Best Wishes

So while the packing up my my craft room nears completion I found a few elements that I have combined to make this butterfly card. The embossed background and tag were pieces that I wasn't too happy with when I first made them, but with a bit of ink and sponging I like they have come together. Some matching twill tape to frame the sentiment and then a scattering of butterflies, finished with gold gems and some gold twine to complete the card.  I used the sketch at Try Stamping on Tuesday #231 and the theme at Mixed Media Card challenge #14 for August - Butterflies and an optional gold element.  Thanks for taking a peek

    

Friends and Happiness

I found that I did have a vase in my stamp collection, so I have made it my feature for the card and the challenge at Mixed Media Card challenge #13, with a Blue theme and option of a Vase. The vase was in an oriental stamp set, so I used the blossom branch inked in Versamark and dusted with Chalks on my background panel. I stamped on the Japanese sentiments and stamped a lantern on metallic blue card and fussy cut. Then I stamped the vase in blue and embossed with clear embossing powder and fussy cut it too. I layered my panel onto matching blue and onto my square card. To finish I mounted the vase and lantern on 3D foam tape and added some Mizuhiki Cords to the vase. I am also posting my card to Simon Says Monday challenge - Anything Goes.  Thanks for taking a peek

challenge: anything goes

  

Snowman card

Today I have added another card to my Christmas stash...a snowman with a 'funky' hat....for the Merry Monday challenge #164.  I am also posting to The Mixed Media Card challenge for June - theme Collage with an option on a Frame. I have used a Distress Ink and Perfect Pearls background to which I added a 'frame' of snow flakes, scored this area and also gave it another light mist of blue. Then I created the snowy ground with silver scrunched tissue paper. My snowman's body and head, have a layer of texture paste roughly smoothed on with my finger, then a light coat of glue sprinkled with glitter....a ribbon scarf, die cut twig arms, scraps of card face and buttons on his body. Finally topped of with his glorious flunky hat...cut with dies, added ribbon band, stamped and embossed holly and a few squiggles of white gel pen.  Thanks for taking a peek

Cherish each day

Today I am back in Vikki's craft room with plans for a card making day where we can bounce ideas off each other. 

I have finished off this card I started late yesterday for the Stamplorations CASEplorations April challenge and have chosen Kimberleys card to CASE with a bit of influence from Shery's card

I stamped and masked the row of butterflies and then sprayed them with Magical Mica mist in an Orange - it has a lovely golden sparkle (that doesn't show too well in the photo). That didn't work to well as the mist seeped under the masks so I had partially coloured butterflies. I flicked a few droplets of water over the orange and part coloured the butterflies. Then I stamped a butterfly on card and coloured it with Distress Ink and when dry gave it a light spray of orange mist and added some Dimensional Magic and white gel pen to highlight a few wing parts. Stamped on the sentiment and used foam tape to mount the butterfly. 

I am also posting to CAS.ology week 144 where the theme is "Flight"

and to The Mixed Media Card May 2015 challenge - theme "Wings"

  

Thanks for taking a peek.

  

Jingle Bells

 In my stamp collection I have this cute Christmas bear so when I saw that Merry Monday #135 theme was Bells I just wanted to use him on my card (well as I write I'm too late the challenge is closed), and I also knew that at The Mixed Media Card challenge #5 for November the theme is Christmas with an Option of Bells...so here is my special bear card.

The background panel was created using a technique I saw on the net by Mel (here) - you dry emboss a piece of patterned card and then use clear versamark on the raised embossing and then  with clear emboss powder heat set the raised areas.  Then used ink rubbed into the background to cover the patterned card and welllaa!! you have a new piece (way to use up all of those not nice card stock in your stash). I used a mid to dark blue ink but didn't like it so went over it again with teal green. I stamped my bear in Fire Brick distress ink and used the same to watercolour him and yellow on the bells which I glazed with Dimensional Magic. I embossed a row of stitches on the tag and stamped on the sentiment then tied it off with some ribbon and cream twine tied with 3 tiny bells.

Thanks for taking a peek Robyn

PS I am also being inspired to use tags on my cards by Traceys' 25 days of Christmas Tags

 

  

 

You Colour My World

My card today is for the Mixed Media Card Challenge - September 2014....and my first time posting with this group....thought I might like to join in and challenge myself using more medium than I do usually.  So I created the background panel by first embossing it with a Textile emb folder, then I ran it through again without the folder to flatten it. Next I inked my plastic sheet with Distress Inks and sprayed the card with a fair bit  of water and dumped it onto the ink (I didn't press too hard so some of the slightly raised embossed area took the ink more than the background. I used the same Distress Inks on a leaf stamp and randomly stamped the images. I stamped one of white card and cut it out. Then I die cut an oval for the sentiment and mounted it on another shape and finished off with a bow of string and a few beads and metal leaf. Thanks for taking a peek Robyn