Two Cards featuring Umbrellas

The April TWOFER card challenge #26 theme is Rain/Umbrella  ...   I chose an umbrella stamp for my two cards.

For my first card I stamped the umbrella twice to resemble a butterfly and gold embossed using an embossing pen to add the body and then fussy cut it out .... then made another one.  I used Magical Micas to watercolour the top butterfly and Twinkling H2Os for the bottom one - added some white spots to this one with a gel pen.  I used a panel from my stash made with a Twinkling H2O water wash as the background and stamped and gold embossed the sentiment. I moulded  the butterfly wings and attached with foam tape.

For my second card I stamped the umbrella in black on pattered paper  and then on navy card, fussy cut them both and did some paper piecing.  From the patterned paper set I cut two gumboots and then die cut the word Spring from gloss card, smooched it with Distress Oxide and then wiped away the 'oxide' with a damp baby wipe.  I stamped the rest of the sentiment on navy card and white embossed it.  From my background stash I found this smooched Distress Ink watercoloured panel and attached it to a matching layer of pale green and to finish added all the elements.  I drew on the umbrella shaft with a silver pen.

I am also playing along with the Daring Cardmakers challenge - Umbrella.
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Card Recipe 
Stamps: Clear Impressions - Summer in the Garden (umbrella), Inspired by Stamping - Spring Bouquet (thinking of you) , Clear Impressions - Christmas Florals (wishes)
Dies: CUTplorations - Sweet Spring Wishes,
Inks: Versamark, Versafine - black, Distress Ink - Evergreen bough, Distress Oxide -Abandoned coral
Other: clear embossing powder, white embossing powder, gold embossing powder, Twinkling H2Os - blues, Magical Micas - Bachelor button, Yellow rose of Texas, Patterned paper, white gel pen

Just for You

I love the green of my garden, it keeps the place feeling cool, and I was so please when the tree loppers  (a few years back) advise that it would be ok to just trim our mango trees and not remove them - they are quite large and what a relief we still have them.

I've in a bit of a creative slump, so it's nice that even a small stamped flower can give me a boost.
From the BOBs ("box of bit's"  compliments of Darnell) - I selected the die cut rectangle and quickly chose just a small image - of course it's a flower, and stamped this with Antique Line Distress Ink and left it attached to my Misti, while I watercoloured it with DI - then over stamped the image with Old Paper DI which gives a 'lift' to the image.  I added some glitter glue to the stamen and a few extra dots to the card.  Then stamped on my sentiment and embossed it with glittery clear EP.  To finish I added a dry embossed background panel and a glittery bow.

I am playing along with the Daring Cardmakers challenge - CAS with Sparkle   ...   AND  ....  The Flower Challenge #43 - Spring/Autumn

Thanks for stopping by my blog  ----   have a HAPPY DAY and stay safe

  
Card Recipe 
Stamps: Power Poppy - Strong and Beautiful,  magazine freebie - Beautiful Blooms sentiment
Dies: Poppy Craft - stitched nesting rectangle
Inks: Versafine - black, Distress Inks - Antique linen, Old Paper, Fossilized amber, Shabby shutters, Spiced marmalade, Abandoned coral
Other:  magazine freebie embossing folder - Beautiful Blooms, glitter glue, Sparkle embossing powder, ribbon

Recycled Koala

Last challenge for March at
 the Daring Cardmakers
and theme is RECYCLE....
Are you like me and save all those yummy packaging and labels, tags and threads??
I do have a smallish stash LOL so it wasn't hard for me to come up with some pieces I'd like to recycle

Don't you just love my Koala mug a gift for last years birthday from my wonderful daughter and family.... wow the box it came in was fabulous... four sides with lovely black and white artwork, so of course I trimmed it up and used one of the panels for todays card...the black card layer is also packaging... I simply added another white layer  and attached to a white square card ... I left off adding a sentiment.

I'm a bit of a tea drinker, love a cuppa while I'm working at my desk or out in the garden.

So recently I discovered this new tea in the supermarket - Vanilla which I really like and what gorgeous packaging... so, yes, I cut it up too and made two cards.

For the first card I trimmed the colourful strip and the black and white dotty lines took my fancy so I drew a frame around a white panel, and stamped my cup, black and white lines to it too and coloured it with pencils before fussy cutting it out.  From my stamp stash I found this sentiment which I thought very appropriate for today's world problems and and trimmed the blue card to a teabag label.

For my second card I trimmed my teabag packaging to make a flower pot and then stamped some whimsical flowers and leaves and drew some black and white dotty stems and fussy cut them all.  I watercoloured the flowers with Distress Oxides and used Salty ocean to sponge around the edge of my white card.  Then attached all the elements to the card and added some die cut flowers (cut from the packaging) and the sentiment was also part of the packaging.

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

Card Recipe 
Stamps: Polkadoodles - Summertime, flowers, Darcie's Heart & Home - Cup of Tea, sentiment, Magazine freebie - Coffee Break - cup
Dies:  Sizzix - Small Tattered Florals
Inks: Versafune - black, Distress Oxides - Pickled raspberry, Mustard seed, Blueprint sketch, Shaded lilac, Salty ocean
Other: Coloured pencils,  Fineline marker - black

Just for You

Hello and happy Friday... or at least I hope all is well at your place. Everyone is ok here, although the old body is feeling it after spending a few hours most mornings this week out in the garden.. so nice to have lovely weather and to be out in the fresh air - so I don't mind being home and keeping my 'distance socially'

Here is my card this week as Guest Designer for 

The Daring Cardmakers challenge - Floral Focus

Firstly with making this card I picked up this Anemone die a few weeks back and after watching a demo on how to create your own frame I had a go myself - partial die cutting and then cutting the frame with sharp blade and ruler ... really happy with how it turned out too.  I found this Distress Oxides smooched background in my stash - love the pretty soft colours and picked out the coral colour to use to watercolour my flowers.
To finish I attached the layers to a white card and added a stamped sentiment strip with foam tape.

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


Card Recipe 
Stamps: Kinetic Creations - sentiment (magazine freebie)
Dies: Tattered Lace - Anemone
Inks: Distress Oxides - Abandoned Coral, Worn Lipstick and various others, Versafine - black
Other:  coloured pencils

Best Wishes

This week the theme for The Daring Cardmakers is LUCKY FOR SOME.
There are lot superstitions out there that are meant to bring us good luck - four leaf clovers, horseshoes, dream catchers, the number 7....  I'm sure you know some more.      As Guest Designer I'm featuring a dragonfly on my card

"In some cultures, dragonflies represent good luck or prosperity. So make a wish when you see a dragonfly and it'll come true. ... Plenty of dragonflies meant there were plenty of fish around. If a dragonfly hovered near the fisherman, he took it as a good luck sign" quote from internet

I lightly blended blue ink around the top section of a panel dry embossed with grasses and then stamped and silver embossed the dragonfly then fussy cut it out.... added a touch of blue to the wings and lots of sparkly glitter glue.  Then I die cut some grass stalks and the sentiment from scrap watercoloured card and arranged these on the panel and onto a green card and finished off with a few sequins.

We would love to see your wonderful creations over on the Daring Cardmakers blog - so join in the fun

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

Card Recipe 
Stamps: Lucy's Stamps - dragonfly, 
Dies: Sizzix - Wildflower stems  and Celebrations words, script
Inks: Versamark, Distress Oside - Evergreen bough
Other:  Cuttlebug embossing folder - Bird call, glitterglue

Hello Friend

Hi there, I'm back this Friday as Guest Designer for the Daring Cardmarkers with this card, inspired by our Elemental Inspiration photo

 I loved the colours in the photo and also I'm inspired by the spray of flowers, the large letters and  gems - using them on my Floating Frame card.
I chose a lovely Patterned Paper  piece and rough fussy cut out some floral sprays, then arranged them around the edge of a white card panel, holding them in place with a tiny piece of tape... then die cut a rectangle from the centre.  I carefully removed the pieces and replace the tape with foam tape, then trimmed off the outer edges using some of the offcuts to fill in the gaps.  I chose a light blue card and die cut 'Hello' in dark blue and stamped 'friend' on a white card tab in black and clear embossed it .... and attached all these to the card, finishing off with some mini blue gems.

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



Card Recipe
Stamps: Altenew - Halftone Hello
Dies: Sizzix - Alphanumeric Cutout Lowerase
Inks: Versafine - black
Other: Clear embossing powder, Kaisercraft - DP  Paisley Days, blue gems

Hold on to your Dreams

Here today with my card for my last week as Guest Designer at Daring Cardmakers...              I have enjoyed this month and challenged my card making with some really cool themes.

This card immediately came to mind when I saw the theme for this week was - 

TAKE A FLYING LEAP, to celebrate 2020 being a Leap Year.

My frog stamp is very old and the rubber is softening but I did get a usable image when I inked it with Old Paper Distress Ink... and then I used my Distress Inks to watercolour it and finished off with some coloured pencil details.   I die cut some gum leaves and then used the negative of the cut to sponge some leaves around the edge of my card panel, also sponging in some blue for the background.  To finish I stamped on my sentiment in black and attached to a green card.
We'd love to see you join in the fun over at The Daring Cardmakers this week.
Thanks for stopping by my blog   ---   have a Happy Day



Card Recipe 
Stamps: Stamp It - Green tree frog, Scrappy Cat - Inspirations
Dies: Ultimate Crafts - Eucalyptus Blossom 
Inks: Versafine - black, Distress Inks - Old paper, Peeled paint, Forest Moss, Shabby shutters, Squeezed lemonade, Stormy sky
Other: coloured pencils

Hello Friend

My third card this month as Guest Designer

for the Daring Cardmakers challenge

ALL TIED UP!!

Using some threads, fibres, yarn, twine, string on your card

I started with a sponged stencil image and a matching brown shades floral stamped image, that I'd coloured with pencils --- both in my stash.  I cut the medallion stencilled piece in half and fussy cut the flowers. Next I die cut some foliage in white card and my 'hello' sentiment in brown and also two layers of dark brown... then glued these together offset so there was a shadow.  Stamped and white embossed 'friend' on dark brown card too.  I arranged the elements and wrapped light brown raffia twine around it and left the tails long so they could be part of the arrangement.... an attached all these to a white card.
Here's a close up....

I am also playing along with Double 'D' challenge - Saying Hello!!
Thanks for stopping by my blog   ----   have a Happy Day

 

Card Recipe 
Stamps:My  friends floral stamp,  Altenew -Layered Poppy - friend sentiment
Dies: Sizzix - Spring Greenery,  Simon Says - Small Hello
Inks: Memento - Desert Sand, Versamark, Distress Ink - Brushed Corduroy
Other: Stencil - ARTplorations - Bloomdalia Bliss, Coloured pencils, white embossing powder, raffia twine