Joy

Evening all and welcome to a late post to share a little project with you.

Last year one of my blog buddies, the wonderful Loll of Stamping with Loll, hosted a Twelve Tags of Christmas Challenge. Well she's decided to host it again and for what ever reason asked if I would take part as one of the Guest Designers. Of course I said yes! 

This year's challenge started yesterday and will continue for another 10 days after today, with lot's of fab GD's taking part.

Loll has been a great influence on my style since I happened on some of here fab work when I first started to blog. Her style just speaks to me, classy and CAS so I hope you like my effort here, a kind of a homage to Loll -

I had some fun making this mixed media tag. 

First off I needed a tag so out came my Sizziz thinlet stacked tag dies, then I stamped and embossed in white with a Stampendous Christmas phrases background stamp. I inked the tag with some Old Paper DI then used a stencil to add the diamond shapes in the same ink. 

The poinsettia die and evergreen one are Le'Crea cut in white then rubbed with antique silver Inka Gold around the edges. I had to use these waxes as Loll introduced me to their delights! The pearls were added to make the small flowers in the center, instead of using the die that came with the set. JOY was cut from the same white card using a really old Sizzix die then rubbed with the Inka Gold wax. In real life it's really pearly but it doesn't really show up in the photo.

To finish I added some ribbon and a string of tiny pearls.

OK, so why not pop over to Loll's blog for all the details and check out the other GD Kathy's tag and join us

I'd like to join in over at:-

Love the neutral colours and the detail in the hook panel. Definitely Mixed Media! 

There were one or two tags that caught my eye but the ones from Tracey Day 1 and 4 probably influenced the most.

[CASE]ing Deepti

Hi, welcome to a post to share a card I made at the weekend but as I've been away from my craftroom for a couple of days, didn't get to finish it 'til this morning.

My fellow STAMPlorations buddy LauraJane posted a card that was linked to the blog of Kelly Latevola, where she is hosting a challenge based on her [CASE]ing Genius series. I followed her link and found this wonderful group of exceedingly talented artists that she has [CASE}d over the year.

She is asking for work influenced by one of the [CASE]ees. Well when I saw that the wonderful Dee of  Dee's Art Utopia I just had to play along.

When I first started blogging she was one of the few card makers that really sang to me. I loved her soft watercolours  and clean and simple style. I've been lucky enough to be have been on the same DT as her at ATSM as well as being able to use her new stamps over at STAMPlorations. So here is my CASE of genius -

and this is Dee's wonderful inspirational card

I have to say that this same card influenced me once before when I saw it over a year ago and I made this card here. 

This time I let the daisies fill the paper and die cut several black happys, glued them together, then adhered them to the painted panel. The birthday is from one of Dee's stamp sets, Balloons and Banners.

6/11 Oops forgot to nominate someone to case, a genius cardmaker, mmm I nominate Loll of Stamping with Loll!

Thanks for looking.

Hippy Chick

Good morning folks.

This week has been dreadful over here in Blighty. I know it's the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness but it's getting a bit depressing now, but I'm looking forward to some clear crisp days!

Anyway its time for a new challenge at Cardz4Galz.

For our theme this week we would like to see your projects for -

A TEENAGE GIRL

My offspring and rellies are either too old or too young to come into that category so I struggled to find a suitable image. Just as I was contemplating buying a digi I remembered a stamp from a long time ago I found in a bargain bin and has only been inked up once before to my knowledge! Don't know why because when I'd finished I quite liked the end result.

I used one of Sketch Saturday's sketches and the colours at Copic Norge for this project. The central white panel was embossed using a knit effect EF I bought awhile ago that went with the pattern on her trousers and the DP is a strip of scrap from NitWits that was in my bit's box. The image was stamped then coloured with Copics to match the DP, then fuzzy cut. I had to extend the width of the horizontal mount as the DP was a little too narrow but to soften the impact, I cut a zigzag edge with a strip die. The Happy Birthday is stamped on another scrap of matching paper using a MFT banner die and I die cut the numbers in white then coloured with Copics to match

OK, that's about it from me, please check out the rest of the DT's fab projects here and join us, we'd love to see you.

I'm joining in over at:-

   

    
U is for Unlimited                          Autumn Colours photo

Thanks for stopping by.

Paper Pieced Parcels

Hi and welcome to a post to announce it's time for a new challenge at Addicted to Stamps.

This week out theme is-

CAS

This is my favourite style so here is my card.

This was influenced by a couple of challenges, Less is More, paper piecing and Time Out, Christmas with a twist of pink and or purple.

I first stamped my parcels on the die cut panel, then onto some scraps of co-ordinating pink Christmas paper from Papermania which has been in my stash for absolutely ages. Streamers from the same STAMPlorations set as the parcels were stamped and embossed in silver. The greeting is from a LOTV set, stamped in black. 

Fussy cutting the parcels was a nightmare, especially the ribbons, but looks quite effective in the end!

A few sequins were added for some extra sparkle and some shadow ws added with a grey Copic.. 

That's about it, very simple.

This week we are sponsored by 

who is offering a prize of a $12 gift certificate to the winner

So why not have a go and join us this week. For more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT's fab cards here.

I'm joining in over at:-

Christmas with the optional twist of "use pink and/or purple"

paper piecing

Caught a bug?

Good morning all.
My, hasn't the week gone quickly, it's whizzed around to an other Tuesday.
Tuesday means another challenge at Cardz4Guyz.
This week we would like to see your masculine cards on the theme of -

FEEL BETTER SOON

There are lots of euphemisms for 'Get Well'. I'm sure you can think of lots but I know the the DT have come up with lots of ideas. Here is my take on on the theme.

I must apologise for the quality of the photo, the weather has been dreadful, with very poor light for taking photos!

The image is a digi that I printed onto card then coloured with Copics then fussy cut. The layout is based on the latest sketch at CAS(E) this Sketch.

The checked paper is from NitWits as are the little banners which I cut from scraps in my bits box and the greeting was computer generated then cut with a MFT stitched circle die.

Once completed the panel was mounted onto a kraft base card.

Voila!

OK, now it's over to you, we'd love to see your creations.