New Paper Artsy Stamp!

Hiya! Here's a card I made, inspired by a couple of challenges, and using my new little stamp from Paper Artsy :)  I coloured the image with inks and a water brush, then added gems and a couple of butterflies.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

Cards In Envy: 'Love You So Much!'

CASology:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Creative Inspirations: 'Love is in the Air and / or Colour Scheme!'


Ingredients:
Paper Artsy EM28
Distress Inks: Picked Raspberry, Bundled Sage
Artistry Ink: Cotton Candy
Anita's gems

New Uniko Stamp

Hi! Here are some cards I made using my new Uniko flower stamp. I wanted to try it with lots of different colours. It's such a cute stamp! I added gems to the flower centres, and then used stitched dies for layers.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color Throwdown:

CAS Colours and Sketches:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Cards In Envy: 'Black & White'
Creatalicious: 'Anything Goes with optional Cute'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Color My Heart: 

CAS on Friday: 'Color Me Pretty'

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

HLS CAS:

House of Cards:

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Uniko:  (Old - stitched dies, New - doodle flower stamp)

Sweet Stampin': 'Valentine / Love'


Ingredients:
Uniko Stamp: 'Doodle Flower'
Promarkers
Elizabeth Craft Designs Stitches Squares dies
Crystal Parade gems

JOFY Trees - Getting My Fussy Out

Hiya! Sorry if you're bored of the JOFY trees, but as the saying apparently goes, I need to get my fussy out... According to my lovely crafty mate Linda and my lovely Aunt Sue, 'Getting your fussy out' is a common saying, which means getting it out of your system. However, I have never met anyone else who has ever heard this saying, and it sounds a bit rude to me, so be careful who you say it to. Maybe it's an old Nottingham saying that has fallen out of use, who knows!

Anyway, I tried to make some oxide backgrounds based on 3 colour challenges, with mixed results! But I love how they have turned out, anyway.

For this one, I used Peacock Feathers Distress ink, Bottle Adirondack ink and Platinum Planet Brilliance ink to create the background for the trees, and added detail with a glitter pen and silver Nuvo Drops. I'm entering this one in the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge:

For this one, I used Faded Jeans, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inks, but as the colours have blended a little, there's actually some green on there too! But as I only used the colours in the challenge (despite what I ended up with), I'm still going to enter it in the Paper Play challenge, and hope they'll let me off with that!

I made this one with Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade and Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inks, Peacock Distress ink and Bottle Adirondack ink. I added gold Nuvo Drops, but they have taken up the colour of the ink in places, which I quite like and wish I could say it was deliberate... I'm entering this one in the Shopping Our Stash challenge:

Ingredients:
JOFY stamp set 57
Distress Oxide Inks: Faded Jeans, Candied Apple, Spiced Marmalade, Fossilized Amber
Distress Ink: Peacock Feathers
Adirondack Ink: Bottle
Brilliance Ink: Platinum Planet

Nuvo Drops: Pale Gold, Silver Lining

Gelly Roll pen: Clear Star, Copper

Tulips

Hi! Here's a card I made for the CAS Colours & Sketches challenge. I was originally thinking of using 3 separate flowers to follow the sketch, but this stamp has the same kind of shape, if you count the butterfly. I coloured the stamp with inks and a water brush, then added a bit of detail with a white Uni Posca pen. I added a gem to the butterfly and the 'i's in the sentiment.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Less is More:

That's Crafty!: 'Forever Floral'


Ingredients:
Woodware Stamp: 'Tulip Doodle'
'Birthday Wishes' sentiment from Woodware 'Daisy Panel'
Adirondack ink pads: Butterscotch, Cranberry, Meadow, Willow
White Uni Posca pen
Crystal Parade gems: Topaz

Bought a New Stamp Set...

Hi! I fell in love with a stamp set I saw online, and accidentally bought it... You know how it is... It arrived a few days ago, and it's just gorgeous. I love these flowers. There's a challenge at Sweet Stampin', called 'Your Favourite Stamp'. This is pretty hard for me, because I am very fickle. Generally, the last stamp I bought is my new favourite stamp :-s  So here's a card, using my new favourite stamp!

The stamp is of the two daisies together, but I wanted to separate them, inspired by the current Muse challenge, so I had to cut them out. I really really hate fussy cutting, as I am pretty rubbish at it, and it's annoying, and the fiddly bits always make the card bend, but I got on with it with minimal grumbling, and I love the result. I coloured them with inks and a water brush, and added sparkle to the flowers with a Wink of Stella pen.

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

Muse:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Sweet Stampin': 'Your Favourite Stamp'



Ingredients:
Leonie Pujol stamp set: 'Everlasting Love'

Adirondack Ink: Bottle
Stampin' Up! Inks: Marina Mist, Perfect Plum
A Wink of Stella pen: Clear

Leafy Borders

Hi! Here's a card I made after puzzling over the sketch challenge at CC&S! I used some leafy border images, with a sentiment in between. I coloured the leaves and berries with inks, and then added Nuvo Drops to give the berries some dimension. I haven't got a deep blue in Nuvo Drops, but if you use clear over inks, the clear seems to take up the colour of the ink, so you end up with a blue drop instead of a clear drop :)

I'm entering this one in the following challenges:

CAS Colours & Sketches:

Color Throwdown:

Watercooler Wednesday: 'All About Birthdays'



Ingredients:
Border images from Vectorstock

Adirondack Inks: Meadow, Denim
Nuvo Drops: Morning Dew