Friday Focus

Today I'm joining in with the challenge at Tag You're It. They have a pretty little inspiration photo with a real vintage vibe going on.

This is how it inspired me:

Once I'd die cut the stitched tag I stamped the Uniko Peony using brown ink and coloured it using Prismacolor pencils. Then I laid the Funky Fossil stencil over the top and inked through it with blue ink. I found a little bird stamp and placed it above the peony and then added three buttons to form a triangle around the flower.

I finished it all off by matting it onto a base tag and adding a trio of twines tied into a bow.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Pure Florals Peony; Clearly Besotted, bird from Fright Night
Inks: SU, baked brown sugar; Memento, Summer Skt=y
Die: MFT Die-namics, stitched traditional tags
Colurs: Prismacolor, white, olive green, dark green, limepeel, magenta, pink, crimson red, process red
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Circle Burst

Thanks for looking today, it's always so much more fun when you visit.

And keep crafting!

Thursday Thoughts

I've had fun with watercolours and a stencil on the card I'm sharing today. And it all started with the CAS Watercolour September theme.

Well you'll not be surprised about which colour I started with! Let's just say its complementary colour is yellow.

I started by placing the Funky Fossil Crooked Webs stencil onto some watercolour card and sponged on wilted violet and squeezed lemonade oxide inks. Then I spritzed it with water and held the stencil in place for a few seconds before lifting it and allowing the colours to merge.

Once everything was dry I stamped the spider and greeting, drew in a thread for the spider to hang on and matted it all onto a purple card base.

Supplies:
Stamps: Clearly Besotted, Fright Night
Stencil: Funky Fossil, Crooked Webs
Inks: Ranger distress oxide, wilted violet, squeezed lemonade

Thanks for looking today, it's been so much fun to have you visit my blog.

And keep crafting!

STAMPlorations Digi Inspiration

I'm so pleased you've dropped by today as I'm showcasing some digital stamps from the STAMPlorations digi store.

I've used the very beautiful and fabulously inspiring to colour Floral Coffee Cups To Go digi stamps to create a set of atc cards. I usually make atc cards as one offs or in sets of three, but I couldn't resist these stamps and made a full set of six.

Each card started off in the same way with a bronze pearlised card matted onto black and a horizontal stencilled strip using the ARTplorations Fairy Tale Forest stencil. I then spent some enjoyable hours  colouring the florals using my Copic pens. The colours are the same on each card and selected for their autumnal feel.

Each card also had a STAMPlorations clear washi sticker added and a trio of enamel dots.

I then went on to make a card and got a bit creative in Photoshop Elements. I colorised the coffee cups and shrunk them down to make a background sheet. I also colorised the large coffee cup before printing it out and adding more colour with my Prismacolor pencils.

I used the same card colours and stencilled a panel to echo the atc cards and finished it all off with a die cut Life is Good sentiment from CUTplorations and a trio of enamel dots.

Supplies:
Stamps: STAMPlorations digi, Floral Coffee Cup To Go
Stencil: ARTplorations, Fairy Tale Forest
Die: CUTplorations, Life is Good
Inks: Ranger distress, brushed corduroy,; SU, chocolate chip
Pencils: Prismacolor
Pens: Copic, Y13, Y18, Y38, YR15, R14, R22, R29, R32, R59, RV69, E21, E23, E25, E37, W0, W3, 
Embellishments: STAMPlorations, Clear stickers washi;  Echo Park, Good Day sunshine enamel dots; Carta Bella Summer Splash enamel dots

Shery has once again very generously included a chance to win a prize with the introductions to her new range of digital stamps - all you have to do is leave comments round the blogs of the new Digi DT and it could be you who wins a $15 gift code to be spent at either the main or digital store.  Find all the details and the mini hop participants on the STAMPlorations blog HERE.

Thanks so much for joining me today, it's been fun to have your company for a while.

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Another scrapbook page today. This time I used the theme and sketch from Sketchy Boards facebook group as my starting point.

Well what could be more appropriate than boys? And of course all of mine are stars! Just look at what they've been up to!

And it was an exceptionally hot day! I very nearly joined in myself - now that would have made for an interesting page!

I so wanted to use this journalling card from the Echo Park Teen Spirit pack, but had to trim it down and split it into two to make it work for this photo and sketch.

The large star was cut using my Silhouette Cameo - one of my more successful cuts and I found lots of smaller stars lurking in my stash as well as the odd word and phrase sticker.

Supplies:
Papers: Echo Park, Teen spirit
Alphas: Simply Creative Chipboard; MAMBI
Stickers: Paperchase, puffy stars; Ali Edwards labels; MAMBI washi; Heidi Swapp, Simple Stories #Whatever; Cosmo Cricket

I'm delighted that you found your way to my blog today. Thanks so much for looking.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moment

Today I've created a card inspired by the Home Sweet Home photo at Time Out.

Here's my card:

I started by stamping the background stripes using Uniko's Background Blocks Pinstripe and then added a die cut stitched square on top. I then stamped and hand cut the little lady from Funky Fossil's Folksy Christmas and added her using foam pads.

If you look very carefully at the inspiration photo there are some green leaves amongst all the black and white. To echo this I coloured the sash in green.

Supplies:
Stamps: Uniko, Background Blocks Pinstripe; Funky Fossil, Folksy Christmas
Inks: Versfaine Clair, nocturne
Pen: Copic, YG23
Die: Lawn Fawn, large stitched square stackable

I'm so pleased to have had you visit my blog today, thanks so much for your time.

And keep crafting!

AAA Cards - #149 Up To One Third + optional twist An Inlaid Die

Time for a new game at AAA Cards. The theme is a classic for CAS cards - to use only up to one third of the card front.

My card uses products from Funky fossil - the sponsor of this challenge - but not the optional twist of an inlaid die

I started my card by placing the Shooting Star stencil so that it would only cover one third of my card front and inked through it in some warm colours of oxide ink. I then stamped the sleepy fox and greeting on top.

Supplies:

Stamps: Funky Fossil, The Quick Brown Fox

Inks: SU, baked brown sugar; Ranger distress oxide, squeezed lemonade, candied apple

Stencil: Funky Fossil, Shooting Star

Pen: Copic, E40

How will you interpret this theme? Well if you need some more inspiration why not pop over to the AAA Cards Challenge blog and check out all the DT cards and also our very talented Guest Designer Joy's card too - HERE. You won't be disappointed.

Huge thanks for your time today and I really look forward to seeing all your CAS cards filling our gallery.

And keep crafting!

Saturday Spot

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page I created using the sketch from Scrap The Girls as inspiration.

Here's my page:

As you can see I rotated the sketch one turn to the left to enable the orientation of my portrait photo better. I used a Vicki Boutin Mixed Media paper for the background and a cut file from Cut To You that included flowers and butterflies. Still trying very hard to conquer my Silhouette machine - not easy - only a couple of ripped pieces, well hidden under the patterned papers!

As the sketch had lots of splashes I added some gold splatters using a Jen Hadfield gold glitter paint.

The stickers, papers and alphas are from Echo Park's Bundle of Joy.

Supplies:
Ppaers: Vicki Boutin, Mixed Media; Echo Park , Bundle of Joy
Diecut: Cut To you, butterfly Garden.

Huge thanks to you for taking the time to stop by my blog today, it's greatly appreciated.

And keep crafting!