Craft Roulette #238

 I watched the replay of the latest Craft Roulette and was really finding it daunting.   Overnight an idea came to me.... Santa in a pair of shorts....   yeap had my big girl pants on to stretch that parameter!

Here is my 25th submission:

This one is a slightly bigger card - 1.5" x 6.5"  Not sure I totally nailed the Project parameter.   It's a bit more mixed media than collage - but there is torn paper, paper piecing, stamp, rub ons, stenciling.  

Smooshed some Festive Berries Distress ink on the a white card base, blended some DO in Vintage Photo around the edge.   Added the stripe of torn paper and then went to town with rub ons. stamping, and made the diagonal lines with the stencil and Slippy When Wet Lunar paste. My splatters were added with a stamp - much more precise placement!   Stamped Simon Says Stamp Santa and coloured him with red and white (to mimic the checked tablecloths in an Italian restaurant)  Used my big girl pants to stretch the Element parameter here! He is also wearing a quintessential NZ black tee shirt!   I paper pieced the cabbage tree (A NZ native tree) and added with Santa to my panel. 

Had great fun with this one.  Nice messy fingers! 

After I had submitted this one to the challenge... I remembered I had some 49th and Market Postage Stamp Washi stickers and thought they would make a great collage... so here's my bonus card. 

 So project - Collage ✔  Colour- Italian Restuarant - reds and greens ✔ Element - Short.  One stamp was the short version of Christmas -Xmas ✔ and Random - diagonal lines - blue and red airmail stripes around the edge. ✔

Wish I thought of this first!

Altenew's October Inspiration challenge.

 I've been doing lots of Christmas cards recently so thought I'd do a floral card (my favourite style)   This one was done yesterday afternoon after having spent the morning looking after the granddaughters.  

Altenew's October inspiration challenge had a gorgeous colour scheme 

I have a LOT of Altenew florals... been collecting them since 2015 - I don't even want to count how many stamps, dies, stencils I have   - LOVE THEM ALL 

So had a fun time trying to choose a stamp set that I wanted to use.  Finally chose Fabulous Florets.

 I purchased the background embossing folder (Altenew Masonry 3D) on my trip to the FYI Craft show and this was the first time I used it.   Embossed some white card and then swiped Charcoal Suit Altenew ink over it.  Stamped the Fabulous Floret with some Purple ink and used a paint brush and water to move the ink a bit.   Added a bit of pink ink and then stamped the third stamp layer with some orange ink. Die cut both images.  Stamp and die the leaves with Parrot, Olive and Moss green inks.   Added the first flower directly to the panel and then added some 3D tape to the front one.  Added the leaves behind the flowers.   Added some Buttercup Liquid dots to the centre of flowers.  And added some Flamingo Liquid dots around the flower.   The sentiment is from the same stamp set, and was white embossed on the black card.  Use an Altenew die to cut it  - doing double die cutting to make the sentiment a bit shorter then the actual die.  

Adding the Inspiration challenge and also Darnell's NBUS challenge as the embossing folder is having it's first outing. 

This morning, we did some Christmas shopping, bought a new bed (hopefully will be delivered in the next week or so) and got some plants and wood for hubby to finish off a front screen on the berry screens.   Been pottering around all afternoon including doing some baking... and not sure where the rest of the day has gone!  

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a crafty day.                                                                             

Halloween colours - Purple at Sweet Stampin' Challenge.

It's time for a new challenge at Sweet Stampin'.   Our theme is Halloween or Halloween colours.   I don't do Halloween, so thought I'd use Purple on a card. 

I did a birthday card - the design was inspired by Justine Hovey from her recent class.  Her's was a Christmas design, but I liked the design she used.

 Justine die cut the corner of her card and used Poinsettias down the card.   I used a Tim Holtz die to cut into the corner.  Added some purple card behind the die cut.  I made some little roses using Heartfelt Creations - Small Wild Rose die and the matching mold to add the texture.  I used three colours of Francheville purple cardstock to die cut the different layers. I layered them all in different combinations.  Add a silver gem to the centre of each one.   Cut some green card stock with a Poppy Stamps - Orchard leaves and added behind the flowers.   Finished with a foiled sentiment I had in my stash.  Think it came from a class I took last year.  

Do come and join us at Sweet Stampin' Challenge with you Halloween/Halloween colours projects.   

Die Cut Divas - World Cardmaking Day - all month!

It's my time to share some inspiration for Die Cut Divas for our October Diva Challenge. We're celebrating World Card Making Day all month long!! You just need to make a card including die cuts &/or use an embossing folder and enter it into the gallery by 9pm Pacific Time on October 31st.

I've been doing a few Christmas cards during this month so I'm keeping with that theme for my today's card.    I don't have a lot of My Favorite Things products - mostly older stuff from when I first started card making.  So today my Christmas card uses an older (discontinued) die called Hexagons.  

The die set has two dies - one that cuts a border and then separate hexagons.   The separate hexagons are two sizes... one the exact size of the border and one slightly smaller.    I chose to make the border in black and then used a variety of Christmas papers for the separate ones and layered together.  I've pair this border with an embossed panel from We Are Memory Keepers (Gemstones)  and a die cut sentiment from WPlus 9 (Seasonal Sentiments) Cut with some Altenew Sterling Glitter card and some stamped sub-sentiments from a Hero Arts Stamp and Cut set (Peace).

Thanks for stopping by. 

More new stuff fun....

 Over the weekend, I've managed to get a couple more cards made with my new stuff from last weekend.  

First this card using one of the panel's I made last Sunday.  

This used the Waffle Flower Duo Layering Poinsettia stencil.  Using some Berrylicous ink from Altenew together with some Lunar Paste - Silver Lining.   I cut the panel into two pieces and stamped the sentiment from Darkroom Door - stitched Christmas.  I added the panels with some 3D foam.  I wanted to add some Poinsettia and went through my stamps and decided on this bouquet on Altenew Holiday Flower.  I used the Berrylicous ink to blend on some card and stamped the flower.  I fussy cut the red flowers.  I used some of the Lunar Paste blended onto a scrap of card and once it dried, fussy cut the whole bouquet and layered the red flowers on top.  Added a dote of gold Kindyglitz for the flower centres.   Really happy how the card turned out.  

Card two is also a Christmas one - this time using a Woodware stamp. 

The stamp set is called Printable Bauble Circles - designed by Jane Gill.  It has the circles, toppers and snowflakes.   I started by making my panel background.  I spritzed a little Distress Spritz in Peacock Feathers and Fossilised Amber.  Blended some Peacock Feathers DI around the edge.  I stamped the snowflakes in Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire.  The three baubles were made by spritzing Peacock Feather Spritz for the big blue one. Stamped the big circle and added the sentiment from Gina K's Holiday Tapestry set.  Splattered with some gold Lunar paste watered down.  The medium one used some Distress ink - Peeled Paint and spritzed with Sparkle spray and stamped the snowflakes in the Peeled Paint.  And the little on was Forest Moss Distress Ink with the sparkle spray and added the snowflakes in the DI.    Added a little Peacock Feathers ink around each of the baubles and added splatters on them all. The biggest bauble was added with some 3D tape and the other two were glued directly on the panel.  Added the topper and ruled a line for the string.  There is heaps of sparkle in real life.  

Adding this to the challenge at Darnell's NBUS 

I still a couple of more stamps, dies and embossing folders to use. Next weekend is a long weekend for us so an extra days crafting! 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Happy Birthday to my Hubby

 Wednesday 16th was my hubby's birthday.   I had made his card the evening before but we've had two busy evenings since - so I'm only getting around to sharing it.

On the day, we went to drinks and nibbles with some of his old workmates (from 7 years ago!) and then went to the a local Japanese restaurant for dinner.   It's in the local "village" at Mairangi Bay.  The food is amazing and so beautifully presented.   

And last evening, our friend's Yvonne and Michael, invited us around to their house for dinner.   Yvonne had cooked lamb rumps and roast veggies and a lovely salad.   Such a nice treat.  

Here's the card I created for him. 

This is a little 4.25" x 4.75" card in some muted masculine colours.   I used some lovely patterned paper for the background.   The stamp is a Tim Holtz/Stamptember from 2014 coloured with Tri-blends.  I added a little Happy Birthday at the top of the stamp.  

Here's our meal from the other night. 

It was yummy and so filling.   Hubby even said he struggled to finish his Tempura and I definitely didn't finish my Teriyaki Chicken.  

The weekend is here so hopefully time to play with some more of my goodies from last weekend.   

The secret ingredient is always Love!

 This month's theme at our local swap group was to make a kitchen themed card with a pocket and include a summer recipe. 

My recipient was Carol and I got to hand deliver this one to her on Saturday when Suna and I visited her. 

I don't have any kitchen theme papers so a quick trip on Pinterest and Google, I found this gorgeous image.  I printed it onto some Fabriano 160gms card - it gave a really soft feel to the paper.  I also Googled the sentiment quote.  I printed it and used some Prismacolor pencils to add colour.  

My pocket is on the inside left hand side of the card.... and I included a recipe for Watermelon and Feta Salad.  A nice refreshing salad for summer. 

Was really pleased with how this turned out.   Hybrid digital card making can be such fun.  

Craft Fair fun and lots of cards....

Yesterday my friend, Suna and I headed to a Craft Fair - FYI - For your inspiration.  It's held at Lake Karapiro in the Waikato area.  About 2 hours south of Auckland.   A long drive, but we always stop about half way for breakfast.  We left around 7.30 and with stops to pick up some lunch, for breakfast  and top up of petrol and we made it by 10.30.   We talked all the way down.  My GPS - took me a different way and we drove over the Dam - never been that way before.   

We spent a few hours looking around the stalls... spending most of my money at Krafter's Cart stall.... got some lovely goodies - and saw the Lisa Horton Interference inks being demo'ed.  Suna ended up buying three colours.  I managed to get some Andy Skinner stamps.... been eyeing them up for some time. 

On our way home we made a stop to visit our friend, Carol.  She lives about 20 mins from where the craft fair was.   We had a lovely catch up and she gave us some goodies as she is destashing. 

Here is my haul...

I got a new pick up tool - it has 4 replacement wax tips - and a pokey tool at one end.   

Today was busy with catching up with the chores from yesterday and doing the ironing this afternoon.  But managed to grab a couple of hours in the craft room and got a few projects done

First one used one of the Creative Expressions/Andy Skinner stamps I got.  This one is "Let Your Dreams Take Flight"  I made an NZ A5 sized panel - used two Distress Oxide inks (Vintage Photo and Lost Shadow) and two Distress Inks (Weathered Wood and Picked Raspberry) smooshed on a piece of acetate and added to the panel.  I die cut a piece with a Gina K Master Layouts 1 die and did the mat in dark pink.  Stamped the image onto the panel and the sentiment onto some scrap card and fussy cut it. 

My next card was a bit of mixed media.

I used the other part of the panel I made.  I stamped a La Blanche silicon stamp - Bird's Nest (thanks Carol) in some Toffee Crunch Memento ink.  Added a Kaisercraft stamp - rose and scripty one- stamped parts of it randomly over the background in some dark grey ink.   Added some 49th & Market rub-ons and washi tape stickers purchased yesterday.

Next one was using the Waffle Flower - Layered Poinsettia stencil I also purchased.   

It's a lovely duo stencil.   I did the poinsettia in soft greens and added the leaves, centre and the other little bits with Lunar Paste in Minty Fresh.  I cut it the same size as my card base.   I added a sentiment from Concord & 9th - Big on Christmas.  Love how it turned out.   

In fact I also made another panel with the stencil 

This time in red and silver with a touch of gold paste for the flower centres.   

Thanks for coming by today and if you made to here... I appreciate it.