Clearly Besotted May Release - Mr and Mrs Hoot and A Class Act (Guest Designer!)

Hi there

Today's the last day of the Clearly Besotted teasers before these fantastic new stamp sets go on sale at the Clearly Besotted store at 10pm tonight!  If you've got your eye on some of these then don't delay as every month there are sell-outs...and fast!

I want to say a MASSIVE thank you to Stephanie for inviting me to Guest Design once again, it's such an honour, and to the rest of the amazing Design Team for their lovely comments.


Ok, let's get to it.  Today I'm sharing the final two sets of this release - Mr and Mrs Hoot and A Class Act.


Mr & Mrs Hoot
This mini set has an adorable image of a bride and groom owl together with a swing and some lovely marriage themed sentiments.

I stamped the owls and then masked them before stamping the swing.  These were then coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.  I masked the whole design and cut some clouds from post-it notes to also used as masks, before blending the background to create the sky.  I wanted the scene to appear that they were swinging from a branch high in the sky.  I then adhered this behind a white cardstock panel which I had die cut to create a heart shaped aperture.  The panel was mounted on 3D foam and I then added some Wink of Stella to Mrs Hoot's veil and Glossy Accents on their eyes.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Mr & Mrs Hoot
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black; Versafine - Onyx Black; Distress Ink - Tumbled Glass
• Dies: MFT Die-namics - Cloud Trio; X-cut - Nested Hearts
• Coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers
• Accents: Wink of Stella - Clear; Glossy Accents

Challenge entry:

Daring Cardmakers - Wedding / Anniversary

A Class Act

This set features cute little animals with a school theme and sentiments for back to school and for teacher thanks.

Lots of masking involved for this card.  The cat, desk, chalkboard, owl teacher and even the little piece of paper are all separate stamps.  I masked these and then stamped the hardwood image across the scene to create the wooden floor.  Then I used the chalkboard technique on the teeny chalkboard!  I clear embossed the chalkboard onto black cardstock.  The 'abc' was handwritten with an embossing pen which I heat embossed in white and then gently swiped across it with white pigment ink before fussy cutting and adhering to the scene.  I used stitched rectangle dies to cut the scene and the kraft border before adhering to the base on 3D foam.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - A Class Act; Stampin' Up - Hardwood
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa; Versa Color - White; Whispers - Embossing Marker
• Coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Stitched Rectangles
• Kraft Cardstock: Neenah - Desert Storm
• Embossing Powder: Wow! - Opaque Bright White

Challenge entry:

Penny Black and More - May Challenge - Anything Goes with Stamping

Thanks as always for visiting, I appreciate each and every one of you.

Dear Santa

Hi guys

I'm here tonight to share a card I've made this evening for the current challenge at CASology where the cue word is 'letter'.

The idea I had in my head hasn't really translated as I wanted it to, but I thought I'd share my card anyway.

I've had these mini cards and envelopes in my stash for years but have hardly ever used them.  With these in mind I immediately thought of a Dear Santa letter.  I used an embossing marker to write the text, trying to make it look like a child had written it (not too difficult when you can't see where you're writing!!), and then heat embossed this with some red embossing tinsel.  I stamped some silver snowflakes on the card base to add some interest.

Materials used:

• Stamp: Uniko Studio - Stunning Snowflakes
• Ink: Versa Color - Silver
• Embossing Pen: Whispers Embossing Marker
• Embossing Powder: Heat It Up - Embossing Tinsel (Red)
• Cardstock and mini card and envelope from stash

Really quick post tonight as I'm now off to bed.

Bye for now

Sketch Saturday #281 - Guest Designer!

Hi guys

It's Saturday morning so that means it's time for a fresh sketch at Sketch Saturday. 

I'm loving my October Guest Designer role and really enjoyed making my card based on this week's great new sketch.

Before I share my card with you I just wanted to remind you that there is still plenty of time to link up at the Sketch Saturday blog for a chance to win their Thank You Candy.  To celebrate their 2000 followers milestone they are offering loads of fab prizes and all you have to do is become a follower, add your details to the Linky and spread the word.  The deadline is 31 October.

So back to this week's sketch...

And here's my card...

 

 

I'm disappointed with the colour of these photographs.  Whenever I take photos of purple tones they always seem to come out very blue.

 

I recently purchased a Stampin' Up stamp set from eBay and tried the 2-step stamping technique for the first time and gave my Stamp-a-ma-jig its first outing.  I stamped the first image by colouring onto the stamp with some markers in lilac and green.  I then used my Stamp-a-ma-jig to line up the second stamp which I coloured with a darker purple marker.  This was then die cut with a circle die. 

 

I layered up the base card with two shades of purple/lilac cardstock and then cut the green cardstock to size before running it through my Big Shot in an embossing folder.  I stamped the sentiment and popped up the circular image on 3D foam for some dimension.

 

Materials used:

• Stamps: Stampin' Up - Simply Soft (Hostess set); BoBunny - Sentiments Stamp
• Ink: Whispers Strokes; Versa Color - Imperial Blue
• Die: Xcut - Nested Circles
• Embossing Folder: Craft Concepts - Cherry Blossoms
• Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Premium Cardstock; Stampin' Up - Lucky Limeade and Wisteria Wonder

 

So, why not join in the challenge this week, I'd love to see what creations you come up with.

 

Sorry for being a bit quiet on the blog this week, I've had a busy week with no time for crafting but I've got the weekend to myself at home so hopefully I'll have more cards to share shortly.

 

See you soon

 



Less is More Week 137 & Addicted to CAS #22 - Get Well Soon

Hi guys

Today I've got a very quick post to share a very simple card I made for the following challenges:

 

Less is More - One Layer Card: Get Well Soon

Addicted to CAS - Get Well

This has to be the most simple card I've ever created!

I used a stamp by Stampin' Up which includes the image and sentiment in one stamp, inked it up with some markers and then finished with some glossy accents to give the plaster some dimension.  I rounded the corners of the card to match the curve of the image. 

Materials used:

• Stamp: Stampin' Up - Patterned Occasions
• Ink: Whispers Strokes
• Ranger: Glossy Accents
• Corner Punch: Tonic

That's all from me today, off to a friend's tonight for a night out so need to pack a bag and get over there :)

Bye for now

Less is More - One Layer Week 115

Morning crafters

After making my last card it made me realise I really like one layer cards although I find it quite difficult sometimes to make them look interesting enough, which is mainly due to the lack of variation in my stamps.  I always tend to go for the same types of things such as flowers and butterflies and have now realised that my stamp collection, albeit still very small, is all very samey!

When I saw this week's challenge at Less is More I really wanted to take part.  This week's theme is to produce a One Layer Card (yay, just what I wanted to hear), and the card needs to be inspired by a Film (uh-oh, not so good!).  For every film that popped into my head I didn't having anything remotely helpful in my stash.  So, I now have to admit that I can't take credit for this week's idea as it was my mum's suggestion that I went with.  She often does crafting with me and so she knows roughly what stamps I have.

And here it is...

 

 

I think this has to be the most CAS card I have ever created!  I stamped the design but then had to think of a fitting sentiment to use.  As the bird is supported I thought this worked quite well.

 

 

 

So have you guessed the film yet...

 

 

It's the Mel Gibson / Goldie Hawn film,

 

Bird on a Wire!

 

 



Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Background Builders II (woodgrain), Clearly Besotted Stamps - Paired Up (bird), Personal Impressions - Mix and Match (sentiment)
• Ink: Versa Color - Brown and Turquoise
• Pen: Whispers Strokes

After the brain block I had yesterday I've just had another film spring to mind so I may be back later with another one!

Thanks for visiting as always, I hope you're all having a lovely weekend :)

Muse Challenge #10 - Take Two!

Hi guys

I enjoyed the colours I used on my last card so much I decided to make another entry for this week's Muse challenge while I had all the inks to hand. Go me! haha

Once again I took inspiration from the cluster of rainbow colours and the large black sentiment and this is what I came up with...

 



I had this idea in my head but I didn't realise how much work would be involved until I made a start.  I had little sticky balloon masks all over the place! I stamped and cut these from post-it notes.  Then I had the tricky task of hand drawing the strings (didn't think of this at the beginning either!) so I masked over the sentiment too and used the edge of my post-it pad to roughly follow the line downwards.  I didn't want them to be really straight so I just added a little wiggle on the way :)

Materials used:

• Stamps: Uniko Studio - Label Love: Birthday; Sentiment is wood mounted Whispers Words by Docrafts
• Ink: Brilliance - Graphite Black; Versa Color - Pink, Fresh Green, Canary, Orange, Lavender; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Pen: Whispers Strokes

Here is Ardyth's cheery card from which we were to draw our inspiration...

 

 

That's all from me today, out for a meal tonight so off to get ready.  I hope you're all having a lovely Good Friday.  Thanks as always for visiting.

 

Take care

 



Less is More Challenge - OLC Sport or Exercise

Hiya

So, being a complete newbie to the blogging world I've been hopping around to see what its all about and came across the Less is More Challenge Blog.  So I thought why not give it a go.  The current challenge is to create a One Layer Card using the theme Sport or Exercise.

I'm still quite limited with my stock of stamps (I always seem to get drawn to the pretty girlie ones!) but managed to find this little guy and I'm quite pleased with the result :)

 

I started by scoring some lines on the top and bottom of the card just to add a some interest.  I then stamped the image with Versafine Onyx Black.  I wanted to create some interest behind the image so I drew the lines of the goal net using a Whispers Embossers pen then gently dabbed on some grey chalk with a cotton wool pad.  I coloured the image using a waterbrush and some Marvy Le Plume and Whispers Strokes pens.  I finished by stamping the 'Man of the Match' image and adding a few gems to tie it all together.

I don't think I've ever created a one layer card so all in all I'm pretty chuffed with it.  Lets hope I've followed the brief correctly!

Materials used:

• Stamps: Footballer - unknown brand; Man of the Match - Papermania Its a Man's World, For Love of Sport
• Ink: Versafine Onyx Black
• Colouring: Marvy Le Plume II and Whispers Strokes pens - used with water brush
• Whispers Embossers pen
• Chalk: Decorating Chalks by Craf-T Products
• Gems: Papermania Mosaics - Sapphire & Topaz set

Thanks for taking the time to visit.

Neet x