Pink Cosmos Flowers

Hello again!  I've been a bit quiet lately, don't tend to make much when it's hot... I get very very slow...

I did manage to finish a card at last, so here it is.

I played with a leafy stencil and some distress inks to make the 'paper', and inks again for around the flowers.  The flowers were embossed in white and then painted with distress crayons (scribble them on a craft mat, pick up with a water brush), then covered in a fab new sparkly shimmer pen (wish photos would show the shimmer!).  The flower centres and tiny white dots around the image were made using Nuvo Crystal Drops... I just bought them in white to try them out, and I really like them - they dry a bit like enamel dots, but in whatever size/ shape you need, so now I want more colours!

I'm entering my card for the following challenges
Simon Says - anything goes
Crafty Cardmakers - floral profusion

It's our wedding anniversary at the weekend, so hopefully I can make a card for Pav a bit quicker than I took with this one!  Thanks for popping in, hope you have a lovely evening :o)

Sweet Stampin' - things that go round

Happy Saturday :o)

 

Our theme for this week over at Sweet Stampin' is 'things that go round' (so wheels, clocks etc), which I must admit had me stumped for a while.  I rummaged through some images and spotted this one... hula hoops go round, don't they?  Well they do if you can keep them up long enough...

 

 

Items Used

Image - Hoop Rosie - DigiStamp Boutique

Colouring - copics

Papers - Echo Park Happy Summer

Sentiment - Clearly Besotted

Bow & Sun dies - Lil' Inkers

Doodlebug enamel dot

 

I'm entering my card for the following challenges

Crafty Friends - summer colours

Addicted to Stamps - make your mark

Little Red Wagon - you are my sunshine

Colour Inspiration Monday - anything goes with hand-coloured image

 

Thanks for popping in, hope you have a lovely evening :o)



Celebrate...

Hello :o)

 

I thought I'd never get this posted!  Blogger just wouldn't work using Chrome... got fed up watching the whirring thing (technical term lol) while it tried to load, and then gave up and tried through Explorer, seems to be working so far.  I seem to remember that I originally swapped over to Chrome because Explorer wouldn't work for Blogger though!

 

 

Anyway!  I bought some goodies from Craft Stash recently, so here's a card using some of them.  I'm really pleased with the stitched scalloped dies - they're great sizes, this one is the 3rd largest die (on a 6" square card), they'll come in very handy I think.  Every now and then I get an urge to sand down some core'dinations cardstock, and I think it works really well with embossing, especially for men's cards... I never seem to have enough male cards even though I really like making them!

 

I'm entering my card for the following challenges

Simon Says - going dotty

The Male Room - stars

Cute Card Thursday - dies & punches

My Time to Craft - masculine

 

Thanks for popping in, hope you have a lovely evening :o)

 

 



Sweet Stampin' - cats and /or dogs

Happy Saturday :o)

Today's card is for our challenge over at Sweet Stampin', where our theme is 'cats and/ or dogs'.

Please excuse my awful colouring!  I coloured it a while ago and must have been in a rush, it looks very patchy... oh well, can't be helped now.

Items Used

Stamp - Little Claire (can't see it now, so possibly not available anymore)

Papers - LOTV (retired)

Sentiment stamp - Clearly Besotted

Flower - Wild Orchid Crafts

Flourish die - MFT

Heart Banner die - Memory Box or Poppy Stamps?

We've been out for a meal today with Pav's family... tried to choose diet friendly options, and then got talked into cheesecake lol, so now I'm very full!  I've lost 23lbs so far, so not doing too bad.

Thanks for popping in, hope you're having a lovely weekend :o)