Congrats to you both

Morning and welcome to my 3rd post as GD over at JUGS.

Here's my card for you for this week's colour challenge.

I chose green for my optional colour.

My son is of an age when his friends and colleagues are getting married so it's been Mum, have you got a card ...... .

Well, I decided to use that request as my inspiration using the colours of the challenge, my extra colour had to be green for the foliage. 

After a traumatic wait for my Concord and 9th prize and almost £15 in import VAT and handling, I thought I better use it! As it was from a guy, I thought I would keep it pretty simple with just a few PPP sequins added.

The background was stamped on white using Memento London Fog and trimmed down to fit. On a separate scrap of card I stamped just one of the bouquets and die cut it before stamping in the foliage and flowers. A separate die cut flower was cut and stamped with Abandoned Coral DOx 1st and 2nd generation and some extra green ferny branches coloured with Altenew's Parrot and Olive and added to the bouquet.

The sentiment panel was stamped with a greeting from HLS in London Fog and a XCut Congrats coloured with the same Abandoned Coral. I decided to pop the finished die cut up on fun foam for added dimension.

OK, that's it from me but please check out the rest of the team here and join in.

It's a busy day here on my blog, so I'll be back again in a few hours with some more inspiration.

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AG

Sailing by to wish you ...........

Morning all.

It's time for a brand new challenge over at Cardz4Guyz.

This week our there is:-

ALL AT SEA

Here is my take on it.

I used the sketch at AAA and the Woodware set Sailing By.

With a small black ink pad, I inked the lighthouse part of the large stamp and stamped on white card, then coloured with Copics and a little white gel pen for the waves.

My porthole was made using two Avery Elle Double pierced circle dies and matching white card, glued over the trimmed down image. A few shaped, punched circles added to the porthole effect.

The sentiment is also from the set but as I only wanted the words not the frame and knot, I used my Zig pens to ink up the words before stamping onto a 5 x 5 white base card. My porthole, popped up on pads was then attached.

So what will you come up with?

Go on have a go, making masculine cards isn't that difficult, honestly! Keeping it CAS is a great way to make a masculine card.

Check out the DT here for more sea inspired cards.

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Stretching your dies

Afternoon peeps.

I was lucky enough to win a gift voucher in Altenew's July Challenge and I bought the Fantasy Florals dies. I must admit it was a hard decision as to which items to put in my basket but decided on die cuts as they can be so versatile. 

Instead of cutting out the separate sections of the flower from card I used kraft foam and turned them into stamps!

Here is what I ended up with.

After stamping the base shape, using Memento Angel Pink, I added the 2nd with 2nd generation Rose Bud and the final layer was stamped with Rose Bud, just as it comes. I quite like the blotchy look of the large leaf clusters which I stamped with Altenew Olive with some hand drawn veining using Moss. It was missing something so using a couple of stamps that came free in a mag, I added 3 single leaves and a thank you from the same set. To finish, I added some splatter in the same colours, masking off the flower and leaves with die cut Post its.

What do you think? Can you tell it's not a proper stamp? The flower turned out better than the leaves but overall I think it worked.

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Focusing on the grateful for what makes us happy section

Make it Feminine

Mix and Match small stamps and a few extras!

Good morning peeps.

It's week two of my GD stint over at JUGS, so here is my card for your inspiration.

Now can you guess what is hand drawn?

I wanted to make a wreath but I couldn't get the full coverage with the stamps I had about so after stamping the first 4 sprays with the Uniko Originally Organic Additions and the flowers from Big and Bold - Hello, using my homemade wreath maker, I drew in a few more leaves, some berries and a tiny flower and coloured every thing in with Copics. The greeting, also from Uniko, Simply Said Christmas was stamped and embossed with gold EP. My finished panel was then mounted on a panel that I'd previously edged with a Versamark pen and embossed with the same gold EP. Both panels were then mounted on a white, 5 x 5 square base card. 

Go on, be brave and add some hand drawn elements to your project, we'd love to see them.

By the way, if you are a subscriber or you just pick up a copy of Craft Stamper, you'll spot me in the October issue in part of an article featuring Uniko stamps!

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Another one for the stash

Hi and welcome to a post for the brand new challenge over at ATSM.

Here is my inspiration for you.

This week our theme is:-

Always needing to add to my stack of Christmas cards I ignored the up coming festival of Halloween and went with the opportunity to add to my stash.

The colour challenge at CAS-ual Fridays put the idea of snow and cooler times into my head and my layout was inspired by the latest challenge at CAS(e) this Sketch.

To start I masked off a panel on a white base card then added a background of heat embossed snowflakes with a retired STAMPlorations stamp, before inking with Altenew's Minty Mint. My die cut bauble, cut from silver mirror card was a freebie from a couple of years ago and the sentiment is from Uniko. The top panels were popped up on fun foam and the bauble string added freehand.

For more HOLIDAY inspiration, check out the rest of the girls here.

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Challenge #79
Beautiful Backgrounds

CAS on Friday Sketch

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

Our theme for the month is -

Lots of ideas went through my head but eventually I decided to use some Tim Holtz 'Wild Flowers' die cuts and the sketch from CAS on Friday. I did rotate it 90 ' but hope that's OK.

The panel and die cut circle were inked with a mix of various DOx inks and gently spritzed with water for a little extra texture before being glued to my base card. The black die cut wild flowers were glued over the panels and a stamped and embossed sentiment strip added to complete.

We are off to a funeral for a friend's mum tomorrow so this card rather summed up the mood, autumn skies and harvest moon. She was in her mid 90's, so a good innings but sad none the less.

So where will wild take you, for a wild night out perhaps or include a wild animal, unsure? Well pop over to the main blog and check out the rest of the fab team here. Just remember these guidelines.

Our winner for this challenge will receive a $20 coupon to spend at the shop! Check out all the details HERE.

IF YOU USE STAMPS BY HAPPY LITTLE STAMPERS AND YOU ARE OUR RANDOM WINNER, YOUR PRIZE WILL BE DOUBLED!

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Guesting with JUGS

Hi and welcome to a very early scheduled post. I'm very excited to announce that the reason for this early start is that I am guesting over at JUGS for the month of September. Here is my first card for you.

Our theme this week is -

This is a card I made for my Sister -in law and husband's golden wedding anniversary. Sorry the pic is a little dark but taking a pic of gold mirror card as well as glitter card is a mite tricky!

I totally went with the gold theme here, using a foliage die from MB, a free rose die from Altenew as well as sentiments from Uniko and a CC diecut background.

For the roses I cut some of the layers from a panel of watercolour paper and some from glitter card. The w/c die cuts were then coloured using  Zigs in golden yellows. The foliage was also cut from various scraps of gold card and arranged around the 3 roses. My background panel was cut from pale cream card using the CC die and glued onto a matching 5 x 7 cream base card. 

The celebrate was stamped and embossed with gold EP before being fussy cut. The sentiment strip was stamped, the 50 cut from mirror card added and then slipped under the bouquet.

OK, that's it from me but please check out the rest of the team here and join in.