Hi guys!
I'm here with a card for two challenges...I've been a busy bee today!
This card is for The Card Concept - colour theme, and CASology - 'Bee'.
Here is my card...
This card is for my DOH's son's birthday on the 13th of this month. I didn't want to go too obvious with the 'bee' theme, just hint at it. I guess the hexagons kinda give it away but I quite like how the 'trail' turned out :) I hope it's masculine enough and he likes it!?
What do you think? Clean and Graphic, or Clean and Simple - I can never decide?!!
Here are the challenges I'm entering them into...
You'll be pleased to know it's just a quick post this evening as I'm busy busy! I hope you've all enjoyed your weekends and have a great week :)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black, Smooth Grey, Daffodil
Stamps: WOW! - Sexi-Hexi; Stamping All Day - Deco Birthday
Ink: Versamark
Other: WOW! - Primary Lemon, Ebony; thread
Hello there chaps and chapettes!
Today is my colleagues birthday - yipee!! She started at work the same time as me a few weeks ago so we're fellow newbies ;)
Now, I know she LOVES owls...I mean LOVES owls. Unfortunately for her I don't have anything owl-related, but I kept the animal theme and hopefully she'll like her card anyway :)
This card is for The Card Concept challenge #7 too, where the theme is - Butterfly. I'm really not sure which category my card falls into this time> Maybe Clean and Simple, maybe Clean and Layered, maybe even Clean and Graphic?! Ok, so the graphic one might be pushing it a bit!
It's also kind of based on the CAS(E) This Sketch layout from last week (#70) - I really liked it!
I finally own a butterfly stamp!! Woohoo!! I got this one in the awesome set that came with the last issue of Get Stamping magazine - it's beautiful!! I heat embossed it in WOW! Ebony powder and then used Distress Inks to blend the colours, I think they're kinda pretty ;) I also used some new-to-me WOW! embossing powder for the sentiment - it's Calypso glitter powder and it is STUNNING!! It has a lovely sparkle in real life and I'm loving it!!
So this is happy birthday to Jade, I hope you have a great day!! :)
Thanks for stopping by y'all! ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - Black, White
Stamps: Verve - Hope Blooms; Clear Impressions - Cherry Blossom
Ink: VersaMark
Other: WOW! - Ebony, Calypso Glitter e/p; Craft Concepts - Cottage Floral e/f; rhinestones
Ok, last one for today, I promise!!
This card still uses the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch, however it's a different theme...
I was lucky enough to win over at STAMPlorations last month which meant I got to choose TWO stamp sets!! Can anyone say 'excited'?!!! Anyway, I couldn't choose just two, so I ended up buying another one while I was there...when in Rome and all that ;) This card is made solely using STAMPlorations stamps - I love them!!
How beautiful are those Art Deco cubes?! I'm a bit of a sucker for flourishes, swirls and details and even more of a sucker for symmetry - how could I resist these bad boys?!
Everything on this card is heat embossed. It was a bit tricky to get all of the rainbow colours onto the sentiment before the ink dried too much, but I had already planned which colour was going where before I stamped so I had a head start :)
I'm pleased with how this turned out and I'm hoping that it counts for The Card Concept challenge that is currently ongoing to create a birthday card. I haven't used the image as an inspiration, but this is undeniably a birthday card! It's also CAS, in my opinion so if it doesn't count then at least I know I was most of the way there!
Sorry about the rambling, but I am at the end of my posting spree now you'll be pleased to know :) Hopefully I'll be back soon, and a little bit more spread out, with some more creations ;)
Thank you for sticking with me! ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Black
Stamps: STAMPlorations - Art Deco Border Builders, Chevron & Arrows
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Ebony, Apple Red, Mandarin Orange, Flourescent Yellow, Flourescent Green, Pastel
Blue, Grape, Pastel Purple e/p
Hello everybody!
In all this excitement of last week, I didn't get the chance to even look at my poor desk, let alone sit at it and get any cards made. This unfortunately meant that my Mum's other half is missing a birthday card - I know, that's a serious fail :( I have, however, made one for him now and will be sending it ASAP. His birthday was on Friday, I'm hoping he receives his card no later than Tuesday...we'll see...
I have made this card using the challenge at The Card Concept which is a colour challenge. The colours are Lime, Espresso and White.
I'll be honest, it hasn't turned out exactly as I thought it would. The colours look DREADFUL on this monitor too...I'm hoping it's just mine, but if it looks bad on yours too then I can only apologise! I tried to edit it to make the colours look truer, but I think that's going to have to go in the epic fail bin! The green is a bright lime IRL and the brown is a lovely deep chocolate. I embossed the sentiment in WOW!'s - Bark embossing powder which was a surprisingly good match for the brown cardstock - I was very impressed! ;)
Erm...I don;t know what style category this would fall into...maybe Clean and Graphic because of the circles...? I'm going to leave that one out there - let me know what you think!?
Doesn't this look yummy!? It really invokes my gluten envy!!!...
So there you are ;) It's lovely to 'see' you all and I have some other posts for this week so hopefully it won't be too long until I'm back again! ;)
Thanks for stopping by ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Chocolate, Lime
Stamps: Clear Impressions - Cherry Blossom
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium
Other: WOW! - Primary Bark e/p; Spellbinders - Circle Dies
Hello there peeps!
And welcome to more new followers - it was a nice start to my Monday to find some more of you have joined me! ;)
I hope you all had a good weekend?! Mine went from having no plans to being jam-packed full!! I had a wee bit of a headache on Saturday (it was ENORMOUS!), so suffice to say that the impromptu night out on Friday was enjoyable ;) Sunday was then filled with laughter and the company of good friends...friends who were responsible for my fragility the previous day I might add! I also saw my friends' little boy who is just the most gorgeous 3 year old you have ever seen, and he's so polite...I am going to convince him to live with me one day! Too cute!
Anyway, back to business!
I have recently had an influx of commissions - when I say influx, it's not on the scale of Carol's Valentine-A-Thon, but a lot for me considering I only get requests from my Mum usually! So, I am having to be a bit proactive rather than leave cards to the last minute like I normally do!! I think I must have an issue as I only seem to be able to produce under pressure when there's no time for procrastination!?
Today's card is a Mother's Day card...here in the UK it falls on 30th March so I thought I'd get a head start by using the sketch from CAS(E) This Sketch. It's quite a detailed one for the CTS team this time around and I have to admit to not straying from it in the slightest! That's a rarity for me as you well know...I don't like playing by the rules ;)
This is for my friends' Mum and I know that she likes purple...guess what I went with?!...
It's not often I go for landscape card...I much prefer a portrait orientation, I'm not sure why?! Maybe it's because I'm short!! ;)
That's a pretty literal interpretation, eh?!! I heat embossed the pots/vases in WOW! Grape embossing powder and cut them out with my trusty scissors...they could do with a sharpen actually... Then I stamped the snowdrops in black and attacked them with a few watercolour pencils! I do realise that snowdrops are meant to be white, but they looked a bit bland so I coloured them in! I think it's called artistic license?! The sentiment is hand written, as I can see is glaringly obvious now that I'm looking at it in the photograph...maybe should've let myself wake up a bit more before I attempted the writing - might change that later if it's imperfections continue to bug me!
This is another card that I'm not quite sure about...hmmm...maybe another grower?!
I'm also hoping that this counts as a floral for The Card Concept's challenge...you got it, the theme is floral! There are lickle flowers on the pots/vases and obviously the dyed snowdrops are flowers too! I'm not sure what style this is...I would hazard a guess that it would come under Clean and Layered as there's a crap-load of foam adhesive hiding under there!! I do not know what I'd do without foam adhesive...I'd never be able to make another card again I don't think!!? ;)
How pretty is that picture?! I'll definitely be back for another stab at this one!
ETA: Thank you Ardyth for pointing out that my card is very similar to the Muse inspiration this week too! It's even purple! I'll be popping this in over there too ;)
Thank you for stopping by guys, I hope this week treats you all well ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Grape, Lilac
Stamps: Clear Impressions - Wild & Free, Cherry Blossom
Ink: Ranger - Perfect Medium; Windsor & Newton - Violet
Other: WOW! - Grape e/p; rhinestones; watercolour pencils
This is my second post today...I would love if you'd have a little peruse of the first one too ;)
Hello, hello!
Get me, two posts in one day!!!
I have managed to make a card to play along with two of my favourite challenges and a NEW challenge! The new challenge is The Card Concept. I'm pretty sure most of you have seen it around, despite the fact it's only into it's third challenge it has a MASSIVE presence already! Well done guys! I did mean to play along from the beginning, but we all know what happens to even the best laid plans... but anyway, I made it this time which is kinda strange as the challenge this time around is monochromatic pink. Now, me and pink, we have a love hate relationship. I'd love to love it, and it is growing on me, but it's definitely not a go-to colour for me. That said, this card came to me seemingly out of nowhere whilst sat at my desk trying to make a completely different card! I'm don't know exactly what that says about my brain, but I am sure that Freud would have had a field day!
Yes, I attacked this card with ink pads! I thought this was going to be a real QACAS (Quick and Clean and Simple - as coined by the ever so masterful with words Darnell :) ) but it took me an AGE to decide on the sentiment!!! It was actually ridiculous how long it took. I went through every single sentiment stamp I own...which in fairness doesn't take that long! I have seen you guys and your stamp collections and it makes me super jealous! I can fit every stamp I own into a drawer 10cm x 23cm (about 4" x 8" for those of you over the pond!) I need to work on that, once I've won the lottery!
I had fun making this little chap (chapette as it's all pink?!) and it's as close to a one layer card as I think I'm ever going to get :)
The other challenges that this card is heading off to are;
CAS(E) This Sketch #83
and CAS-ology #82 - BOLD
This is the inspiration image for The Card Concept - I wish I could do that shabby chic thang! Until then, picking out the different shades of pink will just have to do :)
Thanks for stopping by, especially if it's the second of my posts' you've been subjected to read today! ;)
Supplies
Card: Paper Mill Direct - White, Raspberry Pink
Stamps: Clear Impressions - Wild & Free; Debbi Moore - Congratulations
Ink: VersaColor - Peony, Magenta, Old Rose; SU! - Classic Black
Other: None
