Merry Everything....

WOW, I'm back again today.... can't believe it myself...  but I've had a great day at my desk, and this card just came out of thin air because I was experimenting with the Group of Cardmakers technique this month ...  Direct to Paper Inking.

Do you remember those Kaleidacolor ink pads... mine have been hiding in a cupboard... well they still seem to work.

I've made an 'Ombre' card for the Jingle Bells Ombre Wonderland challenge... just added a large silver embossed sentiment to the ombre panel... so easy.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, hope you have a lovely inky day too

cheers Robyn

Three Christmas Cards

 So happy to see 

CAS Christmas challenge is back and running again after 3 years... it's always great to have a prompt to make cards for my Christmas stash.  For their June challenge the theme is Bird.  So I've had a rather lovely day stamping and watercolouring a pair of doves and die cut another ...

Also joining in the June challenge over at Triple B - Birds, Butterflies and Blooms

And the cute Mood Board at Peace on Earth challenge #112 had me looking at my House Mouse stamps and this one was already stamped waiting for me to watercolour - perfect  ...   so now I have 3 more cards for my stash

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

Twofer Cards today

Haven't dug into my patterned papers too often of late... but I've put together a card featuring

  'polka dots' for the Just Add Ink challenge #786.  

Combined two green shades of paper and a strip of polka dot embossed card as a background for my stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut flower... finished off with a stamped sentiment strip.

Then I had a play around with my Distress Oxide ink pads  -  swiping the whole pad across the white card - fossilized amber top to bottom, then crushed olive bottom up, followed by peeled paint ---  I like the 'wispy' effect achieved.  Then I used the same inks to swipe card and die cut some foliage and finished with a stamped and clear embossed sentiment.   Joining in the technique challenge over at Group of Cardmakers - Direct to Paper Inking

And with Inks it's all to do with Week 1 ...  'I' = Inks with Darnell's IDEAS Prompt...

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

Here's my latest crochet creation....  a floral wall hanging

Merry Christmas

Just some relaxing with my card making today.... simply stamped in grey ink and water coloured with Distress Inks and finished with a stamped gold embossed sentiment.

Joining in the May challenge at Rudolph Days .. because it's always nice to be adding to your Christmas card stash.   And of course this week at Darnells Weekly IDEAS prompt - 'A' = Anything Goes

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

Spring floral card

 'E' = Embossing.... this week at Darnell's IDEAS prompt, so I'm also joining the challenges at

Just Us Girls - Word Week #823 - Flowers

Just Add Ink challenge 785  - Dies-Stencils or both

Four Seasons May challenge - Spring

An easy card to make from a set which included the embossing folder and dies to make this lovely Tulip design... finished off with a sentiment from my stash and a small bow and a few gems

 

Two die cut cards.

It's 'Dies' this week at both Just Add Ink #785 - just add dies-stencils for both, 

and also week 2 for Darnells IDEAS prompt -'D' = Dies... so I've two cards to share...  Dies do make it easy to make a card.

This one is pretty self explanatory... A large die plate cut in white card and backed with some more of my recycled calendar pages - and a gold circle that just happened to be on my desk, so finished off with matching gold die cut sentiment.

For this card I have used a floral die - die cut in purple and green card then die cut on the front flap of a small square card -  and then inlaid the flowers and trimmed the front to follow the die cut line.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

While I'm waiting for inspiration for my next big project, I've made this cute rabbit and four crocheted cuddlies to donate to maternity ward of our local hospital.

Two Floral Cards

The Technique for this month at Group of Cardmakers is  --  Split Card Designs

I used a large floral stamp and aligned the two card fronts snuggly together and stamped in grey ink.  Then with each of the I realigned the stamp on the other edge and stamped again, then watercoloured the images with Distress Inks. Finished off with stamped embossed sentiments and attached to a card with matching card to frame the images.

It is also week 1 of Darnells Weekly IDEAS prompt  - "I" = Ink  ...   with my mojo being spasmodic it'll a real inspiration to have IDEAS to fall back on and get me motivated.

AND

Double 'D' have Watercolours as their challenge theme so I am joining them too

Thanks so much for dropping by my blog, have a most wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

A few quick and easy cards ...

 

... WOW... it's the start of a new month here in Australia, but luckily USA is a day behind so I do have time to join in with Darnell and her inspiring Weekly IDEAS prompt...  so this last week it is 'A' = Anything Goes

The first two card are made using lovely floral card from last years desk calendars...  I do collect calendars with nice pictures so I can re-use them... and with these two I've just covered over the month name with a stamped and embossed sentiment.

And these two Christmas cards were super easy to make.... die cut and embossed the ornament from holographic card and then found some Christmas patterned papers with the sentiment already on it and there you go all done.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

And these are two framed works I've made using the calendar pages and added some crocheted flowers.