Stenciled Red Flowers.....

I have had a fun day crafting today.

It has been raining all day so it was the only thing to do!

This is today's card inspired by a few challenges.

I started by masking off the vertical strip and water colouring with 

Lindy's magical powers and mixing them with water.

There's a hint of sparkle in them and they graduated really well.

I popped on the flower stencil and mixed several colours of the Lindy's powders 

with embossing paste.

After it was dry I hi-lighted the edges with red and gold mica powders.

I stamped the vertical strip with the square's in grey and gold.

I finished off with the die cut and stamped sentiments.

I really enjoyed playing with techniques today and it's still raining!

Thank you for stopping by...

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges that inspired me today.....

CAS Mix Up - Stamping and embossing pastes and my choice is die cutting and hand embellishing
Update...I had a shout out for my card...Thank you so much x

AAA Cards - CAS - 3rd Birthday Bash - Happy Birthday - Lots of prizes to be won x

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge Anything goes CAS without the option

Stamplorations stencil and Birthday die cut

Cutplorations - Stamplorations - The cake was my inspiration, the colour and the paste of the icing and also the gold on the candle and the celebration....Birthday x

The Flower Challenge - Anything Goes

CAS Watercolour Reminder Post........

Still smiling and still thrilled to be the Guest Designer this month

at The CAS Watercolour May Challenge,

which is Flowers.

So many beautiful entries in the gallery....

If you've time please pop across and take a look x

This is my card for the CAS Watercolour May Reminder post.....

The peony flowers have been stamped individually, masked 

and then heat embossed with white embossing powder.

The Hydrangeas and leaves have also been stamped and masked individually,

with grey and green inks to form the posy of flowers.

The Water colouring has been done with zigs and Gansai Tambi paints.

The sentiment has been die cut, hi-lighted in pink and green 

and popped up for dimension.

I finished with die cutting the image, popping it into a frame 

and splattering with white and gold acrylic paint.

When I did this card.....the stamp was one stamp, 

whereas this card was made with a several stamps and lots of masking.

Learning all the time and loving it!

I hope you find time to join in this fun and friendly challenge

and I thank you once again for the kind invite x

Crafty Hugs xx

Thank you for finding time to stop by, I really do appreciate it.

Challenges I would love to pop my card into.....
CAS Mix-Up Challenge - Stamping-Splattering and my choice is die cutting and masking
Lots of stamping and splattering on this card

Inspired by All The Little Things - I focused into the posy of flowers on the bike 

Happy Little Stampers Watercolour Challenge - Anything goes with no option for me

Stamplorations CAS Challenge - 

Anything Goes and with the option of feminine colours

Stamplorations Cutplorations Challenge - Inspiration Photo

The pink and white flowers and the green leaves 

and I have used the sentiment hugs die and the rectangle die cut

Love......

Today's Card.....

I started with scraping heavy white gesso through the pretty Ryn flower stencil.

The background was then blended with several different colours 

of distress inks, after the gesso had fully dried.

The distress inks where wiped off the flower, leaving a ghosting effect.

I hi-lighted the flower with a white ink pen and splattered pink, black 

and gold splats over the card.

The Love sentiment has been die cut and popped up onto foam.

I had fun with this card.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs 

x

Challenges I would like to enter.....

Ryn Anything Goes May Challenge

Just Us Girls - Backgrounds - Trend Week 

Guest Designer CAS Watercolour....

Thrilled to be invited to be the Guest Designer 

at the

CAS Watercolour Challenge this month....

Lots of scope for the theme this month.........

They have an amazing and friendly design team 

and the most fabulous inspirational creations...

Here is my card.....

I started with stamping and heat embossing the circle stamp three times.

The circles have been water coloured using the wet on wet technique 

and several different colours of Distress Inks.

I stamped the circles again, cut them out 

and used them as masks to stamp the flowers.

The flowers have been coloured using distress inks, zigs 

and watered down acrylic inks.

I splattered some water and lifted some of the colour

 and also splattered colours of pink and green.

The tiny script has been stamped with archival green ink

and a little embellishing with a white pen to finish.

I hope you find time to join in this fun and friendly challenge this month.

I am absolutely delighted and thrilled to be guesting this month 

and I thank you once again for the opportunity xx

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge - Anything Goes without the option

Stamplorations CAS Challenge - Anything Goes with the option of feminine colours

Creative With Stamps - Challenge 14 - Flowers

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

Take Flight......

Let Your Dreams Take Flight.....

Here is today's card.....

The flowers and smaller dragonfly's have been stamped and water coloured.

The larger dragonfly has been die cut and inlaid back into the card.

CAS Mix Up challenge this month is stamping and Inlaid Die Cutting.

I have popped on wink of stella for a little bit of bling and

on the bottom right dragonfly some glossy accents.

The sentiment has been stamped and heat embossed.

I finished with hand embellishing, using a black pen and

water droplets of glossy accents (that look a little yellowy in the photo!).

Learning all the time with water colouring 

and enjoyed how the colours blended together.

I used Distress ink pads and markers.

There where numerous attempts using different colours 

and different card stock before I got there!

I have a friend's daughter leaving home for the first time, with a new job, 

so this card will be heading her way x

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog.

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter my card into......
CAS Mix Up - Love this challenge of mixing CAS, Mixed Media and techniques
I have used stamping, Inlaid die cutting, water-colouring, glossy accents and hand embellishing
Stamplorations - Sketch and Theme Challenge
I am going with the theme of Stamps and Wings
Stamplorations - Things and Wings
Blog Hop and Linky Party
Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge
Anything Goes without the optional twist
Stamplorations - CAS Challenge  Anything CAS Goes

Birthday Wishes.....

I bought this stamp ages ago and was inspired by a couple of challenges 

to actually use it!

This is my card.....

I have used the sketch and the photo for my inspiration
from The Fusion Challenge...

I love to join in at.....

The CAS Watercolour Challenge and used the colours of Green and Pink...

My choice of medium is Water colouring... and Zigs

The pretty flower stamp has been stamped and embossed in white.

I then played with the zigs to colour it in.

I wanted a delicate sentiment to complement the image, 

which took an ordinate amount of time to decide and to execute!

I finished off the card with delicate splats 

and layering onto grey card to represent the grey on the car in the photo.

I am glad, that at last I have used this pretty flower stamp 

and very much enjoyed the process of making this card.

Thank you so much for finding time to stop by my blog.....

Crafty Hugs

xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Fusion Challenge - Truck Bouquet 

CAS Watercolour - Green and Pink
Thrilled to have receieved an Outstanding Design shout out for this card...Thank you x

Happy Little Stampers - Watercolour Challenge - without the option twist Rainbow

Stamplorations CAS Challenge
How lucky am I to have been choosen as a winner at Stamplorations - Thank you x

Seize The Birthday without the optional twist