Hello Reverse Confetti...

Playing along with this months Reverse Confetti's Stock Your Stash Hello/Just Because, well, just because! Love this super cute crocodile/alligator, paired with this very apt Kaisercraft patterned paper! Featuring three Reverse Confetti stamp sets, Later Alligator, Color me Happy, and Lots to Say, together with the Tagged Totes Confetti Cut diecut. Perfect for playing along with Simon Says Frame It, City Crafter Safari So Good and The Male Room Little Boys too.

Playing along with 
Simon Says Frame It
Reverse Confetti's Stock Your Stash Hello/Just Because

 

City Crafter Safari So Good
The Male Room Little Boys

Floral FUSION Cupcakes...

I've gone for a more vintage vibe for the fabulous FUSION challenge this fortnight. Inspired by both the super versatile FUSION sketch and super cute cupcakes, this birthday card was created using Distress Ink Ground Espresso to stamp Avery Elle Cupcakes stamp, paired with the Avery Elle Cupcakes die cuts and sentiment, added Distress Ink Spun Sugar to stamp Your Next Stamp Mini Flower Splatter and added a sprinkling of buttons from my stash and distressed the edges with Gathered Twigs Distress Oxide.

To play along you can take inspiration from either the FUSION sketch or inspiration photo - or combine the two as I have!

Hop on over to the FUSION blog for some more super sized inspiration from our fabulous Design Team...

Becca Cruger - Betty J. - Jeanne Jachna - Jen Mitchell - Karren Johnson

Linda Callahan - Michelle Leone - Michelle Lupton - Michelle Williams

Hope you can join in the fun this fortnight @ FUSION.

Can't wait to see what you create!

Also playing along with
Seize the Birthday
City Crafter Challenge Bake it Pretty

Shaking up World Card Day...

I managed to spend the whole of yesterday cropping @ Paper Blossoms, with my crafty friends, and did not realise until today that I had spent the whole of World Card Day making cards!

Based on this simple Freshly Made Sketch, I thought I would join in the fun @ City Crafter Challenge #Selfie with this super cute #Selfie of Purple Onion Designs Snowman, turned into a snowflake shaker card using Simon Says Stamp Merry Christmas photo frame and WPlus9 snowflake, both diecut from a sheet of silver contact adhesive layered onto white cardstock.

Hope you are having / had a fabulous World Card Day too!!!

Freshly Made Sketch
City Crafter Challenge #Selfie
Simon Says Stamp Anything Goes

 

 

Blue Christmas FUSION...

Welcome to a 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:

Betty J - Brandi Hall - Deanne K - Jeanne Jachna - Julia Aston - Katie Brooks

Karren J - Kimberly Wiener - Lynn Mangan - Michelle Folland

Michelle Lupton - Sandie Munro - Shannon Jaramillo - Stephanie Severin

Hope to see you playing along, can't wait to see what you create!

Also playing along with...

City Crafter Snow Queen (Card #1)

Her scarf reminded me of the tangled Christmas lights
CAS on Sunday Christmas (Card #1)


AAA Cards Anything Goes (Card #2)

Merry Monday Blue, White and Textured Christmas (Card#2)

Cardabilities - Final Sketch...

I so wanted to join in the final Cardabilities 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...

Cardabilities

City Crafter Paste It and Inkspirational Glow

This made me smile...

Twinkle All the Way...

After creating this card for last weeks Less Is More, I thought I'd have a go at making a one layer card version. I die cut two stencils from clear acetate sheeting, one with the negative space from Lil Inkers Stitched Square and the other with Making Memories Country Landscape, then taped them together to use as my mask for inking. Inked up with Distress Ink in Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean and Dusty Concord, moving upwards to the deepest colour. Stamped with Mama Elephant Believe in Magic star cluster and Winter Wonderland large star in Momento Luxe Wedding ink embossed in white embossing powder then added Mama Elephant Merry Greetings sentiment in black, and Wink of Stella Clear Sparkle to the night sky. It felt like it needed a little extra boost, so I created a hand drawn outline in black fine-liner for added depth.

Playing along with Less Is More One Layer Starry Starry Night, Mama Elephant and Me Holiday Cards and Tags, Color Throwdown, The Pink Elephant CAS and City Crafter Christmas CAS.

Inspired by Online Holiday Card Workshop Homework Day 4.

This made me smile...

Merry Christmas Deer - Snowglobe Shaker...

You'll be glad to see I've moved on to Online Holiday Card Class Homework Day 2 LOL. Also playing along with City Crafter My Deer, Mama Elephant and Me Holiday Cards and Tags, Merry Monday Creams, Tans and Browns and ShowCASe Your Style Tic-Tac-Toe Die Cut/Red/Sequins. 

Created using Mama Elephants Believe In Magic and Winter Wonderland, together with Lil Inkers Stitched Circle die and Momento Luxe inks. Layers in the shaker sandwich are the Winter Wonderland background stamped in Toffee Crunch and Love Letter, layer of foam with Stitched Circle cutout, Clear Sequins inside the circle, Winter Wonderland deer stamped in Rich Cocoa and popped on a foam backing, clear acetate shaker front, cardstock card front with Stitched Circle opening and Winter Wonderland sentiment stamped in Rich Cocoa, base of Believe in Magic snowglobe, stamped in Love Letter.

 

ETA Playing along with The Challenge Kraft/Brown/Red too (thanks Lesley!)

This made me smile...

Have a Gorgeous Day...

Inspired by the colours, theme and die cuts of the gorgeous Muse Challenge #74 with Jennifer Wills, City Crafter Let's Go to the Beach, Little Red Wagon Summer, Addicted to CAS Sky, and Virginia's View Challenge #5 Die Cut.

The watercolour background was created by smooching Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Evergreen Bough and Tumbled Glass Distressed Inks on wax paper and spritzing with water, then smooching the watercolour paper in the ink pools for the sky, and a similar technique with Squeezed Lemon and Scattered Straw for the sun and sand. Die cut the Lawn Fawn sun, Lil Inkers Stitched Circle and Mama Elephants Landscape Trio for the beach.  Lil Inkers Mehindi Medallion sentiment and Emma Ball's beach chair stamp paper pieced on wood patterned paper and coloured red stripes.

Jennifer Wills gorgeous Muse card

  

Happy Heart Day...

Wishing you all a Happy Heart Day!!!

Playing along with WPlus9 Birthday Celebrations, CAS(E) this Sketch and City Crafters Love Bug Challenge. Papers are a mix of Carte Bella, Kaisercraft and Simple Stories, with these fabulous dies from WPlus9, and a doily from my stash.  Layered die cuts area always an easy and fun way to add dimension to your cards.

Christmas Greetings from Down Under...

Wishing you a very Beary Christmas from Down Under, playing along with the Lawn Fawn CHA 2014 Challenge, Simon Says Stamp Make Your Own Background and City Crafter Challenge Wood & Frame.  Created by combining Lawn Fawn Critters Down Under Koala Bear, Hats Off to You Santa hat and Pa Rum-Pa-Pum-Pum sentiment, embossing the kraft background and tied with some red The Twinery twine.

An Inkspirational Christmas Smooch...

Almost forgot the new timetable at Paper Smooches closes on Sunday - so just squeaked in with this weeks Paper Smooches Sparks Anything Goes Challenge, incorporating paper piecing with Paper Smooches Autumn Groves, Joyful Greetings and Warm Hearts, and papers from American Crafts and Echo Park. Inspired by this fortnights gorgeous Inkspirational Photo Challenge, playing along with Keep It Simple Snow Challenge, Addicted to CAS Snowflakes Challenge, and City Crafter Wood & Frame Challenge.

 

This made me smile...

and this too

Keepin' It Simple All White...

Combined inspiration from this weeks fabulous MUSE card, Merry Monday Magical Wonder, City Crafters Snow White, Festive Friday Snowflake Element and Keep It Simple Snow Challenges.  Loved the negative space die-cut snowflake from the MUSE card, and recreated this using Lil Inkers Stitched Snowflakes and Stitched Rectangles to create the double die-cut snowflake strip.  Die-cut the snowflake first and removing the die-cut section before die-cutting the stitched edges, secured into place by adhering the panel to a second piece of cardstock for stability. WPlus9 Joy sentiment and snowflake, paired with a smaller Lil Inkers snowflake and finished with some Kaisercraft pearls.

Lucy's gorgeous MUSE card

 

This made me smile...

and this too...