Embossed Circles

Hi guys

Firstly, I'd like to give a warm welcome to two new followers, Hazel and Sarah.  Thank you so much for joining me and I hope I'll keep you interested and maybe give you some inspiration :)

I'm here this evening to share the following card...

 

 

 

 

Materials used:

• Cardstock: Dovecraft - 12 x 12 Icicle
• Embossing Folder: Couture Creations - Peacock Pleasure
• Stamps: Inkadinkado - Circle and Dots; Hot Off The Press - unknown set (sentiment)
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black; Brilliance - Graphite Black
• Die: Xcut - Nested Circles
• Ribbon and gems from stash

 

I'm entering this into a couple of challenges this week, the first being Dynamic Duos, to use Light Aqua and Black with the option of Embossing...

 



I've not entered this challenge before but I'm starting to enjoy colour challenges a bit more now.  I've not used SU products but hopefully I've come close enough with these shades :)


The second challenge is at Less is More although I'm not sure I've successfully complied with the brief this week.  The theme is 'Round and Round' so I immediately thought of this embossing folder featuring circles within circles.  However, after reading it properly (that'll teach me!!) Chrissie and Jen wanted us to use any image which implies this movement...ie things with wheels or which move in this manner etc or in fact cards with some moving parts.  Circles go round and round, right?!  Oh well, I enjoyed making it so may as well enter it :D

That's all for now folks but I hope to be back soon with more to share.

Take care

Muse Challenge #10 - Take Two!

Hi guys

I enjoyed the colours I used on my last card so much I decided to make another entry for this week's Muse challenge while I had all the inks to hand. Go me! haha

Once again I took inspiration from the cluster of rainbow colours and the large black sentiment and this is what I came up with...

 



I had this idea in my head but I didn't realise how much work would be involved until I made a start.  I had little sticky balloon masks all over the place! I stamped and cut these from post-it notes.  Then I had the tricky task of hand drawing the strings (didn't think of this at the beginning either!) so I masked over the sentiment too and used the edge of my post-it pad to roughly follow the line downwards.  I didn't want them to be really straight so I just added a little wiggle on the way :)

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko Studio - Label Love: Birthday; Sentiment is wood mounted Whispers Words by Docrafts
• Ink: Brilliance - Graphite Black; Versa Color - Pink, Fresh Green, Canary, Orange, Lavender; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Pen: Whispers Strokes

Here is Ardyth's cheery card from which we were to draw our inspiration...

 

 

That's all from me today, out for a meal tonight so off to get ready.  I hope you're all having a lovely Good Friday.  Thanks as always for visiting.

 

Take care

 



Muse Challenge #10

Happy Easter guys, I hope you are all looking forward to the nice break :)

Sorry its been a while since my last post, I've been feeling a little under the weather for a few days and haven't been feeling very motivated but now that I have four days off work I think I'll fit in a little bit of hobby time :)

I have boring things like spring cleaning to do today but thought I would put that off and have a little crafty time and make a card for this week's Muse challenge.

This week's card has been made by the very talented Ardyth Percy-Robb.  Her design is gorgeous, so bright and cheerful, you can see it further down in this post. 

Here is my entry for this week...

 

I took my inspiration from the rainbow of colours that Ardyth used and I love the mix of these bright tones.  I also took inspiration from the bold black sentiment.

 

I chose to create a wide border and used embossed dotted bright pink cardstock which I thought would mirror the dotted stamp design.  I really enjoyed making this one and it was pretty easy to create so I may replicate this kind of design again in the future.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Hero Arts - Dot Asterisk (wood mounted); Clearly Besotted Stamps - Butterfly Wishes (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Pink, Orange, Fresh Green, Canary, Lavender; Brilliance - Graphite Black
• Cardstock: From stash

 

This is the Muse card, Ardyth's use of rainbow colours is just fab...

 

 

Thanks for popping by today, your visits and comments are so very much appreciated.

 

Have a lovely Easter break.