To you and yours, from me and mine...
Wishing you a safe and fabulous festive season!
Friday, December 25, 2015
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Traditional Christmas FUSION.. with Glitter!
Can you believe it's almost Christmas!!!
I don't know about you, but I seem to be short on my Christmas card stash again this year! So I've decided to celebrate the last FUSION of 2015 with two Christmas variations on a theme.
The first card is inspired by this super versatile FUSION sketch, rotated 90 degrees to create a Christmas shaker card. Created this super glittery shaker card using silver and gold glitter paper, diecut with Lil Inkers Stitched Snowflakes and Stitched Oval shaker opening, together with Winnie and Walters Joy sentiment. Added a sheet of clear acetate to the cardstock piece to create the window. Finally some fabulous glittery star and circle sequins from Winnie and Walter, then created the walls of the shaker with double-sided foam tape and adhered to the cardstock card base.
Second card is a more traditional Christmas card, inspired by the theme and colours of the FUSION inspiration photo, together with the sketch. Created using the same die-cuts, with the addition of Memory Box Pine Branches, all cut from Kaisercraft and Basic Grey patterned papers.
As usual, you can play along with FUSION using either this gorgeous photo inspiration, or this fabulously versatile sketch, or a combination of both.
Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!
Card number 1 also playing along with
Card number 2 also playing along with
Friday, November 27, 2015
Finnabair @ Dromkeen for Bella Carta
Had another amazing opportunity to play with Finnabair and lots of pretty Prima product, and drive to parts of Australia I had never been to LOL!
This canvas was created with a black gesso background, collage of paper and ephemera, texturised clear soft matt gel, lace, flowers, metal, wood and plastic button embellishments and sentiment, covered in black gesso and highlighted with metallic sprays and metallic paint created using mica and soft matt gel.
Playing along with That Craft Place Anything Goes Mixed Media,
Thursday, November 26, 2015
Blue Christmas FUSION...
I was running behind this fortnight, and whipped up these Christmas cards using WPlus9 Festive Greetings, stamped in Momento Luxe Bahama Blue. Card number two also features Lil Inkers Stitched Square and Stitched Snowflake dies, together with Ali Edwards Christmas die. I couldn't decide which was my favourite, so I thought I would be cheeky and include both!
As usual, you can play along with FUSION using either this gorgeous photo inspiration, or this fabulously versatile sketch, or a combination of both.
Pop on by the Design Team blogs for some more super FUSION inspiration:
Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!
Also playing along with...
Her scarf reminded me of the tangled Christmas lights
CAS on Sunday Christmas (Card #1)
AAA Cards Anything Goes (Card #2)
CAS on Sunday Christmas (Card #1)
AAA Cards Anything Goes (Card #2)
Monday, November 23, 2015
The ART of Possibility...
Created using acrylic paints on a gesso background, in yellow, orange and hot pink using Dina Wakely's circle and leaves stencils to create positive and negative spaces - thanks to the magic of baby wipes! Added highlights with white gel pen, painted the stencil sentiment by Dyan Reavley and highlighted in white gel pen, and added Dina Wakely's scribbly butterfly stamped on patterned paper fussy cut.
Playing along with That Craft Place Anything Goes Mixed Media
Sunday, November 15, 2015
Joy to the World... The Christmas Challenge
With all that is happening in the world today, I thought I'd spread a little JOY.
This began as an idea I had for the FUSION challenge this fortnight, but took a turn and ended up here! Based on the FUSION sketch, I created the Lawn Fawn snow bunny's ski run (or more accurately his sled run), and combined with the fabulous kraft, white, red and glittery silver from The Challenge A Christmas Colour Challenge. Falling snow background created using Winnie and Walters mask and modelling paste, and added Ali Edwards Technique Tuesday Christmas sentiment.
Thursday, November 12, 2015
PS It's FUSION Time...
I have to say this fortnight I was inspired by the super cute stacked pumpkins - reminded me of a mini snowman! So I interpreted the wavy sketch lines as huge snowdrifts and paper pieced my Paper Smooches Freezy Fellas snowman with an extra warm scarf and beanie, topped off with a nine carrot nose (pun intended!). Paper Smooches Christmas Words sentiment is die cut from sparkly gold glitter paper, and golden bokeh snow background paper is from Websters.
As usual, you can play along with FUSION using either this gorgeous photo inspiration, or this fabulously versatile sketch, or a combination of both.
Pop on by the Design Team blogs for some more super FUSION inspiration:
Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!
Playing along with the fabulous new Paper Smooches GOLD Challenge
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Finnabair @ Artified - All About Textures...
Lucky enough to have the opportunity to play at Artified studio with the amazingly talented (and very funny!) Finnabair yesterday.
This class was all about texture using primarily products from the Prima Finnabair ranges, including a fabulous array of metal flowers, gears, clock pieces, bottletops and buttons, combined with stencils, texture paste, black gesso and some of the amazing new Mica and Mica Magic Powders, a paintbrush, cardboard, lace, and hardware, plus a few bits and pieces from my stash...
Playing along with Mixed Media Monthly Texture,
(although I'm not sure if it needs to be a card which would count this out!).
Thursday, October 29, 2015
FUSION Field of Poppy Dreams...
This week I broke out my new Unity by Donna Downey poppy stamp, embossed in gloss black over a Twinkling H2O background of Poppy and Egyptian Gold. This gorgeous background paper is by Collections, and the Heidi Swapp wooden Dream was covered in black embossing powder then red glitter embossing powder.
As usual, you can play along with FUSION using either this gorgeous photo inspiration, or this fabulously versatile sketch, or a combination of both.
Pop on by the Design Team blogs for some more FUSION inspiration:
Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!
Also playing along with this weeks gorgeous Muse Challenge by Tracey,
inspired by the flower and sentiment combination and framed card,
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Throwback,
Using a Favourite Technique I used two of my favourites,
embossing over watercolour background and fussy cutting, and
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.
Also playing along with this weeks gorgeous Muse Challenge by Tracey,
inspired by the flower and sentiment combination and framed card,
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Throwback,
Using a Favourite Technique I used two of my favourites,
embossing over watercolour background and fussy cutting, and
Simon Says Wednesday Challenge Anything Goes.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015
Happy Holidays - Home is where the heart is...
I have to preface this post by saying this is one of those cards that looks better in real life LOL! Stamped Hero Arts Village in Silver embossing powder, paired with Technique Tuesday by Ali Edwards sentiment on American Crafts woodgrain background.
Playing along with Little Red Wagon Home is where the Heart is.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
P.S. A CAS(E) of Merry Christmas...
I must admit, Paper Smooches were the first ever stamps I won, and they will always hold a special place in my heart! Lucky for me (and YOU), challenges will be continuing over on the Paper Smooches blog!
A quick and cheerful Christmas card created using Paper Smooches dies. Diagonally cut a piece of Basic Grey paper from my stash, then negative die cut two Paper Smooches Poinesttia holly leaves, and used the positive pieces to create my second sprig of holly. Die cut Paper Smooches Christmas Words sentiment, together with a half dozen holly berries and assembled on an angle, inspired by this weeks fabulous CAS(E) this Sketch. Colours, diecuts and holly inspirations from this weeks Muse - Christmas Visions.
P.S. A Retro Christmas...
Paper Smooches will always hold a special place in my heart! Lucky for me (and YOU), challenges will be continuing over on the Paper Smooches blog!
Another quick and cheerful Christmas card created using Paper Smooches dies and stamps. Cut a piece of Authentique paper from my stash using Paper Smooched Borders 1 wavy die multiple times to create "snow drifts". Stamped a couple of rows of these fabulous Paper Smooches Warm Hearts trees to create the tree border. Added the too cute Paper Smooches Warm Hearts snowman, and red hearts, assembled and stamped the snowman in position in the snow drift, and last of all added the Paper Smooches All Yule Need sentiment.
Layout inspired by this weeks fabulous Retro Sketch.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
A Lil' Mixed Media FUSION fun for Everyone...
Plenty of textural and Autumn coloured inspiration from this fortnight's FUSION! This is inspired bythe theme and colours of the FUSION photo inspiration, and created by first using texture paste and a Prima starry sky stencil, then layering some distressed inks and splatting the background with water. Added glue to some of the stars and sparkly orange glitter, stamped the Lil Inkers Stitched Circle with Lil Inkers witch and sentiment, before hat setting in gloss black embossing powder, pop dotting the circle moon, and matting in black cardstock.
As usual, you can play along with FUSION using either this gorgeous photo inspiration, or this fabulously versatile sketch, or a combination of both.
Pop on by the Design Team blogs for some more FUSION inspiration:
Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!
Also playing along with
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Cardabilities - Final Sketch...
This card background went through many incarnations before I decided I liked it LOL! I quickly discovered that too much red Glimmermist ends up looking like the chainsaw masacre, rather than quiet Autumn tones! That's the beauty of a gesso layer - if you don't like it you can remove colour with a baby wipe and start layering again!
Dictionary page base and added modelling paste (to play along with City Crafter Paste It) and a Pink Paislee She Art doily stencil. Covered in gesso, sprayed with a combination of Glimmermists and Dylusions in Autumn hues, highlighted with Gelato rubbed crayon once dry. Gorgeous Winnie and Walter sentiment, Dynamics branch and Clearly Besotted autumn leaves diecuts. Leaves created from watercolour paper oversprayed with orange and yellow Glimmermists. See how it GLOWS in the sun...
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