Sketch #31

Good afternoon crafty friends and welcome my post to announce a new sketch challenge over at STAMPlorations. I do like a sketch so I had real fun with this one. Here is my take on it.

This is the sketch that we are asking you to use.

I saw a post from Cornelia that referred me to a link to a video by Laura Basson at Make it Monday. It was all about double partial die cutting. I love finding new ways for combining dies and I loved this idea as well as the colours she used. I used an Avery Elle word die and a Spellbinders Label 25 die to make the die cuts. The first time I managed to cut the whole word out, so be careful with the cutting!  I used Bloom Sketches text for the embossed white sentiment and Vignette: Electic Florals to stamp the flowers and leaves before cutting them out. I used DI in matching colours so you have to look hard to see the stamping.

You can see the orange and green but not so well on the yellow. I added some punched circles to the centers of the flowers. I haven't coloured the panel under the hello as Laura did, as the word takes up quite a lot of space. I popped up the panel on pads onto a A6 white base to finish.

Don't forget you can use stamps by other companies in projects that you enter to our challenges but we ask that you please not use our challenges for the sole purpose of promoting another stamp company if you are a design team member of that company. If you have our stamps and/or stencils in your stash, we'd be tickled if you use them!

As usual Shery is offering the following prizes:-

Winner

(voted by the design team)

prize: 2 stamp sets (3" by 5") if you use STAMPlorations stamps, 1 stamp set if you don't

+ guest designer spot in a Sketch Challenge

Top picks

prize: 3 digi stamps 

+ the option to be a guest designer too in a Sketch Challenge if you will use  STAMPlorations digi stamp (to be provided )OR if you already have STAMPlorations clear stamps

All winners and top picks will receive a personalized guest designer badge that they can display on their blogs, as well as a STAMPlorations guest designer watermark.

Frequent Players Spotlight. Play in all 3 challenges for the month for entries to the random draw. Prize is always going to be a stamp and stencil pack valued at $10.

So no excuses to have a go and join us.

Pop over to the DT's blogs for more inspiration and info on their designs and check out our fab GDs.

Kim GD

Pooja GD

Becca DT

Laura Jane DT

Sari DT

Tenia DT

Wei Wei DT

I would like to join the fun over at -

April challenge

Good afternoon, I hope you are having a fab holiday, it being Good Friday Bank Holiday in the UK.

Today sees a new monthly challenge over at STAMPlorations. This month we would like to see your projects on the theme of -

Here is my card for your inspiration.

and a closeup of the raised numbers.

For my card I used the rose from the Boxed Blooms set but  masked off the frame before stamping and layering. I covered the bits I didn't want with masking tape, inked the stamp then removed the tape before stamping on the card.  I used masks to create the bunch effect and coloured the blooms and leaves with Copics, stamping the sentiments from the Bold Sentiment Happy set. 

I cut the 40 out of the coloured image, and other numbers out of white card. I glued the white numbers on the top half of the panel trimming off the excess then gluing the top panel onto a white base card. 

I die cut some extra 4 and 0s in black then glued one into the space left by the diecuts on the rose and replacing the tiny bits from the middle of the original image. I then stacked up 2 more layers then the original rose die cuts.

As usual Shery is offering the following prizes:-

Winner

(voted by the design team)

prize: 2 stamp sets (3" by 5") if you use STAMPlorations stamps, 1 stamp set if you don't

+ guest designer spot in a Sketch Challenge

Top picks

prize: 3 digi stamps 

+ the option to be a guest designer too in a Sketch Challenge if you will use  STAMPlorations digi stamp (to be provided )OR if you already have STAMPlorations clear stamps

All winners and top picks will receive a personalized guest designer badge that they can display on their blogs, as well as a STAMPlorations guest designer watermark.

Frequent Players Spotlight. Play in all 3 challenges for the month for entries to the random draw. Prize is always going to be a stamp and stencil pack valued at $10.

So no excuses to have a go and join us.

Pop over to the DT's blogs for more inspiration and info on their designs and check out our fab GDs.

Pamellia Johnson GD

Jo Nevill GD

Jerrie Mead GD

Becca DT

Laura Jane DT

Sari DT

Tenia DT

Wei Wei DT

I would like to join in at -

Combine 3 previous challenges.

I chose wk 55 Punches or Die Cuts

wk 59 Masking

wk 98 Anniversary

CAS on Sunday - Numbers

Swinging on a rope

Good morning again!

This time I'm here to show you a card I made for the latest challenge at Cardz4Guyz.

This week we would like to see your masculine creations that have a connection to -

Something beginning with S

OK, get your thinking caps on and have a go!

For my 'S' I went through my stamps and landed on this little chap having a great time-

'Swinging on a Rope' You see you can also think laterally!

This is a LOTV image that I coloured with Copics to match the NitWits papers left over from last weeks card. I'm still building up my stash of children's birthday cards!

I used the latest sketch at Sketch Saturday for the layout.

I added a star with a number 5 sentiment banner and a rope knot to complete the card.

Right then it's over to you. Check out the rest of the DT and our fab GDs for more inspiration. Don't forget if you fancy a month as a GD just add GDT to your entry.

I will also join in at -
As You Like it Challenge - Line or no line stamping
( I must say I prefer an outline for character stamping such as above, though if I'm watercolouring flowers I may use the same colour to stamp.)

2015 World Wide Open DT Challenge
Lil patch of Crafty Friends- Anything Goes

Tag it @Cards und More

Good morning crafters and welcome to my latest post for the new challenge over at Cards und More.

This fortnight we would like to see your projects using a :-

TAG

For my card I took inspiration from the latest challenge at Tag it .. You're it!

I've used kraft for the tag die cut from a Marianne die and stamped and embossed in white a line of a music score, then stamped and embossed some flowers from STAMPlorations. The flowers were coloured using DI in a w/c effect then fussy cut and mounted on the tag, adding some Marianne swirls and a Spellbinders Happy Birthday die cut in white and silver. 

If you look closely at the inspiration card you will see chevrons in white over the base. I used some zigzags cut using a MFT die, a bit of ribbon and twine from the stash finished it off.

Pop over to the CuM site to check out some more inspiration from the rest of the team and join in.

I would also like to join in at -

Seize the Birthday - Anything Goes

2015 World Wide Open Dt Challenge 

Saturday Crafting

Afternoon all.

Just a quick post to show you what I got up to at the demo I went to yesterday at Burleydam Garden Center with Kaisercraft demonstrator Elizabeth Robinson. I also met up with one of my STAMPloration blog buddies Monika for a chat and quiche in the coffee shop.

We were introduced to the latest Kaisercraft releases and had a chance to play with some bits and bobs in the afternoon. We made a banner usiing only one sheet of 12x12 paper and whatever was floating around!

I stamped some butterflies from Kaisercraft on the scrap from cutting out the banners and showed the ladies how to make a flower without using a die ,cutting a spiral freehand then folding and curling to get the rose. I finished it off by adding a few die cuts and I 'borrowed' a little bit of bright pink chord from the lady sat next to me. I added some bling and used Copics to colour some of the white diecuts to match the DP, think it was Kaisercraft, Cherry Blossom Collection - Tranquil. Not much of it left! The large doily die cut was too large for the banner so I cut the middle away and stamped a sentiment then cut away the outer edge. I tried to use that but went for some MS punched lace instead.

I had a lovely time chatting away to the other ladies, hope to get back for another demo later in the year.