Craft Roulette #264

 I've been having fun playing all the long weekend here in NZ.  We had Friday off for ANZAC Day. 

Sunday, I decided to play along with Craft Roulette #264  

This card is for a crafty friend who inspires me, and is in dreamy purples (my favourite colour).  My card base is "kraft" and is for my crafter friend.  My flowers are and butterfly are off centre - one to the left and one to the right.    The panel and the butterfly are from a digital paper set I got as a freebie from Papercraftsecrets.com.au as part of one of the Card Summits I attended.  I pulled out my Scan'n'Cut (now more accessible in my re-organised craft room) and cut all the butterflies.  The panel was trimmed with my mini guillotine to a square.   This is a salute to the CR Guest Ardyth Percy-Robb, who loves making square cards. The sentiment is from Altenew's Sincere Sentiments.   This was my 28th submission... it's been a few months since I've had time to play.

Craft Roulette #256

Well I didn't think I'd be able to enter the Craft Roulette this week, as all my craft stuff is in boxes in my garage at the moment due to getting new carpet next week,

But my Altenew order arrived -I had won a gift voucher.   I purchased the Summer Wishes bundle - stamps, dies and stencils.  

This is a BIG card -A7 (5" x 7") a bit daunting.  So I made my centre panel 4"x6" - I started by printing the Goovy sentiment in the Hippie colours and then did some ink blending in blue and sand.  I added some painted blue ink for the sea. This is my Tropical Island with my wooden chair sitting on the beach.  I stamped the chair and umbrella and die cut it out.  Used Alcohol markers to colour. Added a sentiment from the stamp set.  Backed onto some lime green card and added to the panel.  

I'm also entering this into Crafting the Seasons challenge at Altenew  as I used Altenew inks for my blending. Celebrating Summer

I can't wait for the craft room to be back in action, so that I can get back into doing some serious crafting.

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!