With Love

 Roses, love and Valentine's Day go hand in hand and so today I have a card for someone special. I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut my roses and then mounted them to a die cut frame backed with some DP with hearts.  To finish I used a grey card, added some sparkly gems and a die cut sentiment.  I am posting to Power Poppy's Power & Spark challenge - Love to Sparkle. Also to Just Us Girls - #426 challenge - word prompt - Love, and the Daily Marker 30  day Colouring challenge.. day 12.

  

Love letters....

"love is in the air" with Valentine's Day soon, so there's lots of challenges with 'hearts'.  I have turned my 'Muzzy signing a card' House Mouse stamp into a love letter card... I wonder 'Do friends write love letters' these days, actual hand written love letters or cards, that's one aspect of technology I don't like. I created the background panel with Brushos - sprinkle, spray and dab off. Then I watercoloured my image with Distress Inks and die cut the panel. And to finish I die cut a large scribble heart and a heart border, and used the cut outs for 'Muzzy' to use as stickers.
I am posting to House Mouse and Friends HMFMC#258 - option Love. Also to Shopping Our Stash - He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not,  Happy Little Stampers Feb Watercolour challenge - optional twist: Heart and CAS-UAL Fridays CFC192 - Hearts, Hearts and more Hearts.  
Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

   

Shopping Our Stash #339 - He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

HMFMC #258 Anything Goes OR Optional theme "LOVE"

Home is wherever I'm with You

 

oh wow there's been some messy paint play on my desk this morning  - after I read the CAS Mix Up challenge for February - Felt, Cork or Canvas, I really thought this is going to be difficult and interesting - but then realised I had this Canvas Pad in my stash and was further encouraged when I saw DT Loll had used canvas also.  I couldn't view the video lead from her blog so this is my messy interpretation.  I used drops of Drawing Ink in magenta and turquoise and metallic pearl white Folk Art paint and then heated with my heatgun till it bubbled and mixed so much so that my panel is more purple - hence also the panel has areas of texture.  I finished my card with a stamped sentiment and die cut heart.

I am also playing along at Just Add Ink - theme 'just add Romance', and Simon Says Wednesday challenge. - Anything Goes.  

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

  
 

Spread the Love Sweet Friend

House Mouse and Friends challenge HMFMC#249  - is to use vellum or a window on your card... so after checking out my stamps I thought I could make the sweets bowl in vellum. The first attempt with black ink and markers wasn't too successful so I restamped it using charcoal colour and clear embossing and then I only coloured the stamped image on the cream card - it worked okay with coloured pencils so you could read the 'sweet sayings'.  I used a stitched die to cut the image and framed it in blue and found some colourful background paper to go with the coloured sweets and layered it onto orange card.  To finish I stamped this sentiment I thought went well with the image.  I am also posting to The Daily Marker 30 day Colouring Challenge.  Thanks for taking a peek

HMFMC # 249 'I can see right through you'

Love and Best Wishes

Lots of smiling faces here today because it is raining and the frogs are croaking and it's much cooler. Today I found in my UFO stash a watercolour flower ... awhile ago I tried my hand at some watercolour painting with Twinkling H2Os, so I decided to finish it off as a card.  I trimmed it down and layered it onto a maroon panel and then stamped on the sentiment and just added a couple of sequins to finish it.  I'm posting to CAS Watercolour Feb challenge - 'Love'.  Also to Addicted to Stamps and More - Clean and Simple challenge and finally to Simon Says Wednesday challenge  Fantastic Florals.  Thanks for taking a peek

 

Simon Says: Fantastic Florals

With Love

When I saw Theresa's card at The Flower Challenge #5 - CASE the Guest Designer, I knew I would have to try out this technique - I love the white die cut flower fitted back into the white card and the pretty pink colours showing through.... so here is my take on her card.  I used a water coloured pink background card that was spritzed with Perfect Pearls mist so it is all shiny and decided to use the edge of the panel to frame my white die cut top.  I stamped 'with' on the top and finished with a die cut 'love' and couple of hearts.  I am also posting to The Card Concept #66 - Love and Romance challenge and to Stamplorations February CAS Card challenge - option Bright Pink.  Thanks for taking a peek

 
  

Love tag

Here I've made a tag for the #55 Tag, You're It! challenge.  Using Melissa's lovely tag below for this weeks inspiration - I chose the background tag first and worked my colours and theme from it. Hunted out some of my tiny heart and flower stamps, embossed a heart border strip and die cut the 'Love' sentiment. Lastly I die cut the tag tops and sponged the edges and added a few gel pen green dots and a tassel. Thanks for taking a peek

Tied with Love

I'm posting my card to five challenges - firstly with Darnells 'Never Before Used Schtuff' - challenge #7; I love playing along with NBUS because it really does make you search out a stamp you bought because it appealed to you but then you find you have favourites and migrate to them often, for me it's florals.  Then over at the Simon Says Monday challenge - It's a Stitch Up; so this NBUS stamp fell right into the theme. At Simon Says Wednesday challenge - It's Hip to be Square; haven't made a square card for ages.  The theme at House of Cards - Use Twine or the Colour suggestions - the lovely colours appealed to me so I've used them as a guide for my colouring. And finally the Stamplorations CAS challenge for August - Anything Goes with a twist of Gold - After painting my stamped image with Distress Inks and layering on colour card stock I "Tied" gold thread across the corners and finished with a small stamped heart and die cut 'love' for the sentiment.  Thanks for taking a peek

It’s Hip To Be Square

It’s A Stitch Up

    

With Love

My card today is Inspired by Stacy's card below, I Copied her idea to use a die cut frame as my card base and then used part of the floral image from the PP Azalea set which I painted with Distress Ink and then fussy cut like Stacy to frame sentiment.  My card is for the monthly Power and Spark challenge at Power Poppy.  Thanks for taking a peek

Sending All My Love

Well it's been a very uncreative month so I am pleased that on the last few days of January I have found a bit of creative mojo and have made a few projects.  My card today is for Stamplorations CASEplorations - casing a gorgeous card from Laura Bassen. I chose to colour my texture paste in shades of pink/red as my take on her card...mine is definitely "texturey".... is that then 'rough love'
Ok enough. A simple sentiment label and the card is finished. I am also posting to Simon Says Monday challenge - Love Is In The Air.  Thanks for taking a peek

Challenge: Love Is In The Air