weekend

Went out again yesterday with friends for a look at a lovely place where there were lots of daffodil's its a lovely place called Kingston Lacy. its in Wimborne, The weather was kind as well and that was a bonus,   

          I want to say Huge  welcome to two new followers Alicia O'Bryant  and Helen Nile.

                                                     

                                                             

Materials used for this card are,

1. 11. 5 x 11.5 cm kraft card and envelope,
2. 11. 5 x 11.5 cm pink card, 
3. 10 x10 cm white card stock,
4. wooden rubber stamp, 
5. Vintage Sepia Versafine ink pad. 
6. Tan, grass & canary  Promarkers,
7. Sentiment [ free with a magazine,]
8. die cut number, 

Challenges I will enter his card for are, 

• Polkadoodle Cardmaking Challenge Wk 8 Anything goes,
• Merry Little Christmas Challenge #54  
• 2 Sisters on the blog. Add number, 
• Simon says Wednesday Challenge Add a sentiment           

                                                         

               

weekend again.

Have been having a great time entering swaps as well as the challenges on my blog, I have been making these Coins, Postcard, Tag, and inchies, I love the postcard as I used the distress crayons that I have had for a long time, This is the link if you would like  to see how the affect was achieved,  

                                   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uO9PxR3gyg

Now onto the challenge, 

                                     

Mmaterials used for this card are;

• 17 x 17 cm card blank and envelope, 
• 15 x 15 cm white card stock,
• Embossing folder, 
• Chocolate Baroque Clear stamp,
• Pickled raspberry, wilted violet distress ink, 
• Honeycomb, Mustard, caramel, rose pink Promarkers, 

Challenges I will enter this card for are, 

• Crafting With An Attitude,  ATG 
• I love promarkers, Challenge Blog #381 ATG with the option of something square, 
• Passion for Promarkers, Week 488.  Embossing,  heat / Dry,
• TTCRD  Week #9 ATG                   

Midweek& WOYWDW

Morning all;

Well again I have started to do something really new for me, I went to see my friend Chris and she showed me a card that looked just like a book. I loved it so I came home to give it a go and I loved how it looked, I was so pleased that I went on to make another one. What amazed me was that you could start with a flat card blank card card  and make it look like a book, I am sure lots of you have done this but its new to me,

Materials used;

• 18 x 13 cm card  with pattered front and envelope,
•  snippet of black and white card,
• oriental stamps .
• 8 pearls 

Challenges I will enter this card for;

1. Scrapbook Stamp Society challenge #91 Anything goes option layers 
2. My Besties UK- Challenge- Just Anything goes. 
3. Lil Patch of Crafty Friends Challenge #33 Anything goes 
4. Sweetstamps BLOG: challenge Anything goes, 

my work desk, which i will enter over on Stamping Ground, HERE

Playing with stencils,

Morning all,

 I do not normally post on a Thursday but I have been playing with stencils and really like how they turned out so will share them with you today I hope you like them and maybe [ if you have not already ] you would like to try this, 

Number one 

Materials used, 

•  Broken China & Wilted violet distress ink.  
• Creative Expressions stencils

The first thing i did was use the mask and with broken china went over all the stencil, Next I  moved the stencil so you could just see the corner of where you have inked and inked it again with  wilted violet, I love the way this looks ,

Number 2

Materials used. 

•  Stampers anonymous star stencil,
• Mustard seed  &  twisted citron Distress ink.

I used Mustard seed first moved the stencil and then used the twisted citron.

Number 3

Materials used, 

• Memory Box stencil
• Broken china & wilted violet distress ink

Again just moved the stencil once  I had coloured with the first colour, 

Number 4 & 5 

Materials used. 

• The art of Brett Weldele scrabble Stencil 
• Cracked Pistachio & Vintage photo 

I did something really different with this stencil. I used the stencil in the and just used the two colours and thought what would happen if I turned the stencil over and i quite like it, BUT remember  [not that I remembered  lol ] to clean the stencil before you  put in down on the paper, 

Weekend again

Morning all,

What a wild and windy couple of day we have had earlier in the week but it looks as though it might be getting better but do not hold you breath. It has however  been really nice to be able to go out  and not get wet. 

I have been trying to get to grips with mixed media and working on canvas and I have finished two. I really am pleased with them, They are only 3 inches square but like most things we have to start somewhere.  

This is the sketch I used for the card The challenge is HERE 

Material used;

• 21 x 15 cm card blank and envelope,
• 20 x 14 cm & 4 x 20 cm card blue card stock,
• 15 x 10 cm  & 10 x 7 cm white card stock,
• 19 x 13 cm  patterned  paper,
• Sail boot blue, Adirondack alcohol ink
•  Pine,sky blue, lime green promarkers,
• Rose clear stamp. 

Challenges I will enter this card for are;

1. Craft Your Passion Challenge 269 ~ Anything goes. 
2. Crafting from the heart Challenge  96  Anything goes 
3. Pixie's Crafty Workshop -  Snippets Playground~ 213  
4. TTCRD challenge for January 26- Feb 1, 2016,
5. Fan-Tastic 26 January challenge 121: Anything goes -With a twist- use some flowers 
6. Tuesday Morning sketch #336

Owl

I love the stamps here. They are clarity stamps. I have to say out of the three cards I like the owl card best, I think myself the other two are far to busy, Any thoughts on that, I used the retiform technique for the back ground on the squirrel and the hedgehog with vintage photo distress ink for the Squirrel and every green bough for the hedgehog. I coloured them with pro markers Tan to colour then in. An assortment o different small stamps for the back ground, on the owl I mate and layered it up with odd scraps of card

A new technique, to me!

 

Tuesdays play

Had a fun morning with Kathy today. Kathy is great and showed me some new technique. This is the things i made after she had gone home, The last picture is using my new spritzer and loved doing it.
 I also used distress inks,Dusty concord, Black soot. Vintage Photo.
 Mustard Yellow, Squeezed Lemon, Crushed Olive.
 Alcohol inks. Pink Sherbet, Sail boat Blue, Sunset Orange, citrus.
 and on the blue and pink swirl archival ink. Just love those colours, Magenta Hue and Stone washed

latest cards ....

Hi there

Had a couple of birthdays last week so thought hard about the cards, I had a male card to make for brother in law so went with the lighthouse

Materials used:
                           7 x 5 deckle card stock
                            Lighthouse stamp.
                            StazOn Jet black ink pad,

And another piece

Materials used:
8 1/2 x 5 1/2  card stock
Floral stamp by clear Impressions [from the Rural spring collection ]
Stazon ink pad



And, finally .... another using the retiform technique

Materials used:
7 x 5 Deckle card stock,
6 1/2  x4 1/2  white card stock
small piece of orange card
Salty Ocean and Squeezed Lemonade Distress inks.
piece of Christmas ribbon.
A collection of small stamps



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"Retiform technique "

Hi readers,

A pal of mine mentioned the "retiform" technique which has been popping up in blogland ... this pal mentioned it was fun, easy and a great way to use my small stamps - she wasn't wrong - check it out....

An easy technique and fun as well

Materials used:

1.  6 1/2 - 4 1/2 Card snippet
2. Post it's - for masking
3. Distress Inks: Spiced marmalade and festive berries
4. stamps that i have had from lots of magazines 

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