Thanks for the Inspiration...

Feels like my mojo is awakening a little bit, as I've made 12 cards so far this month and it helps to check our challenges to inspire one, and to put down ones crochet hook for a bit.

It's E = Embossing week at Darnell's IDEAS prompt... so I've made a card using both dry and wet embossing...

And looking out at the challenges I'm joining in with 

Just Add Ink challenge #742 - inspired by the photo

and

Just Us Girls - Word Week #766 - Green

and

Neglected Stuff March challenge 

I chose this embossing folder with a close pattern so when I applied the embossing ink it would stick mostly to the raised areas, then heat embossed with some long forgotten Leaf Green EP (gosh the container is still nearly full - it's a wonder it still worked).  Finished with a stamped and watercoloured hibiscus and some die cut foliage.

And a special birthday card for our daughter who's jetting off tomorrow for a holiday to celebrate her 40th... so we get to be babysitters for the two grand daughters.

This card is inspired by the Group of Seven Cardmakers - Floating Frames technique,

well it's my version of a double floating frame

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

Unearthing some poor forgotten dies, stamps and inks...

Can't believe I'm back again with a couple more cards.... but as the Twinkling H2Os were still out on my desk I figured why not make another card or two.... so I'm using 

Darnells IDEAS prompt with Dies again 

and joining in the #100 challenge celebrations at

  The Flower Challenge and Adding some Circles

No more simple than to die cut a circle floral arrangement, watercolour with Twinkling H2Os and stamp on a sentiment.

Here's another along the same lines - used stitched circle die for a frame and sentiment

The last card is inspired by the Group of Seven Cardmakers technique this month...

and of course it's another floral card...  I stamped, watercoloured with those inks again, and fussy cut them... then arranged them around an oval using foam tape to create the 'Floating Frame' and finally trimmed away the overlapping pieces - found that was easier than die cutting the oval after the pieces were in place as the die didn't have a nice deep cutting ridge.

I also spied there was a new challenge the ladies at Double 'D' have ....  Neglected Stuff Challenge ...  well that fits right in with my use of Twinkling H2Os, those poor stitched circle dies and all 3 sentiments I used...

The stamps I used for the last card are new to me too - gifted from a friend... so I can joining the NBUS challenge #72, too.

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have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

Using Die Cuts this week .....

This week with Darnell's IDEAS prompt it's Die week --- so today I'm sharing three cards featuring die cuts, First this Christmas one was so easy to make, with this large die from a magazine... more time poking out all those little dots than making the card... used a background from my stash and as I was watercolouring my floral cards with Twinkling H2Os, I gave the bells a light blue wash.

My next two cards of course feature flowers... and my fav daisy dies.... watercoloured with Twinkling H2Os (those forgotten items one has) and finished them without sentiments so they can be used for any occasion.

I'm joining in the challenge at Christmas Kickstart #96 - Not the Norm - so no red, green and gold

And I think my last floral card is Simple and Elegant - for the Just Add Ink challenge #741

 

More time for cards this week as I finished my latest rug - Mandala Blanket 

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have a Wonderful day

cheers Robyn

Three Floral Cards

First up today I've been playing with some stamping single flowers and leaves and masking to layer them... for this card I used Distress Inks to stamp the outlines and them to water colour them.... finished off with a stamped sentiment.... as it is the first week of March I am inspired by 

Darnell's IDEAS prompt = INK

My next two cards have been inspired by 

The Group of Seven Cardmakers monthly technique - Floating Frames.

Lots of stamping flowers and leaves, and as I'm such a lousy user of the dies that come with the stamp,  I end up fussy cutting them too.  After arranging all the flowers I used the Heart die to cut out the center and then a smaller die cut heart to display the stamped sentiment.

I am also joining in the Anything Goes Floral Challenge at Beautiful Blossoms #26

The die cut center piece then becomes another lovely card, against an embossed background and finished off with a white embossed sentiment on black card.  

I am also going to join the challenge at Just Us Girls - Die Week #765, Birthday card

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have a Wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

Card Chain Challenge February reveal

This month my Card Chain Challenge went off to Gail in Canada.   I used the Colours - Cherry, Butter & Sage, Hearts and Flowers theme, and Die Cuts technique.

I've combined some die cut daisies that I watercoloured with Distress Inks, a Die cut Frame and stitched heart Embossed background, and finished with a heat embossed stamped HELLO

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Have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Christmas Cards

Time for some Christmas Cards ...  I saw that Jo and Leslie were make Fancy Fold Christmas cards over at Christmas Kickstart challenge #95.   I have this cute folder triangle tree card, that folds flat into an envelope.

My folded card design

Some more fun with toilet paper rolls, quick and easy to make and now I have three more cards made.... an idea came that I could dangle the baubles from a large sentiment stamp I have...... I'm join in the fun at Rudolph Days Challenge for February.

Thanks for stopping by my blog,

have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Couple of cards featuring the Gof7 technique - Inked embossing

 

Boy!!! do I get sidetracked from finishing a couple of cards that have been on my desk for weeks... so seeing as there's only 2 days left of February I made myself sit still and put them together.

The Group of Seven Cardmakers played with adding ink to dry embossed images

I found these orangish backgrounds in my stash and embossed them.

My first card used a 3D embossing folder and white ink blended over the embossing.

For my second card I used a regular EF and orange ink blended over...  I added darker orange to the left side and topped the right with some white to lighten it

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Have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

This is why I've been distracted...

Embossed Silhouette

Some fun playing with blended background and embossing folders today.   Group of Seven Cardmaker technique this month is

Dry Embossed Highlights over Ink Blending

Well I had an idea to use this technique to create a silhouette effect and chose this Cuttlebug Bird Call Embossing folder, but after creating the blended background with Distress Oxide inks I stupidly put the card in the folder back to front and resulted with a de-bossing image... well I figured whatever I'll try and brayer some weather wood DO over the whole and this is the result - it got messy in spots so I painted over the bird so it would stand out...

Then I repeated the process but used Distress Inks for a brighter colour effect and tried to mask off some area - half successfully....  but it worked

After weeks and heat wave temperatures the weather finally broke and Lows have been gathering off the coast, no cyclones have formed but we have been inundated with rain - 940mm (abt 36in) in the last 8 days, mostly in the last 5 days, so mix that with high tides and there has been flooding along the rivers in town, plus we have a large water storage dam which is being fed from catchment areas and that is currently having planned water releases to alleviate some flooding... we're ok but our yard has seen a lot of water - this pic was Friday with 30cm (12in) deep.

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keep safe - there are some awful disasters occurring around the world.

cheers Robyn