AAA Birthday

Hi all,

Its that time of the month again ... It's the first Monday which means it's time for a new challenge over on AAA Birthday and this challenge #5 is use a stencil! 

I was still in Masculine mood and wanted to play with some happy mail I had ordered whilst I was ill... Retail therapy, good for the soul, not so much for the wallet LOL..

So I created this card by stenciling the stripes in distress oxide ink, I then die cut a circle the same size as my port hole, out of masking paper and stuck it down,  I Went over most of my stenciled lines with distress oxide ink and flicked some water for splashes of sea LOL..

I die cut the porthole and glued it to the MFT circle shaker pouch, added some sequins and balls inside and glued that to the panel.

The anchor was coloured and then fussy cut and I just added some twine to resemble rope, the sentiment is from the Neat and Tangled set - Yo Ho Ho, and that completes my card!

We also have Rachelle joining us this month as our guest designer, so please pop over and have a look at her card and the other cards by our amazing design team! I really hope we will inspire you to join us and play along  and you have until September 29th!

Thanks for stopping by!
Hugs
XoX

Alex Syberia Designs

Hi all,

Well if you follow me on Instagram, you will have seen all of my sneak peaks that I have been teasing you with... (sorry not sorry LOL)

The very talented Alex Syberia, had asked me to produce some cards made with her new designs and I jumped at the chance to work with her designs, she produces the most amazing floral digital images!
So please check out her etsy shop here.

So the wait is over... here are my creations...

Sneak peak day 1 - coloured with Arteza water brush markers, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 2 - coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 3 - coloured with Copics and Prismacolor pencils, MFT Sentiment

Sneak peak day 4 coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Sneak peak day 5 - Coloured with Mission Gold Watercolours, MFT Sentiment

Sneak peak day 6 coloured with Prismacolor pencils, Clearly Besotted Sentiment

Phew that's them all!

Hope you like them!

And don't forget to take a look at all of Alex's other gorgeous designs too!

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

XoX

Make My Monday - Friendship #102

Its Monday and that means it's time for a new challenge over on the Make My Monday Blog!  The lovely Debbie is out host for this one and she has chosen - Friendship #102

I decided that my new stamp - "Friendship" by Penny Black was perfect for this challenge!

To create this card, I stamped the image in black memento ink, and coloured it with Prismacolor pencils.  The sea has been created using 3 die cuts for stencils, I used Mermaid lagoon distress oxide ink, and the sky was the clous stencil by MFT and I used Tumbeled glass distress oxide ink.  The sentiment is from the same set, stamped in black and die cut using a tag die.

These guys are so cute sailing in some rough seas!

I'm entering this one into the following Challenges

SSS - Anything Goes optional Penny Black

Penny Black and More August - For Boys and Men

PBSC August - Anything Goes...Optional 'Water and/or Watercolour'!

Just Us Girls Challenge #499~Word Week - SUMMER

Always Fun Challenge #122 - Use Stencils - EDITED I got a top 3

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you like the card and why not pop over and join in with the challenge!

Hugs

XoX

Clearly Besotted - Pop Up Plushies

Hi all,

I'm back today with another card for you, this time it's a dreamy scene... featuring four of the pop up plushies by Clearly Besotted..(you know I love Clearly Besotted!!)

I coloured four of the animals with my Prismacolour pencils and fussy cut them out.

The background has been stenciled using the Wendy Vecchi - Make art station,  with the cloud stencil by MFT, in Dried Marigold, Tattered Rose, Spun Sugar and Victorian velvet.  I added some splatters of white/silver (905)  and gold (906) starry paints by Kuretake, and while it was still wet I dusted it with glitter using my Ranger glitter duster.

I cut four slits in the clouds and slit where the paws are in the images and slotted them in, and adhered them with some foam tape,  so they appear to be peaking from over the clouds.  I stamped the sentiment from the same set in Insulation Pink by MFT, and cut it out with the Neat and Tangled Skinny Strip dies, and popped it up with foam tape.

All that was left to do was to find some paper and sequins that matched LOL

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like the card!

hugs

XoX

Lawn Fawn - Love you tons

Hi all,

So if you've read the previous post, then you'll know I have vertigo today..I'm just drunk but without the alcohol LOL...

These two little elephants have taken ages to colour with my Prismcolor pencils..The Alcohol ink background I did a couple of weeks ago (thank goodness) and all I did was stamp a few trees from the MFT set - Warm and Feathered Hugs.  The sentiment is by Neat and Tangled - Typed Sentiments.

I do love playing with Alcohol ink, what I don't like is you have no real control and knowing when to stop, so I decided that for this scene, I wanted to paint it, it's easier than watercolours LOL..

This was made for a challenge over on Just us Girls - #498 Photo Week

Here's another look at mine

Have you tried working with Alcohol inks ??

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you like my card!

hugs
XoX

Penny Black - Balloon Ride

Hi all,

I'm not sure what it is at the moment, but I am loving coloring bears, dogs and balloons LOL

I've had to wait for this little guy to be back in stock, he's been out of stock for a while now but I knew I just had to have him... (you so know what I mean...don't you...yep i thought so LOL)

I coloured this one with my Prismacolor Pencils, on that eco friendly cardstock I was gifted.. it's not white white, it's an off white, but it works really well with the pencils..

Originally, I was going to fussy cut him out, but since I had stamped him with Inkon3 fade out ink in the middle of the cardstock, I thought I may as well just leave him there, mask him off and add the sky around him, with Soft Sky ink by Stampin Up! with my MFT cloud stencil.

After I finished colouring the bear, I went around him with a brown fineliner to add the bear fur back in, and I also went around the balloons too.

I'm entering this one into the Penny Black and More - July Summer Colours challenge

And Double D challenge - Birthday

Thanks for stopping by, and I hope you like my little bear!

Hugs

XoX

Penny Black - It's your day

Hi all,

Its a lovely morning here in Melbourne with lots of winter sunshine, which makes a change from all the wind & rain we have been having latley.

I was able to get decent photos of the card I was working on from early last week.

I coloured this one with my Prismacolor pencils, and fussy cut it out.  The sentiment is by mama elephant - Birthday Sentiments.  The embossing folder is an old Stampin Up! one, and I did a distress oxide blend before I embossed it,  The banner and the striped paper are both by MFT.

I'm entering this one into - 

1. PBSC July - Anything Goes...Optional 'Food and/or Drink' - EDITED I got a PBSC Favourite
2. Double D Challenge - Birthday
3. WWC231 - Tristan's "All About Occasions" Challenge
4. Addicted to Stamps and more Challenge #351 - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a lovely day!

Hugs

XoX

Rainbow Of Smiles....

Hi all,

So I had an idea in my head when I saw the "Just Us Girls" Challenge - Word Week #495 The word this week is Smile, and I don't know about you but I always Smile when I see a rainbow...

So my card features a rainbow of colours, and the word SMILE

and my bears are misbehaving whilst having their photo taken LOL.. One has lost the balloon and the other is staring at the little dog looking over the photo frame haha... OK, I'll just show you...

So everything on here is MFT apart from the Polaroid frames and the little dog, those are Mama Elephant..The Stamp is called Sticky notes.  The bears are from the MFT set - Birthday Bear, the SMILE die was a free with $60 purchase and the paper is from the Party patterns pad.

I Copic coloured my scene and I cut the smile from a piece of card that I had ink blended with distress oxides. It was a really easy card to make, but I just love it... I'm smiling just typing this haha..

I'm also entering this into 

The Sister hood of crafters - Birthday Challenge

Colours of the Rainbow at TioT's

Dare2BArtzy - July Challenge: Masculine Birthday

Hope you like the card, and thanks for stopping by

Hugs,

XoX

MFT - Birth-Yay

Hi all,

Im, back again today with another card for a challenge, this time I've used the MFT set Birth-Yay, coloured with my Copics.  This card is for another challenge Teehee...

What could be better than a few animals to help you celebrate.. oh and a cupcake with a cherry on top!

We had a little accident with a leaking Copic marker on the leg tortoise and the monkeys head...LOL

I'm entering this one into the following challenges

1. Less is More Challenge #399 - Celebrations

Hope you like the card and thanks for stopping by!
Hugs
XoX

Happy Freezin Season

Hi guys...

Yes it's that time of the year to try to get a head start on making those Christmas cards...And I find it much easier to do these when it's the Winter Season here in Melbourne...we actually had Ice on the car here last week and went down to an over night low of 2 degrees...I know I should be used to the cold coming from the UK but I've grown accustomed to the warm weather now and anything below 20 degrees is cold LOL..

I received my MFT happy mail from Neha at Auzz Trinkets and Craft (the link is on the right if you wish to purchase these) last week and along with the Joyful bears I also ordered a couple of Christmas sets that I had my eye on... This card is made using the "Warm and Feathered Hugs" set.. with 7 Distress Inks blended plus White for the moon.. Distress inks are a little harder to blend than oxides, but they look so different...

I created the panel first by blending the following inks

Starting with Peacock feathers at the bottom and working upwards

broken china

blueprint sketch

wilted violet

chipped sapphire

dusty concord and finishing with

black soot at the top and around the edge.

I then punched a circle in some card and used that for the moon stencil and blended some 

picket fence. Splattered some White diluted Copic ink mixed with perfect pearls for my stars.

Next I die cut my snow banks and painted on some Nuvo Fresh snowfall glitter accents.

I worked out the placement of these before I stamped my trees on the panel with MFT Extreme black ink.  I dabbed on some of the white splatter and the nuvo glitter that was left on my palette on to the trees with a very hard paint brush.  

All that was left to do was to  stamp my sentiment before I attached the snow banks with one and two layers of foam tape!

I'm going to enter this into a couple of challenges

1. HLS July Christmas Challenge - + optional sparkle
2. Addicted to Stamps and More - Challenge #348 - Holiday  EDITED - I got Top Addict YAY
3. SSS - Monday Challenge - Make your own background
4. Sweet Stampin - June Challenge - Anything Goes and Optional: Non-Traditional Colours
5. The Sisterhood of Crafters - Any Occasion - Edited I got top 3 - YAY
6. Cute N Crafty Christmas challenge 15

Thanks for stopping by and I do hope you love this card...

Hugs

XoX