Tuesday Trigger

This is a lovely photo that is the  Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World.   The tines of the comb looked like woodgrain to me so that was one of the inspirations for me on this card.

I used some Simon Says Woodgrain card for my base and used some distress ink to colour.   I used a Cherry Lynn flourish die cut and snipped into pieces and then added some paper flowers.  A touch of green with the ribbon and a little tag.  Finished with some faux stitching.  

I entered this into the Stitching challenge over at the The Paper Shelter as well as the Tuesday Trigger challenge.  This card is on it's way to a friend who is having her birthday in the weekend.  

At the last minute we have decided to head up to the beach for the weekend.  We'll take off after work tomorrow and just relax for the weekend.  I'll try and get some images printed and stamped and take my pens and paints with me.  Plus my Kindle and I'm set.  But no internet for 2 days :-(  

Thanks for visiting and a big thanks to all the encouraging comments that you leave... they are much appreciated. 

Honouring Ombre

 

 Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World is to use this inspiring photo.  The challenge is called " Honoring Ombre".

Anyone who knows me well, knows I love working with Purples of every shade and just love Butterflies.  So how could I not join in.

I started by smooshing three colours of distress ink onto my craft mat and spritzing with water and dragging the card stock through it.  I then spritzed it with some gold Perfect Pearls. Once it dried, I trimmed and layered onto the purple card and added the sentiment from Couture Creations and a die cut butterfly from Memory Box.

Also entering into the Anything Goes  challenge at Red Carpet Studio

Got up this morning in time to watch the America's Cup races.  Team NZ 2, Oracle 0.  Great start and after a good win for the AB's last night against Argentina.

Hope you weekend is going well

Purple Haze....

Yesterday over at Virginia's blog, I saw a beautiful Ombre effect card Virginia made.... It got me thinking.... and I pulled out some new stamps and my purple distress inks.   And here's what came about

I clear embossed the Leafy Vine then used 4 distress inks to do a resist technique, inking from light to dark down the card.   I had the purple lace sitting on my desk and it was just what I needed.  I stamped the sentiment in Archival ink.  I'll add a Happy Birthday inside.  

This card is being entered into a couple of challenges

City Crafters Challenge. ~ Inspired by a song - "Purple Haze" by Jimi Hendricks

Moxie Fab World ~ The Ombre Challenge
A Blog Named Hero ~ make your own embellishment ( the flower)

and Hero Arts monthly challenge ~ Spring

We are off to the beach this weekend... delivering a claw foot bath for our friends.  They will be setting it up in the yard to have an outdoor bath area.  They intend to have some gas heating so they can have a nice hot bath outdoors.  

I have a great post set up over at Die Cut Divas for tomorrow (USA PST)  ~ we have an awesome guest designer!!!!  Do pop over and have a look.  Here's a little sneak peek of one of the cards our guest has designed. 

Enjoy your weekend.

Jar of Hearts

I've just got a few minutes before we head round to friends for dinner... I have just been visiting Paula's blog ( here) where she share a card she made with a stamp I gave her... and I realised I hadn't shared the card I made with the gorgeous Mason Jar stamp she gave me!  This card was entered into a couple of challenges.....

firstly Moxie Fab World's "Jar of Joy" challenge and Simon Says Stamping "Trendy challenge"

I stamped the jar and added the tiny fussy cut hearts stamped onto the same colour card as I used to make the chevrons ( die cut with a Hero Arts Framelit set)   It's hard to see, but I added 3 lines of embossing along the top to balance out the card.

Looking forward to my day at a Stampin' Up workshop tomorrow.  I've never done one so thought I'd try it out.  I have a few of their stamps ~ not many as I find they are quite expensive.

Hope your weekend is going as good as mine.  Thanks for stopping by,
Dawn

Type Hype over at Moxie Fab World

The Tuesday Trigger over at Moxie Fab World is this fabulous pic

 I took inspiration from the old time typewriter and went for a vintage type card



I started with some white card stock and this Pink Paislee stamp set

 I took a number of the stamps and made a collage by using Pumice Stone distress ink.  I then sponged the ink all over and used a tool to distress the edges.  I then inked them with Vintage Photo.  I stamped the typewriter with Black Archival ink and used the Vintage Photo to distress.  I spritzed the panel with some gold Perfect Pearls and water mist.  The card base is some Neenah Desert Storm cardstock.  I finished the card off with a Cherry Lynn flourish and  a Dienamics rolled rose.  My sentiment was made with the computer using Travelling Typewriter font(free here from dafont.com) die cut with a Dienamics die.

I'm adding this to Die Cut Diva's challenge Anything goes challenge as well.

Thanks for stopping by this week.  And a big welcome to all my new followers.... hope you enjoy your stop over.

Dawn

More Butterflies.

I really LOVE butterflies.... so Moxie Fab World's Tuesday Trigger really called to me.....here's the inspiration photo

In my tidy up the other day I came across some punched butterflies.   If I have a background I don't like or it didn't go well, I will punch out flowers or butterflies.  I'm not sure why I did this with the background I had.... but I had a whole bunch of butterflies.

They reminded me of a waterfall of butterflies.  I just added lots of the butterflies to a piece of PP from MME that I had on my desk.  It has a subtle doily pattern.    I used a coral card from Rosies Studio as my base.  The sentiment is from Kaisercraft.

I had such fun putting this together.   I have also entered this one into Our Creative Corner's Challenge ~ Butterflies.

Tomorrow is a Public Holiday in NZ and Australia to celebrate Anzac Day.  It honours the soldiers of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps who fought at Gallipoli during World War I.  My hubby will be getting up super early to attend the Dawn Service at the local RSA (Return Serviceman's Association).   I'm planning a quiet day, doing some card making.  I might try some submissions for Papercrafts Mag.   Christmas cards in April!

Have a great week

Dawn

Tuesday Trigger.... beautiful butterflies

I don't usually enter Moxie Fab World's challenge.. ( daunted by so many more talented crafters there!) but this weeks trigger was a beautiful watercoloured butterfly dress.  And it did inspire me!

I pulled out an older Stamp-It butterfly stamp and inked it up with Brilliance Twilight pigment ink ~ this is a beautiful shimmery ink in pink/purple/blue.  I trimmed it with a Spellbinders die and then distressed while the die was still in place.   I stamped the biggest butterfly again and fussy cut it and added for dimension.  Added some pink pearls and matted it onto some wine coloured card that had been embossed with a butterfly folder ( not that you got to see this in the end) The BG paper is from Hot of the Press.   I added a doily behind the butterfly panel and added a little purple double bow.  As it seem quite busy, I decided to go with the sentiment inside ...

stamped the butterflies again inside with with the Mother's Day sentiment - also from Stamp-It.  One of the ones I got when I went to their store in Perth.  It's an older one that was on sale down from $17.95 to $6.00.   With Mother's Day here in NZ on 13 May, it will be handy.  I'm making some cards to sell at work.

I've started to tidy up ( a continually exercise in my craft space!) and came across a pile of stamped and punched butterflies in a orangey colour so can see another card in my mind... now to get finished tidying so I can get it made.

Hope you have a great weekend

Dawn 

Textured to Perfection..~ Moxie Fab World challenge

Today when I was out, I came across a packet of circle adhesive Cork protectors for $1 ~ looking at them I immediately thought of Hero Arts sketch challenge

 

Here's what I did:

I left the cork circles on their back sheet and inked up Three Ferns stamp with Weathered Wood distress ink and spritzed it with Sheer Shimmer Spritz before stamping it onto the cork.   I added a few bits of the stamp on the edge circles.  I then took some paper form DCWV Linen Closet Matstack and cut it to size and adhered the cork onto it.  All that then matted onto the white textured card base.  Added some We Are Memory Keepers Seweasy Floss in dark cocoa and a little CB tag stamped in the distress ink.  I am also entering this into the Moxie Fab World ~ Textured to Perfection.   I think adding the cork circles is an innovative way to add texture.  This card is for my hubby's birthday on the 16th.   Now I wish I'd bought more of these circles at that price.  Maybe I'll have to head back to Ike's.  It is a clearance store... has masses of ribbons, material, craft stuff, hardware, costumes ~ just about anything where there is a end of line sale out...they buy it up and on-sell.  

Thanks for stopping by.  Having a nice easy day today after yesterday's big outing.... the back is a tad sore.  

Cheers

Dawn