Celebrate & Party Princess Dreams

Finally getting a chance to show this gorgeous image from A Day For Daisies. Welcoming a new baby to the family is certainly something to celebrate with a party and I've had a go at pink blending for the dress too. This has been a challenge for me, but I've finally got a mix I like! Unfortunately I put the markers away before I photographed them so I can't remember exactly which ones I've used. I only have a few pinks so I'll just have to do some more colouring practice, what a chore!! At least there is another 30 day colouring challenge next month.

Challenges:
A Day For Daisies Challenge #138: Anything Goes
Passion for Promarkers Wk326 Mega Christmas Challenge: Let's Celebrate! [A new baby]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Party! [Party for a new baby]

Supplies

Stamps: A Day For Daisies Little Princess, Lawn Fawn Violet's ABCs, Wplus9 Onesie Two-sie
Dies & Stencils etc: Lawn Fawn Stitched Rectangles, Simon Says Stamp Falling Snow stencil.

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black

Paper: White & gold card from stash

Highlights: wink of stella, gold gel pen, star gem, glitter paste. 

Colouring: ProMarkers & FlexMarkers

We'll have to see if my hair prediction rings true as we watch little Elodie grow. Last time I saw her there was a beautiful auburn hint to her hair. Can't wait for my next visit!
Hope you enjoyed your visit to my little patch of blogland and see you again soon!

Wplus9 Week4 Stretch Paste Wednesday

Wplus9 wants us to stretch it and try something outside our creative norm for their Birthday Celebration Week 4.  I've decided to try a shaped card with embossing paste and embossing powder. I love this font from Wplus9, perfect for filling with stickles!  I've used Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe stencil, but it was smaller than my card base so I had to carefully reposition it to continue the stripes across the card front.

I let the embossing paste dry before heat embossing. I found it very difficult to tell when the embossing powder had melted and am not sure if this is a characteristic of the verdigris embossing powder or the embossing powder on the embossing paste. Another possibility of course is that it's just me! Anyhow my project was created on Wednesday in time for my craft club and Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday and Monday Challenge.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Work It Wednesday
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Paste
Wplus9 Birthday Challenge Week 4: Stretch It

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Onesie Two-sie
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark

Dies & Punches etc: Spellbinders Nesting Ovals, Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripes Stencil

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: white embossing paste, verdigris embossing powder, stickles, ribbon

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Wplus9 Spotlight Floral Pearls

My first attempt at the spotlight technique. I've used stamping as I didn't have any suitable dies and wanted to play along with Wplus9's Challenge. All my images are stamped in London Fog or Tuxedo Black on the card front and I've used Love Letter, Pistachio and Cottage Ivy for the diecut spotlighted flower. I created a Clean and Layered card for the Card Concept Floral Theme and used pearls for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge. I couldn't find any black card for my layers so I've used Black soot distress ink to alter some white card.

Challenges:
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Anything goes with Pearls 
The Card Concept Challenge #4: Floral Theme
Wplus9 Spotlight Challenge

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: Memento London Fog, Cottage Ivy, Tuxedo Black, Memento Luxe Love Letter, Pistachio, Tim Holtz Distress Black Soot

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals dies

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: washi tape, stickles, Wink of Stella, half pearls

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon!

Wplus9 Trend Watch

Week 3 of Wplus9's birthday celebrations and we're on trend watch. I've piled lots of trends on my card. Sequins, embossing paste, washi tape, vellum, neon and thread.

Challenges:
Wplus9 Birthday Celebration Week 3: On Trend

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Onesie Two-sie
Ink: Memento Bahama Blue, Memento Luxe Morocco, Dandelion, Tim Holtz Distress Antique Linen

Dies & Punches etc: Spellbinders Nesting Stars, Wendy Vecchi Honeycomb

Paper: White card and vellum card from stash

Highlights: white embossing paste,sequins, washi tape, stickles, thread

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Wplus9 Watercolour WOW

 

My sister had her first baby yesterday, I'll leave you to guess what it is! I wanted to make a special dreamy card for her new baby, so I thought Wplus9's watercolour-made-easy challenge would be a great place to start. I inked up my stamps in a slightly different manner to the Wplus9 tutorial. 

Stamping:

• Ink stamp with distress ink & stamp on scratch paper
• Brush glimmer mister on to stamp and huff on it
• Stamp on watercolour paper

This seemed to help with keeping the water to a minimum, so that the stamp still showed the fine detail on the onesie. I also prepared a watercolour wash background to mimic the sky as a backdrop for my clothes line and bokeh stamping. 

This baby's gender was kept as a wondrous surprise. I loved this and all the anticipation of the baby's birth. There are so few true surprises, hence I wanted the girl embellishment to be extra special. I embossed the top of the watercoloured die cut letters in clear embossing powder 3/4 times until they had a lovely glassy appearance. Then the bottom in gold WOW embossing powder for a dipped in chocolate look. I also added gold and silver embossed dots to my background.

Sorry the light levels are are quite low today, but hopefully you can still see some of the shimmer and shine all over the card. It really sparkles.

Challenges:
Penny Black & More Challenge: February- Make It Sparkle 
WOW Embossing Challenge February: Glass
Wplus9 Watercolour Made Easy

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Onesie Two-sie, Woodland Wreaths, Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Picked Raspberry, Broken China

Dies & Punches etc: Lawn Fawn Lawncuts Cole's ABCs

Paper: White card and watercolour card from stash

Highlights: silver & clear embossing powder, WOW gold rich ultra high metallic embossing powder, glimmer mist, Lawn Fawn silver sparkle cord, pegs

Can't wait to meet my new niece and my sister in her new role as this little one's mum. Hope you've enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Wplus9 Step Up Bold Pink

Embossing paste: how did I live without it? I love the depth and texture of the paste which has been coloured with Memento Luxe Love Letter and the jagged edges of the bold stripes which provide drama for the softer graphic image and coordinating sentiment. Glitter de rigueur!

Wplus9 are celebrating their birthday with lots of challenges, this week the focus is on dimension. I've used embossing and die cuts to achieve this. I've kept the embellishments to a minimum to allow the image and sentiment to take centre stage.

Challenges:
The Card Concept Challenge #3: Use Monochromatic Pink
CASology Week 82: Bold
Wplus9 Birthday Celebration Week 2: Step It Up

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds, Onesie Two-sie
Ink: Memento Angel Pink, Rose Bud, Tuxedo Black, Luxe Love Letter

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Love Birds, Xcut Nesting Heart Dies, Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe Stencil

Paper: White card and vellum from stash

Highlights: white embossing paste, Wink of Stella, Glossy Accents

Hope you enjoyed your visit and all your valentine cards are appreciated tomorrow!

Wplus9 Mood Collage with a Heart

Final found some time to play along with the Wplus9 Monday Mood Board #26. With all the elements on the board I went for a freestyle collage to play along with the Card Concept. I masked the Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stencil using a die cut heart and covered it with white embossing paste. Then layered looped thread, lace ribbon, vellum heart die cut & gold embossed banner and topped with beautiful pink blooms accented with liquid pearls.

 

Challenges:

Wplus9 Monday Mood Board #26

The Card Concept 3: Monochromatic Pink

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: Have a Heart

 

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: Memento Angel Pink, Luxe Pear Tart, Pistachio, Versamark

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals, Xcut Nesting Heart Dies

Paper: White card and vellum from stash

Highlights: Gold embossing powder, liquid pearls, thread, lace, white embossing paste

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.

Wplus9 Comfort Zone

As usually I'm rushing, so I really needed my comfort zone for this card. A quick CAS card in about 10 minutes. Wplus9 do this so well with matching dies for their build an image stamps. I die cut my shapes, embossed my panel, stamped my images, added gems and Wink of Stella then assembled. I've marked my dies where the stamps line up, so with a small pencil mark I can stamp exactly within the die cut shape. Woodland Wreaths is one of my many favourite Wplus9 stamp sets and I'm looking forward to creating some spring, summer and autumn wreaths too, but that would have been a little outside my comfort zone at the moment.  I want to take my time any experiment with different colours before I show you those! Here's a close up of the wreath:

Challenges:
Wplus9 Birthday Celebration Week 1: Comfort Zone

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Woodland Wreaths, Tim Holtz Sentiment
Ink: Memento Luxe Love Letter, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Peeled Paint

Dies & Punches etc: Tim Holtz Texture Fades Woodgrain embossing folder

Paper: White and red card from stash

Highlights: Wink of Stella, gold gems, Lawn Fawn Lawn Trimmings silver sparkle cord

Hope you enjoyed this quick post and see you again soon.

Dotty CAS(E) Wplus9 Mood

I couldn't wait for Wplus9's Pretty Poinsettias release, so I had a go at making my own using Fresh Cut Florals. I tried to echo the shape of the flowers in the Monday Mood Board #21 and pick up the red, green, white and gold colours from the board. 

I've use CTS #48 by N@ Ali and a dotty swirl background by Hero Arts with dotty gold liquid pearl flower centres. Seems I'm going dotty for Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge.

I've stamped the larger double leaf from Fresh Cut Florals three times for the poinsettia petals and three times for the leaves, then fussy cut and layered them.

This is one of my World Card Making Day creations, I'll post some more when I get/make the time. Hope you we're able to get creative and had fun yesterday!


Challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #48
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge: We're going Dotty
Wplus9 Monday Mood Board #21

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Fresh Cut Florals
Ink: Tsukineko Versamark, Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Bamboo Leaves

Dies & Punches etc: Hero Arts Sizzix Dot Swirl embossing folder

Paper: White and gold card from stash

Highlights: Gold liquid pearls, gold embossing powder

Enjoy the week ahead and happy crafting!

Muse Framed

Therese Calvird is our muse this week. I've taken inspiration from her card layout and inverted it. I've used the same shaped card, plus I've framed my image in a dark solid colour with large white border and used five elements with a sentiment. 

The blue flamingo amongst the pink ones reminded me of Vincent Van Gogh's Irises: one white flower in a sea of blue, of being alone in a crowd, standing tall and being yourself.

I coloured the daisies & cardstock with Promarkers/Flexmarkers.  I love the flick the Flexmarkers provide and I look forward to practicing this technique.

Challenges:

Muse Challenge #25

Sentimental Sundays Challenge #163: You've Been Framed

Sister Act Card Challenges #15: Anything Goes

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black 

Dies & Punches etc: Simon Says Stamp Fresh Daisies Die 

Paper: White card from stash 

Colouring: Promarkers & Flexmarkers

Hope you enjoyed your visit and get a chance to see the other cards inspired by Therese.

You can vote for your favourite here: voting will begin at 8:00 am EST next Monday. Voting ends on Tuesday at 8:00 am EST. The results of voting will be announced at noon on Tuesday.

Mojo Muse

I've used Mojo Monday 300 sketch as a base for my card and taken my inspiration for the colours & textures on my card from the Muse Card Club Challenge #24, Monday Muse: Laurie Willison.

Laurie's colour scheme: green, black and beige/kraft. I scoured my digi papers until I found just the right tones to reflect the Muse card. I inked my stamps simultaneously with black & brown inks and distressed my papers with Antique Linen & Walnut Stain.

Laurie's textures: buttons, thread, woodgrain. I combined two of these by using a button with a woodgrain appearance. I've used my thread is au naturel and died with the brown & black inks.

Laurie's sentiment: hello. My sentiment is in the same vein: thinking of you.

Challenges:

Crafts 4 Eternity Recipe Challenge R#131: Sewing Room  [Real Stitches]
Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge 300 Celebration
Muse Challenge #24

Supplies

Stamps: Wplus9 Love Birds

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Mowed Lawn, Antique Linen, Walnut Stain

Dies & Punches etc: Wplus9 Love Birds Designer Die, Xcut die Square, Lawn Fawn Circle Stackables

Paper: White card from stash, Sweet Digi Scraps SDS_PerfectU_Paper4, SDS_PerfectU_Paper5, Bella Gypsy Designs bellagypsy_cozyup_pattern10

Highlights: Button, thread used with Sew Easy piercer

Hope you've enjoyed your visit & see you soon.

Forgot to say you can vote for your favourite here: voting will begin at 8:00 am next Monday. Voting ends on Tuesday at 8:00 am. The results of voting will be announced at noon on Tuesday.