Bloom Where You Are

Afternoon peeps. Just posting a reminder that there is still time to enter the sketch/theme challenge over at STAMPlorations.

Here is my inspiration for you.

For this card I went with the sketch.

If you prefer, try the theme of 

or combine the two, its up to you.

This card was influenced by the challenge over at Less is More where the girls are asking for a one layer card that has your favourite flower as its focus. I love the daisy stamps of Shery's so decided to use this one from the Boxed Blooms set. Being a OLC, I had to think hard how to make it interesting yet keep it CAS. As the daisy is in a square frame I decided to use one of the dies from my MFT square stitched frames set to create an embossed frame. Stamping the daisy and embossing it in white, I then masked the area of the frame with a die cut mount before using the splatter stamp from the Mixed Media Elements set to colour the petals with Angel Pink Memento. I took the stamping over the masked area before adding some darker pink splats in 2nd generation Rose Bud Memento.

Using the same stamp, I inked it up with Memento Dandelion and then stamped the flower center, adding a little Canteloupe in the shadow area.

To define the bloom I added some Picked Raspberry DI with a paintbrush and water. The DI reacted with the Memento and gave a little bit of texture to the petals that I quite liked.

I removed the mask and finally stamped the sentiment from the Subway Builders DARE set in Memento Grey Flannel

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One Layer Week - Your Favourite Flower

Take a stamp - Anything Goes

Muse

Morning all.

Over at Cardz4Galz we have a brand new challenge for you. This time we would love to see your projects that are -

NOT A SQUARE

I used to make lots of square cards but lately I've been sticking to the A6 rectangle shape. So for this challenge I went totally mad and made this.

My inspiration came from the latest challenge over at MUSE.

Here is the card by Tracey McNeely that I used as inspiration.

For my card I took inspiration from Tracey's gorgeous white embossed flowers on a soft splattered background, stitched panel and a bold black sentiment.

I used Brushos to create my background, adding Turquoise and Lime Green to a panel of watercolour paper that I had stamped my Stampendous roses and embossed with white EP then masked off. To get the fun started, I spritzed the panel with water and left it to dry. When dry, I removed the mask then added Brusho in Orange and Scarlet and spritzed again. When everything was dry I wiped off any excess ink on the embossing, then stamped the sentiment, free with a mag sometime ago, in Versafine Onyx Black. The base card was cut using a Marianne die and the top panel die cut with a MFT stitched circle die from my inked and stamped panel.

So for more inspiration, please check out the rest of the DT and why not join in?

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Blooming Buds

Hi and welcome to a late night post to announce the start of a new challenge over at ATSM.

This week our theme is -

ANYTHING GOES

Exactly what is says on the tin, link up whatever project you like as there are no restrictions!

Here is my card for your inspiration.

I've used the Blooming Buds stamp set by this week's sponsor

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experience levels to "Stamp with all your ART!" 

I'd seen a couple of new to me challenges pop up in my feed so thought I would have a go at one.

I was inspired by the bold black and white stripe in the photo at Inspired by the Little Things, but didn't want to overpower the card so kept the DP to one side and I masked and stamped the flowers down one edge of a piece of white card before cutting away the edge that overlapped the strip. I'd seen  a technique like this over on the Altenew blog a while ago. 

The colours of the Can You Case It challenge this week are flamingo pink, chartreuse green and grey, so I went with those for the flowers. Stamping the outlines in Memento Grey Flannel, I used Copics in matching pinks and greens to colour. I also stamped the sentiment in Grey Flannel.

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GOAL!!!!

Back again this morning, with a post to announce the latest challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week it was my choice and I chose -

BALLS

So, anything with a ball as the main focus, cricket, soccer, rugby, American football, Aussie rules or even playing in the park with the dog, so long as it's for a guy. 

Here is my card.

I made this for my Grandson's birthday a while ago and have been waiting for this challenge to come around!

I used a Sizzix Album, Accordian Flip 3D die to create 2 cards which I glued together to make this. I made the base in green and added panels of white card stamped with part of the LOTV trio set I'd used for the other images. 

Two of the inner panels were covered with a die cut panel to represent the goal nets and the other 2 panels were left green, being framed by the footballs. 

The trio of LOTV images were stamped, die cut and coloured with Copics before being framed by larger circles of red or blue. The fourth circle is a LOTV circular sentiment, also framed with blue.

That's about it then from me.

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     Frames

   

   One for the Boys

Flying Mouse

Good morning folks. The weatherman says it could be the hottest September day on record here in the UK, hotter than LA and the same as Thailand! Hate it when its hot and humid, I tend to hole up inside with the curtains closed, September is usually OK for being out and about without all the heat!

OK, enough ranting, down to business.

Its time for a new challenge over at CardsundMore, which is

NO DESIGN PAPER

Now that should be an easy enough challenge!  I'll tell you more about that in a mo. 

First off, here is my take on the challenge using a digi - Flying Mouse from our sponsor for this Rick St Dennis.

Here is one I made earlier

Can you spot the difference? Yep I used a scrap of DP for the sky, what was I thinking?!

Anyway, I rectified my error which I only realised when I typed in the challenge theme for this post!

To correct my error, I used a die cut cloud as a stencil, moving it around a panel of white card as I inked in the sky with some Tumbled Glass DI, disaster averted.

The clouds across the diagonal were also handmade to match the sketch at Sketch Saturday. I stamped a LOTV sentiment in the bottom right hand corner. 

The cute aviator mouse, was coloured with Copics and fussy cut before mounting him above the clouds on pads.

For this challenge we are sponsored by Rick St Dennis 

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                                                       Anything Goes - Option of a sketch 

(no sketch for me this time)