Watercolouring with Distress Oxide inks

Hello and thanks for stopping by my blog...   today I've 3 cards to share using a quick and easy watercolour technique....  

.....you simply ink your stamp with Distress Oxide inks, stamp it, and then with a wet brush pull the colours from the stamped outline.... and these cards fit perfectly with

Darnell's IDEAS weekly prompt... 'I' = Inks/Colour Mediums

A floral birthday card - stamped and watercoloured, die cut with oval shapes and attached to a dry embossed card - finished with a stamped and white embossed sentiment.

Two Christmas cards featuring Holly sprigs and stamped embossed sentiments

Have a wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

Christmas Wishes

Last day of the month... and just time to join in a couple of Christmas challenges.... Rudolph Days July challenge ....  and another card to help Jo celebrate challenge #100 at Christmas Kickstart

I've been a little Christmas Bauble crazy of late and for this one I tried something a little different...  for this I die cut a circle to use as a stencil and blended a couple of baubles with purple Distress Ink, then used a star stencil to add some stars using Distress Oxide.  Finished off with some stamped foliage and a gold embossed sentiment.... please not the little bauble hanger... I'm awful at drawing in these but found a tiny parcel stamp which suited the purpose just fine.

Now all of this stencil work was because I read the calendar wrong - quick glance at my desk one to see that there's 5 weeks this month so to join in with Darnell's IDEAS prompt - that would make it 'S' for Stencils...  nope, it's just 4 Mondays and it's 'A' - Anything Goes.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Leafy Christmas cards

 

I tried some more Generation Stamping with the ladies from Group of Seven Cardmakers.. 

I made two cards... you know while the stamps and gear are out - why not make another.

Stamped and embossed the sentiment and then added foliage and berries with Distress Inks

and One more.... to help Jo CELEBRATE 100 challenges over at Christmas Kickstart.

I've made a few of these Christmas Bauble cards this year... such fun and easy to make..  this time I used a mug and some old gold paint to 'stamp' and watercolour the ball - adding some red Distress Ink too. Then stamped some foliage and berries in Distress Oxides and watercoloured them and finished off with a stamped gold embossed sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a wonderful day

Cheers Robyn

Couple of Christmas cards

I did manage to have some mojo return over the weekend and created a few Christmas cards to add to my slowly growing stash.  The prompting from Darnells weekly IDEAS theme - 'A' for Anything Goes, fits both my cards.

AND to help Jo celebrate 

100 Christmas Kickstart challenges,

CONGRATULATIONS --well done Jo

 I made this gold, red and white card featuring 'spots'

Stamped and gold embossed this Christmas Flourish stamp 'off the page', then decorated it with some punched sparkly red holly and finished with a gold embossed sentiment on a raised die cut circle.

Add the Design Element this month at Group of Seven Card Makers is --  Generation Stamping

Well I fluffed around for any ideas for a Christmas card... and trees seem to be the answer but living in Australia and having Christmas in Summer it funny making cards with snowy winter themes.

But this is my effort - masked the snow slopes and created a weird patchy sky. Next I stamped the large tree with Distress Ink and then with the mask in place stamped a row of generation trees for the horizon.

Finished with a gold embossed sentiment and a green matt edge.

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have an amazing day

Cheers Robyn

Best Wishes

 Hi !!!!
Now don't collapse with shock, yes I'm here --  all good, no health issues --  it just seems the arty farty part of my brain went walkabout...  maybe it was overcome with fresh air in the mornings I was out enjoying the weather and fiddling in my garden, and then too exhausted in the arvos and slouched off into the arm chair... you know as you get older you should slow down and do little bits at a time - that's what I tell my 95 y/o mum who still loves to potter in her garden. 

I'm not sure the arty mojo has found it's way home yet because I made this card early June

It's been 9 weeks since I joined Darnell with her inspiring IDEAS weekly prompt - this week it is 'E' for Embossing ... and this card just so happens to have an embossed background (from my stash) and some tulips I stamped and coloured with some long forgotten Distress Marker (that actually still work) - finished with a red card frame and die cut sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog..

have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Sitting in the armchair I still managed to finish a couple of crochet projects..

A Pokemon hat my son requested

and a small rug using my remnant yarn

June Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Reveal time for our cards sent in June for the

  Card Chain Challenge...

Mine went off to Joanne in the USA .....

I used the colour palette with a little extra yellow/orange for the flowers...  also the theme Using 'tu'  for Tulips and Rip It for the technique

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

Theme Options: Something beginning with 'Tu'  

Product / Technique Options:  Rip It Up  

May Card Chain Challenge Reveal

 

My May Card Chain Challenge card went to Hilary in UK.

I used the colour palette... Aubergine, Rose and Coffee shades, and the sketch.

For some interest on the card I dry embossed the front panel, added sponged shading to the scalloped frame and some matching pretty paper to display the stamped floral bouquet - watercoloured and fussy cut.

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

Double Embossed Christmas card

A few minutes peace this afternoon and I've put together a Christmas card using this weeks theme from Darnells IDEAS prompt... E = Embossing Folders....  and haven't we all got a stash of them.  This square frame embossed panel is using one of those 'never before used stash' items for the NBUS challenge #74.   I double embossed this gorgeous ornament a friend gifted me - it embosses and die cuts at the same time --- then I gold embossed the raised areas  --- and hung it from some die cut pine sprigs and finished off with a stamped gold embossed sentiment.

It's nice to be adding a card to my Christmas stash too.  Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day,    Cheers Robyn

Butterfly Birthday

Hi and happy weekend.... and another end of the week card for Darnell's IDEAS prompt ---  D = Dies,   so I've made a card entirely from die cuts which is way not normal for me.

I decided on a monochromatic theme to match this gorgeous metallic butterfly a friend sent me...  then I'd been playing around with some very old forgotten lovely shaped dies and this frame came in handy....  I then added some more interest with a die cut edge concealed behind the front and finished off with a die cut sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog..... hope you have a wonderful weekend -- just enjoy life,  

Cheers Robyn

Big Hello.... to all my friends

 Waaayyy late this week with my post for 

Darnell's IDEAS prompt -  first week on the month at it's       I = INKS/Colour Mediums

.... well anyway I've been a bit busy with hubby away and me doing some Spring cleaning.... doesn't it feel good when the windows are sparkly clean and the cobwebs gone ... more to do this week, but I did have this card I made a few weeks back....  you stamp the image with a light colour (Antique Linen Distress Ink) and then colour over with pencils...   I love the effect.

Thanks for stopping by my blog - and if your mojo is weak, pop over to Darnells blog for some inspiration....  have a great week,   cheers Robyn

April Card Chain Challenge Reveal

My card for the April Card Chain Challenge went off to Brenda in the UK.  I used the sketch, colours and rabbit theme.

I used a smooched background from my stash which just so happened to have orange and slate colours and then used an embossing folder to create the pattern.... inking it with Distress Oxide weathered wood and pressing it over the panel.  Then I embossed a white card panel with the same EF.  I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut the rabbit in his flowerpot and to help his stand out added a die cut circle... then finished off with a stamped sentiment.

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

A Little Christmas Wish

A quick card from me this morning as we're packing the caravan so we can head off this afternoon for some R & R....

I decided on a Christmas card using lots of bits from my stash and so I could join in with the

 Rudolph Days Christmas challenge for April

and I used the Sketch from Just Add Ink challenge #748

and it fits in beautifully with Darnells IDEAS prompt  A = Anything Goes

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

More Bauble Christmas cards

My brain sure does come up with some "interesting" ideas at times --- 

Group of Seven Cardmakers product theme this month is Embossing Paste and I enjoyed the effects with my first purple card, so I came up with the idea to add some patterned texture to my latest fad with Christmas Baubles. 

I mixed up some Impasto Medium with Gold Pearl Powdered Pigment and searched through my stencils to find some swirly patterns.  Then using a mask I added the paste to my dry watercoloured baubles. 

On my first card I masked the bauble and added some stamped foliage, and stamped pearl gold embossed sentiment and after I made a mess of the hanging topper, I covered it over with a die cut section of a fancy edge.... I also made a mess of the bottom when I didn't move the card away from my work area when I decided to add splatters to my second card.

On my second card - which resulted from the fact I mixed up too much embossing paste, I just added a stamped embossed sentiment and the after thought of some splatters (I'll have to practice these because I got them everywhere and more blobs than I would have liked) and drew on the hanging topper with a gold gel pen

I am also joining Darnell with her NBUS April challenge - my NBUS is the Impasto Medium to make embossing paste and as it's the April Fools Big Fat Boo Boo month - my cards fit that very well'.

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