Shades of green and orange and lots of pink ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend is going well.  I’ve been playing with a new stamp, another new Leonie Pujol design that I just could not resist.  I have used so many colours on this card: I think someone must have popped my colour cork out.  Anyways here it is …

 

A 150mm square, care will have to be taken when posting

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Crafty Boots Challenge Pink 
Noor Design Challenge UK #23 CAS or Fully Loaded

Pixie’s Snippets Playground #253

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge Autumn

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Simon Says Stamps Work It Wednesday Challenge 

Use Red, Orange, Yellow &/ Brown

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes 
Sweet Stampin’ Challenge Inspired by a Song: Daisy Lane by Stereophonics 
The Corrosive Challenge #9 Pink for Awareness

I used a lot of snippets, some very old and some less old stash with a new stamp and a newish die too and it was so much fun to create.  I used my Spectrum Aqua pens to colour and then stamp the image onto a white card snippet.  I then went through my snippets box and found a piece of multi coloured card, two orange snippets and a green snippet.  I also found a piece of canvas that had been a reject from another project and I decided to die cut that with this gorgeous flower die.  The brads that I have were a little dull so once I attached the flower layers together with them I tried and experiment and added glue to the top of the brad and a bling gem was glued on top of that.

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Leonie Pujol: Ever Lasting Love stamp set

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Cuttlebug die cutting machine

Spellbinders Nestability set: Lacey Squares

Crafters Companion Die’sire: flower die

Crafters Companion Downtown Abbey: Half Doily die

My Favourite Things Die-namics: Hello There die set

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; paintbrushes; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

Crafters Companion: Kraft card; snippets Sheena Stamping card; snippets Watercolour card

Papermania 150mm square paper

The Works: canvas paper

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Aqua: Nature pen set

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Beautifully Grunge; Landscape

Embellishments:

Ribbon from my stash

Brads from my stash

Acrylic gems from my stash

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape; fun foam

More Toadstools ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well, nearly the weekend again.  Well I bet you didn’t expect to see this did you lol!  So here it is …

 

150mm square card

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Anything But Cute Challenge #19 An Autumn Day

Fussy & Fancy Friday’s Challenge #175 Shades of Autumn

Penny Black & More Challenge October Autumn Theme

Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge Autumn 

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes

Stamps & Stencils Challenge Elements of Nature

We Love to Create Challenge #22 Anything Creative/Mixed Media Goes

I grabbed one of the stamps from one of my Indigo Blu stamp sets to play with over the weekend.  I created a very quick landscape with the sun having gone done but it’s not quite evening yet on my scene, using my AquaTints.  I am definitely having a fling with Kraft card too: I’ve not stopped using it since it was the theme at Spectrum Noir Challenge.  Thankfully it works perfectly with bright colours as well as the colours of fall/autumn.  Once the scene was dry I stamped the toadstools in place and coloured them then I stamped them onto a white card snippet again because I chose to decoupage them.  I decided that I wanted to go, what my husband calls, the twee look, lol, red toadstools with bright white spots!  So I coloured the stalks with the AquaTints and then I coloured the caps with red acrylic paint and I added white gesso dots with the tip of several paintbrushes.

I had the correct coloured snippets so I die cut the Sara Davies Butterfly die, the Die’sire Ivy die, the Tattered Floral dies and the Marianne leaves from those pieces.  I wanted the purple flowers to shimmer so I used my Perfect Pearls to create a pretty shimmering paint which I applied onto the flower die cuts.  I used a snippet of patterned paper from my stash as well as a Kraft snippet for matting and layering.  I grabbed my foiled Craftwork Cards Candi pieces which I added to the ivy. 

I got to add shimmer with my Perfect Pearl paint and sparkle with the foiled Candi pieces!  I am still having a love fest for and with my Distressing Tool too!  Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Indigo Blu Nature II stamp set

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Cuttlebug die cutting machine

Sara Davies Butterfly Lullaby Collection: Flit & Flutter die set

Sizzix & Tim Holtz Tattered Floral Bigz die

Marianne Design Creatable LR0163 Chinese Rose die set (leaves)

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; paintbrushes; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

Crafters Companion: A4 Sheena Stamping Card; A4 Kraft; snippets of both

Patterned paper from my stash

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress IP: Vintage Photo

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Beautifully Grunge; Landscape

Pebeo Acrylic Matt: red

Embellishments:

Adhesives/Mediums:

The Works white gesso; Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape; Stix 2 foam squares

Spotty Toadstools ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well.  Playing with my Lavinia stamps, I adore them, and several snippets too which is a real bonus and here is the first …

  

A 150mm square card which is good to post

Very autumnal!

The card above had already been stamped and coloured but I forgot to blog it at the time so I won’t enter it into challenges.  I was trying out the Spectrum Noir AquaTints Essentials white onto Kraft card.  I then stamped the toadstools with Versafine and coloured them with pens from the Spectrum Aqua Nature set.  Some die cut snippets which were also coloured with AquaTints and a border with ribbon and it was done.

The next card is the result of a play session using inks, AquaTints, Lavinia Stamps and snippets and here it is …

A 150mm square card

Good to post too

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #386 Sparkle & Shine

 Butterfly Challenge #65 Hoops &/ Harebells

 Happy Little Stamper’s Die Cut Challenge October

Lavinia Stamps Challenge on Facebook Blues & Purples 

 Pixie’s Snippets Playground #252

Simon Says Stamps Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes

That’s Crafty Challenge Clean and Simple

The Pencil Case Challenge #31 Anything Goes

I created a background using blue and purple, with just a touch of pink.  Once that was dry I stamped the small and large toadstools with black Versafine.  Then I used my Spectrum Aqua pens to ink up the mini flowers, flowers and vine, and the toadstools before stamping them in position.  I scribbled the Aqua pens onto a piece of acetate and using a just damp paintbrush I coloured the toadstools.  Once the toadstools were dry I decided to use the blue and purple pens to colour the toadstools directly and that made the colours much richer and it looked better.  I left them to dry before using my Spectrum Sparkle to add shimmer to the toadstools.  I distressed the edges of the stamped panel and then decided I wanted to add it to a square Kraft card.  It was too stark on its’ own so I grabbed a purple pearl snippet which I then punched with my MS border punch.  I die cut the butterflies from lilac/blue snippets and added the ribbon then the butterflies before putting the card together: simples lol!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Lavinia Fairy £1 Stamps: miniature toadstool; miniature tall toadstool; miniature flowers

Lavinia Stamps: Leaf Trail; Miniature Flowers

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Cuttlebug die cutting machine

Crafters Companion Sara Davies Butterfly Lullaby die set

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; Martha Stewart border punch; Tim Holtz Distressing Tool; paintbrushes; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

Crafters Companion: Sheena Douglass A4 Stamping card & snippets; A4 Kraft card

Snippets pearl card from my stash

Patterned paper from my stash

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Beautifully Grunge; Essentials; Landscape

Spectrum Aqua pen set: Nature

Spectrum Sparkle pen: Clear Overlay

Versafine IP: black

Embellishments:

Ribbon from my stash

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape; fun foam

Whimsical woodland ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well.  I am back with another card I created from the mini Paperbabe Stamps sets.  It’s funny when I was talking to my OH the over day I was saying to him that I love the fact that I like to do CAS, cute, shabby and my in between own style too and that’s what this card is all about.  First play with these very cute stamps …

A 150mm square card and I'm still into the Kraft!

Good for posting

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Card Mania Challenge CMC#85 Let it Shine 

Craft Stamper Challenge October Take It Make It Autumnal Creations:

earth tone colours or red, orange, yellow, brown and green
Fussy & Fancy Friday’s Challenge #175 Shades of Autumn 

 Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #44 Inspiration Photograph

Penny Black & More Challenge Autumn
Simon Says Stamps Monday Challenge Autumn

Simon Says Stamps Work It Wednesday Challenge 

Use Red, Orange, Yellow &/ Brown

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes

You will be seeing more of these stamps because I love them.  They are going to be perfect for my brother’s lovely partner and for my beautiful sweet niece: they are going to visit next weekend and I can’t wait: our sweet young one has grown so much since we last saw her.  This card was an experiment about how they work with my Spectrum Aqua pens.  I started out creating a blue sky and pale green grass onto white card with AquaTints.  Once that was dry I started inking up the stamps with the Aqua pens, I can’t imagine crafting without them now lol!  This weekend I found and learnt a couple of new tricks with the Aqua pens because of my sweet friend Tracy and now I am desperate to play with these stamps again, lol, I will have to wait though as I’ve a trip to the hospital for a scan and my family visiting next weekend.  That means the lounge needs dusting and my craft room, which is next to it, desperately needs tidying lol!  Mind you I’ve still not found everything since the family helpfully re-organised it for me, grr, they won’t do that again!

The stencilled piece was me playing with the stencil Carol gifted me and the Aqua pens.  This time I drew through the stencil with the Aqua pens and then sprayed with water.  All the detail was lost so once dry I went back in with the pen but didn’t add water a second time.  So I used multiple snippets, Spectrum Noir AquaTints, Spectrum Aqua and a little Spectrum Sparkle.  I’ve noticed I’m using my sparkle pen a lot so I need to put it away and use my old Sakura pens instead lol!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Paperbabe Stamps: Whimsical Woodland Sets 2 (owl) and 3 (bunny)

Stencil:

Tyre tread stencil from Carol: no idea what brand or how old it is

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; paintbrushes; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

Crafters Companion: Kraft card & Sheena stamping card snippets

Pearl paper snippet

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Landscape

Spectrum Aqua pens: Nature

Spectrum Noir Sparkle: Clear overlay

Embellishments:

Bakers Twine; heart

Adhesives/Mediums:

Washi tape; Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape; fun foam

No stamping, eek! ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend was a good one and your week has started well.  I decided to play a little outside of my comfort zone to create this card by not using any stamps and here it is …

A 150mm square card

Good for posting

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Allsorts Challenge #386 Sparkle & Shine 

Card Mania Challenge CMC#85 Let it Shine 

Fussy & Fancy Friday’s Challenge #175 Shades of Autumn 

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes

Unstampabelles Challenge A Different Edge & Outside your Comfort Zone:

There’s no stamping and that is so out of my comfort zone! 

I was recently able to acquire this Imagination Crafts stencil because of a challenge win and I was really chuffed to find it as it is one that I have wanted for a little while.  I decided to create a background before using it so I took my AquaTints out and coloured an approximately 140mm square card by applying the ATs to my wet card.  Once the card was dry I used my fingers to add little and large splatters of water to the card which I mopped up with a piece of kitchen towel.  I then heat set the background before applying the stencil with Washi tape.  I used my Spectrum Aqua pens to outline each bud, flower and the stem.  I scribbled the Aqua pens onto a piece of acetate and added a little water so that I could watercolour the rest of the details on the stencil.  I left that to dry before going back in with a sparkle pen to add some shimmer.

I matted the piece onto some patterned paper from my stash.  I used my Martha Stewart border punch to add a different edge on my card.  I used three layers of die cut flowers and attached them together using brads, so I managed to use up a little more of my old stash lol!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

                                                                                           

Tools

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Cuttlebug die cutting machine

Sizzix Tim Holtz Bigz Die: Tattered Floral

Stencil:

Imagination Crafts stencil:

Miscellaneous Tools:

Martha Stewart border punch; paintbrushes; paint palette; spray water bottle; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

Crafters Companion A4: Sheena Douglass Stamping card; Kraft card

150mm square Prima paper

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Aqua: Nature pen set

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Primary; Beautifully Grunge

Spectrum Sparkle: Clear Overlay pen

Embellishments:

Brads from my stash

Adhesives/Mediums:

Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape

New stamps and inspired by a photograph ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your weekend is going well.  The time is shooting past and as I have a busy week next week I wanted to get my blog posts ready to go.  My lovely OH bought me this set of stamps when I asked if I could purchase something to look forward to and because I needed the distraction he told me to order them.  I am so happy I did as they are so beautiful and I am going to get a lot of use of these for our family.  So here is my first card …

  

An A6 card and not too deep for posting

I am in love with these stamps: thank you Kim for getting them to me so quickly!

 Created for me and especially for these Challenges

  AAA Cards Clean & Simple Challenge #76 Masculine

Addicted to Stamps & More Challenge #216 Anything Goes

Allsorts Challenge #386 Sparkle & Shine

  Creative with Stamps Challenge #7 Use a Sentiment

 Paperbabe Stamps Challenge #44 Inspiration Photograph

That’s Crafty Challenge Clean and Simple

The Ribbon Girl Challenge October Any Image Challenge 

For some peculiar reason I worked back to front with this card, lol!  I stamped the fox, which is two stamps, the sentiment and I the hearts from this stamp set too in position using Distress ink pads.  I used Wild Honey and Vintage Photo for the fox and Wild Honey alone for the sentiment and the hearts.  Once that was done I used my heat tool to make sure it was dry.  I attached the stencil with Washi and gently worked around the sentiment and the hearts to add the stencilling.  Whilst the stencil was still in place I added Clear Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen to add a light coat of shimmer to the Distress ink and I added a layer on the fox too.

When I saw the challenge over at Paperbabe stamps I had to scratch my head a bit as I knew I didn’t have a stamp or stencil like the inspiration photograph.  I hunted through my stencil box and the one that matched the closest was one of the beautiful stencils the lovely Carol gifted me.  I used that with Wild Honey Distress ink with my mini blending tool and foam.  I wanted a bit of texture so my finishing touch was to wrap Bakers Twine and a heart embellishment.  Done! 

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Paperbabe stamps: Whimsical Woodland stamp set 1 (fox)

Stencil:

Tyre tread stencil from Carol: no idea of brand

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; Ranger ink blending tool and foam

Supplies

Card Paper:

300 gsm card

Snippet white textured card

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Distress ink pads: Wild Honey; Vintage Photo

Embellishments:

Twine

Heart

Adhesives/Mediums:

Washi tape; double sided tape; fun foam cut into strips

Sunset Daisies ...

Hello my lovely friends and visitors, I hope your week is going well.  I am trying to use my stamped and coloured flower panels that I’ve just created so that some of them are used before I start getting stuck into winter and Christmas creations and today’s card was created from a flower panel and multiple snippets too and here it is …

  

An A6 card, not too deep

A final look

Created for me and especially for these Challenges

Craft Stamper Challenge October Take It Make It Autumnal Creations
 Fab ‘n’ Funky Challenge #323 Fabulous Flowers  

Fussy & Fancy Friday’s Challenge #175 Shades of Autumn 

 Noor Design Challenge UK #23 CAS or Fully Loaded

Penny Black & More Challenge October

 Seven Hills Challenge October Colours: 

I went with deep rich purples and I used a die from your store

Spectrum Noir Challenge on Facebook Halloween Colours or Anything Goes

The Pencil Case Challenge #30 Anything Goes

The main panel was one of my experiments, as per usual, lol!  I decided to create a dark sunset sky look, the sort we get in autumn as it starts to get darker earlier in the UK.  I used the Beautifully Grunge purple AquaTints and darkened it with a touch of black from the Essentials set.  Once dry I stamped the daisies, using masks, across the piece of card.  I then used Pebeo Matt to seal the flowers because I wanted to colour the daisies and the stems and adding colour over the top would mean that I ended up with lavender coloured daisies and very dark stems.  Once it was dry I coloured the daisies with the white (Essentials ATs), the leaves green (Grunge ATs) and yellow (Primary ATs).

As usual I had small snippets of white card from other projects which I die cut and then coloured with the purple AquaTints.  I also managed to use some patterned paper and a snippet black card which I die cut the butterfly from and then added a layer of Pebeo Dyna interference, I love this paint too much.  I played around with layout and some matting and layering and once everything was in position I glittered the hello die cut and added three sequins: simples lol!

Thank you so much for taking the time to visit and comment.  I really do appreciate it and I hope you get some time to do what you love to do soon  ttfn Karen x

Tools

Stamp:

Sheena Douglass A6 A Little Bit Sketchy:

Die Cutting Machine & Dies:

Cuttlebug die cutting machine

My Favourite Things Die-Namics: Hello There die set

Crafters Companion Die’sire Christmas Classiques: Ivy

Joy Crafts: 6002/0024 Daisy Flower die set; 6002/0025 Flowers die set

Marianne Designs Creatables Dies: LR0161 Chinese Rose (the leaves)

Magazine freebie: butterfly die

Miscellaneous Tools:

MISTI; paint brushes; water pot

Supplies

Card Paper:

300 gsm card

Sheena Douglass Stamping Card: snippets for the flower panel and coloured die cuts

Black card snippet & patterned paper snippets from my stash

EP Ink/Paint/Pen Colours:

Spectrum Noir AquaTints: Beautifully Grunge; Essentials; Primary

Versafine IP: black

Pebeo Dyna Iridescent acrylic paint: violet blue

Purple Stickles

Embellishments:

Brads and sequins from my stash

Adhesives/Mediums:

Pebeo Matt Gel; Collall all purpose glue; double sided tape; fun foam