A new challenge at Die Cut Divas.... Autumn and Animals

Hannah has set a new challenge over at Die Cut Divas for October and it's a goodie.... Animals/Autumn.... or a combination of two.  Hannah's lovely sample combines the two.

For my card I chose to do an Autumn card.

I used a sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch.  The card started life as a single layer, but the base was a bit flimsy, so it got trimmed and added to another card base.  I sponged a white linen card with Aged Mahogany distress ink and stamped the Hero Arts sentiment in the middle.  The leaves are cut from an old book with a Tim Holtz/Sizzix die. I used 4 distress inks ~ Dried Marigold, Tea Dye, Iced Spruce and Aged Mahogany to distress the leaves. I entered it into the September challenge over at Penny Black and More

It is Spring here in New Zealand so the idea of doing Autumn cards is a bit backward for me.  But I did have fun making this one.   

Please come and join us this month with your Autumn or Animal projects ~ just remember you need to use your die cutting machine, either to emboss or to die cut.                              

I'm just off to put away some fresh Snapper that hubby has just finished filleting.  Our son went out on a fishing trip today and dropped in a couple of fish on his way home.  Tomorrow night.. fresh fish for dinner!

Thanks for stopping by today.  Have a great week.

A BIG Thanks to Dreamweavers....

 

Die Cut Divas was very lucky to have Dreamweaver Stencils as our sponsor for September and to say THANK YOU to Lynell and Dreamweavers we all made card of thanks.

For my card I chose to use the Damask Background again ~ this time with gold embossing.

I pressed the Versamark ink onto the stencil and then removed it and sprinkled with the gold EP.   I gold embossed the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp onto red card and trimmed it to fit onto the matching die cut from gold card.   I edged the panel with a gold pen and mounted onto cream card.  The finishing touch was a gold butterfly.  I have added this to the All that Glitters is Gold challenge at Moxie Fab World. 

Thanks a heap Dreamweavers.  You have been very generous to Die Cut Divas.  Hope over to the blog to see what Paula, Arlene and Hannah have created.  And a HUGE thank you to all our entrants this month... all 66 entries.  

And pop over to the blog today (1 October USA time) and see what Hannah has challenged you with for our October challenge.  I'm sure you will have fun creating. 

A little Tiddly Ink digi

My next door neighbour's little girl is turning 5 this week.  She is a little cutie.... looks just like Little Orphan Annie... curly red hair.  I've made her a little card.  It was inspired by a card made by Joy (here) She used a Tiddly Ink rubber stamp and I remembered that I had the digi version. 

I printed out Emma and coloured her with Copics and then fussy cut her.  I then found a sheet of PP that was full of Happy Birthdays.  It is just gorgeous paper made by Creativ and it made the perfect foil for my little focal image.  No need for anything else other than the filigree corner cut with a La La Land die.  

I'm entering this into Simon Says Stamps ~Anything goes challenge.  

I did manage a few more cards over the weekend... some for DT work and other's for fun.  You can see them over on my Flickr group  if you are interested.  I will hopefully show then here over the next little while.  I'll be back tomorrow with my final card for Die Cut Divas... a thank you for Dreamweavers for their fabulous sponsorship.  

 

A cute little Teddy

I am ADDICTED to buying crafting magazines... even more so when they come with free stamps, papers etc.  This past week I got 4 different magazines.  And one of them papercraft essentials came with not only a little stamp set but a Paper stack as well.  They are from Forever Friends and are super cute

 

I had to ink up the stamp straight away... 

 I printed some gingham looking paper I had on my computer ~can't remember where I got it :-(  and stamped the little butterflies from the stamp set down one side.  I coloured with a Tombow marker.  Teddy was stamped onto some watercolour paper and coloured with Tombow marker and a blender pen.   Loved the way it gave texture with out added bulk.  I trimmed Teddy out and added to the corner of the card.  The sentiment is from Stamp-It 

Well it's short and sweet today, as it's been a full on day... we got an invite to have lunch with a friend who's birthday is today.  So quickly did the groceries and then went around to her place... home just after 4pm.  Hubby went up to the local pub for the rugby prize giving and has just arrived home 7pm and informed me we are heading out to dinner and our friends Gary and Karen are arriving asap to come with us...so off I go!!!

Little Blue Button Stamps and a little Tutorial.

Today is my day to blog at Little Blue Button Stamps.  I've had such fun with the fabulous images from Olga and LBBS.  Did you know that  LBBS are available in rubber? (available from CC Designs HERE)

So first up is Sweetheart with Bag rubber stamp.

I stamped onto some white card and coloured with Copics and trimmed.  My PP background is from Hot of The Press.  I smeared it with Gesso to tone down the brightness and distressed the edges, with scissors.   I cut a Couture Creations rectangle doily and cut in half, added some blue ink and added to the PP.  The flower is from the PP pack by HOTP.  The green trim is from a swap I was recently part of.  

For my next card, I used a background from LBBS which I imported into Word.  Here is a little tutorial on how I did it. 

 and then recoloured

I then imported Jessica Wedding

 I then removed the background of Jessica 

and here's how it finally turned out

As you can see, I slightly adjusted the background colour and added a sentiment from Love Sentiments 2.  I coloured Jessica with Copic markers and added some silver stickles to her veil.  Once I trimmed and inked the edges I matted onto some silver mirror card.  A great way to combine three digital images to make a one layer card.

Thanks for visiting today.

Stenciled Backgrounds at Die Cut Divas

Today over at Die Cut Divas,  Arlene show cased a couple of projects I did with a Dreamweaver stencil.  This month, Dreamweavers are our sponsors and they very generously provided the Design Team with some stencils to work with.  One of mine was a Damask Background.  (LJ 907 Damask)

 

Here is the card I made

 I started with a piece of watercolour paper which I distressed with inks.  I laid the stencil on and then used some Festive Berries ink over it.  I used a long rectangle die from Spellbinders to cut it.  I tied around a ribbon and added to a blue card.  I used a Fiskars scallop edge punch and added some red card behind.   I stamped the sentiment onto some sticky back vellum cut with a Die-namics die.

My second piece is a bookmark.  This one came about as it was my first attempt at stenciling with paints.... it did not come off as well as I wanted, but I manage to selvage a piece to make this

The background was made with Gelatos and then the stencil was done with Black acrylic paint.  My sentiment is from Hero Arts and once again, I cut with a Die-Namics banner die and edged with a Copic marker to give the illusion that it is matted. 

Thanks again to Dreamweaver's for sponsoring us at Die Cut Divas.

A CASE'd card...

CASE ~ copy and selectively edit.... Well that's what I believe CASEing to be.  In my case I copied the design and used what I had on hand that looked similar to the original.

I saw a beautiful card over at the Couture Creations website and decided to go for it.

I used an embossing folder from Cuttlebug to emboss the background.  I then sponged on Stormy Sky and Pumice Stone distress ink leaving the centre clear.  My lamp post is from Cherry Lynn Designs as is the Holly flourish.  I cut it in half and used both pieces.  I used a piece of black lace I got in a recent embellishment swap.  I sponged Black Soot and Stormy Sky distress ink onto some white care and spritzed with some Perfect Pearls Vintage Gold for a shine.  I then punched out the flowers and put together with black gem brads.

I love that there is SO much inspiration out there and thanks to everyone who shares their work. 

Had a very scary night last night as a big storm passed over.  We got woken at 2.30am with an almighty crash of thunder and lightening... It really was loud and scary.  The lightening and thunder continued for over an hour...kept me awake.  And then woke to hear that the yacht race in San Francisco was abandon because of the wind going the wrong way.... at least it wasn't like yesterday when low winds meant that we didn't make it to the end within the time frame.  A couple of minutes more and we would have won the America's Cup.... but not to be yesterday as Oracle got another win under their belts in race 2 of the day.... So roll on tomorrow and maybe we can do it!!!!!  GO TEAM NZ 

Fairy Rowan

I recently purchased a new Wee Stamps digital stamp called "Fairy Rowan"  It is very sweet and I decided to use it with a Try Stampin' on Tuesday sketch

After printing I coloured with Copics and added some Sukura glitter pen on the wings.  I cut with Spellbinders circle dies.  The PP is from a Grant Archival pack by Grace Taylor.  It's called Vintage.  I picked up a 100 piece 12x12 pack for $10.  As I can get up to 4 from each sheet if I'm making a card, this is very economic.  But I have to say photographing the pink and red together was a bit difficult.  My sentiment is from a Hero Arts Sparkle clear set.  I just love these little sets. Lots of great little sentiments.  The banner behind my sentiment is a Spellbinders die and the oval, a Stampin' Up! punch.

I am entering this card into the following  challenges
 Try Stampin' on Tuesdays  following the sketch
the Anything Goes (with a fairy or butterfly) at Flutterby Wednesday. 
Fairy Nice at Cute Card Thursday
Creative Craft Cottage ~ round like a record.  Use a circle

Thanks for visiting today.  I'm looking forward to a nice quiet weekend... maybe even spend some time in the craft room.  I've printed out Fairy Rowan in a slightly larger version and also another cute Wee Stamp I also purchased.