Birthday Wishes

Started off my weekend nicely, with an early morning card - I've cased Wei Wei's lovely card over at Stamplorations 5th Birthday Celebrations....CASE the STAMPgirls.  I love the composition and colours.... so I stamped my image on a rectangle of card in grey and then again and embossed in white.  Then I used Distress Oxides to watercolour the image and fussy cut it out.  To finish I positioned the background panel and stamped my sentiment and the attached the pieces.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

 

Happy BIrthday

 Last Friday Elaine posted some gorgeous cards for the 5th Birthday celebrations at Stamplorations where they're asking us to case some of the cards the design team are sharing... I just love Elaine's card (below) and have created this card using one of the Bloomtangle dies.
First I cut the die in white card and then used the die with my tan mat to achieve an embossed panel which I watercoloured with Distress Inks... the raised impression was used as a guide on where to colour.  Then I glued the die cut in place over the coloured panel and onto a white card.

To finish I stamped my sentiment and rough cut around it and the to give it a lift I rough cut around this with orange card.  I attached the sentiment with foam tape.

I am also playing along at Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Bright and Cheerful.   Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


 

Simon Says: Bright And Cheerful

Happy Birthday

When I saw Shirley's Kookaburra card on Friday I just knew I had to join in the 5th Birthday celebrations at Stamplorations  CASE the STAMPgirls.  I love kookas and lucky to have this stamp and Shirley's colours and background inspired me.   I used two different stencils on my background panel -- sponged Versamark through the stencils and use clear embossing powder and heat set it.  Then I spritzed with Magical Micas Mists in two browns and blue and dried that off before touching up the blank spaces with sponged Distress Inks.  I stamped my Kooka, fussy cut him and water coloured him with DI. Lastly I stamped my sentiment and on a small strip and sponged the edge, along with the edge of the panel.  I am also playing along at Southern Girls June challenge - Team Lou - Anything Goes.   Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

 

Big hugs

Big celebrations at Stamplorations as it is their 5th Birthday... wooohooo Congrats to Sheri and the team.
I was inspired to make this card by Vicki with her Birthday Wishes card (below) on day one ... to use my fab new dies... I cut my die in black and used a bright painted panel (from my experiment stash) to highlight it and then added my large die cut sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and join in the celebration

 

Congratulations

I have a quick and easy card today.... although it did take me some searching for my Chevrons... didnt think I had any from memory but there were quite a few.  I selected this bright green DP and cut a couple of chevron rows to attach to my white card.  Then I stamped the sentiment on a white card strip to attach over the center.  I am playing along with Happy Little Stampers CAS challenge for April - Chevrons and also at Stamplorations April Theme - Focus on Sentiments.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

 

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!

Best Wishes

I just love Fuchsias and living in the sub tropics one doesn't see them very often but I would love to see them in my garden....mmm, one day maybe.  Anyway these blooms are a result of my trying out the use of Distress Oxide ink direct onto the shadow stamp... and were supposed to me just my try outs... I liked the look of them so 'touched them up' with a little watercolouring. .. roughly cut around the two sprigs and then simply arranged them on a stitched die cut background and added a stamped sentiment displayed on a a matching pink tag.  I am posting my floral card to Stamplorations March challenge - choosing Spring as my theme and also to Simon Says Wednesday challenge - Floral Frenzy.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

Simon Says: Floral Frenzy

Happy Mothers' Day

This card has been a work in progress for a few weeks... I stamped, watercoloured and fussy cut my red roses...first, then followed the process of how to use them.  So I decided on a heart in the background - a white die cut heart that I dry embossed with tiny heart EF.  Then I used the die to cut an opening in my front panel, the white heart fitted snug but was a little lost so I smooched the edge with red ink.  The I used foam tape to raise my front panel and adhered the embossed heart to the card through the opening.  I arranged the flowers and used different thickness foam tape attach them.  Lastly I stamped my sentiment and die cut it t suit the size of the words then used the full die to cut a red shape to frame the label.
I am playing along with CAS Watercolour challenge for February - Heart theme.
Stamplorations February challenge - Paint-It-Red.
Also to Power Poppy Power & Spark challenge using the Love theme - because I dearly love my mum and know she'll love this card.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

  

I Love You ......

Being nearly Valentine's Day, I've chosen it as my holiday theme for the Addicted to Stamps and More challenge #28 - Holiday.  "It must be Love" is the theme this week at Simon Says Wednesday challenge and Stamplorations theme challenge for February is Love or Red.
For my background panel I have spritzed over a heart stencil with cherry red and overspritzed with Perfect Pearls to give it a lovely shine. Then I stamped and embossed my sentiment onto a die cut heart.  I made one of those mini envelopes from a large die cut heart with the edge sponged ingrey and stamped tiny hearts on the inside.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day