If life gives you lemons ....

..... make lemonade!
It's time for a new challenge over at Perfectly CAS, here is my inspiration based on this month's theme.

I've had this set for awhile waiting for the right moment to use it. With all that's going on at the moment, I thought hit hit the nail on the head, of course you could add G and T instead! The set is from Penny Black, called Homemade and features these cute mice.

Rather than use Copic markers, I decided to colour these small, cute mice with Zig watercolour markers ,before stamping the sentiment and embossing with clear EP. I kept the design and sentiment in the bottom left corner to keep the design CAS. If you are unsure of the definition of CAS, here it is.



Simply put, keep 2/3rds of your design free of anything!

For more animal CAS inspiration please check out the girls here.

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Anything Goes

Perfectly Vintage

Morning all, hope I find you well in these strange times.

It's Tuesday, I did check, so it's time for a new challenge at Cardz4Guyz. Must admit that if it wasn't for having to post challenges on specific days, I would have no idea what day it is, how about all of you in lockdown? When I was teaching I knew what the day and date was because I wrote it on the board  every day but since retirement days tend to blur!! 

Anyhow, the new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz is:-

VINTAGE

So for my card I went with a vintage motor and used Vintage Photo DI!

I used the LOTV Auto trio stamp set, coloured with Copics and fussy cut. The background was made by stamping a map stamp with Vintage Photo DI on some kraft card. I inked a cream top fold A6 note card and added the inked panel. A sentiment from the set completes.

Check out the rest of the team here for more Vintage inspired guy cards.

Girls just wanna have fun!

Evening all.
It's a new month and time for the new challenge over at HLS CAS.
Here is my card for your inspiration.

Recognize the image? Yup, its the same as my post from Wednesday. I had made that card for this inspiration post but got my challenges mixed up, so decided to make another using those two cheeky ladies again and this time I added a sentiment from Stamping Bella which suits them down to the ground and the theme of the new challenge.



Those two are certainly having a good giggle and they always make me smile, one of the reasons I bought the stamp! They could also be smiling for the camera!
I used the same polaroid die and cut another from fun foam and glued the card die cut to it. You need to leave the fun foam time to return to size before you do this as the die cutting makes it grow!
This time I used Copics, in the colours from Color Throwdown, to colour the image and added the die cut frame and image to a 5 x 7 panel of matching plum card stock.
So that's that. Please check out the rest of the team here for more Smile inspired CAS creations, then why not join in?

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Smile!

Have you ever made a card for a DT then realised that the challenge that inspired you is about to close before you need it to? Well it happened to me this week. I know many of you are having trouble getting inspired for one reason or another at the mo and look for inspiration in challenges, I was too. I saw the sketch over at the Paper Players and thought I could use it for a DT card but then realised it wouldn't work in my time frame, I also saw the colour challenge at Sunday Stamps and forgot to check the cut off. However by that time, I had already coloured my image, so waste not want not here is the card.

The sketch reminded me of this polaroid die cut from Kaisercraft I've had for years and only used the once til now. The happy smiling ladies are from AI, called Crazy Friends. The sentiment is a composite from a couple of Uniko sets. After colouring the ladies with Copics to match the colour swatch, I replaced the panel back into the frame and glued the lot onto a scrap of white copy paper before adding it to the A6 card with foam, simples.

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Bleaching Brusho

Morning folks.

I'm over at Uniko with some springtime BA inspiration.

As some of us are all spending more time in our gardens because of lockdown, I thought I would take the opportunity to use some flowers in my cards too.

The technique I used was inspired by the challenge over at CAS Mix Up, I'd never tried it before but I love the effect it gives.

Starting with a panel of white card and using the top half of the Tulip stamp, I stamped, heat embossed with white EP and masked as I moved across the bottom of the card panel. 

Once I was happy with the amount of stamping and embossing,  I sprinkled Prussian Blue Brusho across the middle, then Leaf Green across the bottom third. I didn't worry about any overlap, just wanted 2/3 of my panel covered.

I then spritzed the bottom 2/3 with water and put to one side to dry.

Once dry I took a small amount of concentrated bleach in a dish and added some water to dilute. 

After it had dried I added some colour with pink Zig watercolor brush pens, this is the result. I chose pink so that it wouldn't matter if the pale blue left from bleaching showed through. Some green was also added to the stems and leaves.

I loved the finished panel but decided to make it go further by cutting it in two and trimming each panel down to size.

The first just uses the left hand strip glued flat on an A6 white card after adding a sentiment from the Simply Said set on a strip of card. A couple of slivers of silver mirror card down each side complete.

The second uses the cut down right hand panel, close cropped with a die cut frame.
The same sentiment was stamped on the frame and the whole panel was popped up on some funky pink foam.

Two cards from the one panel and two totally different looks.

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                                                         Brusho, heat embossing and a die cut

                                                             Flowers and/or showers