GD at AAA

Good morning friends.

I'm posting early on this Sunday morning as the GD for AAA Cards. 

Here is my inspiration card for you.

The theme for the next two weeks is -

Well that is pretty self explanatory but don't forget to keep it CAS!

To start, I chose my Concord and 9th Blooms Fill in stamp and die set, then masked off the bottom two thirds of my A6 white base card with a large Post It note. I then stamped the background into the top third with black Momento ink, arranging it so that my flower spray was in the correct position!

On a scrap of white card, I stamped just one of the sparays, before die cutting it with the matching die. Before stamping in the fill in sections of the die cut, I replaced it in the negative shape to keep it from moving around in my MISTI. I also added a little bit of infill stamping to my panel, but leaving out some of the detail.

After laying on my extra posy, I decided the card needed some extra colour, so I added some green and white bakers twine under the popped up posy but no bow, just the texture of the 3 strands. A sentiment from LOTV, keeps it quite a versatile card, just write the sentiment you want on the inside!

For some more fab CAS inspiration, check out the rest of the girls here, then why not join us.

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Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge -  Clean and Simple

A Bubble Chicks Twofer

Morning all.

Just nipping in to share a couple of cards I made for Darnell's Twofer challenge. 

I try to join in if I can but I always forget the closing date so I'm making sure I get them in on time this month.

I used my Stamping Bella Bubble Chicks again as the theme is birds and I could turn them into a cheeky set of robins again!

As I was trawling for inspiration for my non altered chicks, I saw a card that used the bubble stamps as a background panel and having just seen the CAS Mix Up challenge was Bokeh, which reminds me of bubbles, I decided to make a panel and then stamp the bubbles on to it. 

After stamping, colouring and fussy cutting the chicks, I stamped the other bubbles on the Bokeh panel but they were a little too pale so I added some white Prismacolor pencil to them.

The sentiment reminds me of my eldest Grandson, who always loved bubbles and got very giddy when we had them out!

I must admit that when I first bought this set I was suckered by the cuteness then couldn't think what to do with them! That was until I saw how to convert chicks into robins and penguins at a Copic colouring course last year. I've already made one card with robins and baubles so decided on another, with a couple more robins causing even more havoc!

The background was made by stamping a pine branch from a STAMPlorations set in Mowed Lawn DI and then painting over it with some water then stamping over with Pine Needles DI. The 'robins' were stamped and coloured, then I did a bit of mirror stamping to get a'robin' to face the other way, before fussy cutting birds and baubles and adding them to my card. The greeting is from an unbranded set I picked up at Port Sunlight a couple of years ago and strings were drawn with a fineliner and straight edge. A touch of Wink of Stella was added to the finished baubles for a little extra festiveness, which unfortunately doesn't really show up in the photo.

That's it from me then so have a great weekend, my Grandson's are coming soon so this will be the last bit of me time for a bit!

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Uniko Challenge

Morning peeps. 

It's been a busy week on my blog and it isn't finished yet!

Today sees the start of a brand new challenge over at Uniko, so here is my inspiration card for you.

Bet you can't guess what the optional theme is this time ;) .

Yup, love is in the air at Uniko!

For my take, I started by sponging ink onto a top fold A6 base card with Worn Lipstick DOx through my Doodle Flower stencil, fading it out towards the edges.

On a scrap of card, I stamped the bud from Pure Florals- Rose and coloured it using Copics before fussy cutting it out.

I wanted a sentiment but couldn't find the exact one so I made one using a couple of the Simply Said Blocks and Blocks II and a little bit of masking.

The Rose bud was placed over the stencilling and the sentiment over the top on pads, simples.

Check out what the rest of the DT have made, then why not join in

Bev

Carol

Izzy 
Jane 

Julie

Linda
Wiebke 

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A simple stamped spray

Afternoon peeps.

I'm back to share a card for the new challenge at Seize the Birthday.

It's my second card for my spell as their surprize party guest, they've all made me very welcome.

You will notice that this card contains just stamping, no colouring as the new challenge theme is -

STAMPING ONLY

As I wasn't allowed to get my Copics or w/c brushes out, I chose the Wild Hibiscus set from Altenew which has these sketchy coloured layers that give the image an artsy look. While I was using Altenew's stamps, I thought I would also use their January colours too!

So taking a panel of white card, I stamped the outline flowers and leaves in Memento London Fog, then filled in with Tangelo and Morocco for the flowers and Altenew's Galactic Stream for the leaves.

I also used the Galactic Stream to stamp the sentiment from Altenew's Wishing You set, and trimmed the panel down and mounted it onto a dark teal card panel from my stash.

So how will you interpret the theme or perhaps you are not a toppings sort of person you're welcome just the same so long as it's a birthday project.

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Just Sailing By

Evening peeps. 

Just popping by again to announce the start of a brand new challenge over at ATSM.

Here's my card for your inspiration for this week's theme of -

CAS

I used the sketch at AAA as my inspiration with the addition of the one at LIM.

I cut three strips of white card and then using a 1" circle punch, cut into each to make the waves. Once cut, inked them in DOx in Cracked Pistachio, Salty Ocean and Peacock Feathers adding some white gel pen to the crests and glued them together. On a scrap of white card, I stamped the MFT ship, used Copics to colour then fussy cutting it out and slipping it between the first two layers. To create a sense of movement I added a few suggested waves with the same gel pen. 

The sentiment was printed out using the computer and then the wave panel was trimmed down to size and added to the top half.

So that's that, but for more CAS inspiration and an explanation of what we are looking for check out the ATSM blog here.

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