Monochromatic over at CCC Digi Creations

It's the middle of the month, so it time for another challenge over at CCC Digi Creations

Our sponsor this fortnight is Kathryne

 

I chose to use one of her little owls for my card.  And used browns for monochromatic colour.

I used a wood embossing folder for my dark brown background, some kraft for my background scallop oval.  The branch is part of a Memory Box die.  The sentiment is a bonus when you purchase this owl.

Would love to have you play along with us at CCC Digi Creations with our monochromatic challenge.

Stitched chervon from Pretty Pink Posh.

Have you heard of Pretty Pink Posh?  They have some amazing sequins and other embellishments on their site, but also a couple of really cool dies.  I was taken by the Stitched borders on, so decided to get it.  Really fast delivery time I must say too!

Anyway I had this idea in my head to do a series of die cuts in various colours with the chevron die so went with it...

 

I layered the stripes of colours to form a bit of a diamond pattern.  For the top of my card I cut the you from the Simon Says Stamp from the white space and again from red card and inlaid it.  The sentiment is from the matching stamp set,  The  butterfly is a Memory Box die.  Added a few sequins and all done.  It turned out exactly as I planned. 

Entering into the Die Cut Challenge at Virginia's View and the Word die cuts at Moxie Fab World.  

High Heel Glam

I had a very successful and fun day on Friday attending SENZ ~ NZ's biggest paper craft and scrapbooking expo and this year, it also had cake making and a cake decorating display and competition.  I didn't do any classes this year, but took my friend, Suna, along.  It was her first time to go to SENZ and she was stunned.  It was awesome this year, in a new venue and boy did we enjoy it.  We got there before the doors opened at 9.00am and left at 2.45pm.  I did have the joy of catching up with some FB friends - Tracey, Tash & Faith and a couple of ladies from a NZ online forum I belong to - Carol and Jude.

This is Tracey and Tash at Faith's stand at SENZ.

Amongst my purchases was this die from Tattered Lace.

 

And here is the card I made with it....

Totally all die cuts... the corner is a Spellbinders die and the sentiment is by Britannia Dies.  I did have trouble trying to photograph the card with all the silver mirror card and a the fact that the weather has been wet and windy for the last little while.  

And finally here are some photos of some of the cakes in the competition from the weekend.

Hello Friend

Another little Bugaboo card to share today.  As it's my month on the Die Cut Divas blog, I'll be sharing a few.

Are these little Teds just adorable.  You can get them HERE   I sized them to fit the openings in this little Spellbinders film strip die.  I kept my card CAS as is my want... just the bold sentiment from Winnie & Walter and of course, some mini buttons from Docrafts to fit our theme this month at Die Cut Divas blog.

Would love to have you join me there.  Buttons and/or bows plus using your Die cutting machine or embossing with your machine.

I am entering this into the Friendship challenge at Crafting When We Can 
and Die Cuts at Virginia's View

June CCC Reveal.

A bit late posting here, but here is the card I made for Deborah Nolan's CCC.  If you don't know about this..... it's a Win Win for everyone.  Deborah gives you the choice of making a card using a colour combo, or a sketch or a theme... or if you are clever you can do all three together!.  Then you send the card to the person above you in the link up.   My card for June went to Mynette who lives in Kansas

 

I used the theme of Friendship. And used my all time favourite Poppy stamp from Hero Arts.  I used water colour paints to colour and add the splatters.  Sentiment is from Winnie & Walter.  

And I was thrilled to get a beautiful card from Jo in England.  You can see her post about it HERE. It is simply stunning.  

And if you'd like to play along, July's sign up is HERE  ~ there is something special this month... a prize as well.

Happy 4th of July ~ Red, White & Blue.

The 4th of July is a big day in USA... celebration of Independence Day.  Over at Die Cut Divas today we are celebrating as well.

Here's my card

Using a cute Bugaboo image that I die cut with a Poppy Stamp journalling card die.  My sentiment is a die cut from Sizzix that I pop dotted onto my embossed background.  And to fit our theme of Buttons and Bows...I've added a red bow and white and blue buttons.

So to all my USA friend.. Have a Happy 4th of July celebration.

Distress inks and Winnie & Walter ~ A match made in Heaven.

My 2nd post of the day.  To see my Southern Girls Challenge card see this post.

I've really fallen in love with the beautiful sentiments and other stamps at Winnie & Walter and got my second lot last week.   They finally arrived in NZ after doing a bit of a detour to The Netherlands... And this week over at the Winnie & Walter blog this week, they are sharing the love with Distress inks.

You can win some distress inks and a sponge applicator simply by commenting on the post or adding a card based on the day's technique.  Day 1 was watercolouring.... always a fun technique.

I used Distress ink , DI markers and The Big, the Bold and Extras to make my card.  I stamped the background rose with Squeezed Lemonade and then used my waterbrush to move the colour around.  I coloured the outline rose with Dried Marigold marker and stamped. Once again, used the water brush.  Did the same with the leaves - Mowed Lawn and Crushed Olive, spreading the inks

I then scribbled some Salty Ocean distress marker onto my block and spritzed with some silvery Shimmer mist.  Mixing the two I did a colour wash over the rest of the paper. You can't see the amazing shimmer on the card in the photo, but believe me, it is stunning.   I then used Broken China just around the flowers.  Once the panel dried, I stamped the banner and coloured with the Broken China ink.  I stamped the sentiment words, shaping them to fit the banner.  Finished with some sequins.

I am also adding this to the Colour it challenge at A blog named Hero ( even though I haven't used a HA stamp you can still enter)

Day 2 is Ombre technique and Day 3 is Resist technique.  Hoping to get some more done over the weekend.

Tomorrow I'm off to SENZ - NZ biggest scarpbooking and papercrafting expo and this year, cake decorating.   My friend, Suna, and I have taken the day off work to go.  Looking forward to seeing all sorts of new items.  Should be a fun day.

Thanks to all my visitors.  Hope you enjoy visiting.

All things Round...and A DT Call

The beginning of the month has been busy with lots of my DT worSouthern Girls Challenge is in the mix.  We post every three weeks so mostly it doesn't clash... so anyway the challenge started today here... Our theme is Round... circles and all things round!  We have two sponsors, one of which is Lacy Sunshine stamps.  I got to use one of her images
k starting at the same time...and this time

http://lacysunshine.weebly.com/-lacy-sunshine-gang-digis.html

I used an image called Wix and to keep with our theme made my card round

 She is coloured with Copics.  Still trying to get the hair colouring.  Sometimes it cames off okay... not so sure about this one!  Finished with some punched leaves and a flower. 

And due to a few retirements on the DT for Southern Girls Design Team, we are having a DT call... so pop over here to check it out and come join this wonderful team.