Have a lovely day

Recently I was fortunate enough to have one of my cards selected as the winner at AAA Cards. With this came an invitation to be a Guest Designer for one of their challenges, so here I am!

Somewhere along the line, I got muddled with the 'optional twist' for this challenge, so I'm afraid that this card doesn't adhere to that part of the game and is simply One Corner.

I began by making a stencil in vellum from a Sizzix die and then brushed some Twisted Citron Distress through it over one corner of the card. The tiny butterflies from All Occasion  dies, were cut from a piece of card which I had smooshed with inks with a touch of Inka Gold. The sentiment is from Sugar Pea Designs, stamped with distress ink. A few tiny gems in the centre of the butterflies and it was done.

I am really grateful to have such a super challenge available for CAS cards and to have it full of such wonderful inspiration! Many thanks to Jane and the team!

Do take care everyone, it has been a long road through the trials of Covid 19, but I think that we must remain vigilant until given the all clear by the powers that be!

Do Stay Safe!

5 o'clock

I hate this new fangled design section of Blogger!

Whereas previously I could simply click on the icon to centre the text  for example, I now have to go searching through drop down menus to find it. It's enough to make me wonder if I should switch to Wordpress or simply stop blogging!

Anyway rant over, here is a simple one layer card for the challenge at AAA Cards

 

During lockdown, our hobby, as pictured on my card has become a favourite. We certainly seem to have enjoyed many cocktails and have been keeping the wine merchants in business!

I simply made a sentiment on the computer, using a small stamped image on translucent paper to see where I wanted to place it, I held it in front of the computer screen, to check that the words were where I wanted them. Once printed, I used my old faithful, homemade stampamajig (using a right angled stack of Duplo) to position the old wooden Stampin' Up stamp. I guess I could take all my stamps off their wooden blocks to use in a stamping platform, but the Lego and a piece of acetate work just as well!

I coloured the image with water colour pencils, blended with a tiny amount of water and glazed with some Nuvo Crystal Glaze when it was dry. I added just a hint of shadow with a grey pencil!

 

New Die

Just recently I received a new bunch of dies from SImon Says Stamp and I simply love this daisy!( I seem to be doing lots of daisies recently...It's my granddaughter Daisy's last day in Primary School today so maybe I have her on my mind!)

I simply cut it together with a square Framelit die and put a little print from a stencil behind it. I think the delicacy of the print suits the delicacy of the flower. The ink is very shimmery as I added some Inka Gold paste to the mix for the print. The sentiment from Hero Arts is stamped with Brilliance Ink in Pearlescent Sky Blue.

It's for a couple of challenges.

AAA Cards

CASology

 

I have to say that the Shimmer in this card is rather subtle, merely because there's not a lot of it!!

Photo Inspiration

The challenge at Just US Girls this week is to use this picture as inspiration!

I used the colour and the fact that there is a large flower predominating the picture.

I used a die from Memory Box, colouring in the insets with alcohol markers and 

layering up the outline die. I added some micro beads to the centre of the flower and covered the petals with Glossy Accents. 

The flower was mounted on a stitched die cut base layer, using dimensional pads. A simple sentiment from Lilli of the Valley stamped in a complementary shade of ink completed the card.

Sequins

We never like making Sympathy cards and this one was particularly difficult as it was for my son's Godmother whose husband passed away recently. She loves green and for me butterflies always signify change from one state of being to another and so is a focus I use often on this genre of card. The background was smooshed with inks and the butterfly cut with Memory Box dies.  The sentiment is from Die'sire.

The sequins are a mix of tiny ones from eBay (which are perfect for shaker cards) and some pretty shaped ones from Clearly Besotted.

I cut the front panel with a large, stitched, rectangle die from Lil Inkers, extended to make a square.

It's for AAA cards Sequins challenge

Addicted to Stamps - Anything Goes

New stamp

I went to the craft show at Newbury Racecourse on Saturday. It was quite bijou...not having been before I had nothing to compare it with, but there was an announcement over the PA apologising for the lack of exhibitors! Some internal problem apparently. Having said all that I did get some good things that I was pleased with.

This card was made with couple of the things... the flower stamp from Impression Obsession and the Cuttlebug embossing folder...which was A BARGAIN...it has a border folder included and cost the grand sum of £2!

The stem of this flower is really straight, but being a cling stamp I could bend it a little on the acrylic block. I coloured it with a variety of Distress inks and SU Marker pens and added a little spritz of water before stamping. In fact there was a trace of some Gelato colour in a crevice from a previous experiment,  which was obviously activated by the water. I rather like the mix of colour it gave.

The sentiment is from Clearly  Besotted.

I noticed on my bloggy friend Vicki's blog, that there is a challenge called AAA cards where they have the focus of watercolours. I have been playing around with loads of different techniques, so this is another among many!