achieve the resist technique, any is acceptable. Be sure to pop onto the main blog to see the DT cards, they have again excelled. I have added the heat embossing resist technique to my tutorial blog here for the card above. All the details are on the blog so I won't repeat them here. I look forward to visiting your blogs to see your beautiful cards during the British Autumn. Have Fun.
I am entering this card into these challenges:.........................
Stamptacular Sunday   Autumnal Photo Inspiration
Our Craft Lounge   Fall Foilage
Hybrid Card Caravan No 3 Autumn
Cupcake Inspirations - Photo
St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge For the Boys

Fun with Fruit

The challenge blog Our Creative Corner are wanting us to have some Fun with Fruit this week. I most certainly have had fun, I love to try something different. I bought this stamp only yesterday, so this is my first play with it. I stamped it as it is, and coloured it all over with DI Old Paper and Antique Linen. I painted around the border with Vintage Photo, applied as a watercolour. I stamped the main image again, coloured the leaves first. I then touched some areas of the grapes with a white oil pastel crayon, I was so pleased when I added the Dusty Concord, the oil pastel resisted the purple colour giving the desired reflective areas. I then cut it out and added it as a decoupage layer. Matted the image onto black card and decorated the card.  Thanks for the diferent theme with a chance to play with my new stamp.

St. Luke's 4th Card

I have enjoyed this month’s challenge  at St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge– Black, White and one other colour, here is my 4th ladies, thanks so much for such an interesting challenge. I had a few suggestions in my comments for various colours, someone mentioned lime green, couldn’t quite make it lime but I did go for green. I think this card, again would be suitable for a male, I do try when making cards for charities to include men’s cards for I know there are less of them made than cards more suitable for the females. This card is mostly made by matting and layering the required colours, the main focus is the centre small piece of card. I used two stamps from Elusive Images Eastern Grasses, firstly I heat embossed with clear EP, a few stamped images, to achieve a resist effect when I covered the piece of card with Bundled Sage Distress Ink. I then stamped the same images directly with the Bundled Sage and again with black. I added a few black gems to add a little bling. The Happy Birthday stamp is from Do Crafts. Wonder what the ladies have in store for us next month?  I will be posting to you 8 cards on Monday.
N.B. I am thrilled to add this card was chosen to be in the July Top 4, which won me a badge, which is now in myside bar. Many thanks to the ladies at St. Luke's.

New Challenge Blog

Crafty Individuals, one of my favourite stamping companies have created a blog, April is the first of their planned monthly challenges, they have begun with 'Simply Squares.' Now I do have a number of stamps but only a few are actually square, so thinking out of the square box, I have created a panel with the fabulous poppy stamp, cutting up the stamped image into as nigh as possible 6 squares. I added it to a square panel which is covered with the same colour inks using the splash it on the card, soaking ink up from your craft mat method, onto a resist background. I also used a resist method with the poppy panel. Crafty Individuals Poppy stamp

TH Distress inks Peeled Paint, Spiced Marmalade, Fired Brick and Mustard Seed.

I am also entering the card into The Stampman Challenge which is Resist Technique.