Gold

Every year I think that I will get lots of cards ready for Christmas so that I don't have a marathon, last minute session, trying to get sufficient cards made to send to friends and family. However what I intend and what actually happens are two different things. This year I will try to be different. Here is one card for the Christmas box.... it's for the GOLD theme at Addicted to CAS.

The Memory Box bauble die is inlaid and the ball itself cut from plain white card and twinkled with gold Glamour Dust. Sadly I don't recall the make of the sentiment die.

One Layer

I haven't really got into the groove as far as cardmaking is concerned since my return from Vietnam and Cambodia. We had an amazing time and would thoroughly recommend this holiday!

Anyway firstly here is the DT card for this month's CAS challenge at Happy Little Stampers, where the theme is One Layer.

For my card this time I decided to do a partial die cut. I stamped the HLS butterfly so that the top of it would reach to the top of my usual tent fold card dimensions. I then cut just around the top of the butterfly by placing the die partly over the edge of the cutting plates. The part not between the plates obviously did not get cut.I then folded the card to the edge of the cuts.

The HLS sentiment was stamped using my MISTI and the image coloured with watercolour pencils and a water brush and lightly twinkled with Glamour Dust. I did add a few tiny tiny gems, but I think that it could still be considered one layer.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

Just US Girls

This morning I spotted a photo inspiration over at Just US Girls and decided to give it a go to see if it might set my mojo into action once more!

The pictures on the wall made me think of the stamp set from Inkadinkadoo which I used to stamp the 4 squares. The flower is from a set from Altenew and I believe the sentiment is from Clearly Besotted.

I used my MISTI to try to place the stamps accurately and I must confess that without it, it would have been very difficult to stamp them accurately, especially the Altenew flower!

I find the overall effect quite pleasing. Maybe I'll make another card now!

Chevrons

At the CAS Challenge at Happy Little Stampers this time we have the theme of 'Chevrons'

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!
Here I used stamps from Happy Little Stampers and an embossing folder from Design Objectives. I added a die cut stitched edge to tie in with the daisy flower design adding a little twinkle to the centre of the flower.