Just a Wooden Note

Hiya

Yes, I'm still up!  I should be snuggled down in bed by now but I wanted to enter another challenge or three and I'm not sure I'll find the time after work tomorrow to get linked up.

So here's my next card to share with you today (apologies for the bad photography, had to grab the daylight lamp!)...

I used a cream linen effect tri-fold aperture card base that I've had in my stash for years.  I have loads of these but seem to have abandoned them.  They are quite handy for quick makes so I think I'll keep hold of them.  I found some wood-effect patterned paper so I placed some of this behind the ready-made aperture.  I then used a leaf die with some cream textured cardstock and adhered this across the aperture.  I stamped the sentiment in brown ink and finished with a wooden butterfly embellishment.

Materials used:

• Patterned Paper: Fancy Pants - Country Boutique 6x6 paper pad
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock; card base from stash
• Die: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Leafy Accents
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Many Messages
• Ink: Memento - Rich Cocoa
• Butterfly embellishment from stash

Challenge entries:

CASology - Week 101 - Wood

Butterfly Challenge #9 - Monochromatic

Crafty Cardmakers - Challenge #118 - Wooden It Be Loverly

Phew, that really is all for today!  I'm off to bed now before a busy week ahead at work. 

Nite all x

Horseshoe Congrats

Hi there

Tonight I'm sharing a commission card I made recently.  The brief was to make a wedding card, nothing too fussy, and showing the couple's names and the date of the big day.

So here's what I created...

I used a horseshoes wood mounted stamp I've owned for years and cut out the impression using a decorative mat die.  I coloured the image with ProMarkers and accented with Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents.  I printed the names and the date from MS Word onto the same white cardstock and cut these out using a heart die.  I then die cut the 'congrats' from pale blue/grey cardstock.  All that was then needed was a bit of arranging and some 3D foam to pop up the die cuts.

Materials used:

• Stamp: Inca Stamp - Horseshoes
• Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Dies: Clearly Besotted - Decorative Mat Die, Congrats Word Die and Love Hearts
• Cardstock from stash
• Coloured with ProMarkers
• Accented with Wink of Stella (clear) and Glossy Accents

I would like to enter this card into the following challenges:

Daring Cardmakers - No Scissors, please!

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #101 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Challenge 271 - Clean and Simple

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Anything Goes

Crafty Catz - Challenge 237 - Anything Goes

Thanks as always for popping by, it brightens my day to know that you've visited and to read your comments.

Bye for now

White Wash Watercolour Just For You

Hi guys

I'm here this afternoon to share a card I've made after seeing the inspiration card at Muse this week, which is a gorgeous design by Beverley Brown at Uniko Studio.

I've also used the white wash watercolour technique which I originally saw a while ago on Beverley's blog here.  I've not tried it before but I really love the effect, although mine is a lot paler than the ones in Beverley's tutorial.  The kraft card I used is quite a pale tone so I wanted to keep the flowers delicate.

I'd love to know what you think.  Here it is...

I stamped the flowers in white pigment ink and then heat embossed with white powder.  Next I squished a white pigment ink pad onto an acrylic block, mixed this with a little water and used a waterbrush to white wash the blooms.  I then did the same with the three coloured pigment inks and gently washed the colour out from the centre of each of the flowers.  I finished off by stamping the sentiment and adding some iridescent gems.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Stampin' Up - Flower Shop, Clearly Besotted - Butterfly Wishes
• Ink: Versa Color - White, Orchid, Cyan and Canary; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Gems: Kanban - Pastel Bling

Here is Beverley's beautiful card we were to use for our inspiration:

I'd also like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

CAS on Sunday - Challenge #36 - Birthday

Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #101 - Anything Goes

Creative Inspirations - Challenge 271 - Clean and Simple

Thanks for popping by.  I hope to be back again later to share more with you.  

Bye for now

Watercolour Thank You

Hi guys

This is a really quick post tonight to link a card up to the latest theme challenge at Less is More which is Watercolour.  This is something I've not used on cards previously but I wanted to give it a go and made this quick card last night.

I started by stamping the flowers with Memento Ink, using the little teardrop pads which are good for inking up the detail, onto some watercolour paper.  I then squished a little of the ink from each pad onto an acrylic block and used a waterbrush to colour in the blooms.  I then cut this out using a tag die before adding the sentiment.  I used some co-ordinating embossed pink cardstock and cut out a second tag, and these were then adhered together at an angle before adding the twine.  I was going to just adhere these to the card base on their own but they looked a little lost so I stamped the horizontal stripes to add a little interest in the background.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Stampin' Up - Both Way Blossoms; Clearly Besotted - Many Messages and Basic Stripes
• Ink: Memento - Bamboo Leaves, Lilac Posies and Tuxedo Black
• Die: Clearly Besotted - Scalloped Tag Die
• Twine: Hemptique - Emerald set
• Cardstock from stash

Sorry for the super quick post, I'm off out for a bite to eat as there's no World Cup footie tonight so the BF can be dragged away from the TV! :)

Hope to see you again over the weekend.

A Sunny Smile

Hi there

Just popping by tonight to share a really simple CAS card, and today it's not one layer! Woohoo!

I've teamed up a few challenges for this cheery card, details of which are listed towards the end of this post.

All these stamps I've used here have been inked up for the very first time tonight.  I don't have any sun stamps or dies so I used this dotty image from an Inkadinkado stamp set of circles and dots.  Next I stamped the flower pot which is from a bundle of Visible Image stamps I bought a while ago from eBay.  I stamped this in black and coloured it in with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.   The 'smile' sentiment is from a separate Stampendous stamp set.  I used a rectangular die to create the panel and then mounted this onto some blue cardstock.  This was then adhered to the card base using 3D foam strips.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Inkadinkado - Circles and Dots; Visible Image - flower pot (unknown name); Stampendous - Doodle Wings
• Ink: Versa Color - Marigold; Memento - Tuxedo Black
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Rectangles Large
• Coloured with ProMarkers/FlexMarkers
• Cardstock: Papermania Premium Textured Cardstock (blue); white cardstock from stash

Challenge entries:

Addicted to CAS - Challenge #41 - Sun

Stampin' for the Weekend - Anything Goes

DJ Kard Kreations - NBUS Challenge #1 (never before used schtuff - all these stamps!)

Color Throwdown - #297

That's all for now folks, hope to see you again soon x

Let's Celebrate!

Hi guys

Well, another weekend comes to an end but its been a gorgeous one down here in the South West so I can't really grumble that it will soon be time to return to work in the morning.

The card I'm sharing with you here is one that I've made for the latest challenge at Muse, as well as a few others I'll list further down.  I've missed a few Muse challenges lately so wanted to have a go at this one.  Teals and turquoises are my favourite colours right now so when I saw Marion Vagg's card I knew I wanted to CASE it and here's how I did...

I found a flourish stamp I've never used before, it's from a Hero Arts set which I think was free with a publication ages ago as it has no property packaging.  I teamed this us with some stripes and a sentiment from Clearly Besotted (of course!).  And yes, it's another one layer card!  I can't seem to stop :)  The photo is showing the colours a little bluer than they are in real life, its a little more teal-toned than it looks.  My camera always does funny things with blues and purples, but I'm no photographer so have to just go with the flow! :D

This just involved a little bit of masking over the stripes to stamp the flourishes before I coloured them in with FlexMarkers.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Basic Stripes and Many Messages; Flourish by Hero Arts
• Ink: Versa Color - Lapislazuli and Turquoise; Memento - Tuxedo Black
• FlexMarkers: Navy Blue, Surf Blue, Duck Egg

And here's Marion's gorgeous creation.  Mine's not a patch on this!

I am also linking this card up to the following challenges:

CASology - Week 100 - Celebrate
One Layer Simplicity Challenge #6 - I've Been Framed (one layer card with a border or a frame)
Dream Valley - Challenge 84 - Monochrome
DJ Kard Kreations - NBUS Challenge #1 - Celebration ('never before used schtuff' - the flourish and the sentiment)

I hope you've all had a lovely weekend.  Thanks for your visit today, you've no idea how much it brightens my day to know that you've popped by/commented.

Love Birds

Hi guys

This is going to be a really quick post tonight as one of the challenges I'm linking up to finishes in less than half an hour!

I've not had any real crafty time tonight so I've just made this really simple one layer card.  When I used to buy cards in stores it was cards like this that would catch my eye, just a simple design with lots of lovely white space :)

Using this sentiment allows this card to be suitable for an engagement, wedding or anniversary so its handy to have in my stock.

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted - Paired Up
• Ink: Memento - Angel Pink; Versa Color - Cyan and Opera Pink; Versafine - Onyx Black

Challenge entries:

Less is More - Week 176 - One Layer Off The Edge

Clearly Besotted - Challenge #12 - Anything Goes

Love to Create - Challenge #120 - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Monday Challenge - Anything Goes

Colour Me! - Challenge #25 - Subtle

That's all from me today.  Thanks so much for all your recent visits, I love reading what you think of my cards.  Hope to see you again very soon.