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. 

Interactive - Kinetic

Good morning, thanks for your visit.

Today we begin a new two weekly challenge at 

Make My Monday

Wei has chosen Interactive - Kinetic- Moving Part.

Please pop over to the challenge blog, the DT have made 

some fabulous kinetic cards, with so many different styles.

My card had a black base, with green card. I embossed 

with Swiss Dots, for the background. 

This is a waterfall card, the stamped areas are from 

Stamps Away, old ones but I still love them.

You gently pull the ribbon, three of the squares 

flip over for you to see the message.

Have fun.

O is for Oval

Hello, thanks for your visit. Today is the beginning of a two

week challenge at Alphabet Challenge. We are already up to the 

it is an old but a favourite stamp of mine. 

Coloured with Promarkers with of course a generous

sprinkling of glitter here and there.

The greeting stamp is by Crafter's Companions. 

Have fun, don't forget to pop back to see what else I have been doing.

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. 

Thinking of You

Hi everyone, today starts a new challenge at Sparkles Monthly Challenges

until the 14th May our challenge is 

Thinking of You

Please pop to the blog to check out the few details and of course

to see the amazing creations from the Design Team. 

For my card, I decided upon the CAS approach. 

White scallop edge card with a black mat.

White watercolour card which gives some texture.

3 large brush strokes of mica powders.

Stamp from Stamps Away - Wayside Grasses. 

Greeting stamp from Hobbycraft. 

Watercolour

Hello, thank  you for visiting my blog. Today is the start of 

our new challenge at Make My Monday, which is 

Watercolours

Please pop to the blog to see the details and of course to check 

out the Design Team Gallery.

For my card, I decided to go for the Clean and Simple look.

I love watercolours, it is such a relaxing form of art.  Though for this card

I just splashed on three colours with a flat paintbrush. The watercolours

I used are a new set, which have mica in them. The colours are shimmery

which sadly can't be seen on the photo.

The stamp is from Wayside Grasses by Stamps Away.

Last Minute Christmas Make

Hi, hope your well today. For our challenge at MTTC for the next two weeks

we thought maybe you have a 

Last Minute Christmas Make

you would like to share with us for our challenge.

Please pop over to see the inspiration from the DT.

Here is my DT card.

A white scallop edge card

Oval Marianne Die cut

Stamp is from Stamps Away - Winter Wonderland.

Distress Inks Watercoloured + a Promarker to colour the image.

Greetings stamp from Woodware.

Added image to card with 3d foam. 

Have fun. 

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White Christmas

Hi everyone, hope your well and comfortable.

For the next week at  Make My Monday the challenge is

White Christmas

The Design Team have some wonderful ideas, so please 

do pop over to see their projects. 

For my Card

Firstly I apologise for the poor photograph, sadly

 there are not many light hours here in the north of England. 

Those we do have are also very dull. 

I used a white scallop edge card.

My stamp is by Stamps Away - Pilkington's Winter Wonderland

a set of 3 adorable winter scenic stamps. 

Die cut and edged with DI Broken China

Lightly coloured with Promarkers.

Quickie Glue Pen to add lots of glitter on the snow. 

Raised on 3 d foam pads - dimensionals. 

Have fun and thanks for your visit. 

Traditional Christmas

Hello, welcome to my blog, it all seems to be about Christmas at present,

we at Fantasy Stampers would like to see a project which depicts 

TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS

 We do require for you to do some stamping, sadly there are many who 

still do not realise we are a stamping required group. 

Please do take a look at the DT's inspirations.

For my card, I used a white scallop edge card.

Matted it with silver mirr, and a printed sheet of snowflakes.

My main image was matted onto silver mirri card.

The stamp for the main image is in a set from

Stamps Away

Pilkington's Winter Wonderland.

I used pencils to colour the image, to give it a softer look. 

The greeting is a die cut, I also added some 

peel off faux gems, this will keep the card flat for postage. 

X is for X-periment

Happy New Year from Alphabet Challenge - here we are at letter X - Design Team member Jennifer has thought of a good one for you to play with ---    X-periment. The idea being for you to have a go at a technique, design, something you haven't done before. Have a good play session. For my DT project I have remained fairly simple. Using various blue tones in the Rangers DI range I direct stamped onto a square card. This in itself makes you take a deep breath hoping all goes well.  I used hedgerow plants from Stamps Away.  I have used the technique referred to as Shadow Stamping.

Using one of the same stamps used on the main card, I stamped using Versamark onto a prepared die cut mat, added white detail Embossing powder, heat embossed and cooled the image. Using the same cleaned stamp, I used Chipped Sapphire DI for the shadow, you hover over the white image and move slightly to the right and a touch up, when happy, slowly lower the block and stamp. With good luck and management you should have a perfect shadow stamped.  Why don't you give it a try? I look forward to see what you have X-perimented with. 

Your Favourite Christmas Colour Combo

Hello again, welcome to my blog. For the next week at Cardz 4 Guyz, Helen has chosen - Your Favourite Christmas Colour Combo. If you pop over to the blog you will see a variety, but we want to see what your favourite is. I have always liked blue and white with a touch of silver/glitter. The background paper is from a Willow Design CD, the main image is from a few years ago, by Stamps Away- Pilkington 3 set Winter Wonderland. The greetings label is from Little Claire stamps. I coloured with Promarkers and a mix of Broken China and Faded Jeans Distress Inks as a watercolour for the sky.  Quickie glue Pen and Glamour Dust sprinkled over. I am looking forward to visiting you all to see what your favourite combo is. Have fun. 

Animal Magic

Today at Fantasy Stampers our challenge, which lasts for two weeks, is Animal Magic. In my push to progress with my Christmas Cards, I decided to use a favourite stamp of mine, which is form Stamps Away - Pilkington's Winter Wonderland, there are 3 stamps in the set, all wonderful winter scenes. I used watercolour paper for this particular card, using a mixture of several of the blue shades of Distress Inks as watercolours. Please pop over to the main blog to check out the amazing inspiration from the Design Team, have fun in cdreating your Animal Magic. I look forward to visiting you over the next few weeks.

Anything but a Card

Can't believe it is the 15th of the month already and here we are Sparkles Monthly back again with another challenge for you. Of course we are still all in the throngs of Christmas preparations or if well planned which I am not, everything is ready waiting for the big day. Our challenge is Anything BUT a Card, there is so much we can make, the design team have some wonderful ideas, please do pop over to see them. At a recent class we again decorated candles, the ladies do enjoy this technique. Please click on the picture, it will enlarge for more a more detailed close up. The stamps used above are
Left LOTV - Ornaments    Centre - I believe from Chocolate Baroque  - Right - Stamps Away
All gently coloured onto tissue paper with Promarkers. Melted onto the candle.
Sorry about the dirty mark on the left side, it is a shadow, the candle is actually clean (thanks goodness).

Use Something Wooden

At the Craft Room Challenge this week they are sponsored by The MDF Man, so they wish us to Use Something Wooden. I was fortunate to spend some time and money at The MDF Man's stall at Doncaster and bought myself some Christmas Baubles and a few other items. I painted mine with ordinary white emulsion paint, stamped and added gilding flakes to one and stamped a winter scene on the other. I used gold embossing on the red and silver embossing on the white and blue. I made these for a stamping swap I am involved in, I was so pleased my partner said how much she liked them, it was my first attempt at stamping onto painted wood.
Stamps used, Katy Sue both Greetings Stamps, Stamps Away Christmas Scene. Flower on Vellum -Sheena Douglas

St. Luke's Challenge Wk 1 entry

St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge kicked off another month with a super new challenge. Black and white with ONE other colour. Firstly congratulations to the 3 winners, well done. Many thanks ladies for the kind comment of my four entries, I will be attempting this once again, for it my own personal challenge, I have 3 ready, only one more to make. So let's get started for Week 1 with my Black, White and Pink.
Card made with pink cardstock. A piece of black with pink spots card from stash added to the card. A piece of white card adhered to the black spotted card. I punched out three pink circles, placed them onto the white card to position where to stamp Love, Celebrate and Cherish. Stamped onto the 3 circles with Wayside flowers from Stamps Away, adhered the circles to the card. Added 3 Card Candy to the lower right corner.  Added some White and black spotted ribbon. Inspired by Gina K.

I've been getting in a Mess!

I know I haven't blogged for a few days, but I haven't been idle. I have been creating a right mess and having a lot of fun. Every now and them I want to play and experiment. I  also felt it was time for my class to get down good and dirty. Boy! Did they have fun. I used photo gloss paper, cheapest I could find, it works fine. I used a mixture of mica powders, placed into  puddles of water, mixed and with a  paint brush, added both lansdcape wise and portrait wise, put aside to dry. This type of card  dries very quickly.Don't be tempted to use a heat gun, for after only seconds the film on the coated card will start to melt. Using the same method , I also used LuminArte powders. Other samples are with the solid mica watercolours from Cosmic Shimmer, and  H2O's mica paints. Also I used, Cosmic Shimmer Mists, a few Moonglow Glitz sprays. Most of the results are above, some I have made into cards. Here are a few:-

I am entering the fairy card into the Sweet Stamping Challenge Blog for Things with Wings.

If your now off to experiment, wear a pinny, a pair of rubber or plastic gloves, cover your work surface, relax, make a mess and have lots of fun. I did!
P.S. More of a different painting mess to follow.



Another Sketch

Over at Stampin' Royalty this week the challenge is a sketch, pop over to have a peek.  It's unusual for we Brits to make this type of tent fold card, so I thought I'd give it a go. I used Mustard Seed, Peeled Paint and Spiced Marmalade to colour the stamping area. I used stamps from Wayside flowers by Stamps Away and Grasses by Inkylicious. The small orange butterfly has been added to hide a fault in the ribbon, but I just had touse it for it was the best match of ribbon I had.