Fallen Leaf.....

So many Autumnal beautiful colours on our trees....

Inspiring my card....

The die cut leaves by Poppystamps have been sprayed with lots of 

different colours of Lindy Mica Sprays, which are so pretty.

I die cut the leaves twice so that I could get the gold edging on them.

 The background leaves have been stamped onto vellum, heat embossed in gold

and fussy cut.

The background card has been stencilled with a wood stencil and embossing paste.

I finished off with splattering in gold, which I loved on the leaves 

but the sentiment looks like it has an infection!!

The best thing I thought to do at this stage was to walk away......

Thank you so much for finding time to stop by.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would love to enter...Lots of great Autumnal Challenges out there.....

Country view Challenge - Mixed Media with Autumnal Hues

Leaf stamp and layering stencil by stampers anonymous
A Vintage Journey - Crazy For Autumn Colour !
I would love to join in this extremely creative and inspirational challenge 

Dies R Us - Leaves
Update....Thank you so much for the top three shout out....Great news x
Happy Little Stampers - Anything Goes with Dies

Double 'D' Challenge - Leave it to me and Mood Board
Update....Thank you for choosing my card as your winner...Thrilled and delighted x

Hello...Gorgeous

Here is Today's project....

Today's project was inspired by the wonderful Mood Board at The Ton..

I was inspired by the wonderful collection of flowers and the heart shape....

I was also drawn towards the photo of the sea and the sky.

This was my starting point....

I tried to create the beautiful colours, using mica sprays......

Graduating from the pinks and the lilac of the sky

to the blues and  turquoise of the sea.

I stamped the gorgeous Anemone stamp in the top left 

and also onto watercolour card.

Fussy cut the anemone's and water coloured with pigment powders.

The Summer Blooms stamp has been stamped on the bottom 

and water coloured with pigment powders.

I have stamped in white heat embossing to represent the white surf.

The mini Peony cluster set has been stamped onto a  small MDF heart.

I finished off with the Love die cut sentiment 

and silver heat embossing around the edge of the hearts. 

The sprays and some of the pigment powders have produced the prettiest of shine, 

which hopefully you can see?

I hope I have re-created the sky and the sea in the inspiration photo, 

along with the gorgeous flowers?

Thank you so much for finding time to stop by.

Crafty Hugs x

I am popping my Heart Creation over to 

The July Challenge at The Ton....
Update...I was lucky to get a Honourable Mention...
Thank you so much x

The Ton Stamps

One Layer Fun.....

I have been having fun making One Layer Cards, 

using a die cut as a mask and then as a stamp.

I started by making two master boards that I cut up into four cards.

The flower die has been cut out of masking paper to use as a mask.

I also die cut the flower out of foam and made a stamp, 

which was heat embossed in white to use as a resist.

The background has also been stamped with some smaller stamps 

and embellished with white and black pens.

The boards where sprayed with several sprays, 

mostly containing mica for that added shine.

 Further interest has been added with stamping 

the background text with silver paint.

I finished off with stamping individual sentiments 

and popping on silver paint around the edges.

I enjoyed using the die cut as a mask and as a stamp

and also liked the slightly different looks to the both techniques.

I also enjoyed using some smaller stamps, which I often forget about.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter...

Where Creativity Meets C9 - Concord & 9th Challenge *8- One Layer
Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media Challenge - Sprays

Dream Big....

Today's card......
Update....Thrilled to have won at CASology....Thank you x

I started by spraying a few sprays onto card and then die cutting the feather.

I also die cut the feather out of White Linen card.

The small butterflies have been stamped using a kaleidacolor dye ink pad.

I always forget to use them...they really are so pretty.

I assembled the card, inlaying the sprayed die cut feather, 

stamping the sentiment and then hi-lighting with a gold pen.

CAS and Mixed Media........

I have had these die cut feathers for ages and not used them and now I can't stop using them!

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter.....

CASology Cue Card Challenge - Dream

Update....Thrilled to have won at CASology....Thank you x

CAS Mix Up - Stamp + Spray and one other of your choice.....Die Cutting

Stamplorations - CAS...Anything Goes...Option Gold

Happy Little Stampers - Die Challenge - Anything Goes

Christmas in July....

I was inspired to make a one layer Christmas Card today

for the One Layer Challenge .... Christmas in July....

Here is my card....

Lots of masking and thinking about the layers but I got there in the end...

Lets just say this wasn't my first attempt!

Not as CAS as first envisaged but if you could see the red as white that may help.....

I die cut a tag and used this for a mask.

I then sprayed several different colours of reds and gold.....

Boy do these look rich and shiny in real life.

After stamping and embossing the lines, still with the mask on, 

I had a fun time playing with colouring the tag.

I finished with stamping and embossing the bow on top of the tag and the sentiment.

The card held up well to all the water but I would use a heavier water colour card next time.

If it hadn't been a one layer challenge I would have just used the die cut tag,

but hey where's the fun in that?

Thank you so much for stopping by I really do appreciate it.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter with my One Layer card....

One Layer Challenge - Christmas in July....
Update-My card was hi-lighted in this challenge, thank you so much

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas Challenge - Gold
Update - I was lucky to get a Favourite for this card - Thank you x

The Mixed Media Challenge - Sparkle

Addicted to stamps and more - Holiday
Update-Honourable Addict for this card..Thank you x

Make My Monday Challenge - Sentimental
AAA Cards - One Stash Favourite
I love my sprays as they are so very pretty

Brother-In-Law

Today's card...along with a few challenges was inspired by my Brother-In Law.....

Here is my card.....

The background has been sprayed with mica sprays for glorious and pretty shine.

I stamped the red phone box with red archival ink and gave it a coat of glossy accents, 

after colouring it in with paints..

The chevron and sentiment have been stamped with blue archival ink

and heat embossed with clear embossing powder.

This is the inside of my card...

I have popped on the name of my Brother-In-Law Jim after stamping onto craft card.

The card is for Jim because he seems to only get in touch using texting and the I phone...

We keep telling him, whilst sitting in our house our I phone is off and to use the land line!!!!

There seems to be a healthy battle going on about this, 

so I thought I would make him this card....

I hope he takes it in the spirit it is meant?

Crafty Hugs x 

Challenges that inspired me to make this card.......

CAS Mix Up - Stamp + Marker + Heat Embossing

Cas-Ual Fridays - Red white and Blue

Curtain Call - Cherry Bomb Image

CASology - Chevron

Happy Birthday......

Stamplorations is 3!!!

Happy Birthday.....

They are having a party and I'm joining in......

The first thing I noticed with the image was the balloons and their colours....

This is my card....

I sprayed with the blue and green colours from the balloons with Lindy sprays with Mica in them.

Of course they are not going to show up but they produce the prettiest of shimmer.

I stamped the row of cupcakes in black ink and then the numbers stamp on top.

The numbers have been heat embossed in white and the number 3 in gold.

I stamped a cherry, inspired by the photo, on top of the cupcakes 

and added glossy accents.... also to the gold number 3.

To get the red heart shaped balloon in I die cut a heart and blended the edges.

I finished off with some water splats and stamping Happy Birthday three times.

I have had a fun, crafty and inky day.

Crafty Hugs x

I am linking my card to....

Craft Stamper  - Anything goes - adding a stamp somewhere on your project
Creative With Stamps - # 4 Ink Splatters

Stamplorations Blog Hop and 3rd Birthday Party

Stamplorations - Anything goes using their products

Hello There......

Happy Mail......
Update...I was lucky enough to get an Honourable Mention for my envelope from Rubber Dance...Thank you so very much xx

I have been doing some mixed media today and getting messy....

Here is my envelope project.

I started by masking off the areas and then spraying three different colours

I have used a floral stencil on the left, with white gesso sponged through it.

This gave the envelope another layer of detail which I liked.

The grasses and fun flowers have been stamped in grey archival ink.

I lightly brushed water over the stamped images and blotted to take off some of the ink

and then painted with white gesso to give me a good base to colour over.

I coloured in with various acrylic paints, a black ink pen and white highlights.

The 'stamp' has been stamped with black ink, masked and then a butterfly stamped on top.

After stamping the background of the stamp I lightly popped white gesso on it 

and then finished by colouring in the butterfly.

Lastly I stamped the postmark and sentiments.

I was inspired by the colour choice and theme by the Rubber Dance Challenge

I had a lot of fun today and now need to make a card to put in it!!!

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges that inspired my Mixed Media Envelope today.....

Rubber Dance Stamping - Colour Challenge with an optional theme of Flowers

You don't have to use their products but I recently purchased the fun flowers, some sentiments and grasses and was keen to use them.

Stamplorations Mixed Media - Anything except a card

You don't have to use their products either but I have used their new Gone Postal stamp set and Bloom Factory Flower Stencil

Stamps and Stencils - Floral Frenzy - This blog has the most fabulous inspiration and tutorials

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - 2nd Anniversary - Fabulous inspiration here too x

I have chosen Challenge number 24 Blooms and Butterflies

Penny Black at Allsorts - Flower Power