Festive!

Hi bloggers!  Where did August go?  I can't believe the boys will be going back to school next week.

I recently bought one of the Art Pads ('Tis the Season) from Lili of the Valley and have used one of the beautiful images to make this card.  The flowers and leaves are Spellbinders 'Layered Poinsetta'.  The dotty card is Anna Marie Designs.  I embossed the card blank with one of the poinsettia dies.  The sentiment is from Craftwork Cards.

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend and have some sunshine where you are (it is glorious here).

I would like to enter this card into the Lili of the Valley's Ideas to Inspire Blog challenge - 'Make it Festive!'.

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

Happy Campers DT Project - 'Use a Stamp'

 



Morning bloggers!  Wow, I am so grateful and excited to have been chosen as one of the new DT members at Happy Campers.  The Challenge for this month is 'Use a Stamp' (either rubber or digi, or both!).  The rest of the DT have produced some amazing samples so why not pop over to Happy Campers and take a look and enter your own stamping project!  For my card, the sentiment is a Clarity Stamp and the flowers are Marion Emberson Designs 'Sunshine & Flowers'.  I coloured the flowers with Sakura Glaze pens.

Am supposed to be spending the day at the beach today with friends but looks like the rain may have put a stop to that.  May have to do some more crafting instead!!

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

Christmas!

 



Morning bloggers!  Spent a glorious 11 days in Spain with the boys - brilliant!!  Came home to find out that my mum was in hospital - not so brilliant!!  Anyway, she is back home now so things are beginning to return to normal (or as normal as they can be).  Lying awake at 6am this morning wishing I was back in Spain I decided to get up and make my first Christmas card of 2013 (as you do!!) and here it is.  I stamped and embossed the IndigoBlu 'Large Snowflake' onto vellum and coloured the back with Copics.  The background is PanPastels randomly stamped and embossed with the snowflake.  The sentiment is from the IndigoBlu 'Here Comes Santa' stamp set.  I would like to enter this card into the following:

IndigoBlu Challenge - 'Christmas in July'

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 'Anything Goes'

The Hobby House Challenge - 'Christmas'

 

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!

Summer

Wow, where have the last couple of weeks gone!  My children have kept me so busy with end of school year activities that crafting has had to take a back seat! 

I love this colour combination - I think it's really summery.  The background is a piece of cardboard covered in texture paste, stamped into top and bottom with a Karantha stamp - 'Cottage Garden: Meadow Daises' and dusted over with yellow and pink PanPastels.  I spread imagination crafts' Sparkle Medium - 'Old Rose' through a That Special Touch mask - 'Fox Glove'.  The large flowers are the Heartfelt Creations 'Sun Kissed Fleur' die and the butterfly is a Martha Stewart punch.  I distressed the edges of the black card on the base with the Sparkle Medium.  I would like to enter this into the following:

Happy Campers Challenge - 'Summer'

In The Pink Challenge - 'Hot Pink'

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it!

Diamonds

Morning Bloggers!  Hope you are all enjoying the sunshine.  The inspiration for this card came from the Crafty Friends Challenge this week 'Inspired by a Song' and I chose Rihanna's 'Diamonds'.  The background was created using dusty concord, picked raspberry and mustard seed distress inks.  The stamps are Sheena's 'Silhouette Garden' and Claritystamp's 'Birdhouse Garden'.  This was a reasonably quick card to make but I am pleased with the result.  I would like to enter this into the following:

Crafty Friends Challenge - 'Inspired by a Song'

Happy Campers Challenge - 'Bling!'

 

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!



Beach Hut

 

 

Hi bloggers!  I bought this Artemio wooden beach hut and wooden shapes a few weeks ago and have finally decided to do something with them!  One of my dreams would be to own a beach hut just like it and spend lazy days by the sea (one day maybe!!).  I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Chalk Acrylics in 'Beach Hut' and 'Stone' to paint the beach hut with a layer of PaperArtsy Crackle Glaze between the two layers of paint to create the crackle effect.  The wooden shapes are painted with the 'Beach Hut' paint.  I stamped the anchors on the front with 'Peacock Feathers' distress ink.  I stamped some leaves on the sides with 'Peeled Paint' distress ink to create a seaweed effect.

I would like to enter this into the following:

Crafty Calendar Challenge - 'A Colour Challenge'

Stamping Sensations Challenge - 'Summer Colours'

Crafty Friends Challenge - Picture Inspiration (Summer theme)

 

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like it!

Here Comes Summer!

 



Hi bloggers.  Have just been looking at the weather forecast for the weekend and it looks like summer is finally on its way (well for a few days at least!), so I have decided to share this 'summery' card with you today.

 

The items I used are:

 

Papers - HOTP 'Serendipity'

Orange/yellow flowers and flourishes - Spellbinders 'Jewel Flowers and Flourishes'

Pink/blue flowers - Die-namics 'Prima Donna Petals'

Whimsy Stamp - 'Wee Suzi' (coloured with Promarkers and Spectrum Noirs)

Large black gems - Creative Expressions Dazzlers

White circle - Spellbinders 'Exquisite Circles'.

 

I would like to enter this card into the Country View Crafts' Challenge - 'Summer Sizzler'.

 

I hope you like it and thanks for stopping by!