Just a coupla cards

Last week of the month- can you believe that... August flew by, but being Week 4 Darnell's IDEAS prompt is free for all - Anything Goes.

Dug out some Spellbinders dies and created a frame center piece then blended DI around the edge of the bottom piece.  Used a piece of patterned paper for the background and then stamped two flowers from Blush from Penny Black using Speckled Egg Distress Oxide and fussy cut them out.

This card came about from pieces stacked on my desk... a die cut hexagon frame, a smooched soft purplish background and a lovely holographic butterfly a friend sent me... then finished it with a die cut sentiment cut from metallic purple card.

I'm so thankful to Darnell for her IDEAS weekly prompt that keeps me focused to create cards

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

Embossed cards

 This week is quickly getting away from me... but I have a couple of finished cards to share

My first card uses the technique from this months 
Group of Seven Cardmakers - Kaleidoscope    

AND   

 also using the prompt for Week 3 of Darnell's IDEAS calendar... Embossing Wet or Dry

I silver embossed a large floral stamp and watercoloured it with Distress Inks, then cut it into strips and rearranged the layout... then mounted them on thick card attached to a card and stamped and silver embossed the sentiment in the gap on the card base.

Now for some dry embossing...

A very quick Christmas card .... brayer red ink on the flat side of the embossing folder, placed in the white card (very carefully) and ran it through the Cuttlebug... only minutes..  but I need to practice my inking.

I enjoyed embossing and inking a card a few weeks back and I'm still playing with the effects you can get.  Embossed patterned paper and then blended over colour with Distress Oxide inks... finished with a stamped white embossed sentiment and a narrow layer onto a olive green card.

In front of the Olympics on tele I was busy adding a few more characters to my crochet toy bundle I'm going to donate to a good cause.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

Die Cuts

Hello and how's everyone this week... you know it's Week 2 of the month and that means D = Dies according to Darnells IDEAS prompt, so I've a couple of cards to share.

My first card came about because I was rifling through my patterned paper stash for another card and this one landed on my desk... so I teamed it with matching blue card (which definitely doesn't look matching in the photo) and then used the squiggle circle die to cut "flowers" in three 'matching' colours.  I die cut some floral centers to make them look more like flowers and finished with a stamped sentiment.

My second card features just part of the large Sizzix Bouquet die... die cut from shiny gold card and then trimmed away sections.  Attached to a mid blue panel and onto a pale blue card and finished with a gold die cut sentiment.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a Wonderful week

cheers Robyn

A couple of different technique cards

Late with my card making this week as we have a visitor... but I have played around with some ink this morning for Darnell's IDEAS prompt - I = Ink/Colour Mediums.

Didn't have a clue where to start but after scrounging through 'you know that pile of experiments and half finished ideas' - I found this die cut leaf already splotty watercoloured... so I die cut another and used it to 'paint' smooched Distress Oxide ink onto my panel as a background..  with the idea in my head it ending up quite quick and simple, just finished with a stamped sentiment from a long unloved stamp.

My second card is using the technique for this months Group of Seven Cardmakers - Kaleidoscope 

I die cut a hexagon frame from maroon card to match the patterned paper that I cut into 1 cm strips and rearranged to fit the frame.  Attached to a grey square card and finished with a stamped sentiment.

I love this technique and the inspiration the group has shared so I'm hoping to get some actually stamping done when the visitor leaves.

Thanks for stopping by my blog

Have a Wonderful Day

Cheers Robyn

July Card Chain Challenge Reveal

Time to reveal the card I sent to Greta in the USA for the July Card Chain Challenge.   I used the sketch layout, the colours - Gold, Jade and Topaz with the theme Friendship and Embossing technique.

I die cut an oval in jade coloured card and dry embossed it (unknown). Placed some lovely patterned paper behind the opening and added two die cut flowers (Sizzix - Wildflower Stems #1) watercoloured with Distress Inks - Topaz and Jade.  Finished off with a die cut gold sentiment.  Thanks for stopping by my blog, have a Wonderful Day, Cheers Robyn

End of the month Christmas card

Found this stenciled oval with snow slopes in my stash so it made for a quick Christmas card - simply added a couple of die cut trees, a gold star and stamped sentiment

I'm joining the challenge at Rudolph Days July challenge and also Darnell's IDEAS week 4 - Stencils

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

A mix of dies and a monochromatic colour theme

This past month the ladies at 

Group of Seven Cardmakers  ... 

were inspiring us with their lovely cards made with shades of one colour... Monochromatic, and I finally got to make one

Using a variety of dies and shades of jade coloured card and matching to a piece of patterned paper  ...

Thanks for stopping by my blog

have a Wonderful Day

cheers Robyn

Four Cards for the IDEAS prompt - Anything Goes

Hello from unusually cold sunny Queensland Australia... yes we've been having temps overnight in the low teens (C) and windy days that keep the sunshine cool ....  and along with this the household has been unwell with the flu ... so not much activity is happening..  and today I sat myself down at the desk and rummaged around in the stashes and have finally finished a few cards.  So I am joining Darnell again with her IDEAS prompt - week 4, Anything Goes

My first I'm adding to a new challenge - Love those Pretty Papers challenge  ---  so this soft grey patterned panel was just right to enhance my die cut floral that I watercoloured with Distress Oxide inks.  Finished the card with a stamped silver embossed sentiment and added a purple piece at the back which brings out the flower colours.   

I am also joining the challenge at 

The Flower Challenge #93 - Birthday

Next I have a couple of cards featuring embossing for the 

July Can You Handle the Pressure challenge

On this first one I used the Scorpal to emboss lines in the background and then added a watercoloured floral from my stash and a stamped silver embossed sentiment.

My second embossed card has a panel of embossing (from Couture Creations: Wild Holly) and edged with a die cut lacy strip.  Again from my stash a gold embossed floral (STAMPlorations : Darling dogwood roses), watercoloured with Distress Inks and fussy cut.  Finished by attaching to a matching apricot coloured card.

And lastly a card using a leftover strip from my Distress Oxide smooching recently attached to a panel of blended DO inks and finished off with a black silhouette diecut floral and sentiment.

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