On Trend Birthday

Pink and orange hot distress ink sunset as the backdrop to my shiny silver city. Another quick entry for the 10 Minute Craft Dash. After inking and misting I heat set the background for a minute and liberally covered it in powder from my magic bag. I had all the stamps on one block and quickly restamped the skyline before heat embossing in silver. Masking tape and sequin ribbon to ground the image and stop the clock. 9 minutes 54.13 seconds, yay!

Lots of glitter and shine for a sparkly new year birthday. Outside the 10 minute window I added some die cut letters to personalise the card. This card is also for Sentimental Sundays 'Pick from our Favourite Challenge', under Challenge #170: Happy Birthday and Papertake Weekly Challenge: Pick of the Year under the challenge from June: Hot Hot Hot.

Challenges:

10 Minute Craft Dash #32: Anything Goes

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #187: Pick from our Favourite

Papertake Weekly Challenge: Pick of the Year

Supplies

Stamps: Fresh Squeezed Stamps On Trend 2013

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Picked Raspberry, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Versamark

Paper: White & silver card from stash

Highlights: Glimmer mist, silver embossing powder, ribbon & masking tape from stash

Dies: Lawn Fawn Cole's ABCs

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Get Well 10 Minute Craft Dash Circle

This card is for a friend who had an accident recently. I wanted to cheer him up, make him smile and hopefully forget about his injury for a bit! I hope this falls under the category of Get Well as I wanted to play along with the 4 Crafty Chicks. 

The deer was coloured very quickly using three shades of brown and a pink, please don't look too closely! Then I stamped my speech bubble and set to die cutting. It took 5 passes through my die-cutting machine to get all the shapes. More stamping, liquid glue, pop dots, Wink of Stella and a crazy dash for a few dabs of enamel! Did I make the 10 Minute Craft Dash cutoff? 

I created this card in 8 minutes 54.13 seconds. Now I just have to hope this posted in time to link up to the challenge.

I designed a circular card so the I could enter Sentimental Sundays 'Pick from our Favourite Challenge', under Challenge #177: Shaped or Easel Cards, but mine isn't a birthday card so I'll have to enter it under Challenge #146: Anything Goes. I missed these first time round and really wanted to give it a go.

One last photo with the special envelope I created for the card. This time the card is facing away from the sunlight so you can see the pattern on the pale blue paper.

Challenges:

10 Minute Craft Dash #32: Anything Goes {Favorite}

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #187: Pick from our Favourite

4 Crafty Chicks Challenge #175: Get Well

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Into The Woods

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa

Paper: Kraft card from stash, Lawn Fawn Dalphne's Closet, Pink Lemonade

Highlights: Wink of Stella, Enamel

Dies: Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts Circle & Scalloped Circle Stackables, Into The Woods, Paper Smooches Borders 1 Wise Dies

Colouring: Promarkers, Flexmarkers

Hope to see you again soon!

10 Minute Craft Dash

This is such a great challenge and preparation is the key! My stamps were on their blocks, all my tools, inks and cardstock were laid out, my sketch was ready and just the pop dots might hold me back (and the embossing and the glittering).  As I peeled my last back off and popped my layer down on the card I had under 2 minutes to add my glitter. My final time was 9 minutes 51.12 seconds. Yay! 

Challenges:

Pretty Pink Posh 10 Minute Craft Dash #31 {Favorite}

Supplies  
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Peace Joy Love, Hero Arts sentiment 
Ink: Memento Luxe Love Letter, Encore Silver
Paper: White & green card from stash 
Highlights: Distress stickles, Stickles, glitter glue, silver embossing powder  
Colouring: Promarkers- Ruby, Gold, Forest Green

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Craft Dash CAS(E) Favourite

The front of this card took 6 minutes 52 seconds. This is in part due to the CAS(E) sketch I followed. Having a sketch to work with is such a great way to focus and speed up the creative process, you have an idea where you're going from the start. Then Paulina's colour palette help me have all the correct colour supplies ready. I had every thing laid out: my dies, ink pads, stamps on blocks, patterned paper pad, washi tapes, Stickles, Promarkers and guillotine. I used a count down because if I had any time left I wanted to stamp the inside with a custom sentiment to make sense of the bee. For the inside, I lined up my letters one by one with the bee and its trail, inked in blue and brown stamped and got to colouring. Then I realised I had forgotten to stamp the second Z. The buzzer sounded just as I lifted my block from the upside down Z I'd stamped in my haste. So 10 minutes inside and out!

I like the higgledy-piggledy look of this sentiment as if it is buzzing! No time for glitter inside or corner rounding, but that's the nature of the challenge. I can't believe how excited I felt to have finished inside and out as the buzzer sounded. Even though I was slapping my letters together haphazardly, Smitty's ABCs by Lawn Fawn still managed to stay relatively straight. I normally line my letter stamps up so carefully and I just love how Lawn Fawn design their alphabet stamps: perfectly spaced with multiple common letters (Well, how many times will you be under time pressure and need two Zs??)

Challenges:

10 Minute Craft Dash #25

CAS(E) this Sketch #44

Lawnscaping Challenge #65: Use your Favourite Supplies [Lawn Fawn stamps & dies, Washi tape especially woodgrain and Stickles]

Supplies

Stamps: Lawn Fawn Stay Tuned, Gnome Sweet Gnome, Smitty's ABCs
Ink: Memento Summer Sky, Rich Cocoa, Hero Arts Butter Bar

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Scalloped Circle Stackables

Paper: White card from stash, Lawn Fawn Daphne's Closet Petite Paper Pack

Highlights: Stickles, We R Memory Keepers Yellow Washi Tape

Colouring: Promarkers, Flexmarkers

Glad you could drop by, I had fun getting this ready and hope you enjoyed your visit.

10 Minute Craft Dash

This is a quick CAS card & post! This is my first time trying anything like this. I created in less than 10 minutes for the CAS-Friday 10min Craft Dash & if I'd pre-applied the stamps to the block it would have been even quicker. I choose my colour scheme based on Moxi Fab World Tuesday Trigger, lots of white space with golds & blue. The sentiment is from Hero Arts & the snowflakes are Hero Arts, Kars and Papermania. This is the first inking of my snowflakes.

Challenges:
CAS-ual Fridays CFC83: Dashing Thru The Holidays
Pretty Pink Posh Challenge #9: 10 Minute Craft Dash
Moxie Fab World Tuesday Trigger: Sweet Dreams
A Blog Named Hero Challenge #17: New Year, New You

Supplies

Stamps: Hero Arts CL469, SD412, KARS X-mas Collection, Papermania 907921, 907924

Ink: Encore Gold, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peacock Feathers

Punch: Dovercraft Corner Rounder
Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, iridescent gems