Feathers and Wings - Love Birds

Here's another card from my card kit swap  with Nonni and Pia. 

The items from the kit were the stamped and embossed image and the pearly embossed paper at the back.

I masked the image and added two shades of pink Distress Ink through a Tim Holtz stencil. I coloured the image in using markers and added the sentiment (Papermania).

I'd like to enter:

Crafting When We Can  wings
Alphabet Challenge  l for love

Feathers and Wings - Dreamcatcher

Here's the first card from my card kit swap  with Nonni and Pia. 

The items from the kit were the dreamcatcher and the thread I used to suspend it from the aperture.  I dry-embossed the white card and added black pearls and a sentiment (Hero Arts).

I'd like to enter:
Come and Get It punches and dies

Card Kit Swap - Feathers and Wings

It's time to post the cards I've made for the kit swap I do with Nonni and Pia and this month it was touch-and-go as to whether I'd make the blog-posting date. There was a mix-up with my address and so I didn't actually receive the kit till I got home from holiday on Friday evening.

Pia put together such a lovely kit that in fact it wasn't too difficult to get the cards made in time. Here's a picture of the kit:

All I've got left is one piece of patterned paper, a feather, some sequins and some wire ...I really wish I'd used the wire but I didn't have time to come up with a good idea, so hopefully in the near future...

I am going to blog the details of each card separately and enter some challenges, so I hope you'll look at my other posts and go and visit Pia and Nonni and see what they did.

Inkspirational Challenge - Stamp on Patterned Paper.

Shauna has chosen our new  challenge at Inkspirational , and it is:

For me, this was a no-brainer ...my favourite technique of-all-time-by-a long-long-way- is to paper piece by stamping on patterned paper.

For my DT project I'm sharing a set of cards commisioned by my daughter. My oldest grandson is transferring to secondary school in September.  With a group of friends, he had a celebration meal to mark them leaving primary school and moving to (some different) secondary schools. They each received one of these cards.

I used a Mama Elephant stamp set and an October Afternoon paper pad from my paper mountain.

Our guest designer this week is the very talented and effervescent Kathy  who I recently had the pleasure of meeting in real-life. Not just great for card-making tips, she will also offer you style advice on occasion -wear!

Please do come to over to the Inkspirational blog and see what she, and the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own creation.

I'd like to enter:
Words to Craft By  a single step
Stamping Sensations anything goes

City Crafter Challenge Blog - Synchronised Swim

I chose the theme this week at City Crafter - Synchronised Swim.

The idea is that you take inspiration from the photo above. 

For my DT card I used the photo colours and swimming theme and tried to make the fishes (Lawn Fawn) look like they are swimming in synchronicity (?!) - unfortunately stamped fish don't have the physical versatility of the women in the photo. The sentiment was cut on the Silhouette Cameo. 

Davi, our wonderful Special Guest Star, is still with us, so I hope you'll come over to City Crafter, see what Davi and the rest of the DT have made, and join in our challenge. 

With The Beatles

I've just returned from a trip away and I'm home for a few days to do my washing before I head off again! This photo was taken a few days ago in York.

For my layout I used Pink Paislee papers and  Dear Lizzy stickers and I cut the title and Beatles silhouetttes on the Silhouette Cameo.

I'd like to enter:
Shopping Our Stash Silhouettes
Off the Rails Scrapbooking  black and anything goes

The Big 25

As I may have mentioned, I was at the HLS retreat at the weekend. We were given a goody bag on the first evening and in it was the Happy Little Stampers big number stamp set. I made this card in my hotel room that evening, using the 2 and 5 from the set. The other stamps are by Pink Paislee and Inkylicious.

I'd like to enter:
Chocolate Coffee Cards : Use a number
Sweet Stampin  Christmas
Challenge up Your Life  Christmas
Little Red Wagon Christmas
Addicted to Stamps cas

City Crafter - I Gained a Stone! - Sweet Treats

Stella has chosen a fun theme at City Crafter this week... add a sweet treat such as a pie, cake or , in my case, ice lollies/ice creams. And if you can't do that, you could even just use the colours from the photo. 

For my DT card I cut an ice lolly (popsicle)  shape on my Silhouette Cameo, using ice-cream themed patterned paper that were a magazine freebie some time ago. The sentiment is by Clearly Besotted. 

For the whole of August we are delighted to have a special Guest Star, Davi, and I hope you will come over to City Crafter and see what she, and the rest of the DT have made, and enter your own sweet treat. 

I'd like to enter:

Curtain Call  snow cone 

Crafty Cardmakers summer 

In the Clouds

I'm back from a fab weekend at Happy Little Stampers retreat. During the weekend, Carol demoed some masking techniques, including making clouds using a die-cut. I'd been thinking about entering a card into Case This Sketch and originally I was going to do a complete cloud background with the strips white masked on it - but that didn't work, so I cut the backgrounds into strips and am much happier with it.

The plane and sentiment are by Penny Black.

As well as Case This Sketch, I'd also like to enter:
Casology: Journey

Inkspirational Challenge - Dip

Here's my DT project for the 'Dip' challenge at Inkspirational .

The heart was made by dipping a cardboard heart into white embossing enamel in a melt pot. After it was set and cooled (well, several weeks later, actually!) I dipped it into glue and then again into glitter. The heart-rate monitor thingy was traced from a graphic I found online and cut on the Silhouette Cameo. I stamped 'lots of love' and added texture with an embossing folder.

I hope you'll come over to Inkspirational and see what our fabulous DT have made, and enter your own project.
I'd like to enter:
Allsorts touch of sparkle
Simply Create sparkle
Less is More tactile