CAS - Wings

For the next two weeks at Addicted to CAS Florence will be hosting her challenge for WINGS - you have such a wide area to choose from wings.  For this challenge we are being sponsored by 

For my card having decided on my colour choices, I matted a piece of blue card onto a white square folded card, next I added a white square of card. I punched out a 3" circle with a punch, or a die could be used. I then blended Salty Ocean and Mowed Lawn TH Distress Inks to form the sky and grass. Sprayed with water,  after a few seconds dabbed with a dry wet wipe, which creates the dispersion of the ink. I used a leaf tapestry peg stamp in two colours to form the leaves and a flower tapestry peg stamp in two colours to create the flowers. The bird from Inkidinkado is stamped with Tuxedo Black from Memento. The flying birds are from a set by Inkylicious - Trees. The circle was added with 3-D stickers to the main card. i love the effects we can achieve with Distress Inks. I look forward to visiting your entries, I am sure we will see many CAS variations of WINGS.  Above all enjoy crafting. 

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. 

Biker Girl - Punk not Pink!

For my second entry into the Designer Paper challenge at Creative Corner,  this paper was the perfect background for the Biker Girl. Usually cute type stamps are  very pretty, pink, feminine and flowery, but I wanted something different, to show they can be a little more grungy and on the punk side instead of the pink side. The papers are from a male paper pack by HONO papers, the wonderful female biker is by Crafty Sentiments stamps. I coloured the image with Promarkers, the motor bike grungy images are from a motor bike stamp by Papermania. I have added a few cogs as parts of her bike, never having written graffiti I had fun creating it on this wall. One thing some of my blogging friends may not know is I was once a Biker Girl. My OH and I spent several courting years travelling on his Norton bike, so this stamp holds fond memories for me and yes, at one time, I did have pink hair. Thanks for visiting me and for any comments you may leave, they are always greatly appreciated. 

Creative Corner - Designer Papers

Whenever I find a new challenge blog I do try to support them in their early days, the more attention they can get the better. I found Creative Corner last Friday, the day of their challenges,  so here is my first entry for this week's challenge Designer Papers. My papers are from a lovely booklet of male orientated papers from We Are Memory Keepers. The boy, isn't he so cute, from LOTV, I coloured with Promarkers.  Hope you like my entry and best wishes for a successful new challenge blog ladies.

Inspired By Nature at MMM

Many thanks for the wonderful entries last week for my Pink and Black theme. I greatly enjoyed visiting you.

For this week, at Make My Monday,  we have Inspired By Nature - we would like you to make definite classic nature inspired entries - no cuties will be judged in this week's challenge. 

For my card the technique I used is called Caught in Crystal there is a video on You tube the details are here. I used kraft coloured card for the background, fastened a piece of mesh with blue ribbon to add texture. The stamps I used are from Sheena Douglass  - the fir branch, branch with the bird are both from A Little Sketchy - Faith. I used H2Os behind the acetate. I look forward to once again visiting you, have fun with your project. 

Here Come the Boys

Here The Come Boys a challenge group for male cards are asking for me personally a very difficult challenge 

- NO STAMPS - . I have made this card for a friend of mine who needs certain cards for her business. The whale has been cut from an A3 sheet of sea creatures, along with the bubbles. I used an A3 sheet of wax type paper, tore it into strips to create the waves in the green and blue shades. The greeting has been computer created, punched out with a die. The addition of a big googly eye helped the whale come alive. Thanks for the chance to show this card, even though I rarely make a card without a stamp. 

B is for Bottles

At Alphabet Challenges , Avril has chosen for the letter B - Bottles.  For my project I decided to use stamps from Crafty Individuals. There is the Floradora Perfume advert and two sets of bottles of perfume from CI 335 and 341. I used TH Distress inks to add the colours. The corner stamp from Sheena Douglass was heat embossed with Stampendous white detail powder . Please pop over to the main blog where my fellow team mates have had great fun, obviously against character there are a number of bottles which hold alcohol. LOL I wonder how many varieties of bottles we will see over the next two weeks? have fun everyone.