August Card Chain Challenge Reveal

My August Card Chain Challenge card went off to Viv in UK....  I used the layout, colours, CAS and Friendship themes, and Stencil technique.

Sunflowers make me smile

 Two lovely floral challenge for my Sunflower cards today....

• Beautiful Blossoms #8
• Triple B August challenge

 Off the page stamped sunflowers - watercoloured with Distress Inks... added a fancy die cut edge and stamped sentiment.

Distress Ink blended stencil Sunflower....also off the edge with a stamped sentiment.

Mood Board Inspiration

Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a wonderful day,  cheers Robyn

Dry Embossing and various colouring techniques

 

During July the ladies at Group of Seven Cardmakers were sharing their inspiration using dry embossed images.....

Colouring Dry Embossing

With my first card... I embossed the image on white card and watercoloured the background leaves. Then I embossed the center section again and swiped it with Versamark and gold embossed the raised areas, fussy cut the circle and placed in on top of the original.

My second card is a long 3D embossed floral image on white card and then used Distress Inks blended over the raised areas, and finished with a stamped sentiment.

My third set of Christmas cards used the same embossed background on white and green card and then highlighted the embossing blending over Distress Inks. ...  finished of the cards with tags from my stash.   I am joining in with the August Rudolph Days challenge.

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a wonderful day,   cheers Robyn

July Card Chain Challenge Reveal

 

Here's my July Card Chain Challenge card that I sent off to Linda W in the USA.  I used circles, stitches and two colours from the palette. 

I remembered I had this scribbly circle die and thought to use them as flowers... die cut from 'pineapple' yellow card and with a little 'peach' ink blended on the centers.  Then I used another stitched die that you would use to create a horizon line and laid them at different angles to create the leaves and stems. Mounted them onto a PP background and added a stamped die cut sentiment (from Jillibean).

Theme Options: Fish / Circles / Friendship

Product / Technique Options: Buttons / Stitches

This is my latest crochet blanket... Mosaic in the Round by Beba Crochet

End of the month again!!

Holy Moly --whooosh July has gone and I've not posted anything this month...  but I have been dabbling..

Got a couple of cards for Rudolph Days Christmas card July challenge . --- these are made with a set which includes a stamp and embossing folder... stamped first then embossed...quick & easy

And this decorated box is for the 

Beautiful Blossoms challenge #7 - Anything Goes with Flowers.

Used a lovely floral patterned paper to cover one the lid of one of the boxes I've been collecting... then die cut the flower and leaves from matching card, arranged them and added some white Crystal Drops.

Close up of the flower spray. 

Next these couple are using the technique - 

Off the Edge that the ladies at Group of Seven Card Makers 

have been playing with during the month.

Stamped and heat embossed foliage off the corners of my card panels then blended Distress Ink over the white card.  Finished the yellow one with a simple stamped and silver embossed sentiment and the purple one with white embossed candles, fussy cut and highlighted with distress ink and white Crystal Drops.. and some glitter gel dots for 'twinkle'.

This purple Christmas card is also for the 

Happy Little Stampers July Christmas challenge - Twinkle

And my last card... just because

 

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

June Card Chain Challenge Reveal

My June card for the Card Chain Challenge 

went off to Linda in the USA

I had some fun with this card, using the wheels theme as inspiration and of course most of my cards involve flowers - so a spill of tiny die cut flowers in the colours of the palette worked beautifully.  I enjoyed making this card for Linda.

Theme Options.... Wheels and Friendship.

The Layout is orientated horizontally

Thanks for stopping by my blog... have a wonderful day,

Cheers Robyn

Rudolph Days Christmas Stash Building

Again!!!!!! we're nearing the end of the month - June has gone and half of the year too, so it's time to share our Christmas cards with Maureen and her team    at   Rudolph Day Challenge

So I've been in my patterned papers stash again....

...... needing not much more that a double die cut glossy silver sentiment and a stamped gold embossed  one for the ornament card.

Thanks for stopping by my blog.... have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

A trio of cards featuring butterflies, birds and blooms

 Time to share a few more cards that have evolved from my desk over this month

This first card is for the Can You Handle the Pressure challenge - Anything Goes with a Twist of Butterflies.

Blended green Distress Inks over the leafy embossed border EF and stamped on the sentiment.... finished off with 3 die cut butterflies smooched in DI and spritzed with shimmer mist

Second card for the Triple B June challenge. ... with this lovely moodboard for inspiration. 

No stamping on this card... used a pretty pink marbly background (from my Kaisercraft calendar), then die cut the stitched wavy edge on white card - lightly blended edge with pink DI.  Die cut the little bird and watercoloured with DI and finished with a die cut Hello sentiment.

Lastly an Any Occasion card - for two challenges...  Double 'D' Colour challenge - I've used the purple and blues as inspiration.   

AND  Beautiful Blossoms challenge #6 - with a mood board in these colours too as inspiration.

 

I used a scalloped frame die and a number of my flower dies to create this little picture with a lovely patterned paper background - I smooched the flower edges with ink and added some white crystal drops for the flower centers

And my latest crochet blanket... a Mosaic in the Round by Beba Blankets

Thanks for stopping by my blog ...   have a Wonderful Day,   Cheers Robyn