One Layer - Script

Stamps used: Elusive Images

It's the tough "one layer" challenge at Simply Less is More. I stamped and embossed in gold and green and painted the leaves and flowers with Twinkling H2Os which have a lovely mica finish.

Birds

Simply Less is More has a one layer challenge - Birds. I used a pale blue card blank, applied dark blue acrylic paint to the bottom of a bottle to use as an interesting shape, and then painted inside it with a blue Twinkling H2O to get an interesting shimmer. I then used a bird stamp from Cavallini, masking it to use two inks in different colours.

Silhouettes

Simply Less is More is looking for CLS (clean and simple) cards featuring silhouettes.  I created the background first, using Twinkling H2Os and some Doodlebug flock applied while the paint was still wet. I sprinkled a little glitter over the top - the card is quite sparkly, although you can't see it. My fairy silhouette is a stamp by Lavinia Stamps.

Spring Fling

Spring fling is the theme this week at Daring Cardmakers. Here is the Mother's Day card I made which I hope qualifies - certainly lots of flowers! I used an old stamp set, Peakin' Posies by Hero Arts, which is one of my favourites. I painted the flowers with Twinkling H2Os and edged them with glitter glue.

Thre Muses: Flowers

A slight break from festive themed challenges with The Three Muses challenge Flowers. Here's my entry.

Stamps: Hero Arts painted with Twinkling H2Os. Embossing: Cuttlebug. Letters: American Crafts.

How Egg-citing

With Easter round the corner, Daring Cardmakers challenge is for a card with Easter eggs. I used an egg stamp by Art Impressions, Twinkling H2Os and a little glitter, and background paper is Sultry by BasicGrey.

Here comes the sun

I had fun creating scenes of summer as the rain poured down. I think I've nearly met the brief for this week's Daring Cardmakers challenge. At least I have a big yellow sun! I used a stamp by Elusive Images and painted it with Twinkling H2Os, adding a little glitter and some dried leaves and flowers.

Lots To Do: Free Theme

There's a free theme over at Lots to Do, so I'm sharing a card I made recently for a friend's wedding.
The glitter letters are by American Crafts. The flowers - Hero Arts Peakin Posies stamps - were painted with Twinkling H2Os and sprinkled with glitter. Background paper by Stampington.

Blue and green should never be seen?

I've been invited to be a guest designer at Daring Cardmakers and my first contribution is for Vanessa's challenge Blue and Green: two colours which should never be seen together?

I took inspiration from nature and used stamps by Elusive Images and Twinkling H2O paints to create this card. Letter stickers by Making Memories.

Weather

The challenge at Daring Cardmakers is to make a card themed around the weather - rain, snow, sun, wind.....Looking at today's weather (rain) my card is very apt. I think my sheep are cavorting in the rain....although I suppose you could say they're holding sun parasols.
Supplies: stamp by Penny Black; Celebrate stamp by Stampin' Up; paints - Twinkling H2Os.

Old Macdonald's Farm

A fun challenge from Vanessa at Daring Cardmakers. Use farmyard animals to remind us of Old Macdonald's Farm.
My sheep stamp is by Penny Black, coloured with Twinkling H2Os, and I made use of the vibrant papers free with the current Scrapbook Magazine.

Giving Thanks

Daring Cardmakers first challenge of 09 is to create a thank you card. A great idea, as I'm all for proper cards and letters of thanks rather than the emails and texts that you get now, if you're lucky.

My card uses some of the new supplies I got for Christmas: fairy stamp by Dovecraft (embossed on acetate) and Nature Table stamp by Elusive Images. I painted the mushrooms with Twinkling H2Os, added some varnish to highlight the red one, and then added some paper and epoxy flowers for texture. The cloud is painted with dimensional paint. Fancy Frills by Doodlebug.

Paint the Town

Daring Cardmakers is challenging us to use paint in our creations.

Back at the Christmas card conveyor belt, I used old-fashioned stamps by Joanna Sheen and painted them with Twinkling H2Os, using some glitter glue for emphasis. I used an aperture card blank and put red metallic paper behind the cut out images. I attached some acetate to the church window to give a glazed effect.

It's a traditional card suitable for an older person.

Twinchies

There's always a new craze in the altered art work and it seems to revolve around size...ATCs, inchies, now twinchies. Twinchies measure 2 x 2 inches. Wednesday Stamper's challenge is to create Twinchies.

I found it quite hard - the size was much smaller than I expected!

I used a peacock stamp by Elusive Images and decorated with Twinkling H2Os and a couple of tiny brads.

Stripes, ads and brides

An unlikely trio, each the subject of a card-maker's challenge. 4 x 4 Friday's theme was vintage brides. I was thrilled about this as I never get the chance to do a wedding card, and I really love vintage at the moment.

I covered the card with K&Co paper, then a small strip of paper I had painted with Twinkling H2Os on top of some peel-offs. I removed the peel-offs and was pleased with the resist effect. I then stamped some Peakin' Posies (Hero Arts) in gold and embossed them, and painted them with Twinkling H2Os. I cut them out and raised them with foam. The vintage image is by Stampington and I added a remnant of lace.

Wednesday Stamper is looking for stripes. I stamped silver swirls onto pearlescent blue card and then matted some langusge paper (K&Co), Sweet Pea paper by Fancy Pants and created a dress using stripy paper and a peel-off. The frame is by Bam Pop and the glittery letters by Dovecraft.
Finally Arty Girlz challenge theme is Ad-Dicted. "I want you to browse the tv and magazines for advertisments and use them as inspiration. It might be the format, the colours, the products, the slogan - whatever floats your boat".

I found some old adverts for Wills's cigarettes in yesterday's paper. I laminated them to protect them and covered a card blank with BasicGrey paper. I painted some paper with green and blue Twinkling H2Os and again used the resist technique with a "classic cars" peel off. The brads are by K&Co.

Cut cut cutting! (remember that from Monty Python?!)

This week's challenge from Daring Cardmakers is to create a card and CUT. "Any theme goes, so for those of you needing a break from Christmas crafting this is the perfect opportunity to have a change. All styles are welcome but there MUST be an element of handcutting somewhere".

Here is my card: I used my new Hanna stamp for the first time. I stamped Hanna three times, cut her out and layered up the handbags. I then painted her using Twinkling H2Os, stamped the title, coloured the background with chalks and applied glitter. Glossy Accents highlighted the layered handbags. I added a lime green ribbon and some pink/green papers from Lakeland.