Urban Graffiti

Morning all.

Just popping by to let you know that there is a brand new challenge starting over at Cardz4Guyz.

We are running our challenges on a two weekly basis over the summer so hope you've been waiting for a new one to start. Our new theme is -

FAVOURITE COLOUR COMBO

Now I don't really have a go to combo for my masculine cards, I tend to take inspiration from around the challenge blog community, but when I saw that the latest colour challenge at JUGS was navy, turquoise and lime green I was away. I love this cool, crisp combo and together with the urban theme at Inkspirational, I came up with this card.

  

When I saw the theme at Ink, I immediately thought of graffiti and then skyscrapers, but I just kept with just the graffiti element for this. There are lots of graffiti style cards around on Pinterest such as here, I even made this one awhile back using the same stamp set from Woodware. This time I used my Tim Holtz Sizzix wall EF instead of the stencil to create the background.

After stamping and colouring with Copics, I doodled some of my own graffiti with a white gel pen and a black outliner, then added a sentiment and some splodges of ink and some arrows before wiping the front of my EF with Hickory Smoke DI and running it through the BigShot. Carefully removing the panel I trimmed the embossed panel and mounted it onto navy card before mounting on a plain white base card.

For more inspiration check out the rest of the DT here and why not share your favourite colour combo with us this fortnight.

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A Warm Snuggly Quilt

Good morning all.
I'm here bright and breezy on a Saturday morning to share a card I made for Less is More.
I was honoured to be their April winner and the girls asked me to GD this week.
Here is my card.

Can you guess this week's theme? It is -

I was thinking of going down the hexagonal shaped card route at first but in the end went with this quilt design. I'm really a novice when it comes to quilting, I do enjoy making the designs up but I've kept the finished products to simple cushion covers. I have a half made bean bag cover in the cupboard that was supposed to be for my Grandson but I couldn't figure how to finish it! I blame it all on my bestie Di who got me into quilting after she took it up when she retired and gave me some of her patterns and now my stash of fabric is nearly as big as my stash of DP. It's a good job the quilt shop closed in town and is now a 20 minute car journey away!

Anyway, to make a quilt you cut up fabric into geometric shapes and then reassemble into patterns and as the cue word over at CASology is warm, the two things together sparked this idea.

I started by cutting a panel from off white card using a Port Sunny purchase from MFT to create my quilt shape, then cut the stitched panel from the center using another MFT Blueprints die. I kept the colourway simple, using the warm colours, orange, red and yellow, seen in Time Out's challenge and cut the shapes out of scrap, replacing the pieces flat into the panel. The sentiment, stamped in brown, is from a Christmas set but I think works well here. A quick and simple card that can be made in lots of different colours.

Please check out the rest of the LIMettes here for more fabulous geometric inspiration.

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Love the design but it was the colours that stuck in my mind

LIM meets Paper Players

Evening all.

It's been a bit wet here today so my veg patch has taken a back seat. At least I managed to get my spuds planted as Al managed to finish filling the latest of my raised beds on Friday. I can't really complain as the soil was quite parched. Anyway as I had a few moments to myself I decided to join in over at a couple of challenges with this card.

Over at LiM, they want to see one layer cards using circles and/or stripes and PP want us to use red, orange, turquoise and orange. I saw this card on Pinterest and decided I liked the look of it but after looking in my stash for some circle stamps I could only find a couple so I decided to use a stencil and draw them. I also liked the idea of making them look like they were popped up off the front as in the original but keep it one layer. 

I've done similar designs with balloons, first using die cuts then using stamps so this was along the same lines but this time I added some shadows  to the right of the coloured circles with Copic pens to give a 3D effect. The colours I used were the nearest match in Copics to the PP ones.

The sentiment is from a free set in a mag.

The weather looks a bit wet tomorrow so I suppose I better get some housework done while I can. :( 

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16/5 Sorry, it appears it is spots and stripes!                                                   

Magical Birthday Wishes

Good morning  folks.

I'm back online thank goodness!

The contractors struck again late on Thursday as they were putting their machines away for the night. Somehow they managed to pull the telephone line down that runs across the drive! They appear to be in the final throws of their work and were resurfacing the drive at long last and the arm of one of the diggers caught in the wire! We have telephone and internet connection over that so we were incommunicado for quite some time! Anyway it appears we are now back thanks to the prompt attention of BT.

Today, I'm popping by to share a card I made as GD over at Challenge Up your Life.

This time their theme is -

BLOSSOM

I was asked to GD for this challenge as I'd previously won their colour challenge with this card, but here is the one I made for this challenge.

I've made quite a few blossom cards over the last few years, mainly using die cuts, so for this I used a couple of the tiny flowers from Altenew's Vintage Flowers set. I'd seen a fab card on Pinterest here that set me off along this route. I loved the gold embossing but I preferred to use a more realistic pink colour. 

Using Memento Rich Cocoa, I inked the stem up them removed a lot of the ink to leave a paler but textured branch on the die cut panel. The blossom images were then stamped first in Memento Angel Pink, the details in Rose Bud 2nd generation and then the centers in just Rose Bud. I managed to loose one of the really tiny centers of one of the small flowers, so had to substitute that with a Zig marker pen!

The magical die cut is from STAMPlorations and the stamped sentiment is Wplus9 stamped in Rich Cocoa. I also added a few extra branches with a brown Zig Marker.

OK, that's about it from me, please visit the CUYL blog to check out the DT's inspiration

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No toppings this time!                                                     

E is for

Morning all.

Just stopping by to announce the start of a new challenge over at the Alphabet Blog Challenge.

This time it is 

E for ENCHANTED CREATURES

Not really my thing but there were some free stamps in  Creative Stamper this month that just fit the bill! So here is my enchanted creature, a unicorn.

After stamping and colouring with Copics, I fussy cut the unicorn and mounted him on a layered cloud over a smooshed panel. I made the panel a while ago by adding some platinum Inka Gold wax to a craft mat along with some DI and spritzing with water, then dragging a piece of watercolour paper through it, gives a lovely shimmery look to the finished panel. The sentiment was stamped and embossed with white and holographic EP.

Check out the rest of the DT here for more enchanted inspiration.

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Fantasy



Fantasy