Fluttering by to Say.... Happy New Year

  with a Birthday card as my first for 2022....

Hope your year has started well and that you're all refreshed and ready for some creative fun, 

Thanks so much for stopping by

and here's my card for Let's Fly challenge #135 at Lost Coast Portal Creativity

• Inked my butterfly (Hero Arts: Quiver), using Distress Oxides - salty ocean, mermaid lagoon, blueprint sketch, after the first stamp, lightly misted it again and managed to get two more prints.
• Stamped the sentiments (Papercraft/Card Making magazine - Beautiful blooms) with Versamark and heat embossed with silver EP
• Added some lines of dots with embossing pen and silver embossed 
• Trimmed the card, curved the corners and attached to a blue card

Enjoy for Day

Robyn

Joy

• Used a mix of stamps to create my card front panel on beige card ..... Joy sentiment script from Stamp-It set 28, foliage from Kaisercraft - Peace & Joy, Poinsettia - Stamp-It set 17 using Distress Inks - gathered twigs, peeled paint, barn door
• Trimmed and layered the panel onto dark brown and used a beige card
• Finished off with red glitter spots

I am playing along with Lost Coast Portal Creativity challenge #125 - Christmas in July

Thanks for visiting  ---   have a Wonderful Creative day,     cheers

Under the Sea ATC

I had some elements in my stash from a previous artwork

• background created with crumpled wax paper on gloss card technique then coloured with Distress Oxides and buffed with a baby wipe
• stamped seahorse, coloured, fussy cut and heat embossed with Ultra Thick embossing powder adding some gold glitter
• stamped shell in Pearl Gold EP and watercoloured, fussy cut
• die cut 'weeds' - twice
• scrap of gauze
• gold glitter gel spots
• stamped sentiment

I am playing along with Lost Coast Portal Creativity challenge -#122 - Under the Sea

Thanks for visiting    have a Wonderful Creative weekend,    cheers

Card Recipe 

Stamps:  Sea View Collection by Sheena (seahorse), Print Blocks - shell, Precision Press - alphabet

Dies: Sizzix - Spring greenery

Inks:  Distress Oxides - blueprint sketch, peacock feathers, spiced marmalade, Versafine - black

Other:  Ultra thick embossing powder, gold glitter glue, gauze

Envelope Mail not EMail

I had some fun today putting together this envelope for the 

Lost Coast Portal Creativity challenge #121 - Mail Art.

I found a page of outline ladies and printed one off onto a A4 sheet that I then folded into an envelope.

Scrounged through all my stamps that relate to MAIL  and some doodle edges  --  most of these are unused ones that are additions to a set of stamps, and stamped away as unplanned as I could... not very good a freestyle.  Then another scrounge through and heap of used stamps and I thought this one titled  "Who Sank the Boat?"  was pretty cool and the colours added to the red and blue I had used.

Thanks for visiting.... have a Wonderful Creative day..    Cheers

Serenity

On white card I used blue shades of Distress Oxides and this lovely stencil to create a background for my stamped sentiment... also added a 'snarky' extra - because sometimes that's just how life is.

I am playing along with 

• Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers challenge #83 - M is for Monochromatic
• Lost Coast Portal to Creativity challenge #120 - Sentimentally Yours

Thanks for visiting  --  have a Wonderful Creative weekend   cheers

Card Recipe    Stamps: Artristic Outpost - Serenity,   Inks: Versafine - black,  Distress Oxides - Salty ocean, Mermaid lagoom, Blueprint sketch, Faded jeans,   Other: Simon Says - Tumbling leaves Stencil

Two Daisy Cards

The Twofer Card Challenge for March is Open to Your Choice.. so I have chosen  Daisy die cuts

 

My first card I used the die cut printing technique they are challenging over at CAS Mix Up March Watercolour challenge.... only for me I used Versamark and white embossed the prints on a green smooched background from my stash - then die cut another in white card and to match the white I also white embossed the flower and then used green embossing pen and clear EP on the stem....I added yellow embossing pen to the flower centre and embossed it too.  To finish I stamped and silver embossed the sentiment and counted with foam tape.

For my second card I die cut 5 daisies and watercoloured the centres with Distress Ink and trimmed off the stems.  I stamped my lady in a hat image in black and watercoloured with DI.  Then arranged the elements on a red card and added a purple border to the stamped panel

I really like both card, and the second I left with the stamps' sentiment thinking you could add any occasion sentiment inside

I am also playing along with Lost Coast Portal Creativity challenge #118 - Where's My Hat?

So happy you popped over to my blog - have a Wonderful Creative weekend.

Card 1 Recipe 

Stamps:  Clearly Besotted - Snowdrops (sentiment)

Dies: Sizzix - Wildflower Stems #1

Inks: Versamark

Other: white embossing powder, silver embossing powder, Embossing pens

Card 2 Recipe 

Stamps: American Art Stamps (Emerson) - Fabulous

Dies: Sizzix - Wildflower Stems #1

Inks: Distress Inks - squeezed lemonade, wild honey, candied apple, wildted violet, twisted citron

Fly Free

Time for crocheting this week too... fourth Moogly CAL 2021 square, along with those I've done so far,

 

  

...and my Journal page for Lost Coast Portal Creativity - #116 - Winged Things

• for the background a piece from my stash
• stamped, gold embossed and fussy cut the cage
• stamped the little birds in blue and yellow, clear embossed and fussy cut, glued on the cage
• stamped and watercoloured the bird on a branch and fussy cut
• stamped foliage in the corners, and attached the bird and cage
• die cut and coloured three little flying birds
• lastly computer generated, printed and trimmed the sentiment

Thanks for popping over to view my page,  have a Wonderful Creative day, cheers

Happy Birthday

Red seems to be the colour at the moment... and this month

Lost Coast Portal to Creativity are teaming it with Gold for their #115 challenge.

I randomly stamped swirls around the edge of a white card panel and gold embossed them.  Then blended Distress Inks in Candied Apple over this with darker Aged Mahogany around the edge.  Stamped and gold embossed the sentiment.  Then dress it up a bit die cut three flowers and gold embossed them too and attached with foam tape.

Happy to see you visit today.... have a wonderful creative week, cheers

Card Recipe 

Stamps:   very old swirls stamp set (unknown), Kaisercraft - Background birthday sentiments

Dies:  OLBA products - floral dies

Inks:  Versamark, Distress Inks - candied apple, aged mahogany

Other:  gold embossing powder

Gnomes

So here I am again today with my attempts at some fun in my journal.

Lost Coast Portal challenge #114 - Gnomes

I happened to have a Gnome stamp set from a magazine freebie....  so stamped, masked and stamped some more, then used torn paper masks for the hills, masking for the stamped trees and lots of coloured pencil work. ....  then to come up with a fun comment.

Thanks for popping by, have a wonderful creative day.....     ROBYN

  

"B" Journal page

Something new from me today....   A Journal Page .....

I swap ATCs with a friend from Western Australia which is the opposite coast to me and our acquaintance is a bit of a story so we'll forego that --  Hi Catherine...  but I do try some mixed media elements on my ATCs with Catherine's encouragement. 

Well I'm a card maker who sort of has strict guidelines I subconsciously follow - like everything has to be straight and matching - no free flow, mixed media type of style at all ...

now blogger friends Jo and Gail have inspired me to break out and give it a go...

and rather than make cards, I'm starting a journal....

.....and joining in the fun at Lost Coast Portal Creativity

where the current challenge #113 is

Something Beginning with "B"

I tore up a "B"ook page and attached them to my pages and then  basically stamped images - Birds, Butterflies, Borders in Brown and Blues ----  It's a start!!!

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful day