Happy Monday

Happy Monday everyone, we have some winter sunshine here in Melbourne and boy did I need to see the sun! I'm missing the warmth and it's so nice to craft with some sunshine through the window of my craft room!

I shared a photo on Instagram over the weekend and I promised I would tell you what colours I used!
Well I made two cards with the same Digi image from Alex Syberia Design (I just used part of the image) and  Altenew stamp set "Beautiful Quotes"

My first card I coloured using Copics

I've used the following Copic's

Y 4, 6, 8 & 11

R 30, 32, 35 & 37

RV 000, 00, 02 & 21

G 82, 85, 94 & 99

YG 63

And the second one, the one I shared on IG was coloured using Prisma Color pencils

I've used the following colours

938, 914, 915, 916, 1011, 1003

924, 926, 928, 929, 993, 994 

289, 988, 1005 & 1097

The first card is a CAS card, which I'm entering in to the following challenge

1. AAA Cards CAS Game #143 - One Corner + Optional Twist Flowers

Hope you like these cards!

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

Animal crackers - Punny sentiment

Hi Guys,

I'm popping in tonight with a quick card I made for a Punny Challenge #115 over on Always Fun 

I made the card for my Husbands cousins, they have a hobby farm in South Australia, and when we get together it's so much fun, unfortunately they are nearly 10 hours drive from us, so we don't manage to get together as often as we'd like... they are our closest family to us, and the rest of my husbands family all live even further away in South Australia..And his parents and my family are all in the UK  (insert sad face LOL).

Anyway as you can imagine they have lots of animals on their hobby farm and some of them are quite cheeky, so i thought this set Whole Herd from MFT would make an ideal card!

I've also used the mini cloud stencil by MFT and the double strip of grass is also from MFT

This image has been coloured using Copic markers.

Hope you like this card & thanks for popping in!

Hugs

Alli

XoX

CAS Cards

Hi all,

So now that I know what a CAS card is, I'm really enjoying doing them LOL...

I think CAS cards are harder to do than "normal" cards... it's the knowing when to stop with the layers and the sequins haha... Don't get me wrong, I really love doing my "normal"cards, but CAS cards I'm finding I really have to think about it ....

Anyways its our youngest son's birthday soon...when I say younger he's 22 LOL.. but I thought this card is quite appropriate for him, as he usually says no cake, I'd rather have the money LOL...

This little cutie, is a Gerda Steiner Digi called Birthday Bear, I've coloured him with Copics from the E family, 51,,53, 55 & 57 A small amount of R20 for his cheeks and I've used the Warm Gray's for a shadow to ground him, starting with W1 then W0 & W00

The cake is Y28 & Y11 and the frosting on the cake is E37 & E39 and its chocolate of course with a nutella fillling LOL...

I added some clear nuvo drops for the frosting and black for his nose and some nuvo glitter drops on the candle.

I used some MFT paper that I had in my stash and the sentiment, I have no idea, it was just in my stash unlabelled in my filing system LOL

Hope you like the card and I'm entering this into  

1. Gerda Steiner Share your design challenge for June 
2. Uniko Challenge #53 - Anything goes + optional twist masculine

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs

Alli

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

XoX

Christmas....

Hi all...

Ok I said the Christmas word and we are only in June! But it feels a lot like Christmas here in Melbourne, it's winter, it's cold today and raining..

On the up side... cold + rain = more craft time, there is still lots we need to do in the garden but it's a wee bit wet at the moment.

Another plus is that I have my first Christmas card made, I don't send that many anymore but most of ours go to the UK.. and they need to be posted at the end of November.

So here is my first non traditional card for the season..

Yes Santa arrives on his surf board here in Australia LOL..

This "Deck the Palms"stamp is by Sweet Stamp Shop, its such a cute stamp I couldn't resist using it for some of my Australian cards... 

I stamped the image using a hybrid ink as I was using my Copic markers to colour this.  I used nuvo glitter drops for the lights in the palms trees and  and nuvo clear drops on the glasses. I've also added wink of stella everywhere, well you can never have to much glitter can you LOL  and of course some gold washi tape. The sentiment also comes from this set, and lastly the sand is Hero Arts Sand embossing powder, I am just loving this stuff!

Hope you like this card, I'm going to enter this into the challenge over on

1. Happy Little Stampers Christmas Challenge - Anything Goes + Optional non traditional
2. Christmas Kickstart Challenge #13 Glitter, Sparkle and Shine  - EDITED I got top pick - YAY
3. The Holly and Ivy Christmas Challenge
4. Christmas at Sweet Stampin challenge - Anything goes + option non traditional colours

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

Black and White CAS (Clean and Simple)

Hi all,

I'm popping in again today with a black and white CAS card... There's a challenge running over on AAA Cards #142 - one Layer + optional twist black and white only..

Well just one layer on a card is a challenge, but black and white too.... mmm game on...

I sat and thought about this for a while...I made a black and white card... but wait..it had to be one layer... back to the drawing board so they say!

Anyways after a bit of of no's and oh yes's...it came to me... and this is what I have gone with..

I've just received this Leafy Frames set from Simon Says Stamp.  It's stamped in Versa Fine Black ink, I love this ink for a crisp finish, and I've drawn in the rectangle frame in the middle letting the leaves over hang as you would say, so it looks a little more dimensional...The love sentiment is also from Simon, I've added a few white lines to that for dimension too.

I would love to add a few splatters of silver, black and white or maybe a few sequins LOL... but that will be before I send this card, as I'm sticking to the rules haha...

And this is the other card I made but not one layer.

Hope you liked these cards and the challenge, and you have until the 22nd to join in too!

Thanks for popping in!

Hugs
Alli
XoX

Altenew - AECP - Level 2 - Magical Marker Techniques

Hi all, I'm back today with another two cards from the class Magical Marker Techniques for my AECP level 2.

This class is with the lovely Sara Naumann, six lessons, with lot of tips, tricks and out of the box techniques.

For my cards I've decided to combine two of the techniques and mix them up a little...

If you would like to try this at home, this it what you'll need

Also Isopropyl alcohol and a couple of pieces of glossy photo paper (I have some old Epsom photo paper from when we used to print photos out LOL)

Now not every marker responds the same, but Altenew markers are fabulous for this technique! Were going to ink smoosh with the markers add some of the Isopropyl and lay the photo paper glossy side down in the inky mess, remember it dries quickly, but its so much fun!

And please try to use colours that play nice together, we don't want a muddy mess ...

I've made two, but I'm only using one as a background and the other I'm going to use to stamp on..

I've stamped the outline image from the Build a Flower - Anemone and I've die cut it out. Added the fancy die cut hello and a few sequins to make this first card.

Now for my second card, I've used the panel I created as a background, I've added a thank you die cut from the Flower Arrangement stamp and die set, but this time I've stamped two flowers on to vellum and coloured the one below with the R403 marker, stamped a few leaves on to the left over panel  from the previous card.  A strip of the gold washi tape and this card is complete!

Two very different cards, using the same technique and the same stamp set!

Here's a few more photo's

Thanks for stopping by

Hugs
Alli
XoX

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Pretty Pink Posh - Water coloured card

Hi all,

I'm back today sharing a water coloured card using the Wild Rose Stamp set by Pretty Pink Posh..

I'd bought this a while ago (probably over 6 months ago) and I'd never used it...until today...I found it lurking at the back of my stamp filing system ( that sounds better than a plastic basket LOL)

Anyway this is the card...

I've stamped this on to Canson XL water colour paper, with hybrid ink and I used the Prima Confections water colour paints.  I used the following sets:-

• Decedant Pies - Guava, Apple, Keylime 
• Odyssey - Tokyo, Rome
• Woodlands - Foxberry, Mist and Sandridge for the shadows outside of the flower and leaves.
• Essence - Adore, Nivaria

And a few paint splatters, of Rome, White Gouache and Kuretake Pearl, Red Gold.

I finished the middles of the flowers off with the Stardust Gelly Roll Pen

The sentiment is also Pretty Pink Posh from the Love sentiments stamp set.

I'm entering this into the Happy Little Stampers June Watercolour challenge - Anything goes + optional Love.

Hope you like the card, and have a great weekend!

Hugs

Alli

XoX