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

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

Some swirling around....

 ..... with some Stencils.

I made my first floral card with the technique from Just Add Ink challenge #746  - Just Add Swirls...

using a stencil to blend yellow and green Distress Inks on a strip of white card... teamed this with some matching gold card with a thin strip of green

and finished off with a watercoloured die cut flower and stamped sentiment

My second card is way different from my usual florals.... and using the product prompt from the Group of Seven Cardmakers - Embossing Paste

using another swirly stencil to blend Wilted Violet Distress Ink over the whole white panel

when this was dry I replaced the stencil a little off center and swiped a mixture of Wilted Violet DI and Impasto Medium over the whole stencil again.

I was pretty happy with the effect when it all dried, then finished off the card with a stamped sentiment on a stitched die cut circle.

AND  ..   It's week 2 of Darnells IDEAS prompt which is D = Dies

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a Wonderful Easter -- wishing you Peace and Enjoy some family time,      Cheers Robyn

Thanks for the Inspiration...

Feels like my mojo is awakening a little bit, as I've made 12 cards so far this month and it helps to check our challenges to inspire one, and to put down ones crochet hook for a bit.

It's E = Embossing week at Darnell's IDEAS prompt... so I've made a card using both dry and wet embossing...

And looking out at the challenges I'm joining in with 

Just Add Ink challenge #742 - inspired by the photo

and

Just Us Girls - Word Week #766 - Green

and

Neglected Stuff March challenge 

I chose this embossing folder with a close pattern so when I applied the embossing ink it would stick mostly to the raised areas, then heat embossed with some long forgotten Leaf Green Embossing Powder (gosh the container is still nearly full - it's a wonder it still worked).  Finished with a stamped and watercoloured hibiscus and some die cut foliage.

And a special birthday card for our daughter who's jetting off tomorrow for a holiday to celebrate her 40th... so we get to be babysitters for the two grand daughters.

This card is inspired by the Group of Seven Cardmakers - Floating Frames technique,

well it's my version of a double floating frame

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

Unearthing some poor forgotten dies, stamps and inks...

Can't believe I'm back again with a couple more cards.... but as the Twinkling H2Os were still out on my desk I figured why not make another card or two.... so I'm using 

Darnells IDEAS prompt with Dies again 

and joining in the #100 challenge celebrations at

  The Flower Challenge and Adding some Circles

No more simple than to die cut a circle floral arrangement, watercolour with Twinkling H2Os and stamp on a sentiment.

Here's another along the same lines - used stitched circle die for a frame and sentiment

The last card is inspired by the Group of Seven Cardmakers technique this month...

and of course it's another floral card...  I stamped, watercoloured with those inks again, and fussy cut them... then arranged them around an oval using foam tape to create the 'Floating Frame' and finally trimmed away the overlapping pieces - found that was easier than die cutting the oval after the pieces were in place as the die didn't have a nice deep cutting ridge.

I also spied there was a new challenge the ladies at Double 'D' have ....  Neglected Stuff Challenge ...  well that fits right in with my use of Twinkling H2Os, those poor stitched circle dies and all 3 sentiments I used...

The stamps I used for the last card are new to me too - gifted from a friend... so I can joining the NBUS challenge #72, too.

Thanks for stopping by my blog,

have a wonderful day

cheers Robyn

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

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

Thanks for stopping by my blog

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.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

keep safe - there are some awful disasters occurring around the world.

cheers Robyn