Friday Focus

I'm so rubbish at time zones across the world that I'm not sure if today's card is going to make it in time for the challenge at The Paper Players, but as it's made I'm sharing it anyway.

How could I resist a Clean and Simple challenge?

I used two Clearly Besotted stamp sets and coloured the image in some bright primary colours that always seem to evoke school days to me.

Supplies: 

Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Bedtime Story, All Booked Up

Ink: Memento, tuxedo black

Colours: Copic, C0, E50, Y18, BG34, B18, R29; Miya oil pencils

Huge thanks for looking today, I love it when you do.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Thursday Thoughts

Today I'm sharing a card I crated for the challenge at Allsorts Challenge. The theme is Summer Fun.

Here's my card:

I used a die from Time For Tea Designs to cut a background slimline strip and then inked up some clouds and grass using In The Clouds and Scenic Borders stencils from Funky Fossil.

I then had fun stamping all the toadstools and other images using Funky Fossil's Bees Knees, Furry Friends, Christmas Characters and Find Your Rainbow. I coloured them all in a palette of pinks, yellows, blues and aqua before hand cutting them and popping them onto the scalloped panel.

I finished off the card with a sentiment from Small Print stamped onto a die cut label from Polkadoodles.

Supplies:

Stamps: Funky Fossil, Bees Knees, Furry Friends, Christmas Characters, Find Your Rainbow, Small Print

Inks: Memento, tuxedo black, pear tart, summer sky; Ranger distress, scattered straw

Stencil: Funky Fossil, In The Clouds, Scenic Borders

Dies: Time For Tea Designs, Slimline Scallops Cover Plate; Posydoodles Tags

Pens: Copic, Y11, Y13, RV000, RV02, RV17, RV52, RV55, RV63, V01, E000, E50, B0000, B000, BG10, BG11, BG53

Thanks so much for stopping by today, it's been great fun to have you visit my blog

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Wednesday Words

It's time for a spot of water colouring at CAS Mix Up this month and there's also the theme of Beach.

Here's what I came up with:

I started by creating my water coloured background using an acrylic block and two distress ink colours. When that was dry I stamped and heat embossed the three shells from Funky Fossil's Starfish Wishes. I then added more watercolour to the shells using Inktense pencils and a water brush.

The greeting - listen to the sea - is also from Starfish Wishes. What do you think of the font with the upside down 't'? I'm getting used to it now, but at first it really made me wonder if I'd stamped it the wrong way up.

Supplies:

Stamps: Funky Fossil, Starfish Wishes

Ink: Versafine Clair, nocturne + clear embossing powder; Ranger distress, blueprint sketch, mustard seed

Colours: Derwent Inktense watercolour pencils

Huge thanks for looking today, I'm really pleased to have had your company for a while.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Today I'm sharing a card I made for the challenge at Cute Card Thursday. The theme this week is Bright Colours.

I chose a hot pink and bright yellow:

I used a Polkadoodles digi, Winnie Balloon, and coloured her up with Copic pens to match the Bright & Beautiful background papers - also from Polkadoodles.  I was going to pop her up on top of a white square but decided to ink it up a bit using yellow through the Polkadoodles Sweethearts stencil.

Supplies:

Stamps: Polkadoodles, Winnie Balloon

Ink: Memento, dandelion

Stencil: Polkadoodles, Sweethearts

Paper: Polkadoodles, Bright & Beautiful

Dies: Posydoodles Basics, tags & squares

Pens: Copic, RV52, RV63, RV55, RV04, RV66, Y02, Y04, Y11, Y35, R20, E000, E21, E31, E41, E50, E70, C1; Sakura gelly roll, white

Thanks so much for stopping by today. It's be great to have your company.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Papermill Direct DT Inspiration - Mini Photo Album

Hey!

I'm up on the Papermilldirect blog today with a fun Mini Photo Album.

Come on over and take a look at how I created it - HERE.

Supplies:

Card: Papermill Direct, Apple green and Daffodil yellow card

Dies: Spellbinders Lacey Squares & Classic Squares Large 

Punches: Marthas Stewart & Dovecraft

Alphas, ribbon & enamel dot from my stash

Thanks so much for looking and don't forget to follow that link over to the Papermill Direct blog - HERE

Stay safe and keep crafting!

AAA Cards Challenge #172 - One Layer + optional twist My Other Hobby

It's time for a new challenge at AAA Cards. The main theme is One Layer, but we've been challenged for the optional twist by DT Ishani to include another hobby that takes up our time.

Well no brainer for me it had to be sewing! Although at the moment I'm doing more cross stitch than machine sewing, but I always go back to my machine eventually. 

I used Funky Fossil's Sew Lovely stamp set and simply added a little pop of mustard yellow to add extra interest to my mainly chromatic card.

Supplies:

Stamps: Funky Fossil, Sew Lovely

Inks: Versafine Clair, nocturne; SU crushed curry

Colours: Miya oil pencils

So now I'm curious about what other hobies you all enjoy. Pop on over to AAA Cards and find out the info on the rest of the DT and our Guest Designer Coni. 

Here's a couple of photos of my most recent adventures with the sewing machine:

Thanks so much for dropping by today, I always enjoy having a little company here on my blog.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Saturday Spot

Today I'm using the sketch from CAS Colours & Sketches as the starting point for my card.

Here's my card:

It was only when I looked more closely at the sketch that I realised the shapes were octagons and not hexagons, but looking at the DT sample cards it seems that it's ok to use other shapes. 

I used stamps from three different Funky Fossil sets and kept to just black, white and orange for my colours. The little bee was stamped directly onto the card and then stamped again, hand cut and popped up onto foam pads for dimension. Stamping it onto the card first makes it easier to cut out as you don't need to cut round all the legs and antennae.

Supplies:

Stamps: Funky Fossil, Bee Geometric, Blooming Birthday, Geo Bugs

Inks: Versafine Clair, nocturne; SU, peek-a-boo peach

Card: Papermill Direct, tangerine orange

Huge thanks for stopping by today, it's been fun having you take a look at my blog.

Stay safe and keep crafting!