Christmas In July

Its the last day for our Christmas in July challenge at Die Cut Divas.   Our fabulous sponsor is the Frantic Stamper Inc

They have an amazing array of stamps, dies and embossing folders.

So here is my card to share today

No stamping in this one at all.  Just two embossing folders and a die cut.   Great for those quick and easy card you often need when it comes round to Christmas time.

A big thanks to the Frantic Stamper for sponsoring us this month.

Dreaming of Spring Flowers

Overnight Saturday we had the coldest night and this morning was the coldest in the last 2 years..... so although there was sun today, it was COLD.... got to around 11degrees C. (around 50F) - so I had a play with some Simon Says Stamp Spring Flowers

I stamped the flowers onto the smooth side of some Cason XL watercolour paper.   I used Zig watercolour markers to colour both the flowers and the background.  I've entered this into the Simon Says Stamp Flickr group Anything Goes Challenge and the SSS Wednesday Challenge - Anything goes 
And the "S" Challenge at City Crafters Challenge - S for spring flowers.

Spring is just around the corner now.... our daffodils have came out.

They got a bit beaten up with the wind last weekend.  The snowdrops are out as well.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend... It's almost bedtime for me... just a few more blogs to catch up on first

Color challenge at StampNation

Time for a teaser again....

It's challenge time at StampNation and this week we have a colour challenge.

Here's a sneak peek at what I've created

Join us at StampNation to see my full card and those of my team mates.   Not a member? - It's easy to join and well worth the price. 

Flower Power at Southern Girls

It's my team's turn to share over at Southern Girls challenge.  Our theme is "Flower Power" and our lovely sponsor is none other than Krafters Cart

I have had a pleasure of meeting Meetu, the owner, when I visited SENZ - the craft fair.  She had a stall at the fair and I have to say I spent up large.  I also visit Kraters Cart regularly and am happy to say Meetu is speedy at getting your products to you. 

We were lucky enough to receive some dies and stamps as part of the sponsorship.  So I used one of the dies to make my card today.

I used the For You With Love die set.  I cut it twice, once from glittery pink card and once from black.  I layer the two slightly off setting the black.  I used some gold foiled PP for my die cut oval and added the die cut couple.  I used Platinum embossing powder to emboss the sentiment.  I added some Prima roses for my flower power element. 

Do hop over to Southern Girls Challenge blog and join us with your flower power projects

Dramatic Black and Gold -

My friend Kim (in Perth Australia) is hosting the latest 90 min scramble at Hero Arts Flickr Group.  I love how it's a 24hr edition, so you can take the 90 mins when it suits you.   Kim's challenge started at 9.00pm Sat night for me - so this morning I took two lots of 90 mins to make some cards
Kim's challenge was Dramatic Black and Gold...

My first card took 40 mins - including an epic fail at trying to use some Foil and Flocking embossing powder and foil - think my powder is too old...  look at this mess!

So I turned my card stock over and tried again... this time with Ranger's Platinum Embossing powder...

I added some splatters with a Close to my Heart gold sparkle pen.

And while hubby was washing both cars, I took about an hour to do another one

I got to foil on this one.  I added some double sided tape along the bottom and side of my card and added the gold foil.   I gold embossed the Hero Arts Poppies onto the black card and then used some bleach to paint the flowers.  My idea was to bleach then use some gold paint to colour the poppies, but when I dried the bleach the colour was quite golden looking so I just left it as it was.

Nice to have fun playing for fun's sake.  I've been so busy of late working on design team cards to get myself ahead, it really is nice to just play!

enjoy your weekend.  We are off to our son's place later to have dinner with them.  It was his girlfriend's birthday yesterday so will be good to catch up, 

Flutterbies Card in a Box - Hero Art

Hi all.  It's Anything Goes this month at our challenge at A2Z Scrapbooking.  So I'm here to show you a card in a box I made using the Digital kit called Flutterbies Printable PT006.  A2Z are the sole supplier of Hero Arts Digital kits and stamps.  I really like the way I can choose the size I print my images at.

I started by sizing my digital stamp in a Word document and then copying the size so I had 6 images.  I used some Canson XL water colour paper and printed out my sheet.  I then used some watercolour paint to make lots of colourful butterflies.   I also printed one at slightly butterfly as well and water coloured.   I fussy cut all the butterflies and made my card in a box.   I used some patterned paper by Craftworks which looks like watercolour.  I added a little bit of trellis die on my back panel and added the larger butterfly.   For my front sentiment I used another Hero Art Digital kit - Say it in Pieces.  I took two of the sentiments - made a circle in Word and coloured it green and added the sentiments.  Added a teeny punched butterfly.  My green leaves are a Hero Arts Fancy Die Spring Fling (Discontinued)




Please join us in this months "Anything Goes" challenge for your chance at a $25 gift card to the a2z store.





The a2z scrapbooking store carries a wide variety of Hero Arts products! Get discounted new releases, sales, grab bags & more. Proceeds from our store benefit Celiac & Behcets disease foundations. Use my discount code Dawn15 to get 15% off your purchase of $25 or more. If you're looking for a Hero Arts product you don't see in store, use the Request Custom Order button from within the shop.

 

• Hero Arts Printable Flutterbies Digital kit
• Hero Arts Say it in Pieces Digital DK030
• Martha Stewart Butterfly Trio punch
• Fiskars Border Punch - Apron Lace
• Koh-i-noor Watercolour Paints
• Craftworks Patterned Paper

 

Inside Out

The latest challenge is underway at StampNation and I'm here to show a peek of my card

I often don't decorate the inside of my cards as I sell them.    So it was fun to to get this one done. 

Full reveal is over at StampNation.  Not a member - come and join us... it's well worth it.

A happy accident....

I recently got Altenew's Cube Builder stencil.  It is quite ingenious... you stencil one way then turn the stencil over and use a slightly different shade to make it look like a cube.   I decided to use the stencil with two Altenew ink colours - Rose Quartz and Puffy Heart and used a Nuvo Brush to colour.  I did the lighter colour first and then turned the stencil over and used the darker one next.  It made a lovely background.  As there was still ink on my stencil I decided to spritz some water onto the stencil and laid it onto some card.    I wanted to make sure I got a good impression and rubbed my finger over the stencil.... and as I hadn't cleaned the stencil.... the colour went onto the card... once I removed the stencil- my happy accident!

I trimmed the stenciled piece and here's what I came up with

I stamped the Painted Flowers in Puffy Heart and Purple Wine for the flowers and Volcano Lake for the leaves.  The sentiment from Fresh Freesia set is stamped in Purple Wine ink.  A few little enamel dots to finish off. 

I started this Friday afternoon before heading up to Mangawhai for a weekend away and finished it off tonight when we got home.   

I've added this to the July challenge at Altenew. 

Thanks for stopping by.