A New Code Word at Addicted to CAS

Addicted to CAS are back, this being our first challenge for 2013, we hold these fortnightly. The word is

EMBOSSING -You can do either dry or heat embossing it is your choice. 

We are so pleased to be sponsored by

Beverley from Uniko Studio

 with a wonderful prize for our winner of the challenge. Please pop over to the blog to see more details. 

For my CAS - Clean and simple card, I decided to use a Cuttlebug embossing folder. Owls are so cute and can be used for various occasions. I used an orange sheet of Core-dinations, once embossed I sanded  the  embossed area which gives it the lighter colour. I then mounted it onto a C6 card (approx 6 x 4") and tied a black ribbon across the top. The greeting is one of those lucky pick ups from a reduced box.  I am looking forward to visiting and commenting on your embossed cards over the next two weeks. Thanks to those who have visited me and for any comments left which are always appreciated. Welcome to my newest follower, it is always heart warming to see another face appear in my list of followers. 

Things with Wings - Birds or Bugs

This is our second week of Things with Wings at Make My Monday, and Suzanne would like us to create a project with Birds or Bugs.  I wanted to use an embossing folder, so I chose birds. Firstly I coloured the card with Distress Inks before I placed it in the E.F. and ran it though the Cuttlebug. I then added more colour to the embossed areas and the sky. I wasn't too happy with the bird already on the embossing folder so I decided to stamp a suitable bird for the top of the reed as well as one for the lower section of the card.



I added some twine for texture. The birds are from Inkadinkado - Jewel birds, I have added some glitter on some areas, the remaining areas have been painted with H20's. I coloured the card with Weathered Wood for the sky. For the lower area, I covered the card with Mustard Seed, then used a piece of mesh through which I dabbed with Spiced Marmalade, don't you just love the names of these wonderful inks? Added a few flowers and job done.  Please pop over to the challenge blog for the Design Team have made some wonderful Birds or Bugs samples for you to see. I again look forward to visiting your blog, it is amazing how many variations of a theme are possible, it is so interesting. Thanks for visiting me, I always appreciate your comments.

St. Luke's Week 2 Colour Challenge

Here we are at Week 2, my entry to the St. Luke's Charity Card Challenge - if you want to know more about this excellent fund raising charity please visit their site --this month being a colour challenge to use Black, White and ONE other colour.  Fortunately I made 3 cards last week, so my injured shoulder is only affecting the mechanics of adding the picture this week.
For Week 2, I choose a lovely shade of blue, to work with the black and white.  The main card is blue, then a layer of black card with a layer of white on top, with a band of black and the same blue across the card. Using my Cuttlebug I cut out a blue scalloped circle and a smaller black scalloped circle. The white circle is from a 3" wide punch. I used a stamp from Personal Impressions, Lyndsay Mason's Tattered Butterflies, coloured it with two shades of blue Sakura pens. I'll be back next week ladies, I still have one more card up my sleeve. Bye for this week, hope your all well.

A few Quickies!

I haven't added anything to my blog since last Tuesday, but I've still been around, visiting and commenting on other bloggers and carrying out my visits and adding comments to the 4 design teams, to which I am also making cards for. I had a busy week making Quickie cards for my class for last Friday. The idea of the class was to show ways Quickie, yet effective cards could be made, which involved many samples. Here are a few.

                      The three below have been made with embossing folders with help of my bug.
Left - on white card but stamped around the edges, with Memento Bamboo Leaves after being embossed to cover all white areas. Brushed all over with a shaving brush and TH Distress ink Peeled Paint. Ribbon added and a small punched out circle with Just For You.
Centre - On dark coloured vellum a beautiful embossing folder of an owl. Lightly sandpapered the owl to show clearer. Stamped Just for You from a Paperartsy set Tops and Tails. I used four brads to attach the vellum to corugated card which I hope looks a little like bark.
Right - the same embossing folder as on the left side, but this time on vellum, lightly sandpapered to show more of a white contrast, ribbon tied around with a plaque Just for You, attached to white card with 4 blue brads.

 Below are three quickly made stamped cards.

Left, both stamps are from Paperartsy Tops and Tails, I stamped both with Memento Bamboo Leaves, used Sakura pens to colour the red and yellow flowers.

Top _ Get Well Soon Owl for Joanna Sheen, stamped onto white card, coloured with Walnut Stain TH ink,

leaves stamped for Inkylicious Trees set.

Bottom - Stamped three times a grasses stamp from Elusive Images, adhered to a grey card. Twine wrapped around a button attached.

 Left, an A5 sheet of pretty patterned card, folded in half, a stamped butterfly and sentiment from Personal Impressions Lydsay Mason, added for interest.
Centre - a very pretty and cheap Thank You stamp, coloured with Sakura pens, added to a matching tone piece of card to mat, then onto a white card.
Right - A white card, with a  red mat attached. A piece of pretty poppy paper cut from a Pad of paper, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady

A Red Flower - New Challenge Blog

This is the first week of a new challenge blog - Make My Monday, which is owned by Jacqueline Dee of Deezine Arts,    I am so thrilled to be part of the Deezine Team, along with Cath, Fliss and Suzanne B, who have made for our first challenge some stunning red flower cards. We are a weekly blog, with some exciting challenges ahead, there will be  Top 3 winners each week and an overall prize winner once a month. Please read all of the rules on the blog. For our first month the Theme is Flowers,  the theme will change monthly, the subject will change weekly. So enjoy, have fun and good luck. We would also greatly appreciate you displaying the Challenge Blog logo and letting your blogging friends know of our launch.

On the background of the card I stamped the  large corner  rose stamp, the small leaves and roses from a Creative Expressions Rose set by Sheena Douglass, embossed with gold E.P. Coloured in with watercolour pencils. The large red flower was made with my Cuttlebug,  I die cut 4 layers of paper and 2 layers of tissue paper with a large scalloped octogen die. Wet them, scrunched them up, joined them together with a brad, then shaped them into a flower shape whilst still wet, allowed to dry, then teased into shape again.
The sentiment is from Inkylicious Trees set, again stamped onto a die cut from Small Octogons set.
Fire Brick distress ink was rubbed around the edges of the sentiment and the main card.