Blog Hop day 4

Good afternoon peeps.

Hope you enjoyed seeing all the STAMPloration girl's fantastic inspirational stencil cards so far because now it's your turn. 

We would love to see all your stenciled cards.

All you have to do is link up over on the STAMPlorations site. You don't need to use our stencils, any make will do. 

Here is another of my cards to show off Shery's fab stencils.

This time I've only used a small portion of the panel I made using the Foiled Again stencil.

I started by drawing around each section of the stencil onto a piece of white card with some w/c markers. Then I embossed using the stencil as an embossing folder to give it a subtle embossed texture, it doesn't really show up here. After removing the stencil I used a waterbrush to fill in the outlined shapes.

I cut a plain white panel of card with a MFT snowdrift die to expose a strip of the coloured panel and added a butterfly cut from the waste and overlaid a vellum one. The sentiment was a freebie off a mag.

OK, now its over to you. Join in at our Flash Stencil Project Linky Party  There are extra prizes available for those of you who participate in the Linky Party and link up by May 31.

I'm joining in the fun over at -

I think my card goes in the Clean and Layered category. I was influenced by the coloured embossed cupcake cases and what looks like little butterflies on the white cream topping and the shape of the spiral on the straw.

Thank You

The ABC Challenge - J is for Jewels

Thanks for stopping by and leaving those supportive comments. You can continue to comment on the girl's blogs up until May 31st for a chance to win some fab prizes.

Muse #81

Evening all.

Its been a pretty mixed day here weather wise, torrential rain, hot sun, strong winds and a chilly evening. Looking around at some of the trees you would be forgiven for thinking it was autumn already!

When I saw this week's Muse card by Marion Vagg I just fell in love with it and had to have a go. I've not played the last couple of weeks so here goes.

It follows Marion's card pretty well but it was so good I didn't feel I could alter much.

However as I didn't have any chevron stamps I used my Die- Namics chevron dies in glorious ice cream shades of glitter card. All accept the green which I had to make using some pale green glitter on a white chevron.

I used plain old copy paper for the Memory Box butterfly, cutting four layers and added three tiny iridescent  sequins for it's body. The chevrons were glued to a panel and then popped up on pads. The sentiment was heat embossed on some black card.

I should also like to enter the Tic Tac Toe challenge at CAS-ual Fridays before it closes!

I went straight across the top with Chevrons, black and sequins.

OK thanks for popping around, see you back again soon.

LIM Thank You

Well this is an unusually late scheduled post to share a card and  some very good news.

First off the rank is this card for the latest Less is More challenge - use something recycled.

Now I had a little difficulty here, I love to save bits and bobs but what I could use that was recycled, then I found a piece of card that I'd played with around Christmas, using a new technique. I had seen, on one of the Copic sites I think, how to make a water colour effect using Copics and nail varnish remover! You scribble the colour onto a glass surface then spray with the remover. Had to do this in a well ventilated space away from naked flames for obvious reasons! Then very quickly take a mono print from the ink, great effect but it does get on your chest a bit, not one to do on a regular basis. So that is the coloured paper under the die cut butterfly which I cut from a piece of a card which had got a crease in while embossing, hence the margin which is a little larger than I would have liked. The string was in my bit box but was the wrong colour so I inked it with matching Copics and tied it in a knot as there wasn't enough for a bow. Stamped sentiment from the set I borrowed from Di, gave back then borrowed again! Told you I was a cheap skate. The bit of self adhesive bling was rescued from the side of my sequin bits box. 

This is another of  Nich's thank you cards, just a few more to go!

Now for the very good news. As of midnight I am part of the - 

Whoop whoop!!!!!

I love this challenge and entered their DT call not expecting to get anywhere, so I was over the moon when the email dropped into my inbox from the wonderful Kylie asking if I would still like to be on the team. Would I ever! Thanks Kylie, I can't wait to join in the fun and work alongside the rest of a fabulously talented team.

Pop over to see who the girls are who make up the new DT over at ATSM, some you will recognise, some who are fairly new on the scene, but all incredibly talented.

Nite nite :0)