Snorkel

Beware of the snorkelling bear!
I'd like to enter:
Addicted to Cas
Aud Sentiments summer
My Time to Craft  circles
Watercooler Challenge 

You Did it!

I saw some great challenges that I could combine and scrap this lovely graduation photo. Well, it looks like I've chucked everything at it! See that pink tassel on the left of the photo? I got it in a kit once and thought I'd never use it. There's spray inks, washi, die cut hexagons, stencilled texture paste and a butterfly sticker. I think that's an A for effort!

I'd like to enter:
Always Fun  graduation
Shopping Our Stash  graduation - I hope this is okay as I know technically your theme is graduation cards....
Lasting Memories  hexagons
The Studio Challenges stencils
Use Your Stuff washi

Reindeer Heart

Another Christmas card, combining some challenges.

I cut the reindeer and heart on the Silhouette, stamped the reindeer with a Darkroom Door stamp, crimped and sprayed the background.

I'd like to enter:
Sparkles Christmas reindeet
Winter Wonderland  hearts
The Holly and Ivy 

Penguin with squiggly ice trails

Ooh I do  love penguins - in real-life and on Christmas cards. Here's one of my extensive penguin stamp collection- it's by For the Love of Stamps. The sentiments are Mama Elephant and I added Nuvo drops.

I'd like to enter:
Casology 
Crafting with Dragonflies  purple
Merry Monday 

City Crafter - Watercolour Flowers

This week at City Crafter, Lucille wants us to create watercolour flowers.

Here I embossed a Concord and 9th flower and watercoloured it with Distress Inks, letting the colours run into each other. (Yes. folks, that's a deliberate effect!)

Please go over to CCCB and see the fabulous makes from the rest of the DT, then enter your own watercolour flowers project.


I'd like to enter:
Fashionable Stamping  floral
Pinspirational 
Crafty Creations  anything goes

Blue Splash

Here's a simple card using just two stamps and a pot of Brushos.

I'd like to enter:
Less is More
Shopping Our Stash flowers
Tuesday Throwdown  cas, rubberstamp, floral

In Glorious Technicolour

Here I used a free digistamp by Dearie Dolls and I stamped it with a circle from Winnie and Walter Ring in the Celebration set . (That set is just one of the most useful ever.) The pink stripe (it's supposed to be from a paint roller) and the sentiment are by For the Love of Stamps.

It was two photo challenges that gave me the ideas for this card. I immediately loved the photo at Time Out and was going to do something with a bright pink retro chair but I found this image when I was looking through what I had. Then when I was colouring the flowers, I coloured the middles yellow and then remembered the sunflower photo at Just Us Girls  and decided to change them.

Paint the Town Red

This was the second red card I made last week. Do you find red ink quite aggressive? Not the colour, but for some reason it just seems to get everywhere! I was making a very white card earlier this morning and found a smudge of red ink on it that came from nowhere!

Anyway, here I've done lots of masking using stamps from two complimentary sets by Neat and Tangled and a city stamp by Kaisercraft. The sentiment is Waffle Flower and I made 'paint the town' on my computer.

I'd like to enter:
Passion for Promarkers  birthday ( coloured with Promarkers)
Cas-ual Fridays birthday
AAA Cards  birthday
Casology  thrill

The Library Challenge - Breakfast at Tiffany's

The new Library Challenge  is Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote. I've read the book but I don't think I've ever seen the film, although it's more famous.

Anyway, for my first card I tried to evoke the glamour and the city setting . The woman is a Funky Fossil stencil and the stamps are Kaisercraft and Clearly Besotted. 

I'd like to enter:
Alphabet Challenge  ebony
Unicorn Challenge  monochrome 
CAS on Friday  birthday
Seize the Birthday patterned paper
Cas-ual Fridays birthday 

For my second card I used a Stamping Bella stamp to depict Holly Golightly reading about herself in the paper. I used two stencils for the background. 


I'd like to enter:
Crafter's Castle  technique - paper-piecing 
Sweet Stampin paper piecing  

I'd love it if you popped over to The Library and entered the challenge.

Off- Duty Santa

My colour of the week this week, it seems, has been red - I've another red card to post later. 
These stamps are by Pinkfresh and I paper-pieced Santa's jumper with some old freebie paper.
I'd like to enter:
Fab n Funky  Christmas
Watercooler  Christmas
Addicted to Stamps  holiday

From One Sheet

Back to Basics  have a challenge I've not seen before - use one sheet of 12 inch patterned paper - so I had to join in.

I made four cards (I could have made another if I hadn't ruined some of it) using this paper from Carta Bella Space Age:

For my first card I made the paper into a stepper base (it's really good strength paper and double sided) . The robot was cut from another sheet in the range and the sentiment is an Avery Elle stamp. 

I'd also like to enter this into: 

Cardz 4 Guyz science fiction 

Here I used two stamps - the rocket one is from a freebie magazine set a few years ago, and I paper-pieced it with the patterned paper. The sentiment is by Clearly besotted. 

I'd also like to enter:

Casology  thrill 

Stamp Ink Paper  abc 123

Here I cut a card with 'Explore the Universe' on it from another sheet in the range and layered it onto a panel of my sheet . On my Silhouette, I cut out the rocket. The flame is cut from the reverse side of the paper.

Finally, these stamps are from the freebie set I mentioned earlier, stamped directly ont the patterned paper.

City Crafter - Graduation

This week at City Crafter, Amy wants us to make a graduation card. As I haven't got any graduations on the horizon, I thought I'd make a card that would work for a graduation or for other achievements, like passing exams etc.

I repeat stamped frogs from a MFT set - they really make me smile. The text stamps and stars are from various other sets/brands.

Please go over to CCCB and see the fabulous makes from the rest of the DT, then enter your own graduation project.

I'd like to enter:

Craft Stamper 

Always Fun 

QKR Stampede

Crafty Animals 

HLS Cas 

Best get on with some Christmas cards.....

This is the kind of Christmas card I'd make if I was new to cardmaking and didn't have a whole room bursting at the seams with stuff.  I only used five items - inkpad, white pencil, kraft cardstock and two stamps (snowman Paper Smooches and sentiment Penny Black). Perhaps I should downsize my stash!
I'd like to enter:
ABC Christmas  keep it simple
Winter Wonderland  snow
CAS Christmas snowman