Just Us Girls challenge #840 - Word Week

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog. I am here to share my card for this week's Just Us Girls challenge and this week is Word Week and Ina has given us the theme of 'bold'. You could go with a bold sentiment or image or even bold colours.  I can't wait to see that you create so come and join in the fun with us.  Our guest this month is Julia Aston so please pop over and show her some love.

I choose to go with bold colours and a bold background stamp so hopefully covered all the bases this week.  I used a rainbow of colours and a fun Uniko stamp which I stamped in black.  I hope you like it. 

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4" x 5 1/4" and using my rainbow colours of ink pads blended my background.  I then used my Misti to stamp the birthday background stamp using black ink.  I also added some extra doodling using a white gelly roll pen, a yellow Posca pen and a gold metallic zig writer pen.  I added some scrap white card behind the panel and then adhered it to my card base using double sided tape.  For the inside I cut another white panel and blended the rainbow colours along the bottom (although I realised half way through that I started my rainbow from the wrong side oops!).  I stamped the present from the background and fussy cut it out and then blended over it with red and orange inks (using masking tape to try and keep the colours in the right place) and also added some white gelly roll pen dots.  I stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink and then adhered the panel to my card base using double sided tape.  

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

Colorful Options challenge - option 3 rainbow

Girlz and the Art of Letters challenge - Letter I (ink blending)

Little Red Wagon challenge - use a stamp

Seize the Birthday challenge - add a sentiment strip (no topping this week)

Word Power challenge - sentiment as the focus of your card

I can't wait to see all your bold creations this week and look forward to seeing your entries in the linky. Please pop over to the challenge blog and leave some love for the rest of the design team.

I appreciate you stopping by.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Uniko - block party birthday background stamp

Uniko - pure florals: cosmos clear stamp (for inside sentiment)

Limetree Craft - 280gsm silky smooth white card (not available but other options are here and here)

Limetree Craft - 300gsm smooth white card (for card base)

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Gina K Designs - ink pads - red hot, tangerine twist, wild dandelion, lucky clover, blue raspberry, wild lilac

Sakura - white no. 10 gelly roll pen

Posca - yellow 0.7mm bullet marker

Zig - writer gold metallic pen (can only find it in a 6 colour pack)

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Krafty Chicks challenge #794 - Christmas

Good morning lovely friends, I appreciate you stopping by and I hope you're all doing ok. It's time for a new challenge over at Krafty Chicks challenge and this week we are on Week 2; as always the theme is 'Christmas' and I am your hostess. Scarily Christmas is not that far away now so if you haven't started your cards yet this is the perfect opportunity to begin. Obviously if you have joined in with us since January then it's another card to add to the pile, which really takes the stress off. We hope you will come over and join in the fun with us.

I was looking through my stash and found this old metal stencil that I bought quite a while ago but haven't used yet so I thought why not show it some love.  I did mask off parts of the stencil so that I could blend them in different colours but boy was it fiddly; not a card I could mass produce lol!  I hope you like it.

Here is my card:

A closer look at the details:

Plus I decorated the inside:

I began by cutting a white panel 4 1/2 x 5 1/2 (which I cut down slightly later) and using green and red ink pads blended through the stencil, masking off as I went along.  As I said it was quite a fiddly and tedious process but I think it was worth it as I love the contrast of the green against the red. Once the blending was finished I stamped the cabin image into the bauble with black ink.  I then cut down the panel to 4" x 5 1/4" and added some scrap white card behind it for stability and dimension.  I decided to mat it onto a red layer cut to 4 1/4" x 5 1/2" although I could have just cut a red card base but I was in the zone and had already cut my card base from white.  I added the panel onto the card base with double sided tape.  I added some white gelly roll pen 'snow' but didn't feel it was bright enough so after a bit of searching found my white posca pen and added some 'snow' with that too.  I stamped and die cut the Merry word and used a sentiment strip die to cut out the Christmas word.  I added the merry with liquid glue and the Christmas was added overlapping with foam squares.  A final finishing touch was some snowflake embellishments which I added with liquid glue.  For the inside I cut a panel 3 3/4" x 5" and used the stencil to just add some interest to the bottom.  I matted the panel onto a red card layer with double sided tape and stamped the sentiment in the centre with black ink.  The panel was then adhered to the card base with double sided tape.  A very traditional Christmas card but I really like it. 

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

The 12 Months of Christmas Link Up challenge - anything Christmas goes optional twist sleigh

Allsorts challenge - Christmas cards

Aud Sentiments challenge - glitter and/or Christmas + sentiment

Colourful Options challenge - red optional mood board

Craft Rocket challenge - Christmas/winter

Crafty Gals Corner challenge - tis the season

Creative Inspirations challenge - wrapped up in winter

Creative Knockouts challenge - time to be merry

Daisy Chain challenge - Christmas/winter

Farm Quest Country Christmas challenge - anything goes country Christmas 

Just Us Girls challenge - winter

Moving Along With The Times challenge - winter wonderland

Merry Little Christmas challenge - anything Christmas goes

Stamping Sensations challenge - Christmas

Stencil Fun challenge - anything stencil goes optional theme use gold

Sweet Stampin' challenge - use red

The Paper Funday challenge - ATG optional twist merry & bright

Tic Tac Toe challenge - ornament, red, Christmas sentiment

Try It On Tuesday challenge - get ready for Christmas 

Unicorn challenge - Christmas/winter

We Love Stamping challenge - anything Christmas

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

Thank you so much for stopping by; I appreciate your lovely comments.

Love and hugs,

card supplies:

Sweet Poppy - Christmas snowflake bauble stencil - ? retired

Inkylicious - winter cabin (small) stamp

Kristina Werner with Concord & 9th - joyful & merry stamps & coordinating dies

Gina K Designs - ink pads - cherry red, red hot, Christmas pine

Limetree Crafts - 280gsm silky smooth white card

Versafine Clair - nocturne ink pad

Sakura - white no.10 gelly roll pen

Posca - PC-5M medium bullet tip paint pen

Trinity Stamps - vanilla sugar snowflakes embellishment mix

red card from stash

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Thank you x

Congrats card

Happy Sunday lovely friends.  I've had a busy few days (but an exciting one) as my lovely son helped me re-organise/re-arrange my craft room and although I keep forgetting where I now have put things I am beyond happy with the way things are now arranged.  I don't have a huge, fancy craft space but it's bigger than some and I am grateful that my hubby has allowed me to take over half our dining room to accommodate all my stuff.  

I have a card to share today that I made for my niece.  She did amazingly well in her A levels and received 2 x A* and 2 A grades.  I wanted to celebrate her achievement so dug out an older stamp set from Concord & 9th.  Here is my card:

I decorated the inside too:

I began by stamping a lined notepaper background stamp in sea glass ink.  I took the arrow stamp from the stamp set and masked it so that I could have the point at the top of my card and the tail at the bottom and this was stamped in red ink.  I did make a mistake on the bottom but I fixed that by colouring around the arrow with a white posca pen and adding some black dots with a black marker.  It was a happy accident but I really liked the end result.  I stamped the sentiments in the same sea glass ink and added some stars in-between them, again using the red ink.  I die cut some stars and an arrow from black card and added them to the panel and also added some Nuvo aqua shimmer pen to bling them up.  I decorated the inside with a strip of the notepaper background that I had left over and another star and arrow.  The panels were both added onto a green mottled paper and again onto a black mat.  The finished card was mini slimline size - 6" x 3".  

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

Allsorts challenge - ATG or use die cuts

Creative Inspirations challenge - sentimental

Daisy Chain challenge - dots and/or stripes

Inspired By challenge - inspired by leggings (I was inspired by the colours)

Simply Create Too challenge - use stamps

Simon Says Stamp Monday challenge - stamp it

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday challenge - stamp it

Sweet Stampin' challenge - doodling (I hope my doodled dots are enough)

Unicorn challenge - layer it up

I hope you have a wonderful week.  I will be back on Wednesday for my card for the next instalment in the Falling for Wednesdays IG hop.  I'd love it if you could pop back and check it out.  

Love and hugs, 

card ingredients:

Concord & 9th - above average stamp set

MFT stamps - blueprints 13 (for stars and arrows) *retired*

MFT stamps - writing tablet background stamp *retired*

Sakura gellyroll white 10 pen

Posca white pen

Nuvo aqua shimmer pen (glitter gloss)

Limetree Crafts - 250gsm white smooth card

Gina K Designs - sea glass and red velvet ink pads

Versafine black onyx ink pad

Fairy birthday card

Happy Saturday friends.  I hope you're having a great start to your weekend.  The weather is glorious here in South Wales and for once I have an empty washing basket lol!  

I'm popping in today with a card I made a little while ago for a crafty friend using this adorable fairy stamp and matching die set (which includes the gorgeous frame die too).  

Here is the card:

here is a close up of the fairy:

I began by stamping the fairy with memento tuxedo black ink and colouring her with my promarkers; I also added some highlights with a white gel pen.  I then used the matching die to cut her out.  I die cut the frame 3 times from white card and glued them together for dimension and stability.  I placed the frame on to some very pale blue card and then onto purple cardstock to make a very small border.  The sentiment was stamped directly onto the background with blue ink. I finished off with some pearls and some dots which were done with a white gel pen and a yellow posca pen.  I also stamped a small dragonfly in the background.

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

Daisy chain challenge - for the girls

Allsorts challenge - absolutely anything goes (happy 14th birthday Allsorts)

Cardz for galz - backgrounds

Just us girls - mood board

Alphabet challenge - D is for dragonflies (I may be pushing my luck with my dinky dragonfly so please exclude if so)

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and the weather is warm and sunny where you are too.  If not stay inside and craft lol!

I appreciate you stopping by.

Crafty hugs, 

Card ingredients:

Tonic Studios - I love you fairy much (? retired)

Sakura - white gelly roll 10 

Posca pen - yellow

Promarkers

Heffy Doodle - white card

Blue & purple card from my stash

Pearl mix - rainbow