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

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a Wonderful day, Cheers Robyn

IDEAS Week 4 - Anything Goes and Beautiful Blossoms

I so enjoyed making some cards with my old large PSX botanical stamps last week... I made a few more.  And they fit in perfectly with the Anything Goes week 4 of the month with Darnells IDEAS prompt.

The stamps are inked with Distress Oxide inks and then watercoloured pulling the colours from the stamped inked outline

Next I have a watercoloured floral ... the stamp used for this card is Penny Black Garden Gems...  I stamped it lightly first with Antique Linen Distress Ink and then watercoloured with Distress Inks, and finished with a stamped gold embossed sentiment. 

I'm joining in the challenge at Beautiful Blossoms #17 with the mood board for colour inspiration.

And lastly I have made a stack of small Thank You cards to hand out at our Cancer Council Big Morning Tea event at our Crochet group

My latest crochet project... Stardust Melodies blanket - a Polly Plum design which will be donated as a door prize at the morning tea.

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

Embossing folders..

 Firstly I'm sharing a lovely sunset from last evening..  the colours were even richer in real life

I'm sharing this card with

Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - Anything Goes with a Twist of Flowers.  

I embossed the plain card that I picked to team with the floral patterned paper, then added some gold die cuts and sentiment and lastly fussy cut some flowers from the same paper

Some light blending of Distress Oxide inks over this lovely 3D Christmas Embossing Folder makes for a quick and easy card ... always great to be adding to the Christmas stash.

And as it's week 3 of the month I'm joining

Darnell with her IDEAS prompt...  E - Embossing Folders

and

Beautiful Blossoms challenge #17 using the mood board for inspiration

Thanks for stopping by my blog 

have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

Using Stencils....

So happy to be continually inspired by Darnell's IDEAS prompt.... it being the fifth Monday of the month is to use Stencils.  I have two cards today using Distress Oxide inks.

My first card features the ARTplorations stencil - Flowers 1, framed it with a stitched die cut and added gold Magical Micas to highlight the petals and finished with a stamped sentiment (Stampin' Up) - gold embossed.

For my second card I also used an ARTplorations stencil - Doodled Tulips and softly blended the colours leaving a nice white outline... then finished with a stamped green embossed sentiment.

I am joining in the challenges at Just Us Girls challenge #724 - Anything Goes with a Stencil (both cards) 

 ... also  at Beautiful Blossoms #16 - using the optional mood board for my colours (second card)

Good feeling to be back making some Cards

Thanks to a blogging friend Darnell - and her wonderful IDEAS prompt... I'm happy to be creating cards again.... this week is A for Anything Goes

My first card features soft blue and cream patterned paper as my background... as the panel was a little narrow for the card I added a matching smooched strip to one edge and used the other remnant for my sentiment. I watercoloured some die cut flowers (Sizzix - Small tattered floral) and added some white die cut foliage and a few blue pearls to finish.   I am joining in the challenge -- The Colour Hues Challenge #TCH83 : Cream & Blue

Honored to have my card mentioned in the Top Few...

My second card today is for the Beautiful Blossoms challenge #15 using the Mood board as inspiration ... lot so yellow.   Again I've used some patterned paper, stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut some flowers and leaves (Altenew - Modern Anemone) and attached them over the florals on the paper trimming the edges where they overlapped... finished with a stamped sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Sunflowers make me smile

 Two lovely floral challenge for my Sunflower cards today....

• Beautiful Blossoms #8
• Triple B August challenge

 Off the page stamped sunflowers - watercoloured with Distress Inks... added a fancy die cut edge and stamped sentiment.

Distress Ink blended stencil Sunflower....also off the edge with a stamped sentiment.

Mood Board Inspiration

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

End of the month again!!

Holy Moly --whooosh July has gone and I've not posted anything this month...  but I have been dabbling..

Got a couple of cards for Rudolph Days Christmas card July challenge . --- these are made with a set which includes a stamp and embossing folder... stamped first then embossed...quick & easy

And this decorated box is for the 

Beautiful Blossoms challenge #7 - Anything Goes with Flowers.

Used a lovely floral patterned paper to cover one the lid of one of the boxes I've been collecting... then die cut the flower and leaves from matching card, arranged them and added some white Crystal Drops.

Close up of the flower spray. 

Next these couple are using the technique - 

Off the Edge that the ladies at Group of Seven Card Makers 

have been playing with during the month.

Stamped and heat embossed foliage off the corners of my card panels then blended Distress Ink over the white card.  Finished the yellow one with a simple stamped and silver embossed sentiment and the purple one with white embossed candles, fussy cut and highlighted with distress ink and white Crystal Drops.. and some glitter gel dots for 'twinkle'.

This purple Christmas card is also for the 

Happy Little Stampers July Christmas challenge - Twinkle

And my last card... just because

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

A trio of cards featuring butterflies, birds and blooms

 Time to share a few more cards that have evolved from my desk over this month

This first card is for the Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - Anything Goes with a Twist of Butterflies.

Blended green Distress Inks over the leafy embossed border EF and stamped on the sentiment.... finished off with 3 die cut butterflies smooched in DI and spritzed with shimmer mist

Second card for the Triple B June challenge. ... with this lovely moodboard for inspiration. 

No stamping on this card... used a pretty pink marbly background (from my Kaisercraft calendar), then die cut the stitched wavy edge on white card - lightly blended edge with pink DI.  Die cut the little bird and watercoloured with DI and finished with a die cut Hello sentiment.

Lastly an Any Occasion card - for two challenges...  Double 'D' Colour challenge - I've used the purple and blues as inspiration.   

AND  Beautiful Blossoms challenge #6 - with a mood board in these colours too as inspiration.

 

I used a scalloped frame die and a number of my flower dies to create this little picture with a lovely patterned paper background - I smooched the flower edges with ink and added some white crystal drops for the flower centers

And my latest crochet blanket... a Mosaic in the Round by Beba Blankets

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