STAMPlorations CAS sketch

Good afternoon and welcome to a post to remind you that you have until the end of the month to play along at STAMPlorations with their sketch and/or theme challenge.

For my card I went with both the sketch and theme, but you can choose either or!

      

This card uses the wrong side of a large butterfly from the Trendy Butterflies set, yep you read that right. I wanted to try the kissing technique running over at Less is More so I needed a large stamp with no detail so this was perfect.

After I inked up the butterfly in pale blue I then stamped onto a script stamp inked in dark blue to pick up the detail then stamped on a panel of white card. I repeated the technique along the edge then again on some scrap. To add a little depth I added some small butterflies in the same pale blue and an extra on the scrap.

I cut a wavy panel from another piece of white using a stitched border die and then popped it up over the stamped panel on pads. The 'spare' butterflies were fussy cut one popped over kissed stamped panel, the other over a strip with the sentiment from Dee's Artsy Impressions Flowers and Frames stamped in dark blue.
I first wanted to mount the finished panel on white but then decided to go with the same blue as the greeting, so I inked the edge of my base with dark blue before gluing it down.

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I is for Inks



Theme - Kissing                                                   

MYM

Good evening and welcome to another post to share a card I made for this weeks DT at ATSM.

This week we would like to see projects where you -

MAKE YOUR MARK

Here is my project for your inspiration.

Sharp eyed visitors may recognise this as a partner to my last post for ATSM. I had a ball playing with my new set of stamps from Dee's Artsy Impressions at STAMPlorations I had another go!

This time I cut a panel with a MFT rectangle die then  mounted it on a kraft base card added some twine, and a stitch MFT circle stamped with a few blossoms and birthday then stamped and cut a Happy sentiment from another STAMPloraations set.

This week we are sponsored by

The wonderful Kylie is offering a prize of a $15 certificate to our winner.

So no excuses there not to join in!

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   Anything goes with kraft      

I was inspired by the bright panel of spring flowers.

                                                   

Feeling Blue?

Good morning and welcome to a post to announce the latest challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.
I'm hoping that this gets posted on time as we have been having internet problems and our connection keeps dropping off! I will keep typing in the hope that it will at sometime get published! So if the links aren't all there straight away I do apologise.

This week it is my choice of theme and I went with -

BLUE IS THE COLOUR

So we would like to see your projects for the guy in your life, where the focus is on the colour blue.
Here is my card for your inspiration.

This card is based on one I did a while ago with a much brighter palette. (here)

I used a balloon stamp from a Dee's Artsy Impressions set Balloons and Banners and the birthday stamp from the same set. For the top panel I die cut a large balloon shape using a MFT die and then using two shades of blue to match the Copic coloured balloons, I stamped inan alternating pattern across the panel. A happy die was cut from the same blue as the base card and mounted across this and then the whole of the top panel was popped up over the stamped and coloured balloons on pads.

For more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT and why not join us this week, we would love to see what you come up with.

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Party Time

More parties?

Hi, I'm back again, this time to announce the start of a new challenge over at Fantasy Stampers.

This time our theme is -

All about the Boys

So, we would liked to see your STAMPED projects with a masculine theme.

Here is my card for the DT inspiration.

I've used a LOTV stamp called Football Crazy, perfect for the little football fan.

This will be added to the pile for my Grandson's forth coming party stash!

The layout is based on the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches and I've kept the layout very CAS so I can enter it over at Seize the Birthday. The image was stamped then coloured with Copics and fussy cut before mounting on a MFT stitched rectangle over which I mounted a scrap of green spotty paper. The ball was cut separately and I drew the movement lines in free hand adding a blue mount to match his top and a happy birthday stamped on a Marianne die cut tag. I popped up a panel of embossed white card followed by the little scene. The footballer was given some added dimension with a little bit of curling and foam tape before being placed in the scene.

So for more inspiration please check out the rest of the DT here and why not join in, just make sure you use a traditional stamp as your main focal point.

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Forever Friends

Hi and welcome to my third post as GD for Sketch Saturday.

Here is my interpretation of this week's sketch.

This is the sketch for this week for you to use.

I was influenced by the picture over at Fusion for my colour choice and slightly tweeked Cathy's sketch with my card. 

I recently went looking for some Egyptian cotton sheets with my friend Di and while in the shop I bought a couple of stamps, including this little Forever Friends bear as part of the DoCrafts 'Classic Decadence' set. The image reflects the cake in their pic plus ATCAS have the cue word CAKE!

I went with a Sizzix chevron EF for the side panel and for a little celebratory twist I used some gold card hi lights that I embossed with a CC hessian EF, with hindsight perhaps I should have added an extra candle as it is Fusion's 2nd year celebration!

 The sentiment has been in my stash unloved for what must be over two years, it came free with other images by Polka Doodles with Simply Cards and Papercraft and I thought it fit the bill here. After a little bit of stamping and masking to split the sentiment up as it was rather too square in it's original form, I then used my new MFT blueprints banner die. I stamped the bear on a MFT pierced rectangle then coloured with Copics. The smaller pink and yellow banners were stamped with a STAMPlorations chevron stamp then fussy cut and mounted under the raised side panel.

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I took inspiration from the cupcakes, yellow chevron runner, white table cloth and the colours of the flowers.