Birthday Wishes and Feel Better

I'm away so I don't have anything in particular to post for a Challenge

but I do have these two cards I made last week.

This little sweetie speaks for itself. A wonderful image from,

yes you guessed it, Mo's Digital Pencil. She is on such a high these

days putting out the most amazing digital images nearly daily.

And of course every time I see one I'm sure I cant live without it.

Me, of a million stamps on mount NBUS is now getting a digital

mount NBUS as well.

Doesn't she make you feel like you need to give her a cuddle. Not needed

for anyone here at the moment, being the middle of summer and such a heat

wave no one has a flu but it will come in handy later.

So easy to colour with Copics and the sentiment can be used with or

not. I decided to add some joy and went rainbow colours for the sentiment.

A couple of enamel dots and finished.

This card is hard to show at its best in the light that was

available when I took the photo. It's a card for son number

2 (So much easier to remember numbers than names as

the family gets bigger with children, partners and their children lol)

Anyhoo, its for his birthday which was last week. Lives on the coast

within minutes of the beach and loves to surf. These surf boards I bought

years and years ago, I think they are actually petals for a flower stamp

but you just couldn't get surf board stamps (I now have plenty) and when

I saw this stamp set, I decided it was perfect. Soooo I have white

embossed on cardstock then blended Tumbled Blue Distress Ink towards the

centre and Pistachio Green from the other end then blended them together.

 

I then used my Stamplorations 'birthday' die and cut out

of the card and another 4 layers in white. Once I had it glued back

in place and added 'wishes' sentiment.

AND then I couldn't leave well enough alone. The birthday just

didnt stand out at all, you could barely see it, so yes I thought just go over

with the blending tool and a bit more blue, oops splot, bits of spots of dark

colour on the card base, looked totally ruined so more blending to fix it.

Then rubbing off excess on white embossing with cloth, rub a bit on card

upper left and oooops nearly rubbed through.  Just one of those times.

Well it didnt matter, he thought it was great, especially with the money inside lol.

Gotta love them, those that appreciate the work that goes into these

masterpieces. Me, I was so disappointed with what started out just brilliant so

I made another but still have to cut out the 'Birthday' and remember to darken before 

I put it back into the negative.

Lets see if theres any challenges for these little masterpieces :)

Cute Card Thursday Challenge #465 No Pattern Paper

Birthday card with surfboards

Moving Along with The Times Challenge #39 For a Man

Birthday Card with Surfboards

Seize The Birthday In-laid Die-Cutting

Birthday card With Surfboards. So nice to be playing

along with the Topping.

Mo's Digital Pencil Challenge #272 Anything Goes

No badge for this that I can see.

Feel Better card.

Crafting With An Attitude #24 Anything Goes

Feel Better Card 

(Hope I haven't entered too many times, better check mmm)

Simon Says Monday Challenge Use your Favourite Tool

Feel Better Card

My Favourite Tool would have to be COPICS

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

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REMINDER The Flower Challenge #5

Here to remind you we have passed the half way point for this months challenge

so if your going to join us start working on those ideas. 

Here's another look at the  wonderful card Therese did.

If you would like to watch the video on how she made this stunning creation

or to check out her amazing blog the link is on The Flower Challenge page.

We have all done another card to help get the creative juices flowing

and also so you can see the different ways we all interpret Therese's

card.

For this card I used a die from  Neat and Tangled 'Gardenia Blooms

Journaling Die'. I didnt worry about stamping I just wanted to use the

die for this.

I did cut the panel twice so it would just sit above the original

die cut negative when I put it back in place. I glued the

two layers together then went around the edge of the die cut

with a silver pen.

I used some scraps from a piece of glossy cardstock I had used

alcohol inks on. The inks were a mix of a couple of pinks

and lots of silver that was left on my craft mat from making backgrounds. 

I re-activated the mix with blending solution and squished my glossy card

stock into the mess.

I love the colours I ended up with and felt they gave a wonderful effect

behind the die cut panel. I stamped 'congratulations'  in silver ink. The

sentiment if from the Neat & Tangled stamp set that can pair with this die.

Finished off with a couple of really pretty clear gems that seem to reflect

colours around them very well.

Alright now you have seen my inspiration its time to go check out

The Flower Challenge

and see what theres of the team has for you.

 EDITED TO ADD Challenges:

Addicted to Stamps and More #229 Clean and Simple

Simon says Wednesday Challenge Fantastic Florals

Crafty Creations Challenge #335 Anything Goes

Thank you so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

Another Busy Day and Another Last Minute Card

 Another day has past and I spent most of it colouring. I coloured in a pile of wonderful images

for Valentines Day cards. then after dinner I went to make some valentine cards and found

my mind wondering to other things.

Here you see a card inspired by The Muse Card Challenge 202

Don't you just love this card by Anita, so bright and colourful

and my favourite, inset die cuts.

I was going to stamp but I was looking for pattern paper for something else and saw this

piece and it was perfect for my inspiration from Anita's card.

Rectangle die cut crooked stitches ( Stamplorations), inset 'hello'

die and some sequins added to this wonderful tropical paper.  

Stitched Die, hello die inset and loose flow flowers. 

And still a couple of hours to go.

This was my first card I made tonight and after I die cut I realised

I put the heart on the wrong side on the paper so the gold was the back

of the die cut.Was going to toss it aside but I had no more of this gold paper.

So I just cut three more white hearts and glued them all together. I think it still looks

okay, kind of unique.

I attached the love die cut from  the scraps of the same paper

then stamped the sentiment underneath.

Do you find yourself looking through all your sentiments every time you do a card,

I do. I never seem to remember what I was going to use or just cant find the one

that is just right. Anyway Im happy with this card.

My third came into being again with ideas just coming and then having to

improvise. I had stamped and white embossed this wonderful little background stamp.

Problem is its only a small background stamp so a bit limiting. I did some

watercolouring, just adding Distress Inks in Pink, Orange and Yellow, water. blotting

till I was happy. Anyway I cut out the heart design then realised the heart

outline was the main bit and of course there wasn't enough left for a card

front so I improvised. 

I cut a piece of this Papertrey Inks card front with the same

die then inset the heart and realised I should have kept all those

little bits that fit in the heart outline as the white of the card base shone

through. So I blended soft pinks, yellows and oranges on the base of the 

card so thats what shows through.

Finished off with a layered die cut 'you' and stamped the sentiment

only to realise as I took photos it was the same sentiment. 

There we go, all done......and my coloured images are still sitting there on the

craft table waiting for inspiration.

Thanks so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.

Challenges:

MuseCard Challenge #202

Hello Card

Work it Wednesday Simon Says January 2017 Something New

New Die used for card 'You make my heart happy' 

with inset watercolour heart.

Monday Simon Says: Young At Heart

Gold Heart Card

Creative With Stamps #11 Valentine

Gold Heart Card

Glitter 'N' Sparkle #226 Love is in the Air

You Make my heart happy card.

Addicted to Stamps Challenge #141 Love

You Make my Heart Happy Card

613 Avenue Create #194 Anything Goes without the Twist

Hello Card

Two valentines Cards & A Bit of Attitude

I have these bird images from Tiddy Inks and you can get them in a set on the branch or

as individual birds. Each is holding a note so you can resize to what you want to

include on the note. I opened the graphic in Adobe Photoshop so

I could type in the sentiment 'Happy Valentines Day, Love You'.

Splitting the word Valentine made for a good fit. Coloured the birds in

rainbow colours with Copics. Die cut the piece with a Stitch rectangle

die cut then a piece of heart pattern paper next size up.

The die cut here came with an order from Mama Elephant as a Thank you

gift for my order. How sweet is that and looks perfect die cut in gold mirror

card.

I didnt add the die cut sentiment to this card. And decided to colour all

the birds in red. Another heart pattern paper background for this card. Die cut

stitched tags for both cards.

I have followed the Sketch at Freshly Made Sketches with this 

fantastic sketch by Jen

only I changed the direction of the card going Landscape rather

than Portrait. Hopefully thats okay and I have stayed close

enough to the Sketch.

This next card I have used Stella from Bugaboo Digi Stamps

Now  have quite a few of these and haven't used for a while and was visiting

and of course did some more shopping (I know more NBUS) but it

inspired me to get out some images I had printed and needed colouring.

I was looking at things I had coloured a few years ago and not used and suddenly

raised how much I colouring has come along. They really needed to be tossed, 

cleaned out and start again.

I need another Colouring Challenge to catchup and stock up.

Anyway back to Stella I have coloured her with Copics.

Die cut with a curved edge rectangle die then cut the piece of pattern

paper with the same die so I could inset the image.

Love this pattern paper which is a nice golden colour IRL.

I then stamped the sentiment 'Old age ain't no place for sissies' accredited

to Bette Davis. Don't you just love Stella, looks like she is walking past

the window and just paused to drop that comment and walk on......

I have also dug out a bunch of stamps with 'sentiments' with

attitude and thought it was time to share them. Don't look at the crooked

stamping, used the Misti just didn't bother to test first and it is a red rubber

stamp so you cant see if its straight.

I had already done three backgrounds before I was happy so I took

Stella's attitude.... this is no place for sissies.

Challenges:

Freshly Made Sketches #274

Happy Valentines Day

Simon Says Monday Challenge - Young At Heart

Valentine card with little chickies  in red, wishing everyone

Happy Valentines Day with hearts and hearts on the backing paper.

Casual Fridays Colour Challenge

The second valentine where the birds are red, the pattern paper is pink

and the card white. Just not sure if the blue sky dots take it out of the

challenge, let me know and I will remove the link if not right.

Creative with Stamps #11 Valentine

The First Valentine card with the birds on it.

AAA Cards: CAS Game #83

The first bird card with rainbow birds

Happy Valentines With Love.

The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers #77

I dug out my stamps at last with all those wonderful comments

we love to add to our cards. So finally following

the challenge with an Outrageous sentiment. Stella 

and the cat.

Crating With An Attitude #24 Anything Goes

Stella and cat card.

Work It Wednesday Simon Says January 2017 - Something New

New image from Bugaboo and also the sentiment has never

been used before. Stella and Cat.

Thanks so much for coming to visit and I hope you come again soon.