Krafty Chicks challenge #732 - Stamps

Good morning lovely friends.  I hope you're all doing ok and having a great week so far.  It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week it's Week 1 which means that Leanne is your hostess and our theme as always is 'Stamps', so grab your stamps or digital images and come join in the fun with us.  

I needed to make a card for hubby's sister & brother in law's anniversary so this challenge was perfect for me.  I used some cute polymer stamps that I've for a couple of months but not used yet.  My card is 5" x 7" in size.  

Here is my card:

a closer look at the cute bees:

I decorated the inside too:

I began by stamping the two cute bee images onto alcohol marker friendly card, coloured them with Promarkers and added a few white highlights.  There aren't any dies for these stamps so I used a heart die to cut them out.  I found a really old paper pad that I think I got from Joanna Sheen (some of you will remember her lovely store) and cut a piece 4 1/2" x 6 1/2"; I also cut a slightly larger black mat and adhered them with double sided tape.  I die cut the large happy word 3 times from black card and adhered them together with liquid glue.  I stamped the anniversary word in black ink and used a sentiment strip die to cut it out.  I also stamped the sister & brother-in-law sentiment in black ink and used my trimmer to cut a rectangle; again I cut a black mat and adhered them together with double sided tape.  Finally I die cut hearts in 2 different sizes from red card.  I added the large hearts and sentiments with foam squares and the happy word and smaller hearts with liquid glue.  The panel was added to my card base with double sided tape.  For the inside I cut the same size panels and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I added a strip of the paper at the top of the panel and stamped another bee in the bottom left corner.  I again coloured him with Promarkers and finished off with a few red hearts.  I added the panel onto my card base with double sided tape.  A fun anniversary card and I hope you like it.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

* to be updated * 

I hope you will be able to join us for our Stamps' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer for September Wendy.    

Love and hugs, 

Card ingredients: 

LOTV - happy bees A5 polymer stamp set - stamp store is currently closed

Promarkers

Mama Elephant - happy everything stamp & happy script die

Presscut - heart nesting dies

MFT - tag builder blueprints 6 (for hearts)

Clearly Besotted Stamps - friends & family stamp - retired

Cardmaking Magic - verses for occasions (for inside sentiment) - currently oos

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card - currently oos

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

Sakura - no 10. white gelly roll pen

red card from scraps bin

Colorful Options challenge - Guest Designer

Good Morning lovely friends.  I'm excited to be a guest designer over at Colorful Options challenge this month.  They always have really fun colour boards to inspire you and this month is no different.  

When I saw the colour board my eye was immediately drawn to the cat so I knew I wanted to use an image of a cat on my card.  I had a quick rummage through my stash and found this line art image that I don't think I've ever used before.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the gorgeous image:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a fun stencil and the brightest inks I had I made my vibrant background.  I added some water droplets to add some interest to my background and once dry I stamped the cat line art image in versafine black ink over top.  One of the sentiments that came with cat stamp was 'you had me at meow' which wasn't really something I would use but I love the font so I found another stamp in my stash that said happy birthday to you and with some masking replaced the word you with the meow word so the sentiment now says 'happy birthday to meow' which I thought was really fun.  I heat embossed the sentiment onto black card with white embossing powder and used a strip sentiment die to cut it out.  I added onto the colourful background with foam squares.  The panel was added to the card base with foam tape.  I tried quite a few different embellishments but nothing looked right so I left it clean and simple.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using the same stencil and inks just stencilled the fun shape into the left corner of the panel.  I stamped a simple sentiment in black ink and added the panel onto my card base with double sided tape.  The card turned out just the way I wanted and it's vibrant, fun and clean & simple.  I hope you like it too.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Cards challenge - anything CAS goes option get well cards

Addicted to CAS challenge - pun

Crafter's Cafe challenge - ATG option rainbows/lots of colours

Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - happy birthday

Everybody Art challenge - ATG

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

Incy Wincy Designs challenge - ATC and/or CAS

Scrapping4Fun challenge - ATG + stamping

Stamping Sensations challenge - ATG option animal magic 

I would like to thank Makira and all the team over at Colorful Options for having me as a guest this month and I can't wait to see your interpretations of the colour board.  

Thank you so much for stopping by today; I'll be back on Thursday with my DT card for the Krafty Chicks challenge.  Until then have a great start to your week. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Picket Fence Studios - Sophie kitten stamp - retired

MFT - watercolour wash free form stencil - oos ? retired

Gina K Designs - inks - cherry red, tangerine twist, wild dandelion, lucky clover, blue raspberry, wild lilac, white pigment ink

Pretty Pink Posh - let's party stamp (for part of the sentiment)

MFT - smitten kitten stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

AAA Birthday challenge #65 - background focus

Good morning friends and welcome to September.  I love autumn and I'm hoping it's cool and crisp without too much rain this year (I'm never happy when it comes to the weather am I? lol). Today I'm sharing my card for this month's brand new challenge over at the AAA Birthday challenge. This month Kateryna is the hostess and she has chosen 'background focus' as our theme.  Our guest designer this month is Hanneke so please pop over and leave her some love. 

 

It was my sister's birthday last week so used this opportunity to make my DT card.  Whilst looking through my stash I rediscovered this stamp/stencil combo and I think I have only used it once before so decided to give it some love.  

Here is my card:

A closer look at the background:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I took a white panel 6" x 6" and stamped the butterfly bodies in black ink.  I then took the matching stencils and did the upper wings in yellow ink and the lower wings in pink ink using a lighter and darker shade of both colours for some shading.  Once I finished I trimmed the panel down and it ended up being 4 1/2" by 5 1/2" so I decided to make my card size 5"x 6".  I matted the panel onto a black card mat with double sided tape.  I stamped my sentiment in black ink and cut it out with a stitched circle die and used a slightly larger circle to cut a black mat.  I didn't want to hide too much of the background so cut the top of the circle and added it to the very top of the panel with foam tape.  There is an add-on stamp & die set that has co-ordinating butterflies so I decided to die cut a couple of butterflies and used the same stencils to colour their bodies.  I added one butterfly to the edge of my sentiment circle for some added interest.  I added the panel onto my card base with foam tape.  As a finishing touch I added a few tiny white pearls randomly over the background.  For the inside I cut the same size panels as the front and stamped a sentiment in black ink.  I used a tiny strip of the panel that I had left over when I trimmed it down so added that at the bottom of the panel and added another butterfly over top with liquid glue.  I added this to the card base with double sided tape.  A really bright and happy card and I hope you like it. 

I would like to enter my cards into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Allsorts challenge - getting sentimental

Crafty Animals challenge - must include an animal (or insect)

Critter Crazy challenge - ATG with a featured critter

Cut It Up challenge - ATG

Dragonfly Dreams challenge - happy birthday

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - always birthday

Pearly Sparkles challenge - pink, pearls and/or sparkle (use at least 1)

Try It On Tuesday challenge - make it feminine

The Design Team have created amazing cards as always so please pop over to the blog and check them out and perhaps leave them some love on their personal blogs.   

I hope you will be able to join in with the challenge this month but don't forget it has to be birthday themed.  I can't wait to see your creations in the linky.

Enjoy the rest of your day and thank you so much for stopping by.

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Taylored Expressions - butterflies stamp & stencil combo

Taylored Expressions - butterfly wishes stamp & die set

Honey Bee Stamps - inside: birthday sentiments

Uniko - floral vines stamp (for happy birthday)

Uniko - everyday family stamp (for auntie)

Gina K Designs - ink pads - bubblegum pink, passionate pink, wild dandelion, honey mustard

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 3 (for stitched circle, Master Layouts 5 (for plain circle)

Little Things from Lucy's Cards - pearls - soft snowball mix - store now closed

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

Versafine - onyx black ink

Krafty Chicks challenge #731 - Anything Goes

Good Morning lovely friends; it's Thursday so that means it's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge.  We have a 5 week month so that means we have an extra 'Anything Goes' challenge this week and Diane is our hostess.  It can't get any easier than ATG so come and join in the fun with us. 

It was my little sister's birthday yesterday so this challenge was perfect timing for me.  I was inspired by a card I saw by Gina K Designs a few week's ago and as soon as I saw it I knew I was going to make my sister a card.  My card is 6" x 6" for a change and it need to be bigger to fit on the gorgeous wreath.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the wreath:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping all my images and used the matching stencils to colour them in.  I love matching stencils as they make colouring so simple but look fantastic.  I also used the coordinating dies to cut them out.  I used the square dies from Master Layouts 3 to cut the panel behind my wreath and adhered them together with double sided tape.  I then cut a white panel 5 3/4' square and a slightly larger mat black.  I used a stencil and some very light grey ink to create a soft background for my card.  I temporarily placed the wreath where I wanted it so that I could stamp the 'sister' word in black ink and then adhered the wreath using foam squares.  I stamped and die cut the birthday sentiment and also added that with foam squares.  The smaller square was added to the stencilled square with double sided tape and then the whole thing was adhered to my card base with double sided tape.  For an extra bit of bling I added a few clear sequins around the sentiment and also on the wreath.  For the inside I created the same panels and also did the stencilling again.  I stamped, stencilled and die cut one more flower and adhered it to the bottom left corner with liquid glue.  I stamped a sentiment in black ink in the centre.  The panels were then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  A really pretty card, which looked even nicer in real life, and my sister loved it.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Beautiful Blossoms challenge - anything floral goes optional mood board

Creative Knockouts - ATG (10 challenges in total)

Everybody Art challenge - ATG

Pearly Sparkles challenge - floral

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - ATG

Tic Tac Toe challenge - multiples, die cuts, sparkle/shine

Triple B challenge - use at least one bird, butterfly or bloom

Try It On Tuesday challenge - make it feminine

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'Anything Goes' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer Rachelle who has created some amazing cards for us over the last few months; thank you Rachelle, it's been a pleasure having you with us.  

Thanks for stopping by today; I really appreciate you visiting my little corner of blogland. 

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Gina K Designs - Wishful Florals stamp & die bundle

Gina K Designs - Wishful Florals 4 piece layering stencil 

Gina K Designs - Radiant Roses stamp & die (for sentiment)

Gina K Designs - Lovely Ladies stamp (for sister)

Gina K Designs - thick brush stencil

Gina K Designs - clear quartz solid sequins 

Gina K Designs - Master Layouts 3 die set 

Gina K Designs - ink pads - light lilac, medium lilac, jelly bean green, fresh asparagus, soft stone

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - A4 black card

Craft UK Limited - 250gsm 12 x 12 white card (to make my card base)

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Summer Soiree Card Making IG Hop - Week 11

Hello friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.    

It's Week 11 and the final week of our Summer Soiree IG card hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly. I'm a little sad that our hop is coming to an end but don't worry we will be starting our 'fall' hop very soon.  Our theme for the last week is 'rainbows' so you can use images/dies of rainbows or even just rainbow colours.  What a fun theme.  

Initially I was going to use rainbow colours and not go for the obvious choice but I found a cute rainbow die and changed my mind lol!  

Here is my card:

A closer look:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by die cutting my white panel using a scalloped die and also cut a frame using the same die set.   I used the rainbow die and cut out each band using card from my scraps bin.  I used one of the negative parts of the die cut to place my bands back into place and then added some double sided tape to the back to keep them secure.  I used some white card and die cut out some small clouds.  I actually remembered to stamp my sentiment before I added any dimension to my panel and stamped this at the bottom in black ink.  I added thin foam tape behind the frame and adhered it to the matching white panel.  I added foam squares behind my rainbow and added that at a slightly jaunty angle inside my frame and added the clouds with a mixture of foam squares and liquid glue.  At the last minute I realised I had meant to stamp some raindrops so carefully using an acrylic block I stamped them around the rainbow in a light grey ink (thankfully they all turned out ok).  I adhered my panel onto the card base with double sided tape.  I wasn't going to add any embellishments but I must have gotten some ink on my fingers and there were a few smudges on the sides of the frame so decided to cover them with some silver sequins and they look ok I think.  For the inside I die cut another panel with the scalloped die and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  In the same die set as the scalloped frame there was a mini rainbow so I decided to use that on the inside of the card.  Again I cut it out using scraps from my scraps bin and some clouds from white card.  I adhered the rainbow with double sided tape and the clouds with liquid glue.  I stamped 3 sets of raindrops around the rainbow.  The panel was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  It turned out being a really fun card with a pop of colour, which I think could be used for quite a few occasions.  I hope you like it. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Colorful Options challenge - yellow-green or rainbow

Crafters Cafe challenge - ATG option rainbows/lots of colours

Cut It Up challenge - ATG

Dream Valley challenge - ATG

Shopping Our Stash challenge - just because

If you would like to follow the hop over on Instagram please use the hashtag #summersoireecardmakinghop2024 to find us or alternatively visit my profile and you will find the list of participants in my post.  We would love it if you would give the summer soiree challenges a try and again use the hashtag and we will find your projects.  

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge but until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

Card ingredients:

Paper Smooches - rainbow die - retired 

W Plus 9 - sunshine layers die set - retired

Uniko Stamps - sunshine & rainbows stamp set

MFT - cutest clouds ever die set - retired 

Gina K Designs - soft stone ink pad

Spellbinders - silver smooth disc color essential sequins

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

coloured card from scraps bin

Krafty Chicks challenge #730 - All Occasions

Hello lovely friends; sorry my post is a little late today.  It's Thursday so that means it's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge.  We are now on Week 4 which means Lori is our hostess and our theme as always is 'All Occasions', so come and join in the fun with us. 

As it's All Occasions you can make whatever you like.  I always seem to need birthday cards so that is what I made but you can do anniversary, get well, thinking of you, back to school, whatever you want.  I had a sketch in mind when I made my card and I think it turned out really cute.  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A close up of the images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by stamping the cupcakes onto alcohol marker friendly card before colouring them with Promarkers and using the matching dies to cut them out.  I took a white card panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using a circle stencil ink blended some sea glass ink to create 3 interlinked circles.  I stamped 3 'happy' words so that they overlapped the circles slightly using black ink.  I then added the cupcakes with foam squares.  I stamped, white heat embossed and die cut my birthday sentiment and also added that with foam squares.  For a finishing touch I added some black dots randomly around my cupcakes using a memento marker pen.  I added the panel on the card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and ink blended one circle using the stencil in the bottom left corner.  I added another cupcake with liquid glue over the circle and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I managed to get some ink above the sentiment so to camouflage it I added a few more black dots with the memento pen.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  Another CAS card today but I think it's perfect for a birthday.  

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

AAA Cards challenge - sketch

Addicted to CAS challenge - blended (I ink blended my circles)

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

As You Like It challenge - favourite colouring medium (I'm with Sarah, Promarkers are my go to; I've had them for many years and they are still going strong and blend really well together)

Classic Design challenge - ATG optional theme geometric designs/shapes (I have circles in my background)

Cupcake Inspirations challenge - theme: happy birthday (congrats on 600 challenges!)

Die Cut Divas challenge - dry or wet embossing (I heat embossed my sentiment)

Double D challenge - use shapes on your project (I have circles in my background)

Just Us Girls challenge - anything goes stencil week

Stencil Fun challenge - anything goes stencil optional theme summertime

Sweet Stampin' challenge - cakes and baking

Try It On Tuesday challenge - make it feminine

I hope you will be able to join us for our 'All Occasions' challenge and I cannot wait to see your creations in our linky.  Please leave some love for my fellow chicks - Leanne, Diane and Lori and also our guest designer Rachelle.  

Thanks for stopping by today; I really appreciate you visiting my little corner of blogland. 

Love and hugs, 

MFT - sweet birthday wishes stamp & die set - retired

MFT - basic shapes - circles stencil

Uniko Stamps - everyday love sentiments (for happy)

Gina K Designs - All Occasions flowers bundle (for birthday sentiment)

Gina K Designs - sea glass ink pad

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Hobbycraft - black A4 card

WOW! - opaque bright white super fine embossing powder

Memento - tuxedo black ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black marker pen

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card - store now closed

Summer Soiree Card Making IG Hop - Week 10

Hello friends; I hope you've had a great start to your week.  Not a great week, weather-wise, here; it's grey, windy and very showery, although today has been dry so far.  Not really August weather so far this month.  

We are now up to Week 10 of our Summer Soiree IG card hop, which has been organised by my lovely friend Kelly. This is the penultimate week and our theme is 'summer treats' so think ice cream, lollies (or popsicles as they call them across the pond), an iced frappuccino, etc the list is endless.  

I was really pushed for time making my card this week and was delighted when searching through my stash I found these images already stamped, coloured and fussy cut and ready to go - score!  

Here is my card:

A close up of the cute images:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I cut my white panel to 4" x 5 1/4" and simply stencilled the background using a fun splat stencil.  I added the images with foam squares and stamped the sentiment below in black ink.  I added the panel to the card base with foam tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel the same size, stencilled a portion of the design in the bottom right corner and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  I did have to quickly stamp one more ice lolly and coloured it with promarkers and again fussy cut it out.  I added it over the partial splat with liquid glue.  The panel was added to the card base with double sided tape.  I think was the quickest card I've made for a while, thanks to most of the images already being done.  I think it's a fun thank you card; I hope you like it too. 

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges:

Addicted to CAS challenge - blended (I blended 2 pink inks through my stencil)

Addicted to Stamps & More challenge - die cuts and/or stencils

Allsorts challenge - summer days

Creative Inspirations challenge - summer fun

Daisy Chain challenge - for the girls

Dream Valley challenge - hand coloured image

Halloween & Other Occasions challenge - summer

Moving Along With The Times challenge - summer fun

Stencil Fun challenge - anything stencil goes optional theme summer time

The Four Seasons challenge - anything goes summer

We Love Stamping challenge - focal sentiment/quote or ATG

If you would like to follow the hop over on Instagram please use the hashtag #summersoireecardmakinghop2024 to find us or alternatively visit my profile and you will find the list of participants in my post.  We would love it if you would give the summer soiree challenges a try and again use the hashtag and we will find your projects.  

I'll be back tomorrow with my card for the Krafty Chicks challenge but until then enjoy the rest of your day and thank you for stopping by. 

Love and hugs,

Card ingredients:

Heffy Doodle - treat yo'self stamp set - store now sadly closed

Promarkers

Clearly Besotted - splat it stencil

LOTV - verses A5 stamp set (for inside sentiment) - their stamp shop is temporarily closed

Gina K Designs - ink pads - bubblegum pink, passionate pink

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm silky smooth white card

Heffy Doodle - alcohol marker friendly card

Versafine - onyx black ink pad

Memento - tuxedo black ink