Happy Birthday

I used alcohol inks on gloss card to create this background and then used a stitched balloon die to cut 6 balloons... just for Addicted to Stamped and More who are celebrating their 6th Birthday and 300 challenges - definitely something to cheer about.  I tied black thread to each balloon and used Dimensional Magic to keep the bows in place. Then I dry embossed my background panel and stamped my sentiment on a stitched die cut tag and used foam tape to attach my elements.  I am also playing along with CAS Mix Up July challenge - colour your Die-cuts - Alcohol Inks, stamping and my choice is dry embossing, die cuts.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

 

Best Wishes on your Special Day

A male birthday card today using a background made with Distress Oxide using a round acrylic block and lots of misting with water.  Then stamped, embossed and coloured my image and fussy it cut it out. To finish I stamped on my sentiment also a die cut 'Wishes' and a couple of cutouts that look like birds.  I am playing along with Double "D" Nautical challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

Have a Great Day...

This year I have really stepped it up making masculine birthday cards which is cool because they seem to be a lot less involved... Today I have used one of my recently made Twinkling H2O water wash backgrounds and added a stamped dragonfly, then attached my fish - stamped on gloss card and coloured with H2Os - he looks all shiny just like a fish would jumping out of the water.  To finish I added a couple of die cut reeds and a stamped sentiment on a strip.  I am playing along with Challenge #89 at The Male Room - Fish and also at Watercooler Wednesday WWC178 - Crystal's "All About Occasions" challenge and also the Muse card challenge #274 - inspired by Tracey's card - my elements are waterwash background, "fins"
 Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

 

 

 

With Best Wishes

Today I've cased Anita's lovely Muse #273 card.... using elements- colours, masked strip, black stamped  image and sentiment on the strip with a few scattered dots.
I used Distress Oxides blended with a baby wipe and then stamped on my image and sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day

 

Best Wishes

Here I am with my second card today.....  for The Card Concept #9 challenge...inspirational photo Golden Table.  I love the colours in the photo and the gold... so I did some masking and stamped my image along the bottom of my card and used Distress Oxides to watercolour them.  Then I mixed some of my gold powders together with water to achieve a glitter gold wash background to the flowers...had trouble photographing this card.  I added a bit more gold with a frame and die cut sentiment and arranged these on a cream card.  I think my style is Classy and Elegant.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

Happy Birthday

A new month already and some more monthly challenges to be inspired.... my first one is for a left handed person - lol, no really I finished it all off before I realized I'd attached it all to the wrong side...so I'll cut it off and trim it to fit another card base.

I'm playing along with the July CAS Watercolour challenge - 'Splash Watercolouring'.  I created my background strip with Distress Inks - using a loaded paint brush to flick colour blobs of Abandoned Coral, Fossilized Amber and Twisted Citron onto a plastic sheet and then laying the white card onto this- the bigger blobs spread and joined up but there are lots of small splashes of colour.

Then I stamped my poppy image, watercoloured it with DI and fussy cut it out.  To finish I added a matching card strip and used foam tape to add depth. Finally stamped my sentiment on a die cut stitched oval.
I am also playing along with Watercooler Wednesday WWC177 - Charlotte's Feminine "Anything Goes" challenge.   Thanks for visiting and enjoy your week

Peace on Earth

A while since I made a Christmas card.... this morning I have cased Lindsey's card at Muse: Christmas Visions 103 (below).  Her lovely CAS card really caught my eye and the modern twist on the trees - cased elements... layout, snowy landscape and starry night sky, use of DP for trees, 'peace'.  My background is  made with sponged Distress Oxides and stamped and silver embossed stars.  Then I die cut my 'hills' and found some Designer Paper with gold highlights, cut into long triangles - I inked over the 'trees' slightly in green DI.  Then as I have silver on gold on my card, I used silver and gold embossing powder on my sentiment on the bottom of my frame.
I am also playing along at Christmas Crafts All Year - theme Trees, AND Watercooler Wednesday WWC176 - Kath's "All About Christmas" challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your week.

    

With Love

My stamped heart image is from my very old stash and the card turned out to be ok to watercolour (a relief) - I used a combination of Distress Inks and Oxides to colour it, then I fussy cut it out.  I stamped my sentiment in pink and clear embossed it and cut the ends like a label.  I found this pink stripe embossed card in my 'old' stash too and decided to go with it instead of white card and to add interest die cut a frame using two nesting dies.  I am playing along at Muse challenge #272 casing Steffi's card (below)  - elements : a heart, pink, die cut edge, stripes, sentiment within the heart.  And also joining in at AAA Cards CAS Game #118 - Use a frame.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

 

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.

 

Just Smile

I had planned my ATC and funnily enough it included a cat like others on the challenge at Happy Little Stampers ATC June challenge - SMILE... but I changed my mind when I saw this verse by Spike Milligan on FB this morning I just wanted to share it... so I printed it off and attached it to a background panel made with swiping glue across it and when dry adding Distress Inks (must experiment with this technique a bit more).  Then I stamped 'smile' in black and clear embossed it and then stamped 'just' above it.  I added so interest with some stamped foliage along the sides.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.