Box of Balloons

 

I made this box card for my niece's 21st birthday, using a digital cutting file from SVG cuts. 

I'd like to enter: 

Make My Monday Let's Celebrate 

The Sisterhood of Crafters balloons 

Krafty Chicks  all occasions

Inkspirational - Two or more stamp companies

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

For my DT card, I used a Uniko stripy stamp as a background and a Penny Black hedgehog stamp as my focal point, The sentiments are Altenew and I coloured everything with Promarkers. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Penny Black Saturday Challenge 

Crafty Calendar  add a sentiment 

Little Red Wagon  I love birthdays, balloons and a two-colour combo. 

I Love Promarkers

Tiger

 I'm not very good with layering stamps - especially flower ones - but this two-step layering set from Hero is very easy to use and I love the effect. I drew a little path for the tiger to walk on!

I'd like to enter:

My Time to Craft  cas

Cardz 4 Guyz  animal magic 

Inkspirational Challenges : Stencils and paste

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

...with an optional extra challenge of using paste,

Some time ago, I played around with stencils and metallic gilding paste on black card and then looked at it and didn't know what to do with it. So I pulled it out last week to use for this challenge- and I looked at it and didn't know what to do with it! But after nearly giving up I suddenly thought - what about going CAS? 

So, here it is. I found a circle die that sat just within a circular sentiment stamp, cut a part circle and stamped the sentiment round it, Is it odd? I'm not sure but I actually like it. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Stencil Fun 

At the Lido

 

The sun's come out , at last, in my part of the UK!  Here are some animals having fun at the lido.

I'd like to enter:

Make My Monday  outdoor summer fun 

Cardz 4 Galz summer fun 

Inkspirational Challenges - Mood Board

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

For my DT project I made a card for my niece's new baby boy. I was inspired by the colours and the bunting on the mood board. The background is a big Catherine Pooler stamp and the band members are My Favorite Things. The sentiments are Happy Little Stampers and the bunting is a Mama Elephant stamp. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

 Make My Monday  B is for band and bunting 

Crafty Calendar for a child 

Give a Crafter a Cookie 

Inkspirational Challenges - Frame

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

For my DT card I used a circular sentiment stamp as a frame. I created a (very basic!) snowy scene inside and then added a Mo's Digital Pencil digi , coloured with markers, coming out of the frame. Finally I added more gel pen snowflakes. 

Please go and look at the fantastic inspiration from the rest of the DT at Inkspirational and enter your own creation. 

I'd like to enter:

Sparkles Monthly Challenges cas 

The Holly and the Ivy

Rugby

 

The last card I posted was for my football- mad nephew and this one's for a different nephew, who's into rugby.

I used an embossing folder as both the background and sentiment and I found rugby images online, which I traced and cut on my Silhouette digital cutter. 

I'd like to enter:

 As You Like It  I chose dry embossing here as it's quick, easy and foolproof. 

Krafty Chicks 

Try it on Tuesday

Inkspirational Challenges - Spotlight Technique

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is:

For my DT card I made a birthday card for my football-mad nephew. First I printed the image - a digi from Lily of The Valley - onto craft card. Then I printed it again twice - once on plain white and then on spotty paper. I die cut a circle out of the white card,coloured the image in and pieced it onto the original image. Then I paper pieced the spotty paper on the gloves, Finally, I stamped a sentiment. Is this too much info????

I hope you'll pop over to Inskpirational and see what the rest of the team have made, and join in. 

I'd like to enter:

Cards4 Guyz  stars (on ball) 

Fab and Funky  For a child/teen

I Spy with my Little Eye boys

Krafty Chicks  cas

Inkspirational Challenges - Seasonal

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is: 

I can't make enough Christmas cards, really! For this one, I used a panel I'd made previously, with blotches of watercolour paint. I added die-cut snowflakes and a Christmas sentiment.

I hope you'll join in the challenge.

I'd like to enter 

Inkspirational Challenges - Moodboard

 

Our new challenge at Inkspirational is this mood board:

For my DT card I was inspired by the playful feel and the lovely colours. The idea was to look into a door that's all set up for a party, but I'm not sure if that quite comes off! I stamped a door, then masked it with scrap paper and stamped the balloons inside. I coloured them with markers and stamped a sentiment. 

I hope you'll pop over to Inkspirational to see what the rest of the DT have made, and join in the challenge. 

Believe in Father Christmas

Here, I stamped and masked Santa (MFT) and white embossed a load of elements (foliage, sentiment, stars, snowflake) from a Lil Inker set. Then I coloured in with markers. 

I'd like to enter:

Christmas Kickstart Santa 

Krafty Chicks  Christmas 

Christmas Cards All Year Round 

Build a Pond and They Will Come

 

The title of this post comes from an online article giving advice on how to attract frogs to a new pond... "build a pond and they will come". We used to have a pond in our old house and my partner always loved the frogs, He's now created a pond in our current house and we're waiting for the frogs to arrive, 

Meanwhile, for his birthday, I've made him a frog shaker card, using stamps from Newton's Nook and Marianne, and a rain stencil - we've had so much rain and I think the frogs will like that, 

I'd like to enter: 

Stencil Fun 

stencil, green, foliage and stencil , die cut, critter

Happy Birdie

 

Here, I've gone for a spring feel, with a Catherine Pooler bird stamp and stencilled background, with a birthday sentiment and a strip of dry embossing (beneath sentiment).

I'd like to enter:

Stencil Fun - Spring 

birds, stencil, die cut sentiment 

Make My Monday   national picture of a bird 

Masked Snowman

Here, I stamped a Picket Fence snowman and masked it. Then I made a rough mask with some scrap paper and stamped an Aall and Create background. The colour of the base card looks wrong - it is more teal than blue - I've had this same problem photographing this cardstock before - I have no idea why! 

I'd like to enter:

Krafty Chicks  stamp act 

My Time to Craft  snowmen

Crafty Calendar  dry embossed base

Sparkles Christmas Challenge   non-trad colours 

Inkspirational Challenges - Fold

 Our new challenge at Inkspirational  is:

I do like to make cards with an extra fold or two - I always feel it adds something a bit special.

For my DT card I used a mix of five sets from different companies, the biggest being a Colorado Craft bunny. I coloured all my images with watercolour pencils. 

I hope you'll visit the Inkspirational blog and see the rest of the DT's fabulous folds. 

I'd like to enter:

Aud Sentiments  watercolour /spring

Double D  cute little animals 

The Sisterhood of Crafters bunnies 

Little Red Wagon  fun folds 

Moving Along with the Times  fancy folds 

Just Dropped

 Here I made masks out of a punched circle and some ripped paper and inked over them to create the moon and snow. Then I stamped the santa sleigh and stamped and cut out the polar bear (MFT I think). 

I'd like to enter:

Jingle Belles 
inspired by sleigh cookie in centre

Alphabet Challenge - Zoology

Once Upon a Time 

 

Inkspirational Challeges - CAS with optional balloon

 It's another challenge at Inkspirational  and this time we're looking for: 

Optional: Feature a Balloon

For my DT card I kept it very simple by printing a digi stamp from Mo's Digital Pencil onto a card base, deliberately printing it slightly off the page. Then I stamped the sentiment on the balloon and coloured in with Promarkers. 

I hope you'll come over to Inkspirational  , see what the rest of the DT have made, and join in. 

I'd like to enter:

I spy with my little eye........... "Something beginning with B".

Krafty Chicks   Stamp Act 

Once Upon A Time