Gerda Steiner - Catch A Wave...

Hi all,

Oh how I love this little guy in the catch a wave stamp set by Gerda Steiner... he is so cute...  So when I saw that the theme was Surfs Up, at Male Room challenge I had to enter this little guy!

I started this card by heat embossing the SSS - Waves in turquoise embossing powder by Ranger

I then masked this off with a piece of paper. For the top half  I used scattered straw distress oxide ink as my base.

 I am using the Ranger - Wendy Vecchi Make art station for this.  Those magnets are really strong I used them to not only hold the paper but also the Tim Holtz stencil I used.

I blended ripe persimmon, wild honey and mustard seed for the sunrays.

The sea was a blend of mermaid lagoon and salty ocean and I added white textile paint with a sprinkle of glitter with my Glitter Duster.

I coloured my little guy with Prismacolor pencils but I sketched around him and made this the beach, which is also coloured with Prismacolours.  I made a slit in between the sea and the sun and pushed the image through it, and adhered him with foam tape.

The final touch was a few seagulls and the sentiment which are from the SSS - Surfs Up set.

I'm also entering this into 

Addicted to stamps and more - Challenge #352 - Make Your Mark

WWC232 - "Anything Goes" Challenge

Gerda Steiner - August Share

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

hugs

XoX

Catch a Wave ??

Hi all,

Yesterday I played with the "Catch a Wave" stamp set from Gerda Steiner, when I saw how cute this little duck was with his surf board, I knew he was a must buy...

I wanted to create a scene for my card, Imagine you're in the ocean looking at the beach...that's the idea I was going for anyway...

I coloured the images with Copics, but the palm tree is from a Lawn Fawn die set - Palm Trees.  I've used distress oxide ink to create my background scene..

So the clouds have been created with the MFT cloud stencil in tumbled glass, the seagulls are from the SSS Surfs up stamp set.

For the sea, I die cut two stencils from the mama elephant Trio of waves die set, I used salty ocean and mermaid lagoon and I went over it with some white textile paint where the waves were crashing.

The beach is antique linen and then I stamped over it with the Altenew snowing stamp and MFT kraft ink.

I cut a small line in my beach so that my surf boards look like they are stuck in the sand and the palm tree is stuck on the sky part of the panel.

The beach panel has been mounted on to fun foam, to create some depth.

The sentiment is from the Catch a Wave stamp set, I'm entering this into the

Simon Monday Challenge Life On The Ocean Waves
Gerda Steiner Share your design for July.
Craft Girls Corner - Summer Fun

Thanks for stopping by!
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XoX

CAS cards

Hi all,

Another one for you today... (yes I have nothing to do...can you tell I love being in my crafty place....teehee)

I'm getting the hang of these CAS cards now... I actually think it's harder than a full on all the bells and whistles one..

But this one I've created for HLS - CAS July - Use negative space..

This one just screams elegance to me... I cut a panel of white cardstock with my MFT blueprints 27 die, into that I die cut SSS Flickering Butterflies die.  Before I glued the panel down, I ink blended an ombre background in Distress oxide inks, candid apple, ripe persimmon, spiced marmalade and dried marigold.

Glued the panel down and I added some gems...out of my stash and the sentiment is from Neat and Tangled - Typed sentiments, I also used their die to cut the skinny flag strip - Skinny Strip Die

Thanks for stopping by and I'm hoping you like my CAS card..

Hugs
XoX

New paint brushes

Hi guys,

I received some happy mail from the postie today, I've been waiting for these new brushes to land for a while now... and along with them, my freebie Daniel Smith dot card - David Bellamy Palette.  I do love these dot cards I can try the colours out and see what I like, but there's also lots of paint on them too, enough for a few cards!

So I bought a couple of Escoda Reserva brushes a "0" from the series 1212 and a "2" from the series 1214 The "2" brush is actually a travel brush with a gold metal handle.  I liked the "0" as i can get some really fine lines with it, I'm still unsure on the "2".. I actually went back to my Silver "4" brush for the background of this card...

It was a good opportunity to break out the SSS - Delicate Flowers set to try out these new brushes and paint dot cards!

I've added some splatters and some gold sparkle but it's a little hard to pick up on camera!

I'm going to enter this into the following challenges

1. Simon Says Stamp - Anything goes
2. Happy little stampers watercolour challenge

Hope you like the card and have a good weekend!

Hugs

XoX

Less is More

HI all,

"Less is more"have a colour challenge up on their blog that runs until the 21st of June, so I had to be quick with this one!

So I decided to use my Simon Says Stamp - Delicate Flowers set, and this is the card I made.

This has been stamped in Stormy Sky distress oxide, and I've water coloured this with Zig markers on Bristol smooth paper in just two colours. I wanted the leaves to run a little to create a small shadow so that the lines looked soft.

Hope you like this one and thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

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Make My Monday #98 - Lots of Flowers - more than five

Hi all, and happy Monday... which means it's Challenge time over on the Make My Monday Blog!

This is only my second post for the DT over on MMM, but this challenge is so me...its all about flowers and the host for this challenge is the lovely Silvi.

This is my card, and as you can see it has more than the required five flowers haha..

The background to this is the Wood Pallet Stamp by Altenew, which I've ink blended in the Sea Shore collection of inks. The stamp set I used is Delicate Flowers - by Simon Says Stamp, which I've coloured using my Prismacolour pencils. The hugs die is also by Altenew, from the Script words set.

No sequins on this one but I have used my Gelly roll pens in Stardust, White and Black, and Neptune Turquoise Crystal Drops by nuvo.

And here's a couple more photos

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to check out the cards on the MMM blog and maybe play along and enter into the challenge also!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

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Birthdays....

I don't know about you, but I seem to have more and more birthdays.. (no I'm not the Queen and I don't have 2 LOL) but I seem to be needing more and more birthday cards...

There was a time way back long ago, where i would buy a card(oops gosh did I just say that...) now I make everything right down to the gift tag, nothing says Happy Birthday or I love you more than a Handmade card or gift...all the time effort and love that goes in to the making of them!

So when I saw that I could not only make a couple of extra cards but also enter them into a challenge its a bonus!

AAA birthday blog are having their very first birthday challenge, anything birthday goes, so I thought why not enter!
And Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge is bright colours
Here are my cards...

For the purple one, I have used Simon Says Stamp set, Spring Flowers, coloured with copics on an alcohol ink background, with 2 sentiments, one from a SSS set and the Celebrate is a foiled sentiment by Ultimate crafts.

The pink cards is a Pretty Pink Posh set, Flowering Fuchsias, along with the hello gorgeous sentiment, coloured with copics on a watercolour stripes background stamp by MFT, the birthday sentiment is from the WOW MFT set too.

I love both of these cards... I just have to decided who's going to receive them haha...!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

Happy Mail..

I'd received quite a bit of happy mail this last week and I hadn't been able to play with my Simon Says Stamp card kit... and it was just sitting there looking all pretty and I was itching to use it...
Well I just had to take 5 and play.. Ok so it wasn't just 5 minutes...but you know what I mean.. (haha)

I'd seen that AAA Cards had another challenge up

CAS Game #140 - Up To One Third + Optional Twist Bright Colours

And I just wanted to join in...and I could play with my happy mail too (Bonus)..

So I set about stamping my images from the Delicate Flowers Set and just a few filler images, I'm not good with leaving white space so this was indeed a challenge..

I've coloured the images with Copics and added some finer details with my Polychromo pencils added a sentiment and a few sequins and my card was complete.... I think they call this a clean and simple card ...(or in my case a really simple card...haha)

Here's my card...

Hope you like it and don't forget to pop over and take a look at the other cards or maybe join in!

Have a super weekend and thanks for popping in to see me!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

Alcohol inks and Yupo paper

Now who doesn't like getting messy.....I find alcohol inks (let's call these AI for short...) on Yupo paper so relaxing to work with...You don't have to be in control of anything not like when you water colour and have to wait for the layers to dry... Working with AI is so refreshing and you can just drop ink anywhere...and get such different results...

I like to make a few backgrounds and then play with what I'm going to put on them...

So here is my finished card..

The trick to AI is to stop when you think it looks good, believe me I've ruined a few backgrounds by over doing the ink and then having to wipe it off with Isolcol - Rubbing Alcohol.

I've paired this card with two Simon Says Stamp sets Spring Flowers and Even More Spring Flowers.

I coloured them with Zig markers on Quill Board 200GSM paper available at Officeworks here in Australia.

Added a die cut in silver foil (that I had in my stash) just to ground the flowers, the sentiment is a hot foil stamp (they actually look like dies but reversed) from Ultimate Crafts, that was hot foiled on my Go Press and Foil machine by Couture Creations with a purple foil also by Couture Creations. A few nuvo drops too look like purple water and that's it...

I'm going to enter this one into the Simon Says Stamp Challenge - Spring Mood Board

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

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