Twofer at Southern Girls Challenge

Hi there, it's time for another challenge at Southern Girls Challenge...

Our theme is Anything Goes.... and we have two sponsors

Krafters Cart

Oddball Art

I chose to use some Altenew products available from Krafters Cart.  Meetu who owns Krafters Cart has a large array of products and I love using a NZ based shop to get my supplies. 

My cards today uses Fabulous Florets, that I got from Krafters Cart, which arrived just after lock-down. I love this set as it has two different sized flowers.   And yes I have two cards to share with you.  Earlier this month, one of Jennifer McGuire's blog post was about Split Card Tricks which is a technique where you do stamping down the middle of a half sheet of card and then cut in into two pieces to make cards.

I used the smaller of the two flowers on the stamp set.  I stamped the flowers and masked them to add the leaves.  I wanted to do some pale flowers so used grey tones to colour the flowers. 

 

For my first card I added some thin black washi down the left hand side.  I added some splatters with the darkest grey ink (Pure Graphite)  The sentiment is from Sentiment Strips 2 (also purchased from Kraters Cart) and is white embossed on black card.  A few silver sequins finished the card. 

My second card is more CAS - I simply added a sentiment from Hello Gorgeous stamp set and a few black gems.   I mounted the panel onto black card and then added to a white base.  

So from one stamping of three flowers down the centre of the of an A5 panel I got two cards.  I just added an extra flower on each panel to balance the design. 

So come and join us at Southern Girls challenge

Christmas Time at Southern Girls

Hi there.... well I dropped the ball this week... my Southern Girls challenge post should have gone live on Thursday.   How did I miss that.  At least my cards were on the blog post at the main blog post (here)

We have two sponsors for this challenge

I have two cards to show you today - both using stamps from The Stamping Village - Holiday seals available at Krafter's Cart.

 

For my first card I used the Seal designed by Studio Katia.  The background is from Altenew's Leaf Canopy set stamped in a soft grey ink and spritzed with silver paint.  I used some Christmas ribbon and a row of red gems to finish.

My second card uses a seal designed by Gina K Designs.  I used kraft card to stamp the seal on and also the plaid background from Catherine Pooler Designs with Rockin' Red ink from CP Designs as well.  I added the seal on a background of burlap.

Today I went to the FYI (For Your Inspiration) Craft Fair held at Mystery Creek (near Hamilton) - a 2 hour drive from my house.  I took my friend Suna and we had a great day.  Caught up with a couple of crafty friends, saw a few of the exhibitors we know - including Meetu from Krafter's Cart.  And a few goodies made their way into our bags.

 Here we are at Lunch time.  It was a stunning day in Hamilton so we got to sit outside

I'll share my Make'n'Takes in the next few days.

Girly card for Southern Girls Challenge

Welcome to my Southern Girls Challenge post.    Team Trace theme today is Girl Power

Our sponsor are:

My card is a Girly card in that it is a feminine shabby chic card.

 I used the Altenew flower dies from Krafters Cart die cut from white card and I used Altenew watecolours to paint them.  My PP is from my stash (not sure of who it's from).  I distressed the edges with Distress ink and my scissors.  The die cut frame and sentiments are by Couture Creations.  I managed to find them on sale for $3.98 the other day when I went to meet up with some of my team mates from Southern Girls. 

I'm entering this the challenge at The Flower Challenge. 

Here's a picture of Louise, Karen, Wendy and me when we meet for dinner.  I had never met up with any of them before, but it was like we were old friends... we just talked and talked....

Thanks for stopping by today.  Do come and join us with your Girl Power cards

Spots and Dots at Southern Girls Challenge.

It's my team's turn to showcase our designs at Southern Girls Challengee today.  Our theme is Spots and Dots and we have two lovely sponsors this time

I used a gorgeous image from The Paper Shelter called Hammock Days.  It comes with a background you can print as well as a fully coloured image and JPEG and PNG files.  I took the precoloured background and using Word in Microsoft Office suite, added it to my base card.  I then used the PNG uncoloured image on top .

I used Copic markers to colour up the hammock image.  I added white gel pen dots to the leaves, flowers, the headband and top of the girl, and added white dots to the blanket as well as black dots to the white flowers.  I had little bits of Copic colouring to the leaves and flowers to give some more dimension.

Do come join us at Southern Girls Challenge for our latest challenge... Spots and Dots. 

Peace Christmas Card

Today I have a card to share I made for the latest Southern Girls Challenge Blog.  Our challenge theme is Let's get Inky -use Sprays and or Inks.    I used a die from our sponsor Krafter's Cart.

I used some Pixie Powders to make my background .  I added lots of different colours and layers till I got what I liked.   I trimmed my piece down a bit and used the left over piece to die cut the Peace from a Hero Arts Stamp and Die set.  I layered the die onto some white card slightly offset.  The rest of the sentiment is from the same set.   The bird die was supplied by Meetu at Krafters Cart (no longer available but do go and visit her online store - it's full of superb supplies)  I used some glittery fun foam to cut out the dove.   Added a little die cut twig. 

So get your inks and sprays out and join us at Southern Girls Challenge. 

Flower Power at Southern Girls

It's my team's turn to share over at Southern Girls challenge.  Our theme is "Flower Power" and our lovely sponsor is none other than Krafters Cart

I have had a pleasure of meeting Meetu, the owner, when I visited SENZ - the craft fair.  She had a stall at the fair and I have to say I spent up large.  I also visit Kraters Cart regularly and am happy to say Meetu is speedy at getting your products to you. 

We were lucky enough to receive some dies and stamps as part of the sponsorship.  So I used one of the dies to make my card today.

I used the For You With Love die set.  I cut it twice, once from glittery pink card and once from black.  I layer the two slightly off setting the black.  I used some gold foiled PP for my die cut oval and added the die cut couple.  I used Platinum embossing powder to emboss the sentiment.  I added some Prima roses for my flower power element. 

Do hop over to Southern Girls Challenge blog and join us with your flower power projects

My favourite colour....

My favourite colour is PURPLE.... and today it's our latest challenge at Southern Girls Challenge and it's all about "Your Favorite Colour Combo" Our Sponsors this time round are

 

I was lucky enough to get a gorgeous  set of stamps from  Meetu at Krafters Cart to work with.

I made a mask to sponge the purple oval on my die cut background.  I used a couple of Purple inks from Altenew.  I then stamped the little happy squirrel onto some white card and coloured with Copics.  I used some colourless blender on a rag to mottle the fur.  I then fussy cut it out.  The sentiment is from the set together with the Happy Birthday from a Catherine Pooler set.   I used some purple patterned paper for my background. 

We would love to see your favourite  colour combo so come and join us.