New Baby cards

 One of my friends recently became a Grammy for the first time.   So I thought I'd make her a card and one for her son and daughter-in-law.

First up the card I made for Pearl, my friend

I die cut the Vintage Stroller from Couture Creations from dark blue and light blue card and added some silver sequins and dot.  I did some google searching and found the sentiments.  Printed them and added to them to the soft blue background.  Loved how it turned out. 

And for Jared and Sophie, the new parents

Such a sweet image.  This is a digital image from Mo's Digital Pencil called "Hush"  I printed the image and then die cut with a Spellbinders Oval.  I used some watercolour pencils to colour it.  Little Teddy has lots of lovely dark hair so did that.  I used my computer to print the sentiment. The font I used is Yessy.  Die cut a Bow with a Poppy Stamps die.   I must admit I love this digital image and have used it a lot over the years for new baby cards.    

Altenew's 31 Days of Crafting - Day 19

 

I pulled out my Dainty Calla Lily Mini Delight stamp and the matching die.   I started by stamping the little stamp with Obsidian ink, 4 times onto some white card and clear embossed.  I coloured then flowers with Inktense Watercolour pencils. die cut them and then made two cards. 

I stamped the Calla Lily three times onto my little panel in Altenew Silver Lake.  I took one of my coloured images and added it to the panel.  Added some gold washi along the bottom.  Stamped the sentiment from the same stamp set.   I then die cut a dark brown cardstock with the inner die from the Mix & Match Frame Dies.  

For my second card I used the three other lilies.  

I started by cutting a black panel with the middle die from the Mix & Match Frames die.  I splatter generously with metallic gold watercolour paint.  Added the two outside lilies directly to the panel and added the middle one with some 3D tape. The sentiment was stamped with Classic Greetings Stamp and die cut with the shadow layer.   I can't recall what ink I used, as it was in the packaging, but it went well with my middle flower.  Finished with some of the lightest dots in the Warm Grey enamel dots from Altenew. 

29 Again???? Birthday time at Die Cut Divas.

Hi there.  It's my day to share another birthday card at Die Cut Divas today.  Our theme is BIRTHDAYS and Bugaboo Stamps are our sponsor. 

 Here is my project

My friend, Suna, had her birthday yesterday and this was the card I sent her.    I used the 29 Again Stella image and coloured it with watercooler pencils.  I added some Sharpie Gold ink pen to the Again and added gold Wink of Stella over it.   I die cut my patterned paper and the layer behind it with Gina K Master Layouts,

Do come and join us at Die Cut Divas. 

Thank You to Sunny Studio Stamps at Die Cut Divas.

 Hi there.  It's the final day of the month so it's time to share my card for Die Cut Divas.  This month our sponsor is Sunny Studios

Our theme is Slimline cards.

I used the smaller of the two dies from the Sunny Studio Stamps Slimine Scalloped Frame Dies and the Thank You die from the set 

I die cut the centre panel from some Canson XL watercolour paper and added some clear water and some purple inks smooshed onto my glass mat. I dried the painting and added another layer of water and ink.  Once it was dry I used some Obsidian Ink to stamp the flower from Altenew's Gift for You set.  I then used Woodless Watercolour pencils in Moss and Ultramarine to colour the flowers.  I added the die cut sentiment and finished with some splatters using Oolong Tree pencil. I mounted the painted panel onto some black card and then added to a white base.  

Hope you have had a go making a slimline card for our challenge.  You have today to join us at Die Cut Divas. 

World Card Making Day/ Weekend....

6 October is World Card Making Day so I invited my friend Suna over to have a "play date" with me.  We spent a couple of hours together... chatting and crafting... I haven't seen her for some time as she retired from work in April (we worked for the same Government Department) so it was great to catch up and enjoy the hobby we both love.

I got a DT card finished and a couple of quick Christmas cards done as well as my NZ couple technique swap card done... But as it's going to Maxine (who is a follower here)  won't be sharing that one till I know she has it!

So here are the two quick Christmas cards I made.  Using only patterned paper from a pack by Recollections called Northern Lights.  It is a beautiful pad with soft blues, teals, pinks etc.

I added some Wink of Stella onto the stars and called them done!  How quick is that.

I also started a card using some free stamps from a magazine and using one of the sample cards as inspiration.   Suna has shown me how she uses her watercolour pencils to colour without using water with them so I decided to try it with my Faber Castell watercolour pencils.... Finished it off after she left.

I added some sparkle to the centre of the flowers with Wink of Stella.  The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamp.  I used some Catherine Pooler inks to stamp the leaves that are directly on the card.   The edge die came with the stamps in the magazine.  I'm entering this into the following challenges:
Watercooler Wednesday's Anything Goes Feminine challenge
The Flower Challenge's Sparkle Challenge
MFT - World Card making Day - Flower Power challenge.

And of course because it's still the 6th in the Northern Hemisphere (7th here in NZ) I did some more cards today... will share later in the week.

Hope you got to spend some time crafting, be it stamping, cardmaking, scrapbooking... as long as you had the chance to be creative...

Floral Fantasy

I really seem to be on a Floral roll... they are my favourite type of stamping at the moment.  Add to that Altenew Academy class - For the Love of Color.  I chose to use stamps from the Beautiful Day set to stamp onto some watercolour paper and pull out my Derwent Inktense pencils.

I took a wet brush and touched it to the tip of the pencil to add colour to the wet paper.   I used various yellows, red and orange colours to five some variation and texture to the rose.  I used three shades of green and two blues for the rest of the image.    I flicked some of the black pencil onto the panel after putting the mask back on the rose.  My sentiment is from Couture Creations.

I have added this to the Gallery at the Altenew class.
I am also entering it into:
Watercooler Wednesday Challenge.... feminine Anything Goes.
Word Art Wednesday - Anything Goes 

Thanks for stopping by.  Hope you get to do some crafty stuff this weekend... I'm not to sure if I will as we have a very busy weekend with my Dad set to head back to Australia after spending the last 8 weeks with us.  I'll miss having him around. 

Little Panda for you

This month at my NZ Cardmakers swap our theme is "Animal" - however that takes your fancy.  I chose to send Carol a little whimsical Panda on my card

I used an idea I saw in the magazine I got the stamp and embossing folder from.  I made a blue die cut frame and used some embossed vellum.  I stamped all the elements and and fussy cut them.  They are coloured with watercolour pencils and Wink of Stella.

Packing almost complete and just one more day at work and then we are away!  Getting excited.

thanks for stopping by today.   

More Watercolouring

 

I did some more watercolouring over the weekend for the Pretty Pink Posh blog hop.... You could enter up to three times. Here's one of them.  The last one will be included in my post of the 22nd of June...

 

I used a Hero Arts Night and Day Flowers stamp which I white embossed.  I then used my Derwent Inktense pencils to colour them.  A nice pale blue background wash finished with the Hero  Arts sentiment and some white enamel dots.  I added some black grosgrain ribbon.  If you are interested in any Hero Arts products do pop over to the Esty store for A2Z Scrapbooking and if you spend more than $25, use my code Dawn15 to receive a 15% discount (before shipping and taxes)

And here's a sneak peek of the last card

I'm racing at the moment to get all my DT work up to date for the next month.  In less than two weeks now I'll be heading off for three and a bit weeks holiday.  Another European Adventure for the Turley's.   We are heading to Prague to catch up with our friends ~ Michael and Yvonne ~ spending around 8 nights with them between Prague and Vienna.  We then leave them and head off for 2 nights in each of the following cities...Budapest, Zagreb, Split and Dubrovnik.   On our way over we are spending a night in Singapore as we arrive in early (around 6.30am) and don't fly our till 11.00pm the next night.  We have a short lay-over in Zurich before Prague.  And two on the way home... short one in Frankfurt and then 7 hours in Shanghai.  Hoping to get into the city for a couple of hours.   That makes 9 countries in 23 days! 

thanks for stopping by. 😄

Watercolouring Wonders

Have you joined the watercolour trend yet?  I love watercolouring and have a number of different mediums... Derwent Inktense pencils, Kohi-i-noor paints, tubes of watercolour paints, Twinkling H2O's, Gelatos, Pearlescent paints, Distress Markers, Tombow markers.... and have order some of the Zig Clean Colour pens.... Yes I think you could say I love watercolouring.... So does Paulina from Pretty Pink Posh and she's having a Blog Hop

I have a few birthdays this month that I need to make a card for, and with heading on holiday on the 20th, some have to be made early.  Just the excuse I needed to pull out the watercolours and play along

This one was inspired by a card I saw from Carrisa ( a DT on Pretty Pink Posh)

I used a Derwent Inktense pencil to scribble onto my watercolour paper then used a wet paint brush to blend it out.  I used a couple of colours of pink and then used the end of the pencil to flick some splatters.  I die cut the rose (Couture Creations) from gold card, the Walter & Winnie Happy from black card and white embossed the sentiment (note to self: make sure it's straight!) I added some glossy accents to the die cut.  I used some Pretty Pink Posh sequins.  Actually, I don't have any black sequins so took some clear ones and used a Copic marker to colour.  Worked really well!  

Thanks Paulina for such a fun hop.  And to all those talented artists out there who have done videos and tutorials that I have avidly viewed.  You are all so awesome!

Watercolouring class - Bright and Cheery

Had a busy day today with a visit to the building site that my son is foreman for.  It is a stunning house over looking the bay at Glendowie here in Auckland.  I was so proud of the work that my son has done.  After looking around the site we headed out to lunch to celebrate Mother's Day.  We went to a restaurant called NSP (Non Solo Pizza) in Parnell.  And yes, it is an Italian restaurant.   Knew it was good when I saw a celebrity chef there having lunch with his family!   Had a lovely lunch.  

When I got back home I worked on another card for the Watercolour class.  I had woken at around 5.30 this morning with the idea for the card.   When I did finally get up I quickly sketched it out.  I CASE'd the example card from Jennifer R.

I used a Hero Art digi stamp called "Silly Scape" for my town.  I used my Derwent Inktense pencils to make my sun and to colour my houses.   I decided to do some stitching for my rays.  The sentiment is one by Penny Black.  I finished my card by covering the centre of my sun with a red heart.  I covered it with Wink of Stella and then some glossy accents.  

Hope all the Mums out there, had a nice day.  I had a great chat with mine today.  Miss not having her living in the same country as mine.  

Cancer SUCKS!

Life has a way of hitting you in the guts sometimes.  Today I learnt a very dear friend of ours passed away yesterday.  He was only 61 and such a fantastic person.  He had prostrate cancer and despite having it removed late last year and undergoing chemo and radiation, he succumbed to this viscous disease.   This is an day we won't forget as it was hubby's birthday.  

We had been down to visit Mark in April and were dismayed to see how unwell he was.   He lives about 2 1/2 hours south of here.  For weeks we have been saying we really should go visit... but now it's too late.  We will travel down on Saturday to his funeral to say our goodbyes.   

This really has made my day feel sad.  So I came home from work and did what makes me happy.... make some cards.  I did some water colouring as that always makes me feel better.

I printed the Tiddly Inks image onto some new Tim Holtz water colour paper.  I used a Copic to colour her face and then Derwent Inktense pencils for the rest and then a water downed Gelato for the background.  The red panel on the card was embossed with a Couture Creations Christmas (not that you can see much of it!)  The corner is a La La Land die.  The sentiment was part of the digital image.  I finished with a little poinsettia.  Entering into the challenge at Simon Says Stamp

Thanks for taking the time to visit.  I really do appreciate it.  Take care

Dawn

La Blanche flowers.....

Just before Christmas, I bought a set of La Blanche flower stamps.  I liked them, then couldn't really decided how to use them.  The two stamps are quite small so wondered what I could do with them.  So I decided just to play.... stamping them on a variety of backgrounds and PP.  I had shown my parents how to make water coloured backgrounds so had a few lying around.



I found this piece of water coloured paper and stamped the flowers with black ink.  I then used colouring pencils and a water brush to colour in.  I added some tiny butterflies cut with punch.  The sentiment is from Stamp-it.  I have been impressed by some designs Sally has been doing...so I used a similar idea.  Leaving white space all around the panel.  I added a dark blue ribbon to finish it off.   So in the end I was pleased with how the stamping turned out.

Today I signed up for Clean and Simple card making class after seeing all the wonderful creations over on Flickr and on my bloggy friends blogs.  So I've been trying to catch up with the day one and two videos.   Love the first days sketches... so hopefully will get some time tomorrow to create.

Take care

Dawn

Cards for Kids.

Jennifer McGuire is holding a Cards for Kids drive - see her blog here.  So over the past few evenings I have been making some cards to send to her for some of the kids.

 

The first two are using some Penny Black images Paula sent me.  I used watercolour pencils to colour them in, nesties to cut out and matt and Hero Arts sentiments.  

The second set are Snag 'em Stamps by Imaginisce.  They are super cute little stamps... the Lion, the Tiger and the words.... Again I coloured with watercolour pencils and used nesties to matt  as well as a bit of distress ink.  Now just to work out which child each one is for and to write something inside.

It was fun doing these and I hope to do some more. The boys are particularly hard to do cards for so the Lion and Tiger are good for them.

Thanks for stopping by... it's the start of a long weekend for me... Monday is a public holiday for Auckland Anniversary Day so NO WORK!!!! and I am going stamping tomorrow with 7 others at Lei's place...should be great fun.  Take care

Caardvarks - Color it challenge

I saw today that the latest Caardvarks challenge is "Color it". This was just perfect as last night I had coloured in a number of Bentley Bear images I had stamped from a free set I got with Cardmaking and Papercraft magazine , I stamped the image in Versafine Onyx black and clear embossed then coloured using watercolour pencils blended with a clear marker. I added some glitter marker by American Crafts under the image for snow and on the pom-pom on the hat.
Some of you might recognise the sketch I used - Card Positions Systems #110 ( such a versatile sketch). Sentiment and flourish from Inkadinkadoo. The flourish was stamped with Distress Ink - Peeled Paint and the sentiment was stamped with the Versafine and clear embossed. I'm not sure what the PP is as it was in a pack that I got when I went to stamp group. I am really pleased how this one turned out.
I took the photo at about 7.00pm so you can see summer is coming... the days are definitely getting longer even if the temperature isn't getting warmer.... still only 18 degrees C - should be much warmer by now....
Thanks for stopping by.