Happy Birthday

A busy socializing weekend so I've finished off a few project today - here I have a card for Watercooler Wednesday WWC199 challenge - Tristan's Feminine "Anything Goes"... a nice easy card also using the layout at CAS(E) this Sketch #300.  A white card featuring an embossed background and using a lovely strip of pink DP for display my die cut sentiment, and to finish a die cut flower and pearl. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Christmas is Love ....

Well our heat wave here in Townsville has eased a bit with a couple of overcast days and cooler low 30 temps and even some rain -- only with that comes the humidity but that is life here.  So I have a card today for CAS Mix Up December challenge - Emboss Resist.  I used a stencil and Versamark to create this emboss resist background... it was the second use of the stencil after attempting to get the ink through to emboss the stars..not successful but then I lay the inked stencil on white card and used white EP, heat set and then sponged Distress Inks over this and wiped off the excess ink....I thought it looked like a snowy starry sky.... only now I've taken the photo and the card is finished did I see that the stars are sideways... mmmm oh well, should've made a vertical card.  To finish I layered a die cut village, added some gold and silver paper behind the windows and a snow drift along the bottom and stamped on my sentiment. Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 Elements - Emboss Resist, stamping, die cuts

All is Calm...

Today I have dressed up my night sky with sparkly stars for the CAS Christmas December challenge - theme STARS.  This really cool night sky is from my years ago stash... I'm pretty sure I created this with Marvy Markers - silver on blue gloss card.  Then I used black card for my village die cut landscape and backed the windows with yellow card .  To finish I used a white square card and stamped my sentiment and embossed with silver EP and finally touch with my die cut stars in silver glitter card.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

Up for a new challenge - starting in January 2019, there is a new addition to the CAS group

CAS Stencil

be sure to add this to you challenge calendar, pop over and be inspired and join in the fun.

Jingle Bells

Yippee and I'm sighing with relief as I've finished writing up my Christmas cards and most are in the post.  Just needed a couple extras for the family.. and so I've put together this one from my desk WIP stash - which includes a leftover tag from last year... easy card with just a nice male brown DP background on a white card.  I'm posting to Watercooler Wednesday challenge WWC198 - Gail's "All about Holidays" challenge and Christmas Crafts All Year 'Round -December - Anything Goes.   Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Merry Christmas

At last today I have put together this card that has been a WIP (work in progress) all month.  Before I put  it all together I have the smooched watercolour background a spritz with silver pearl mist and added some stamped and embossed stars. I stamped the sentiment on a torn section of card in blue and embossed in clear.  Then assembled the card with my die cut trees, adding some tiny blue gems for some more sparkle.  I am playing along with Rudolph Days challenge - Anything Goes. 

 Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

November Rudolph Days Challenge

Thanks Sew Much ATC

Well we're nearing the end of the month and Christmas cards/tags have taken up much of my time so I thought to make an ATC for Happy Little Stampers ATC November challenge SEW.  Found some DP papers and stamps with this theme and decided to use this lady - stamper her on white card, coloured in the umbrella and her flesh part and fussy cut... then stamped again on floral DP for her dress and then on tan for her hat and paper pieced them to the image.  Then stamped my sentiment, some faux stitching, sponged the edges and added a tape measure DP to the bottom, them mounted to my base tan ATC.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

Happy Fathers' Day

Joining in today with the Watercooler Wednesday challenge WWC197 - Kath's Masculine "Anything Goes".  From my pre-stamped stash I chose this image of a Holden Ute... reminds me of my grandfather and laying across the back of the seat in the luggage tray...highly illegal now, but we enjoy piling into the cab and going along with him on his rounds of the water wheels.  His was pale blue so I coloured mine with pencils and added silver gel pen for the chrome.  I used some DP for the background and stamped on my two sentiments....making a mess of the top one so re-stamped on a scrap and inked the edge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

Wishes for Your Birthday

With so much Christmas card making going on it was nice today to make a card for a birthday...  I stamped my flowers twice across the bottom of my panel in grey and used Distress Oxides to watercolour them... I love the pink shade and was real happy to find this matching cardstock to use as a background to from the images.  I stamped and silver embossed my sentiment on the pick and assembled the card with a sparkly silver 'Wishes' die cut.  I am playing along with Power Poppy Creative Confetti - a birthday card and also with The Flower Challenge #26 - a Floral card for a Special Occasion.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day