Thinking Of You in these hard times.

What do you think of the layout here. A bit different, relaxed, scattered lol. I had been embossing stamps for hours, you know how it goes each stamp stamped in black for copic and watercolour then white embossed, gold embossed, silver embossed, black embossed and of course each is done onto copic friendly cardstock, watercolour cardstock, vellum, and coloured cardstock. We see the beauty of these stamps then see how we can stamp and colour on a number of different mediums, with a number of different mediums then we think of the ones we want to stamp, colour and cut out, ohhh mu goodness its more exhausting than going to work some days. You get the idea, a couple of new background stamps and a couple of stamp sets and your day is filled and you haven't even coloured yet...... well I bought some of the most amazing stamps from The Ton and this was the last set for the day, I was exhausted and I cheated , I left them in place, added ink

and then stamped directly onto multimedia paper then gold embossed and silver embossed, thinking I will colour and cut. BUT I loved how it looked so I left it whole, coloured with Zigs, thats red wine on the flowers and used the palest grey to do a wash around the flowers. 

I feel it works and it looks fantastic as it is. Added a few mixed sequins from Lucy's mix and its all finished. One layer perfection.

Challenges:

The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge : Day 5 

(Did Day for with Instagram)

As You Like It Challenge : Favourite Markers Inks or Pencils and WHY

Zigs - So bright and pretty and easy to use. 

Love the watercolour effect with so little work.

CAS Mix Up Card Challenge : July 2016

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You Color My World

This was an idea I am happy came together. Hit a few glitches, one of course the dreaded stamp drop so the sentiment had to go where there were some random black lines. After that the colouring was easy and enjoyable. Of course it was done with Copics and then a wee bit of 

Wink of Stella that shows up here lightly. Then the hardest bit using my rectangle dies so they could frame the picture. I didnt want to cut off too much of my colouring and it wasn't going too well.

I wasted a bit of coloured cardstock trying to work out what to do and in the end used these that the largest die just does the stitches outline without cutting and also attached the next size down roughly lined up so it cut a frame. After the second time it worked. Then I attached the coloured image to a piece of white card stock to the attach to the back of the frame. 

Finished off with the cute little cockatoo and a sentiment that I cut in half then stamped on the word bubble to cover up that miss stamp.

Very happy with this.

Challenges :

The Daily Marker: #0 Day Colouring Challenge Day 3

Virginia's View Challenge 22 : Colouring Fun!

Shopping Our Stash Weekly Challenge #259 : Say What?!

Seize The Birthday: Birds, Bees and Butterflies

Even though it says on the front 'You colour my World' its actually a

Birthday card for a girlfriend to give her husband.

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I Love You

A Simple watercolour card. Stamped and heat embossed with silver.

Watercoloured with Zigs and lots of water.

Silver die cut 'love you sentiment and a few little sequins.

Simple and easy card.

Challenges: 

The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge: Day 2

Addicted to Stamps and More: Challenge #201 : Anything Goes

Alphabet Challenge Blog : Challenge I for 'Ink it up'

CAS Mix Up July 2016 Challenge

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Looking Fabulous!

This is a very short written post as we have no internet at home. There has been some type of outrage and it will not be on again till tomorrow. So I have tethered my computer to my phone which has very limited download time on a different server.

I was inspired by Therese's beautiful card on the Time Out Challenge Blog.

This is Thereses' outstanding card and there is so much about it that I love that I had to have ago.

I was inspired by the flowers cut and layered onto of vellum. The soft pink/salmon colours.

I have used flowers from the same company but instead of stamping the layers in the different coloured inks I wanted to colour mine with copics (my favourite medium).

I coloured with three Copics from the R family R00 R11 and R20, I finished off my highlighting some of the petals with a white gel pen and added a little Wink of Stella to the petals. I coloured the leaves with YG01 G21 and YG17, love this combo. I fussy cut the flowers and leaves as I didnt get the dies. They look fiddly but were actually very easy to cut out.

I added a layer of vellum that has gold strips, its totally stunning vellum. I cut this so it was at an angle much like Therese did. Added my flowers with the top one having some dimensional tape added. then added the leaves and the gold cut sentiment. All this was layered on a pink card base.

Challenges:

Time Out Challenges : #60 :Therese Calvird the Inspiration

The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge Day 1

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Wedding Card

This is my second post for today. I was about to start dinner and suddenly had an inspiration so they are still waiting from to cook dinner and I am uploading this cause I would like to make the Simon Says Monday challenge and it closes in a couple of hours.

I first clear stamped then gold embossed this wondrous background stamp from MFT on black card stock. Its stunning on black in gold. You really need to make sure you use your  little pillow or tool first to make sure there are no fingerprints or grey residue on your cardstock so you get a nice clear gold emboss. It really makes a difference and looks so much better without stray bits of gold on it.

Then the big decision was how to put the sentiment on. I pondered die cuts, gold, black, white, then vellum but it just didnt show up enough. Then I thought of the Papertrey gold embossed card fronts I had bought previously. This rectangle with the lovely gold embossed border was in the middle of a gold spotted card front so I cut it out with a scalpel and can still use the other part of the front with something covering the cut out area.

I glued the panel down after stamping the sentiment in black.  I have added random (decisions  decisions, my goodness it seems harder with sequins than gems!!) gold sequins. They looks different colours in different shots and I cant think of the word for them....other than holographic maybe. Anyway they were $1 ones from the junk shop but look fantastic here. Its finished and I am happy as a pig in mud.

Challenges

Simon Days Monday Challenge : Tic Tac Toe

Penny Black and More: July Challenge: Anything Goes

Brown Sugar Challenge Blog :Challenge #225 : Wedding

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Spread your wings and fly......because it's your day

How clever is that I combined the two sentiments for the two cards I have done. They are not related in any aspect except I coloured them.

This first card I have used butterflies from Inspired to Stamp and have had them for ages and cant believe I have hardly used them. Must use them more cause they really are pretty.

I have coloured with blue/green and blue Copics. Kept the colours nice and cool. I then added a pale blue gem between the butterflies.

The card is then finished off with this sentiment that I have used a number of times as I like it.

Next card is

a lovely relaxing scene, at least for my husband who loves fishing. I got this stamp (I don't want to think about how long ago, cause I forgot I had it and came across it the other day and smacked my hand for forgetting it) from Serendipity Stamps. Its not mounted on anything and I just use repetitional tape on the back to stick it in my Misti to line it up properly.

Such an easy image to colour as there are clear shadow lines visible . After I started colouring the boat I realised I should have gone for a colour rather than raw wood but it was too late to change it so this boat has had such a hard life there's no paint left.

I love how the water turned out using lots of different colours in the blues and blue/greens.

The sentiment to finish it off I stamped in Hero Art grey colour as I felt it was better in this instance.

The sentiment says it all..... will give it to John a bit early for Fathers Day that way he can go away fishing for the weekend not just the day. He and his dad have a larger boat that they can sleep on, they go from his dad's from Dora Creek out onto the Macquarie Lakes and totally enjoy themselves. (And I enjoy myself at home not cooking dinner, controlling the remote control and crafting).

Challenges

Muse Challenge #172: Jenni Murray Inspiration

Was inspired by Jenni's butterflies, colours used, gems and layout so have followed that style. This was a wonderful card to follow and I love Jenni's style.

Addicted to CAS: Challenge #91 : Fly

Butterflies fly

The Craft Barn : Two Weekly Challenge : Butterflies

CASology: Week #204: Row

I interpreted the word as to 'row' a boat.

Pattie's Creations Design Challenge: #124: Must feature Water

Mod Squad Challenge Blog : Nautical

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If I had a star for every time you made me smile........

Isn't that a wonderful sentiment. In case you cant read the sentiment the whole  of it is:

If I had a star for every time you made me smile,

I would be holding the entire night sky in my hand.

I made the background on watercolour paper and with Brusho's blue and purple. I made this particular one a while ago with some other pieces and the colours are all rather dark as I am still on the trial and error with it. BUT I felt it made a wonderful night sky.

I used a stencil that I have and cant remember where I got it, it's a thicker stencil so more robust and has clusters of stars, hearts and circles on it in the three separate sections. So i have used the stars section with Bobunny silver glitter embossing paste to make the scatter of stars, moving the stencil a couple of times.

Because I was too lazy to tape the stencil in place I did get a few instances where the glitter is a bit thicker round the edges but over all I was very pleased with the piece.

I attached the panel onto a a grey piece of cardstock, white embossed the sentiment on a piece of vellum, attached on the inside of the card. Coloured my bunnies from Mama Elephant stamp set with copics and ooops I forgot to add glitter to their tails, so just pretend the tails look fluffy and 

glittery- ok. Attached the rabbits with some dimensional tape. 

An unusual night sky I know but it is my magic one that rabbits sit in front off and profess their love!!!

Challenges:

Less is More: Recipe Week 282: Use a Stencil

Simon Says Wednesday Challenge : Anything Goes

The Sisterhood of Crafters : Create your own background.

Simon Says Work It Wednesday June 2016 - use a wafer thin die or stencil 

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