WMS Red Rocket Birthday

I've not had a lot of crafty time over the last few months, but I wanted to celebrate Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge's first birthday. I've used one of my favourite Waltzingmouse stamps and a few of my favourite techniques to create a starry sky for the birthday rocket. I love how you can choose a face to match the birthday boy!

The star stencil was a little thicker than my other masks, so allowed a much deeper layer of embossing paste. After inking with distress inks I wiped the stars to leave them a little brighter than the background and added some splatter drop planets in red, white and gold.

My main sentiment was on the inside as the rocket's countdown and the stars had taken over all of the outside! This sentiment is one of the reasons I keep coming back to the rocket stamp, time and time again.

Another look at the glitter and glossy accents added to the stars and the cute little red rocket.

Challenges:
Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #26: Birthday/Anniversary [Top Pick]
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Rock the Techniques [emboss resist]
Sentimental Sundays Challenge #224: Vehicles [Top Three]


Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s & ABCs

Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen, Pumice Stone, Iced Spruce, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Black Soot

Stencil: Prima Finnabair Stars

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Glossy Accents, Stickles, Wink of Stella, white embossing paste, gold gel pen, Dylusions ink spray Postbox Red, White Linen, Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Gold

Colouring : Promarkers/Flexmarkers

 

Hope you enjoyed you 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

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Academic Autumnal Thanks

More fun playing with CTS#78 and Make the Day Special's Colour Scheme B: carrot colours. With the new academic year approaching I thought I'd better tackle some thank you cards and nothing means back to school like stomping through leaves on your way there! I've distressed my embossing paste, card and label with Antique Linen Distress Ink and coloured the leaves with lots of messy distress inks (I'm still cleaning my hands!) and a spritz of glimmer mist which I've also used as the splatters from the sketch.

 

Challenges:
CAS(E) this sketch #78
Lawnscaping Challenge #87: Back to School Themed Project [Honorable Gnome] 
Make the Day Special August Colour Challenge: Colour Scheme B [Runner Up]
 

Supplies  
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Winter Gifts, Smitty's ABCs
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Antique Linen, Walnut Stain, Mustard Seed, Spiced Marmalade, Wild Honey, Barn Door, Festive Berries, Picked Raspberry, Pine Needles,  Peacock Feathers,  Seedless Preserve,  Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies/Embossing: Lawn Fawn Tag It You're It Lawn Cuts, Stitched Leaves, Simon Says Stamp Diagonal Stripe Mask
Paper: White card from stash 
Highlights: Glimmer Mist, Glossy Accents, twine, embossing pate

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August Challenges

A spot of watercolouring using Memento Luxe inks for the monkey and balloons and for the background colourwash over the masked clouds. The leafy stamped panel with a nod to Orla Kiely is something I've wanted to do for ages but am only getting round to it now. I bought the stamp set ages ago just to do this but never got round to it. Originally I thought my tag would go on the balloon strings but the proportions weren't right so I popped it directly on to one of the balloons. Lastly lots of Wink of Stella and Glossy Accents.

Challenges:
CAS(E) this sketch #87 with a Tag 
Craft for the Craic August Challenge #7: A Craft Item You Have Never Used Before
Mama Elephant and Me August Challenge: Watercolouring + Birthdays

Supplies  
Stamps: Mama Elephant Up and Away, Lawn Fawn Blissful Botanicals, Paper Smooches Crystal Clear, Simon Says Stamp Happy Sentiments, Fresh Squeezed Stamps On Trend
Ink: Memento Luxe Morocco, Pistachio, Pear Tart, Teal Zeal,  Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies/Embossing: Memory Box Puffy Clouds
Paper: White  card from stash 
Highlights: Glossy Accents, Wink of Stella, black gel pen

Hope you enjoyed your visit and catch you next time I get some crafting time!

Georgia's Birthday

A quick post to join in with Waltzingmouse Fanatics Challenge #18. I've used embossing, stickles, star gems, layers and textured card to add texture to my card.  The link is about to close so I'll have to finish this post later after I've completed the after school swimming!

Updated:

This took a little longer than expected. Family is the most important thing to me and we miss them deeply when we lose them, but they remain forever in our hearts. For this reason I've not posted in June nor July and the following months have been light as well. Please excuse me.

Supplies

Stamps: Waltzingmouse Stamps Half Pint Heroines, Half Pint Heroes, Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s, Sally's ABCs

Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Peacock Feathers, Memento Tuxedo Black

Embossing: Provo Craft D'vine Swirls, Spellbinders Stars

Paper: White card from stash

Highlights: Stickles, Star gems

Colouring: Promarkers/Flexmarkers:

 

Distressing Birthday Colours

Lawnscaping are exhibiting distress mania for their latest challenge and I had to join in! I've used lots of distress inks to create a cosmic background and diecut the birthday boy's name from it. The letters are stacked on lots of white diecut letters and some stars & stickles finish it off. I forgot to photograph the card before I left the house, so I've used the car as a makeshift studio and used some tips about blurring the background I read on Chelle's Creations and pinned onto my Digital Tutorials Board.

Iron Craft Season 2 is in full swing and I've been enjoying the interviews so thought I should take up the challenge. I've used Inspiration 3: Difficult Colours from Sarah. Purple came out top of the list followed by green. Peacock Feathers may not be a kelly green and it is one of my favourite colours, so I hope it still counts. When I started to think of purple I kept seeing all the constellation photos tweeted by NASA and want to recreate some sort of nebulous space for  my first birthday star (also known as my nephew!)

Allsorts Challenge Blog is celebrating their 5th birthday with a Happy Birthday Challenge! Laurence is only one, so we'll have to multiply the birthday wishes for Allsorts!

Challenges:
Allsorts Challenge Blog Wk #260: Happy Birthday
Iron Craft Challenge Week
Lawnscaping Challenges #82: Distress Mania

Supplies  
Stamps: Lawn Fawn Quinn's 123s, Paper Smooches Spectrum
Ink: Tim Holtz Distress Ink Chipped Sapphire, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Seedless Preserve, Encore Silver,  Memento Tuxedo Black
Dies/Embossing: Cole's ABCs Lawn Cuts, Spellbinders Stars
Paper: White & silver  card from stash 
Highlights: Stickles, Wink of Stella

Hope you enjoyed your visit and catch you next time I get some crafting time!

Lego Awesome PS, RIC#58, CTS#73

Two fabulous challenges have paired up together and this is my interpretation of the photo from Runway Inspired Challenge #58 and CAS(E) this Sketch #73. 

I've used stencilled stripes, a dimensional Lego block, washi tape, silver embossing and partial diecutting for the speech bubble. Plus a little inspiration from the Lego Movie: "Everything is awesome!" and Paper Smooches Spectrum stamp set.

 

My small circle punch gave up the ghost during the Lego construction, so I don't think this brick would pass quality control in the Lego factory! I like the large speech bubble so may have to invest in an all-in-one die.

Challenges:
CAS(E) this Sketch #58
Runway Inspired Challenge #73
Paper Smooches Sparks Challenges: Anything Goes

Supplies  

Stamps: Paper Smooches Spectrum, Lawn Fawn Quinn's ABCs
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Luxe Love Letter  Tim Holtz Distress Ink Black Soot
Dies etc: Lawn Fawn Lawn Cuts A Birdie Told Me, Simon Says Stamps Diagonal Stripes Stencil
Paper: White card from stash
Highlights: silver embossing powder, washi tape

Hope you enjoyed your visit and see you again soon.