Best Wishes on your Birthday

Ok this week in between other duties, I've been mucking about with 'metal' elements again... I ripped the foil cover off the new butter tub and that's where this evolve from.  Very thin but stuck some double sided tape onto the gold side (writing on there) and the thicker plasticy ripoff layer helped hold it together when I ran it through the Cuttlebug.  I used an embossing die to impress the foil and then cut it out with a circle die.  Then from my stash I pulled out this gorgeous aqua and brown piece - Versamark sponged through a stencil (gone wrong, stencil too fine) and clear embossed then sponged with Distress Inks.  Then I decided to die cut a circle of aqua glitter card to go behind the metal feature and to finish added a matching gem.  Arranged onto a white card with a stamped sentiment layered onto a brown strip.  I am playing along at CAS Mix Up October challenge - Metal : my elements are Metal, dry embossing, stamping, die cuts, watercolour and heat embossing. I am also joining in with Watercooler Wednesday WWC192 - Marsha's Masculine "Anything Goes" challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


 

Have a Wonderful Birthday

Lastly today I have a Sunflower card... the theme at The Card Concept #99 challenge.
I masked the corner of my front panel and stamped on my sunflower and embossed with gold EP.  Then I coloured the image with pencils and the smudged in the background blue... did you ever use a piece of blotting paper to smudge pencil colouring - I did way in school and then I found some blotting paper while tidying up my craft cupboard last week... it gives a lovely finish and you can fade it nicely.  I used a golden yellow to frame the panel onto a blue card and then to finish stamped my sentiment in blue and added a gold flower trinket and bow.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

Hope your Birthday is Special

Beautiful day here, sun shining and lovely cool breeze and I can see from my craft window the birds are building a nest under our eaves... Spring time.  So it's interesting to join in challenges celebrating Autumn... CAS Watercolour are also celebrating their second Birthday... congratulations ladies, thanks for all the inspiration.  So speaking Orange Brown and Green are the colours for the October CAS Watercolour challenge.  I stamped my image with Weathered Wood Distress Ink to give a soft outline and then used Distress Inks in the three colours to watercolour the image, ending with a soft brown background.  For a change I decided to die cut a circle on my card front and display my image behind it.  To finish I stamped on my sentiment.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

Spring Tulips

My birthday is the end of September... which represents to me my birthstone - Sapphire, and the beginning of Spring (living in the southern hemisphere).... so my colours are rich blue for the stone and bright yellow for the season.  I stamped my tulips in weathered wood Distress Ink so the outline would be subdued.  Then watercoloured my image with Distress Inks. I used some layering to bring out the colours with yellow and white and a blue card.  Die cut my image with a circle and mounted it to a die cut lacy doiley and to finish added a ribbon bow... I left off a sentiment, so I could use the card for Any Occasion.  I am playing along with Power Poppy Power and Spark October challenge - Motifs from your Birthday.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

Happy Birthday

Stamped my waterlily with Lettuce green ink and clear emboss it....then used Distress Inks to watercolour the image... in shades of green - leaning towards blue green. Then I cut the panel down to fit a blue green card.  I stamped my sentiment in green and embossed with sparkly clear EP. To finish off I added some dots of sparkly glue and some brush strokes of Perfect Pearls for more sparkle.  I am playing along with Power Poppy Creative Confetti - Monochromatic with Sparkle and The Flower challenge #25 - Add Sparkle.   Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend


 

Summer Holiday ATC

ATC time again at Happy Little Stampers - October theme is Holiday.
First I lightly coloured my sky and sand with dye inks on textured card, and stamped on my seashell and seagull.  Then I used large letter stamps for part of my Title and cut an 'S' from thick card, coloured and decorated with micorbeads.  Next I cut a strip of white zigzag corrugated card and painted the raised areas with Twinkling H2Os to represent the waves and added some microbeads too.  From my ribbon stash I used sheer ribbon with tiny blue feet which I positioned over the sand... like walking in the sand.  To finish I attahed my ATC to a blue back card, hand wrote on some words and attached a surf board trinket (only had 2 so made one of my own).  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

Wishing you Peace now and always

Whoopppie - we've been enjoying some long needed rain overnight- with even some serious lightning and thunder, and with intermittent showers this morning... our farmers along the central east have been in drought for 6 years, lets hope they're getting a good dowsing too.
Anyway my card this morning is for the CAS Christmas October challenge - Birds.  This is an old wood mounted stamp that I innked with Versamark and just added Turquoise Sparkle EP (it's so old the turquoise is missing)  - I love the shadow feel it created as a background.  Then I restamped and embossed in Silver EP and fussy cut the dove - added a tiny bit of colour and used foam tape to attach. I thought I could add a silver metallic border - wrong colour but this matt dull gold paper looked great (it's only shiny from the side - bottom pic).  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend.

Thanks for Everything

Tracey has created a lovely autumn wreath for the Muse Challenge #286 so I was inspired to make this card.  Instead of stamping my wreath I chose to use die cuts... cutting my 'twig' circles twice and removing the centers.  Then from some shaving cream panels from my stash I die cut four types of leaves and arranged them around the 'twig wreath'. To finish I stamped on my sentiment and added an extra leaf.  Elements of Tracey's card I've focused on are - wreath, autumn colours, layout.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your weekend

Floral card for any occasion

After so many CAS cards it is weird making a card with ink all over... but at Power Poppy Creative Confetti, Julie challenged us to make our image POP, making a statement with a background... so here it is.  I stamped my HLS image with green Distress Oxide and let it really dry before I coloured it with both Distress Inks and Oxides... though it might run, all good. Then I stamped and cut a mask and sponged Distress Inks in Squeezed Lemonade, Tattered Rose and Chipped Sapphire, then I misted it with water... it blended nicely but it wasn't till it dried that I felt happy with it... I sponged in some Tumbled Glass close in around the middle and finally flicked on some water droplets... more drying.  It looked ok but the outline and detail looked awful, so I carefully repositioned my image and stamp with the Misti and stamped with grey ink - it lifted the whole image beautifully - I'm real happy now, to finish I used a red card to enhance the colours .  I am also posting to Stamplorations Never Ending Anything Goes challenge.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.


  Blossom Spray #2

Happy Birthday to You

Autumn colours are all the rage at present and I have a card today for the Addicted to Stamps challenge 167 and Stamplorations Theme and Sketch October challenge .... using some yellows, orange and browns on my card.  I stamped my image with brown ink and coloured the image with pencils, then I die cut around it with a stitch circle die. I layered the image onto three shades using a grey blue to bring out the shading behind the flowers... I also dry embossed the orange tan layer and to finish stamped my sentiment on a strip and assembled the card using foam tape.  Thanks for visiting and enjoy your day.

AUTUMN COLOURS