Bonjour!

Bonjour Mon Cheri.........

I was inspired by Curtain Call Inspiration challenge to make today's card.

I loved the glossy Cherry and the pale blue sugar crumbs...

This is my take on the Challenge.....

I stamped the cute cherry's, masked one of them and used a stencil to blend some pale blue ink.

I popped on some clear embossing paste and whilst wet added clear micro beads.

I thought this looked like the sugar crumbs in the photo.

Once the sugar crumbs dried I coloured in the cherry's and added glossy accents.

I added some glaze to the leaves and under the cherry's to ground them and a couple more splats.

I finished off with freehand stitches around the edges, first in black then in white to soften it.

I also made another card....

I was inspired by AAA Cards and Happy Little Stampers Die cutting challenge 

to do this card with a die cut tag.

Same techniques as the first but die cut a tag and popped it onto the card.

I'm not sure the splat should have come out of his head!!!

I had fun with these cards...

Thanks for stopping by.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges I would like to enter with my fun card....
Creative With Stamps Challange - Ink Splats
Update - I was lucky to get a 'Favourite' for this card...Thank you x

Curtain Call Inspiration challenge - Inspiration Cherry Bomb Photo

CAS-Ual Fridays - Color Challenge - Red White and Blue

AAA Cards -Tags or a card with a Tag on it
Update ....Top 4 with this card..Thank you so much x

Addicted to Stamps and More - Anything Goes
Happy Little Stampers - Anything goes using a Die

Creative.....

April Challenge-Mid Month Reminder....

at STAMPlorations ......

for their Sketch and Theme Challenge this month.

The Design Team is fabulous and always come up with the 

most original, creative and stunning inspiration. 

STAMPlorations have a very active Blog, if you've time pop across and take a look....

They also have great challenges, incorporating lots of different crafting styles.

Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to Guest with you this month.

The Challenge for April is.....

Use The Sketch and....or The Theme

This is my card....

I have flipped the sketch and also went with the Stamp and Splatters Theme.

I started by stenciling the feather (feathers and arrows-Large stencil)

with clear embossing paste and clear micro beads.

The butterflies form The Wings Things stamp set have been stamped 

and heat embossed with white EP.

I have used Brusho's and water for the background around the butterflies.

The butterflies have been painted with acrylic paint and Brusho's.

The splats are also Brusho's.

The sentiment from Bold Sentiments and the edges from Mixed Media Elements 

have been stamped and heat embossed with white EP.

In real life the card looks quite wispy and artsy..I think the photo looks a little messy!

I learnt lots making the card, had fun and I thank you once again for the opportunity.

Crafty Hugs x

Challenges to enter....

Happy Little Stampers - Mixed Media - Wings

Stamplorations - Flash Stencil Party link Up - Stenci Blog Hop

Stamplorations - Anything Goes-Using their products

Mixed Media Tree......

My Mixed Media Card for today......

A few challenges inspired my choice of colours.....

The background has been sprayed with bright vivid colours.

The butterfly's and circle stamps have been heat embossed with white EP.

The text has been heat embossed with gold EP.

The tree has been stenciled with  white embossing paste 

and then clear embossing paste with micro beads added on top.

The edges have been stamped with a mixed media stamp, 

heat embossed with orange EP and gold EP.

The main square sentiment has been stamped onto black card and raised with foam.

I don't usually post more than one card a day but realised that one of the challenges is ending shortly.

How is that....you have a whole month, you have all these ideas in your head 

and then leave it to the last minute?

Crafty Hugs x

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

STAMPlorations - Stencil Blog Hop

The Mixed Media Card Challenge-Mixed Media-Trees with the option of birds

Stamps and Stencils - Spring is in The Air-Mixed Media

Spring is bright colourful colours, the freshness of life

Frilly and Funkie - Hip to be Square - Retro/1960's/Hippie Era

The retro vivid colours, the psychodelic circles and the square black sentiment block.

Anything But Cute - Crazy for Colour - Vibrant

Mixed Media Mojo - Spring Time - Twist Watercolour

Spring colours, butterflies and nature

Stamplorations - On Going ..Anything Goes Challenge
I have used Stamplorations butterfly stamps, mixed media stamps around the edge
and background text stamp.

Sympathy...........

Today's card didn't start off being a Sympathy card but.....

I was inspired by the image over at Pinterest

I loved the colours and the way the feathers where floating in the background.

I used the colours as my inspiration and the feather stencil from Stamplorations.

I first blended distress inks through the stencil, then popped on white embossing paste 

and whilst it was still wet added micro beads.

These beads give such a pretty shine, texture and dimension.

It was at this stage I thought it might be a sympathy card as the colours muted, 

because of the white paste and I loved how it was looking.

I masked off a rectangle and lightly blended blue distress ink.

I stamped a rain falling stamp with versamark and lightly dusted perfect pearls powders 

over it to give a subtle shine.

I thought this represented the feathers in the background on the inspiration photo.

The sentiment was stamped in grey distress ink and three pearls added to finish.

I also did a card in clear embossing paste with white stamping and doodling, 

which produced a much brighter colour-way. 

It was this card I thought I would be using when I started.

However I preferred the muted one and went with the sympathy card idea.

Lets hope I don't need to send it for a very long time x

Crafty Hugs x

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges .....

STAMPlorations - Stencil blog hop

Pinterest - March Inspiration Photo

CAS on Sunday - Stencil It

I have used a stencil for the feather

Addicted to CAS - Delicate

Delicate colours, layout and theme

Stamplorations - CAS- Anything CAS Goes

Stamplorations - Theme and sketch

I have gone with the theme, stamp and texture

Stamplorations - Ongoing - I have used the Feather stencil