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.

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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

Card Chain Challenge January reveal

Here's my January Card Chain Challenge card I sent to Pat in USA

I used the colour palette - walnut, lavender and jade and my love of flowers

This is a Penny Black stamp - Gentle Whispers, stamped with antique linen Distress Ink and coloured with pencils

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Some fun making Christmas cards and another Ombre card

Firstly I finished off my second Ombre card for the Group of Seven Cardmakers prompt for this month

Blended some Distress Inks - Squeezed lemonade, Fossilized amber, Ripe persimmon, Festive berries and decided to use it as is - Die cut in white card with Torn Edge die to create a frame and then attached a die cut flower (never used Kaisercraft Small Succulent) and a die cut 'Hello'.  I'm joining in the fun at NBUS #70 too.

Then just before Christmas we had the girls for a sleepover and of course they like to play with Nanas stuff.   So I showed them how to make cards with the cardboard toilet rolls 

  Here are mine I finished off this week....

With these cards I'm joining in the challenge #94 at Christmas Kickstart - Bring the Baubles.

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Have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Enjoyed some time making cards today....

The Group of Seven Cardmakers first showcase for 2025 and the theme is Ombre design element.

This is a really fun technique - gradually blending colours - of the same hue or different.... I played with my Distress Inks - Squeezed lemonade, Fossilized amber, Tumbled glass and Cracked pistachio. Created the blended background and then die cut Sizzix Cut Out Leaves on a white card panel and finished off with a stamped embossed sentiment.

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Happy New Year

and hope you have wonderful year card making

Cheers Robyn

December Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Hi, and welcome to a NEW YEAR... 2025 already - where did 2024 go - flew by for me.   So I have my last Card Chain Challenge card for 2024 to share today and it was sent across the seas to Linda in USA.

For my card I used the diagonal - top left to bottom right ..... Sapphire (blue), Sock (stocking), Stars, Sparkle and Silver.

Thanks for stopping by my blog... HAPPY NEW YEAR and stay, safe, healthy and happy.

Cheers Robyn