Addicted to Daisies

Trying out a couple more masked panel cards with my new favourite stencil :)  I think maybe the pale background works better than the deep blue. I think I need to try using cleaner / paler colours for the petals, too. I might try that tomorrow.

I'm entering this last card in the ColourQ challenge: #256

Happy Birthdays in Red

I'm terrible for hoarding papers and not wanting to use them. I decided to break into my stash and use one of my favourites. These are the 3 cards I made:

I'm entering this card in the following challenges:
4 Crafty Chicks: Birthday
The Paper Shelter: Anything Goes

I'm entering this one in these two challenges:
Cupcake Craft Challenges: Lots of Layers
By the Cute & Girly Challenges: Flowers

I'm entering this last one in the challenge:
Crafts & Me Challenges: Use a Digi

Fairies & Glitter

I got a few new Lavinia stamps recently - I'm still so obsessed with Lavinia stuff! Here are a couple of cards I made with my new stamps:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
By the Cute and Girly Challenges: Cute and Girly
Divas By Design: Make it Girly

I'm entering the last one in Crafts and Me: Something New

Something Fishy...

My lovely neighbour across the road has a grandson who just turned 18. He's really into fishing, so we got him some vouchers for fishing gear, and I've had a go at making a fishing-related card. I really don't like making cards for blokes, as they don't seem to appreciate glitter, ribbon or flowers :-s  So here's my attempt at a blokey fishing-related card:

I'm entering this in the following challenges:
By the Cute & Girly - Boys / Men
The Squirrel & the Fox - One for The Men
Wags 'n' Whiskers - Sports

Colour Challenge

Thought I'd have a go at a colour challenge for the first time. There's a challenge over at Color Throwdown:

And this is what I came up with:

I used stickles on the water and on her hair, and gems on her dress to bling it up. 

I'm also entering this in the following challenges:

By the Cute & Girly "Spring is All Around"
Paper Pretties "Flowers"
Stamptacular "Spring Bling"
Pink Elephant "Spring Time"

Back after a long break!

It's taken me ages to get back on here. I intended to post some Christmas card photos, but I was even more disorganised than usual last Christmas, and barely got my cards finished and posted before New Year!

Since the NEC Hobbycraft show a few weeks ago, I've been obsessed with using brushes (ink dusters) to make inky backgrounds - it's much easier than battling with my brayer :-)  Here are a few of the cards I've been making over the last few days:

I am entering this one in the Less Is More 'Three Shades of Green' challenge.

I masked the area to ink and stamp, and clear embossed a couple of the images before using the ink dusters and stamping the image in different colours.

The ink dusters are also great for making backgrounds for my Lavinia stamps:

I'm entering this card in the By The Cute and Girly 'Once upon a time.....'  challenge, and the 

Flutter By Wednesday challenge.

More Brayering

Hi! I made this card with my new Inkadinkado stamp set, and my Lavinia cherry blossom stamp. I used stickles on the flowers to add a bit of sparkle.

I'm entering this card in By The Cute & Girly Challenges 'ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL' challenge.