CAS No Line Bunny

I've been busy this month playing along on Instagram with Kathy Racoosin of The Daily Marker for the 30 Day Colouring Challenge. Thought it was time I blogged one of the cards as it is Day 26 already and I'll hopefully get time to do a review of the finished pieces at some stage. This is my first time trying no line colouring, though I think the rabbit has changed shape a little bit! 

I've used the CAS(E) this sketch #183 and my background is all about colour for Virginia's View Challenge #22.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #183

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything Goes

The Daily Marker 30 Day Colouring Challenge Day 26

Virginia's View Challenge #22: All About Colors

Supplies

Stamps: Mama Elephant Up and Away, Starry Night

Dies, stencils et al: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Memento Desert Sand

Paper: White card

Highlights: Posca white pen

Colouring: Promarkers & Distress Crayons

Have fun and enjoy the colouring!

Distressed Frog Prince

I love these old patterned papers from Lawn Fawn and had scraps left over from an old project, so here they are with a new lease of life. All they needed was some distress inking around the edges and some faux stitching.

Distress inking the lily pad has created great texture and colour with distress stickles adding to the lily's sparkle and the ink colours the stickles.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #178

Lawnscaping Challenge #132: Distress Maniacs [distress inks] [Honorable Gnome]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Use Patterned Papers

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Critters Ever After, Birthday Tags

Dies & stencils et al: Spellbinders Nestabilities Ovals, Xcut Heart dies, Daisy punches

Ink: Ranger Archival Jet Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade

Paper: White card from stash, Lawn Fawn Bright Side Petite Paper Pack

Highlights: Stickles, googly eyes, Posca white pen

Colouring: Promarkers & Distress inks

Hope you've enjoyed your visit!

WMS June PJ Party #2

WMS June PJ Party Coffee Colour Challenge with a pop of red. I've used clear embossing powder over the inks and the CAS(E) this sketch #127.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #127

Craft for the Craic June Challenge: the Big Occasion

Waltzingmouse Stamps June PJ Party Challenge #2: Coffee Colour

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps A Good Egg
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles

Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa, Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black, Love Letter

Paper: Kraft card from stash

Highlights: Clear embossing powder, thread, MME enamel dots.

Hope you're having fun at the PJ Party and see you again for Challenge #3

Challenge #1

Easter Eggs

In the midst of the Easter break so lots of family crafty time at the expense of adult crafting, but I did manage to play along with this week's CAS(E) this sketch using the fabulous inspiration from the DT.

Lots of diecuts and an Easter theme for Craft for the Craic and lots of dimension for Virginia's View Challenge.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #117

Craft for the Craic April Challenge: Die-ing for Spring or Easter Theme

Virginia's View Challenge #14: Layers & Dimensions

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps A Good Egg
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs, Waltzingmouse Stamps A Good Egg die set, Simon Says Stamp Happy die

Ink: Memento Luxe Angel Pink, Morocco, Dandelion, Pear Tart, Bahama Blue, Lilac Posies, Memento Rich Cocoa.

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: wink of stella, stickles, white gel pen, glossy accents.

Hope you've had a lovely weekend.

Old Goat

I've had a go at something a little different for me: Peel off outline stickers!  I won these in a raffle and thought they'd go well with the cupcake goat. I've used the CAS(E) this sketch #115 and a freestyle collage style for the Card Concept's cupcake challenge.

This little goat was coloured for  Kathy Racoosin's (The Daily Marker) 30 Day Colouring Challenge and I'm so glad he made it to a card. The goat is stamped in Memento Tuxedo Black, clear embossed and coloured with distress markers. The cupcake decorations are stamped in sliver & iridescent sparkle embossed.

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #115

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday March 2015: Stamping

The Card Concept #31: Cupcakes {winner}

CCEE Stampers CCEE1513: Lamb or Farm Animals [A goat was as close as I could get!]

Supplies

Stamps: Simon Says Stamp Birthday Farm Animals, Mama Elephant Balloon et cetera
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Farm Animals die.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Encore Silver

Paper: White card from stash

Colouring: Distress Markers- Iced Spruce, Tattered Rose, Picked Raspberry, Victorian Velvet, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade, Ripe Persimmon, Festive Berries, Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Weathered Wood, Salty Ocean, Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves, Gathered Twigs, brushed Corduroy, Old Paper, Walnut Stain, Frayed Burlap, Picket Fence. 

Highlights: wink of stella, stickles, white gel pen, white enamel, silver peel off stickers, silver thread,  glossy accents, MME enamel dots, Judikins Iridescent Sparkle & clear embossing powder.

Hope you enjoyed your visit & see you again soon.
So busy with birthdays around here I almost forgot to link to the CCEE Stampers Challenge so I've updated the post!

Quilled Shamrock

Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhaoibh! Hope you are having a wonderful Paddy's day and are revelling in the green. For this special day, I've had another go at quilling with my toothpick. This is so much fun, if there were a few more hours in the day I could spend my time quilling landscapes! It's very relaxing and simple to do.

This card would fit under a few of the choices for BINGO at Craft for the Craic. I chose the central column, even though I don't have any chipboard, because I wanted to make faux-chipboard. This is great for adding dimension by using any of your dies or punches to fake chipboard embellishments. I diecut the happy sentiment three times and stuck them together, you could use even more layers for chunkier chipboard. And yes I did spot the P in need of more adhesive just before it was posted, but not in time for more photos!

I wanted to keep the white spaced uncluttered as the shamrock was very detailed and also stick to the CAS(E) this Sketch. Instead of stamping on all the layers I used sequins on all the layers and positioned some of them half under the layers similar to the sketch.

Challenges:

Addicted to CAS Challenge #59 Codeword: Green

CAS(E) this Sketch #114

CCEE Stampers CCEE1511: Go Green

Craft for the Craic Challenge #14: BINGO [Central Column: Sentiment, >2 Layers, Chipboard]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Violet's ABCs
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Happy die.

Ink: Memento Luxe Tuxedo Black

Paper: White & green card from stash 

Highlights: wink of stella, quilling paper, NT birthday sequins.

Happy Paddy's Day! Hope you all get a chance to enjoy wearing the green and have fun!  See you soon.

Note:

Paddy is the diminutive form of Patrick taken from Padraig (Irish for Patrick). Pat is also used, I've even known a male Patsy but I don't know any males who use a double T in their pet name. Some Patricia's do use it along with Trish.

Watercoloured Bundle of Joy

I love this week's CAS(E) this sketch but as my last card using it wasn't very CAS I thought I'd give it another go. Distress inks are so much fun, whether they be markers or pads! A surprise bundle of joy is on the way in our extended family later in the year, so I thought I'd spread a little cheer.

I've used Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil with translucent paste for the stars and these are my dots for the Lawnscaping Challenge.

I've embossed the images to make watercolouring easier and the sentiment for a bit of sparkle. More embossing for Virginia's View Challenge- love this technique!

Challenges:

CAS(E) this sketch #113  [Favorite]

Lawnscaping Challenge #101: Dots and/or Stripes  [Mow-It-All]

Virgina's View Challenge #13: All Things Embossed

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Plus One, Home Sweet Home
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Broken China, Chipped Sapphire, Evergreen Bough, Black Soot.

Paper: White card from stash

Colouring: Distress Markers- Firebrick Red, Mowed Lawn, Shabby Shutters, Weathered Wood,Evergreen Bough,Iced Spruce, Frayed Burlap, Gathered Twigs, Old Paper, Tattered Rose, Ripe Persimmon, Mustard Seed, Squeezed Lemonade.

Highlights: wink of stella, translucent embossing paste, black sparkle & clear embossing powder, glossy accents, green star gems

Hope you've enjoyed you're visit and you'll stop back soon!

Mixed Media & Embossed Thinking

Mixed Media background card with lots of embossing: embossing paste dots sanded back to white after applying gelato colour, sprays and stamped stripes, embossed label tape and white heat embossed then watercoloured images. I chose the background colours from the Card Concept's inspiration photo and sanded the embossing paste back to white as a nod to the vase in the photo.  But how did I go from flowers to postbox, I hear you ask! When your thinking of someone you might send flowers, but mostly you'll send a note through the post (or email through the internet) and as our postboxes are green and all spring like it was settled!

I've used the CAS(E) this sketch but, as the card involved lots of steps, fussy cutting and messing about with gelatos and sprays, it doesn't fall under their CAS theme. It does contain dots, stripes and lovely Lawn Fawn images so perfect for the Lawnscaping Challenge and three types of embossing for Virginia's View Embossing Challenge which is one year old this month. Embossing was one of the first techniques I tried as a cardmaker and I still love it in all its forms.

Challenges:

Lawnscaping Challenge #101: Use dots and/or stripes

The Card Concept #30: Thinking of You Mixed Media

Virginia's View Challenge #13: All Things Embossed

Media: Distress markers, pigment ink, gelatos, Memento marker, sprays; cardstock, watercolour card; embossing paste, embossing powder, Stickles, glimmer mist, wink of stella, staples, wooden peg, label tape, thread, glass beads & sandpaper.

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn You've Got Mail, Clearly Besotted Basic Stripes
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Polka Dot Party Stencil, Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Ink: Memento London Fog, Versamark

Paper: Watercolour & Grey Card from stash

Colouring: Momento Tuxedo Black marker, Gelato- Aqua Dolce, Butter Cream, Banana, Guava, Bubble Gum, Lavender, Squid Ink, Distress Markers- Mowed Lawn, Old Paper.

Highlights: Stickles, wink of stella, seed beads, white & pearlescent embossing paste, Heidi Swapp Gold, dylusions white linen ink spray, glimmer mist, embossed label, gold thread, wooden peg, staples.

Anyone following me on Instagram will recognise the postbox. I originally coloured this as part of Kathy Racoosin's (The Daily Marker) 30 Day Colouring Challenge. It's lovely to see the coloured image on a card!

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Purrfect Birthday CAS(E)#95 MtDSTechnique VVC#8

Masking and more and more masking, this card contains 3 types! Embossing and embossing, yes you guessed it, this card contains 2 types! I started out by masking off a rectangular section of my stencil with painter's tape and applied the embossing paste. While this was drying I created a party hat mask with post-it note tape, stamped up my images and coloured in my tabby cat. I've kept the mask with my stamp set so I can use it again. The sentiment is a combination of two sets, I masked out the word halloween with washi tape before inking in versamark, removed the tape, stamped and embossed on vellum. The birthday was then stamped and embossed. The sentiment was stamped and embossed in two stages as I didn't want to smudge the almost invisible versamark.

This card is a refinement of my last card. I wanted to use a more subdued palette and have a go at some masking. I've used CAS(E) this sketch #95 for the layout,  kept it clean and simple for Virginia' View Challenge #8 and tried a few techniques for Make the Day Special's October Challenge.

Challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #95
Make the Day Special October Challenge: Try a technique [masking & embossing]

Virginia's View Challenge #8: Clean & Simple

 

 

 

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Spooktacular, Hat's Off To You
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Large Stitched Rectangles Lawn Cuts, Tim Holtz Dot Fade Stencil

Paper: White card  & vellum from stash

Highlights: gold embossing paste, white embossing paste, glossy accents, gold gel pen, Wink of Stella, Lawn Fawn sequins

Colouring: ProMarkers Cool Grey 1, Cool Grey 3, Cool Grey 4, Pink Carnation, Blender.

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Jane's Birthday Card

Seeing as it's STAMPtember I had to stamp my own background! I've used the beautiful Hero Arts stamps [and paper flowers] that I won from Julie's Oh Well... 300 Posts Giveaway.  Julie has some beautiful card and project inspiration on her blog which is well worth a visit. 

This is my first time using this type of paper flower. I've used a few of the petals for a fuller look, added extra glitter, covered the brad with silver liquid pearls and topped with a half pearl I had coloured with distress ink.

The Simon Says Stamp Happy die cut was layered a few times with the top coloured layer placed off centre for a shadow effect and lots of stickles and glossy accents to finish it off. I love using staples to adhere embellishments and this card has the added bonus of one of my favourite colour combinations: pink and silver [& a little navy!] As the background is very busy my birthday sentiment was stamped on vellum and I kept the embossed banner white with some distress inking around the edges to tie the two pieces together. I tried to keep this card as CAS as possible using the same colour of distress ink & embellishments and a large white banner.

I've used this week's CAS(E) this sketch for my card layout and A Blog Named Hero's challenge to "Spell It Out For Me" to personalise this card for a very special Jane. Hopefully Jane can use the banner as a bookmark.

Challenges:

A Blog Named Hero Challenge #51: Spell It Out For Me

CAS(E) this Sketch #91

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Make Your Own Background

Supplies  
Stamps: Hero Arts Sparkle Clear: Glam, Simon Says Stamp Happy Sentiments, Lawn Fawn Smitty's ABCs
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink  Picked Raspberry, Memento Paris Dusk, Memento Luxe Lilac Posies
Dies/Embossing: Hero Arts Medallion Embossing Folder
Paper: White card & wellum from stash 
Highlights: Prima Paper Flowers, flower brad, Stickles, Glossy Accents, half pearl, silver liquid pearls

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you soon.