Happy Birthday, Kylie!

Hi guys

My post today is in honour of the lovely Kylie of Kylie is Addicted to Stamps, and owner of the Addicted to Stamps and More and Addicted to CAS challenge blogs.  Kylie recently asked me to become a member of her Design Team at Addicted to Stamps and More and she, along with my fellow teamies, has made me feel so welcome, I know I'm going to have a fab time creating with them!

It's Kylie's birthday today and the wonderful Loll of Stamping with Loll is holding a linky party to celebrate and has asked me to join in the fun. So...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KYLIE!

Here is the card I've made for you.  Of course, I just HAD to use butterflies and who doesn't love a bit of bling?!

I cut a fishtail flag panel from some white cardstock and stamped the butterflies with VersaMark ink.  I then used four different embossing glitters before attaching the panel to the card base.  The card was then finished with the sentiment.  I was going to add some sequins or gems but I think the bling in the embossing glitter alone is all that was needed.  I hope you like it, Kylie :)

Materials used:

• Stamps: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Elegant Butterflies, Sweet Little Sentiments
• Ink: VersaMark; Versafine - Onyx Black
• Embossing Powder: Wow! Embossing Glitters - Sugar & Spice
• Die: MFT Die-namics - Fishtail Flag Stax

Why not join in and say Happy Birthday to Kylie by popping over to see Loll and linking up.  Kylie knew nothing about this until now and I'm sure she'll be thrilled if lots of us could join the party :)

That's all from me for now, hope to see you very soon.

Eeeeeek...I'm so excited!!!

Hi guys

Today I can finally share some exciting news I've been dying to spill for a while now!  I have been lucky enough to have had the chance to guest design a few times since I started Neet & Crafty but today I'm delighted to tell you, here goes...

I am officially a new member of the Design Team for the fabulous challenge blog,

Addicted to Stamps and More!

I responded to a DT call a while ago and was so delighted when Kylie, the challenge owner approached me and asked me to join their team.  I've been getting to know the team behind the scenes for a while and they have made me and my other new Teamies feel so welcome.  They are a lovely group of ladies from all over the world and I know I'm going to have great fun being part of this wonderfully talented team.

So without further ado, there is a brand new challenge over at Addicted to Stamps and More today which is...

ATSM Challenge #102 - Make Your Mark

This challenge means that we want you to 'make your mark' on your projects by using markers, pencils, crayons, paints, etc.

Here is my DT card

This week's challenge has a fantastic sponsor, StampArt Design who are offering the prize of 5 free digis!  I've used one of its digi stamps on my card which I was lucky enough to win on a previous ATSM challenge.

For my card I printed the digi image on some Neenah cardstock and coloured it in with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers.  I mounted the white panel onto some coloured cardstock to create a narrow frame and adhered this to the card base.  I used an oval die to cut out the sentiment, popped this up on 3D foam and finished with a little touch of Glossy Accents on the heart.

Materials used:

• Digi: StampArt Designs - Full Bloom 2
• Stamp: Clearly Besotted Stamps - Many Messages
• Ink: Versafine - Onyx Black
• Die: Spellbinders Nestabilities - Classic Ovals
• Coloured with ProMarkers and FlexMarkers
• Glossy Accents

Please pop over to ATSM as there are some awesome projects by the Design Team to inspire you and I'm sure my fellow Teamies would be thrilled if you visited and left some love :)

That's all from me for now, hope to see you again very soon.

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