Getting a bit Inky today

First Monday of the month and with Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt I've made a card with just a little bit of watercolouring using my Distress Inks. 

I die cut some daisies and leafy stems from the Sizzix Wildflower Stems #1 set and watercoloured them.  Then arranged them over an embossed section I cut to fit the bottom of the card. Lastly (but should have been firstly) gold embossed the sentiment.

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have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

September CCC Card Reveal

Hi and welcome to my card reveal for Septembers 

Card Chain Challenge swap...  

my card went to Lucille in USA

I used the colour palette, the Inlaid Die Cut technique and Friendship theme

I used the large Paper Rose die - Blooming Flowers Background and die cut it three times - blue, red, and yellow, then pieced it together.

Theme Options:  Friendship

Technique:  Inlaid Die Cut

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have a lovely day, cheers Robyn

End of the Month and Two Cards

zooom zoooooom September goes by ------ and hardly any time at my desk to make some cards...  well really the mojo just vanished even with Darnell's Weekly IDEAS prompt.... nothing from me!!!!   I wasn't idle though ...  the garden fared well, and a couple of birthdays were celebrated and of course there was some (well quite a bit) of crochet

So today I made an effort and did some googling on Pinterest in my 'like those card ideas' folder and happily I've made two cards.  There's no stenciling for the last Monday of the month.... so it's sort of Anything Goes theme

I used my old Spellbinder nesting Classic Inverted Scalloped Square dies to create a double window effect on both cards.   Then added a smoochy background and some die cut flowers, finished off with sentiments

This is my corner to corner chevron blanket - pattern by Polly Plum, Step 2 It.

Hopefully next month (well that's tomorrow) I'll be all inspired to make some more cards.

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Have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

Happy September

Hello and welcome to the first week of a new month 

I'm late this week making cards as I've been crocheting while watching the US Tennis Open where a few Aussies have competed amazingly... and then after that we've had the Paralympics - always astounded by the determination and achievements of these athletes.

My first card is for the new inspiration at

the Group of Seven Cardmakers who have inspired us with this month - to work with Vellum

I've cheated a little by using vellum which already has a design on it, but then I've stamped and embossed the sentiment.... I've a new embossing ink pad and the white embossing isn't the best.

And as it's a new week I have Darnell's IDEAS prompt to inspire me -  

First week - Using Ink/ Colour mediums

 so here's my second card which is nearly monochromatic -  I opted to ink up the floral stamp with blue Distress Ink and the detail doesn't need for me to do any more.... just stamped and silver embossed the sentiment ... I thought it needed a lift so framed it with orange layer onto a blue panel.

and while I was searching through my long forgotten stamps I chose to stamp this image and used coloured pencils to colour it and framed it onto a large red card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a Wonderful Day, Cheers Robyn

Card Chain Challenge August reveal

Sharing my August Card Chain Challenge card....  sent off to Jo in the UK

A fun card from me this month using the colours, layout and theme.  I embossed a panel for the background and blended ink roughly of the raised areas.  Used my old Spellbinders die to create a center window for my stamped (American Arts - Emerson) lady and decorated the side with mini die cut flowers and leaves.... finished with a stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by, have a wonderful day, cheers Robyn

   THEME --- Fun, Friendship

Just a coupla cards

Last week of the month- can you believe that... August flew by, but being Week 4 Darnell's IDEAS prompt is free for all - Anything Goes.

Dug out some Spellbinders dies and created a frame center piece then blended DI around the edge of the bottom piece.  Used a piece of patterned paper for the background and then stamped two flowers from Blush from Penny Black using Speckled Egg Distress Oxide and fussy cut them out.

This card came about from pieces stacked on my desk... a die cut hexagon frame, a smooched soft purplish background and a lovely holographic butterfly a friend sent me... then finished it with a die cut sentiment cut from metallic purple card.

I'm so thankful to Darnell for her IDEAS weekly prompt that keeps me focused to create cards

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a Wonderful day, cheers Robyn

Embossed cards

 This week is quickly getting away from me... but I have a couple of finished cards to share

My first card uses the technique from this months 
Group of Seven Cardmakers - Kaleidoscope    

AND   

 also using the prompt for Week 3 of Darnell's IDEAS calendar... Embossing Wet or Dry

I silver embossed a large floral stamp and watercoloured it with Distress Inks, then cut it into strips and rearranged the layout... then mounted them on thick card attached to a card and stamped and silver embossed the sentiment in the gap on the card base.

Now for some dry embossing...

A very quick Christmas card .... brayer red ink on the flat side of the embossing folder, placed in the white card (very carefully) and ran it through the Cuttlebug... only minutes..  but I need to practice my inking.

I enjoyed embossing and inking a card a few weeks back and I'm still playing with the effects you can get.  Embossed patterned paper and then blended over colour with Distress Oxide inks... finished with a stamped white embossed sentiment and a narrow layer onto a olive green card.

In front of the Olympics on tele I was busy adding a few more characters to my crochet toy bundle I'm going to donate to a good cause.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Die Cuts

Hello and how's everyone this week... you know it's Week 2 of the month and that means D = Dies according to Darnells IDEAS prompt, so I've a couple of cards to share.

My first card came about because I was rifling through my patterned paper stash for another card and this one landed on my desk... so I teamed it with matching blue card (which definitely doesn't look matching in the photo) and then used the squiggle circle die to cut "flowers" in three 'matching' colours.  I die cut some floral centers to make them look more like flowers and finished with a stamped sentiment.

My second card features just part of the large Sizzix Bouquet die... die cut from shiny gold card and then trimmed away sections.  Attached to a mid blue panel and onto a pale blue card and finished with a gold die cut sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a Wonderful week

cheers Robyn