May All Your Wishes Come True

This card is inspired by Anita's lovely card (below) for this weeks Muse challenge #260.  I love her colours and the large floral stencil....so not having a stencil I decided to sponge through my new die - I think next time I might cut a stencil to see if I might get a better sponged affect.  I stamped my sentiment and layered it on matching card.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day
ps As this is a Stamplorations die and am adding it to their Never-ending Anything Goes challenge
 
 

Happy Birthday

Well I'm over the moon with my new die and have had some fun and experimenting with it today. This card is for the April challenge at Stamplorations... focus on Sentiments.  So I kept the background to just two shades of apricot and decided to leave some of the die cut pieces in place as I removed the card from the die, so I quickly added some glue so as not to lose any more bits and adhered it to some darker hand made texture paper.  Then all it needed was a white card base and a stamped sentiment in black on white so it would 'pop' on the card... I used a stitched die to frame it.  I am also posting to Stamplorations Never Ending challenge. And also to Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Birthday where they are celebrating their 9th Birthday - well done, congratulations and party on team.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Simon Says: Happy Birthday!

Joyful Moments

Don't you just think the photo of the kingfisher as this months inspiration at Rubber Dance is wonderful... love those rich colours... so I've used them (orange, turquoise and lime) as my element on this artwork.  I gave my background panel a water wash with Distress Oxides and then used coloured some texture paste and added some foliage with a stencil. I used another stencil and sponged on some 'rings in the water'.  I stamped my image, coloured it and fussy cut then used foam tape to raise him.  To finish I stamped my sentiment and mounted the panel on blue card. My good camera is playing up so my colours aren't true with this little digital.
I am posting to Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes challenge too.
Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

 

Happy Birthday

A pleasant afternoon for the last day of the 2017 year, spent at my desk with a little bit of water colouring on a gold embossed image. I used part of the Coffee & Dog Roses stamp (Stamplorations) and fussy cut the flowers I wanted and used DOX to colour them.  Then I used two curvy border dies with my tan mat to emboss the background panel.  I die cut my 'happy' from sparkly gold card and stamped and embossed my 'birthday' sentiment in gold too.... so much gold a bit of a change for me.  I'm liking how my card turned out.  I have used the Stamplorations Sketch and Theme -Stamps and Gold, and am also posting to Stamplorations CAS Card challenge - Anything Goes - colour twist gold and the Never Ending Anything Goes challenge using Stamploration products.  Lastly I'm also joining in with the Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Anything Goes.

Thanks for taking a peek..... and Happy New Year

  
 

Simon Says: Anything Goes

Thanks.....

I certainly have a wishlist and Stamplorations are having their 3rd Giving Thanks Blog Hop & Wishlist Linky Party.... so I've made a card using some stamping and masking with a flower from their Bloom Sketch set.  I coloured them with DOX and whoops made a smudge with my finger... so I've added a splattering of colour to conceal it.  To finish I stamped on my sentiment and mounted my panel to a red card.
I am also posting to their Never Ending Anything Goes challenge.  Join in the fun.
Thanks for taking a peek

 

Hello

How is your weekend going?   ... a bit of Mexican cooking here for hubby's birthday and then time at my desk for another spot of colouring. I used my Brushos for a bit of bright watercolouring on this Dee's Artsy Impressions Blossom Spray #1 from Stamplorations...  For my Watercolour Wash background - I dropped a few grains of Brushos powder on and misted lightly with water for some red speckles and also added two strips of card and stamped on my sentiment.  I cut out the image and used foam tape to mount it my card.  I am posting to Stamplorations Theme and Sketch September challenge Summer Vacation - Anything Goes, also to the Stamplorations Never Ending challenge and to day 9 of The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge.  Thanks for taking a peek

 

Wishing you well

Lately I've been inspired to create cards using my stamps and watercolours to create a scene. This set of trees is a Stamplorations set - Tree Silhouettes and the grasses -Penny Black Enjoy Life. I masked off the hill slope and stamped my trees with Distress Inks and then with my Brushos painted in the sky, fence and hillside. Lastly I stamped the grass and my sentiment. I love creating like this.  I am posting my card to The Paper Players challenge #356 - Theme: Great Outdoors.
And to Stamplorations Theme and Sketch Summer Vacation - Anything Goes.  I will also post to their Never-ending Stamplorations challenge Anything Goes using their products.  Thanks for taking a peek

Hello Friend

My card for the May Stampaholics Card Chain challenge went to Lorraine in the UK. I masked and stamped the Stamplorations flower three times on to designer paper that I had lightly painted with white gesso.  Then I used Distress Inks to colour the flowers using those suggested in the colour palette - only mine are a few shades darker. Then I layered with grey and pink onto a dark red card and finished with two stamped sentiments.  I am also posting to Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes.  Thanks for taking a peek

Theme Options: Stars/ Trees/ Friendship