All About Winter.....

Today's Tag has been inspired by The TAGPlorations Challenge....

Here is my Tag....

This is the inspiration Photo....

The first thing I saw was two tags....

Then the beautiful colours and the contemporary trees on the tag on the left....

Next came the snow and the snowman on the tag on the right.....

The background has been blended with distress inks and a stencil for the snow.

The trees have also been stencilled with embossing paste.

I have used clear crackle and snow paste.

The die cut sentiment comes as 'Warm Winter Wishes' from Stamploraitons,

 which I have snipped and used individually.

The snowman comes in a larger size, 

also from Stamplorations but I have used the tiny one.

I also wanted to include the pretty light blue/jade on the tag on the left

so sprayed the snow with Lindy sprays to achieve this.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would love to enter...

TAGplorations - Photo inspiration and the theme of All About Winter....

Update...Winner with this tag....thank you

Stamplorations Mixed Media Challenge - Anything but a card and you must use a stencil....

I have used the Christmas Tree 1 stencil by Sanna Lippert and also the dots all over,

both by Stamplorations

Stamplorations - Never ending - Anything Goes

Late........

Today's Card.......

I die cut a circle and went to work with acrylic paints, charcoal and water.

This is way out of my comfort zone but I enjoyed trying.

The background has been splattered with grey acrylic ink 

and a few dots of shiny silver stickles.

I finished off with two tiny tags and stamped the 'with love' text.

The background card is a soft grey, which I enjoyed using for a change.

Tried something new to me and enjoyed it.....

Crafty Hugs X

Challenges I would love to enter...

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge with the optional twist of silver....

Update...Winner...Thank you so much 

CASology - Cue word Late

CAS on Friday - Clean and Simple on Sunday - Use Color me pretty

Use Marker or Pencils - I have used charcoal pencils
Update....I was chosen as a top three with this card, Thank you very much

Just For You......

CAS Mix Up Challenge for this month is Cling Wrap...

I love learning new techniques and this is a great challenge to learn.
Update...Thrilled with the shout out for my card...Thank you x

I have had so much fun playing with different mediums, card stock etc

and now have tons of backgrounds to use at a later date.

This is my card......

For the wrap technique I have used Bistre powders in Noir, water and glossy card.

I also tried starch and the effects where great too.

Whilst I was at it I tried Brusho's, Infusions and Lindy magical powders...

All unique and great....

I used the die cut fern, as a stencil and popped through black crackle

and enhanced with white antiquing cream.

The effect was subtle and added another layer of texture and interest.

The die cut fern has been double heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

I have used a fussy edged rectangle die cut 

and stamped the sentiment in white.

Finishing off with silver embossing around the edge 

and a small die cut heart with heat embossed frantage.

I loved the effect of this unique and fun technique.

Thank you so much for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs

xx

Challenges I would love to enter....

CAS Mix Up Challenge for this month is Cling Wrap...

I have stamped and my choice is stencil, crackle, heat embossing die cutting and frantage
Update...Thrilled with the shout out for my card...Thank you x

Stamplorations CAS challenge - 

I have gone with the optional colour twist of Silver....

Craft Stamper - Anything goes

AAA Cards - The theme for the CAS style is Chilled...

I thought my background looked like cracked ice, cold,

chilled blue/black tones in colour and the cold silver...

CASology - Cue word is Glimmer

Feathers and Some....

Good to be back crafting after my bout of Flu....

Thank you so much for all your kind messages and get well wishes x

Thank you  Loll for the shout out on your blog today..Made My Day.....

I am sure you all know about the new challenge from the wonderful Darnell...

The Twofer Challenge .....with the theme of Feathers.

Make two cards, using the same stamp or die and for two different occasions.

These are my cards...

I have used the same die cut feather, one for a Thank you Card 

and one for an Encouragement Card.

You can do an style of card, so I have gone for mixing my medias....

I have used stencils, Lindy Magicals, Stamping and Die Cutting.

I have also used Crackling paste, which is a first for me.....

You get such fun and unpredictable results...love it....

The moodboard over at Mixed Media Place is fabulous..Take a look....

Certainly helped with me focusing on the colours, the texture of the tiles

and those fabulous feathers.

And...Thank you Cathy for the heads up...

The Second Card....

Gold embossing paste through a stencil, Lindy gold spray, 

Frantage, stamping, die cutting and treble heat embossing...

I had so much fun creating these cards and learnt lots along the way....

The gallery is looking absolutely amazing 

and with the wonderful and creative design team that Darnell has put together, 

this unique challenge is going to be a huge success....

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter...

The Twofer Challenge .....with the theme of Feathers
Thank you so much for The Honorable Mention...
I had lots of fun with your new challenge x

Card number one......

Mixed Media Place - Moodboard
I have used many Art Basic mediums to make this card
Mixed Media Monthly - Ring In The New
The crackle medium is a new product and a new technique for me.
Loved 'playing' with the crackle to find fun things to do with it.....

Hearts and Mistletoe

I wanted to share these cards today, just in time for Christmas...

I saw similar cards on Pinterest and used them as my inspiration.....

The background has been blended with distress inks.

The Mistletoe, the hearts, the bows and cute pegs have all been stamped.

I finished off with splattering with white acrylic paint, glossy accents 

on the hearts and white novo drops.

Wherever you are this Christmas and whoever you are with 

I wish you Peace, Happiness and Health x

Thank you so much for your generous and very kind comments in 2017.

They are so appreciated and here's to a Crafty 2018 x

Love and Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would love to enter.....

CAS Mix Up Challenge - 

Stamping and my choice are splattering, ink blending and glossy accents

It's a challenge that I have learnt so much from in 2017 x

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge without the colour twist

A challenge that I love to enter and have enjoyed throughout 2017

CAS on Friday - Christmas

Shades of White...

Today's card was inspired by The PaperArtsy Shades of White Challenge....

Love all the inspiration but the one that inspired today's card is from Wanda

She used stencils to great effect and was thinking about the tissue technique ...

The background is the tissue technique in white tissue sprayed with pearlescent.

The two trees in the background have been done through a stencil, 

with gritty structure paste.

The tree in the foreground is a die cut with the paste on top.

The poinsettia has also been done through a stencil with the paste 

and glitter gel mixed together and then fussy cut.

I have never used a stencil and fussy cut before.....

Finished off with the die cut sentiment.

Lots of texture and a little bling too on my card.....

More information on the Tissue Technique on Loll's CAS MixUp blog....

Thank you for stopping by...

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Country View Challenge - Stencil

PaperArtsy blog Challenge - Shades of White

Inkspirational Challenge - Designer choice - Christmas card using only neutral colours

Stamps and Stencils - Pastels

Rubber Dance - Inspired by any Movie - White Christmas for me

Tags and More.....

I have been making some tags 

to go with a card I made earlier this month...

These are my gift tags and bottle tags.....

 I have stamped, die cut and used stencils with glitter paste....

I have made them up very slightly different....

I enjoy making tags and enjoyed making them as a co-coordinating set 

with the Christmas card, Bottle Tag and Gift Tag.....

These tags will be linked up to......

Loll's Fabulous yearly Tag Event

Pop across and see some amazing Tags from the gallery, the fabulous guests 

and of course Loll's beautiful tags...Great inspiration...

Time is just flying by and there is not enough hours in the day.

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

Crafty Hugs

xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Loll's Fabulous yearly Tag Event 

Twelve Tags of Christmas.......

CASology - Cheer

Lots of cheer with these tags for the bottles of wine!

TAGplorations - All about gratitude...Eat Drink and be thankful

Thrilled with my top pick.....Thank you so much x

Stamplorations - Mixed Media - Always anything goes and using a stencil

Stamplorations - Theme Challenge - Stamp and Tag

Happy Little Stampers - Christmas - Anything goes with the optional twist - Tag