ATSM Challenge #111

Hi, thanks for calling around.

It's time for a new challenge at 

This week our sponsors are

who are giving away 5 digis to the winner

This is an

  ANYTHING GOES 
challenge, so the world is your oyster, so to speak.

The DT are dedicating this challenge to one of our original DT members Marie ( baileyrosey.com) who is currently on the DT for our sister challenge Addicted to CAS. She is going through a really rough time at the moment and we thought it would be nice to get a linky going in her honour just to cheer her up a little. So if you would like to send your best wishes just link your project as usual to the ATSM site and mention Marie in your post if you would like.

Here is my card for your inspiration.

I was influenced by a couple of challenges while making this card.

Black and White plus one other colour

a sketch

( rotated and mirrored it)

and the 

I chose lime for my extra colour as my friend Di is redecorating using this as a focal colour and it went well with what I had in mind for the flower. Nich bought me some flowers for lending her my car when her's was stolen and one of them was a spray of chrysanthemums in lime green as well as one in white.  I used an old Sizzix daisy Bigz die cut several times in copy paper and also in the green card for the center. The leaves are cut down MB Fresh Foliage and Grove Branch. The white panel was cut from the Tessatina Border also from Memory Box. I went with a black panel after the picture at The Cutting Edge inspiration photo but went with a white base for added contrast.
OK that's a wrap as they say. 
Pop over to the ATSM blog and check out what the rest of the gang have made to inspire you and join us.

Thanks for stopping by, come back soon.

Man's Best Friend

Good morning.

It's been a week since the last challenge at Cardz4Guyz so it's time for a new one.

This week we would like to see your masculine projects based of the theme of -

MAN'S BEST FRIEND

So that's pretty straight forward I think and I thought straight away of the stamp I would like to use and so here is my card for your inspiration.

I made this with a couple of challenges in mind -

    

         Pick ANY sketch 215-324    

Without Words - It's a Celebration 

So it was out with the watercolours and one of my NBUS stamp LOTV's Man's Best Friend. 

I coloured the image then fussy cut it and mounted it on top of the scene which I painted on the base card so that the little fella is looking out at it. To get this looking just right I mirrored the sketch.

OK, so why not pop over to the main blog to see what the other DT have been up to and join in the fun.

A visit from friends

Morning all and thanks for calling around.

Di, Jenny and Chris have gone home after a great time of craft, chat, laughter and some retail therapy!

It was good to have them over.

I was going to take some photos of us crafting but time flew and it was time for them to leave!

Di brought us some goodies to play with and Chris brought some Stampin Up bits and bobs, as did Jenny. Not sure why I didn't get as much done as the others but here are some of the cards we made with a pack of bits put together by Di, Jenny's didn't get finished. She made some others but all the cards will go towards a table top sale in Di's local village to raise funds for the craft group.

We all had a selection of NitWits papers and an image by Nellie Snellen to colour plus other bits and bobs. All turned out differently but great.

This is a close up of mine.

I used the sketch at Sketch n Stash so if I get a wriggle on I should be in time for their latest challenge.

I didn't finish mine until after I took the first photo as I didn't realize I had missed bits off!

I shall also enter the challenge at:-

Christmas at Sweet Stamping - Gifts Galore , well she is giving her biscuits to the squirrel!

Allsorts - Early Christmas makes

OK, thanks for stopping by and see you back soon.

Hearts n Flowers

Morning peeps.

This is a scheduled post as I am entertaining a few friends for a couple of days.

Hope all you teachers in England are ready for the new term ahead, and all parents are ready to see their little ones back at school. 

My Grandson is starting school on Tuesday, I can't believe it he's only just 4!

Anyway, it's time for another challenge at Fantasy Stampers.

This time we would like to see your projects which combine:-

HEARTS and FLOWERS

This was an easy one for me as I had to make a wedding card for Nich for her friend Maria's wedding so here it is.

Nich isn't one for lots of flowers but Maria's theme was English Country gardens so I kept it pretty plain and added touches of NitWits papers.

The stamp is from LOTV as is the sentiment and the heart shapes were cut using my NBUS Little B heart dies.

The white background was embossed using a Cuttlebug Swiss dot embossing folder after cutting the aperture. The green swirls were die cut using a Marianne die and flowers were from the stash. I used Copics to colour the bride and groom. The whole lot is on a 6 x 6 white base card.

Please pop over to see what the rest of the DT have been up to then why not join in. Just remember there must be some form of traditional stamping on your project.

I shall enter this card into the following challenges:-

Creative Inspirations - Flower Power
Stamping Sensations - Anything Goes
Penny Black and More - Anything Goes
Simply Create Too - Something new (My Little B hearts)

Red, orange and yellow

Evening folks.

After a bit of a hiccup around lunch it's been a great day here. 

I have been doing a bit of cleaning ( no tittering please) as some friends are coming around for a bit of crafty fun and girly chat tomorrow. However, I have been sitting down a doing a little bit of crafting in between the hoovering and dog walking. This card has been in the making since Saturday but for one reason or another didn't get finished until this aft.

I made it with quite a few challenges in mind and was a little bit inspired by a card by fellow teamie at ATSM the lovely Loll.

The layout is inspired by the sketch at Less is More -mirrored

and the colours by the latest challenge at

and finally the background was created by using watercolour washes of DIs in Squeezed Lemonade, Fired Brick and Dried Marigold then over stamped it with a text stamp with Tea Dye. I also used a technique called Bokeh using Versamark Canary on top it sort of intensifies the yellow, so I guess it fits with the challenge at 

Crazy for CAS. 

The panel was then die cut using a recent acquisition my Die-Namics 'Pierced Rectangles'.  I added a sprig of leaves using part of a Fresh Foliage die cut in green and added a few berries from my hole punch waste in red. The Hello and tab were from a Marianne set COL 1315.

OK that's a wrap. Thanks for stopping by and come back soon.