A few wet, wet days and some Cards....

Hello and thanks for stopping by....
Firstly...  My Garden...   Oh it is wet and soggy - 3 days of rain and 300ml (12 inches) has us all indoors but that's ok as I've enjoyed some time with my crochet and made a few cards too.

This card featuring a sweet bear is for the AAA Card challenge #231 - All About Bears

The grey stamped image - Justina from Uptown Rubber Stamps was coloured with colouring pencils and framed with navy card on some cute heart patterned paper, with a white embossed sentiment from Kaisercraft High Tea set.

For my second card I found this stencil masked piece in my stash using a Kaiseracraft stencil - it has sparkly areas so I think I've used Twinkling H2Os with a smooching technique.  Teamed it with a die cut Scribble Heart and heart embossed green glitter card strip... finished with stamped, green embossed sentiment from Power Poppy set - Loving Tulips.

I'm joining in the challenges at Just Us Girls, Word Week #662 - Heart.

Stencil Fun January Challenge - Anything Goes

This is my latest finished crochet - a mosaic project -  Georgia's Diamonds
Have a wonderful week, Robyn

Merry Christmas to ALL my Blogging friends

Looking forward to this time next week, when all the Christmas celebrations, cooking and eating are over once again and then one can relax and enjoy the moment and remember the events of the past year.

I've been busy with other things of late... visiting my mum for her 92nd birthday, having visitors stay, getting my Christmas cards written and sent, attending the girls end of year concerts, finishing off a few crochet projects and just a little time to make a few cards...

This one is for Just Add Ink challenge 634 - Anything but a card   - made using one of those 12x12 card pieces and adding a die cut tag

This one because while you're stamping one image you might as well make a TWOFER.

This one for Happy Little Stamper - Anything Goes with Dies December challenge 

and NBUS challenge #45     using Sizzix Folk Art Stencil die

And a just because one.... the image has been waiting on my desk for ages, I teamed it with some new papers and a sentiment sticker..  one can never have enough birthday cards

And lastly this stencilled card for the - Anything Goes,  Stencil Fun December Challenge, using a Tim Holtz Flourish Layering stencil

Pics of my two recently finished crocheted blankets

Looking forward to 2023, keeping happy, healthy and safe and most of all enjoying my crafts.

Wishing you ALL the Very Best for a Merry Christmas and a Wonderful, Safe and Prosperous New Year,  many hugs Robyn

With Love

• Using Versfina smokey grey to stamp my Protea from Uniquely Creative - Flying By set.
• Lightly watercoloured the background with Distress Inks and then added detail with coloured pencils.
• Trimmed to a square panel, and added a fine apricot layer and attached to a sage green card
• To finish stamped and silver embossed the sentiment from Inspired by Stamping - Poppies set and attached with a dark orange layer with foam tape.

I am playing along with Watercooler Wednesday #319 - Helen's challenge - All Things Feminine. 

Thanks for visiting,  have a Wonderful Creative weekend,    cheers

Sending Love

 Firstly I'm wishing all those talented design team ladies over at The Flower Challenge - Very Happy 4th Birthday...

I really admire the talented ladies out there and this is one of those techniques that is so eye catching I thought I'd try it out.   So I stamped the flower randomly over the white card panel and gold embossed it.  Then using Brushos I watercoloured the flowers and then the background - I love the intense colours.  I coloured in the centers and stamen with black marker and the attached to a black card.  To finish I die cut the sentiment and a "Circle" in black card  and added a few black gems.

I am playing along with The Flower Challenge #49  - Circles

Thanks for stopping by my blog   ---  have a Happy Day and stay safe 

Card Recipe 

Stamps: Stampendous -Fresh bloom

Dies:  Spellbinders - nesting circles, Tonic Studios - Sending love pretty pocket set

Inks: Versamark

Other:  gold embossing powder, Brushos - emerald green, ost red, black marker,  gems

Spring Love

Mid month already and a time for a reminder card for the April CAS Watercolour challenge - SPRING FLOWERS.

An easy and quick card from me today....
Stamped my tulips on a die cut circle with Distress Ink Antique Linen to give me a non-line image.... then watercoloured them with Distress Ink and added some fine line detail with coloured pencils....added a light wash for the background and splatters.  To finish I die cut the sentiment three times and layered them to give dimension.

Do hope you are all keeping safe and that you're finding time to be creative... the team have inspiration over on the CAS Watercolour blog... pop over and hope you can watercolour up some gorgeous spring flowers to bright your day.
Thanks for stopping by my blog ---  have a HAPPY Day and stay safe.

Card Recipe 
Stamps: Hero Arts - Tulip portrait
Dies:  Sizzix - celebrate, Poppy Craft - double stitched nesting circles
Inks: Distress Inks - Antique linen, Candied apple, Fossilized amber, Spiced marmalade, Old paper, Peeled paint
Other: coloured pencils, 

Sending You Lots of Love

Very pleased with myself today.... I've made this card using all elements from my stash... the stamped flowers are using a friends stamps - I did watercolour the image with watercolour pencils today, the background stencilled image was a reject made with the monoprint technique, the white die cut frame and lastly the gold embossed sentiment strip didn't get used ages ago because it had mopped up ink when I had a spill but it was just the right size to fit across my Easel Card, I used some foam sheet to lift it so the easel could prop up.
I am playing along with Pixie's Snippets Playground #370   ....  AND  .... Just Add Ink challenge #490 - Add an Easel.

Thanks for stopping by my blog  --- have a Happy Day

 

Card Recipe 
Stamps: Friends stamp - floral, heart sentiment - not mine but imagine its pretty old
Dies: Poppy Craft - stitched squares nesting dies
Inks:  Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral, Versamark, Versafine - black
Other:  Floral Blooms - EF, Stencil, Stamp set, (magazine freebie) Watercolour Pencils, gold embossing powder

Two cards featuring Hearts

Hi there and welcome to my blog today...it's hot!!  here and so humid... I need to go get the washing from the line which dries in a flash, but I'll leave to get extra dry!! while I write up my post for the January Twofer Card Challenge #23  - HEARTS.

It is also their 2nd Blogaversary - so congratulations Darnell and your fabulous team --- YEAHH!!!

So I chose to use a simple elongated heart stamp for my cards and created conventional and a non-conventional designs.

For my first card I simply inked the heart in Distress Oxide ink - Pickled Raspberry and stamped a border down one side on a white card panel..  Then I inked the top part of the sentiment stamp and stamped that in place. Next I inked the bottom part but left off the word 'heart' and stamped that leaving enough room to stamp my last pink hear in place of the word.  I used the DO to watercolour that heart and to finish added a small clear gem and mounted the panel to a pink card.

For my second card I stamped the heart in Ripe Persimmon Distress Ink in a flower shape, used the same ink to watercolour the petals.  I stamped a stem and leaf in Peeled Paint DI and  a  flower center and fussy cut it and watercolour that too and attached to the flower with foam tape.  I flicked some black paint over the image and cut black card to give a small  border before attaching to an orange card.  To finish I stamped the sentiment strip, edged that with green ink and attached with foam tape.

Thanks for stopping by my blog ---  Have a Happy Day

Card Recipe 
Stamps:  Hero Arts - Letter stamps "L" - heart, Hero Arts - Life with Sunshine - sentiment, Polkadoodles - Summertime - leaf, stem, flower center
Dies:
Inks: Versafine - black, Distress Ink - Ripe Persimmon, Peeled Paint, Distress Oxide - Pickled Raspberry
Other: Black paint, clear gem

Love is like a Butterfly....

A card today made quickly with some die cuts and stamped sentiment....  From some smooched DO watercoloured card  scrap I die cut two butterflies. Next die cut my lattice background and a stitched frame to fit over the top (to hide the edges) and attached to a white card. To finish I die cut the stamped sentiment from the matching oval die and attached it with foam tape along with the butterflies.  I am posting to AAA Cards CAS Game #146 - Made in Minutes... and ... also CAS Watecolour August challenge - Colourful Butterflies.  Thanks for visiting, I really appreciate  it -- happy card making.