Saturday, 5 July 2014

Happy Birthday Kylie

G'day, it's Kylie's birthday. 
Not the Neighbours actress and petite songstress but Kylie of ATSM and ATCAS and more besides. I hear she's under the weather at the moment so it's Happy Birthday as well as best wishes for a speedy recovery from bronchitis.

The wonderful Loll is hosting a linky birthday party for her so why not pop over join in and send her your best wishes. This my card -


I was inspired by a card by Joy at Simple by Design but went with a more watercolour effect, a bit like the gardenia flower I've been using recently. The honeycomb die cut is from a Sizzix die, the butterflies are from Memory Box sentiment from a Woodware set and bling from the stash. 
Hope this cheers Kylie up, I'm sure all the love going her way will help her on the road to recovery.

Nite Nite, or Good Morning if you are in Australia!

I shall also enter this card into the following challenges:-

Crazy for CAS - Butterflies

CAS at Fantasy Stampers

Good morning all.
Today is the start of a new challenge over at Fantasy Stampers. This time we would like to see your projects with a theme of -

Clean and Simple - CAS

 Although the name Fantasy Stampers suggests otherwise, we are not a fantasy inspired challenge. So long as the main focus of the card is physically stamped, then it fits. Here is my CAS inspiration for the DT.




This little chap is called 'Beside the River' and is from LOTV, he looks so wistful staring out towards the little log boat. I coloured him in Copics, then mounted him on blue card and a white A6 base card, very clean and simple. I even decided to leave the sentiment off, make of the picture what you will!

Pop over to the main site to check out the rest of the DTs inspiration and have a go, you never know unless you try!
I shall also enter the following challenges:-

CASology - Float
Loves Rubber Stamps - Anything Goes
Crafty Little Fairies - Summer Fun

Don't forget there is still time to enter the welcome baby boy challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. If you fancy being a Guest Designer just add GDT after your name, we'd love to see you.

Thanks for stopping by, leave a comment if you can, it's great to hear what you have to say.

Friday, 4 July 2014

Butterfly Trellis


I had this card made earlier in the week but in all the excitement of my new DT post, I forgot to post, so here it is today.


I was inspired by a super card made by a great designer Iwona Palamountain aka Chupa. 


I'm not sure when I saw it but I loved the contrast between the white and the intense blue and green of the stamp and the fantastic Islamic style infill of the hexagon diecut. 
My take was inspired by the latest challenge at Virginia's View which is die cuts. This card is all die cuts, even the sentiment. (OK the dew drops aren't!) The background diecut is from Sizzix as are the hexagon dies and leaf die, the butterflies are from Memory Box and the greeting is from Spellbinders. Dewdrops etc from the stash. All assembled on an A6 textured white base card.
 I am also celebrating the wonderful Darnell's birthday, 2 days late I know but happy 4th of July! Darnell has made me very welcome and was one of my earliest followers out in blogland. I love her mad typos and anarchic blogstyle. The fantastically gifted Ardyth is hosting a linky party for her so why not join in?

OK, it's raining at the moment so no grass mowing tonight and Al has taken Max for a walk so peace reigneth - for the moment.




Tuesday, 1 July 2014

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)

Welcome Baby

Good morning folks.
It's Tuesday so it's time for a new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz. This week it is the theme of -

WELCOME  BABY

We'd like to see your baby cards and projects for a little boy, using any technique you can come up with. This is my card for your inspiration.



The layout is based on the latest challenge over at the Male Room.


Instead of the squares I used circles as I wanted to use my LOTV  3 Bears with parcel stamp again. I used a circular sentiment from LOTV as the central image and fussy cut two of the bears, coloured with Copics and then mounted on pads in the aperture. I used buttons in decreasing sizes to be the horizontal panel on the sketch. The end result is pretty CAS so fits with quite a few challenges.

OK, that's about it. Pop over to the main site to see the rest of the DT's inspiration then have a go. You never know when you might need a birth congratulations.
I shall enter the following challenges:-

Cute Card Thursday - circles
The Card Concept -  Probably clean and layered?

Creative Inspirations - Clean and Simple
Inkspirational - Blue and white/cream
Moving along with the times - Birthdays, Bunting and Buttons