LIM #437 card

Hi crafty friends, I hope all is well in your world today? I am back to share another card made for the 'Less is More' challenge again. 
LIM are still celebrating their 10th birthday, ......still can't believe it's been going for 10 yrs WOW!!!
Thanks for  choosing my card for the showcase last month also.....that makes it 30 times now!
Anyway I made this quick card, they want us to make a one layer card and the theme this time is 'Flowers'...talk about right up my street lol !!!
Come and see my card and enjoy your week whatever you are up to...which probably isn't much if you are still in lockdown like us in the UK ;)
More cards very soon !

I used this gorgeous Alex Syberia digi called 'Clematis'. I water coloured and used pencils on my image too.The sentiment was computer generated.

Out of Focus card 2

Hi there friends, I am back with another quick card for the latest 'Less is More' challenge. Their theme is 'Out of Focus', this time I made a green flower card and watercolouring as usual ;)

I stamped my image and them moved the stamp and re-inked and then spritzed it with water before stamping to give an out of focus look.

Well that was the idea anyway lol, I think it kinda worked. Enjoy your day whatever you are up to ;)

The Flower Challenge #41 Reminder

Hi there friends, I am back with another reminder card for 'The Flower Challenge'. This time we want you to 'Add leaves', as well as the usual flowers of course too.

Our Guest Designer this month is the talented Galina Filippenko (our winner for last August). Do try and visit her blog too if you can as she makes such beautiful cards.

Ok back to my card, here it is below, it reminds me of Spring for some reason...but maybe I am just wishing it here lol ;)

Pretty Roses card

 Smooth White card
Altenew Garden Picks 3D dies
TH Distress inks
Neat & tangled stencil Patchwork Fields
Diamond dust
N&T clear sequins
3d pads

I made my card base then used my stencil to add a pale pattern to my card. Then I stamped and die cut all my flowers and leaves. I coloured all my images and added them to my card base, using 3d pads on the flowers. A sprinkling of sequins and my card was complete.

 

    Leafy Frame card

 

White Linen card 

Silver Mirri card

Altenew Leaf Frame cover die

Altenew Forever in Love stamp

TH Distress inks

Wow Silver E/P

Altenew Clear Embossing ink

I made my card base then cut my silver frame using the cover die. I blended some Distress inks over the lower half of card and did a bit of spattering too. I stamped, embossed and coloured my flowers and leaves and fussy cut them out. I used 3d pads to attach them to my card and it was complete.

   
Please add our cue card below when entering our challenge . You have until the 25th Feb to enter.  

   

The Flower Challenge #41 'Add Leaves'

Hi there friends, it's now February and time for a new challenge over at 'The Flower Challenge' again. It's an easy one this month and 'Add Leaves' ;)

Our Guest Designer this month is the talented Galina Filippenko (our winner for last August). Do try and visit her blog too if you can as she makes such beautiful cards.

Ok back to my cards, here they are below, (I decided to make another at the last minute). Please check out my teamies cards as they are just amazing as always. Oh and also try and join in our challenge too perhaps ;)

Kraft card

White Linen card
Kraft card
Watercolour card
Vellum by Inspire Me
Altenew Precious Peony stamps
Altenew Leaf Clusters dies
Altenew Clear Embossing ink
Wow White Embossing powder
TH Distress inks
Sequins from stash
Dylusions ink spray White Linen

I made my top fold card base using my white card then attached a top piece made from Kraft card using 3d pads for height.

I printed and embossed my flowers on some watercolour card and used my distress inks to colour them.

I then cut my leaves from white card and also from vellum & cut them all out including my flowers and attached them all to my card topper.

I added a spray of white paint and added my sequins and my card was complete.

You Inspire Me card

Smooth White card

Vellum by Inspire Me

TH Distress inks

Altenew Precious Peony stamps

Altenew Crafty Greetings sentiment

Altenew Clear Embossing ink

Wow Silver E/P 

N & T Clear Sequins

I made my base card then stamped and embossed using my flower spray stamps. I coloured my flowers and leaves and spattered a bit of paint onto my card and then added a few sequins.

The last thing was stamping my sentiment on a piece of spare vellum and then embossing it and fussy cutting it out and attaching that to my card also.

I hope you like both versions of using this pretty stamp set ;)

Please add our cue card below when entering our challenge.

You have until the 25th February to enter.

Lots of cards!

Hi there friends, today I have lots of cards to share. My lovely team mate Rachel Vass from over at 'The Flower Challenge' is now designing her own range of digi stamps. How exciting is that! You can see them all HERE over at Etsy. So easy to colour too, I just adore them all.

Anyway Rachel kindly gave me some of them to play with and I really enjoyed colouring them all. I am not the best at using coloured pencils BUT having recently bought some fab Faber Castell Polychromos I decided to use these on some of the cards. 

The first two cards were made using my usual watercolours btw. I do hope you check out all her amazing digi's as they so beautiful.

Here are all my cards below, I hope you like them ;)

Blossom Branch

 

 

 

   

     

     Tattoo Rose Blooms

     Trio of Roses

     Sketchy Rose Spray

     Trio of Peony Roses

     Peony Rose

    Poppy Spray

    Handtied Bouquet

    Handheld Wildflowers

     Ruffled Peony

     

   

The Flower Challenge #40 'Shaped Cards'

Hi there friends, my first cards of the new year! May I wish you all a very Healthy and Happy New Year too! 

I am back with more DT cards for 'The Flower Challenge' again. This month our theme is one we have had before and 'Shaped cards'.

I went with a tag shape for my first card, I saw this lovely die set and loved the large tag die. For my second card I used an old Spellbinders die I have had for a while. I used it to cut a shape at the bottom of my card and also used it to add another shape to the top of my card also.

The gorgeous flower here is a digital one by Alex Syberia, isn't it just divine! Alex is sponsoring us this month and gave all of our DT one of her amazing digital images, (see them all HERE) to use on our cards this month.  She is giving our winner two of her digital images. Alex is also our Guest Designer this month too.

She is not only a great designer but a great card maker too, check out her beautiful card on our blog and all her others on Instagram. Ok here are my cards below, come and have a peek and do try and join in our challenge this month, you may win a prize again too ;)

Looking back at all my Flower Challenge DT cards from last year I have made a compilation of my favourite four. See them all below my two FC cards here. Some of our design team have also chosen their favourite four too, see them on their own blogs.

Blue tag card

White Linen card

Watercolour card

Alex Syberia digital flower Large Peony

Altenew sentiment

Altenew Deco Wonder stencil

Heartfelt Creations Album Tags & Accents

TH Distress inks

MFT Stitched rectangle die

Versafine Onyx Black ink
Glamour dust

N&T sequins

First I made my card base using my tag die, then I used my stencil and watercolours over a separate piece of card. I printed my flower after resizing it then coloured it using various shades of watercolour.

I stamped my sentiment and used my stitched die to cut it out, I edged it using a  matching colour. Then I mounted it on some silver card. I attached everything to my card base, added a bit of sparkle and after attaching a few sequins my card was complete.

Love Grows Here card

White linen card

Watercolour card

Alex Syberia digi stamp Large Peony

Altenew sentiment

Spellbinders Labels 2 dies 

TH Stencil Flourish

TH Distress inks

Versafine Vintage Sepia ink 

Little Things sequins

I made my card base then cut a piece out of the bottom using my die. I cut three more pieces of card using my dies. I used a stencil on one and coloured it to match my flower. Then I coloured my other die cut one using matching colours.

 I resized and then stamped my flower and coloured it all. Next I stamped my sentiment, colouring the edge and attached it all to my card base, added a few sequins and my card was finished.

 Please add our cue card below when entering our challenge.  You have until the 25th Jan to enter.  

    My favourite four DT Flower Challenge cards from last year.