Inkspirational #85

A very Happy Weekend to you all,

We have our 'word prompt' challenge at Inkspirational and this time our word is:

WILD

Here is my take on this word:

I went with the idea of going a little 'wild' when creating. When starting out along the creative route we all need to take a little 'wild' step-well I certainly did. I had never been creative before and card making needed me to' create without fear', I needed to' unleash my creativity' and 'dare to be creative'. All steps that felt a little 'wild' to me. Now I do create, I  tend to stay in my comfort zone of CAS. Perhaps now and then I should get a little wild and go all patterned paper, layers and ribbons on you!

Out Guest Designer this week is Jen. Her blog, My Paper Epiphany is full of inspiring projects. Take a look around and leave her some love.

Our DT have all got different takes on the word-take a look here and then get inky!

Guest Designing at 'The Challenge' #36

Hello All,

This week is my last week designing at The Challenge. I would like to thank Lesley for inviting me for the month of May. I have had a lot of fun and hope you have too.

This week it is our 'Theme' week and we are:

'Celebrating Teachers'

I found this a tough challenge as here in England we don't give teachers cards-well not when I was at school or when I was a teacher (yes, I really did teach!!). However after some thinking I came up with a card that I thought could be given to a teacher but also one that I could send to a friend.

Now it is your turn to join in but first take a peek at what the DT have created to inspire you.

I will enter this into the 'die cuts' challenge at Happy Little Stamper May CAS challenge and the 'for the guys' challenge at AAA cards

   

A Flower for Many!

Hello All,

I was walking the other day and found myself looking around at the the few trees that are already full of blossom. This made me think of the 'Blossom' challenge at CASology. I noted the colours-a pale pink blossom surrounded by a baby blue sky and I had the idea of using these colours to make a card for this challenge.

That afternoon I clocked a few photo challenges and these inspired me to get out my water colours and create this card:

I have used all Uniko stamps here. I embossed the flower in pink then water coloured it in pink on the outer petals. I then mixed this pink with some white paint for this inner petals. My wash surrounding the flower was my attempt to represent the sky I saw whilst walking.

I will enter this into the following challenges:

CASology-blossom

Simon Says Wednesday-the pink roses gave me the colours.

Dazzling Diva-again the 2 colours of pink roses are represented in my card.

Fusion-large pink flowers-my second entry but this time I went more CAS and only went with the pink flowers

        

Now I am happy!

Hi again, 

 My card today was made for the latest challenge at Less is More

The challenge is 'This makes me happy'.

I have entered this once but had been thinking about this all week as I wanted to make a card that consisted of all the elements that really make me happy when creating and I nailed it with this card.

Here is my happy creating list:

-CAS

-Purple

-linen impression plate

-mix of enamel dots and gems (would have liked to include sequins but the combo I have used here just worked perfectly)

-rounded corner

-stamp and go-I call it this because it is just one stamp and off I go!

-been made for a crafty friend and will be sent with love!

This card is the kind of heart that makes my heart feel happy.

I will also like to enter this into:

One-Layer Simplicity Challenge-words, words, words

CAS on Sunday-Girl Power-make a card for a girl

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-girly card

Inkspirational #63

Its time for a new challenge at Inkspirational. We had a record number of entries in our last challenge and had a lot of fun visiting all your blogs. This week it is our colour challenge and these are the colours we have for you:

You can use any 2 of these colours or all 3. Any shades of these colours are allowed plus black, white and cream. You may also use realistic colours for skin, fur and hair but no other colours.

Here is my card using all 3 colours:

I got out my water colour pencils again and had a go at freehand drawing a butterfly and then using the watercolour pencils in our colours to create this card. I added a few white sequins as I felt it needed a bit more interest. I loved painting this and just went with the flow not really knowing how it would turn out!

Our DT have made a super collection of inspiring cards using these colours, check them out here and then get crafty!

I will enter this into:

The Mixed Media Card Challenge-summer

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge-Summer

Who doesn't love Snail Mail!!

Happy Wednesday my crafting friends,

I have been having a fun time over Easter as the lovely Kylie has been staying with me. Kylie runs the challenge blogs Addicted to Stamps and Addicted to CAS and this is how we met. We became friends very quickly and then we had the fab opportunity to meet IRL. She came all the way from Australia to London to visit and we had a fab time. We also got to meet more blogging friends on Monday. Kylie's blog here has a few photos of our time together...a very special time and one I will cherish forever. And Australia beware I will be there soon!!

Back to my card for today:

I couldn't resist making this card when I saw this very old snail stamp. I have no idea where it came from but I was looking for something else and saw this and had the idea for this card. It just made me giggle thinking about it and so I had to do a little stamp surgery to come up with this CAS card.

I thought it was so fun for the 'garden' challenge at CASology and I am so pleased as I didn't have any ideas except flowers until I saw my baby snail.

And also I thought as it is still making me smile, it would be good for the challenge at Less Is More-makes me smile.

And finally the one layer CAS challenge at Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Tomorrow is our new challenge at TIME OUT Challenges so pop back and check what we have in store for you!!

And a picture of Kylie and me crafting in my dining room on Easter Sunday...yes I am messy!!

STAMPlorations April Challenge

It is time for our monthly challenge at STAMPlorations and this month we want to see you use stamps and a technique:

There are lots of cool techniques out there that you could choose. I thought of a few when preparing for this challenge. However when I think of what makes me really happy when making cards, it has to be good old plain stamping. Give me some good stamps and some ink and I am happy! I was inspired by the photo challenge at Fusion-the brickwork, text collage stamping on the dress stand and the pop of colour the scarf brings to the photo,(see fusion photo below) inspired this:

I have used the mini mixed media STAMPloration stamp set to create my background and just popped some bright coloured enamel dots for contrast-just like the scarf in the fusion photo but perhaps my dots are more of a contrast, but I actually love this colour against the grungy background.

The winner of our STAMPlorations challenge can choose 2 clear stamp sets from the Vignette, Patchwork Frenzy and Subway Art sets-visit the shop here to have a browse. Plus if you enter all three challenges this month there is an extra special prize that you could win-visit our main challenge blog here for details and to see all fab inspiration from our teams. We are joined by the very creative Sian this month as our GDT.

Have fun choosing a technique this month and I am looking forward to visiting your blogs.

I will also enter this into the Birthday Challenges at Seize the Birthday and Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Here is the inspiration for my card from Fusion

Addicted to Stamps and More #85

Today at Addicted to Stamps and More we have a very special photo challenge celebrating International Women's Day on the 8th March. Here is the photo we have to inspire you:

 

Remember you can use anything from the photo that inspires you to create. It might be the colours, the silhouette, the date or something related to International Women's Day. I wanted to make a card that reflected how amazing and strong women are when they unite together and came up with this:

I had been playing around with ideas for sentiments to mix up to get the words I wanted. When I saw this card from Bev my ideas just came together and I knew I had to CASE Bev's card with my own twist!  I have used a mix of stamp sets to come up with this. I would like to point out that for this card I used faux sequins! How cool is that. These are from a the 'A Gift For You' set from Uniko Studios-these are I am sure will get a lot more use.

So Ladies....don't you agree, we are pretty amazing together!!

This week is also very special as we have Darnell as our Guest Designer. I am sure many of you know Darnell but if you don't please go and visit her blog here. I think she is a fabulous designer plus her posts are always such fun to read, you really shouldn't miss out on the fun!

We are very lucky to have StampArt Designs sponsoring us again this week. Yo could win 5 of their digis!!

And before I leave you to go and Stamp, I would like to direct you to our blog here so you can check out what the DT have made to inspire you.

Enjoy x

Time Out DT call reminder and Valentines!

Happy Friday Eve,

There is one week left for you to enter out DT call at TIME OUT. So pop over to our blog here to check out the details.

I finally got around to making my hubby a Valentine's card. I have CASology to thank for inspiring me to create this card. This week the code word is 'Bold'. Immediately a few ideas came to mind and yesterday I shared a very bold card with you. Today my 'bold' is more subtle but it is still there! I decided to go with this bold 'together' stamp in neon blue. I think this colour combined with the grey and sweet sentiment is perfect for my hubby.

The stamps are all from Avery Elle and the popped up die is from Simon Says Stamps

I am going to enter this into the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp-we love stamps

CASology-bold

Make My Monday-love is in the air

The Male Room-male Valentine

Have a fun day x

Addicted to Stamps and More #68

Its time for our colour challenge at Addicted to Stamps and More. This week we have these colours for you:

You don't need to use the exact colours just get as close as you can to this mix. When looking at my card I see that my take on 'celery' is probably too green, I think when I made this I had the thought of real celery in my head!

Here is my take on the sketch using 'Autumn Flowers' Clearly Besotted Stamps'

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This week we have a $20 gift voucher from Nicecrane Designs for our top pick and before you leave take a peek here to see what the DT have created to inspire you to get inky!

I am entering this into the 'Autumn Colour' challenge at Clearly Besotted Stamps-just sneaking in on the last day x

Inkspirational Challenge #41

Happy Saturday my friends,

It is time for our new fortnightly schedule at Inkspirational, so this 'Anything Goes' challenge will run for 2 weeks. Plenty of time for you to join in the fun. Plus we are running a prize draw and every time you enter from now until the 22nd Nov, you will be entered to win all these fabulous goodies:

For 2 weeks you get to create whatever you want for our 'Anything Goes' challenge:

And here is what I came up with:

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I have used some Simon Says Stamps and dies mixed up a few stamps from PTI 'grunge' stamps. I made this card for my hubby as he has had to look after me quite a lot over the last week and I thought this might go some way to showing him how much this means to me. I popped it into his brief case along with his lunch so he would get a nice lunchtime surprise!

Before you go, take a peek here to see what the rest of our DT have come up with. 

Have fun creating my friends x