Pretty florals

I have a few flower cards and a tag to share today.  I love doing flower cards and recently my new WPlus9 "Coming Up Roses" stamp arrived.  A great opportunity to make some floral cards and a tag for Virginia's View challenge #4.  

I started by pulling out a piece of watercolouring I'd done a while back but wasn't happy with the amount of splatters I'd done.  I used my Tim Holtz Tag die to cut the tag. 

I then took the stamp set and some orange distress inks and stamped the roses.  I used some green distress inks to stamp the stems.  Next I added my recycled item... the wax paper from a little doily die I'd cut.  It really looks pretty in real life...  I then used the doily, which had been cut from Kraft card, as a stencil to sponge some more colour onto the tag.  Finished with some chiffon ribbon and a button and crochet cotton bow.  The sentiment from Hero Arts was stamped with Delicata Golden Glitz and clear embossed.

My next card was made to sent to a friend, whose Mum passed away last week.

My centre panel is some Bristol paper.  I used the WPlus9 set again and some distress inks.  I used my paintbrush and water to do a bit of water colouring.   The sentiment is from a Simon Says Stamp set.  The PP behind is from a pack by Prima called "Fairy Belle"  Inside I have added a Hero Arts sentiment "so sorry for your loss"  The gems and pearls finished off the card.

And just one more flower card.




This is for a challenge at The Paper Shelter - Flower Power. I used a digi stamp from The Paper Shelter and also the matching background.  I wanted to try out making some vellum roses after seeing this video.  I have a pack of coloured vellum that I got ages ago and there was a pretty pink amongst the pages.  The little ones were a bit fiddly but got there in the end.  I used glossy accents rather than hot glue for the little ones.

Thanks for persevering through my long post today.  Only 5 more sleeps till I head off to Perth to visit my daughter.  Getting a little excited now.  This will the longest trip I've done on my own.  I'm going on the direct flight - 6 hours 45 minutes.  I'll have a few posts schedules as I have a couple of DT challenges starting while I'm away.

Congratulations on your engagement

Some exciting news in our family over the weekend... Our son got engaged.  This is the second engagement for us this year as earlier in the year our daughter also got engaged.  Some of you may be aware she got married 4 years ago, but alas, it did not last...however she has now meet a very nice young man and they are planning to get married at the end of this year.

So one happy Mama to have my children so happy and settled.

I made a couple of engagement cards as part of my samples for Chalk'n'stock blog this month.

First up for my daughter and her fiancé (who I will be seeing in 8 days!)

I used a Bugaboo image coloured with Copics and sponged with pale blue chalk around the image.  The digi stamp reminded me of my daughter with her sunnies on.  She is living in Perth Australia where it is very warm in the summer. The sentiment is from Hero Arts.  Inside the sentiment is from Bugaboo...and is the same as what is on the front of the card for my son and his fiancée....

Again Bugaboo digi stamp coloured with Copics and sponged with the chalks.  Just love the sentiment :-)

I've also shared another card over on the Chalk'n'stock blog  If you want to have a look, please hop over the blog for a look.

Thanks for stopping by today.  I appreciate all my visitors.

Autumn colours and Use a Die Cut

Both the Creative Craft Cottage challenge blogs have a new challenges starting 1 June.  The Original Creative Craft Cottage has a colour/photo inspiration challenge theme of Autumn.

 

Here in the Southern Hemisphere were have just finished Autumn with 1 June being the start of Winter.  

Here is my sample card 

 

My main focal image is a stamp I borrowed a few weeks ago when I had friends over to "play".  I used Wild Honey distress ink to stamp it and then matted with some grey and then onto brown card.  Sentiment from Winnie & Walter.  

We would love to have you join our challenge.  Anyone, anywhere in the world is welcome to play along.

And over at  CCC Digi Creations challenge #2 is underway.  We had overwhelming response to our first challenge.   So we are looking forward to seeing you back again...  So what's the challenge?

Use a Digi with a Die Cut somewhere on your creation.  We have a lovely sponsor this challenge

 

We got to work with some cute as digi stamps this time..   I made two cards to share on the blog

First card uses "Love Kitty"  a real sweetie.  Printed and cut with a Spellbinders label die.  I added some ink while the die was still in place to give the glow around the Kitty.   My background die is from Penny Black, cut from some cream card and backed with black card.  I also used a Simon Says Stamp die for my banner, with it's matching sentiment.


And for my second card I used "Fancy Fish"
 

 

My die cut with this one was the stitched rectangle from Lil' Inkers.  I went with Funky colours for my fish and finished with a tiny sentiment.  Added lots of Wink of Stella and some blue sequins. My background was dry embossed with a circle folder.  

Thanks for preserving with this long post.  I'll be back tomorrow with my cards for Chalk'n'stock.   

His, Hers, Ours.....

New challenge up at Die Cut Divas and one of my favourite stamp companies is our sponsor ~ Hero Arts

 

Hannah has set an interesting challenge.... lots of options....

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His: Make a masculine or fathers day card and/or use this color scheme

Hers: Make a feminine card, and/or use this color scheme

Ours: There always seems to be lots of weddings in June so lets see your wedding and anniversary cards too

For my sample card I went with a masculine card

This uses a Hero Arts stamp I've had for a while, but haven't used much.  I did an embossed background.  See the black gems... well they had to be added as I got some ink onto my background.  I added the netting and twine as texture.  

So we would love to have you join us at Die Cut Divas this month...

Entering into the challenge at Simon Says Stamp.

Thanks a Bunch

I saw the lovely photo and colour inspiration over at Winnie & Walter blog and had a idea of something I wanted to try.

 

I saw someone on the 'net who had used a Hero Arts stamp for a peony.  So thought I'd try it out.

I stamped the largest circle from Hero Arts Brush strokes set in Picked Raspberry distress ink onto some watercolour paper.  I then wet it and swirled the waterbrush through it.  Once it dried, I over stamped with the same stamp again in the distress ink.  The leaves also a Hero Arts stamp were stamped with Hero Arts shadow ink and coloured with the waterbrush.   Then the gorgeous Winnie & Walter big sentiment set was used for the focal sentiment.  Just adore the two sets I have... so versatile.   I matted onto some soft yellowy card and a white base.  Added some pink gems to finish.

Entering this also into the Anything Goes at Simon Says Stamp

Just about ready to head off for our long weekend away.

Decoupage cards

I picked up issue #124 of Papercraft Inspirations the other day and it had a great decoupage kit ~ Hugs With Henry.  They images are adorable and the PP very sweet.    I decided to CASE the samples in the magazine.

First up I used a cute little bunny image

I trimmed all the PP's and matted onto the kraft card and then after punching holes, I hand stitched around all the layers.  I did the decoupaging and then used the Wink of Stella to add some glitter to the bunny and the flower.  I added a little Cuttlebug tag stamped with the cute as sentiment stamps from a Winnie & Walter's set.

Entering this one into the Simon Says Wednesday challenge ~ Anything Goes

My next one used a puppy image

I used a Spellbinders die to cut the main image.  Luckily the second layer included the flower so I could have it hanging over the top.  I used a Fancy label die for the mat.  Once again, I used some of the little sentiments from a Winnie & Walter set.

I've got a third one with some glossy accents on it drying and am ready to start  number four.   As we are heading off to the beach tomorrow evening for the long weekend, I might take the kit with me.  Otherwise, I've just got two new books on my Kindle.  The forecast is for a cold wet weekend, so snuggled up reading sounds like just the ticket!

A touch of Vintage

Today over at Die Cut Divas, we are all working with with a lovely image from A Day for Daisies.   And you can have it too as it's a freebie which you can get here.

Here is my version of the stamp

I printed the image and coloured with Copics.  I used an embossing folder to emboss the edge and then rubbed some white Gelato to highlight the embossing.  I then added some paper flowers with gem centres and some die cut leaves.

Hop over the the blog to see what the other Divas came up with.

Happy Everything.

The cue word at CAS-ology this challenge is Flower.  I'm a fan of CAS cards so I thought I'd have a go.  I have a new die from Couture Creations that I hadn't used.  It is a rose  so I used it for my card.



I die cut the rose once from orange and once from green card.  I then trimmed the stem off and added to the rose.  I layered onto some peachy card then onto a white base.  I added the Winnie & Walter sentiment which I gold embossed.  Added a few dots of Stickles.

I was a really like how it turned out. 

Thanks again to all my followers and those who leave me a message.  I appreciate all of you.