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