Silver Bells

Today I came across some new to me challenges called City Crafter, Holly and the Ivy Christmas Challenge  Anything Goes, and Crafter's Castle. The first challenge  is entitled Silver Bells and this jingle bell die from Memory Box came to my mind immediately, as it is a real favourite of mine. The sentiment is from Cutplorations and thread from Memory Box. It's almost too simple for words but the overall effect pleases me!
Crafter's Castle's theme is Winter/Christmas

Autumn colours

Here is a card with simply two stamps, the spots from SU French Foliage and the leaf from Rubbernecker.

I popped the leaf into my MISTI and used various shades of Distress Ink to over-stamp in the Autumn shades, before spritzing the image with water. The sentiment is from Penny Black.

   

It's for CASual Friday's photo inspiration, TIME OUT Grateful, Creative with Stamps... Halloween or leaves. Mod squad Pink & Main.. Fall Thank you card. Crafty Calendar Autumn

Plus CAS on Friday Fall or Autumn

It's certainly beginning to feel more Autumnal in the UK and this weekend the clocks go back so it will be getting dark really early!

Hibernation anyone?

Metal

The challenge at CAS Mix Up this time is metal. I had fun with this die-cut bucket, cut from silver card I messed about with various ink pads and stamps to create a rustic effect.

I marked where the bucket was to be placed on my card with tiny pencil dots and then stamped the AI foliage stamps in various colours of Distress inks. The sentiment from Woodware was also stamped with Distress Ink and I'm delighted how it turned out with just one stamping. The bucket is stuck down at the edges and popped onto dimensional pads in the middle to give a little dimension.

It's also for the foliage challenge at Addicted to CAS

New to me

Today I came across a challenge blog which is new to me. It's called Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge... quite a mouthful, but there's a great sketch this week!

The flowers from SSS were stamped onto vellum and clear embossed. I then coloured them on the reverse with alcohol markers. I die-cut them adding plain white die-cuts behind them, finishing with a few tiny gems in the centres and attaching them to the card with glue dots.

The sentiment is from Just Rite Stamps, die cut with a Framelit rectangle, shortened just a tad to fit the sentiment exactly. The embossed strip was added from a scrap left on my craft table.

I'll be having lunch with a friend on Wednesday and she wanted some of my cards... sadly she needed some sympathy cards too!

Another new to me blog which I just spotted is Crazy for CAS!

Their challenge this time is Fall in Love

Here is the inspiration picture, I hope my card fits the bill.

I used Rubbernecker stamps inked with varying colour Distress Inks, applied using my MISTI. For the sentiment I simply inked a piece of card with various colours of inks and then die-cut the sentiment which is  from Creative Dies.The  background which I used to echo the inspiration photo was embossed with a Stampin' Up folder.
It's also for the challenge at Addicted to CAS where the challenge is Foliage