Love You.....

CASology is celebrating their 5th year anniversary 

with a Balloon blog hop...

Congratulations to you and the Talented Team.......

This is my clean and simple card.......

The penguins have been stamped with my trusty Misti 

to achieve the depth of black.

I did my first attempt with clear heat embossing 

but my card warped and I didn't want layers...

Why is it that when I have to do a one layer card (or nearly) for a challenge I struggle 

and then when I don't have to, then I very much enjoy the process?

Finished with glossy accents on the balloon and a little white mica powder.

Thank you for the wonderful CAS inspiration from the team 

and thank you for the fun Balloon blog hop x

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

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to pop my card into.......

CASology - 5 year anniversary - Balloon Blog Hop

Just Us Girls - Use something Old and or new

Both of the stamps are old and never used.....shameful x

Stamplorations - CAS Challenge

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

Beautiful Butterfly.....

Today's card .....

CAS Mix Up challenge is to use tissue paper, stamping and my choice.

I am learning that there is so much you can do with this medium.

PaperArtsy Challenge #9 is Aqua.

The Aqua goes so well with the tones of brown.

The inspiration came from the first post and the pinterest board 

by Darcy and Leandra

I used Lindy sprays for the background, with the crumpled up tissue paper.

After it had dried I heat embossed copper over some of the raised parts.

The butterfly has been stamped and water-coloured, 

with the Lindy's using a paintbrush straight from the bottles.

The butterfly was fussy cut and the frame with a stitched die cut.

A little stamping on the background and also the sentiment to finish.

A detailed photo of the beautiful bling from the Lindy sprays 

and the embossed heated copper

I have fun with this technique and combining the aqua with the browns.

CAS Watercolour Challenge is Butterfly, which also inspired my choice

of embellishment.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog..

I really do appreciate it x

Crafty Hugs

xx

Challenges I would like to enter.....

CAS Mix Up challenge is to use tissue paper, stamping and my choice.

My choice is fussy cutting and die cutting...Thank you for the technique

Craft Stamper - Take It Make It Challenge  - Anything Goes

Country View Challenge - Things With Wings

CAS Watercolour Challenge is Butterfly

Enjoyed using the Lindy's as my watercolour medium and using the butterfly image

CAS(E) This Sketch - #231

What a lovely sketch
Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media - Texture

WOW....65

Had fun over the past couple of days playing 

with embossing powder and sprays.
Update...So lucky to 'Win' over at The Male Room challenge for my card...
Thank you so much x

This is my card....

One of our neighbours is celebrating their 65th birthday so this is for him.

I started with Wow embossing powders

On the left.....

I used three different  WOW embossing powders and 

noticed that they look different over black so I ended up with four 

different colours.......Yey!!!!

On the right.....

A stencil, embossing paste, several Lindy sprays 

and also embossing powders.

For the thistles I used a stencil and embossing paste, coloured with Lindy Magicals.

The grunge silver hearts have been stamped with Wow stamps and heat embossed.

The sentiment has been die cut, 

out of the Wow embossing from the photo on the left (above).

I loved how the graduated embossing turned out.

The shine and texture in real life is really eye catching.

Had fun with this one and hope my neighbour likes it? x

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

I really do appreciate it x

Crafty Hugs

xx

Challenges I would like to enter....

Wow July Challenge - Multi Colour Embossing

The blue WOW pearlescent powder is great over the black....

The Male Room - Technique - Mixed Media

Plenty of Mixed Media on this card

Update...So luck y to 'Win' over at The Male Room challenge for my card...

Thank you so much x

Happy Little Stampers - Texture

Lots of texture on my card

Live In The Moment..

Inspired by 

The CAS Mix Up Card Challenge 
Update...
I was lucky enough to receive an Outstanding Design 
shout out for my card...Thank you so very much

and 

CAS(E) This Sketch for today's card

CAS Mix Up challenge is 

stamping, tissue paper and your choice..Mine is Die Cutting.

There are links on the blog about different techniques to try.

CAS(E) This Sketch  challenge totally caught my eye....

I have used several different colours of Lindy's sprays, for the tissue technique.

Some of them have mica in them and are really pretty and blingy !

I have enhanced the texture on the tissue with inca gold.

The die cut leaf has been heat embossed to add shine 

and the sentiment heat embossed in gold.

I loved doing, the new to me, tissue technique and combining it with the sprays...

Messy and fun x

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter...

The CAS Mix Up Card Challenge  - Thank you for the fun challenge

CAS(E) This Sketch - What a great sketch
Happy Little Stampers - Anything goes with dies
Stamplorations - Summer CAS Card Challenge

Mon Amie.....

Today's card was inspired by the Challenge over at City Crafter,

where the theme is Black and White....

My loyal and good blog friend Ros from Ros-Mikeysmom Blog

has been on the design team there for seven years 

and this is her last inspiration post.

I shall miss her unique and creative style and wanted to show my support.

This card is for her...

Cas-Ual Fridays challenge is Tic Tac Toe so that was was inspiration too.

I started with the horizontal line at the top

I stamped the black horizontal stripes with my trusty Misti first.

The butterflies have also been stamped 

and masked to get the white heat embossing on the black.

I then popped on the spiky stencil, masked and black embossing paste 

and just before it was dry heat embossed white powder,

which gave a lovely texture to it.

I finished with stamping the sentiments.

At this stage it was all on one layer, which I was so pleased about.

However....the heat embossing and black paste made the mixed media card stock 

warp, so I had to go onto plan B!

I added the dry embossed grid layer and now it's the vertical line on the right.

 How lucky was that?

It is one of those cards that looks like I made it quickly but boy did it take me ages.

And...I loved doing it!!!

Just wanted to say Thank You for all the inspiration Ros x

Crafty Hugs xx

Popping my card over to the following challenges...

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Black and White

Cas-Ual Fridays - Tic Tac Toe

The vertical line on the right hand side...eventually x

Artistic Stamper - July Challenge is Black and White

Money Wallet.....

Had a fun couple of days making this Money Wallet...

I was inspired by the  Flag Day Challenge at Shopping Our Stash.

They wanted us to use the colours of our national flag...

Mine is The united Kingdom..Red, White and Blue...

I live in Scotland, which is Blue and White but it is part of the UK.

I came by the challenge via Crispyscreations.blogspot.co.uk 

I had never used the flag stamp before, 

although I had it for some time...

This is my Money Wallet.....

I stamped the flag using distress inks and water.

The aeroplane and sentiment where stamped and heat embossed.

I die cut the beating heart line and layered it up for dimension,

popping blue foam behind.

This is the inside......

Smooshing with distress inks, die cutting, stamping and stenciling.

I kept the left hand side light so that I could hand write a sentiment x

I wanted it to look like a travel tag...

I have a neighbour who is shortly joining British Airways 

as a steward and tried to work with that theme as well x

Thank you so much for finding time to stop by...I really do appreciate it x

Crafty Hugs xx

Challenges I would like to enter.....

Shopping Our Stash. #310 Flag Day Challenge

Update...I was lucky to get a shout out for my creation...Thank you x

Craft Stamper Stamping Challenge - Anything Goes
The Male Room - Add Texture
Simon Says - Red/White and or Blue
Penny Black and More - For The Boys