Thinking of You!

 It's Wednesday and the day our New Challenge at

The Sisterhood of Crafters goes live.

Darlene has chosen the 'Theme'

Flowers as the Focus.

I chose to do something I have wanted to try for ages - 

Use Lindy's Moon Shadow and Starburst Mists

onto black paper.

I heat embossed the Full of Glee stamp by Penny Black.

The colours are a little darker than I wanted but still

really happy with the result - so shimmery!

The background was also sprayed with Lindy's.

Die cut  my flower from MFT and matted with gold paper.

Sentiment die using the same paper from Crafts4U.

Finished by attaching to black card base.

I'm sure we are going to have so many

beautiful floral cards in our Gallery this month.

Be sure to check out what my Sistah's made

before you head off to make yours.

# Update Popping this card over at

The Little Red Wagon for their

Challenge #603 Say it with Flowers

Thanks for dropping in.

Merry Christmas Deer

Welcome to today's post for the 

Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

Our Challenge is always Anything Goes making it easy to

make your own choice of Christmas Card.

Those that know me can relate to my latest card

using Brusho's Magical's and Nuvo Powders.

Background die cut trees and sentiment 

are from the above powders.

Other trees are white card stock and gold paper as is my deer.

The snow is made from grit paste, acrylic paint and Crystal Snow

Punched some gold stars and added some splatters

then inked the edges with matching green ink

 adhering to white card base. 

That's it from me this time round.

Pop over and check what my Team Mates 

created and get those Christmas Goodies out

and add yours to the Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Be back again in a few weeks with another 

Chrissie card for you.

Thanks for dropping in and 

I love reading your comments so don't forget

 to leave one for me.

A Daisy 'With Love'

 It's Saturday and my post for Just Us Girls

Photo Week. Cecile is Host.

I went pretty much like the gorgeous photo 

Cecile has chosen for us.

I have added the burlap, lace and twine

onto my metallic card base.

My daisy is also from the same paper

die cut several times. Added a small yellow

centre and green leaves.

Finished with a small sentiment cut from

MFT stitched die.

Pop over and see what our Guest Jacinda

and my Team Mates created and

come join in our Gallery.

You could be Chic of the Week

and be in the running to be our July Guest.

Thanks for coming by

 Love reading your comments.

PS -  pop over and wish our Teamie Vicki

a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

A STAMPlorations Spring Fling Blog Hop and Linky Party

We are celebrating Spring over at STAMPlorations

showcasing beautiful Spring Floral Card Fronts.

They are stunning and the thickness of the paper is just perfect!

Check out all the details Here

I fussy cut my card front from 

STAMPlorations Quick Cards Spring Florals #3

so I could add an extra element as a background with

the ARTlorations Leaf Prints 3 Stencil on grey card stock.

Cut out my CUTplorations Thanks Die

several times for dimension.

Added Nuvo Glitter Gloss randomly on to my flowers.

Here is a close up showing a little of the shimmer.

adding some seed beads to the centre to finish.

Attached to white card base.

Here are the STAMPlorations products I used.

Pop over and see all the beautiful 

Spring Florals the STAMPlorations Girls created

and don't forget to be part of the Hop by

Commenting and adding your project to the Gallery.

Thanks for popping in and commenting.

Reminder Post for STAMPlorations

 It's Reminder Time at STAMPlorations

Have you played yet?

Here is my project

I always enjoy playing around with a few stencils

at a time on my projects and have done so again here.

My background is from a Gelli Press pull

adding ARTplorations Evolution and

Facets which got lost behind the

Flowers 1 stenciled with

Tim's Distress Grit Paste giving it a

nice rough surface.

Before I did the flowers 

I stamped and heat embossed

  Texturized Big Numbers Background

in Crackling Campfire and Lindy's Pumpkin Fiesta.

Die cut my CUTplorations Big Hugs

several time for dimension and heat embossed also.

Corner rounded and attached to coloured card stock.

Products used

Thanks for popping in. 

It's Colour Week at Just Us Girls

 It's Saturday and post day for Just Us Girls

and Hosting our Colour Week is Maria

choosing lovely soft pastels.

I went CAS here  heat embossing

my flowers onto the three colours of card stock

 for our Colour Challenge.

These were framed adding some small floral stamps

and Liquid Pearls to the centres.

Finished with my sentiments.

Pop over and see what our Guest Jacinda

and the Team used these lovely soft colours.

Love to see yours over in our Gallery.

Thanks for popping in.

Celebrate with Ice Cream

 Time for our New Challenge at

The Sisterhood of Crafter

Aussie aNNie has chosen the Theme - 

Spots and Stripes.

My first thought was the half circle scoop

of ice cream in a cone and knew which

stamp/die set would be perfect.

It's from STAMPlorations Sweet Cravings.

I used scrap pieces of paper and heat embossed

my sweet treats then die cut them.

Card base is white and cut a small piece

off the side to add my striped backing.

The front has been cut to size with

CUTplorations Circle All Over Cover Plate.

The sweet treats have been covered with

Nuvo Drops, Glitter, Diamond Dust,

Chunky Embossing Enamel and popped.

Added a strip for the sentiment and a small

striped strip underneath.

Finished off with lots of colourful inked circles.

Pop over and see how my 'Sistah's' chose

to add spots and stripes to their makes.

Come add yours to the Gallery.

Love to see you there.

Thanks for coming by today.

Wishing you a Merry Christmas

Hello and Welcome.

 I have been invited to join the Designers at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge.

Below is my first card as part of the Team.

I started my background with soft blending of

Lindy's Oom Pah Pah Pink Powder

then heat embossed some text randomly.

Then to my 

STAMPlorations Large Christmas Flower

and coloured again with the Lindy's Powder.

Added Copper Penny Nuvo Drops to the centre 

and sprinkled with Stampendous Crystal Snow.

Sentiment is heat embossed in Gold

and Die cut from Hero Arts Merry Stamp & Cut.

Popped on to white card base to finish.

Pop over and see what lovely Christmas Cards

the Team created and  - it is never too early

to get a few Chrisssy cards into your stash.

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

Till next time Cherrio from

Oh! Happy Day

Welcome to today's post for Just Us Girls

It's my turn to Host this weeks Trend Challenge

and want to see 'Layers'

I rummaged through my Bits Box (as you do)

and found this lovely background piece

for the die cuts I used here.

Some are from SU Tip Top Taupe,

as is the card base and sentiment strip,

the others are from my bits box which

luckily blended in perfectly.

Added some shimmer to the TTT dies

leaving the others as is.

Sentiment is from STAMPlorations Bloom Sketches.

I even found an old earring that matched 

to finish off my layered card.

We have our Guest Jacinda sharing with us

her talents this month. Check out how Jacinda

and the Talented Team  layered this week Here

and hope you are inspired to add yours.

You could be chosen as Chic of the Week

and join us as our Guest in July.

Thank you for popping in. Love reading your thoughts!

Stencil Time at STAMPlorations

 Time just seems to be flying by and already close to

half the year has disappeared.

As it is a new month it is the start of our challenges over at

STAMPlorations

Our Stencil Challenge is now live and you can see

what we created Here

I had a LOT of leftover Lindy's Magical's 

on my glass mat so that was the start of  my project.

I then added colours with Tim's Oxide Inks in

Spiced Marmalade and Crackling Campfire.

Added my stenciling using

Dreamweaver Crackle Paste to 

Onion in Raws and Overlayers

With more of the leftover ink  I 

die cut the stamped feathers from

 STAMPloratons Feathery Stamp/Die

and popped them.

Stamped the sentiment from that set,

tore the edges and attached to my card.

Finished by adhering to navy card base.

Here are the products I used.

Don't forget to pop over and see 

what my Team Mates created,

be inspired and add yours to The Gallery.

Thanks for dropping in.

I will be back later in the month for a Reminder!

I appreciate your kind comments.

Season's Greetings

 Here we are at the end of April when saw the 

latest challenge over at

The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge

that gave me the jolt I needed to get started on

making my Christmas Cards.

It's Anything Goes as long as it is Christmas.

The details are Here

I got caught out last year when I had my knee surgeries

and didn't want that to happen again.

I did say to myself that I would keep

part of the month dedicated to building my stash.

So here I go with my first Christmas card for the year.

I love the soft bluish tones for Christmas and my background

here is from my bits box using Lindy's Magical's then I did

some stenciling from TCW

with Tim's Salty Ocean Oxide Ink.

My deer head is a die from ARTplorations

(a favourite of mine)

smothered in Stampendous Copper Embossing Enamel,

Ranger Copper and Colour Blast Deep Water 

Embossing Powders.

Adding more texture with Ranger Clear Rock Candy Crackle Paint

and adding more Copper Enamel.

I think he looks rather 'rugged'.

Inked  a couple of circles and the STAMPlorations Sentiment

in Ground Espresso Oxide 

 heat embossing with the Ranger Copper

Die cut my frame adding my deer with metallic paper behind it

then attaching to metallic card base.

Popping this card over to

The Watercooler Challenge for their

All About Occasions Challenge

Thanks for dropping in today.

Really love reading your encouraging comments.

Just 'Floating' Sky High

 Time for my first post for Just Us Girls

May Challenges where we start off with our Word.

We have a new Guest Designer too - Jacinda.

Welcome! Lovely to have you join us.

Sue is Hosting and chose 'FLOAT'

There are so many way to to go with this and

I chose to 'float' away in a hot air balloon.

 This was an easy card, cheating here as my background is simply

grungy designer paper from Paper Rose. 

I had several on my bench and knew

this would work nicely for what I had in mind.

My hot air balloons and sentiment were inked and 

heat embossed clear. 

The sentiment is from Visible Image Somewhere in Time

thanks to my generous friend Mac.

Added lots of clouds from Repeat Impressions,

matted on to white then adhered to white base.

Love it when a card comes together nicely and so quickly.

Pop over and see what our May Guest Jacinda

and the Team chose to inspire you with our Word.

I know we will see a variety of ways to 'Float'

Hope to see yours in our Gallery.

You could be our Chic of the Week

and in the running for a Guest Spot in July.

Thanks for dropping in.

 

 

 

 

 

How Does Your Garden Grow?

 For our New Challenge over at The Sisterhood of Crafters

we want to see what grows in your garden.

I have made a colourful creation that I wish

my garden looked something like it.

Unfortunately it doesn't as we have had

drought in my area for quite some time and

it's coming into Winter. 

No explanation needed here for this one just

Lots of crafty items I used -

Whiff of Joy Picket Fence

Background flowers STAMPlorations Beautiful You

ARTplorations Sky/Sun Stencil

Thinlits Leaves - 664377, MB Woodland Branch

Flower Punches, TH Oxide Inks/Distress Glitter

Repeat Impressions Grass, Kaisercraft Bird

Gel Pen for centre of flowers

Art Alchemy Wax, Flower Soft

Coloured card base.

Pop over and see what my

Talented Sistahs created and

add 'what's in your garden'

to our Gallery. See you there!

UPDATE! Popping my garden over to

The Little Red Wagon for their

Smell the Roses Challenge even though

I don't have roses blooming here.

Thanks for dropping in

Photo Week at Just Us Girls

 Todays post is for our Photo Week at

Just Us Girls 

Hosting this week is Bobby.

What do you see here?

The first thing that came to mind was the wooden planks

So made that as my background using distress inks

and scoring  for the planks.

Added some script and inked the edges.

When I went to get my wildflower stamps and dies

I forgot I also had the stencil so sponged that to the background

And inked a few flowers but shouldn't have worried about that

as the die cut flowers covered them. They were just cut from

scrap papers.  Added a touch of Magical's to one flower

and Little Birdie Embossing Texture Paste to another.

Sentiment is die cut from Cheery Lynn Designs

There was a bit of inked cheesecloth on my desk

so added that behind the sentiment.

Finished by adhering to brown card stock.

Come over and check out what our Guest Claire

and the Team created and add yours to our Gallery. 

Thank you to Claire

for being our Wonderful Guest this month.

Thanks for dropping in to check on this weeks make.