All Fridays should be clean and simple!

Good morning all

It's challenge day again over at Winter Wonderland 

and our host this week is the very talented Lesley

who has cosen the theme 

Clean and Simple

I have to say I used to struggle with CAS cards

 - never really knowing when to stop when it comes to layout and embellishments

but now I actually love the CAS style - it's all about the image really
and if you keep to that you can't go wrong

Because it is so simple this card was really quick and easy to make.  The image is Lovely Lavender from LOTV - another one which seems to have been discontinued - they seem to have has a right old clear out over there!!-  I stamped onto watercolour card with Ranger archival ink in watering can, then coloured it with my Spectrum Aqua pens - also really quick and easy to colour with.  

I made the card with kraft card then made a quick frame with the square pierced noble dies from Creative Expressions (Sue Wilson) with the same kraft card that I simply mounted over the top of the image with glue gel - not even a distress ink in sight - I was very strict with myself lol.   After that its just a tag cut with a sizzix die  and a piece of raffia for a bow (I think I actually rescued it from a bunch of flowers a while back) - a  clean and simple card for any occasion with a bit of shabby chic going on!

Here are the colours for the Crafter's Companion Spectrum Aqua  pens I used

pot - terracotta and slate - yellow, purple, wildflower and moss for the pattern

flowers - purple, wildflower and orchid, leaves leaf green and moss

shading - slate

Hope you'll come and join in with us this week we have two great sponsors


Crafty Sentiments - offering a prize of 2 digi stamps



and The Craft Barn - with a prize of a £10 voucher



come and join in - it's fun to be a bit simple at times!!!!

hugs 

Judith

Best friends are the best friends!

Hi peeps

I'm playing a bit of catch up after problems with my broadband (again) prevented my blogging activities on Friday, and a busy busy day and evening yesterday meant I didn't get a chance to blog

Anyway I'm here with my card for 

Winter Wonderland

and our theme this week is 

Best Friends

I used a cute stamp from the Frou Frou range at Crafter's Companion

Called Two of a kind

I coloured my card with Spectrum Aqua Markers and Spectrum Noir Sparkle pens

Skin - peach and topaz

dress 1 - slate scarlet and crimson

hair 1 - sepia jasmine chestnut

hair 2 - fawn

dress 2 - sparkle pen - solar red

background shading - jasmine

Do you like my little champagne glasses!

 - I cut then with the packaging from one of my die sets - coloured the bowl and then covered with diamond stickles and stuck them onmy card with Collal Tacky glue - sticks on great and dries clear!

We're sponsored by

 

and



- we have fab prizes on offer!

This is what I did ......

Image and sentiment- Two of a kind - Frou Frou from Crafters Companion

Coloured with SN Aqua markers and Sparkle pens

On Crafter's Companion Watercolour card

Papers - pressed in time from LOTV

Ghampagne glasses - Downton Abbey Champagne saucer die from Crafter's Companion

Die cut flowers and leaves - Cherry Blossom and Lorelei branch from Memory Box

Card - Cored'nations from crafters Companion

30 - cut from Sizzix TH wanted alphabet strip die

Ribbon from my stash

There's still lots of time to join in with our challenge this week

Hope we see you there!

hugs

Judith xx

Crafters Companion Kimono Stamps

Hi All

Just calling in to share a couple of cards I made as samples for Crafter's Companion for the TV shows on Create and Craft today

I used the stamps, paper pad and coloured them with Spectrum  Aqua markers

I just loved working with these stamps and the beautiful papers - just so gorgeous!

This is what i did

Stamps Kimono Buttefly Silk and Paper Moon

papers - Crafters companion 

Watercolour paper - Crafters Companion

Pens - Spectrum Aqua

Feather broach die is from the Downton Abbey die range

hugs

Judith x