New dies in the house

 Hi there!  Can you believe it's the last day of January!   So that's time for me to share my card at Die Cut Divas for the last day of January.

We do not have a sponsor this month, but wonderful Whimsy Stamps has donated a $15 gift voucher and we want you to enjoy using it.

Our challenge this month is to use "NEW" or NBUS (Never before used stuff) - a new parcel arrived just yesterday from Scrapbook.com and one of my items was Altenew's Craft-a-flower Calla Lily layering die and some Hero Arts Antique Ivory card stock.  So was up late last night making my card for today and then this afternoon I took the photo.   It's a stinking hot day and a tad warm in my craft room!

Isn't this just a gorgeous layering die.  And quite easy to put together using Altenew's keyhole system.   I cut all the flower parts from the Ivory card and then used Altenew Pocketful of Sunshine mini set of inks to add colour.  The leaves and stems were cut from paint chips.  I decided on a mini slimline card so used Pinkfresh Studio Essential mini slimline dies to cut my panel.  Add a touch of the yellow ink around the edge.  And part of a sentiment from Altenew's Sentiment Strip 3 white embossed on black card and cut with Altenew Featured sentiment dies.  Love the rounded corners.  

So a big thanks to Whimsy for donating a prize for us this month.  You have till 9.00pm Pacific time to join us  Here

And as this is the first time using the die set, I'm entering Darnell's

thanks for stopping by today 

Love you Slimline Card

Hello all.

It's been an interesting week - we have started demolishing the kitchen.  And then yesterday our son and his mate came to finish off and get the electricals done.  So now NO KITCHEN....until the 26th.   The floor go down on the 22nd. 

While the guys were doing the work,  I had a bit of time in the craft room.  I watched some You Tube videos and made this slimline card.  Time to join the bandwagon. 

I cut my A4 sheet into a 20cm piece and a 10cm.  I folded the 20cm piece in half to make the base and trimmed the smaller panel for the front of the card.   On the panel stamped one of the leaves from "A Study in Watercolour" set by Altenew twice in Blush ink,  My flowers are Altenew 3D - the large flower from Fantasy Floral   and the buds from Floral Virginia Rose using Paint chips again.  I splattered some darker pink ink over the background and finished with a stamped sentiment in black from the Happy Birthday to You set and added a dark pink Paint chip die sentiment from the Treble Love die set.

This morning dawned crisp and clear.  A mere 9 degrees C at 8.30 as we headed out for a lovely walk.  7.1 kms and 1 hour 25 mins latter it 12 degrees and feeling balmy when we got home.  

A stunning early Spring morning...  being positive here!  Look this about 2/3rd of the way round the walk after all the hard uphill bits were done.  

Enjoy your weekend.

Paint Chip flowers.

Hi there... Yesterday I shared a card with flowers made with Paint Chips...and today hubby has to visit the hardware store and I tagged along and got some more paint chips.  This time I gathered some Valspar chips.  Not as big as the British Paints ones, but large enough to get two flowers/leaves with each one.  Of course as soon as I got home I went into the craft room and created this card.

I CASE'd a card that Therese Calvird made.  I used her idea to use stripes and to use a sentiment with the line between the two words.  Therese used a stamp from Trendy Circles Stamp set, but I made my own by taking words from the Sentiment Stripe and masking and stamping them one over another and drawing a line between.  I cut some plain leaves from Virginia Rose 3D dies.   The striped paper is from an Altenew paper pad.   I finished with a few white enamel dots and some pearls for the flower centres.

Our kitchen reno has started.... Hubby has started to demolish the current one.  So I'll be without cooking facilities for a few weeks as our son is helping us to the reno and can only do it in the weekends.  Before the new kitchen is ready to be put in (26th) we have to remove the old one, re-gib some of the walls and put down the new wooden floor in the dining and kitchen.   Can't wait to get it finished. 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope your weekend is going well.

Virginia Rose 3D flowers

Altenew recently has been sending out a little stamp set as a gift to customers.  I was super excited today to find out that I was lucky enough to get one... what fun it was to see the bright yellow envelope in my mail box today.

Isn't it so cute.  Well I couldn't wait to get started...and as Hubby is away on a boy's fishing trip, I got straight into it.  I decided I wanted to use one the the Altenew 3D flower dies.  I chose to use the Virginia Rose dies.

I went with a sort of cream colour way for my rose.  I started by die cutting all the flower parts in cream card stock and then used Altenew inks - Hazelnut, Almond Butter to colour the layers.  I die cut the leaves out some "watercoloured" patterned paper I had on hand.  I added the little sentiment directly to the white card base.  I used the Hazelnut ink to sponge some soft background where the roses went.  I layered the white panel to a cream card base.

I am entering this into the Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge... "Fun with Florals" and Virginia's Show and Share for January


As this is my third post for the day, please scroll down if you wants to see more of my cards
Thanks for stopping by. 

WWC231 Tristan's "All About Occasions" Challenge

Hello there, it’s time for another Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.  Tristan  is our hostess this week with an "All About Occasions challenge."

My card today was inspired by an Altenew Academy class I took recently called 3D Floral Focus.  I just had to order two new 3D floral dies... and this card used one of them - Wild Rose 3D die.

For this card I started by using some cream card stock and stamped the background flowers from Altenew Floral Fantasy set using Fushia and Magenta inks.  I missed out the first layer of the flower.  I used some Firefly and Fresh Leaf green inks to stamps the leaves.  Next was some fine splatters using the Magenta and Fresh Leaf inks.   The sentiment from Altenew Sincere Greetings with the new Altenew pigment ink - Obsidian (let me tell you it is INCEDIBLE).  To make up my Wild Rose I die cut all the pieces from white card and then used the pink inks with the first layer being Baby Pink.  For the centre I used Sunkissed and Orange Cream.   The leaves used the Firefly and Fresh Leaf with Shadow Creek.    I added some dimensional tape to add the rose. 

Come join in the fun.  Check out the projects that the artists at Watercooler Wednesday Challenges have created then take the challenge and link your creation to the challenge post. We’d love to have you join us.  You have until Mondays at 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time (Tuesdays at 11.00am NZ time) to link up your project.

More 3D Floral Focus homework

Today I'm sharing some more homework from the Altenew Academy class - 3D Floral Focus.  I was so taken by the inspiration from the class that I just had to order two new 3D dies.   I got Wild Rose 3D die and Virginia  Rose 3D die and they arrived on Thursday.

For today's card I used the Virginia Rose dies.    Day 5 of class was to use designer paper/patterned paper with the dies.   I have used some rose gold foil card as well as the patterned paper.

It was really hard to take the photo of the gold foil card.  I layered the Patterned paper with the foil card.   I decided to use some maroon card for my card.  It is embossed around the edge.  The sentiment (from More Than Words stamp set) was embossed with Rose Gold powder.  I finished off with some translucent gold gems.

I'm also entering this one into Virginia's Show and Share for July

I also got some DT work done - so keep an eye out over the next few weeks.

I'll leave you with a couple of super sweet photo of Miss Grace... 9 weeks old now and super smiley