Make my Monday #108 - Poppy/Poppies

I'm here today as it's time for the Make My Monday #108 challenge, This challenge has been chosen by the lovely Caz, and you need to use a Poppy or Poppies.

Here's my card for this challenge,

I've chosen a very simple card for this challenge as I'm still not well... I must admit it's taking its fair time to go and every day I feel more miserable as I'm losing my crafting mojo, so if you find my mojo, can you please send it back ASAP please :)

So back to the card, this is an Altenew stencil, and I filled in the stencil with distress inks and then went over it with my Arteza watercolor pens, and I just used a water pen to blend/watercolour out the edges, once dried I just went back in with the Arteza pens to put in some fine details. (see told you it was simple! although I made it over a two week period as I can't look down for too long urhhh)  I added a die cut thanks and some sequins and that along with some paper completes this card..  

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the rest of the cards made by our amazing design team, on the Make My Monday Blog, and I do hope you are inspired to take part!

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

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

Its the Weekend with Whimsy Stamps

Hello!

The weekend it's just around the next corner...well in Australia, it's actually here!!

So today I have been practising my colouring with no lines...with inkon3 Fade out ink, unfortunatly it faded out before I could finish my image LOL... It was on some cream eco friendly paper I had been gifted... so I thought I would try the white, it's a heavy 300gsm/140lb paper that has a medium tooth, perfect for pencils..and it is also eco friendly... The image was a new stamp I bought called "Puppy with Balloons" by Whimsy, I do love their stamps and digital stamps too!

I posted a quick photo on Instagram of my colouring,

He's adorable.... 

I couldn't wait till next week to use him.. so I messed (sorry created) around this afternnon and made a card.  Now there is a story behind this card..My friend needs a 40th birthday card for her Photography teacher, and she's having a cake smash...I really wanted to do a hippo in a tutu dancing around a cake...but she may take it the wrong way..  so I came up with this card as my friend and the other students in the class and the teacher, are always trying to compete with photo's of the sky and clouds and get them on "Jane Bunn's channel 7 news"

The panel has been stenciled using the MFT cloud stencil in Chipped sapphire, Blueprint Sketch and Wilted Violet.  I used the Lawn Fawn Cloud dies and cut two of each out of vellum, blue glitter floam and white cardstock, the white clouds and the main panel have also been die cut using a stitched rectangle die so it all matches up.

Puppy has been mounted using foam tape and the 40 has been die cut from the same glitter foam to match.

The sentiment is Clearly Besotted - Feeling Sentimental.

Here's a closer look...

I'm going to enter this into the SSS Wednesday challenge - Add a number.

WWC229 - Helen's "All About Occasions" Challenge - Edited I won YAY

Crafty Creations Challenge #394 - Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters - Birthday Challenge

Always Fun Challenge #118

Inkspirational - Challenge Challenge #191 Photo- banners, kites, balloons

Thanks for stopping by and have a fabulous weekend!

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!
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

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

Make my Monday #99 - Begins with letter B

Happy Monday to you all, and that means it's challenge time again over on the Make my Monday blog! Amy is our lovely host of this challenge.

This challenge is  - begins with the letter B...  Well I thought of a few things that begin with the letter B... Blue Sky ( I'm missing that at the moment as it's winter here in Melbourne) Birds, Butterflies and a Bike... so I've incorporated all of that into my DT card!

Apart from the background everything else is dies, I haven't played much with my dies lately and it was really rather fun to get them out again and play!

The background is MFT cloud and Radiating Rays stencil, and the sentiment is also MFT from the Full of Sunshine set.

The first strip of grass, the tiny birds are also by MFT, the butterflies are by SSS, and the fence, gate and arbour are all by Taylored Expressions. The second strip of grass a Lawn Fawn die, and the bike I'm not sure on as I've lost my packaging for that..

I coloured the bike with Copics and then went over it with nuvo mousse to give it a bit of shine, and added a few black pearls.  The fence, gate and arbour I ran through an embossing folder to give it a bit of dimension!

Hope you like the card, and hopefully you'll come and join us at Make My Monday! Here's a couple more photo's!

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

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